NWN2 Photos from Gen Con

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NWN2 Photos from Gen Con

Post by Shir'le E. Illios »

Gen Con is currently in progress and Obsidian is showcasing NWN2 at the event. Apparently people can freely play around with computers with the game installed on them.

And Austicke (from [url=http://www.nwn2wiki.org/Main_Page:yogp1jjx]NWN2Wiki[/url:yogp1jjx]) has been quite busy taking lots and lots of photos from the game and the toolset and placed them all in [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcnwn2/:yogp1jjx]his personal gallery[/url:yogp1jjx].

A number of them will likely be quite uninteresting to some as he’s taken photos to try and show complete listings of script functions, feats, classes, etc. But a lot of useful information can be gleaned from those and for the rest there’s a lot of quite nice photos (taking into mind that they tend to be quite blurry because he’s photographed a computer monitor).

Of particular interest to us is that he’s also taken a number of photos showing drow characters:
[url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]pic[/url:yogp1jjx]

The skin color of the drow in the first shot is a bit too brown for my taste, but the skin color of the drow in the other shots looks quite nice (though I prefer it a bit more black). There should be various skin color choices for drow with various levels of darkness. I wonder if there’s darker skin colors available than shown in those shots.

Another quite interesting shot is [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:yogp1jjx]this one[/url:yogp1jjx] because is shows a list of drow racial abilities. Particularly the racial spells seem interesting: Darkness, Light and See Invisibility.

Darkness makes sense. Light I’d guess is a replacement for Dancing Lights. Here I’m particularly curious how the spell interacts with darkness and it does seem like a bit much to give light. Finally there’s See Invisibility, which I’m assuming is a replacement for Faerie Fire. Again it depends on how it works, but it seems to be a rather powerful replacement.

Anyway, enjoy the images and I’ll bring you more information as it becomes available over the weekend. :)


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Post by Shir'le E. Illios »

Austicke has posted a bunch more pictures, starting from [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... 3:18d68otk]this page[/url:18d68otk].

Most interestingly, he’s been so gracious to take pictures of the drow skin colors for us:
[url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk] [url=http://gallery.usticke.org/v/gaming/gcn ... l:18d68otk]pic[/url:18d68otk]

I’m not sure which one I like best… either the first one or the second one. The second one is very black, but makes it hard to recognize facial features. The first one is still quite dark, but light still affects it.

Also, I was a bit worried that the elves looked a bit… broad in some of the screenshots. And it looks like I wasn’t the only one. This seems to be the effect of two factors. First is that elves are based on the human skeleton and are thus a bit more “hippy” (as Anthony put it). Secondly there’s a distortion effect going on due to the way in which the photo was taken (as [url=http://www.jessesky.com/femalefix.jpg:18d68otk]Jettoki proved[/url:18d68otk]).

It seems that elves (and thus drow) in NWN2 might not be as slender as we might be used to… but it’s not nearly as bad as I first thought. ;)

I’ll keep you updated.


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