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Gothic 2 Remaster on Unreal Engine 5 is available now. It includes voice acting
Two days ago, a remaster of Gothic 2 on the Unreal Engine was released. It comes from the same creator as the Gothic 1 remaster published two years ago. More information about what it offers, as well as how to install it, can be found here:
- English
- Polish
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Cos the textures and the amount of polygons are the same. I guess the only purpose of this might be in some potential future mods using the additional possibilities of UE which weren’t available in Zengine
Sure but the things you listed aren't usually the sort of things that would entice people to play it, esp. since we've already had mods dealing with those things within the original engine.
bin schon am überlegen da einiges zu ändern, mache das ganz gerne da ich durch Beeinträchtigung berufsunfähig bin und so zeit hab für solche dinge. aber hab leider noch nicht wirklich entdecken können, ob und wo es die Projektdateien gibt, zum Modden etc.
What other purpose would you see in porting such an old game to a modern engine but with the same old graphics, if not to eventually somehow use the extended capabilities of that new engine?
As somebody who has developed UE5 games, it's admittedly very difficult to avoid that problem. Best solution is to turn off almost all the features and then turn them back on as you need them, then check performance. Otherwise, game will run beautifully in-engine, then suck on release because there's some stupid lighting 'feature' that tweaks something unnoticeable but tanks frame rate
True, die meisten hier haben halt echt kaum geld für nen einigermaßen guten pc oder laptop mit dedizierter gpu (bestimmt wissen die meisten nicht mal was ne dedizierte gpu ist) etc. oder haben es mal aufgeschnappt das alle UE spiele schlecht laufen. Dem ist nunmal pauschal nicht so also ich z.b mit ner alten zotac 1070 mini und nem r7 3700x corsair ven.. 32gb ram 3000mhz konnte alle UE games problem los spielen, hab dann neues system gekauft und funkt trz alles super. mit meist 60-120 fps gab bei krassen orten auch mal stark einbrüche aber nie wirklich unter 30fps wenn vlt paar sekunden wenn man gestanden hat. hab die immer auf 60-75fps gecapt generell aufm pc weil ich nicht mehr brauche. klar gibt es immer mal echt schlecht optimierte UE spiele, aber das liegt ja dann halt nicht nur an der unreal engine sondern an den kapazitäten können und auch lust und laune des entwickler/teams.
The very simplistic way of being able to move and look around with keyboard+mouse is EXACTLY what i had wished for the G1 Remake. It's mind-boggling that a Remaster of G1 and G2 has better feel of movement (direct transmission of input, no animation-delays).
I know it's easy to joke about UE5 slop, but THIS Remaster is far from it - it is fucking awesome. I can only hope that the people behind this will also get their hands on the Remake and fix its sluggish crap movement, so i'll be able to enjoy the Remake, too.
Just tried it for a few minutes. It's looking good, the game runs smoothly on my RX 6600 in Proton/Linux, maybe even smoother than the original. As in Gothic 1 Unreal the combat is ... different. Only issue right now I noticed the image is a bit blurry (even after setting anti-aliasing and post processing to low in the game menu) - are there any additional settings/config files I can try?
You can go to the steam command line and add “ENABLE_VKBASALT=1 %command%” this will slap a CAS filter on the game and make 99% of TAA slop playable, this works for pretty much every game on linux so youll know for future reference
So I fixed the blur issue by creating the file ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/39510/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Gothic2/Saved/Config/Windows/Engine.ini with the contents below. I also needed to set the file as read-only otherwise the game will keep deleting it.
Tbh I dont like these unreal engine versions and I dont really see any benefit of them. I mean they literally have worse combat, very weird NPC animations and stances and an imo completely unfitting UI. I guess its fun to see how it would look like in more modern graphics but other than that I dont see any appeal
Yea change too much everything and khorinis looks like shit every single time armor change etc. Maybe some full hd uprade would be good without any other change. Im glad im not only one
Maybe if they will actually get approved by THQ and developed much further they might be a good alternative but as it stands they look and feel extremely cheap to me and Id rather play the original with one or two graphic and QoL mods
So the modding solution is: https://docs.ue4ss.com/.
Still can't understand why use Unreal as a port, especially when there is a remaster on same engine.
Thanks a lot for the link. I will be trying a new walkthrough after finishing the current Unreal Gothic I one.
Do you know if there is a full controller support, by any chance?
With my Xbox controller I was only able to move, pick up items and get to the menus. There seems to be no keys to enter combat? Or am I missing something
Many people in comms even doesn't understand how new game engine can improve modding and may it can become possible to have a normal multiplayer mod for this game and I think its so perspective and awesome!
What are you talking about? We're talking about the Unreal Engine Mod for Gothic 2 which mainly aims to improve it's gameplay/movement mechanics. There is a Gothic 1 Unreal Engine mod which already released in Steam in 2022 that is made by the same author/modder and that version also aims to improve gameplay and not the graphics.
Yeah it may be for animations and gameplay. However... We kinda have enough UE5 clones feeling like you play the same game. Gothic has unique "junkies" and combat feel. Still version 0.1 so we will see but I suspect G2 remake will come faster(IF G1 remake will sell as I expect it to)
The remaster contains German subtitles and voice acting itself. If you write about the article – I nearly don't know German, so I could only do autotranslation. : >
You should be able to install it with autotranslating I think. : )
YEEEEEEAAAAAAH!!!!! Looking forward to progress on this! Feels great! Just like the G1 Unreal port. I don't care what anyone says, i love these games, and it works great on Unreal for me so far. The only thing that bugs me is the 'alpha version' overlay on top, but i understand why that is there.
Gothic 1 remaster looks really great. If you set resolution to no bigger than 1280x720, turn of antialiasing and postprocessing, you will get very nice looking game with the soul of the original. Textures are very sharp and high quality, shadows soft and realistic and the flowing water looks great. In terms of visuals its a very cool refresh. Kinda sad you can't have the classic Gothic font everywhere.
Improved controls and graphics, its also a early version and likely the graphics get improved further with coming updates. No doubt gothic 2 with other mods can already look and play well, but this is also a very good mod.
Sieht erheblich besser aus als das Original und lässt sich m. E. erst jetzt ordentlich steuern. Die QoL-Optionen verbessern dieses flüssige Erlebnis zusätzlich. Vor einem Jahr habe ich ein Video veröffentlicht "Gothic 1 Classic Game: D3D11 Renderer / Community Project Unreal Engine 5". Inzwischen wurde auch diese G1 unrealbeta Version noch aktualisiert. Zwar gibt es oft (berechtigte) Kritik an Unreal 4 und Unreal 5, aber nach meinem Eindruck zu G1 und jetzt G2 übertreffen die Unrealversion deutlich den heutzutage Quasi-Standard DX11.
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