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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings |OT| Plough 'Em All
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GillianSeed79
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Solo said:
She's got a fetish for
dwarves
Can someone help me out on the combat? I just don't know if I'm doing it wrong or what but I cannot fight things in groups.
Does it make a huge difference unlocking the "group attack" ability?
Basically, I come across a group of nekkers and they just swarm me. I can't get a sword swing off because I"m being hit, I can block one guy and then try to swing but I just get hit from someone else and next thing I know i'm dead. What is the trick here?
Does it make a huge difference unlocking the "group attack" ability?
Basically, I come across a group of nekkers and they just swarm me. I can't get a sword swing off because I"m being hit, I can block one guy and then try to swing but I just get hit from someone else and next thing I know i'm dead. What is the trick here?
2.0?!? GamesCom can't come soon enough! soooo hyped!
You'll be happy with the performance.. that sounds like a beastly rig.
Just be sure to edit the user.ini file from the performance thread. Ultra+ Config will work good for you. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28106991&postcount=2825
off topic real quick, sad to see BoobPhysics101 banned. Dude helped a ton with that performance thread.
Chinner said:
You'll be happy with the performance.. that sounds like a beastly rig.
Just be sure to edit the user.ini file from the performance thread. Ultra+ Config will work good for you. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=28106991&postcount=2825
off topic real quick, sad to see BoobPhysics101 banned. Dude helped a ton with that performance thread.
theignoramus
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dx11? when is that coming?
nextgeneration
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j-wood said:
I use bombs against the nekkers. I use the one that lights them on fire - forgot what it's called. Just throw, watch them light on fire, and run away until they burn to death - lol.
Started a new game again last night.. This opening track still gives me chills... sooogood http://youtu.be/R7oXRzxrpwo
subversus said:
Snuggler said:
Thanks bro. Really looking forward to playing Witcher 2.Shala said:
Anyway I know its not Witcher 2 related, but I've just finished Chapter 5 in the original and I'm on the beginning half of the epilogue
just killed Siegfield and currently in the sewers
Also, got Raven's armour and it owns.
Yeah the group attack talent is really useful, but you pretty much only need to put one point in it. For that fight I had no choice but to lure them away one or two at a time and pick them off with aard/igni and some swift swipes before running away and repeating.j-wood said:
Also for anyone who's tired of all the running around: two points into the dodging talent is really great. The movement speed increase from just spamming roll is something like 50-60%, I'm loving it.
Finally beat this game tonight on hard, my choices:
Overall I thought the game was great, it had an incredible Prologue and First Chapter, but after getting to Vergen the game started to feel a bit rushed and cliched and in the 3rd chapter I wasnt sure if I was meant to explore or not but it felt like I was being rushed through the story.
The ending was satisfying though.
Killed Aryan La Valette
Sided with Iorveth
Let Sile explode
Let Saskia/Dragon Live (that was probably the hardest boss fight Ive done in a while
Killed Letho
Sided with Iorveth
Let Sile explode
Let Saskia/Dragon Live (that was probably the hardest boss fight Ive done in a while
Killed Letho
Overall I thought the game was great, it had an incredible Prologue and First Chapter, but after getting to Vergen the game started to feel a bit rushed and cliched and in the 3rd chapter I wasnt sure if I was meant to explore or not but it felt like I was being rushed through the story.
The ending was satisfying though.
theignoramus
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Getting a second 580 in a few months (btw 2 580s give you better GAME performance than a 590), cant wait to play this with uber sampling on
njean777 said:
I do not think anything was wrong with them in the first place. They were just a bit unconventional. I actually vastly prefer playing the game with the 360 controller as opposed the kb+m. Feels a lot more natural considering the way they changed the game play from the first witcher.
BruceLeeRoy
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Did anyone else have a hard time staying engaged to finish the game? I love the atmosphere the luscious visuals and the combat but now that I'm at the
I just don't have any motivation to continue playing. Admittedly I think it might have a lot to do with not playing the first game and thus not getting the full impact of the story's twists and turns.
dwarven village
It's very politics-heavy, so sometimes the story loses a bit of its immediacy. I will say things are about to get a lot more exciting if you trudge on.BruceLeeRoy said:
I don't know why The Witcher games haven't pushed more of the wild hunt and Geralt's history. Hopefully we get more into that with TW3. The political stuff is okay, but there are a hell of a lot of places and names to keep track of, and a lot of the time it's an information overload.
