Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is announced!
JuliusBorisov
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Pre-order on Beamdog.
Digital Deluxe.
Wishlist on Steam.
A note from Beamdog CEO Trent Oster:
“Neverwinter Nights was a unique game that distilled the essence of Dungeons & Dragons and allowed players to build, share and act as Dungeon Master for amazing gaming experiences.I think this unique combination makes Neverwinter Nights one of the most versatile role playing game experiences of all time.
“I invite everyone interested in the future of Neverwinter Nights to join the Beamdog forums. We hope it will become a new home where you can speak directly with the development team. We need to know what YOU want to see Neverwinter Nights become, and we'll do our best to meet and exceed those expectations."
What’s included?
All the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition!
The original Neverwinter Nights campaign: Find yourself at the center of intrigue, betrayal, and dark magic in Neverwinter Nights. Journey through dangerous cities, monster filled dungeons and deep into uncharted wilderness in search of the cure for a cursed plague ravaging the city of Neverwinter.
Two expansion packs:
Shadows of Undrentide: Another adventure begins in Shadows of Undrentide! Charged by your master to recover four ancient artifacts, travel from the Silver Marches to unravel mysteries of a long-dead magical civilization.
Hordes of the Underdark: Continue the adventure started in Shadows of Undrentide and journey into the ever-more bizarre and hostile depths of Undermountain to challenge a gathering evil.
Three premium modules:
Discover over 40 hours of new stories, then go on to sample the hundreds of modules created by community members just like you.
Kingmaker
ShadowGuard
Witch’s Wake
The Aurora Toolset: Build your own world full of unique monsters, items, traps, encounters, and settings, then share your creation with the rest of the Neverwinter Nights community. (Windows only)
Dungeon Master Client: Become the storyteller! Control monsters, creatures, and characters your players will meet over the course of an adventure.
Can't wait? Get a Head Start!
We'll be selecting lucky fans from the pre-order pool on Beamdog for the Head Start program. This is your chance to play NWN:EE, dust off old modules, and update your persistent world servers early! Getting ongoing feedback from experienced fans will help shape the future of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, so let us know what you think!
What’s new? Enhanced Features!
Mostly noticeably, we’ve added an improved display that looks great on modern monitors. Your portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements now adjust in size based on your chosen resolution and you can select what size scaling you prefer. We’ve also added Advanced Graphics Options! We believe the added pixel shaders and post-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Now you can choose to enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as you desire.
These new graphic options are open to modders, and we’re already hearing lots of great ideas from our early testers. We’ve made an effort to ensure NWN:EE is backwards compatible! All your save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights work in the Enhanced Edition.
http://blog.beamdog.com/2017/11/neverwinter-nights-enhanced-edition.html
Digital Deluxe.
Wishlist on Steam.
A note from Beamdog CEO Trent Oster:
“Neverwinter Nights was a unique game that distilled the essence of Dungeons & Dragons and allowed players to build, share and act as Dungeon Master for amazing gaming experiences.I think this unique combination makes Neverwinter Nights one of the most versatile role playing game experiences of all time.
“I invite everyone interested in the future of Neverwinter Nights to join the Beamdog forums. We hope it will become a new home where you can speak directly with the development team. We need to know what YOU want to see Neverwinter Nights become, and we'll do our best to meet and exceed those expectations."
What’s included?
All the content of Neverwinter Nights Diamond Edition!
The original Neverwinter Nights campaign: Find yourself at the center of intrigue, betrayal, and dark magic in Neverwinter Nights. Journey through dangerous cities, monster filled dungeons and deep into uncharted wilderness in search of the cure for a cursed plague ravaging the city of Neverwinter.
Two expansion packs:
Shadows of Undrentide: Another adventure begins in Shadows of Undrentide! Charged by your master to recover four ancient artifacts, travel from the Silver Marches to unravel mysteries of a long-dead magical civilization.
