The World of Avlis

NWN2 Preview in Dragon #344 (June 2006 Issue) p.20-24

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/neverwin ... l?mode=all
New interview with Obsidian's CEO, Feargus Urquhart.

Random Wasteland link I found: http://wasteland.rockdud.net/wasteland.html

BTW, the Dragon article has a picture of the overland map, and it looks awesome! I only hope they're easy to edit in the toolset.

A couple of interesting screenshots that were posted on NWVault. A comparison of official NWN2 screenshot and of a similar looking area recreated in NWN1 toolset. For everyone who worked with NWN1 toolset it will give a very nice perspective on how big the differense between the two games will be in terms of area sizes.

NWN2: http://www.atari.com/nwn2/includes/scre ... p?image=10

NWN1: http://armageddonunlimited.net/armascreenshot.htm

The overland map is editable in the 'overland plug-in' of the toolset. Using it looked simple enough, if you have the map picture at least.

Aerill wrote:A couple of interesting screenshots that were posted on NWVault. A comparison of official NWN2 screenshot and of a similar looking area recreated in NWN1 toolset. For everyone who worked with NWN1 toolset it will give a very nice perspective on how big the differense between the two games will be in terms of area sizes.

NWN2: http://www.atari.com/nwn2/includes/scre ... p?image=10

NWN1: http://armageddonunlimited.net/armascreenshot.htm

Wow.

http://www.atari.com/nwn2/includes/conc ... hp?image=0
That was the overland map pic in Dragon. Listed as concept art on Obsidian's site.

I got to take a quick look at it today. It looked pretty good. The tilesets are pretty standard right now, but even if they don't add any more, they're still good enough for 95% of the areas in Avlis right now. It looks like they're won't be quite so much need for weird ass haks to take care of a lot of things.

Clothing is dynamic, and will show boots and cloaks and the like on your character.

Apparently monsters are also dynamic, which bodes well for non-standard PC races.

Resizing critters is also a cakewalk, and in the tutorial, you're able to cast Enlarge on various farm animals!

They were a bit non-committal about the DM client issue, though. Seems more than a few folks had been asking them about it, so maybe this feedback will encourage them to try to fit it in.

Unfortunately, I only had about 20 minutes to chat with them. Took too long to find them, as Atari's area was way off at the other end of the convention, in a different hall from the one I was working in.