Pretty major NWN bug

[Erik]

The patch for NWN apparently breaks it. It causes monsters to stop using any of their special abilities, spells, etc. other than melee attacks. Here's a post by Bioware's Dave Gaider from the offical forums:


Ok, I think that's all the information we need. We have already confirmed that this is, indeed, the case.

I can't believe some people have gone through the entire game thinking that this was the intended state of things. Gah.

At any rate, know that we consider this to be a top priority to fix (as well as the DM faction/PvP problem mentioned a few posts back).

Here's the whole thread:

http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=63394&forum=47&sp=30

So if you haven't patched it yet, you might want to wait.

[Bub, Andrew]

I installed the patch and then fought Maldenaro or whatever and his apprentici and they had no problem casting spells at me. Maybe they didn't break because that's all they do?

[Ben Sones]

Yeah, I've heard about that DM faction bug, too, but have been completely unable to replicate it. Apparently what happens (or is supposed to happen) is that when you possess a hostile creature, other hostiles start to attack you. So if you have a group of goblins and you posses the Head Goblin, the rest will turn on you. Of course that would be pretty lame.

But in practice, I've never seen that happen. I've done a lot of playing around with possessing stuff in the DM client, and it all seems to work as advertsied, at least for me. Weird.

[Anonymous]

I installed the patch and then fought Maldenaro or whatever and his apprentici and they had no problem casting spells at me. Maybe they didn't break because that's all they do?

I've noticed a lot of spellcasters along the way calling down flamestrikes and whatnot on me. But I also fought a green dragon last night, which did no damage to me at all, never used its breath weapon, and never cast any spells.

Now I'm not sure whether to keep playing or put NWN on hold until the next patch comes out...

[wumpus]

But I also fought a green dragon last night, which did no damage to me at all, never used its breath weapon, and never cast any spells
Maybe it was a garter snake that bore a passing resemblance to a Green Dragon?

I think the new patch is already out to fix this problem, btw.

http://nwn.bioware.com/