toastyToast
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Mutagenic said:
5870 is fine on ultra without ubersampling. I was recommended low with a 5850 but ultra is working fine, always 30-45 in towns and 50-60 outside.
This is at 1680x1050 btw.
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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5870 is fine on ultra without ubersampling. I was recommended low with a 5850 but ultra is working fine, always 30-45 in towns and 50-60 outside.
This is at 1680x1050 btw.
Nah, my GTX 460 can run it in 1080p with high textures at around 30FPS, sometimes when shit is calm is goes as high as 60. During the most taxing part it dropped a bit below 20fps, but that was just one part, other wise it's tolerable.
The optimization could be much better but it's not that bad.
The optimization could be much better but it's not that bad.
NaughtyPrawn
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I have invested my initial talents into what I thought would be more useful for the swordsmanship tree however I am using Quen at every opportunity to stay alive. If you try to play a style that uses parry to your advantage I most often get overwhelmed. Quen is like the magic parry, it's basically easier to use and more effective at this point in the game.
I really want to go with swordsmanship tree and do a lot of parrying and counterattacking etc, where it looks like a better idea to just push through to get Quen lvled up. For anyone that has gone through the swordsmanship tree can you actually play in a style that uses parrying to your advantage or should I just go down the magic tree?
I really want to go with swordsmanship tree and do a lot of parrying and counterattacking etc, where it looks like a better idea to just push through to get Quen lvled up. For anyone that has gone through the swordsmanship tree can you actually play in a style that uses parrying to your advantage or should I just go down the magic tree?
HeadlessRoland
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Does any level of Quen not stop vigor regen?
toastyToast
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HeadlessRoland said:
I have level 2 Quen and the time it lasts only becomes longer, its vigor freezing effect is still there. It's a tradeoff for being completely safe in close quarters, by the last upgrade Quen lasts around 3 minutes. That and you can get the ability that spreads the counterattack damage to nearby enemies.
It had to have a shortcoming. Quen should only be used when you want to be offensive with yer sword and in such a case you don't even have the time to pop off aard or igni anyway.
The import money bonus is just insane. I had to load up the file i got from the op and use a save game editor to delete all items and money just so I wouldn't end up with 25000 money to star...Wallach said:
Honest I kind of feel it's better just to play without importing. The bonus items aren't that great and I see no references to anything you did in the first game.
Is the Royal Mail on a diet of speed and Epo? TheHut dispatched my copy last Saturday and I now hold it in hands. Yay.
Best Premium Edition for no additional moniez more ever? Wow. The coin, pamphlet and map are 1000% better done than I expected, the papercraft figures are included instead of downloads, the game guide feels better bound than some retail ones. Nice.
I hope the game doesn´t melt my Radeon 5850 clocked at 835/1125 in 1080p. Or gives me display glitches.
Best Premium Edition for no additional moniez more ever? Wow. The coin, pamphlet and map are 1000% better done than I expected, the papercraft figures are included instead of downloads, the game guide feels better bound than some retail ones. Nice.
I hope the game doesn´t melt my Radeon 5850 clocked at 835/1125 in 1080p. Or gives me display glitches.
kittoo
Cretinously credulous
Never thought this game's OT would have more posts than L.A.Noire. Awesome 
Started the game and finished the prologue. Really good till now. I am liking the challenge. The attention to detail is absolutely amazing. The sound effects are absolutely mind-blowing.
This I must say that this has to be the only game that captures the feeling of medieval war perfectly, something that even the movies struggle to do (never played Total war though). Even the huge catapults were really detailed and no short-cuts were taken in their workings either. It was amazing to see NPCs working as they should, to get them ready and then adjust and shoot. And then seeing the catapult reacting to it and then the NPCs again charging them getting them ready was amazing. Hats off CDProjekt.
Started the game and finished the prologue. Really good till now. I am liking the challenge. The attention to detail is absolutely amazing. The sound effects are absolutely mind-blowing.
This I must say that this has to be the only game that captures the feeling of medieval war perfectly, something that even the movies struggle to do (never played Total war though). Even the huge catapults were really detailed and no short-cuts were taken in their workings either. It was amazing to see NPCs working as they should, to get them ready and then adjust and shoot. And then seeing the catapult reacting to it and then the NPCs again charging them getting them ready was amazing. Hats off CDProjekt.
