Dark mode isn't that terrifying; enemies are still unforgiving as usual but, by that time, you'll be comfortable with the combat mechanics.
And you can always craft the overpowered unique dark sets to cheat your way.
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The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition |OT| Bow low, you stand before a head crowned.
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Dark mode isn't that terrifying; enemies are still unforgiving as usual but, by that time, you'll be comfortable with the combat mechanics.
And you can always craft the overpowered unique dark sets to cheat your way.
I like the sound of that last part.
I think one thing that helped me hugely was I used a list of attributes you could learn so I didn't miss any during the game. Things like the 10% dmg reduction etc are permanently missable and you'd typically have no clue how or when to get them if you didn't use a guide.
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Character_attributes#Abilities
^There's very light spoilers on that page, just enough to let you know what to do to gain all the available attributes.. I'd recommend skimming through it and just looking for things you can do for the chapter you're in and then skimming again when you get to the next chapter etc. Really I'd use it from the beginning since there's ones you can get in the prologue.
http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Character_attributes#Abilities
^There's very light spoilers on that page, just enough to let you know what to do to gain all the available attributes.. I'd recommend skimming through it and just looking for things you can do for the chapter you're in and then skimming again when you get to the next chapter etc. Really I'd use it from the beginning since there's ones you can get in the prologue.
Yeah I was playing on Easy I think even and early the one shots by the Queen were annoying. I actually got one to die by getting the
nekkers to chase me and then leading them to the queen lair.....
getting orens for blasphemer was tough, but by buying all the diagrams for the ingredients you need like studded leather, and using all the stuff you find for free in the environement you can actually save a lot of coin in the long run. DOing all the other quests before the queens was what I did. Fighting in the bar was the easiet money making scheme but I could only stand to get about 400 orens beofre moving on to something else. DOign the fight club quest grants access to
Loredo's lair, as instead of following the quest giver you can break off and loot Loredo's entire courtyard
FIanlly, one thing I did not use until I already was ready for act 2 was the
places of power
YOu get the adrenaline bar for the other branches as well but it does differnt things...in the magic branch it slows things downand you get more vigor basically, but the others are equally benficial ...i have a previous post somewhere with the details but can't find it right now several pages back at least.
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From some wiki:
The magic tree's Adrenaline Rush is provided by the Sense of Magic skill, which unleashes a sixth sign called the 'Heliotrope Sign' . This sign is activated by pressing the X key when the Adrenaline bar is full. This sign slows down time in an area of effect, allowing Geralt to move and regenerate vigor faster relative to his enemies' speed.
Alchemy tree
The alchemy tree's Adrenaline Rush is provided by the Mutant skill, which unleashes a special buff called 'Battle Frenzy'. This buff is activated by pressing the X key when the Adrenaline bar is full. This buff augments Geralt, allowing him to resist attacks and pull off heavier hits with his main melee attacks.
Swordsmanship tree
The swordsmanship tree's Adrenaline Rush is provided by the Combat acumen skill, which unleashes a special ability called 'Group Finishers'. This ability is activated by pressing the X key when the Adrenaline bar is full. This ability gives Geralt the ability to kill the nearest three enemies, in a 'group finisher' move, which is only possible if they all have relatively low health.
Yeah I totally missed the +25% bonus to backstab damage. I got it on my first playthrough but completely forgot about it this time, heh.
Then again I did get the +50 to weight limit this time, which I never got the first time since I
Then again I did get the +50 to weight limit this time, which I never got the first time since I
removed Aryan La Valette from existence in a duel.
I have very few gripes with this game. It's god tier. But those missable bonuses, and having no in game clues even hinting at how and when and where to get them is IMO pretty shitty. They're not necessary but damn do they help a lot.
I don't mind it too much. I like that there are fun little bonuses like that you can accidentally stumble across. A couple are wacky, especially that training dummy one, but most tend to be pretty intuitive.
Time to (f)arm-wrestle.
I just had one of those 'ahhh' moments.
