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.
Highlights
- 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.
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