not gurantee) so that is some extra xp as well. Also CP gives some animals a chance to respawn after a bit of time(it's a chance. If it's off you can learn all the spells and skills by the end of the game. don't try to be jack of all trades unless you are willing to help yourself with console. depends on whether you have AB on or off. orcs there are hostile from get go however and nobody cares if you kill every single one of them. Nordmar is the only place where you can butcher the other side with 0 consequnces. FYI orcs guarding ruined temples in Varant are considered as cities for the purpose liberations. You don't want to miss on 70% of quests in a zone because you liberated some backwater dump simple because you could. You can only liberate 2 cities from each faction before they got ham on you and attack on sight. now that I got that off my chest moving on to actual gameplay.ĭO NOT LIBERATE CITIES, until you are sure. Buff to permanent potions with only 50 King Sorrels in entire game is kind of. but I add about 20 stone tables and a bunch of King Sorrels at the start of the game to offset the nerf to ancient knowledge gains from tables and bookshelves. So you gotta make up your own mind about pros and cons of having AB on. that was killed with CP but honestly waiting for an hour to heal was not really the way to go. Unless you opened the menu and waited for regen to top you off. Regeneration costs 5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ times more to train then vanilla. But some things even from utility realm went to absurd cost. quadruple for every single damn spell and there are a LOT of them. It may not affect melee as much as a mage where you cought up double. It's not really fun finishing the game as level 70 mage and having 5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ spells, it just isn't. it goes to extreme with forcing you into a specialization.
read the manual for it it has most of the details. a bunch of other things in it are absolutely worth it like changed damage mechanics and so on. It does wonders for armor/weapons/, making some of items previously giving a mediocre advatage over previous more effective and worthwhile. if you transform into wolf you can kill something without it even being able to draw weapon.Īlternate Balancing - it's a bag of mixed reactions for me. Wolfs have obscenely fast attack animation.
Yes it also limits the number of opponents that can attack you at the same time based on difficulty but don't assume that you will not get stunlocked to death by wolfs. There are 2 options in CP(community patch):Īlternate AI - mostly good idea to use it.
No amount of love for the series can make unoptimized bugfest that is Gothic 3 look like something that came from "fun" universe.Ģ. I guess I'm pretty late for the party but I'll still chime in, perhaps will help somebody else.ġ. Also, you need to start a new game if you want to use AB as you can't switch it on or off anymore once you started. If you want a more challenging experience, you can switch on Alternative Balancing (AB) but that may be better left for a second playthrough. I also advise you to try the CP's Alternative AI, you can switch it off at any time if you want. G3 vanilla was a different story altogether and one I wouldn't advise you to play through.
The contents are random but the more chests you open, the higher quality the items will become overall.Īll of this goes for G3 with the Community Patch (CP) installed.
You'll be able to max at least 75% of the stats and skills.Ĥ) Chests sort of 'level up'. There is certainly room for some shopping sprees, though, so you don't need to worry about gold a lot.ģ) XP aplenty. Training your skills will also require gold. You'll gather a ton of gold but some items like armor cost a lot of gold, so that evens it out a bit. Ranged attacks and kiting works best against multiple opponents, animal or human.Ģ) I think the amount of gold you'll make is pretty balanced. When facing human opponents, you can also parry (=block without a shield so with your weapon) but that's less effective. Human opponents can be fought more easily melee style but still ranged is easier, especially when facing a bunch of opponents.ġ) You can use a shield to block attacks. In Gothic 3, a ranged character is a lot easier to play than a melee character, especially when it comes to animals.