Known Bugs, Quest Blocks & Workarounds

[Darth Chillious]

Since more and more people are reaching the later chapters, I thought it would be useful to have a single place where we can collect bugs, quest blockers, broken dialogues, softlocks and potential workarounds.

Gothic has always had its fair share of jank, but some of the issues being reported in the Remake can actually cost you hours of progress or block entire questlines.

Please post:

* Quest-related bugs
* Broken dialogue triggers
* Missing NPCs
* Softlocks and progression blockers
* Inventory/item issues
* Combat or AI bugs

When reporting a bug, try to include:

Chapter:
Quest/NPC involved:
What happened:
Expected result:
Workaround (if any):


Known issues reported by the community so far

The Plan of the Water Mages (Chapter 3)

Diego may fail to offer "The Plan of the Water Mages" after completing Trial of Fire.
No workaround.

Crypt with Diego (Chapter 3)

During the crypt quest with Diego, the zombie may become invulnerable even after activating the three lightning switches.
Workaround: Leave the crypt, create a save, then reload and re-enter.

Ore Pile / Water Mages Area

Saturas becoming hostile immediately after the ore pile sequence.
He may accuse the player of entering a restricted area following the magical "light show" event.
Workaround: Leave the area immediately or teleport away before combat starts.

Stone's Escape (Chapter 5)

Stone may leave his cell but fail to properly complete his escape sequence.
In some cases he reaches the Swamp Camp only to later reappear back in his original prison cell.
Workaround: Teleport to the Swamp Camp and sleep for a few hours. Stone should eventually appear after you wake up.

Meeting Friends Near the Waterfall (Chapter 2)

Lester may get stuck and stop offering the required dialogue.
Workaround: Let Lester move into position first, then initiate dialogue.

Cor Angar's Minecrawler Test (Chapter 2)

After defeating Angar's disciple, Cor Angar and nearby Temple Guards may incorrectly turn hostile.
Workaround: Wait approximately 10-20 seconds before delivering the final blow in the duel.

Old Mine aggro (Chapter 2)

After meeting with Diego, Milten and Lester, Diego goes to speak with Ian about obtaining permission to clear the collapsed tunnel. After this sequence begins, multiple NPCs inside the Old Mine may incorrectly turn hostile towards the player.
Alternatively, entering the collapsed tunnel may also trigger hostile NPC behavior.

World / NPC Behaviour

NPC/Monster pathfinding issues.
NPC/Monsters becoming stuck in terrain or scripted routes.
Missing NPCs causing quests to stall.
Aggro occasionally triggering incorrectly.

Inventory / Quest Items

Important quest items disappearing from inventory.
Some quest items not being recognized by quest scripts despite being present.

Dialogue Issues

Certain dialogue triggers may fail to appear.
Some NPCs stop offering progression dialogue if objectives are completed in an unexpected order.


I’ll try to keep this post updated with confirmed issues and workarounds as more people finish the game.

As a general rule: keep multiple manual saves. Don’t rely exclusively on autosaves. If Gothic veterans taught us anything over the last 20+ years, it’s that one save slot is never enough.

Still debating if this should be a guide or a simple thread.

[Sgt.JESUS]

I got zero quest breaking bugs, the only time i thought i did break my game was when i killed the entire old camp, and Gomez, after i found Syras body, pissed me off and i summoned a Golem to wipe everyone hehehe, good times.

I thought his chest was bugged too, but his armor is in the womens room, so my mistake there.

Only bug i got, that i could ignore, was Saturas being a di-ck after the ore pile quest, he turn hostile because im in the area thats off limits, that after the light show, had to run away and TP out of there fast before the fight started.

Another bug i got was Stone leaving his cell, he kind of get stuck in there, you have to go back, but after i got him to the swamp he went back to his cell, must really love it in there.

[amigastar]

Progression blocker
NPC Diego won't give me the "Plan of the Watermages" quest in Act 3 when i finish the Trial of Fire quest.
No workaround so far as i know.

[Wilku21]

Chapter 3
Searching a crypt for a Stone with Diego
Zombie isn't losing health despite using crypt's puzzle - shooting 3 switches to turn lightning on.
Solution - leave a crypt, save and load.

