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Gothic Chronicles Of Myrtana: Archolos mod for Gothic 2

Sjukob

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Lol, the years of playing Gothic.
I thought that local shadowbeast was too fat to fit in the forest, so I had to cut him down a bit. Took a few attempts, because I forgot how to actually fight that thing.
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The turtles kick my ass really hard though, they use molerat AI and animations, which are completely busted on anything with fat stats. I found frogmen to be way too tough for me too, I even tried luring them into the town, but they've just slaughtered everyone there. It seems that they have about the same stats as the elite orcs from the original do.
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Mud'

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Is it me or enemies do respawn?

If so, hunting can be way more profitiable.
 

Salvo

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Is it me or enemies do respawn?

If so, hunting can be way more profitiable.
Devs have confirmed that there's no random / timed respawns, but there's extra spawns after quests as to not interrupt you while you're doing them
 

Fargus

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Yo guys, where to get some ham in the village?

How is the English translation?

It's ok. Could have been better, could have been worse. I've played original Gothic 2 with bad translation and german voice acting so it's nothing a Gothic player can't handle.
 

Fargus

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I dont have any idea, just save Rolf from wolves and it will have same result instead of using that hunter

Yeah but im trying to get some LP (getting a level up doing some quests) to learn how to take trophies from animals, so i try to avoid killing monsters like wolves and save them for later so i can jew more animal parts from them for gold.
 
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TheGameSquid

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Had no idea this was dropping today, pretty fucking hyped. Unfortunately I'm doing a completionist run of ELEX right now, and I don't wanna overdose on PB jank.

The two things I'm looking out for the most is the bugs and the translation. So far I noticed the achievement descriptions on Steam have pretty awful English translations, that worries me a little. Hopefully they also manage to replicate that good old Gothic feeling. I've seen so many mods that are so concerned with doing all sorts of impressive stuff with the original engine that they forgot to nail down the basic gameplay first.
 

agris

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So glad I didn't pick up ELEX last week. This is hitting at just the right time.

DX11 mode is pretty nice, the game looks sharp.
 

Nikanuur

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The DX11 looks so beautiful I am afraid I am sinning having it running instead of the vanilla.
 

Lyre Mors

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Holy shit, peak steam players at 6,800 today. That's amazing! I knew there'd be a fair amount of people playing this, but I never expected it to be this popular. Hope this team goes on to work on more projects in the future. Really enjoying my time with this.
 

agris

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Holy shit, peak steam players at 6,800 today. That's amazing! I knew there'd be a fair amount of people playing this, but I never expected it to be this popular. Hope this team goes on to work on more projects in the future. Really enjoying my time with this.
Don’t suppose you know what those numbers translate to in number of “sales”?
This is a good market test for older style gameplay selling in the modern times.
 

Lyre Mors

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Don’t suppose you know what those numbers translate to in number of “sales”?
This is a good market test for older style gameplay selling in the modern times.

I don't know for sure, but I'd be confident to say between Steam, GoG, and ModDB it's had over 15,000 unique downloads. Obviously a very rough estimate there, but it seems a likely ballpark.
 

Sjukob

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Yo guys, where to get some ham in the village?
Bastian in the inn sells it.
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The two things I'm looking out for the most is the bugs and the translation. So far I noticed the achievement descriptions on Steam have pretty awful English translations, that worries me a little. Hopefully they also manage to replicate that good old Gothic feeling. I've seen so many mods that are so concerned with doing all sorts of impressive stuff with the original engine that they forgot to nail down the basic gameplay first.
So far it plays exactly like Gothic with similar progression, exploration, quests, combat, scary forests and stuff, but way prettier and with some additions like cooking, scribing scrolls, crafting ammo, new types of potions and other things. Haven't encountered any bugs so far.

I see people keep asking about quality of english translation, so I will dump some screenshots to showcase it below, make of it what you will.
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Lyre Mors

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The translation is serviceable and hardly worse than the English versions of Gothic 1 and 2. It really shouldn't get in the way of enjoying it for any English speaking fans of those games.
 

Fargus

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Bastian doesnt sell ham if you talked to him prior the newest patch.

Just got my first save corruption too. Just a reminder to keep multiple saves, good thing i'm a paranoid save scummer.

some shots
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PS. Eating a bunch of apples gives you 1 permanent str, can do this multiple times. Like in G2. Eating different food can give you +5 health.
 
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