michaelg on 7/8/2008 at 03:30
I played this game a few years back and never really got used to the controls, however giving it another go and finding it pretty enjoyable. I've decided to play a sneaky thiefy archer type char, however it seems that it doesn't work very well, esp. against monsters but even against people.
I'm very early in the game by a harbor area and some guy Moe picked a fight with me. He was kicking my ass pretty good so I ran away and decided to go back and try my newly acquired sneak skill. I stayed pretty far away from him to try and hit him with my bow, but the second I get even remotely close to him he sees me and proceeds to kick my ass again.
So I guess my questions is this. Should I bother with this type of char or go more towards a melee type char?
Jashin on 7/8/2008 at 04:01
Don't use bow in town. People you'd otherwise knock down with the sword would die instantly from a bow.
Sneak is used mostly with lockpicking to steal things out of houses. Combat-wise you can sneak up to a guy when he looks the other way or a creature at night when it's asleep. If you're an archer then you'd want to keep your distance, so sneaking is useless there.
I've never played an archer so I can't tell you how to play one other than invest your exp heavily into dexterity (so you can still use light swords + helps with lockpicking & pickpocketing, etc.). For sword-fighting there's a unique way to fight each category of enemies - enemies with weapons, orcs, and melee creatures.
mrle01 on 7/8/2008 at 09:41
Outside stealing from houses and sometimes sneaking up to a asleep shadowbeast, sneaking is fairly useless (and I think that jumping can be used instead of sneaking, since it doesn't make a sound).
Archery is sometimes even easier than melee combat as you can pick enemies one by one or find some higher ground and kill them from there, but sometimes you need melee skills since when you finish someone (that's not hostile, like people in towns) with a bow, they are dead, and if you finish them with sword, they are only knocked down.
But the game can be finished with an archer type, just be sure to concentrate on bows, not crossbows (which are more like a backup weapon for fighters), invest some skill points into one-handed melee combat (there are couple of swords that need dexterity to be wielded not strength like others, and you can use those swords when you only want to knock someone down).
Also it depends if you're playing normal Gothic II or with Night of the Raven expansion, since the difficulty was raised with the expansion and some other stuff was changed.
