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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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I'm gonna play soon...but this time I'll run all my errands beforehand lol. Gotta shave....pick up some paperwork at the doctor's....deposit some money.....then head back into Flotsam.
I don't wanna miss anything, so I busted out the game guide I got from the retail edition, just using it to find all of the sidequests.
I don't wanna miss anything, so I busted out the game guide I got from the retail edition, just using it to find all of the sidequests.
In Fight Club: Flotsam, I
rigged the fight this time and deliberately lost so I can get some orens. Afterwards, they tell me I failed the quest and I get thrown outside where Dandelion yells at me. Is this right? To me, it seemed that you can pass the quest by either winning or losing the fight because the quest itself presents you with those options.
hteng said:
Ok, that makes sense.
I like how the quest log updates anyways to show your failings. It says something like "In the end, this quest wasnt too different from regular witchers work. Geralt put his body on the line and suffered a few cuts and bruises...all for a handful of orens"
Salaadin said:
There's a pair of Gloves you get for arm wrestling Numa that add 5 to your capacity. I have no idea if the quest is Roche path only or not as I'm not that far on my Iorveth playthrough.
As for the weight limit, I had 300 on my first playthrough and it was never enough. It's not a case of weapons/armor, it's a case of 10-12 of the Alchemy Ingeredients taking up 20-30 pounds a piece and a fear of needing them later. For instance, I couldn't make Ysgith runes at the end of the game due to no Nekker Teeth (I think?), one of the ingredients I started selling off to make due for space early on. Though, I had enough money at the end to just buy them all due to possibly a bug that lets you re-challenge Pangratt in Roche Chapter 2 for 200 Orens a shot at arm wrestling (every other final opponent is a one-shot challenge that I know of).
Honestly, I'd be fine with just an all Alchemy/Crafting ingredients weight reduction mod but all the ones I did use seem to forget quite a few so I just went all-out and reduced them all to 0 =/ Maybe this won't be an issue on my eventual Alchemy playthrough where I use most of them (and/or know which ingredients I'll need to keep down the road).
Man... game puts you in some really complex moral situations.
I usually don't re-play games but I'm thinking I might have to with this game, I'm really curious to see how the game branches. I also ignored Alchemy (besides bombs) for the most part this run and sorta want to explore spell signs + alchemy.
For instance I got to the part where Vernon wants revenge on the King. I realized at this point I didn't agree with Vernons quest for revenge and thought he should just let it go, me allowing him to kill a king would make me become exactly what I've been hunting down this whole time; a king killer. Although I wasn't ready to tell him no in fear that his hunger for revenge would force his hand in attacking me and I wasn't about to kill a guy I've been hanging out with for most the game. So I let him kill the king and felt dirty. At least I have Yves some justice.
I usually don't re-play games but I'm thinking I might have to with this game, I'm really curious to see how the game branches. I also ignored Alchemy (besides bombs) for the most part this run and sorta want to explore spell signs + alchemy.
Tokubetsu
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Coldsnap said:
The interesting and totally fucked part of that decision is you're torn between what's good for the kingdom and what's good for your friend. The bastard fucking DESERVES the pigsticking and you owe it to Roche but at the same time you know the north will be worse off for it. I let him do it. Plough 'em all.
Refreshment.01
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Cutting arms? No, in Flotsam you can do it too. Are you guys picking fights with the neutral guards with little armor on? The ragdoll and physics system is cool, sliced the arm of a guy and it started rolling down a hill, too bad the bodies dissapper so fast.Zefah said:
It makes sense to keep the diagrams and formulas to make items. We can't expect a chef to remember all of his receipes, can we?gdt5016 said:
The magical storage system of the first game doesn't make much sense, but that doesn't matter. Te game doesn't need the user to storage anything. It also matches the Witcher's character, who is a nomad, moving constantly.Cels said:
Only used pad here, no problems once you get used to what's necesary. Menu navigation could be better that's a fact. A couple of obvious tips for pad users, that might been overlooked:Zeliard said:
-Junk goes to the "all item taps", always at the bottom.
