Gothic 3 Status?

[Bateluer]

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1.12 seems to be the latest official patch, with 1.4.1 being the latest community patch.

Here's the changelog for 1.4

Gothic 3 Community Patch v1.4
23.07.2007


I. Community Patch v1.4
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- One can learn "Make poison" bugfree.
+ One can learn "Master thief". (Soundless dialog)
- Artifacts of Adanos cannot be sold.
+ Milten gives the teleporterstone for the Monastery.
- Censoring of nude women removed.
- The game can also be ended when Zuben is already long dead.
- When Orknarok accompanies the hero, he will not be attacked by the Nomads and vice versa.
- Orknarok leaves the party, once the requirements therefore are met.
- One cannot get Shakyors Druidstone twice.
+ Mort leads one when needed for a second time to the Hammerclan, Fireclan or to the entrance of the mine.
- Hogar does not kill the hero for the quest "Duel with Hogar".
+ The quest "Delivery to Nordmar" unlocked. (Soundless dialog)
- One can speak with Dargoth about the "Fifth temple", once prerequired knowledge has been obtained.
- Lisk gives only final comments about the liberation of the mine when he has taken part in it.
- One can say to Xardas "I have the five artifacts of Adanos" only when one has them.
- Asaru is teacher for martial arts, when one assures him to help him.
+ Tyler says "Where to now? To Trelis, or what?", before one attacks Trelis together.
- Effects of "Black Rhobar" corrected.
+ Two comments from Dan and Goose unlocked.
- Information for the quest "Just a fallen..." noted in the questlog.
- Some inconsistencies in the dialogdata resolved.
- Sulfock gives experience "Kill the threatening Snapper in front of the Sulphurmine".
- For the quest "Sell the skin to Gnar for 500 gold pieces" one can give Wilson 500 gold.
- The spiked cutchel has a goldvalue of 150, instead of 4500 gold.
- One cannot interrupt Lee during his teleport by means of a dialog.
- Iljas Vaze, Shadowscepter and Chalice of the Watertraders are ordened properly in the inventory.
- For the quest "Covert operations" one needs the amulet of Ilja.
- One cannot drink empty bottles and viles.
- The Krush Irmak deals damage.
- Kamak and the Orcs with the excavation form one party.
+ Dialog of Xardas unlocked.
- Murak does not react like a slave after the liberation of Bakaresh.
+ Additional dialog options for Kan unlocked.
- One can follow certain dialogs still after the relevant NPCs are dead.
- The quest "Free Kliff from the Orcs on the farm" can always be ended.
- One cannot say to Kliff "You are free now", when he already knows it.
- Georg is promoted to Paladin when giving the blessed Fire Chalice.
- When one attacks Sugut or his camp with the Nomads, one will be treated as a normal assassin.


