Castor Krieg
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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Ugh. So I can't get the best weapon in the game because you need an endriga queen pheremone from Act 1 to create it. :/ I woulda had one if not for the game's shitty weight system that makes everything weigh 3000lbs so I was constantly selling shit not needed in formulas anymore.
Is there a way I could cheat the game by messing with my in game files to put one into my inventory? I'm not PC techy, but I imagine that's possible right/
Is there a way I could cheat the game by messing with my in game files to put one into my inventory? I'm not PC techy, but I imagine that's possible right/
EternalGamer
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Castor Krieg said:
I'm not 100% certain on this, but I remember there is a journal entry in game that explains it. I believe that sign intensity will improve things like the duration of the sign or the other effects it has. Whereas damage is solely about how much HP a sign takes off. Obviously something like Quen doesn't do damage, so it wouldn't benefit from that.
toastyToast
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Question (or two, or three): I'm thinking about buying the Dragon Scale Armor in chapter two, will I regret it? It'll cost me pretty much all my money. I've only done a couple of the storyline quests and all the sidequests so far. Will I have enough time to take advantage of it? If not will I make a substantial amount of money between this one and the next?
I'm starting to miss seeing Geralt's head.
I'm starting to miss seeing Geralt's head.
I played and loved Demon's Souls, I know what "hard but fair" is.
Good thing the rest of the game makes up for the busted combat. This is still the best game I've played all year and one of my top RPGs of all time so far.
Sorry for venting all over y'all's faces.
On normal, the fight with Letho is not fair. His Aard sends me flying across the room and his bombs take almost 1/4 of my health+stunning me, while my Aard barely makes him stumble and he's still be able to riposte when I try to hit him during his split-second long stumble animation. My stun bombs don't seem to do anything except make pretty fireworks and the poison on my blade never activates like it does on regular mobs. I can never do the running face-stab or pirouette moves to close the distance when I really need to because the context sensitive move selector is so random. Oh, and when I finally bitched out and turned it to easy, the game lets me beat him in one long combo. He never tried to block or use Quen at all. It's like his AI was turned off completely. Insulting.
The AI/fighting system is bad. It looks flashy, animates well for the most part, but is busted as fuck when it comes right down to it. The combat feels like it wants to be Demon's Souls so much but the designer just wasn't quite able to pull it off.
I still have fun in outdoor battles where I have room to dodge around and set traps, though.
The AI/fighting system is bad. It looks flashy, animates well for the most part, but is busted as fuck when it comes right down to it. The combat feels like it wants to be Demon's Souls so much but the designer just wasn't quite able to pull it off.
I still have fun in outdoor battles where I have room to dodge around and set traps, though.
Good thing the rest of the game makes up for the busted combat. This is still the best game I've played all year and one of my top RPGs of all time so far.
Sorry for venting all over y'all's faces.
zlatko said:
Get the "Zero weight for crafting items" mod from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?roqagzzha96z2
Darklord said:I wondered about something in chapter 1
After the Kayren fight you can take Triss to the Elven Bath and have sex. After that you can tell her to stay with him or go. If you ask Triss to stay with you she asks if they should leave Roche and all those problems behind. You can say yes or no. I said no, I have to fix them but if you said yes would the game actually take a change at that point or when Roche shows up would it just be one of those "nah, you gotta do this no matter what you said" kind of things? It's hard to tell if the choices you make are actually making a difference or if it's like Dragon Age 2 where no matter what you do, it ends up the same. Don't fully spoil it though, just say if it does change much or not because I only just got to that part!
That depends
How does Roche react to you if you say yes
I choose
yes, and when he came in to the fountain he had quiet a bit to say about my decision
Mohonky
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I think I've officially given up on 'Normal' difficulty. The combat just seems to clunky for it to work. Found myself in a battle with 6 elves, all of whom blocked attacks. I could easily dodge them but I never had a chance to attack, when I did, I got carved up. Parrying was useless as I would run out of vigor from the first two attacks then just get stabbed in the back by another enemy. So I couldn't block, all I could do was roll around, then when I tried to attack, another enemy would start their attack and I'd end up in the same situation.
Combat works fine when it's one or two larger enemies but any more than 2 and I just never feel like I'm equipped with any real abilities to deal with them. Avoiding them is never a problem with Quen, roll etc but there's simply no way of getting in any attacks without being immediately pummelled as a result.
Combat works fine when it's one or two larger enemies but any more than 2 and I just never feel like I'm equipped with any real abilities to deal with them. Avoiding them is never a problem with Quen, roll etc but there's simply no way of getting in any attacks without being immediately pummelled as a result.
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Man, with all this talk about (end of chapter 1 spoiler)
being really hard, I expected to get my ass handed to me a few times, but I completely destroyed him on normal without even using any potions. Keeping Quen up and tossing a few well timed bombs before going in with the sword was more than enough to beat him down.
