Still more testing

May 18, 2003 by Adam in NWN1

Still more testing. I finally played through the entire game in chunks, stopping each time I hit a problem moving to the next area, fixing it, and moving the start location to that point. I'll eventually need to test it going all the way through, but at least this is a start. I made a page-long list yesterday of all the problems I found, starting to write in really small letters towards the end. This morning I woke up and spent a couple hours fixing them. Now I'm down to two bugs and a desire to tweak the final combat a bit.

I'm having a hard time with balance, especially against some of the high-level mages. A few of them will either turn you into a burnt paste almost instantly, or easily go down after a few blows. It depends a lot on whether or not they get those spells off, which is a bit random, but also the way the game works. I've tried to put in items and such that make life easier, but we'll see what the testers have to say.