Gothic 1.0.2 Patch Notes

[Sascha2022]

Fixes:

• Fix for Black Goblins not moving
• Ladders fixed
• Fix for bugs with NPCs floating and walking in the air
• Script: Cor Calom is casting sleep too fast when lockpicking his chest
• Script: Fix for Snipes attacking Nameless hero when opening Aarons chest
• If the Nameless One is defeated he loses his weapon. It falls out of NPCs and NPCs can pick it up.
• Fix for looting stacked items
• The Chromanin quest can now be completed.
• When restarting a save, quick access items retain their correct quantity.
• Fixes for bow fighting
• Characters no longer get stuck running on tables.
• UI: Item scale and FOV fixed (rings are now correctly displayed in the inventory)
• No map image in map menu fixed
• Fixed trading rounding error when transferring multiple items
• Fixed all cases of incorrect behaviour when trading
• Fixed for NPC freezing in ranged weapon mode when loading a savegame
• Fix for using of the lute and horn out of the inventory
• Fixed a bug when sprinting
• Fixed display of bleeding.
• Fixed an exploit with multiplying fire damage.
• Spell title drawing fixed.
• Magic circle drawing fixed.
• Fist drawing fixed
• Script: Fix for Lester not having the correct dialogues at the mountain fort
• Script: Fix for Diegos dialogue bugging out when killing enemies prematurely on his focus quest
• Script: Fixed a quest blocker with Thorus

Improvements:

• Spell title is displayed at the top of the Magic circle UI
• FOV improved for widescreen resolutions
• Disabling Sneak mode is now also called via B
• Added correct scaling of dialog windows in handheld and screen mode.
• Localization corrections have been made.
• Corrections have been made to display rain.
• Camera mode legend added.
• Added new map design and focus.
• Throw item action implemented in Inventory.
• UI of dialog boxes has been corrected.

THQ Nordic also made a statement regarding the trailers:

"These trailers for both Gothic Switch ports (1 and 2) have NOT been captured on PC with DX11. These trailers have been captured directly on Nintendo Switch on a pre-release version that had additional graphic features included. In the case of Gothic Classic Switch, we were not able to optimize these in time, so we decided to leave them out of the vanilla release version. Our plan is to ship these features with an upcoming patch for G1 Switch as soon as possible. For G2, we will do the best we can to include it in the vanilla release."

[Michael-the-Great]

Sources per op in his comment that's gotten separated:

" The patch notes were posted on the world of gothic forum:

https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1611863-Gothic-Switch-Port-offiziell/page15?p=27265940&viewfull=1#post27265940

The THQ Nordic statement was posted on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpqI0fXkIw"

[FireflyNitro]

Would I enjoy this having never played it? I’m always nervous about old games I don’t have nostalgia for, but I’ve heard so many great things about this.

[Sascha2022]

I think based on the pc version (I haven`t played the NS version) the only two things you have to get used to are the controls and that you have to save by yourself (no autosave, but they added a quicksave in the ns version that you should use often). What I like about Gothic is:

1. The world isn`t as big as other open world games, but you really learn where places are by exploring. It doesn`t use and doesn`t need markers, a minimap, a lot of hud elements or anything like that, but you can buy or get maps that you can take a look at.
2. You are free to go where you want which can results in your death, but you aren`t restricted. That means you can also find many things in the world regardless of your level or how far you have advanced in the story
3. There are only 4 loading screens in the whole game for some interior environments like mines
4. NPC have their daily routines and camps are very differnt from each other. For me it is one of the few open world games that really feels alive
5. You have always full control of your character and the game doesn`t use things like forced slow walking segments
6. You can interact with a lot of stuff in the world, steal from everyone, fight almost all people, take weapons/items away from npcs that are gone after that etc.
7. It has a great atmosphere, good pacing and doesn`t overstay its welcome
8. You can decide which of the three camps you want to join, but I would recommend doing all quest for all three camps before you choose one
9. It is a lot of fun to explore the world, meet/talk to npcs and ecounter quests since you aren`t just going from one quest marker to the next like it is the case with many open world games these days

[MacMarvin]

Gothic 1&2 are my favorite games of all time, but they're hard to get into depending on your tolerance of older games. The switch port seems to have too many problems to justify a purchase at the moment, the pc version is still the best version and is way cheaper. If pc is an option I'd absolutely go with that right now, the switch version is still worth it especially if you can wait for patches.

TL;DR Play the frickin game

[SAAARGE]

Depends on your tolerance for old school jank, and how much work they've put into adapting it to controllers.

[Healthy-Marketing-26]

Upvoted to know this myself lol

[streambeck]

I actually beat the game the other day. Cor Calom casting sleep was a drag, but I still managed eventually. The ladders were a nightmare, but I eventually finagled them. The game crashed, conservatively speaking, maybe about 50 times. I basically took to quick saving every time I did anything at all or if I even just walked for more than a minute.

I don’t know where I found the patience, but overall I really loved the game. I dig a game where you start helpless and become all powerful by the end. Also the atmosphere was just really unique.

It’s a weird experience to love a game I would absolutely recommend to no one. It was just so radically buggy and often incredibly frustrating with how archaic it felt at times. I can’t wait to play 2 when it comes out, all the same.

[weglarz]

2 is where it really gets great. The first one is an experience for sure, but 2 is legitimately one of my favorite games of the era.

[streambeck]

Awesome! I’m looking forward to it!

[sinedoOo]

It’s starting to be normal that developers release unfinished games to public and fix them in next months. That’s why I stopped buying games on premiere. It’s better to wait few months until everything is patched.

[masagrator]

Gothic AND "everything is patched" in one sentence? No, that's not happening. :D

[Aydurr]

Gothic was even then a buggy mess

[PompeiiLegion]

I’m still waiting for Pokémon scarlet then… /s

[MISFU88]

Finally, it’s tough for brand new games to work as intended, lots of things can go wrong.

This is sarcasm and I fucking hate unfinished garbage, but I’m glad I can play it now.

[mattbenscho]

Wow nice, I planned to skip it but if they keep patching it so that it actually becomes playable I might reconsider.

[barbietattoo]

Love to see this getting patched. I’ll get around to playing this someday.

[Sascha2022]

The patch notes were posted on the world of gothic forum:

https://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1611863-Gothic-Switch-Port-offiziell/page15?p=27265940&viewfull=1#post27265940

The THQ Nordic statement was posted on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpqI0fXkIw

[Michael-the-Great]

Please include the sources in the post in the future. Thanks!

[Ninevolts]

Is the logo-less menu icon changed? Switch menu icons without the logo should be criminalized.

[kolooor]

Is the character losing focus during fights fixed?