Mod Information

Hi everyone!
My name is Selenor, and I’d like to gradually (okay, a lot – but step by step) improve the armor textures in New Balance. I’ve been playing New Balance for a long time and can’t imagine Gothic without it anymore. However, there were times when I got a new armor (especially after reforging it) and ended up quitting the game. Back then, I couldn’t do anything about it. Since then, I’ve improved a bit in Paint.NET (still a noob, just a patient one), and I finally figured out how to change textures in Gothic 2.

I’ve done quite a bit, but definitely not everything. Right now, other things require my attention, so I’m releasing the current state as version 1.0. It’s a bit heavier than it could be, but I don’t have time to polish it further at the moment.

This version includes a patch by dk5810 that makes helmets invisible! You still get the bonuses, but helmets won’t show – preventing visual clashes with the old armor textures.

I’ve reworked nearly all the armors of the main factions: militia, knights, paladins (especially knights and paladins!!!), demon hunters, dark warriors, hunters, scouts… I only slightly touched the mages – just the fire ones for now. Everything I’ve finished so far looks solid and makes my old perfectionist eyes very happy.

Patch – General Style of Armor

The mod also updates mushrooms – they now resemble the style from Gothic 2. These aren’t original textures but lightly redrawn ones, just like I remembered them back when I launched the game in 2005.

It also includes a little gem – my April Fools’ mod for the wooden stick. The regular wooden stick now looks like it used to – maybe even better. Joke or not, the sticks look so good now that it almost feels wrong to sell them.

Special thanks to Blackmail01 who helped me with scripting.