June 22 Livestream Recap

Trent first started work on Neverwinter Nights nearly 20 years ago.

During today’s livestream, Beamdog CEO Trent Oster and Marketing & PR Manager Lee Guille shared the latest Beamdog, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, and Infinity Engine news. Bernhard Stöckner (niv), Technical Director on the NWN:EE core team at Beamdog, joined the stream to chat about NWN:EE technical challenges.

Missed the stream ? It's on YouTube and Twitch! Here's a quick summary of the highlights:

• Beamdog will do a special announcement panel at PAX West this August. We’ll be talking about a number of things there, but the big announcement will be not D&D-related.
• Sign up for the Beamdog newsletter to hear more about our future games, news, promotions and giveaways!
• Our titles, soundtracks, and DLC are on the Steam and Beamdog summer sales. Save up to 80% on your favourite classics!
• Neverwinter Nights: Darkness Over Daggerford is 15% off on Beamdog.com for a very short time!
• Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition is currently on sale on Google Play with a huge discount! Act quick!
• We’re actively hiring! Check out our job listings and apply!
• Stay in touch! We now have a Steam Developer/Publisher page.
• We updated the Beamdog Client last week. It now supports DLC. See the full patch notes here.

“We’ll attempt our newsletter emails to be at least humorous” ~ Trent

• The 2.5 patch for Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition has been pushed to next week due to Multiplayer crashes and Linux issues.
• A new Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition development build is available on Steam and in the Beamdog Client. Check out the full patch notes for the build 8178 here.
• Let us know about your desired time gaps between stable patches for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition on our forums.
• If you can reproduce Intel GPU-related crashes in NWN:EE regularly and reliably on your laptop, contact us, and we may buy it (on the condition it's a local 100% crash repro, the "click here to crash"-type of crash)! It’ll help us understand what part of content in the game is causing crashes and performance issues on Intel laptops.
• We’re working on a new storyline for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

Bernhard Stöckner (niv) describes a few features planned for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition.

• According to niv, after we ship the next stable patch for Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, we plan to focus on feature development. The biggest thing on the list is probably a multiplayer-compatible content downloader (for such files as HAKs and TLKs).
• The 64-bit transition is a huge undertaking, and after it’s done, a lot of other features will be possible.
• If you have suggestions about ways to improve the Neverwinter Vault, share them on our forums.
• We’ll be bringing more people from the community to talk to during our livestreams. Stay tuned!

Excited for what’s next? Come and join the next livestream next Friday!