Letho
Mohonky
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Varna said:
Not if you've become stuck in a situation where the last save immediately starts you in a fight immediately to start and you have no bombs, traps, etc as I had. I was stuck at one fight
Mileena mission where the elves ambush you
Though I'm also having a problem where when I goto meditate, I make a Samun or whatever it is bomb, press create, says item is created but then it never appears in my inventory. Had the same problem when I made a potion. It never appeared in my inventory either?
Zefah said:
You know, I tried to setup an elaborate strategy when I had seen how powerful he was. But ultimately what worked for me was just rushing him. Aard, two quick hits, block, two hits, roll away and let vigor regenerate and repeat. Tawny Owl potion worked wonders for this too.
This was on hard mode.
Forgot who posted about the cutscene afterwards, but it also did not rub me the right way. I hate these kind of jrpg post boss battle cutscenes... they are just awful because they completely disconnect the gameplay from the story.
Should have been two slightly different scenes... one were he just quickly knocks you away and one were you are defeated
BeeDog said:
That's correct.
Game's main quests are about 1/4 to 1/3 the length of the first one. However it is way more polished that the first one, and less tedious collection quests.
Hoping there's a 3rd one next year. Their engine is very scalable both for PCs (throw in some DX11 features) and next gen consoles. They should be able to crank out a couple of more games within the next few years. At least I hope.
I'm loving how meaty the side quests are, with consequences of their own. They're just as entertaining as the main quests, and are not just an xp or gold grind. I loved the Witcher for its refreshing take on morality and choices and consequences, but CDPR has to be commended for how they've handled the sidequests in the sequel. Contract quests have a puzzle-solving element to them, and side quests can influence the dispositions of certain important characters towards you.
For instance, I'm in a swordfighting arena side quest in the second chapter, and I threw the fight (the fact that I can even do this is noteworthy considering the state of today's WRPGs), and this had consequences I would never have imagined.
This game requires at least two playthroughs to fully appreciate the effort that went into it.
For instance, I'm in a swordfighting arena side quest in the second chapter, and I threw the fight (the fact that I can even do this is noteworthy considering the state of today's WRPGs), and this had consequences I would never have imagined.
This game requires at least two playthroughs to fully appreciate the effort that went into it.
Zefah said:
That boss fight is one of the highlights of the game so far for me, since in many ways, it felt like a mirror match between two extraordinary opponents. There's just something about the whole setup of that encounter - Witcher Vs Witcher - that appeals to me. Regarding the actual fight though, I thought it was easier than the Kayran fight on hard, since Letho's patterns were easier to predict and avoid. I also took the knife throwing talent, and used that with bombs and traps. Needless to say, his shield lasted for mere seconds each time, if that.
Hulud said:I played and loved Demon's Souls, I know what "hard but fair" is.On normal, the fight with Letho is not fair. His Aard sends me flying across the room and his bombs take almost 1/4 of my health+stunning me, while my Aard barely makes him stumble and he's still be able to riposte when I try to hit him during his split-second long stumble animation. My stun bombs don't seem to do anything except make pretty fireworks and the poison on my blade never activates like it does on regular mobs. I can never do the running face-stab or pirouette moves to close the distance when I really need to because the context sensitive move selector is so random. Oh, and when I finally bitched out and turned it to easy, the game lets me beat him in one long combo. He never tried to block or use Quen at all. It's like his AI was turned off completely. Insulting.
The AI/fighting system is bad. It looks flashy, animates well for the most part, but is busted as fuck when it comes right down to it. The combat feels like it wants to be Demon's Souls so much but the designer just wasn't quite able to pull it off.
I still have fun in outdoor battles where I have room to dodge around and set traps, though.
Good thing the rest of the game makes up for the busted combat. This is still the best game I've played all year and one of my top RPGs of all time so far.
Sorry for venting all over y'all's faces.
Maybe if you realize you have the trap spell you wont have as much trouble. He is the easiest boss in the game next to kayran.
Anyone else having major problems with the Launcher? I had to reinstall my game, so naturally I want to redownload all the available DLC (mainly my preorder DLC and the Troll Trouble quest). The thing is, the Launcher keeps redownloading the DLC continuously, and it goes slooooowly, then it either hangs up or does some other stupid random shit I can't describe, but in the end, it simply won't recognize the download whatsoever. Is this related to server issues on their end, or is there something I can do on my end?
Vasilisk 2038
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Hulud said:I played and loved Demon's Souls, I know what "hard but fair" is.On normal, the fight with Letho is not fair. His Aard sends me flying across the room and his bombs take almost 1/4 of my health+stunning me, while my Aard barely makes him stumble and he's still be able to riposte when I try to hit him during his split-second long stumble animation. My stun bombs don't seem to do anything except make pretty fireworks and the poison on my blade never activates like it does on regular mobs. I can never do the running face-stab or pirouette moves to close the distance when I really need to because the context sensitive move selector is so random. Oh, and when I finally bitched out and turned it to easy, the game lets me beat him in one long combo. He never tried to block or use Quen at all. It's like his AI was turned off completely. Insulting.
The AI/fighting system is bad. It looks flashy, animates well for the most part, but is busted as fuck when it comes right down to it. The combat feels like it wants to be Demon's Souls so much but the designer just wasn't quite able to pull it off.
