First reported by Gaming on Linux, backend updates to the yet-to-be formally introduced Neverwinter Nights 2 Enhanced Version recorded by SteamDB present that the remaster of Obsidian’s 2006 traditional is already Steam Deck verified.
The tags on SteamDB had been up to date just a few days in the past on April 3, and SteamDB can also be how we turned conscious of the unannounced challenge within the first place. Infinity Engine and OG NwN Enhanced Version studio Beamdog has come out and mentioned it isn’t on this one.
As a substitute, the EULA tied to the Steam itemizing mentions Aspyr, which has beforehand made a reputation for itself bringing a ton of Star Wars PC classics to trendy platforms, together with Obsidian’s first recreation, Knights of the Previous Republic 2.
That is all nice information for me, as I am not solely a giant Obsidian sicko, however particularly a Neverwinter Nights sicko. NwN 2’s unique marketing campaign and expansions Storm of Zehir and Mysteries of Westgate are very pricey to my coronary heart.
However its Masks of the Betrayer growth is on an entire different degree. MotB is a wierd, unsettling, private story set in an under-explored nook of the Forgotten Realms, and its thought-provoking writing calls to thoughts style traditional and RPG discussion board man fixation, Planescape Torment.
NwN 2 additionally, paradoxically, is extra in want of a remaster than older RPGs which have already gotten them like the primary Neverwinter Nights. NwN 2’s technical and graphical ambitions left it a extra chunky, finicky recreation than its predecessor.
The Full version presently obtainable on GOG (not Steam) could be irritating to wrangle. The largest challenge, I’ve discovered, is that the UI will get unworkably tiny previous 1080p, whereas it additionally crashes when swapping resolutions ingame—you gotta do it in an .ini file as a substitute.
Aside from that, a few of my dream stretch objectives embrace cleansing up the sport’s scripting and companion AI, a few of which was actually borked within the earlier campaigns with the discharge of later expansions. Cleaned up controls would even be nice, and the Steam Deck verification provides me a whole lot of hope on that entrance.
This recreation has by no means had correct gamepad assist, and although theoretically attainable to get it operating on Steam Deck already, the present workaround, bastardized mouse and keyboard-via-gamepad scheme you’d have to make use of actually is not price it.
Full (or as full as attainable) mod compatibility would make this remaster important. NwN 2 by no means had as large a scene because the legendary NwN 1, as the brand new Electron engine’s instruments had been overly sophisticated compared to the candy spot Aurora engine toolset for the primary recreation, however NwN 2 nonetheless has a repository of fascinating customized campaigns I might prefer to dig into some day.
I am champing on the bit to do one in every of my customary, each few years or so full replays of NwN 2 and its expansions, so I am keen to listen to extra about this remaster challenge when Aspyr’s prepared.
