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by Irongron » Mon Jul 12, 2021 5:55 pm
A complex answer I'm afraid...
There is a ship behind the Feasting Hall in Sencliff which uses a 'tile group' we at Ossian added during development of Tyrants of the Moonsea. This, along with many other additions to the game, including creatures and tilesets were updated into NwN itself, but NOT on Switch and Xbox. When you encounter them? You will crash, see nothing, or ugly chunks of white.
We can mitigate this by adding these resources to our HaK (download) package, but this in turn means all our PC players download content they don't actually need. Currently , a PC player must download a lot of content, but fully a THIRD of this they don't actually need - they are only left downloading it because those on Switch and Xbox did not receive the new content.
Anyway, I don't want you to your friend to be unable to play, so I will see if we add this too to our HaK package, or failing that replace it in the area with an inferior model.
On your side I would advise you contact Skybound games/Beamdog and plead with them to at very least update the game to include this new content, as you will likely have other troubles in future.
With Android I'm less sure, I thought they were updated, but perhaps not, or not all resources.
I'm sure this is interesting to many of our players, who would likely want a far smaller download. My, admittedly limited understanding, is that updating NwN consoles is prohibitively expensive, which itself highlights the challenges of a cross platform launch before updates to NwN were completed.
Whether they will be updated, either fully or partially I cannot say: that is a question for the studios, I certainly don't have that influence, but enough customer requests may? Personally I hope that they are updated eventually, but If not? I'm doing what I can to ensure we supply console players with the resources they lack, but as updates continue to the engine itself, there will likely come a time when this becomes too heavy a lift.
Do keep me informed here of any other console bugs you find, and I will do my best to seek a work around. Also avoid visiting Myon, you will likely encounter a white void...