II. Community Patch v1.3
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- One can only say to Pyran "Here are your potions", once one has enough mana potions.
- Josh says only "I heard, Trelis has been liberated from the Orcs", once it is. - Kalesch says "You won't steal my reputation" only once.
- Karrypto says "With sadness I have to state that..." on his own account.
- When one says to Merdarion "Merdarion, what are you doing here?", the dialog option "Do we know eachother?" will no longer appear.
- One cannot ask Mortis "Do you also fight in the arena?", when one has fought him. The same error is also resolved for Tukash and Vigo.
- The quest "Become champion of the arena of Faring" cannot be restarted after a successful ending of it.
- Jensgar now gives after the quest "Skins for Jensgar" every time the Composite Bow.
- Ugolf and Hector do not get all the ore c.q. gold of the hero.
- The quest "Hectors gold" will not be ended when one buys Masils ledger.
- Selling of Shadowbeast horns to Pedar has no negative consequences for the quest "Admittance of the Oremelters".
- The hero does not ask Lee "What was with that again?" after he asked the question "The story with the colony?".
- Pranck gets 20 instead of 19 potions with the quest "The Orc warrior Pranck wants twenty healing potions".
- One can tell Karrypto about Markus' Fire Chalice when one has all 12 of them.
- Lester can also be talked to in Al Shedim, when he is not digging.
- Rathgar does not speak about the Alis artifact when one has used it. If the quest had been started before, it is hereby stopped.
- All dialogs of the Talkmasters are available.
- One can trade with Ingvar, when he has not been asked before the liberation of the mine.
- Tippler does not take all Boozeberries and Healingplants. The quest is not ended when one sells him the ingredients.
- Trading with Vandorn does not have negative consequences for the quest "Bring Vandorn pickaxes".
- One cannot obtain Bogirs, Torns and Runaks Druidstones twice.
- One cannot obtain Miguels steelcrates twice.
- When one steals the destroyed Druidstone from Porgan, then this one will be returned before the fixed one is obtained.
- One cannot obtain Treslotts, Rakus', Miltens, Wenzels, Bengerds, Konrads and Markus' Fire Chalice twice.
- The quest from Treslotts does not end before his Fire Chalice is obtained. The numbers of his reward does not vary.
- Abe has the dialog option "Let's trade" only once.
+ It is possible to obtain a second Katana in the game.
- The quest "bring Lukjan profit for the skins" cannot be solved by trading.
- The quest "Follow Tufail" will not start when Masil is dead. A new dialog entry: "He is dead".
- Mezir does not ask "And, did you find him?" when he has not aided in the search.
- The dialog option "Where do I find Hanson?" is available with Grim only once he has told about Hanson.
- The quest "Kaffu wants his gold back" cannot be solved by trading.
- The dialog option "Where can I find Gotha?" with Hatlod does not show up forever.
- One can send Karlen to the desert any time, as soon as the two quests are solved.
- The dialogmenu does not stay up when Karlen walks around.
- The quest "Follow Merdarion" can be resolved any time.
- Xardas does not request to ask the Orc Shamans for artifacts when Grok is dead.
- The Quest "Lurkerhunt with Wilson" ends after all Lurkers are dead and Wilson has been reported about it.
- The quest "Wenzel cleans up" ends when Cape Dun has been liberated and Wenzel is reported about it.
- Grimboll only gets 5 Sulfur. The quest cannot be resolved by trading.
- When one kills Aldo on order of Sigmor, he will not convict the hero of murder.
- Avogadro cannot buy himself free, before the appropriate quest has been started.
- One does not say "Come with me" directly to Falk, without having this dialog option.
- One gets from 20 Ice Wolfskins from Hanson every time.
- Innostian does not take more than 50 manaplants.
- If one kills Kirk, the guards of the nearby city will not convict the hero of murder.
- When one steals the delivery of Tragak, it is impossible to bring it to Grompel.
- Changed the awarding of reputation points in certain cities and fractions.
- Wooden shields have the correct inventory image.


III. Community Patch v1.2
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- Finley attacks Trelis together even when Vak is dead.
- The quest "Finley attacks Trelis" is not interrupted when one reports him of the victory prematurely.
- Tyler lets himself be taken to Trelis safely.
+ One can learn "Make explosive arrows".
- Mannig does not get 500 gold when one delivers Randall to him.
- Leif will be unlocked as teacher after the quest "Ten Sabreteeth for Leif".
- Ketil gives 3 ore instead of 3 gold as a reward for the quest "ketil needs 12 Bison skins"
- For the quest "Okara needs more men" the dialog option "Out there is no one anymore" does not disappear anymore.
- Erroneous dialogoptions to learn "Paladin" from Rhobar are removed. The skill can still be learned from him.
- The dialog option "I need booze" with Tippler is available, when one knows that one has to be deliver the booze.
- One gets reputation points from Marik when one brings him the gold list from Ashton.
- One has to kill all Sandcrawler to end the quest from Vasco.
- The quest "Liberate Ishtar" can be started error free.
- The quest "Approval of the assassins" will resolve.
- Summoned creatures will die, when one leaves them behind.
- Erroneous dialogs from Quadir, Nafalem, Benito, Sigmor, Delazar and Kafa resolved.
- The console will not display disturbed and white flashing is reduced.
- The noise of the Flame Sword is reduced in strength.
- Crackling noise of fires has been turned off due to incorrect timing.
- Masil does not give the raw ore twice.
- One can end the quest "Messages from the South" also when Benito has been provoked before.
- Nefarius, Silvio, Aila, Yasmin and the Emaciated Slave leave the group once the requirements therefore are met.
- Sivert says "Good fight. I am Sivert" on his own accord.
- One cannot obtain Ejnars Ancestor stone twice.
- The quest to destroy the rebel hideout of Reddock will be interrupted by Javier after the liberation of Cape Dun.
- The quest "Liberate Cape Dun" will be interrupted by Uruk after destroying Reddock and killing the rebel leader.
- The quest "Destroy the rebelcamp Nemora" will be interrupted after one has liberated Trelis with Tyler.
- The quest to liberate Trelis will be broken off by Vak after destroying Nemora.
- The quest "Tare Okara apart" will be broken off by Sanford after liberating Montera.
- The quest "Liberate Montera from the Orcs" will be broken off by Varek after destroying Okara.
- The quest "Bring Nemrok the artifact out of the ruins from the North" will be ended by Marius after Geldern has been liberated.
- The quest for the secret of Mazin can also be resolved when he is killed, after he has given all information.
- The quests at Domeniks Pastures will also start, when one speaks with Marik.
- Masil answers on the question from where he has the raw ore, when the quest "Guilt and Pretence" has been resolved successfully.
- One can provoke Topork, when one denies him his provocation for the quest "Reddock needs a smith"

