We're still working towards a stable patch. This is one step closer, knocking off a few required items off the TODO list for it. We appreciate any and all bug reports and feedback your testing will generate.

Known Issues/Caveats

• Networking relays are still nonfunctional. We will have to address further-reaching changes to the network protocol for the upcoming console release. Any related fixes and features, such as better NAT traversal, have been postponed for now.
• Polish and Czech charsets cannot render or type some characters.
• Old campaign database files written with patch 8187 or earlier cannot be read, as the underlying format has changed.
• The toolset build inside this development patch is currently outdated. You can find the most recent beta toolset here.

Features

• Model compiler: Added a new alias to nwn.ini: MODELCOMPILER (instead of clobbering the installation directory)
• New console command: compileloadedmodels (comppiles all loaded models, including binary)
• New console command: compileloadedasciimodels (compiles all loaded models, only ascii)
• New console command: compilemodel (specific model, will load and unload it for you even if it is not currently loaded)
• New command line switch: nwmain.exe compilemodel (same as the above console command; will compile the model and exit the game immediately)
• NWSync now shows network and storage speed separately while downloading.
• The NWSync networking protocol has been extended to support multiple language-specific and user-selectable optional manifests in the future (but the client itself cannot fetch them yet - sorry!).
• We have rewritten large parts of the NWSync storage system to better support the upcoming console releases. Your existing data should - barring bugs - remain unaffected.

Fixes

• NWScript: GetEffectSpellId() was erroneously returning 65535 instead of -1 for effects with no spell.
• SSL is not a forced requirement for NWSync anymore.
• For SSL, OCSP stapling verification is now off. There is a configuration key to globally re-enable it, if users so desire.
• We fixed the configuration option ruleset.hide-hitpoints-gained-on-level erroneously taking the value of ruleset.always-roll-max-hitpoints-on-levelup.
• [Linux] Switching to fullscreen and back will now preserve window position and dimensions.
• We fixed difficulty selection being off by one.
• We fixed the mouse wheel scrolling nuklear-based UI even though the cursor was not hovering over it.
• We addressed a custom content-related crash when adding invalid items to merchants.
• A handful of UI-crashes inside NWSync have been fixed.
• The crash reporter now says which OS it came from.
• We fixed an issue where playing wav ambient sounds would confuse the resource manager into either leaking or freeing memory excessively.
• We fixed some achievements not triggering properly: Hoard Mode, Dragons are Friends not Fodder, Hardcore Morag, Hardcore Heurodis, and Hardcore Mephistopheles.
• Campaign progress now unlocks only the current campaign instead of all.
• Game autosaving is now a boolean toggle, and the interval is configurable between 1 and 30 minutes.
• Interval-based game autosaving no longer triggers in singleplayer.