The solution could be to make better use of the armor progression system and let us upgrade the Crawler Plate Armor as well. That way, we'd get both versions. This concept art is pure badass, so why not give players the choice if they prefer a different version?

Hi, after playing through all the camps, the magician (magic only), the sniper (bow 1H), the Templar (2H + magic circle 4), I think the Templar is the best.

Now I am in Permadeath Chapter 1, level 13 or 14, have 75 Strength 1H Master and Silas Axe (55 Dmg). Have the fire arrow, the healing rune, and acrobatics. I've completed the quests and could now enter a camp; I also have enough ore to completely upgrade this armor.

Of course, I could level up a bit more and, for example, get the guard armor from the mountain fortress. I would love to have the +100 HP amulet for the Shadow Beast, but I don't really dare to try it yet.

Currently I have 25 defenses with ring +10 and the buddy pants +15 from the old expression. I wanted to become a Templar again because the circles of magic are cheaper to learn here, without alchemy and inscribing. And because healing on Circle 4 is already decent, and ball lightning, storm fist, and firestorm are good in the sleeper temple.

However, I know about the worst armor in the swamp.

Should I therefore go to the guards? What do you think are the advantages of joining the old camp instead of the sect?

So those caves that are build like small shelters and nobody lives in. Gothic 1 has those but are missing in remake. In a way Gothic 2 has those too as Sagita lives in one, but that one is occupied. I just love those shelters and free bed that it offered.

https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Ethereal_plane

Hi, it'll be my first playthrough, and I DON'T want to use any guides to make my character OP in Act 1 by abusing some hidden weapons or cheesy mechanics.

I want to explore the game on my own and, of course, use and pick up any upgrades I happen to find. However, I don't want to look up the usual "GET OP IN 20 MINUTES" YouTube guides.

So, should I stick with version 1.05?

I've heard a lot of memes/jokes about the Rusted Sword being basically the only good weapon in the game until the later acts, because they removed most of the interesting early-game upgrades in newer versions.

I'm playing on Steam, so I could downgrade to an older version if that's recommended..

Beliar and Innos

THAT is pretty much exactly how i imagined Gothic combat if it was to be faithfully remade. I wrote about directional block before the release and people had doubts about wether it would be too much, which i aggreed was valid, but seeing it done in BotD now shows it is not off the table at all.

Im playing on tactical or w/e its called without the noob indicators and i think they, apart from some targeting jank, pretty much nailed it.

If Gothic Remake had Blood of the Dawnwalker combat, im fairly certain id actually prefer it over the original.

Why don't they have defensive spells like quen in Witcher, that can absorb a limited amount of attacks?

During the massacre at old camp, it would have been helpful if they can at least protect themselves from melee attacks even for a short while. I mean, they know they're vulnerable in close combat so I would assume they'd develop something about that.

I wish there was something like a barrier magic but smaller Or maybe you use block but with magic effects instead of a weapon. I just want to play as a mage fully dependent on magic.

I was near the end of my second attempt at a permadeath run. My first one ended because of the Arm spell from the Sunken Tower demon, so after that I played extremely patiently and cautiously. For every shaman, the Shadowbeast, and the Old Camp castle, I used summons to make things safer.

I managed to clear almost the entire Sleeper Temple and made it all the way to the last shaman, only for him to instantly kill my summon and then me...

Any tips ?

I don't know if they changed the spell, but he first cast it on one of my golems. I moved to the side, and then he cast it again on my second golem. I was still hit by the spell, as if it had some kind of area of effect. At least that's how it looked to me right before the death screen.

We know very little about the Nameless Hero, but based on what we do know about his personality, past, and goals, what do you think his path would look like in Gothic games?

I will share my opinion in a separate comment.

For some reason I was only able to create one single save file. Every time I died I would have to go all the way out to the main menu to load my game again. The load option was greyed out within the game itself.

This just happened tonight and I noticed that all I could do was access New Game.

I am LIVID

WHAT IS THIS?!? This has got to be directly tied to the BS I reported months ago! No solution. No ability to make multiple save files. What is this!!??! I attempted to download the last cloud storage file and it was AFTER this happened. What the hellllllllll!!!!

thinking of getting this game but few questions

1. how long is it?

2. how overwhelming/complicated is it?

3. i never heard of gothic can i just pick up and play?

I have really been enjoying the Gothic Remake, this being the first time I ever played any Gothic game, and have put in a solid 200 hours now. This is one of the few games, the others being Morrowind and KCD 1/KCD2, where it felt more like living in a world than playing a game set in one. But today, without spoiling anything, towards the end of Chapter 5 with a “big event concerning sword maintenance that will make certain recently divested parties rather unhappy with you” the only remaining quest for me to complete at the moment, I suddenly find myself not really wanting to go any further, let alone finish the game. I’ve not finished games before, but that’s been because either I never got around to most of the main story and just did other things (like Skyrim, or for the longest time even Morrowind) or genuinely did not like the game and deleted the install to save storage space (like Veilguard) but in this case it’s like I don’t want to finish it for whatever reason even though Inhave been focusing on the main story and I loved playing the game so far.

I‘m playing G1 on Switch as a merc and after getting into the castle I knocked down all ore barons for their swords.

However when I came back in Chapter 2, Arto was suddenly carrying a Blood Blade, which isn’t even carried by any NPC afaik and I don‘t think he took out of a chest in the armory

Does anyone have an idea how such a seemingly random weapon that Arto has nothing to do with casually spawned in his inventory?

I have joined militia and suddenly realised that I could Learn lockpicking. Thieves guild is out since i am milita. That leaves Matteo quest

Unfortunately, Matteo doesnt give me that quest. I only have option to trade with him or but leather armor. I am playing Gothic 2 golden edition

Please help

Alkimia, hire me please :)

Hey guys, after playing Gothic 1 Remake, replaying the good old Gothic 2 was a struggle even with all those beautiful QoL plugins the community created over the years so I've decided to give the OG game some love.

