For anyone curious what happened with my pc I will leave what I know and was told here below, still need to fix a lot of stuff so I will be absent for a while (also because I want to play Vampire the Masquerade Redemption)
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This pc was once a discarded Windows 7 pc that someone I know gifted to me. I spent a lot of money for this one and another to build them up into two exact copies of one another (though they still have their "personalities", which is quite incredible, but that is another story). As they both were already with storage devices, I left them as they were and just added as needed, this pc having had an SSD of a brand called Good Ram. The brand seems to not be a bad sort, but I have learned today that this pc was probably trashed because the SSD was seemingly faulty. This pc also had a strange "hacker" desktop wallpaper, which is strange for a company to have, and it was completely wiped and clean when it came to me, so I am not sure if it was damaged or who knows what else, but that is the info I have. I will be running a language model on this one as usual to do what I call a "stress test", as it usually would freeze a few hours, or minutes, afterwards when watching videos or playing games if not rebooted, but it should be fine now.
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Been living in the woods for quite a while now, and I am getting a nagging suspicion, from how they are talking about them every quest I did, that I have to join one of the camps for the main quest to continue. Is that correct? Or is there another way? The guys that want to blow up the barrier are my top-pick, but I am too much of a wimp still to really do anything for them to have me. I recall there being talk of a mage in an old tower, but the one I found has a skeleton and, though I leveled up more than once since seeing it first, I will still be killed most certainly if I try to fight it (and as you can see from the picture above I have not found any armor besides the one that I could buy, but I'd rather loot or make my own).
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Been living in the woods for quite a while now, and I am getting a nagging suspicion, from how they are talking about them every quest I did, that I have to join one of the camps for the main quest to continue. Is that correct? Or is there another way? The guys that want to blow up the barrier are my top-pick, but I am too much of a wimp still to really do anything for them to have me. I recall there being talk of a mage in an old tower, but the one I found has a skeleton and, though I leveled up more than once since seeing it first, I will still be killed most certainly if I try to fight it (and as you can see from the picture above I have not found any armor besides the one that I could buy, but I'd rather loot or make my own).
Been living in the woods for quite a while now, and I am getting a nagging suspicion, from how they are talking about them every quest I did, that I have to join one of the camps for the main quest to continue. Is that correct? Or is there another way? The guys that want to blow up the barrier are my top-pick, but I am too much of a wimp still to really do anything for them to have me. I recall there being talk of a mage in an old tower, but the one I found has a skeleton and, though I leveled up more than once since seeing it first, I will still be killed most certainly if I try to fight it (and as you can see from the picture above I have not found any armor besides the one that I could buy, but I'd rather loot or make my own).
Join your favorite
They have no quests for me to do so though I only have the option to go to the guy that wants to force me to give water to the rice pickers (which I assume will be a sort of endless job) or to beat a guy to gain a free, vacant, home, I did every other quest I found and that I could do (leaving the "super incredible sword" quest for later as, if he wants to scam me, those sorts of quests usually give a huge reward if completed anyway as I expect there would be an option to beat him up to get the items back, plus something extra, afterwards, but I will probably die in one hit at the moment as the guy at the vacant house one-shots me if he can catch me). Laster (Lester? I can't recall) is the guy I should impress, but he has no quests and there is nothing I can do. I thought of running the rogues out to impress him, but I cannot do anything in my current state as the second they hit me I am dead, and the amount of creatures I can kill to level up is almost depleted, leaving only raptors, orc dogs, etc. My other pick would be the cultists, but I don't trust these sorts of things, and the Old Camp feels like accepting fate to remain inside the barrier, and I'd rather work to find a way out.
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Been living in the woods for quite a while now, and I am getting a nagging suspicion, from how they are talking about them every quest I did, that I have to join one of the camps for the main quest to continue. Is that correct? Or is there another way? The guys that want to blow up the barrier are my top-pick, but I am too much of a wimp still to really do anything for them to have me. I recall there being talk of a mage in an old tower, but the one I found has a skeleton and, though I leveled up more than once since seeing it first, I will still be killed most certainly if I try to fight it (and as you can see from the picture above I have not found any armor besides the one that I could buy, but I'd rather loot or make my own).
