Velen 2.0 [DE | EN | PL] mod for Gothic II - The Night of the Raven

In this modification, the player takes on the role of William the pirate. The rumor of an apparently heavily drunk old sailor, who one evening in a tavern bragged about his stories and alleged experiences, sent him on a long journey together with his captain Morgan: They sailed to a small island, far from the known Myrtan islands and coasts, ruled by an extremely wealthy prince should be, whose treasury overflows with gold and jewels. The crossing took several days, but it really existed - the island of Velen! Once there, and after they had the information they needed, they made a plan. It should be too simple... So simple that they were caught trying to break into the treasury and were immediately thrown into the dungeon. The verdict was decided on the same day: the execution of the two. Already the next morning it should happen.

Already in the early morning hours of the day of the execution, the prince had William brought to him. Unlike expected, he made him an offer. An offer he could not refuse if he wanted to save his life and that of his captain. He might not suspect anything about it yet, but if he would accept it, he would soon be the one who would decide the fate of all Velen ...

• A game time of about 15-25 hours, depending on your play style
• A brand new story from the perspective of a new protagonist
• A completely new, large game world, created with great attention to detail in the Gothic style, but at the same time much more detailed and offering many different interesting areas to explore
• A complete German voice output made by real, partly even professional speakers
  Many interesting, varied, often funny characters, dialogs and main & side quests, mostly written in the well known Gothic style
• Many from the original game reworked and even some completely new daily routines for the characters, meaningfully assigned to them to make their lives more realistic and varied
• Many new and partially modified from the original game features and gameplay elements, such as a Gothic 3-like free aim with ranged weapons & magic, different ammunition with different effects for ranged weapons, auto-save, changing the position of status bars, colored focus names, showing day & time, revised pickpocketing and lock picking, and many, many more, most of which can be customized to one's needs or completely disabled if desired
• Multiple unlockable achievements, both with Spine and without Spine
• A balancing adapted for the modification with four different selectable difficulty levels
• Many new talents such as shield fighting, cooking, fishing and mining various ores
• A slightly revised GUI adapted for the modification
• Some new models and textures that partly replace the old assets from Gothic 1, but partly also replace rather unattractive assets from Gothic 2
• Many new objects, some of them even usable and fully animated
• New weapons, armor, helmets, shields, items and monsters, some of them exclusively created for this modification

Step 1: If not done yet, install Gothic 2 including the Add-On "The Night of the Raven". If possible, don't install it into the Programs (x86) or Programs folder of the system, since this could lead to problems! A possibility would be for example to create a folder called Games outside of this two folders and to install it in this one.

Step 2: Download the Add-On Patch 2.6 and install it into the Gothic 2 directory, in which you are planning to install the modification.

Step 3: Download the Report-Version 2.6.0.0 (NOT 1.30.0.0!) and install it into the Gothic 2 directory, in which you are planning to install the modification.

Step 4: Download the Playerkit 2.6f and install it into the Gothic 2 directory, in which you are planning to install the modification.

Step 5: Now download the installer of Version 2.1.0 which you can find here under files and execute it. If you are using a os newer then Windows XP, execute it as administrator! Now follow the installation instructions of the installer and install the modification into the Gothic 2 directory which you have prepared before.

Step 6: After the installation is completed, download the Patch (Version 2.1.2). To install it, you simply need to drag and drop the data folder, which is included in the zip-file, into the installation folder in which you have installed the modification.

Done! The installation of the modification is now completed and it can now be startet via Gothic 2 directory / System / GothicStarter.exe or alternatively via the automatically created shortcut in the Windows-Startmenu. It is important to always run it as administrator on a os newer then Windows XP!