I’m about to be so fucking done with this game… Here’s the thing:

I jumped on the opportunity to play Gothic on my Switch as soon as they announced it, enjoyed the buggy mess it is thoroughly for dozens of hours like it was the 2000s again, up until I hit a brick wall with the main quest. Getting the components for Ulu-Mulu turned out to be impossible as I couldn’t find a single troll anywhere in the world. I got everything else, previously killed the two earlier trolls (with Gorn and with Diego) as normal, but now they were nowhere to be found. Not in the valley of trolls, not in the shapeshifters’ fortress, not near the Old Mine. Really annoyed, I finally gave up and assumed it was some sort of bug that will hopefully get patched soon. Shame about not finishing my run, but oh well, I guess I’ll live.

Fast forward a few months to now and I decided to get back at it after all the fixes. I need to finish this amazing game I bought for this great console. I thought I’d start over, a completely new attempt, hopefully relatively bug-free this time. And boy am I fuming now - after around 20 hours of redoing everything to get to the Ulu-Mulu quest again… the same fucking thing! No trolls anywhere on the map, no way to get the tusks, checked all of the usual places, searched the internet to see if anyone encountered this before - nothing. Sooo frustrating…

This post is my final hope. Please tell me what I could be doing wrong and how this can be fixed. Really sucks to have basically wasted coming up on 40-50 hours between two playthrough attempts only for it all to end like this…

TL;DR: got to the Ulu-Mulu quest and can’t find a single troll anywhere to kill for the required tusks - wtf?