Ok I have just done something I thought I could never do again – play an RPG till the wee hours of the morning (5am).
Yes, Gothic 3 is THAT gripping! Even Neverwinter Nights 2, which I had been waiting for, for 3 years, didn’t “grab” me like that. I just had to go to this other place, tell that guy I did what he wanted, and then, go to bed (yeah right).
And, I also finally figured out what the different colours of the NPC names mean (sort of).
Blue – in Party
Green – Friendly
Gold – Neutral
Orange – Irritated with you? May or may not attack you on sight.
Red – definitely hostile!
So now it is easier to tell whether I have had enough “faction” with the city before I go talk to the Orc leader. Once the names of the orcs turn green, I can go 🙂 And no, I am working for the rebels. Shhhh!!
However, what I still can’t figure out is how the hell you use the different arrows. Unlike typical RPGs where you have an inventory screen with a “paperdoll” where you can drag items to “equip” it, in Gothic 3 all you have is just a big inventory screen (thank god for no encumberance rules! My PC is dragging around stuff that would probably weigh like 50 tons now!), and to equip something you just click on it, and it should turn the background blue.
But, I still can’t figure out how to equip that Ice Arrow, or Fire Arrow etc. Since I always carry lots of normal arrows with me, my PC defaults to that. There is no way to equip the ice or fire ones UNLESS I put them in a chest somewhere, draw the bow as a weapon, and the game will automatically and randomly select one of the magical variants to “load” as ammo. THEN, I can pick up my arrows from the chest again.
It is also a slight oversight, methinks, on the part of the devs that we can’t “drop” items onto the ground, ie stuff we don’t want anymore. We absolutely MUST find a container somewhere to throw our stuff away.
Ah well, guess it’s time to hit the JoWood forums and see if I can figure out the answers….