Hordes of the Underdark: Continue the adventure started in Shadows of Undrentide and journey into the ever-more bizarre and hostile depths of Undermountain to challenge a gathering evil.
Three premium modules:
Discover over 40 hours of new stories, then go on to sample the hundreds of modules created by community members just like you.
Kingmaker
ShadowGuard
Witch’s Wake
The Aurora Toolset: Build your own world full of unique monsters, items, traps, encounters, and settings, then share your creation with the rest of the Neverwinter Nights community. (Windows only)
Dungeon Master Client: Become the storyteller! Control monsters, creatures, and characters your players will meet over the course of an adventure.
Can't wait? Get a Head Start!
We'll be selecting lucky fans from the pre-order pool on Beamdog for the Head Start program. This is your chance to play NWN:EE, dust off old modules, and update your persistent world servers early! Getting ongoing feedback from experienced fans will help shape the future of Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, so let us know what you think!
What’s new? Enhanced Features!
Mostly noticeably, we’ve added an improved display that looks great on modern monitors. Your portrait, combat bar, inventory, and other UI elements now adjust in size based on your chosen resolution and you can select what size scaling you prefer. We’ve also added Advanced Graphics Options! We believe the added pixel shaders and post-processing effects make for crisper, cleaner visuals. Now you can choose to enable contrast, vibrance, and depth of field options as you desire.
These new graphic options are open to modders, and we’re already hearing lots of great ideas from our early testers. We’ve made an effort to ensure NWN:EE is backwards compatible! All your save games, modules, and mods from the original Neverwinter Nights work in the Enhanced Edition.
http://blog.beamdog.com/2017/11/neverwinter-nights-enhanced-edition.html
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I still think that IWD3 would have been a better idea, though.
Congrats, and I'm surely looking forward to the release!
Edit:
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition - The entire Neverwinter Nights adventure, the Shadows of Undrentide & Hordes of the Underdark expansions, three premium modules (Kingmaker, ShadowGuard, and Witch’s Wake), the Dungeon Master Client, and the Aurora Toolset.
Neverwinter Nights: Pirates of the Sword Coast - A swashbuckling Dungeons & Dragons journey on the high seas. Experience multiple endings, cunning henchmen, and a rollicking tale of woe!
Neverwinter Nights: Wyvern Crown of Cormyr - Explore the kingdom on horseback, compete in jousting tournaments, and become a knight of Cormyr!
Neverwinter Nights: Infinite Dungeons - Enter a procedurally generated multi-level dungeon tailored to your gameplay style for characters of levels 1 to 40. Maps, encounters, and treasure change with each play, providing a unique dungeon crawling experience every adventure!
Neverwinter Nights: Heroes of Neverwinter - Customize your Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition experience with this collection of ten new character portraits.
@JuliusBorisov
They are included.
Beamdog, you're in a unique position to really breath some life into the game in terms to looks. Heck, make new graphics optional if backwards compatibility with old user content is so important. Trent keeps saying you're looking forward, but you're tying your hands with the past.
It seems to be a running problem, they are poor when it comes to presentation and atmosphere. They needs only look forward to Jade Empire to see how a rather minor upgrade (next to what we have today) can make a game that still stands up well today despite being very outdated. Heck, Jade Empire looks better than NWN2 which came out a year later I think.
Anyway keeping it pretty safe with the enhancements from now on eh? Well I guess that's a safe option. I can't help but agreeing with the notion that you are being a little too laid-back about it all though.
I mean as seen with the premium modules back in the day, the game is quite open to new custom adventures. NwN is far less risky than enhancing content in IE games.
I smell my first potential pre-order forum badge =P
Then I saw the trailer.
Uhm.
May we have some info about the decision to keep the old graphics? Is it because of save/mod compability?
Can't wait for the beamdog community NWN home to come online and wander in with my gnome of wonder!
Hyped by NWN:EE, but still I really look forward to the day Beamdog will finally make their own game. I can understand a small game studio making their own game is quite the challenge though.