Join your favorite
They have no quests for me to do so though I only have the option to go to the guy that wants to force me to give water to the rice pickers (which I assume will be a sort of endless job) or to beat a guy to gain a free, vacant, home, I did every other quest I found and that I could do (leaving the "super incredible sword" quest for later as, if he wants to scam me, those sorts of quests usually give a huge reward if completed anyway as I expect there would be an option to beat him up to get the items back, plus something extra, afterwards, but I will probably die in one hit at the moment as the guy at the vacant house one-shots me if he can catch me). Laster (Lester? I can't recall) is the guy I should impress, but he has no quests and there is nothing I can do. I thought of running the rogues out to impress him, but I cannot do anything in my current state as the second they hit me I am dead, and the amount of creatures I can kill to level up is almost depleted, leaving only raptors, orc dogs, etc. My other pick would be the cultists, but I don't trust these sorts of things, and the Old Camp feels like accepting fate to remain inside the barrier, and I'd rather work to find a way out.
Doing red camp quests will give you an opportunity for the blue camp
Been living in the woods for quite a while now, and I am getting a nagging suspicion, from how they are talking about them every quest I did, that I have to join one of the camps for the main quest to continue. Is that correct? Or is there another way? The guys that want to blow up the barrier are my top-pick, but I am too much of a wimp still to really do anything for them to have me. I recall there being talk of a mage in an old tower, but the one I found has a skeleton and, though I leveled up more than once since seeing it first, I will still be killed most certainly if I try to fight it (and as you can see from the picture above I have not found any armor besides the one that I could buy, but I'd rather loot or make my own).
Join your favorite
They have no quests for me to do so though I only have the option to go to the guy that wants to force me to give water to the rice pickers (which I assume will be a sort of endless job) or to beat a guy to gain a free, vacant, home, I did every other quest I found and that I could do (leaving the "super incredible sword" quest for later as, if he wants to scam me, those sorts of quests usually give a huge reward if completed anyway as I expect there would be an option to beat him up to get the items back, plus something extra, afterwards, but I will probably die in one hit at the moment as the guy at the vacant house one-shots me if he can catch me). Laster (Lester? I can't recall) is the guy I should impress, but he has no quests and there is nothing I can do. I thought of running the rogues out to impress him, but I cannot do anything in my current state as the second they hit me I am dead, and the amount of creatures I can kill to level up is almost depleted, leaving only raptors, orc dogs, etc. My other pick would be the cultists, but I don't trust these sorts of things, and the Old Camp feels like accepting fate to remain inside the barrier, and I'd rather work to find a way out.
Make sure skill points always make you a bit stronger and follow the main quest.
Join the Altes Lager and then when you eventually go to the Neues Lager , you will first have to join the bandits and then work your way up to the mercs iirc.
Thank you all for the information, will see about the Old Camp then If it is as I think it is, though, it will require some betrayal to join into the New Camp if the questline of the Old Camp leads to a possibility to changing sides with, from what I recall, are their rivals, and I dislike that, so I will see where the game takes me and see from there. Will become a cultist otherwise.
I found a column at the top of some ruins. It lights up (meaning it is interactable), and I can see it should be pushed to create a bridge, but my character "shrugs" when I hit CTRL to interact with it. He does the same with the mechanism to open the gate but I thought I was missing an item before the column, now I am thinking I may be missing a mechanic altogether. How can I interact with these objects?
I found a column at the top of some ruins. It lights up (meaning it is interactable), and I can see it should be pushed to create a bridge, but my character "shrugs" when I hit CTRL to interact with it. He does the same with the mechanism to open the gate but I thought I was missing an item before the column, now I am thinking I may be missing a mechanic altogether. How can I interact with these objects?
It's just broken. Ignore it and the chest, not worth your time.
I found a column at the top of some ruins. It lights up (meaning it is interactable), and I can see it should be pushed to create a bridge, but my character "shrugs" when I hit CTRL to interact with it. He does the same with the mechanism to open the gate but I thought I was missing an item before the column, now I am thinking I may be missing a mechanic altogether. How can I interact with these objects?
