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First, we don't chose the "we want fast money and kid the fans"-way.
That G3 wasn't finished at the release was crap. That guys complain about that is legitimate. We knew that there will not be no bugs but we underrated the amount of problems we were confronted working at the goldmaster.
We thought that we will deliver a finished game with a few bugs at the announced release and wanted to remove them with one patch.

Sadly we are working on a 2nd patch now but although we will fix the most known bugs many fans will be disappointed.

We tried to get a big target group for Gothic III. So we made a few changes which fans see as worsening:
- No membership -> free gameplay
- Great, free, non-linear world, which towns you can "play" in every order instead of returning to the visited town with permanently new quests.
- Quest are "given by the world" and not by NPC's.
- New combat system instead of only new animations (more details later).
- AI-reaction at town level instead of NPC-level (like murdering, theft)

This changes maybe would had been accepted by the community if there - beside the technical problems (which we have mostly fixed now) - were not 2 big mistakes:

1. Tuning (NPC, items, combat)
2. Bad presentation of important chars.

The tuning will be fixed with the 2nd patch. For example there was no way to use the crossbow advantageous. But to patch the combat system we will need more time.

The story is not more or less than "There are dragons, find their master! (Gothic 2). The problem in Gothic 3 is the density. We chose a lower one but but give important chars less lines to compensate that (this sentence makes imho no sense in German ). To solve this problem we had not enough time at the ending.

In the future we will not try again to overstrain us with a big world like this.

That it's, I will answer further questions now.


1) Why you can't dive?

There were more important things we are working on so that it was at the ending of the feature list. Than we thought about how useful dive would be and how many time we would need to add it.

pro:
- It was in G1/G2 and give you the feeling of freedom.

con:
- It was never really added. So you can't pick up items.
- We didn't thought about underwater quests.
- We would had to create a whole under water world.
- We would had to create a new movment which would be very difficult particulary because of the physic engine we use.

2) Why is there no climbing anymore?

There are several reasons. We didn't liked that the hero can climb at each thing (for example Innos statue) and you can't enter locations which the AI can't.

So we wanted two add two different ways of "climbing". First an automatic jump at some placed and second a way to move with your back at a wall. First wasn't possible because of we would had to flag every stone and the 2nd rask would be oversized for our one animator.

Additional we would had getting troubles with the animation system.

3) Did you used a LOD system?

(In short) Sure, where it was useful.

4) Is there a documentation of supported features (engine)?

(in Short) No, but it would be interesting because of

a) there are a few things which make the engine "unique":
- seamingless world feature
- All meshes are "arbitrary complex". That means we use meshes with any complexity instead of "height fields" or "convex meshsoups".

b) it support many features which we didn't use like:
- Physic: ropes, chains, fluids, classic rigidbodies (rolling barrels, detroyable objects)
- Rendering: Ultra High Detail meshes with LOD
- Materialsystem: tons of shader combinations
- Eventsystems, Mover,
- etc..

I hope we will add a list to the mod-kit.

Btw the genome Engine consists of 1.5 Mio lines code written by 3-6 guys in 3 1/2 years.

5) Will there be no shut downs any more?

- (short) I guss yes. We fixed all what we can.
- We still try optimize the engine.
- A patch will support the Agea PhysiX card.
- Third patch fixing the combat system.

6) Do you look at the bugtracker?

- Yes. Respect to the creators.

7) Is is right that you needed 4 GB Ram during the development.

(short) No, we don't have PC which supported 4 GB so it was impossible.

8.  Why the decision to work with the gamebryo engine?

At the beginning of the development it looked good because of the good documentation and modular structure. But later wo noticed that it is difficult to add things like seaming less world, arbitrary meshes and our physic so that we decided to make an own engine. And it is useful to own an own engine