This game is crazy. I'm going through a second play through and figured I would just be mashing skip to get to the main story points but the first part of the game (dungeon espcae) has been completely different from my first play through because of the choice to save that one dude. I wasn't expecting that.
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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So I will be cross posting this in the other thread, but I need some help. I backed up my saves for the game before wiping my HD clean and doing a fresh install of Windows 7. Everything went fine with the install, but now I cannot get my saves to load so I can continue playing. I placed all the files back where they are supposed to be, but still nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
THX
THX
Yaska
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Finished my 1st playthrough and I just gotta say that this game was one of the best rpgs I've played for a while. Now I think I shall start another playthrough and choose the another path for chapter 2.
Is it only me or did someone else want to lynch Stennis after you saved him in Chapter 2
This game....it's really taken me by surprise. The sheer quality, depth and variety in it is just sublime. Richer than any RPG experience I've played in a good many years, including Oblivion and Mass Effect. In-fact, now I've played Witcher 2, I honestly feel the bar has been raised a good distance. I'll want a lot more from future RPG's in terms of quest variety, customisability and depth.
I also think the visuals are just painfully gorgeous. As in, I can't believe it looks this good sort of beautiful. Ram packed full of intense detail, immense texture work, grandiose scale and some of the best art direction I've seen yet in a game. Usually I dislike LOD pop in/blur, but here it's done so expertly imo it totally adds heaps to the overall look of the game. Essentially mimicking the effects of depth of field. That and the colourful vibrancy, contrast and diversity in palette, it's just all so fantastic.
I'm almost certain Crysis 2 is technically more advanced than Witcher 2, but honestly, I think I may have said wow more times so far from the visuals in W2. Best looking RPG by a landslide, and one of the best looking games yet, period.
I also think the visuals are just painfully gorgeous. As in, I can't believe it looks this good sort of beautiful. Ram packed full of intense detail, immense texture work, grandiose scale and some of the best art direction I've seen yet in a game. Usually I dislike LOD pop in/blur, but here it's done so expertly imo it totally adds heaps to the overall look of the game. Essentially mimicking the effects of depth of field. That and the colourful vibrancy, contrast and diversity in palette, it's just all so fantastic.
I'm almost certain Crysis 2 is technically more advanced than Witcher 2, but honestly, I think I may have said wow more times so far from the visuals in W2. Best looking RPG by a landslide, and one of the best looking games yet, period.
How are you supposed to learn abilites?, I'm already on level 3 and cant select none of the abilites in the traning section, you are supposed to finish the training abilites before you can pick the others, but I cant even pick the training abilities, nothing happens when I click on them.
I'm playing on hard, does it matter?
I'm playing on hard, does it matter?
rasberryjam
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How do you get a hold of the Ultimate Swordsman suit and junk since the 1.2 patch?
toastyToast
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rasberryjam said:
It's actually a bunch of oils and some whetstones, no fancy-pants outfit sadly.
rasberryjam
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Well that's disappointing.toasty_T said:
Ah well, thanks for the info!
spiderman123
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Sorry if this question has been answer. But I have a decent computer and duel drive etc etc. So I decided to get witcher 2 and I Install it. When I installed it, I got an error saying Data2 Cab. So I looked it up online and found that you needed an external drive. So I got one ( a fairly new one) and installed it, then got the same error. I tried copying CD folders it to folders on my desktop but still got the same error. The Disk Is new, bought it from EBgames and I really want to play this game. Any suggestions?
spiderman123
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subversus said:
how do you do that?
It just goes straight to the setup.exe
Yaska
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Try the performance thread, there should be some advices how to deal with this.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430456
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430456
spiderman123
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Yaska said:
Thanks. I will. I am installing it the 3rd time on the external and I don't know how or why but it's beyond the point where it previously stopped on the first 2 installation tries. This is extremely weird.
spiderman123 said:
so, what you did:
1)went to setup.exe
2)installed the game
3)tried to run it
4)got the data2.cab error
?
if so then the game should have tried to download the path. If it didn't then go to the official site and download it.
if it doesn't work, then uninstall the game, install it again, DO NOT RUN IT, patch it with patch 1.2 and only after that you can run it.
spiderman123
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subversus said:
before I got the external. I ran it off the drive on my computer. You know how it automatically ask you if you want to run a setup. So I clicked yes then next and next and it went straight to setup then about I would say 1/8 of the setup it would say data2.cab error. It never asked me to download any patch ( connected to the internet too). So if this fails (b/c it is running now, past the point where it previously stopped) I will download the patch.