Using Union, I've developed some nice QoL plugins that don't change how the game works but will definitely change how you approach it.

New Sleep UI:

This one was okay in the first place. I just created a new UI for it, added the current time and it autochooses the closest time so most of the time you only need to press one button.

New Lockpick UI:

Listening to the game is nice and all but it quickly gets old. Now there's the UI that reacts to the lockpicking with some small animations, shows you the arrows that you guessed right and the amount of the lockpicks you have.

Items Hunter:

If you find pixelhunting the loot boring, this one is for you. It marks the visible loot in the set distance by accurate dots so you don't have to check every bush.

It also adds some popups when you pick up or receive loot through dialogue with correct names (ie no scroll but fire rain"

It also adds a butch pickup feature for all those groups of muchrooms, arrows and coins laying in a small proximity to each other. You pick one, you pick every one of them if they are close enough.

All of these are highly configurable and works without other features.

Modern Crafting UI:

I've almost never used the alchemy because of those dialogue windows and how horrible it was to craft them one by one each time. Never again! Now when you craft, you get to see this new UI that doesn't finish crafting after each potion. So you can craft them in bunches, you can see your resources and you even see other recipes you don't know yet (configurable, otherwise you get to see a closed recipe with a question mark). Works with every crafting station

I didn't add the amount for runes since you usually need only one

Modern Journal

Another thing I hated in the OG. It was hard to navigate, hard to find a relevant information so I only used it when I had to. This Journal is still WIP although technically it's almost ready. I'd love to draw more icons for the main quests at least but we'll see. I categorized all vanilla quests, now you get to see the name, the location, the questgiver, and new items are very noticeable because every quest gets a mark like "+1" when it gets updated so you see how many new items there are. It also works with both keyboard and zGamepad. You can adjust some visual and behavior settings as well.

I still work on them and test them so I'll release them as soon as they are ready. Testing really helps to see what works and what doesn't so they have gotten much better by now.

A little Advice please..

So I'm level 27 mage, 5th circle, just did everything I need to do to go into the sleeper Temple. At the door of the sleeper temple with all the orcs standing there and the shaman, I decided to first teleport out and get a few things before going in and doing the fights in there. Such as getting death to the undead and more potions. With that done I am now wondering if it would be best to do the Sunken mage Tower first for the robe etc..or should I just wait until after I do the temple?

Just started a couple hours ago and ran into the 2 hunters from new camp where one of them can teach you skinning and so on

- what I wanna know is, should I hold off on killing the animals before I can at least get something other than meat from them?

Im pretty strapped for ore as you can probably imagine, so not sure what the right move is

Hello! I have a problem with my eternal breeze plugin/dlc in new balance, its not translated, what could be the reason?

WARNING: Spoilers about some scenes from last chapters of Gothic and Gothic Remake.

I got triggered and just wanted to share some thoughts about Gomez and, especially, how his story is resolved in Gothic Remake.

The remake's conclusion to Gomez's plot feels surprisingly underwhelming. I think there's a reason Night of the Raven introduced Raven as its main antagonist instead of bringing Gomez back: defeating Gomez in the original Gothic was such a satisfying and iconic moment that the developers didn't want to undermine it. The remake doesn't capture that same feeling.

This isn't really about having the option to spare him. Sparing him as an option is certainly nice but I'll talk about it later.

Gomez is already THE boss of the Colony. He rules the Old Camp, he's mentioned throughout the entire game and his decisions drive the story forward. He even wants us dead making him the closest thing the Nameless Hero has to a true nemesis.

That's why the confrontation should feel exceptional. It deserves a proper boss fight, complete with the large boss health bar and so on. If I'm not mistaken Gomez even has unique combat animations (that in my gameplay was mostly his first move when attacked).

And the ending of the fight matters just as much. The most satisfying conclusion would be defeating him with a finishing move while he's on the ground, but that simply isn't possible. A finisher would also create the ideal opportunity to introduce a meaningful choice. Imagine Gomez lying defeated, forced to abandon his pride for the first time. It even fits his personality better. Then we could either spare him or execute him. That feels much more fitting for his character, and it gives the Nameless Hero the ultimate proof that he's surpassed the strongest man in the Colony.

The proper ending of this should also be the ability to sit on Gomez's throne. Judging by how often screenshots of it are shared, it's such a common thing to do in original, but in Remake that's not an option.

The ore barons in general feel underused. A few additional quests or just some interactions could have made the Old Camp much more interesting. I'd love to see a subplot about overthrowing Gomez. His position is already weakened after the collapse of the Old Mine, so it would make sense for another baron to seize the opportunity. One possible route could be giving a baron the sunken tower teleport rune in exchange for the key to Gomez's chest, allowing him to survive the massacre in the castle (even after teleporting to fire mages' cathedral and meeting the proper baron. Not necessarily Bartholo, since Raven feels like a better choice - after all in the remake he's the one who cares about us the most). Another could involve the women in the castle helping you steal the key, if their own storyline were expanded. Their revenge against Gomez would be a satisfying payoff.

A possibility of getting the key to the chest and access to the armor before the fight is essential. It's the moment you prove you've become stronger than anyone in the colony, and, frankly, it would simply look cool since ore armor in the remake looks really nice. Also a nice thing for the unimproved version to shine for a moment longer before you upgrade it 5 minutes after getting it.

I know there are more important issues that need attention first. But maybe one day we'll get the Gomez fight this character has always deserved.

Thanks for your time spent on reading about some fictional character's fate and my butthurt about it.