I still have fun in outdoor battles where I have room to dodge around and set traps, though.
Good thing the rest of the game makes up for the busted combat. This is still the best game I've played all year and one of my top RPGs of all time so far.
Sorry for venting all over y'all's faces.
Ehmm.. I currently beat that boss in Hard a few hours ago, and
the Aard sign make wonders in him, it just first put his Quen down, and then roll -> Aard to stun + 2 Strong attacks -> Bail Out -> repeat and profit
EDIT And by the way, but some of the boss fights in Demon's Souls are far more cheap that the fights in The Witcher 2
Last week, I was experiencing black like box artifacts in game and thought it was game related so I shot CDPR an email asking if they could help. I didnt get a reply that day so I tinkered around some more and found out that the game just didnt like my GPU overclock. Removing that got rid of all issues. It runs perfectly.
Anyways, I just received this response from CDPR regarding my email and thought Id share it since it has some links and info in it:
Apologies all around and more confirmation of next weeks patch. Im glad theyre acknowledging the issues and getting some fixes out.
Anyways, I just received this response from CDPR regarding my email and thought Id share it since it has some links and info in it:
Apologies all around and more confirmation of next weeks patch. Im glad theyre acknowledging the issues and getting some fixes out.
Sir Garbageman
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Castor Krieg said:
Awesome. I was planning on playing through it a second time already. Just started Ch. 2.
Varna said:
Yeah, I just get my arse kicked that way. Even at the start of the fight he blocks it most times. At medium distance he keeps using the fire sign and aard which throws me right back. I tried using the trap sign but it only works about 1/3 of the time. The rest of the game has been piss easy compared to this fight.
Vasilisk 2038
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Vlodril said:
Yeah, exactly my thoughts, the first feeling the game gave me was "this isn't a hack'n slash, if you're surrounded and you don't act carefully, you're dead". And for example, I remember how I "danced" with the Endrega Queens, waiting for an opening in order to attack them.
Vlodril
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The endrega queen was my favorite encounter actually. I tried a couple of times to go face to face and it kicked my ass. So i set up three conf traps and three freezer traps and lead her too them. When she hit the freezers i used daggers then bombs. Felt like a witcher. Awesome.
Just completed the game on normal doing every sidequest possible on the routes I took and only missed one side quest that I was aware of.
Clocked in 43 hours. Took my time and really enjoyed the game.
Before I start a new story, which I'm going to do an insane run on, what do I do so it won't get rid of my old saves? Going through the game in this run I felt like I basically had only one save slot I was in charge of, and the game kept a bunch of other auto saves stacked up just in case when I would go to load.
When you start a new game will it have its own set of save and auto saves?
Clocked in 43 hours. Took my time and really enjoyed the game.
Before I start a new story, which I'm going to do an insane run on, what do I do so it won't get rid of my old saves? Going through the game in this run I felt like I basically had only one save slot I was in charge of, and the game kept a bunch of other auto saves stacked up just in case when I would go to load.
When you start a new game will it have its own set of save and auto saves?
mambadragon
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I preordered on Steam but didn't get to really play at all (and that was for about 45 mins last night) and I have a few questions.
Are most playing with m+kb or controller? I started playing with m+kb and was doing terribly, then tried controller and did a lot better but am annoyed by the lack of hot keys (like I couldn't find how to sheath sword, switch to silver sword, etc) and managing the UI was just annoying. I'm going to give m+kb another try and am hoping ill have better luck if I map Q and E to my mouse side buttons.
I'm not getting how the combat works? It's certainly not like Witcher 1, and I'm not understanding the timing (I tried playing it like Batman AA but frankly the combat doesn't seem as refined). Is there anywhere in the game to practice the combat timing, cause I just don't get it.
Are most playing with m+kb or controller? I started playing with m+kb and was doing terribly, then tried controller and did a lot better but am annoyed by the lack of hot keys (like I couldn't find how to sheath sword, switch to silver sword, etc) and managing the UI was just annoying. I'm going to give m+kb another try and am hoping ill have better luck if I map Q and E to my mouse side buttons.
I'm not getting how the combat works? It's certainly not like Witcher 1, and I'm not understanding the timing (I tried playing it like Batman AA but frankly the combat doesn't seem as refined). Is there anywhere in the game to practice the combat timing, cause I just don't get it.
It's not like The Witcher at all, you just need to learn when you can attack and when you need to move out of the way/block. Run Witcher 2, select Video and Languages and then Input Settings and you can see all the hotkeys, and change them if you want.
Dog Problems
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Varna said:
Yes.
GhostRidah
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Later in the game it has been taking a lot longer to access map/inventory and loading areas =/
Yeah I started a new playthrough and it takes minutes to open the main menu. I'm wondering if that has to do with the number of saves that I have.GhostRidah said:
EDIT: Jeeze my save folder is 2 gigs.
Is there any way to tell what you final game save is? I'd like to remove most of these autosaves. I have a save file that isn't labeled. I'm assuming that's the final save?- Status