Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition News

22 year old DnD RPG gets a huge new update

Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition was released back in 2018 as, you guessed it, an updated version of the original Dungeons & Dragons RPG created by now famed Dragon Age and Mass Effect developer BioWare. The Enhanced Edition was developed by Beamdog, however, the dedicated DnD community is responsible for the game's latest update, which is quite expansive, even by Dungeons & Dragons fans' standards.

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An old BioWare RPG just got a big new community patch

Six years after its debut, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, the Beamdog-buffed update of BioWare's famed 2002 D&D RPG, has got a big new patch featuring improvements to the UI, better HDR-bloom post-processing effects, more than 100 bugfixes, and "significant performance improvements across the board."..
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New Patch Arrives today

Hello Neverwinter Nights players!

This release was developed for personal enjoyment and out of goodwill for our fellow players and creators by unpaid software engineers from the NWN community:

- clippy, Daz, Jasperre, Liareth, niv, shadguy, Soren, Squatting Monk, tinygiant, virusman

To our fellow community:

Thank you all for keeping this shared adventure alive.

[h3]Highlights[/h3]

New HDR-bloom postprocessing effect accumulates overlapping effects more naturally and makes intense colors bleed into the surrounding pixels.
Improvements to the gameplay UI, such as toggling object highlight by double-pressing TAB.
Significant performance improvements across the board, both on servers and clients.
Many new and improved scripting functions, including support for synchronised audio playback and improvements to the scriptable UI.
Over a hundred bugfixes, including several notorious 20-year-old bugs, such as area objects sometimes showing up too late.
Script compiler is now open source and available as a standalone tool at https://github.com/niv/neverwinter.nim.

See https://nwn.beamdog.net/docs/ for the full list of over 300 changes.

You are cordially invited to join the NWN community developer Discord, here: https://nwn.beamdog.net/discord/

This is a live release of the Development Build from December 2023, all the regressions were found and fixed.

New Development Build ready for testing

Hey there everyone!

This release is being developed for personal enjoyment and out of goodwill for our fellow players and creators by unpaid software engineers from the NWN community:

- clippy, Daz, Jasperre, Liareth, niv, shadguy, Soren, Squatting Monk, tinygiant, virusman

To our fellow community:

Thank you all for keeping this shared adventure alive.

[h3]Highlights[/h3]

New HDR-bloom postprocessing effect accumulates overlapping effects more naturally and makes intense colors bleed into the surrounding pixels.
Improvements to the gameplay UI, such as toggling object highlight by double-pressing TAB.
Significant performance improvements across the board, both on servers and clients.
Many new and improved scripting functions, including support for synchronised audio playback and improvements to the scriptable UI.
Over a hundred bugfixes, including several notorious 20-year-old bugs, such as area objects sometimes showing up too late.
Script compiler is now open source and available as a standalone tool at https://github.com/niv/neverwinter.nim.

See https://nwn.beamdog.net/docs/ for the full list of over 300 changes.

You are cordially invited to join the NWN community developer Discord, here: https://nwn.beamdog.net/discord/

Kindly report issues you find at https://github.com/Beamdog/nwn-issues by following the instructions provided there.

Crimson Tides of Tethyr Enhanced Edition comes to the curated community content

New curated community content in NWN:EE keeps expanding! An Enhanced Edition of a classic Neverwinter Nights module Crimson Tides of Tethyr by Luke Scull is now available in the game launcher!

A 20-hour adventure with a colorful cast of characters, epic war storyline, and tactically challenging encounters inspired by Baldur's Gate, this Enhanced Edition features rewritten dialogue, visual improvements, bug fixes, new systems and quality-of-life improvements, a new hour of gameplay content, and 100 new lines of voiced dialogue.

Check out more details here!