And there's a mod to remove Australian censorship already
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher_2/australian_users_click_here_un_edit_patch/post1
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/the_witcher_2/australian_users_click_here_un_edit_patch/post1
HeadlessRoland
Banned
Mother of god this bug is bullshit. The game randomly stopped allowing me to speak to NPC's. I have reinstalled deleted all saved games and started over. I cannot speak to anyone when I enter flotsam.
What kinda bug could possibly behave like that?!
What kinda bug could possibly behave like that?!
Goddam I want to play this game, but after I started I knew I had to finish TW1 properly. I played it over the course of years and never got a full grasp of it. Man, I know why I couldn't stick with it. It can be a real slog sometimes. I hope the pacing is pepped up a little bit in TW2. What I played was...amazing. Can't wait. Proud of myself for holding off too. We'll see how long that holds up though. Fucking drowners and fetch quests.
toastyToast
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How do I use the harpy traps? I've seen a few nests now but I don't know how to get the thing in there.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I never used them but I assumed they're like any trap, place on the ground when you're fighting harpies? Unless there's some capture a harpy quest I missed.toasty_T said:
Anyway. Finished the game. Neat action adventure, I liked all those scripted sequences and stuff, too bad it wasn't more polished. The Witcher 3 should be awesome.
thelurkinghorror
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Ten hours in, awesome game, actually my favorite since Baldur's Gate II and i'm still in Chapter1, maybe going further i low my personal rating, now very very high.
I still explore the forest, going further every journey. Now i have to kill some aracnoids
I still explore the forest, going further every journey. Now i have to kill some aracnoids
have you some advice to kill the two queens? I have to give up waiting to gain some power because those beast are fucking hard, even for my traps
toastyToast
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thelurkinghorror said:
-They don't like fire so igni them
-Make some dancing star bombs (I think you start off with the recipe otherwise it should be available for purchase). They have the chance to cause incinerate.
-Buy some insectoid oil and oil up
-Make better use of traps, you should be able to find a ton strewn around the forest. Set up a whole bunch in one area and lure beast into it.
-If you're feeling reckless you can fight it with your sword but it's a real pain. They're vulnerable on their right front (right side of head). Make use of your heavy attacks combined with oil.
Best strategy is fire, bombs and traps. You really shouldn't have to use your sword.
indigo-cyclops
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I also thought I was supposed to use the traps but you actually need to use bombs. Check the journal.toasty_T said:
toastyToast
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INDIGO_CYCLOPS said:
Actually I figured it out. If you're near a harpy nest and you drop off a trap one of them will pick it up unwittingly and destroy the nest.
Since I will be playing the game on and off during the coming week, I hope someone can alleviate my current fears; how big is this game in its scope? I get the feeling that there won't be many more areas to explore other than;
1. The prologue areas
2. Flotsam and the surrounding forest (which is small)
3. Another town plus a surrounding area (sort of like 2)
4. The endgame
Am I right, or am I (hopefully) wrong?
1. The prologue areas
2. Flotsam and the surrounding forest (which is small)
3. Another town plus a surrounding area (sort of like 2)
4. The endgame
Am I right, or am I (hopefully) wrong?
Thanks for answering, that's very unfortunate. Personally I'd take a reduction in detail level just so the devs could add more explorable environments. But then again, I hope the game changes up noticeably in chapters 1 and 2 as some people say when you replay and make other key decisions.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Zeliard said:
You are approaching this game ME-style, playing Paragon. That is not how Geralt character is build. As someone before said - he would get rid of the monster, because it's a monster, plain and simple, it's also obviously evil right now.
Guys, i think i fucked with one of the quests.
Is there any way to do succeed that quest at this stage? Or do i have to go back to a very early save?
It's With Flickering heart (the succubus one)
I talked to Dandelion to wait for me at the burned village site and i didnt use the surgical tools to do the autopsy. I went back and did it after talking to Dandelion and now i keep failing the ballad part.
I talked to Dandelion to wait for me at the burned village site and i didnt use the surgical tools to do the autopsy. I went back and did it after talking to Dandelion and now i keep failing the ballad part.
Is there any way to do succeed that quest at this stage? Or do i have to go back to a very early save?
Alright, for specific reasons I had to completely uninstall The Witcher 2 and reinstall it. Just wanted to say that the Launcher app has to be one of the worst tools to ever grace a game. "Error writing file" messages, looping various download messages, interrupting at random, connection issues, locking up completely without notifying the OS and so on.
Hopefully they patch the shit out of it too, because it's unbearable.
Hopefully they patch the shit out of it too, because it's unbearable.
