Mr Postman delivered Hordes of the Underdark yesterday and I reinstalled the original Neverwinter Nights game and the two expansion packs today. This involved swapping in and out five CD-ROMs, entering three separate CD-keys (each roughly three jillion characters long) and updating the game (after updating the updater). All told, my NWN folder is taking up 3.51GB of hard disk space and I haven’t even downloaded all the hak packs I’m going to need to play on various multiplayer servers. Sheesh.
I tested the game in single player mode earlier and things went smoothly. The introduction movies played without stuttering and gameplay in the first few areas of NWN’s Prelude chapter were free of any glitches. I hope the multiplayer game is just as trouble-free but I suppose that would depend very much on my ISP’s whims and fancies.
I went online earlier and found the ping rate for World of Palladium was around 400+ which is playable more or less. I’ll give it a shot as soon as I’ve downloaded the hak pak and registered with the site’s forum.
In other news, Neverwinter Vault reports an organisation called The Education Arcade is using NWN as an educational tool to teach about the American War for Independence.
Among the things students will learn about the Revolutionary War during the exercise:
- The Americans won their independence mainly because they had help from Red Dragons.
- You need to be a Level 9 musketeer (at least) before you can slay a British General.
- Before going into battle, it’s always a good idea to have your clergyman to cast “Bless” and “Protection from Small Metal Projectiles.”
- +2 Matchlock Musquettes are completely badass.
- If you slay an artilleryman, you get 100XP.
- They spoke l33t a lot in those days.
- It’s a little known fact the outcome of a number of critical battles was decided by server lag.
All right, I made those up. All kidding aside, I think it’s neat that educators are using PC games as a means of education. It’s educational and entertaining. Edutaining even.
(The HotU logo is from the fan site kit.)