-As junk its easy to miss you might have a lot of weight coming from it.
-Since CDprojekt didn't want to use the triggers as "page up" or "page down", for quick scroll just leave the thumbstick or directional pad pressed, it will start to scroll a lot faster.
-Crafting items such as elemental stones, runes, timber, iron, leather, silver take a lot of weight. And you don't need more than 4-7 at a time to craft an important item.
-Also you don't need to be dragging lots of crafting items because you can make what you need at the black smith with diagrams and he also sales you the ingredients.
-Books, formulas, diagrams, plants, dusts, etc doesn't have or have little weight.
-Creature drops, for my experience you don't need to carry more than 7-15 depending of how much crap you craft.
Cedric's Elven armor in chapter 1 gives you 15 extra, that's what i used my whole first run because i like how it looked. I remember in chaper 3 there was one armor with a lot more capacity so it might add 30-50 to weight and some gauntlets in that chapter that added 10.Salaadin said:
toastyToast
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I recommend doing a playthrough where you dump all your points into alchemy.
The initial lack of defensive options (it never stops being an issue) is rewarded with the ability to dish out absurdly high damage once the poison damage boosts and beserk mode become available after taking a potion or two and oiling up.
The back damage reduction ability makes rolling this way a lot easier but it takes away from the fun imo.
The initial lack of defensive options (it never stops being an issue) is rewarded with the ability to dish out absurdly high damage once the poison damage boosts and beserk mode become available after taking a potion or two and oiling up.
The back damage reduction ability makes rolling this way a lot easier but it takes away from the fun imo.
toasty_T said:
Yep. I went Alchemy with super dodge-rolling ability. Someone earlier in this thread was saying that Alchemy is only useful for the earlier skills. Just craziness.
The poison buffs later in the tree are immense, especially if you get some of the other potion upgrades in the Alchemy tree, like the one that adds +35% to the effects and reduces negatives by something like 80%. You then get the natural buffs from the potions, increased even more with those upgrades, and then extra buffs from having taken "too many" of them. So it's just buffs stacked on top of buffs. You just become a wrecking machine in combat.
So, I'm about half way through chapter 3 now and I did the
last night. I wasn't able to do this on my first play through due to not going through the Roche path.
First of all, holy shit at the battle. Hardest battle in the game and not because of anything in particular about the battle itself - the controls really suffered in that tiny room. The only thing that was able to get me through the battle was lowering the difficulty to easy, keeping quen up at all times and using the berserk on the signs tree to slow everything down since I had to clunkily change weapons depending on who I was attacking. I even had one time where I had him almost dead, went to throw a bomb and the controls got stuck, allowing me to do nothing at all.
Took me about 10 tries to get through, but man, that
Operator battle
First of all, holy shit at the battle. Hardest battle in the game and not because of anything in particular about the battle itself - the controls really suffered in that tiny room. The only thing that was able to get me through the battle was lowering the difficulty to easy, keeping quen up at all times and using the berserk on the signs tree to slow everything down since I had to clunkily change weapons depending on who I was attacking. I even had one time where I had him almost dead, went to throw a bomb and the controls got stuck, allowing me to do nothing at all.
Took me about 10 tries to get through, but man, that
staff you get is fucking crazy. I made the +30 armor as well (the Vran armor?) and I'm super pimp now. It's a damn shame you're only pimp for like the last hour or two of the game, though.
Tokubetsu
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Solo said:
I think all the trees are pretty OP once you get down into them. First playthrough I went total sword bro and I basically one hit killed everything in Chapter 3 if I got a backstab/hit. Riposte/Counterattack also killed most everything in one hit, or left them with a sliver of health. On everything else, I had so much percentage to increase crits that heavy sword swings just demolished anything else.
