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At the start the cinematics will play. If you don't see any videos, download and install the [http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm RAD Video Tools] to get the latest version of the Bink codec. As with [[Gothic]], this codec is not included with the game. You can also watch the videos directly from the installation folder.


As soon as you begin, the situation will be explained to you by Xardas, the necromancer from the first game who has become a close ally to the hero. He tasks you with taking news of a dragon invasion to the paladins, and retrieving an artifact called the Eye of Innos that will help you defeat them.
==Night of the Raven/Gold Edition==
If this is your first time playing Gothic II it can be a good idea to hold off installing the [[Gothic II: Night of the Raven|Night of the Raven]] (NotR) add-in if you can; while it does add many new items and [[Gothic]] cameos to the game it greatly increases the difficulty of enemies and makes character development slower. Once you have a good feel for the game or have finished the original feel free to try NotR. If you want to have both installed simply make a copy of your Gothic II directory before installing NotR. Note that Gothic II saves don't work in NotR and vice versa. NotR is an add-''in'', not an add-on because the base game also changes when it's installed.
 
Gothic II with the NotR is awesome. It really is. Gothic II with the NotR add-in is also ''hard''. Seriously, Gothic II with NotR is stupidly hard. Are you an expert in the first [[Gothic]] game? That won't help one bit with the sequel. If you find yourself unable to level past level 3, get killed hundreds of times by goddamn bandits and low level monsters and cruelly try to beat up nice guy Brahim the cartographer out of necessity because ''you can't afford a bloody map'' after playing for hours there is only one remedy:
 
'''[[Gothic II/Cheats|Cheat.]]'''
 
It's an amazing game with a lot to offer, and you shouldn't deny yourself the experience. The game isn't just hard, it's nigh impossible. If you cheat and multiply your strength, dexterity and hitpoints by 10, you're still far from invulnerable. (in the first game you'd be Godlike if you did that) If the default difficulty is "nightmare" (and it is), this would make the game "hard". If you also increase all armor types with 100, it becomes "medium". If you increase your strength, dexterity, hitpoints and all armor types to 300 it will become ''kind of'' easy, but not super easy. To make it super easy (at least the combat), you'd also have to insert dozens of powerful spell scrolls because a dozen enemies who are spamming you with attacks can make it impossible to fight back at all.
 
It's to be determined how the damage calcuation works.
<!-- this is partly described on [[Gothic II/Chapter 1: The Menace]] already, partly bad advice (investing only in dexterity would probably be easier than only STR) and newbies (at least with NotR) can't take on wolves (frankly they can't take on ANYTHING).
 
As soon as you begin, the situation will be explained to you by Xardas, the necromancer from the first game who has become a close ally to the hero. He tasks you with taking news of a dragon invasion to the paladins, and retrieving an artifact called the Eye of Innos that will help you defeat them. If you have the Night of the Raven add-on installed he will also explain that the ancient shrines of the gods have been desecrated.


== Tips ==
== Tips ==
* explore the cave by the waterfall on your left after visiting the tower.
* explore the cave by the waterfall on your left after visiting the tower.
* initial monsters for newbies to tackle are: Field Raiders, Wolves and Giant Rats.
* initial monsters for newbies to tackle are: Field Raiders, Wolves and Giant Rats.
* Don't kill the first bandit you see - ignore cavalorn, talk to the bandit, then return and talk to cavalorn.  You'll see what I mean.
* Save your permanent stat gains until later in the game (Goblin Berries, King's Sorrel, magic tablets, etc.); these allow you to boost your skills beyond the normal limits, and with Night of the Raven stat gains end up costing 40 learning points once you near the maximum. When the cost hits 40 it will be hard finding a trainer that will teach you past 90, but a strength above 90 is needed for some weapons.
* Save your permenant stat gains till later in the game.  (goblin berries, king's sorrel, magic tablets, etc...) as eventually it will cost 40 learning points (you get 10 per lvl up) to increase something if it's getting close. When the cost hits 40 it will be hard finding a trainer that will teach you past 90.  (yes, it will be needed to go way > 90)
* Using crossbows relies on strength, while bows use dexterity. If you are going to focus on melee combat with a strength-based character it is much cheaper to invest in crossbow training because you only have to invest in the one attribute. -->
* when fighting dragons later, I find it much easier to use ranged weapons or magic.  You can do it by normal attacks...but it can be really tricky.
* Crossbows use STR as their stat, and bows use DEX.
* it may not be a good idea to kill the sheep because you'll need one later - but you'll have to pay for it.
 
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