When one selects the option "Improved ge3.ini" during installation:

- Developer errors removed, maximum camera zoom-out increased, use of memory improved and vegetation view distance doubled.


IV. Community Patch v1.1
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- One has to give Vandorn only the requested 5 saws.
- One does not receive double the amount of gold from one of the slaves with Freman.
- An error in Musan's dialog is removed.


V. Community Patch v1.0
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- One can give Frithjof his Fire Chalice back.
+ One can learn "Fire Mage" and "Improve armor".

 

[Stas]

It's sad that developers don't even fix their game. I'm glad I never bought the game.

 

[manimal]

sad thing about this game is it has alot of very nice features and a very pretty world. When I first got it on sale from best buy a while ago it was basically unplayable. The current patches and the fixes above make it run the way it should have when it was released. Not a very well optimized game but fun for a little while if you liked oblivion.

 

[Hadsus]

I fiddled quite a bit with it this weekend. My rig ain't too shabby and I agree there is something wrong with the optimization or design decisions. Just too much drawing and redrawing and I got 2 gig of memory. And I'm not too crazy about the quest logging and map. The world is very immersive when it works.

 

[cheapherk]

I got it for $4.90 on clearance at Target. I haven't played it though.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: cheapherk
I got it for $4.90 on clearance at Target. I haven't played it though.

Dang, I'd buy it for certain at that price. I'll have to keep my eyes open.

 

[Skacer]

If the game chugs try disabling grass. It is worth a playthrough

 

[Mem]

Bateluer: you have been beaten link

 

[imported_Imp]

Burn it. Too much frustration and bad memories for patches to erase...

 

[apoppin]

i really liked it ... better in every way then Oblivion
... except for the broken crap and crappy endings [which are a set up for G4]

i think the reason the community is supporting it because the publisher JoJo Wood fired Piranha Bytes the Devs ... i am guessing the "community" is Piranha Bytes employees doing it on their spare time

i'd almost like to play it again ... some of it is really well-written

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Mem
Bateluer: you have been beaten link

Not really.

My thread is about the current status of the game and comments from owners running all the latest patches. Your thread is merely an announcement thread about the community patches. Mine is just pointing out that the community patches exist.

 

[yuppiejr]

I picked this up on the cheap and found it interesting, it can be a bit slow going and I agree it was unplayable until the last dev patch. I haven't even loaded the community patches and look forward to seeing how they impact the game, looks like it might be worth picking up again after I finish TQ.

 

[yuppiejr]

Direct link to the patch:

http://snorre.jowood.de/~commu...mmunity_Patch_v1.4.exe

 

[AdamK47]

I picked up the game yesterday for $20. I have it installed in Vista X64. It required updating of the Tages copy protection drivers after installing or else it wouldn't even start. I also installed the 1.12 patch along with the 1.4 community patch. I was aware of most of the problems and fixes for them before buying it, but one very very odd thing about this game on Vista x64 is that the true type font file causes the game to run at about 2 frames per second. Replacing that file with the true type font file from Gothic 2 fixed it. It's odd and disturbing that the developers haven't implemented an easy fix for it in their patch. We have to fix it ourselves. It now runs at a constant 60fps (with vsync on) without slowdowns.