Larian Studios

Wenn ich allerdings das hier von unserm guten alten Moe und anderen im RPGDot-Forum lese, bewegt sich meine Begeisterung allerdings schon wieder rapide gen Boden:

"... Well the biggest bombshell I have discovered is that apparently there is no "jump and pull up" mantling in the game.

DIssapointing to me because it takes away some of the free-form vertical exploration aspect. Since it was in both G1 & G2 I considered this to be an almost sacred cow.

See this English thread (especially the last few notes) for the details:
http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/showthread.php?t=136835

I am hoping that maybe the person testing just missed something or that perhaps you can gain the ability to do this type of climbing later in the game somehow. But for now we have to assume it is gone."


WIE BITTÄÄÄÄ!?!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Wie kann man denn das bitte machen? Das greift ja wohl integral in das gewohnte "Look&Feel" von "Gothic" ein! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />

Ich erwarte eigentlich von dieser so bahnbrechend neuen Spielwelt und Engine Fortschritte auf allen Gebieten - aber keinesfalls derartige Rückschritte, zumal nicht auf so einem "Bread&Butter"-Gebiet und vor allem da mir eine technische Begründung auf den ersten Blick nicht einfallen mag.
Und als Feature-Designentscheidung erscheint es mir äußerst dubios! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />


"... They did mention that the controls are fully customizable though so you can sort of go back to Gothic I/II controls. The things that are different are:

- The left/right swinging has been removed from the game.
- There are now three different ways to strike (from tapping the left mouse button for a quick stab, to a regular click for a normal attack and a long click for maximum damage). These attack styles can apparently be remapped from the mouse to the keyboard (according to one of the testers).
- There are new combos. You use the right mouse button to block. Clicking the left mouse button from the block position performs a special attack move.
- There'll be a jump attack which you will have to unlock by acquiring the skill/perk (jump + left mouse click = jump attack). Dual wielding is now also in the game and available via acquiring the skill/perk.
- Ranged combat now has critical hits, i.e. you can aim at an enemy's head and have a chance to do more damage. This is only true for ranged combat. In melee combat there are no hit zones.

That's it, I think. Might be that the endurance/stamina bar has an influence on your combat abilities but I didn't see one of the testers comment on that so it's probably not as important in combat as it is for running/sprinting.

Pity about climbing, pulling up (and also diving BTW). I guess that they removed climbing and pulling up because it was exploited a lot in Gothic II. Now, why this would matter in a single player game, I don't know, but PB obviously decided it'd be a good idea to make the player's life a little harder... oh well.. ..."


Ah ja, toll - Tauchen wurde also auch "rausgeschnitten"!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />
Wie wundervoll! Dabei hatte ich eher gehofft sie würden beim Schwimmen um die Seitenlage erweitern. So hätte man nämlich bei den Vorgängern während der Fortbewegung im Wasser parallel zu einem Ufer selbiges dennoch im Auge behalten können.
Neien, stattdessen kürzen sie die Unterwasserszenen...! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />


Alles in allem eher wieder ernüchternd - wie buad schon sagte.


Ragon, der Magier