It's actually very a very clever hidden quest outcome. It makes sense why hurrying up and not wasting time doing whatever chores you come across would increase your chances of finding him alive. I'm not sure if it also takes into account the amount of days that pass. That is, I'm pretty sure that the script only triggers if the players has done a certain number of side quests and it doesn't track the actual in game days. It's still an awesome feature. I wonder how many players actually found out about it.Don't do sidequests? Might just as well kill him yourself.
The way it works is that from a certain point going forward (your brother's disappearance) you are supposed to do literally just the strict minimum of mandatory main quests necessary to get there.It's actually very a very clever hidden quest outcome. It makes sense why hurrying up and not wasting time doing whatever chores you come across would increase your chances of finding him alive. I'm not sure if it also takes into account the amount of days that pass. That is, I'm pretty sure that the script only triggers if the players has done a certain number of side quests and it doesn't track the actual in game days. It's still an awesome feature. I wonder how many players actually found out about it.
Not gonna happen this year.Really need 2.0 right now
Some of those textures look almost too good, like too good for that engine. But if I ever replay Archolos I will def use it.Here's a graphics overhaul i did for the mod, if someone's interested. It also works for G2. Screenshots on the page (i use the G3D11 renderer + normal maps.)
https://www.nexusmods.com/gothic2/mods/91
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I agree, but it's kinda 'not a bug, but a feature' of this mod. The creators sadly wanted to make something leaning more towards the satire. The writing isn't the worst, but the humor can be jarring or off-putting if you don't mesh with it. It's still a relatively good compact Gothic mod, compared to all the plethora of others that exist out-there.Dirty Swamp has an annoying protagonist who suffers from "I MUST NARRATE EVERYTHING" syndrome. Seriously, he never shuts the fuck up. To make things worse, he also breaks the fourth wall a lot during the early parts of the game.
Unfortunately all Gothic mods are either tiny in scope, low quality/divergent from what made the original good or so old and janky they put the original to shame. Or all three.Even if these don't necessarily reach Archolos' level of quality, they're still quite enjoyable.
Yeah, that one is utterly atrocious, I really don't know what was going on in the creator's head. Literal five-year-old's idea of cool being jamming literally everything ever into their deranged hodge-podge of a mod.The Returding 2.0 is an autistic rebalance and hodge podge of garbage, ugly looking armor and decline. I would never touch that pos.
Never played that one, G1 mods are infamously even more janky than G2 mods.Diccuric was fun 2 decades ago, but it's very dated mod for G1 engine and ends with a set up for sequel... that never happened of course.
Piratenleben was the name of the pirate mod. Main character was called Rhys, I think. He was a pretty cool MC. I remember enjoying that one as a kid. Bumshak was a real cool idea too, starting as a scout and rising through the orc ranks.I remember playing some mod about a guy from Khorinis who joined the pirates and another mod about an orc warrior named Bumshak (?). They were ok 20 years ago.
I was immediately put off by an unexplained mechanics in the mines and generally idiotic quest design. From what I heard it only gets worse from there.My friend told me about The Dark Saga mod, it actually seemed very interesting in premise, it's about you and your friend ending up as slaves in orcish mines. You have to earn the respect of orcs to become a mercenary and have some degree of freedom. But the mod is very tryhard in difficulty with really shitty voice acting. It's also in russian only.
Yeah, it's bad. Massive backtracking in stupid quests and nonsensical, long dialogues about the most boring crap. There really seemed to be some good ideas during the production of this one, but they failed to bring them to fruition. Main quest had this cool idea of MC losing documents proving he's a diplomat and going on a constantly escalating quest to prove his identity, but it is still littered with awful dialogues, lore dumps, backtracking and all that.There is large mod Legend of Asshun or something. Heard it's not that good.
Huge, massive and long mod full of extremely low quality crap.A mod called Odysee. Never played it, probably not very good.
You're in luck:Would be cool if someone finished Gothic Sequel. The one Piranha scrapped before implementing some of the story elements into Gothic 2. It takes place in the ore valley after the events of G1.
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Even if these don't necessarily reach Archolos' level of quality, they're still quite enjoyable.
- Dirty Swamp
- Brotherhood - The Way of The Sleeper
- Lobos
- (GER) Aus dem Leben eines Diebes