New Gothic 3 Patch

Gothic 3 fans will be pleased to announce that JoWooD Productions and Spellbound Entertainment AG have released the Patch 1.6 for Gothic 3.

This patch includes a large number of gameplay and data improvements committed by the Community Patch team. The Spellbound team has also implemented a new memory system in order to improves the game’s stability and reduces the memory requirements at the same time, also for Windows Vista. Furthermore the team worked on the “Where is the Guru”-Bugs, which have been nearly eliminated, due to a variety of bug fixes which were made to address causes of game crashes. These changes have all been made with the gaming community in mind.

If you’d like to download the patch, head here:
http://press.jowood.com/UPLOAD/temp/Gothic_3_Patch_v1.6_Incremental.exe

Two Worlds Demo and Updates

SouthPeak has just announced that they have released a demo of Two Worlds for free on Xbox Live. Curious gamers who are yet to experience this massive, free roaming adventure are advised to check it out! The demo gives players a large chunk of the world to explore and plenty of quests to embark on.

It’s a solid title, but to be fair it has plenty of flaws. In other good news, SouthPeak has announced a free title update that address many of the complaints of the players. Below are some of those issues.

Both platforms (PC and Xbox 360)
– Horse steering has been improved
– Character development curve not as steep over level 25
– HP regeneration slower for max values above 2000
– Death strike skill – executable by strike button while in sneak mode
– Critical hit skill fixed
– Damage is now allowed over 32000
– There is a cap on damage and armor at 99999
– Necromancer spells have been balanced
– Magical boosters – effect restricted to 5 boosters
– Stacking potions with different statistics – fixed
– Objects stacking – objects can’t be stacked up if result has higher level requirements than current player level
– Equipment Class cap on 50
– When killing in towns – after you leave the town and go back guards will ask you to pay instead of immediately attacking you
– NPC’s in towns don’t resurrect
– Tweaked hi- level monster balance
– Wing Membrane ingredient added to Helllord
– Dragons strike not breakable by player hit
– Bomb traps attached to some chests and wardrobes
– Balanced number of lock picks in chests and wardrobes
– Walking under water and not dying has been fixed
– Inaccessible Cave north of Ashos has been fixed

– Multiplayer Lag issues have been improved
– Multiplayer too many skill points generated due to combat stats has been fixed
– Friendly fire disabled in RPG mode (players cannot damage each other)
– Resurrect spell on players has been disabled
– Experience points for killing players has been removed
– Disarming skill disabled against other players
– Freezing/stopping spells disabled against other players
– Multiplayer RPG quests given to all, reward splitter between players
– Team assault – main monuments 50 times stronger
– Barbarian – berserk skill in PvP reduced to 5
– Chest and wardrobe lock levels improved in multiplayer

PC specific:
– Issue of moving money between servers has been fixed
– Maps D2,E4,F4, Multiplayer Tharbakin – missing triangles or flying objects have been fixed
– Enter opens console in single player
– Horse steering – stopping horse by back key changed
– Cloning character when logging on new WarNet server is fixed
– Boosters disappearing in Arena modes
– Atmosoheric fog for multiplayer towns added
– Chat over open dialogs possible (by F11 chat dialog)
– All PVP arenas unlocked from beginning

Xbox 360 specific:
– Improved single player framerate
– Interface – repeat changes selection left stick hold added
– Game HDD cache cleaning possibility – RB + A + B during game launch
– Achievements for 5 elements is fixed
– Map interface improvements – only one open quest at the time, quests selection box better visibility, hero location on map better visibility, quest name on tooltip
– Hit info fonts larger
– “BACK – Show Instruction” text disappears
– Double saving multiplayer characters to protect character lost from power-off or hard-locks
– Interface – no controls after “server refused connection” is fixed
– Doubling gold in multiplayer is fixed
– Doubling objects in multiplayer is fixed