Any word on next patch yet?

Great news about Mafia 2, Darghan, I was devastated when I learned that there wasn't going to be an official follow up to this superb game.

Even more so when the COLD mod ( the only one to continue the story after the Death of Art scene) proved to be so unplayable 'cos the production team insisted on having one huge game world…including all the interior locations. The lag was horrendous!

Couldn't help thinking of that when I started out on Gothic 3!

Dejavu overcame me again when I was escorting NPC's. Reminded me of trying to stop that hothead Paulie getting himself killed in the baseball bat raid on the hoodlums up in Chinatown!

Don't really have any real preference re the Gothic 3 patch situation. On the one hand I would like some of the more irritating bugs solved right now. Then on the other, I now know how to avoid many of them, so maybe they won't be so much of a problem next time round. IMHO, patch 1.12 has delivered a pretty playable game and I wouldn't really mind waiting for PB to get them all fixed and released in a paid expansion….with the obvious proviso that this doesn't take forever.

Either way, Wulf, I'm not one of those who'll lose my loyalty to the Gothic series. No matter what happens I'll snap up Gothic 4 directly it hits the streets. Just hope I get the chance.

Originally Posted by boneshaker
Great news about Mafia 2, Darghan, I was devastated when I learned that there wasn't going to be an official follow up to this superb game.

there surely will be .. we will all just have to wait … its been a massive project and the company needs to revitalize to fully blow it again
some of the game is in works now .. but i do not think we will see a follow-up for at least two years from now … but hey … its well worth the wait .. such as the first mafia was .. actually its on my top 10 games of all time .. i remember i finished it at 5 in the morning and it was work week for me but i did not care a bit hehe

come to think of it … i will try to get in touch with my friend from illusion to see what parts of mafia have been done already and release an official piece of gossip

PB is still working on a patch:

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/spiel…/gothic_3.html

and Kairo is talking about a 'gigabyte-patch' -> so it will be a huge one.

Google tools helped a bit but sketchy … "the programmers have “large difficulties within the most different ranges"

And definite concern expressed about how to deliver a 'gigabyte range' patch to most people, particularly those without high-speed internet.

a) Check the news.
b) Gamestar should really hire a news editor without a reading comprehension problem.

Originally Posted by Gorath
b) Gamestar should really hire a news editor without a reading comprehension problem.

If a lack of reading comprehension were the guy's only prob, he could call himself lucky. Seriously, the guy who wrote the original Gamestar newsbit is completely retarded beyond any hope of salvation. Not only did he completely turn around KaiRo's statement about the inclusion of the patch in a future product (which KaiRo said would be only one option next to others like free downloads to obtain the patch) by saying that PB was looking into ways how to properly market a pay-per-patch system but the most amusing and hilarious kicker is that he also wrote that PB is concerned about the requirement of users to restart their systems(!!!) after applying the patch. KaiRo obviously said that they were concerned about the requirement to restart the game. Honestly, there's no excuse other than extreme drug abuse for a fuck-up of this proportion.
What's worse is that pretty much all German gaming news sites just copied the Gamestar story (at least the part with the paid patch stuff) without checking what KaiRo actually wrote in his post.
So we can all thank that frickin' uber retard at Gamestar if PB becomes even more tight-lipped than they already were about the patch and the add-on *sigh*.

What's the latest information we have about the patch?

Any timeframe?

No news since the last piece on the front page.

It's hard to wait. I played the game when it came out but stopped to wait for the big patch. Now I really want to play the game but on the other hand I want to wait, too.

It was mentioned earlier that you probably had to restart the game after installing the patch. What are your views on this?

I suspect you don´t have to restart but practically you should restart because PB will probably make 100s of small changes.

A restart after applying the current patch (1.12) is unnecessary.

I just hope they fix the holes in the world so we wont have NPCs fall into the void any more. That was the single most aggravating bug in my last playthrough. I had Merdarion JUST getting to the end of a cave, entering the void, walking out on the other side of a bloody mountain range, falling into the void while crossing the mountain, ad nauseum. And that guy who guides you to the clans in Nordmar who keeps falling into the void a few meters before reaching the fire clan.. Ugh.

But I guess that literally patching up these holes is part of the reason for the patch being large…

Version 1.12 is actually very solid; hardly any questrelated bugs, and no class A ones as far as I know.

yes, but still some of the skills are broken (poison, improve robes etc) or missing totally ( improve armor, firemage etc). I'd not say those are small bugs

They're not bugs, they're just cut content I think, hehe.

Most of my void issues were with a clean install of 1.12. I didnt notice them on earlier playthroughs as I skipped a lot of quests. But besides that I had very few problems (mainly with the frustrating escort quests are stupid and badly balanced but not buggy per se), save one irreproducible bug where all the bodies disappeared from Ishtar upon liberation, including old Zuben who I had killed first of all and had a main quest item And of course there are the pathfinding issues that seem to plague all 3d rpgs…

Although those little things aren't real bugs they really take away the fun of roleplaying.
For example I'd like to make a smith, but improve armor is not working, and blueprints and ore blades are hardly anywhere to find.
Of course I can play the game, just not the way I want.

I'm beginning to get a little impatient (in the good way). Right now I look forward to the patch with the same kind of enthusiasm that I had before the game was released.

I tried to get a word from PB but they don't seem to answer.

Does anyone want to make a wild but qualified guess as to when we can expect the patch? For example; is it mid 2007, late 2007 or maybe 2008?

I'm at the point that I'd rather see it done 'right' than 'right now'. It will mean a replay for me, so I'd rather know that it is worth it!

Yeah i agree but at the same time i'm worried that the patch will be abandoned. The longer the wait the easier it is for them to walk away.