Tokubetsu
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Coldsnap said:
Hold block, that little lock on icon you see on enemies will flash a white sword really quickly and if you hit light attack in that window, geralt will attack quickly before their attack connect hits. Typically does a great deal of damage if you can do it. It's really tricky to get though and I honestly don't really recommend it. The window is brief as hell and it's only really handy against human enemies but even then, if you're surrounded, they can hit you mid animation.
Refreshment.01
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Did you liked the world cup reference? Plus it nets you a lot more orens.Salaadin said:
But it does, its cheating. Of course it's your choice nothing wrong with that. The point i try to make when i adress the wight limit topic is that it's not a fuck up on devs part.Despera said:
But it has it effects. Alters gameplay, fucks decision making and planing, player choice becomes irrelevant. Reduces merchants visits and disregards their positioning.
Tokubetsu said:
It would be pretty cool if CD Projekt released some rebalancing patch that made some substantial changes to enemy difficulty levels.
I don't have a problem with the difficulty at the start at all, but it is sort of unfortunate that the game gets easier towards the end due to the talents you amass, when it should ideally be rougher.
That's also another thing about the talent trees; if you look at them, most of those talents are hugely significant. There are a few that don't do too much with their level 1 upgrades, but most are quite substantial in the changes/additions they make.
toastyToast
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I really want more asses to kick with the crazy end game equipment/talents.
I hardly got to use the awesome sword that I found in Dethmold's
I hardly got to use the awesome sword that I found in Dethmold's
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I would rather not deal with all of that and focus on questing. I don't enjoy inventory management and I don't like to go back and forth to sell stuff. I'm just removing an aspect that would hinder my enjoyment of the game.
I basically left Oblivion because of inventory management.
Refreshment.01 said:
I think they should just patch in innkeeper storage like the first game and be done with it. We'd have no reason to complain then.
I personally never hit the limit. My worst was 237/250 but I realized that I was carrying 40-60 of some items and cut those in half, got rid of some of the heavier items. It was fine.
I think its mainly a problem if you want to carry multiple swords/equips with you.
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Confidence Man
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Refreshment.01 said:
Nah. I got up to a 350 weight limit, which is more than enough for anything you need to carry around, and doesn't really force you to make any planning or decision making. The only real difference is that you don't have to sell off all the armor and weapons you come across, which is what takes up most of the weight. And yeah, there's not much practical reason to hang onto lesser equipment, but they're often unique and I don't want to just sell them off.
Salaadin said:
Before I caved in and went all 0, I had no extra weapons or armor on me. I still suffered around 250-270 on a regular basis due to components. I had 200+ even with some of the no-weight Alchemy/Crafting mods since they (at the time) didn't include everything. It got to the point I crafted new equipment that was worse statistically but weighed less and, frankly, that's just ridiculous.
Now that I know basically everything I'll need to keep (basically, just Moon Rune and Magic Wrap components for my Mage playthrough) it's not a huge issue but it's an annoyance that doesn't need to be there. Could've used a skill or something to increase weight capacity if nothing else.
Refreshment.01 said:
I play with a no weight mod and I sell every time I return to town (or make trips just when I notice a lot of weapons when I open the inventory). All the mod does is removes the tedium of looting, going over weight, and then figuring out what item(s) I can get ditch that has the worst cost/weight ratio.
I understand that not all people will go that route but I don't consider it making player choice irrelevant.
Zeliard said:
But making regular soldiers and monsters tougher just because you are tougher undermines the whole upgrading your skills. I expect it to be easier to defeat regular soldiers and monsters as I upgrade. That is a part of RPGs that I love. Having different yet stronger monsters or soldiers is the solution and that is what they did. Those could have been tougher or have more of them but I thought they were fine.
No one said devs fucked up. Some people love to manage their inventory in games like these, I don't. I can't be bothered deciding which plough'n sword I have to drop out of the 20 I'm carrying. Game already has many aspects that require actual strategic decision making.Refreshment.01 said:
I NEED SCISSORS
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Aeana said:
Mind blown..
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