BruceLeeRoy
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Yeah your exactly right it just feels like information overload and I forget which quest is the overall important one. Anyways thanks for the response I'll keep trudging on.Crunched said:
RustyNails
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Which is why I love Witcher games. You might not necessarily know the name of every ruler and governor in a village, and all the complex political games between different kingdoms. But heck, it makes you feel like you are deep within hornet's nest and your actions will reverberate around the country. It's complex and layered, and benefits tremendously from lore and established mythology from books. Yet you navigate through this complex tapestry of politics, intrigue and brinksmanship using the story of what happened to you (wild hunt, yennefer, etc) as the compass, and that's where Witcher succeeds and others fail.Crunched said:
Dries
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So I'm gonna buy a new PC to play this game (and Crysis, among others), but I've been out of PC gaming for a couple years, so I've got no idea what kind of PC I need. I want to play this game with everything maxed and full AA. Can anyone kind of give me an idea what kind of system I should be aiming for?
Lasthope106
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This fucking game is hard! Not saying is a bad thing, but I remember the beast in the first game was also a pain in the ass to kill.
Act 1 spoiler:
Act 1 spoiler:
I just spent almost 2 hours trying to kill the Kingslayer in act 1. I killed him once, and the cut scene played out but as soon as it went back to player control, I died. WTF!
Discotheque
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The stupid beast in Witcher 1 was harder than anything I faced in Witcher 2
well...except for that dragon...fuck him
Discotheque
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Yeah I take that back. The dude with the staff and gargoyles in Witcher 2 is the hardest fight in the series.
I like how the storylines in the Witcher games aren't grandiose epic "omg you're the only one who can save the world!1" style stories. There are enough of those kinds of stories out there (every Bioware game and almost every JRPG). I dig the down to earth, detailed stories of the Witcherverse. Feels more realistic.
It's definitely a lot easier and interesting to follow on a second playthrough, once you've got the basics of the story down.zkylon said:
First, you likely won't be able to max it out and have it be playable with any reasonable configuration of current hardware. Ubersampling makes that all but impossible. But you can expect good performance with any of the Radeon 6xxx series or Nvidia 5xx cards. A 580 will net you the best performance, but that's a given.Dries said:
I ran it at a usual 40+ fps with an i7 920 and 5870, and there are much better options out there right now. I also had everything maxed except ubersampling.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'm pretty excited to see what their DLC announcement at Gamescom is. More of the same is welcome, but I'd love for a more sizable expansion pack.
What ever happened to
from the first game? They dont even mention him in the second...
Alvin
I heard the theory that he was also the Grand Master from the first game, but I dont know if that was 100% the case...also it's odd that there is no mention of the white frost that will cover the earth in Witcher 2 either.
AEREC said:
Alvin was never important or significant in the grand scheme of things/politics.
And no one probably even knew that he was the grandmaster except you.
And i think CD Projekt stayed closer to the books in Witcher 2 as they dumped Shani too and focused on the Politics and the Wild Hunt.
Solo said:
HELL YEAH!
Wouldn't mind an epilogue epilogue either.
AEREC said:
Go do a Roche run! You are missing out a whole new story path.
Lasthope106
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End of Act I spoilers:
The size of the map in Act I wasn't that impressive, but surprisingly there were a lot of things to do. So far, I've been playing for at least 15 hours. Got all the side quests though.
Fighting Letho was a major pain in the ass. It took more than 3 hours to beat him and that was after going back to an older save. To be honest, I was on the verge of giving up on the game at that point. There is no way to beat him with steel sword that gets imported from the Witcher 1. To defeat the brute I had to get a crafting diagram for the sword that caused the most damage in that chapter.
Looking forward to Act II, and from a previous post it seems this area also takes in the neighborhood of 15+ hours.
Fighting Letho was a major pain in the ass. It took more than 3 hours to beat him and that was after going back to an older save. To be honest, I was on the verge of giving up on the game at that point. There is no way to beat him with steel sword that gets imported from the Witcher 1. To defeat the brute I had to get a crafting diagram for the sword that caused the most damage in that chapter.
Looking forward to Act II, and from a previous post it seems this area also takes in the neighborhood of 15+ hours.
Lasthope106
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Vaporak said:
In the Witcher 1, you receive upgraded weapons and armor as a result of completing certain quests, so I guess I was expecting the same in this game.
darkpaladinmfc
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SheSlo said:
says where Yennefer might be.
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