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Torchlight 2 Preorder gets you NWN Online Beta
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:28pm
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Figured I'd put this out there in case anyone was planning to try NWN Online. If you preorder Torchlight 2, you get automatic access to the NWN closed beta. Sadly, if you preorder through Steam, you don't get beta access (though you do get Torchlight 1 free). I'd include a link, but I'm fucking lazy.

Info so far about NWN Online sounds somewhat promising for those who like DDO's active combat. It sounds like primary and secondary at-will powers will be mapped to the left and right mouse buttons, an evasive move will be mapped to left shift, and encounter and daily powers will be mapped to the 1-9 hotbar. 4E kinda sucks, but at least it seems like it will translate into an MMO in a not-entirely-shitty fashion.
  
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Re: Torchlight 2 Preorder gets you NWN Online Beta
Reply #1 - May 2nd, 2012 at 2:05pm
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Vissarion wrote on May 2nd, 2012 at 12:28pm:
4E kinda sucks, but at least it seems like it will translate into an MMO in a not-entirely-shitty fashion.


That is because 4e is an mmo, just on paper.
  
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Reply #2 - May 2nd, 2012 at 2:19pm
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I thought it wasn't being considered an MMO, more of a game you could play online with friends, if you wanted.
  
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Reply #3 - May 2nd, 2012 at 2:25pm
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Belwaar wrote on May 2nd, 2012 at 2:19pm:
I thought it wasn't being considered an MMO, more of a game you could play online with friends, if you wanted.


Cryptic decided to shift from the typical NWN online format to a F2P MMO model.
  
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Reply #4 - May 2nd, 2012 at 2:27pm
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NWN2 was the only booth I didn't get a chance to spend time at at PAX.  The time we stopped by they were having technical difficulties and their monitors were down.
  
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Vissarion wrote on May 2nd, 2012 at 2:25pm:
Cryptic decided to shift from the typical NWN online format to a F2P MMO model.

Oh ok, I hadn't heard that.  Was this decision recently?
  
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Reply #6 - May 2nd, 2012 at 4:29pm
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Belwaar wrote on May 2nd, 2012 at 3:40pm:
Oh ok, I hadn't heard that.  Was this decision recently?


A few months back or so. I don't remember specifically, as a guildie mentioned it to me.
  
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Reply #7 - May 4th, 2012 at 3:07am
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They changed it just after Atari sold Cryptic to PWE.

That's also why it has been delayed.

Anyway, from what I can guess of the various agreements and such, I won't expect much of it.

As Turbine can now use FR, I suspect NWN will become it's own universe totally split from the rest of the D&D licence and be (ab)used in computer/console/fesse de bouc games.

So basically NWN is a brand, with a fantasy countryside that might have a few things in common with FR but it is not FR.

  
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Reply #8 - May 4th, 2012 at 5:24am
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Flav wrote on May 4th, 2012 at 3:07am:
fesse de bouc

Awesome.
  
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aDifferentHandle wrote on May 4th, 2012 at 5:24am:
Awesome.


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