There is a patch for the 2002 BioWare role-playing game “Neverwinter Nights”: new update for the Enhanced Edition has been released According to Steam post Put together by a group of unpaid software developers – out of “personal happiness and goodwill for our fellow players”, the community’s developers write.
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The patch developed by fans will be released through official channels. Anyone who owns the game on Steam will receive the new update automatically. Fan patches are available for many older titles with active communities, but they are usually distributed on modding platforms.
On the other hand, the update developed by the “Neverwinter Nights” community has acquired official status and is therefore equivalent to the update published by the original developers. To publish the new patch, community developers collaborated with Canadian studio Beamdog, which published an enhanced version of the role-playing game in 2018. It appears that BioWare, the developer of the original, is not involved.
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The Android version of “Neverwinter Nights” Enhanced Edition will also receive a community-developed update, Beamdog promised in a response to an X post.
improvement in technology
The new patch mainly improves the technical structure of “Neverwinter Nights”. Among other things, the developers want to increase performance through better CPU optimization, and the network code has also been modified – “Neverwinter Nights” can be played alone, but also on a server with up to 64 players. .
Multisample anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering are also included, resulting in reduced edge jitter and more detailed textures in the distance. complete changelog The developers have published on the Beamdog website.
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