<font color=skyblue>We will start this thread with a link to the SoU homepage.

http://nwn.bioware.com/shadows

I know that this game will be released real soon...Some say June 18th, some say June 24th. Whatever.

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[ 05-26-2003, 08:47 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

I wonder if Ziroc should even bother making a seperate forum for the expansion.

Firstly the board is very slow as it is, minimal traffic daily and secondly, unlike BG there's gonna be multiple expansions to this game. Maybe the best bet is to confine discusiions to the threads when it is finally released, that way it prevents confusion.

I just pre-ordered my copy today, and I'm SUPPOSED to have it sometime in the first week of July. While there will be many more mods created, it still has a basic campaign, and will need a forum for problems, etc...

<font color=skyblue>I am assuming that people that own the expansion cannot play with people that do have it...and as a friend mentioned to me...future patches may be designed only for the expansion-having people. If you don't expand...you might not patch in the future...maybe. Does anyone have any word on this?</font>

<font color=skyblue>Assuming that he will not be making a new forum for SoU would be mere unfounded speculation on my part, yet just in case he don't or is late in getting it running...then any discussion or questions to be asked about the game that pertains to the Shadows expansion would need to have the prefix of SoU added in front of the post...maybe like this:

SoU>>>Where am I supposed to go next?>>>Spoilers here

I guess we'll all just have to take it as it comes at us. Deal with it when we are playing it.</font>

Yeah sorry about that other post Larry, was more of a venting than anything else hehe, didn't realize we were confining SOU to this thread soley. Anyways it reads as follows:

Originally posted by myself:

Oh and yes, when you install SOU the gamespy server you log on to will be the SOU one...everyone else will be left behind if they don't have it. For a time there will be a greatly reduced number of people playing online i'd imagine.

Since there are at least 4 expansions planned for this game (depending on how the first 2 are received) maybe he may decide to make a 'NWN: The Expansions' forum, cuz if a forum was designated to each expansion can you imagine what a waste of space that'd be, considering the slow traffic passing through here as it is?

<font color=skyblue>Hmmm...good point. A forum just for the expansions. I kinda agree. Especially since I know people that will not be buying the expansion, but will continue to play thier own original one. Still...it's as sad as hell to hear that we will be leaving behind anyone that chooses not to upgrade. I'll have to find new playing partners.</font>

God, me too. I've really been spending most of my time on the servers simply checking if ppl plan to upgrade (and hitting those who say no [img]tongue.gif[/img] ).
For sometime it will be a lonley and desolate online experience :( . But you know what? I might actually play the OC that comes with this game, and all the way through this time ;) .

<font color=skyblue>A Basilisk has been added to our creature library. Although I am pleased to hear this...I am not so sure that I like how the basilisk looks. I thought that a basilik was more serpantine-like. Am I mistaken? I have never owned a D&D monster manual, so I have no idea, except from what I have been told. I really like the Harry Potter basilik. That suited the name moreso.

Please enlighten me.</font>

Yeah the D&D Basilisk is not like the Harry Potter one lol. That's basically how it looks in most of the monstrous manuals and compendiums, although with the added spikes it kinda looks like a dinosaur [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

Didn't you play BG1, my friend? And if so don't you remember the Basilisks there - they looked relatively similiar. Really it's true look is similiar to that of a giant alligator.

<font color=skyblue>This week, we are featuring the assassin.

Check out the second picture, where the dude is standing there and the thief is giving him a side-glance. That looks chill!</font>

Oh and yes, when you install SOU the gamespy server you log on to will be the SOU one...everyone else will be left behind if they don't have it. For a time there will be a greatly reduced number of people playing online i'd imagine.

Since there are at least 4 expansions planned for this game (depending on how the first 2 are received) maybe he may decide to make a 'NWN: The Expansions' forum, cuz if a forum was designated to each expansion can you imagine what a waste of space that'd be, considering the slow traffic passing through here as it is? </font>[/QUOTE]Don't you play online? It's great. And a lot of work has been done in the modding community.

As far as Ironworks being slow... I've noticed that as well. Some people have left for reasons of their own. Others are on hiatus because there isn't anything "out there" right now...

Just thought you should know SOU HAS GONE GOLD! according to the bioware site.

Yeah I noticed that, Jedimaster.

DraconisRex....course I play online, that's why I said the servers will then be re-routed for SOU.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the improved storyline they promised us. If this one is as bad as the first, I may not be buying the second expansion. The new Prestige classes are cool as well, though I don't think this new EP adds as much as it should have.. maximum level is still 20, no new subraces, only five new 'classes'. Basicly, you just get the prestige classes and three new tilesets. I hope the price (I think its $29.99 - which is around 25 Euro these days) will mirror the contents.

I probably sound more negative then I intended, because I am looking forward to this. What characters will you be playing? I'm considering a Sylvan Elf Ranger(lvl10)/Shadowdancer(lvl10). Does anyone think I should switch from Ranger to Rogue to get the Sneak Attack ability?

[ 06-01-2003, 01:25 PM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ]

<font color=skyblue>I was unaware that they promised us a better story, so yeah! As for what PC to try out...I am thinking about the assassin or the one with the special arrow-firing ability. Can't remember now what that one is. Ranger class? Oh well. I am only thinking about it. Right now, I have a dwarf fetish, and don't intend to be persuaded otherwise for a little while more. :D </font>

[ 06-01-2003, 09:38 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

Dreamer you are right in your skepticism IMHO. Beware the rant [img]smile.gif[/img] .

The early blueprint for this expansion was well, cheap. Very little was offered to begin with until they revised the contents due to 'fan-outrage'.
I still think SOU is kinda cheap..just another mod really with some new material that really if bioware didn't release, would have been called a hakpak. I am most certainly looking forward to the (limited amount of) new spells, feats, classes but this is more out of a need to see something new and different after playing this game to death.

I mean come on people, how many of you really wished to the heavens-on-high that they'd make female Giants?! Certainly the Beholder would be a better choice...these being classic D&D creatures and all but no, there it is on the SOU site advertising 'Female Giants' like it's something we really care about. What next, female Umber-Hulks? Please, who cares about sexuality a giant is a giant!
Oh and no cloaks or robes for casters...and none planned in the second expansion either (this is D&D for gods sake!). The way it seems to work is they make their OC mod and give us the tools to make variants of that OC and for some reason they needed those female Giants in that story...oh well.

Basically there does not seem to be anything included here that the NWN's community actually *NEEDS* other than maybe..petrification (?).
But that said, I will buy it...like a sheep to the slaughter I have no choice but to jump on the train or be left behind while Bioware taunt us with news of 'upcoming expansions' that carry...nothing, in an effort to make a quick buck from a loyal fanbase.

They did. [img]smile.gif[/img] I'll post the Gamespy interview on the NWN board.

Here is the link to the GameSpy interview that you couldnot find in your other post that is locked so I could not post it there. http://www.gamespy.com/interviews/may03/trentdarcy/ I like your posting of it better it is easier to read then skipping through the pages but they do have pictures. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I found the link on Futuremark's site.

Granamere

[ 06-02-2003, 05:53 PM: Message edited by: Granamere ]

<font color=skyblue>Dropping this from being a featured thread. It is not needed. [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

[ 06-02-2003, 11:53 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

<font color=skyblue>Today's additions are :

Hobgoblins
Winter Rural Tileset
More screenshots</font>

http://nwn.bioware.com/shadows