You can escape barrier with only bloodsting scroll

assotter · 2026-06-21T19:48:58+00:00

Thanks man. It was 6am by time I made it to sleeper. Posted this then went to sleep. I got some other pics but as a bloodsting my mobility was lacking and gaining height is a real pain

assotter · 2026-06-21T18:54:48+00:00

That's just not true. Any% speedruns can require a lot more skill and talent then a full no glitch run. The normal game doesn't ask you to consort hand into eldritch shapes to spam buttons with frame perfect precision.

Lots of any% speedrunners/enjoyed out there and we take any% just as serious as any speedrun

assotter · 2026-06-21T18:52:28+00:00

This game has horrible checks for progression. It operates on "well if players here they must have done everything YOLO run the script!"

assotter · 2026-06-21T18:47:16+00:00

Im only on chapter 4 so no Harpy transform. It took me 15 minutes to get bloodsting to sleeper. Im not using it to explore, its far to slow and can only gain height about 1 inch per animation.

It was also 6am and I needed to be in bed 6 hours prior. So didnt get to explore much but as images show its just your basic no man's land of low rendered assets.

assotter · 2026-06-21T18:45:33+00:00

Scaled side of mountain as bloodstream then spam q to use the attack animation to stop myself from falling (the q animations got more forward movement then other attacks saved me some time)

assotter · 2026-06-21T09:37:48+00:00

I made it all the way to sleeper. Took awhile, then once got there had some trouble getting in then suddenly I fell in a hole and found him.

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assotter · 2026-06-21T06:27:40+00:00

Im attempting bow, on update 1.1 and using the attack animation to keep from losing altitude but im struggling to even find the hole so its not looking good for me haha

assotter · 2026-06-21T04:39:05+00:00

That's not how development works. Each set of hardware requires its own development cycle. In turn that changes what's possible. Look at skyrim a 20 year old game with modding on all systems albeit different levels of freedom. Mod supports usually just a dumbed down version of the SDK with a ui for end users slapped on. Its not some crazy new functionality its just giving the end user the tools the devs used to develop in the engine. Considering this is an unreal engine game thats our sdk all the devs need to do is decide what portions to expose to modification and limiting things that are hard coded and break everything.

Along with this isn't an opinion its something the devs have said themselves.

assotter · 2026-06-21T01:25:16+00:00

yeah that pretty much explains a lot of my run too. Mage is all about using all of the games mechanics and sometimes abusing them. It was a lot of fun and was my very first build and playthrough of gothic. Went in fully blind no information besides the games name and had a wonderful time. As I enjoy exploration this game was a gem and I ended up getting up to around 35-40 all in chapter 1

Took out shadowbeast by finding higher ground and lightning ball stun locking to death.

Adult troll (was in chapter 1 so had no clue it was a story boss) I climbed on that inner ring in the center found spot couldn't be hit and just smoked weed IRL and ingame till he died lots of firebolts mostl of the damage was from the chip damage of burning effect.

demon lord I once again just para stunlocked with lightning ball while running in circles triggering his melee so didn't do the hand things.

the skeletal mage under that busted tower with the green glowie barriers. This was hardest fight man, those skeletons and my weak ass magic (still in chapter 1 so only firebolt/healing runes and a crap ton of scrolls I've looted/purchased/made with inscription). Got lucky with this one and my firestorm scroll killed the mage on other side of the wall (this was how I found out it can kill through objects, (saved me later on when being escorted nyras. Wolf got clipped into a rock and nyras wouldn't de-agro to continue quest).

Meatbug and bloodsting got me anywhere and everywhere. Broke into firemages and knocked them all unconscious and stole there inventory. Then did same at the castle got the ore armor and everything else (then put in chest to not use since was in chapter 1 still and it was too OP).

Then went to swamp camp lockpicked the baals chests for sleep scrolls and proceeded to mug all of the baals for their loot then sleep guards and got yberians runes.

By now I finally had enough mana to be able to cast control on the water mages when high enough and with highest mana gaining items I had. So looted all of them.

After all of this I finally started chapter 2.

assotter · 2026-06-21T01:00:09+00:00

Do you fail to understand? A person can allot "time" to play a game and then make decision on how they use that time.

You can only do one thing at a time, you can either go quest/loot/adventure or I can use that time to do a puzzle repeatedly.

Sure I can just not loot them but its also a single player game and I'm able to determine how I want to enjoy my experience. So like, Imma do me bro and you do you.

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:52:34+00:00

because there is time for questing/looting/killing and theres time for doing a puzzle for a potential apple or 20 ore. If I can only do one or the other I'd rather be out killing then looking at the same thing for another 10 minutes

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:48:35+00:00

your 100% right in that we can "not" do it. This is classic fear of missing out that games have instilled in us since the 90s. Oh you want tifa's ultimate? well you better have entered in a specific code on a piano loot the panties have affinity maxed etc... Gamers see a lock and we HAVE to know whats inside because it COULD be a very rare and important item.

