This game is fucking retarded.
My god, I gave it a chance because the world actually looks interesting and the exploration part was great.
But fuck me does combat SUCK ASS. I tried to manage it. I know that swordplay was always OP in gothic games, but here it's just retarded.
I was a "MASTER SWORDSMAN" and all I could do was those stupid vertical slashes, the side slashes, the heavy slash and the shield block. No new moves, nothing unlocked. Just more damage I guess and a small speed boost I think?
When you're fighting 1 enemy in this game, it is ridiculously easy - just spam the first or second attack, push them into a corner and keep clicking until they die. When there's 2 or more opponents though, you're generally fucked because the enemy locking is so stupid it never targets the one you want to. And when allies are involved, the stupid fucking system PRIORITIZES TRACKING ALLIES INSTEAD OF ENEMIES. And, on top of that, the goddamn game often DOESN'T EVEN REGISTER HITS (ranged weapons mostly). My arrow went through enemies so many times like they were ghosts. Whoever made this system can choke on their own fucking entrails.
Combat always sucked in these games in varying degrees, but Gothic I & II combat is fucking Mortal Kombat level awesome compared to this henious shit. I tried to take over a hashishin base with the nomads and kept targeting my allies constantly then got oneshotted by a spellcaster.
Fucking ragequit. The only way this game is replayable is if they remake the combat FROM THE GROUND UP. Or stick to ranged weapons exclusively but even then enemy archers will fuck you.
There's my little rant. Sorry, just had to vent because of playing this game for weeks now and finally blew my nerve.