I need some help for anyone who got to the end of Act 2 and is in Act 3.
Please someone answer this.
I'm doing the Roche side of the story. Near the end after the Draug you come to where Ves is after she's raped and all of the soldiers are hanged. Right after that cut scene the notice board has 3 new notices on it, but the quests don't show up in my journal. I thought I had missed these earlier so I reloaded an earlier save before I fought the Draug, but the notices weren't there. Are these quests for Act 3 and they will show up once I get there in my journal or wtf is going on?
Please someone answer this.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Hum. I'm feeling more let down with the game the more I realise I finished it. I wish every chapter was like the first but even bigger with more to explore and more variety, I wish combat was more polished, skills more interesting and useful, challenges more than just throwing you in tight spaces against a bunch of tough enemies, I wish the plot didn't have so many stupid elements, I wish buttons wouldn't randomly stop responding, I wish Geralt was more reliable in how he behaves on functional button presses...
Man the DLC better not be stuff like go kill or barter with a big potentially dangerous thing for a super reward, just make some elaborate hunting quests like the one in the intro of the first The Witcher with a lot of investigating (proper investigating, not just pressing x on everything you see and then choosing dialogue responses that basically give the solution away by themselves even if you weren't paying attention) and talking to people and trying to figure out how this thing came to be and what weaknesses and strengths it has and the right potions and tools for the job etc. Make a single hunt nearly worthy of its own act, having the beast show up in town killing everything in sight including you before you figure out how to beat it, forcing you to mostly investigate in the day or rush from door to door at night before it spots you or while it's busy mutilating some random NPC etc. I also want to set elaborate traps properly, before the fight begins, choose my battlegrounds and lure it, not just drop them after the fight starts like any random item.
Man the DLC better not be stuff like go kill or barter with a big potentially dangerous thing for a super reward, just make some elaborate hunting quests like the one in the intro of the first The Witcher with a lot of investigating (proper investigating, not just pressing x on everything you see and then choosing dialogue responses that basically give the solution away by themselves even if you weren't paying attention) and talking to people and trying to figure out how this thing came to be and what weaknesses and strengths it has and the right potions and tools for the job etc. Make a single hunt nearly worthy of its own act, having the beast show up in town killing everything in sight including you before you figure out how to beat it, forcing you to mostly investigate in the day or rush from door to door at night before it spots you or while it's busy mutilating some random NPC etc. I also want to set elaborate traps properly, before the fight begins, choose my battlegrounds and lure it, not just drop them after the fight starts like any random item.
toastyToast
Member
That might be a spoiler Kyaw so I won't quote you.
Nah you're alright. You're getting the ballad wrong, go through all the permutations and she'll show up. The first lyric is the 2nd line.
Side-quest in Chapter 2. Little Sisters.
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Where do I proceed once I've found the graves near the shore? I've lit the candles in the correct order, went into the secret room, then back to the soldier and then again to the graves. Now I need to solve the mystery but all the marks on the map (one marker in the hut, one on a big boulder on the shore) seem to lead nowhere. Anyone got a clue?
edit: solution
there's a ghost around midnight that you need to talk to
after beating the game i've checked out what people think of the game
are people really complaining about the combat?
one dude even said the combat was dumbed down
the original's core combat was just one big QTE with the occasional M2 for force push
anyways, yeah the chapters were shorter than I thought
otherwise, good game
i want witcher 3 now
are people really complaining about the combat?
one dude even said the combat was dumbed down
the original's core combat was just one big QTE with the occasional M2 for force push
anyways, yeah the chapters were shorter than I thought
otherwise, good game
i want witcher 3 now
toastyToast
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Nice.3chopl0x said:
I've got the weightless everything mod, feels a bit cheap. The weightless crafting mod looks like a good compromise.
I think what makes this game feel
shorter, is not only the low number of chapters and locale changes, but the story itself. The only thing that gets resolved is the business with Letho. Meanwhile, the entire North is going through radical change that you are directly involved in. Big change from the Witcher 1 when it wrapped itself up nicely. There's a shitload of setup for a sequel that wasn't there for Witcher 1. Well, besides the ending cutscene anyways. The end result is you feel like someone split a novel into a two parter. Which in the end is fine with me, I love the game and want more of it, but fuck waiting another 4 years for another sequel. Here's hoping to Witcher 3 in '12 or '13
Barberetti
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Gah, I keep hitting the Tab key to exit the menus. Damn Pip-Boy habit.
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