Gothic 3 Have you cheated on your first run of G3..?

I remember a specific cheating instance. At a point you have to escort a mage out of a cave, through some undead. After slaying the undead, and well in sight of the cave exit, he walks into a wall. Since it is an escort quest I thought he would stay there until I got close enough, so I used the goto cheat to enter the surreal world of the void. That made him start walking again, and his pathfinding AI showed us the way out of this netherworld and we got out safely

Unfortunately I doubt Piranha will fix all the void issues. There's just too much surface to search for "holes"

The funniest "void" issue I had was up north. It was in a place in the east that literally went off the side of the map. There was a heard of woolly bison there. There were also a bunch of ice wolves. Anyway, I'm standing in the middle of this herd of bison when I start getting shot at with fireballs from below me. (Luckily they weren't heat seeking fireballs, the kind that tend to curve around rocks, this one rare time.) So anyway I whip out my halberd and hit one of the bison before I realize what is happening. I killed them all only to watch a group of goblins slowly float up out of the ground to attack me. Afterwards I found out there was a goblin cave nearby and I was standing over it when all of this occurred.

Normally I do not cheat in games that I have some respect for, and the first 2 Gothics were such games. This one, I made it up to level 45 with no cheats when I took the Ancestor Stone quest and saw quickly that I would be doing basically the same endless slog 6 times over... God mode!

Wander around with that crappy map battling animals, goblins and Orcs to finally find a cave chock full of skelly's, and then have to go back out and clear out the nearest Orc camp to find the stone... 6 times! Took days on God mode and my mouse fingers are falling off.

Also took on the Smelter's approval quest and finally just used 'goto Larson', who had headed north (thanks for that handy clue!)... Just endless, aimless, frustrating wandering around.

i was lucky my first time through the game to go to nordmar first so i didn't suffer from the fact that like most people i was already 2-3 done with the game with spending at least a minimum of 60 hours. i can understand peoples frustrations with some of the ai bugs. but nordmar is not boring. it is difficult (more than any part of night of the raven in my opinion) and one of the best/intricate outdoor levels ever designed.

the orcs only have 4 of the stones by the way...but i guess you would of had to found them to know that. and yes larson was hard to find, even the second time for me. but it makes sense where he is, right below the prospecting camp. its confusing with him behind a cliff and there is a another campfire a few hundred feet away that is right near the main road and then the prospectors campfire as well.

nordmar makes me trully appreciate the places in life i've been that have had the touch of natures otherworldly archeticture.

curious said:

its funny jemym, i was trying to finish gods land of infinity before i got gothic 3. some games i only play for hours, some days, a few for weeks and the rare ones in play for months on end, not letting any other game in. gothic games have always been one of those rare games for me and its just wierd to see so many people 'moving on' to the next game with such haste, but i guess everyone has different tastes into what game they really want to play.

if rushing towards the finishline offen results in disappointing rewards - then long journeys are something to be remembered rather than enjoyed, right? i sadly have hastened through many games, partially because that is all most games ofter, a nice ride. i have a closet shelf full of some good and not so good rides. but gothic games are like jurassic park for me, and i never want to leave.

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Hmmm. I did do everything in Gothic 3. Every single quest possible except the ones that broke (one of the Druid quests broke for me).

I used the goto command a few times to speed up running the extremely long distances I had already ran before. Since I already ran thoose distances once before I did not feel like I gave anything up and considering I dropped everything with a single fireball I did not feel like I skipped danger either. After all, I did explore every corner of the map. Using goto felt a bit like using a town portal, it saved me pointless trekking over countryside that I already explored 110% and killed everything on already. I do not think the game is more rewarding just because you physically walk your way to every paladin to return their chalices for example. All you get is a few potions anyway.

I generally never cheat. The whole idea behind cheating makes the taste in my mouth go sour. It ruins games for me. Morrowind was completely ruined for me because I had to cheat just to get around a bug that broke the main storyline (which prevented me from finishing the game). That was heartbreaking. However, in the Gothic games, with the availability of the insert NPC options, I usually go to the cities just before I'm ready to uninstall the games (after I've beat them as many times as I care to play through the game) and insert a bunch of beasts or badies and just watch as the city falls into chaos and everyone battles. It's kind of fun to watch big fights. But I never keep playing after that...

Kind of a strange 'cheat' I found. I'm probably not the only one that's found it, so if this is redundant, I apologize. Anyway, if you find any of the herbs that permanantly raise your stats (not the ones that restore), go to the inventory and double click on that particular herb, making sure to watch the stat number on the left that is specific to that herb. The instant you see that number go up, hit the 'I' key to close the inventory. Then open up the inventory screen again and the herb should still be there. You can use it over and over. I stopped using this cheat once I confirmed it's repeatability, but it's there.

Also, you won't die of poison when your inventory is open. Your health will be zero, but you will not die.