u/UltimateCarl

Casually going for a plat in the recent Gothic Classic port to PS5, but I'm stuck on one: Canine Betrayal.

"Kill an Orc Dog while being transformed into an Orc Dog".

Alright, sounds simple enough. Buy the scroll, isolate a single orc dog, get its health down in human form, and transform. Except that once transformed I don't deal any damage to it at all! Maybe I'm missing something with how the attack works so I'm not lining up the hitboxes right or something, but it's not even that I'm doing low damage, I'm doing no damage. Meanwhile, the enemy orc dog can kill me in three hits!

I've made sure it's an Orc Dog I'm targeting, I'm transforming into an Orc Dog myself and not just a wolf, so I'm not sure what the issue is... I'd assume that the game changes your stats to whatever you're transformed into rather than using your base, but even if it does, my Strength is 70 which I'd assume would be enough to at least hurt them at all. As far as I can tell I can only do a tiny lunge attack, a backwards hop, and awkward jump forward, and a larger lunge if I run for a bit, but that's nearly impossible to hit and also seems to do no damage. One button seems to make me sort of just shake out my fur, which is cute but doesn't seem to do anything. Is there another attack I just haven't figured out?

Thanks in advance for any insight on what I might be missing, folks!

(Oh also mods could we maybe get a Gothic Classic post flair, please?)