It's just broken. Ignore it and the chest, not worth your time.
I was going to wait for my endgame to say this, but this game feels very unfinished yet also fleshed out in a strange way, like a passion project that was stitched together in some areas. I am still loving it, but these things (the cosmetic ore veins, the disappearing terrain and half of the screen in a certain area of the forest, floating objects, etc, and now this) makes me feel they were careless with some stuff
I found a column at the top of some ruins. It lights up (meaning it is interactable), and I can see it should be pushed to create a bridge, but my character "shrugs" when I hit CTRL to interact with it. He does the same with the mechanism to open the gate but I thought I was missing an item before the column, now I am thinking I may be missing a mechanic altogether. How can I interact with these objects?
It's just broken. Ignore it and the chest, not worth your time.
I was going to wait for my endgame to say this, but this game feels very unfinished yet also fleshed out in a strange way, like a passion project that was stitched together in some areas. I am still loving it, but these things (the cosmetic ore veins, the disappearing terrain and half of the screen in a certain area of the forest, floating objects, etc, and now this) makes me feel they were careless with some stuff
That area was pretty disappointing for me.
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I had noticed the little gap with meatbugs around it early on, so I kept checking merchants to see if they had meatbug transformation scrolls every act only for some dweeb to tell me exactly what to do and take me directly to the only place those scrolls exist afaik later on
It's just broken. Ignore it and the chest, not worth your time.
I was going to wait for my endgame to say this, but this game feels very unfinished yet also fleshed out in a strange way, like a passion project that was stitched together in some areas. I am still loving it, but these things (the cosmetic ore veins, the disappearing terrain and half of the screen in a certain area of the forest, floating objects, etc, and now this) makes me feel they were careless with some stuff
That area was pretty disappointing for me.
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I had noticed the little gap with meatbugs around it early on, so I kept checking merchants to see if they had meatbug transformation scrolls every act only for some dweeb to tell me exactly what to do and take me directly to the only place those scrolls exist afaik later on
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Yeah I did notice they are blocking things so as to nose-lead the player later
I myself found a few scrolls by exploring the crevice beneath the fallen tree that connects the area before the ruins (chest deep inside a cave there).
Thank you for letting me know by the way! I noticed I didn't say it before
I was having a problem with the Gothic freezing when entering the New Camp's Free Mine to take it back. I'm not sure if what I ended up doing fixed it or if the crash was avoided due to random chance. Here is what seems to have let me get passed it:
The game would freeze when I tried to transition between the overworld and the mine entrance. Tried it several times with no luck. When I got it working the only thing I changed was instead of killing the Old Camp guys myself I ran back up the path and got the two handed axe wielding mercenary that had accompanied me to finish them off. Then I waited until he had finished getting to the bottom of the mine pit at which point he automatically triggered a dialog cutscene about opening the mine.
This had two benefits. The main one that the game didn't freeze walking into the mine. But also I wasn't being told off for killing Old Camp personnel any more. Although the axe wielder did yell at me like I was a thief for trying to turn the mine gate's winch... even though he just told me to do it.
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oh yeah post your nominations if you beat this I guess tk
Is there a post that has the full list of possible nominees?
Any RPG that isn't a direct story continuation sequel of one we haven't done - KOTOR 2 is a direct sequel so we'd have to play KOTOR 1 first, but Final Fantasy 2 is set in a different universe from FF1 so it would be fine. I'm sure there are some series where the story is a few sentences in the manual and essentially doesn't matter, so use your best judgment.
oh yeah post your nominations if you beat this I guess tk
Is there a post that has the full list of possible nominees?
Any RPG that isn't a direct story continuation sequel of one we haven't done - KOTOR 2 is a direct sequel so we'd have to play KOTOR 1 first, but Final Fantasy 2 is set in a different universe from FF1 so it would be fine. I'm sure there are some series where the story is a few sentences in the manual and essentially doesn't matter, so use your best judgment.
Is there a post that has the full list of possible nominees?
