Enhanced Edition vs Diamond Edition?

[Capt Cliff]

What's the difference between EE and DE?

[EvilDonut]

Bug fixes and optimization for modern OS, basically...

[Soft Lockpick]

People keep pointing to the Trello boards. They suck.

Look at this instead.
https://www.beamdog.com/files/release_notes/nwnee_release_notes_final.pdf

[BENGALI]

at the end of the day, most of that techno mumbo jumbo isnt what most players wanna know. The way I see it, the best thing about this, is with steam release, more players, people interested in ths game. And a simple easy way to play online, once again.

THe workshop will become expanded with many of the old modules and such. and you wont have to jump trhrough as many hoops to get the game to work.

Also some of the older servers from the 1.69 have migrated, so essenitally, you will need this version to play the ones that migrate. (Arelith being one of the big ones)

[Soft Lockpick]

Yeah, that PDF isn't what most players want to see. But it is what's true. If you're not hungry for multiplayer and persistent worlds and just want to jump back into a prettier Hordes you're out of luck right now.

[Tacred]

So does it have multiplayer support again or do I still have to use NWNlist? Also does it auto download mod files like nwn2 when you connect to a server?

[bonebrah]

The multiplayer has been rebuilt, you can hop into a server using the in-game server browser/list. Some still require downloads I think as some server descriptions point you to their website for hak downloads, some stuff you can get through steam (CEP), but it's been reworked to avoid all the network shenanigans of the previous editions. I've been playing with friends really easily through campaign and the online servers.

[Tacred]

Well, having easy multiplayer again is nice. So next question is can servers now handle larger player amounts, monster spawns, and scripts running in the background?

[DeadlyTrixster]

So it still has all the added content from Diamond? That's my main concern, I don't want to move over to enhanced if I lose the added stuff from Diamond. the DLC's it offers are SEPARATE from diamond, yes?

[DrLoboto]

Publicado originalmente por DeadlyTrixster:

So it still has all the added content from Diamond? That's my main concern, I don't want to move over to enhanced if I lose the added stuff from Diamond. the DLC's it offers are SEPARATE from diamond, yes?

Yes. The EE still contains all the camapaigns and Premium Modules that came with NWN Diamond (NWN, Shadows of Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark, Kingmaker, Shadow Guard, Witch's Wake).

The separate DLCs are either those that were sold separately back then as well and online only, but then ended up in licensing hell so that they were not available for purchase for Diamond owners anymore (Wyvern Crown of Cormyr, Pirates of the Sword Coast, Infinite Dungeons), or they are previously cancelled Premium Modules that are still available in outdated but fully playable version for free for the Diamond Edition but received an overhaul and were enhanced with new contents, new tilesets, etc. for the EE (Darkness Over Daggerford, Tyrants of the Monnsea).

All of the latter DLCs are not included in NWN Diamond and are not available for sale to Diamond owners, and the EE DLCs are incompatible with NWN Diamond, so if you want to own and play them legally, you also have to own the EE.