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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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jim-jam bongs
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While everyone waits, I just saw this in the OT and it made me love this game even more:
How About No
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Steam, what the hell you doing
You don't need to do this
There has to be a better way
Think of your family
You don't need to do this
There has to be a better way
Think of your family
Castor Krieg
Banned
Downloaded all the .exe DLC files, when I run them they are supposed to patch themselves into the game. Will check after STEAM finishes that 10GB...
Minsc
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raphier said:
Wow. 9MB vs 9GB. I think blame goes to both sides. The way Steam works, they only deal with completed files. Oblivion and Fallout work in similar ways though (packs GBs of data in to single files).
3 hours to download the update for me, not too bad. It really does look like you'll be doing a 10GB every two weeks for a while on Steam, as Patch 1.2 is probably already being worked on.
jim-jam bongs
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subversus said:
That and the
secret optional boss
Here are the URL's to all the DLC packs. I don't have any idea if they will work if you haven't registered them through the launcher:
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/swordsman_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/magical_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/alchemy_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/merchant.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/roche_jacket.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/dlc_finishers.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/swordsman_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/magical_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/alchemy_suit.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/merchant.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/roche_jacket.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/dlc_finishers.exe
Jay Shadow
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Come home and notice Steam is patching. Oh hey, it's Witcher 2.
Look at the size.
FUUUUUUU it's Company of Heroes all over again.
Look at the size.
FUUUUUUU it's Company of Heroes all over again.
Really enjoying my second playtrough! There is so much new stuff with decisions and quests that i missed on first time around that game still feels really fresh. Can't wait for chapter 2, since that seems to be completely different based on chapter 1 decision.
Why does Geralt have grey/silvery hair and not pure white like in a first game?
Why does Geralt have grey/silvery hair and not pure white like in a first game?
jim-jam bongs said:While everyone waits, I just saw this in the OT and it made me love this game even more:
Except TW2 goes in reverse... In all honesty, I had no fear of dieing from mid-chapter 2 > the end. Part of it was Quen abuse, but the combat is a little lacking in my opinion... could've used a little tweaking. Everything else about the game is brilliant, though, and more then makes up for it.
31 hours clocked in. Completed everything minus a handful of quests in both chapter 1 and 2. I'm not sure what all the complaints about the ending were. If chapter 3 was renamed "epilogue" would people still be upset? And I was satisfied with the conclusion with
Letho
some of my choices: *spoilers*
chose Iorveth - had to stick with my boy Zoltan.. plus i went scoia'tael in TW1
jailed Prince - couldn't find definite proof that he was involved in poisoning Saskia... cutscene around the end indicated that he might have? but that he became a great king? kinda unsure about that part
saved Triss - had been choosing her for a majority of the game so i decided to make her rescue a priority at the end
let that sorceress chick blowup - her name escapes me... (the one who helps with the Kayran)... just got sick of her shit
left Saskiadragon impaled on a tree - my only other option was to kill her... probably cause i chose Triss... also found Iorveth beaten down by a pack of guards afterwards... i killed them and told Triss to port him to safety
let Letho live - after hearing him out.. it was obvious that he wasn't my enemy, plus he looked out for Yeniffer.
jailed Prince - couldn't find definite proof that he was involved in poisoning Saskia... cutscene around the end indicated that he might have? but that he became a great king? kinda unsure about that part
saved Triss - had been choosing her for a majority of the game so i decided to make her rescue a priority at the end
let that sorceress chick blowup - her name escapes me... (the one who helps with the Kayran)... just got sick of her shit
left Saskiadragon impaled on a tree - my only other option was to kill her... probably cause i chose Triss... also found Iorveth beaten down by a pack of guards afterwards... i killed them and told Triss to port him to safety
let Letho live - after hearing him out.. it was obvious that he wasn't my enemy, plus he looked out for Yeniffer.
look forward to trying out some different options, and see what happens.
Castor Krieg
Banned
Dityrink said:
Patch 1.1 includes Troll DLC.
jim-jam bongs
Member
falastini said:
Completely agree, although the toughest boss in the game is in chapter 3. I just think that they blow their load a little early with the enemy numbers personally, so once you're really tough the same number of enemies is totally inconsequential.
GoncaloCCastro
Member
Finished it today and loved every second of it. Wanted to play it again on hard and I see Steam updating! 9GB...guess I'm not playing it tonight.
Riposte
Member
jim-jam bongs said:
Yeah.