Any RPG that isn't a direct story continuation sequel of one we haven't done - KOTOR 2 is a direct sequel so we'd have to play KOTOR 1 first, but Final Fantasy 2 is set in a different universe from FF1 so it would be fine. I'm sure there are some series where the story is a few sentences in the manual and essentially doesn't matter, so use your best judgment.
Anybody who completes the game of the month within that month can nominate any RPG they want using those guidelines for the next month's poll. After that poll, the losers return to the void until they're nominated again. There's no list you have to consult to choose from. Although, now that Rusty's AG is back, try not to pick ones that would be better suited for it I guess.
I found a column at the top of some ruins. It lights up (meaning it is interactable), and I can see it should be pushed to create a bridge, but my character "shrugs" when I hit CTRL to interact with it. He does the same with the mechanism to open the gate but I thought I was missing an item before the column, now I am thinking I may be missing a mechanic altogether. How can I interact with these objects?
It's facing the wrong way in vanilla, if you move around to the cliff side you can shove it over...onto the land. Several community patches have fixed it.
I was going to wait for my endgame to say this, but this game feels very unfinished
100% correct.
They had to scale way back partway through development.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
Reject your retarded-wing political programming and learn to think.
If you can.
The final area is full of these.
They never properly had time to place stuff, so it just sits in the air where they temporarily placed it on the first pass.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
Reject your retarded-wing political programming and learn to think.
If you can.
I was going to wait for my endgame to say this, but this game feels very unfinished
100% correct.
They had to scale way back partway through development.
I am sad that yet another game I enjoy is cut short because of scale or costs issues. Though, peculiarities I am finding aside, it is being a very enjoyable game. I got completely absorbed now that I can get the main quest moving along again (especially with the added Strength Diego gave me, fights don't take endless dodging and hacking anymore and I can clear the map of the stronger enemies too now).
Joined the cultists in the end for anyone wondering by the way. Betraying Diego was not something I was going to do, but joining up to endless mining in a sort of rank in file instead of finding a way out is also not something I would want to do. Cultists are even more dubious to me, but I have no other choice at this point.
Long live Father Dagon The Sleeper.
For anyone having trouble with jumping and catching onto ledges (which, instead, makes you bounce back) try at the angles of what you are trying to scale, especially at angles that are not attached to any other mesh or object (those ones work 100% of the time for me, while those that are sticking to walls do the "bounce back" effect more times than not).
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Back to the bench for me on this one. I was killing a camp of orcs but those dancing by the campfire did not aggro and I interacted with one. It started a "conversation" but there was no dialogue options or anything of the sort, everything got so ****** I couldn't even Alt+Tab out of the game. After I managed to kill the process Gothic stopped starting up, forcing me to verify the game files, thus undoing all the patches and whatever else I had that made the game work, now it won't even start after countless errors and the patch installers refuse to install. Will try to fix it again later on, but ****.
After I managed to kill the process Gothic stopped starting up, forcing me to verify the game files, thus undoing all the patches and whatever else I had that made the game work
That sucks!
This is one reason why I tend not to play Steam-linked games.
You may as well not bother replying to my posts if it's to argue anything except concrete facts or your personal opinion. I still probably won't see it.
Reject your retarded-wing political programming and learn to think.
If you can.
I only have the option to go to the guy that wants to force me to give water to the rice pickers (which I assume will be a sort of endless job) or to beat a guy to gain a free, vacant, home, I did every other quest I found and that I could do (leaving the "super incredible sword" quest for later as, if he wants to scam me, those sorts of quests usually give a huge reward if completed anyway as I expect there would be an option to beat him up to get the items back, plus something extra, afterwards, but I will probably die in one hit at the moment as the guy at the vacant house one-shots me if he can catch me). Laster (Lester? I can't recall) is the guy I should impress, but he has no quests and there is nothing I can do. I thought of running the rogues out to impress him, but I cannot do anything in my current state as the second they hit me I am dead, and the amount of creatures I can kill to level up is almost depleted, leaving only raptors, orc dogs, etc. My other pick would be the cultists, but I don't trust these sorts of things, and the Old Camp feels like accepting fate to remain inside the barrier, and I'd rather work to find a way out.
