Paladin Wenzel bug?

[Avelyn]

Can anybody advise me, please? I got Wenzel sword and shiled, talked to Phil from resistance and made Wenzel to help me liberate Cape Dun. But when I finish dialogue with him and he says he would fight till the end, he just stands in his cell doing nothing. Is this known bug?

[Huckelbubi]

Unfortunately I've never had this problem.
Are you playing with the Community Patch 1.75?
Normally Wenzel storms out directly after you tell him that you want to liberate the city now.

Maybe go down to Uruk or whatever his name is? The head of the city.
In the dialog there, you can tell him that you kill him now. Then the liberation of the city will also start. Maybe this will fix Wenzel's not leaving his room.

[Avelyn]

Yes, I am having the 1.75 patch and Wenzel just stays in his prison. :(
After all those years I thought I would be finally able to finish the game but this bug made me so mad that I am considering putting Gothic 3 to ice once more.

[Avelyn]

I started killing them but he is still standing there, no interest in fighting... and I always lose when fighting alone.

[Oneeyed]

Originally posted by Avelyn:

I started killing them but he is still standing there, no interest in fighting... and I always lose when fighting alone.

Maybe you are lucky? Did you know you should liberate Kap Dun and all other cities only after you have done all the quests in all the orc owned settlements? I am asking because if you have trouble liberating Kap Dun it seems to me you are still very weak and in the beginning of the game. Other towns are much harder to liberate. In addition if you liberate too many the orcs will become suspicious and you wont be able to do a lot of quests in the other towns. Liberating towns is something for the end game.

Wenzel should join the fight no matter if you talk to him or not just after you killed enough orcs in Kap Dun. You can just simply start at the other end of the town. Other people will also join then afair. If you want an easier time then aggro one orc after another - lure him out of town and kill him there. That way you dont have to face all the orcs at once in the beginning.

But imho if you cant do it alone you shouldnt do it because you will lose out on a lot of game content.

[Avelyn]

Oukey, so should I just do all the quest for everybody in the game not trying to liberate the cities well until late game? I am level 14 now.

[Oneeyed]

Originally posted by Avelyn:

Oukey, so should I just do all the quest for everybody in the game not trying to liberate the cities well until late game? I am level 14 now.

Yes imho. Just do all the quests in all towns you can do. If you liberate the settlements at level 40 then you do it early I think. Level 60 is imho the normal, but you can also reach level 100 and higher if you are a grinder. Also I personally would get 500-600 hitpoints and hitpoint regen as a melee figher first or 500-600 mana and mana regen as a mage before I start liberating.

You can also easily get 75 % reputation in every settlement. No matter if in Varant, Nordmar or Myrtana. For me it was also fun the game provided me with that kind of experience to be able to deceive all the orcs and assassins and stab them in the back later.

Of course the game is some kind of sand box so no one is preventing you to play it however you like. It just insanely hard and probably frustrating to liberate the towns at your level.

[Cogliostro]

Hey. When you gave him all his stuff and you pick option to liberate city with him he just stands in his cell. So. Just push him out of his cell by walking to him. Thats all. When he will be outside that door he casually starts to choppa orc)

[Avelyn]

Ok I will try, but maybe on higher level as the guy here told me :) But thank you ;)

[Avelyn]

Originally posted by forgot my name:

Originally posted by Cogliostro:

Hey. When you gave him all his stuff and you pick option to liberate city with him he just stands in his cell. So. Just push him out of his cell by walking to him. Thats all. When he will be outside that door he casually starts to choppa orc)

I didn't give him anything (I actually made a ton of money with him) and for now I just keep him as a bank. I think is the only NPC which keep sleeping 24/7 and worth to rob him.
https://youtu.be/KuPXFiPh5fM

this seems really stupid sorry, you broke the game, nothing for me... I am playing with patch 1.75 and i dont think this is even possible :D

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Originally posted by Huckelbubi:

Unfortunately I've never had this problem.

Me neither.

Anyway, it is not mandatory to free Cape Dun early, so perhaps return later when your nameless hero is a capable enough to do it alone.
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[The cookie]

I had this bug too, wenzel would not help me fight in liberating the town. Basically killed all the baddies myself. Even afterwards when I challenged him to fight in order to be my companion, he would not move. I fixed it by attacking him once, letting him "kill" me (i get knocked down and can't move for a second). Then when I talk to him to fight in the arena he started moving around.

tldr attack him, let him beat you, and then he should be in a normal state/unstuck.