Also what sticks out as a horrible encounter(maybe the worst in the game) is at the end of the Scoia'tael path:
The Siege.
Basically smacking dudes down as they are climbing up ladders very slowly. Then dealing with a bunch of an annoying Dwarfs who both make it a pain to move around and make the encounter too easy by tanking everything for you.
It also LOOKS really stupid, like when a PS2 game tries to show you what a grand battle is. It sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise fully realized game. Guess they aimed too high on that.
Basically smacking dudes down as they are climbing up ladders very slowly. Then dealing with a bunch of an annoying Dwarfs who both make it a pain to move around and make the encounter too easy by tanking everything for you.
It also LOOKS really stupid, like when a PS2 game tries to show you what a grand battle is. It sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise fully realized game. Guess they aimed too high on that.
Enemies are too slow(if they could dodge roll, especially during 1 v 1 human fights) and you do too much damage after getting the right abilities.
Though I have to say, when the game is fresh, it is incredible. The importance of preparation and brutal difficulty really make it a standout.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Riposte said:
Totally agree with that actually, I went down the Roche path on my first run so I only played that bit yesterday.
It's not helped by the fact that the AI seems to struggle really badly to know what to do there, so if you stand next to a ladder you can tear the soldiers up one by one while they shuffle around in front of it with their swords sheathed. Or just stand in front of a ladder spamming Aard and shooting them off into the wild blue yonder.
That whole sequence could have been so much more impressive if it were a moving siege, or if maybe Geralt had to rush to choke-points and collapse them or something.
That whole sequence could have been so much more impressive if it were a moving siege, or if maybe Geralt had to rush to choke-points and collapse them or something.
Varna said:
I thought that
the Dragon was a good fight in terms of difficulty, having her able to effectively one-shot Geralt with those extended lunges made it fairly tense. That said, it could certainly have been a lot harder.
And I let Letho live. You monster.
And I let Letho live. You monster.
D
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Riposte said:
I agree that the scale was pretty underwhelming in your spoilered part, but it sure was fun to blast dudes off the ramparts with Aard.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Just beat chapter 2. Didn't like it as much as the other parts of the game
. Start of chapter 3 is great though, amazing environments as usual.
the whole "chaos"-thing was just too much for my liking
I don't know how you guys consider it easy but gargoyles were still able to kick my ass in chapter 3 even though I had tons of health and 34 armor. And no, I didn't suck, my sword build was almost maxed out and I knew how to fight gargoyles. If you're not able to freeze the bitch with aard and block her in time you're in the world of pain.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
My bandwidth cap is crying. Gonna have to turn off automatic updates for this game. I'll allow this one because it is early and thus likely important in terms of bug fixes.
Edit: Would it be possible to manually patch the Steam version or can you only do that with GoG?
Edit: Would it be possible to manually patch the Steam version or can you only do that with GoG?
Fallout-NL
Member
Minsc said:
Man, what GoG patch? I don't get anyhing. And the patcher says the game's up to date.
Fallout-NL
Member
Van Buren said:
Much obliged.
I'm probably just slow after a long day of work + shit, but what's the difference between these two files?:
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/P1_1/Patcher_1.1_International.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/Patch0/Patcher_ROW.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/P1_1/Patcher_1.1_International.exe
http://wpc.420c.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/Patch0/Patcher_ROW.exe
jim-jam bongs
Member
The filename?
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Hmm... I just put 10x Greater Critical Mutagens so now I have like 110% chance to crit... and now I'm one shotting everything I see...
Any way to delete mutagens?
Any way to delete mutagens?
Yoshichan said:I can only find 6-7 previous auto-saves and they're all after I did the mutagen-bullshitGod damn it...
Did you delete your older saves ? It's times like these when those gigabytes of auto-saves come in handy. If you have deleted the saves, you could try restoring them with disk utilities. It's worth a shot.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
But I didn't delete them... when I click "Load", I can only find like 10-15 saves or something (even thought I've quick saved like 50000000 times). Are they in my harddrive somewhere?Van Buren said:
Castor Krieg
Banned
Yoshichan said:
Are you complaining? Because if you got 10 mutagen slots pretty sure you followed one of the builds posted online, in which case it was obvious you were going to end up with 100% chance for every critical effect.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Yeah, really had no clue it was gonna turn out the way it did. I like having a good build, but I don't want to one shot everything. That's no fun.Castor Krieg said:
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