Omega Magnus Tech Notes

Mask of the Betrayer (MotB)

It is the first official Expansion for Never Winter Night 2 - the time line picks up shortly after the end of the last game. You find yourself imprisoned in a underground chamber. The fragment of the silver sword torn from your chest and you should be almost dead but not. The location takes place in Rashemens settings (Forgotten Realms). The settings details can be read up on at Wikki Encyclopedia. It also takes place in the Shadow Realm and finally the Realm of the Dead. The settings are all very well done and play well for the encounters and story line.

You have the pleasure of playing much higher level characters then ever before (higher then 20 lvl), with many epic levels, classes, races to create and develop. They added over a 100 new spells and feats to discover and enjoy. 2 new starter classes Favored Soul and Spirit Shaman, plus five more prestige classes added.

The story line is more personal and your actions of course develop the course of the story and how people (NPCs) react to you. Atari link to Game Manual. The game starts you in a room to build / import your character and raise them up to lvl 18 or up to 20th if you where already at that level, before starting your quest.

Warning: your (all) weapons, equipped cloak, and most other items, except what is in your first slot of your pack gets lost.

Your companions are much better developed and all offer positive improvements to you directly if you gain enough influence over them. The nice part is now there is a influence bar on the companion character screen. That way you can view the level of your influence status. They still tend to be not as interactive as you would have hoped, but better then before.

There are several game improvements, mostly dealing with directing your character in combat, and movement. Overall the game is very well done, with no major problems or bugs. I would give it a 8.5 out of 10 on overall game play and enjoyment.

This game as mentioned by other reviewers is a reminder of the Planescape: Torment by Black Isle’s in 1999.

That was a very enjoyable game and so is this one, minus the soul eater problem which at times tends to hinder your explorer time, rest / camp and other basic game play concerns with constant needs to find some poor spirit to devour. The camera angles are improved but still you find yourself caught in a situations where you can not see what is going on, or where to move because of it. The game is complex and not for a beginner, but the rest of us will enjoy it over-all.

Advice - save each section, and sub-quest in its own save file… That way if your soul meter gets to low, or you run into an unexpected bug. Then you can go back to one of your many saved games and start over from there. It is frustrating to have just saved the game before realizing there are no spirits around to eat. So now you are stuck - unless you use a cheat listed above, or go back a older save game and better manage your time.

CHEATS:

Codes
Open command console by typing tilde (`)
Enable cheatmode by typing DebugMode1
Enter the following commands as written below in the same console:
When done - type DebugMode 0 to leave cheatmode.

rs ka_influence_set(x,#) Increases Influence with party member
Where “x” a particular party member id

safiya
gann
okku
dove
oneofmany

and “#” is an amount between -100 and 100 (0 being neutral).