spiderman123
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subversus said:
Yah I have the ED now. It's running now on the 3rd try. I don't know why because I didn't download any patch. I just tried it over and over again ( like what some ppl online suggested). It began to work. So if it fails close towards the end I will download that patch. I don't want to do anything to jinx it now just to be safe.
spiderman123 said:
the patch improves perfomance drastically, removes a lot of glitches, makes the game DRM-free. You won't have any problems because it was about a bad DVD.
but well, it's up to you, I know this feeling: "don't want to do anything to jinx it "
spiderman123
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subversus said:
I just installed the 2nd disk and about 95 % it failed. Got the same error as the 1st. What is the name of the patch btw? I see a couple here on the Witcher website?!
spiderman123 said:
fuuuck.
download this one - http://en.thewitcher.com/patch1-2/
also: http://en.thewitcher.com/support/
spiderman123
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subversus said:
thanks
jim-jam bongs
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Host your images on Dropbox people, it ain't rocket surgery.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop back into this thread to plug Alice for Witcher 2 fans. I'm amazed at how great the combat system is and how much it reminds of TW2. It's a lot more limited because most of the enemies have specific strats which correspond to a particular weapon technique, but the enemy variety means that you're forced to be resourceful and stay mobile without overextending your attacks, which was what I liked about fighting groups in TW2.
If you don't mind the muddy textures it's rather pretty in spots too.
Anyway, I just wanted to pop back into this thread to plug Alice for Witcher 2 fans. I'm amazed at how great the combat system is and how much it reminds of TW2. It's a lot more limited because most of the enemies have specific strats which correspond to a particular weapon technique, but the enemy variety means that you're forced to be resourceful and stay mobile without overextending your attacks, which was what I liked about fighting groups in TW2.
If you don't mind the muddy textures it's rather pretty in spots too.
spiderman123
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Ok to give you an update on my problem. I did the copy files on to HD solution and it worked. I used a buddy's ED this time and it copied all the files onto my HD and then installed it with no Data2.cab error. Going to run in now and see how it works.
edit: Game is running beautifully. One question I want the best performance. Would donwloading the patches recommended in the Witcher 2 Game Performance thread work?!
edit: Game is running beautifully. One question I want the best performance. Would donwloading the patches recommended in the Witcher 2 Game Performance thread work?!
spiderman123
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I am officially addicted to this game. This game is incredible
Nihilistic Monk
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Had some time to properly play this after just getting it configured fine, driver updates and waiting for game patches.
This game is fantastic. 12 hours in and only on the 1st chapter. Doing all the side-quests, and generally having a fantastic time. As someone who's read the books, the atmosphere is superb. I don't think I've ever seen a better game imagining of another media, the characters are pitch perfect and the atmosphere is grand. Several parts, such as the "plough 'em all" song and
have made me laugh out loud.
Only thing I don't like is the branching trees, I hate this kinda choice in games, because I'm always afraid I'm going to screw it up, and just stare at the screen for ages deciding what to do.
I've found some dudes "perfect build" on a FAQ site, and I'm just following that word for word.
On Medium I was getting my ass kicked for the first several hours, but now, I'm finally starting to feel like a badass after killing the
This game is fantastic. 12 hours in and only on the 1st chapter. Doing all the side-quests, and generally having a fantastic time. As someone who's read the books, the atmosphere is superb. I don't think I've ever seen a better game imagining of another media, the characters are pitch perfect and the atmosphere is grand. Several parts, such as the "plough 'em all" song and
Geralts drunken night with the blue strips, and the tattoo he ends up with
Only thing I don't like is the branching trees, I hate this kinda choice in games, because I'm always afraid I'm going to screw it up, and just stare at the screen for ages deciding what to do.
I've found some dudes "perfect build" on a FAQ site, and I'm just following that word for word.
On Medium I was getting my ass kicked for the first several hours, but now, I'm finally starting to feel like a badass after killing the
kayran, building the armour from its corpse and upgrading my swords
toastyToast
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jim-jam bongs said:
Looking forward to picking it up at some point when it hits about $30ish. Sort of holding onto my cards (credit cards) for the Steam sale at the moment.
azuki said:
It's good is the only comparison I can think of, they share very little likeness. It's a pretty action RPG with a branching storyline (a good one). So good I played it 3 times in a row if it means anything to you.
gdt5016 said:
Indeed. See, games like The Witcher and a few others do choice properly, meaning that there typically isn't a "wrong" way to do anything. You just do whatever the shit you want to do.
I'd hate for that guy to play Alpha Protocol, he'd probably have a seizure.
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