Risen Starting Risen 1, anything I should do/install?

[Zboj Lamignat]

R1 isn't really a game where you need to ask about mods and what is good before you start playing (assuming such games exist at all). Just pick a faction and roll with it. If you want to be a fighter then you know what to do, if you want to be a templar then get caught, if you want to be a mage go to the town and start helping the mage guy there. The only thing that you need to know is that most incomplete side quests get auto-cancelled when you go with the main inquisitor guy into the cave under monastery, I don't think the game warns about it in any way. It's also a point where the game turns quite meh, but it's a blast before that.

 

[Absinthe]

Does killing the warrior monks at the ruins Jan points out to you force you to join the Bandits?

 

[Murk]

BTW going full mage means you mostly get access to utility spells as the main combat spells are available to the Order as well.

Though free access to levitate + sprint is very nice.

 

[razvedchiki]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

Pickpocket too.

 

[Technomancer]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

But they have open lock spell? I don't remember.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

But they have open lock spell? I don't remember.

Templars don't get spells anyway.

 

[Nim]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

But they have open lock spell? I don't remember.

Templars don't get spells anyway.

They do have to learn to make scrolls so kinda ?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

also the dons faction can learn you lockpick lvl 3 (which is max), the inquisition can not.

But they have open lock spell? I don't remember.

Templars don't get spells anyway.

They do have to learn to make scrolls so kinda ?

Yeah I was referring to the runes themselves. Even bandits can use scrolls if memory serves.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

It's a great game that doesn't need any modification.

Dev wise, the ending could have been better, but the rest of the game more than makes up for it.

 

[mkultra]

Installed it again, finished it when i came out years ago.. Damn, the movement (and its animation) is so bad in this game, almost as shitty as Gothic 1, that jumping animation is... wow.. i actually think it's worse than Gothic1-2 there.. Gothic 3 was better (tried it recently).

To me it's really what has aged the worst with these games, i find it really hard to go back after playing ELEX.. I gave G2 a try and eh.. no. The movement feels so digital and just plain awful. Might give Risen 2 or 3 a chance though, cant remember if they improved the movement there (i've only played both briefly).

 

[Maxie]

Installed it again, finished it when i came out years ago.. Damn, the movement (and its animation) is so bad in this game, almost as shitty as Gothic 1, that jumping animation is... wow.. i actually think it's worse than Gothic1-2 there.. Gothic 3 was better (tried it recently).

To me it's really what has aged the worst with these games, i find it really hard to go back after playing ELEX.. I gave G2 a try and eh.. no. The movement feels so digital and just plain awful. Might give Risen 2 or 3 a chance though, cant remember if they improved the movement there (i've only played both briefly).

janky movement and timing your awkward swings and dodges is what makes or breaks any piranha game, personally i find elex with its movement on swing quite annoying

 

[Eisen]

I stopped playing Risen after jumping and got stuck in cave.

Didn't found the solution even after trying what the internet said

 

[Technomancer]

https://www.nexusmods.com/risen/mods/22

Great stuff.

 

[notpl]

I always wondered why none of the gothic people bothered making new content for Risen. Just prohibitively hard to mod for some reason gothic 1/2 aren't?

 

[Dodo1610]

I always wondered why none of the gothic people bothered making new content for Risen. Just prohibitively hard to mod for some reason gothic 1/2 aren't?

Gothic and its sequel received official, powerful and relatively easy-to-use modding tools and the community has constantly been adding new options for modding them for the last two decades.
Gothic 3 and all other PB games that use the Genome engine never received any mod support though there is at least one German total conversion mod for Risen made with fanmade tools. https://www.worldofrisen.de/download_89.htm

 

[Absinthe]

Is there any point to using staves in Risen?

 

[Technomancer]

Is there any point to using staves in Risen?

In certain paths, you can only train staff to level 10 from melee weapons. So if you want to use swords with mages it is best to level them up to 10 before you join and lock yourself out from the bog trainer.

 

[toro]

I stopped playing Risen after jumping and got stuck in cave.

Didn't found the solution even after trying what the internet said

There is something scary about a German searching for a solution

 

[toro]

Right, as the title says, I just decided to install and play Risen. Been in my backlog for a long-ass while. So if I could get any advice, I'd appreciate it.

Are there any mods/patches/etc I should get? I have the 1.3 unofficial patch and that's it. From what I've heard Risen 1 is much like Gothic (never played that one) and after the 2nd arc it starts to turn into shitty combat segments mostly. Maybe mods have fixed some of Risen's problems, maybe not. The main Risen site (World of Risen) is in German I notice.

And is there anything else I should be aware of?

Post screenshots bitch.

 

[Absinthe]

Is there any point to using staves in Risen?

In certain paths, you can only train staff to level 10 from melee weapons. So if you want to use swords with mages it is best to level them up to 10 before you join and lock yourself out from the bog trainer.

Even then do Staves even have anything on just getting Axes or Swords to level 7?

Right, as the title says, I just decided to install and play Risen. Been in my backlog for a long-ass while. So if I could get any advice, I'd appreciate it.

Are there any mods/patches/etc I should get? I have the 1.3 unofficial patch and that's it. From what I've heard Risen 1 is much like Gothic (never played that one) and after the 2nd arc it starts to turn into shitty combat segments mostly. Maybe mods have fixed some of Risen's problems, maybe not. The main Risen site (World of Risen) is in German I notice.

And is there anything else I should be aware of?

Post screenshots bitch.

What for?

 

[Technomancer]

Even then do Staves even have anything on just getting Axes or Swords to level 7?

Not really. They are pretty lame.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Even then do Staves even have anything on just getting Axes or Swords to level 7?

Reach, maybe?
I mean, just use whatever you like, once power attack is unlocked, they're all broken.

 

[Absinthe]

Even then do Staves even have anything on just getting Axes or Swords to level 7?

Not really. They are pretty lame.

I was afraid of that. Bastard Swords seem a lot better than staves tbh, and with two +1 Swords rings even with a 7 Swords training cap you can equip 2H swords in one hand. Still, I notice Staff 7 gives "All attack blows do more damage." and Staff 9 gives "Your counter parries do more damage." which no other weapon has. Does anyone know how that works? Is it significant?

Even then do Staves even have anything on just getting Axes or Swords to level 7?

Reach, maybe?
I mean, just use whatever you like, once power attack is unlocked, they're all broken.

Axes unlock power attack at skill level 2, but they need 6 to be enable shields and 8 to stop being slow. You only need 4 Axes to equip the Hammer of the Titans which gives +6 to Axes though... but that is very late. Staves are slow as fuck (worse than axes), poor damage, no and no shield though. Meanwhile unarmed is hilarious because it's the fastest, can't be blocked, and with enough strength and berserking spells your Fist Mage hits hard (and since unarmed does not involve any weapon skill, you have points to spare on fast str).