Chapter 2
Proving to Cor Angar we can defeat Minecrawlers.
After defeating his disciple, Angar and other Temple Guards WILL attack you.
Solution - wait about 10 to 20 seconds before defeating his disciple in a duel.

Chapter 2
Meeting friends near a waterfall
Lester will get bugged after talking to him.
Solution - let him go first and take his spot, then talk to him.

[Darth Chillious]

Thanks everyone for the reports so far. I’ve updated the main post with the issues and workarounds shared by everyone.

I haven’t personally encountered all these bugs, but judging by the number of reports and separate threads, they seem to be affecting multiple players.

If you discover any new issues, additional details, or reliable workarounds, feel free to post them here and I’ll keep the list updated.

[Dungwader]

Chapter 4

Xardas Demon after receiving the quest to kill Golems and completing the task, the Demon has fallen through the floor and is no longer interactable. If you attacked the Demon earlier, he moves from his original position and this leads to this bug.

Fix 1? Supposedly if you can drag an enemy to the Demon he may dislodge himself. - I had already fought all enemies in the area.

Fix 2? There is a 3rd party photomode program on NexusMods that will allow you to clip your character into the floor as well and then you can interact with him but I am unwilling to download a 3rd party tool for this.

Fix 3 is hopefully having a save file that you can reload that is before you ever attacked the Demon.

Fix 4 is start over.

[ZaseKura]

Chapter 4

Xardas Demon after receiving the quest to kill Golems and completing the task, i cannot speak with him, i can attack him but that is about it.

Fix: downgrade to previous version of the game. After that i can talk to the demon.

TY guys

[Bichler [AUT]]

Originally posted by ZaseKura:

Chapter 4

Xardas Demon after receiving the quest to kill Golems and completing the task, i cannot speak with him, i can attack him but that is about it.

Fix? I dont know yet. Too pissed about it to try to resolve it.

have the same Problem im hard locked after getting the 3 Hearts

[Duncraig]

Chapter 4
The Xardas demon doesn't talk!
I collected all the golem hearts. I came to the Xardas demon, but he has no interaction prompt. It's impossible to talk to him, and this soft-locks the story progression. The issue clearly started after the latest patch.

[DivineExploder]

Originally posted by Duncraig:

Chapter 4
The Xardas demon doesn't talk!
I collected all the golem hearts. I came to the Xardas demon, but he has no interaction prompt. It's impossible to talk to him, and this soft-locks the story progression. The issue clearly started after the latest patch.

Same here. Nameplate is showing, but you can't talk to the guy. The only way to get through this part is to kill him.

*EDIT* Yeah, you can't really kill him. He just stays on 1hp.

[Duncraig]

Originally posted by DivineExploder:

Originally posted by Duncraig:

Chapter 4
The Xardas demon doesn't talk!
I collected all the golem hearts. I came to the Xardas demon, but he has no interaction prompt. It's impossible to talk to him, and this soft-locks the story progression. The issue clearly started after the latest patch.

Same here. Nameplate is showing, but you can't talk to the guy. The only way to get through this part is to kill him.

Thanks, but I've already tried that — I can't kill him. He always stops at 1% health and refuses to die. No matter what I do, he just won't go down. He appears to be completely immune to fatal damage.

[Bichler [AUT]]

Ok seem the latest update was Problem, I reinstalled the version before and now he Talks to me

[Yobi]

Originally posted by ZaseKura:

Chapter 4

Xardas Demon after receiving the quest to kill Golems and completing the task, i cannot speak with him, i can attack him but that is about it.

Fix? I dont know yet. Too pissed about it to try to resolve it.

I have the same issuse, he talked to me only once and thats it... I can use cheat codes to tp to xardas but barier will be still up soo each time i need to go to him i would need to cheat. We need cheat code to reset npc... soo i can reset this trash demon state or somehow force to talk with him...

[paladin.roland]

Same here. Gemini advised to port away and sleep and come back. But did not work.

[Yobi]

I see, getting back to older version of game work fine, soo with latest patch they fixed some stuff, but destroyed other things like xardas demon. Just get back to previous version of game and you will be able to go forward.

[D-Black Catto]

yeah he doesn't talk, and he is immortal so I can't kill him either and just get this over with. skip the middleman so to speak. it's obvious the golem elements are holding him captive there, dunno why the hero is so stupid to give him these hearts anyway