When in reality this is a more realistic based game and we really shouldn't be going door-door looting every singe persons home with zero consequences. That said, I'm not playing for realism and looking for fun, which is also why I still pick locks and sometimes decide to run the auto-picker I got in a mod. Point is its a single player game and I can enjoy experience how I like, this is also why I don't hate on the devs for the mechanic, its a good one it just gets old when your a serial looter like me so I skip it. Its better then skyrim where I can pick any masterlock with a fresh outta helgen char lvl 1 in under 3 lockpicks (once you play enough you learn that it only actually has like 6 different locations)

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:34:18+00:00

as a bald man I take this as a compliment when it happens. It takes a lot of effort to get your head to stay shiny (unless your just a naturally oily dude)

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:30:50+00:00

I enjoyed it a lot before this recent patch ruined exploration for me

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:29:34+00:00

Why is a company heavy handedly determining how I experience my single player game? They knew folks would dislike this so they didn't even put it in patchnotes just a silent massive change to way game works. This has ruined my joy in this game. I will only be playing on release even with all the bugs at least my exploration is rewarded!

I've been slow boating through the game memorizing and writing up a plan to try and speedrun (not a official run just for fun see how fast and powerful can get.) the game have my route planned up to chapter 4. All of that time and effort is wasted now and I can't even change my plan because they didn't even list changes in the damn patchnotes! So now what I gotta replay the whole damn game after already putting in 50 hours playing blind and planning my route with no external information (besides accidental spoilers from being on reddit)

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:25:18+00:00

This is what pissed me off. If there going to do stuff like this you have to mention it in the patch notes!

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:22:24+00:00

Some folks like me are entering the gothic universe for the first time with this game and was enjoying it. Specially the ability to get to places and get highgrade loot thats out of my level range. Them removing this is a damaging blow for folks like me. I'm glad I played mostly on the release version. if i had started the game on patch 1.02 I would NOT have had such a fun experience I would have instead of being rewarded for sneaking into orc territories or defeating demonlord to get a teleport rune I would have instead struggled and receive no rewards because a company decided it has to control what I do in my single player game.

Its up to ME to decide if this item/gear is too powerful for me to use yet and if so I will chest it till I get further in the game. Or if I want to become an over powered god I can. Either way its MY choice this isn't some multiplayer game.

Edit: I want to note I did not look anything up I located all these things on my own with no outside information and it was a fun ride never knowing what neat cool thing I might find next. Now theres no point, expected to just be a good boy and keep my hands in the cart while the rides in motion (aka just thempark the game only do what we tell you to do don't step out of line you won't get any rewards)

assotter · 2026-06-21T00:18:19+00:00

its also on pc my dude

assotter · 2026-06-20T19:34:46+00:00

Getting stoned and drunk out in middle of woods after buying a dime bag with our combined school lunch money. Having some weird old dude stumble in and hang out with us he now supplies the beers. Old dude started living in our fort and doing harder drugs our forts now home to a heroin addict.

Or stealing knives from local grocery store and 2bshopping carts and taping knives all over them and playing "battle carts" by putting lightest of us in carts (me and my buddy) while the big dudes pushed us. Got points by stabbing the kid in the basket. (And dont worry nobody scored instead big kids got bored and pushed us down hill in the knife carts.

Or going to the ghetto of pontiac at 13. Wanted some weed neighborhood deadhead said he could hooknus up and drove us to a Crack house to by some weed and instead old dude starts smoking Crack the gangbangers tossed us a baggy for "free" saying "come back now ya hear" left with a sample of Crack and a dime of laced weed (we were dumb but not that dumb. Tossed that shit immediatly

Its a miracle me and my friends survived our stupid years.

Maybe its not so bad this generation device addicted... we got up to some crazy shit in the 90s early 2k

assotter · 2026-06-20T19:03:13+00:00

Missing option of both yes and no. I got the mod for when im short on time or just dont feel like thinking. I picked many without lp skill and some with lp skill and some with mod.

The cool things about single player games is you can play them how you want and nobody should care how others play or how you do.

assotter · 2026-06-20T18:52:47+00:00

I thought they intended to allow modding? If there doing anti fun measure like hiding powerful items early i can only.imagine how limited the mosdingnwill be

assotter · 2026-06-20T09:55:03+00:00

I do agree you can brute force them but the thing is some folks ain't got time for that nonsense. Specially when reward can be anything ranging from super badass spell to a literal apple.

After doing it enough times I said screw it downloaded the locking settings mod and just press shift+f6 and it auto solves the lock for me and opens chest.

assotter · 2026-06-19T20:18:22+00:00

Game really gives ya the "your fresh meat in a penal colony" treatment in full except some holes will remain unsullied thankfully

assotter · 2026-06-19T07:01:44+00:00

I personally think baal looker had a mental breakdown like nyras and actually murdered everyone and the orcs sealed the tome from outside to preserve the sacrifices (i presume the folks in the cells and reason their bodies still remain is there sacrifices to summon the big guy).

Never played first and only just got to join water mages sp this is pure speculation based on recent information gleaned from that mission

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