Aim Assist for Spells

Version 1. 1 out.

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DESCRIPTION

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Tired of free aim? Do you want automatic target acquisition, the way the original had it?

In melee, Gothic aims for you: your character locks onto an enemy. In ranged combat it doesn't - you aim by hand. This mod gives spells the same lock-on. Press a key, the nearest enemy in view is marked, and your spells fly to them, no matter where the camera is pointing. When the target goes down, the lock moves on to the next enemy by itself.

The idea behind it: it's the CHARACTER who has the skill, not the player's mouse hand. Free aim never felt right in a roleplaying game.

It works with all targeted spells. Firebolt becomes very powerful. I've barely touched the bow.

A word of honesty: this is a promising starting point, not a polished product. It works, it's stable, and it's fun - but I'd like to invite tinkerers to turn it into a finished mod. The source is included and commented in detail, including the dead ends, because there's a lot of hard-won debugging in there that nobody should have to repeat.

The mod runs on my PC, on Linux, with a controller, and it was built by Claude Code (using Claude Opus and Fable as the models). If you don't have the know-how yourself, Claude can almost certainly work out an adaptation for your system.

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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

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1. Install UE4SS first. Nothing here works without it.

2. Unpack the ZIP.

3. Copy the contents of the "Mods" folder into your UE4SS mods directory:

Gothic 1 Remake/G1R/Binaries/Win64/ue4ss/Mods/

+-- RangedLockOn/

|    +-- enabled.txt

|    +-- Scripts/main.lua

+-- shared/

+-- G1R.lua        <-- required!

keep the existing one. Do not overwrite it.

4. Start the game. Your ue4ss/UE4SS.log should contain:

RangedLockOn v1. 0 loaded

5. Press T in game to toggle lock-on. (Gamepad: R3.)

To uninstall: delete the RangedLockOn folder, or rename enabled.txt inside it.

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MAIN FEATURES

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LOCK ON WITH A KEYPRESS

Default T (gamepad: R3). The nearest enemy you're looking at is locked,

and a marker sits visibly on them - the same marker melee uses.

SPELLS HIT WHAT YOU LOCKED

Your spells fly to the locked target no matter where the camera points.

Works with all targeted spells. Firebolt becomes properly dangerous.

THE LOCK MOVES ON BY ITSELF

Target dead or knocked down? The lock jumps to the next enemy. Bodies on

the ground are never targeted.

NO SHOT INTO THE VOID

Fired without a lock? The projectile finds the nearest enemy along its own

flight path.

SWITCH TARGETS

Right stick left/right on a gamepad - or simply turn and look at someone else.

DODGING STILL WORKS (this is deliberate)

Spells are aimed ONCE, at launch, at the spot where the target stood, and

then fly straight. They do not curve after their victim. Enemies standing

still or charging at you get hit reliably; enemies that dodge get away.

A projectile that chases forever takes all the tension out of a fight.

CONFIGURABLE

Key, range, view cone and more are plain settings at the top of main.lua.

NOT INCLUDED: THE BOW

Bow shots caused crashes I couldn't pin down, so the mod doesn't touch

arrows at all - the bow behaves exactly as it does without this mod.

If you want to take that on, the source tells you where to start.

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REQUIREMENTS

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UE4SS - hard requirement. The mod does not run without it.

https://github.com/UE4SS-RE/RE-UE4SS

TESTED WITH:

UE4SS v3. 0. 1 Beta (Git SHA e09d3821)

Gothic 1 Remake (Steam)

Linux / Proton, with a controller. Should work on Windows.

INCLUDED IN THE ZIP:

* shared/G1R.lua - a small helper library the mod needs. It ships with the

download. If another mod already installed one, keep that one.

A NOTE ON THE UE4SS VERSION:

Several problems this mod had to work