Yup if you're on 360 then it's pretty much just arm wrestling and farming. PC you can cheat using Cheat Engine to give yourself gold.
queen isn't so bad, she likes to charge and will stun herself on walls. also you can lay a yrden trap sign and hope it freezes her. you whack on her big fat behind enough and she'll go down.
arm wrestling is for pansies, farm the nekkers in the cave. if you go out to the entrance of the cave (not up the ledge, just after the bryonia harvest) after killing the first room of nekkers you can meditate. Meditate for 24 hours and they will respawn. Sell nekker bits for profit.
do you guys have pyromaniac? if not you need to stand in fire and let yourselves get burned a bunch.
Bonuses? Do you mean places of power? The first time you find one, I think the message box tells you about them and how to activate them.
Naw, he's talking about abilities, like strong back and stuff.
Oh BTW there's one for +50 carry weight from the prologue too, it's easy to miss.
No he's talking about the permanent attribute bonuses you can get in various ways. Check that link he posted, though there are a couple spoilery things in there.
No I mean the bonuses like +25% when attacking from behind, permanent 10% dmg reduction, extra carrying capacity, poison resist, extra sign intensity, etc etc etc.
Other one from the prologue, that you can't really get there but you need to start there, is killing the training dummies. There's 4 in the prologue and the more later on, but it gets you +10% exp so it's best to get it ASAP.
VindictiveGnome
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Where are the execution moves? I haven't got any all day.
thanks for this!!! I totally thought I was getting a lot of them as my list was increasing over the first two acts...but I didn't get half of them even! I will be jumping in a few more fires when I get home tonight! I assume everyone gets placed in the fire while getting seated to arm-wrestle Major Pangratt?
@arnie: see post #2904
DO you mean the Aard moves or the attribute "executioner" .......AFter checking that link above, iirc the executions you need will be available at the end of the prologue and two other ones at the end of act 2. I didn't think these were necessarily worth it for only 1% increase in insta kill...letting several of these guys live gives you bettter prizes. I like that you have to choose though and you can't have it all on one playthrough.
if you meant aard moves they happen pretty rarely until you upgrade the said sign in the magic tree.
Complistic
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You need to stun an enemy. or unlock the adrenaline skill.
VindictiveGnome
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There's my problem. I played the demo on Gaikai and got tons of executions and always wondered why I never got any in the full game. Hopefully I get that skill unlocked soon.
Yep. The old version is gone, you'll download the complete EE.
Of course.
omg so amazing! these guys rock!
Great, will do that since the game's patcher doesn't seem to have a pause button...
Bought this game a while back and am starting it for the first time. It looks great (obviously) with everything maxed aside from Ubersampling. I really like it, although the controller support for PC is a little wonky using the wheel, and the movement speed is kind of sudden. I'd be curious to see how the 360 version handles on the same controller.
Lasthope106
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Well holy shit! I just installed the EE patch and I don't know if my memory is playing tricks on me, but it actually seems to run faster on my machine than pre-patch.
edit: Ahh nevermind. I had the texture size set to large instead of very large. Seems to be running about the same as before now.
edit: Ahh nevermind. I had the texture size set to large instead of very large. Seems to be running about the same as before now.
Wait, you can't overwrite mutagen slots? (Was that in originally? I don't remember since I only played once when it came out) Seems like that just makes lesser mutagens useless or just forces you to decide if you want it now or later.
you have never been able to overwrite mutagens. They are more important for some builds than others. Alchemy is all about the mutes. I'm going Alchemy Swords 10 slot build, at least I think it's 10 slots. 10 Madness Mutagens gonna be so fine with all that Dark Mode gear.
Yeah, sucks that I've missed a few
re: endrega queen, I just set like 15 of those bear traps you find around the forest. Put them all in one spot on top of each other and let the queen get caught, she's pretty much dead after that. I suppose I'll be keeping the traps on me for various bosses or hard enemies.
Hero_of_the_Day
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What the fuck!? I'm sure others have had this happen, but I just got fucked by the steam cloud. Because the game piles up saves, I used up all my steam cloud space. So it just stopped saving my shit. Just lost like an hour and a half or progress. It told me it was saving, went to load up, nope no saves since I had started last. Deleted some saves and it started saving again. Fucking ridiculous.
Yeah they didn't implement it well. Should have it so you can choose which saves to upload. Instead if you hit the limit you no longer save, which for TW2 takes little to no time with their saving system.
I am loving this game. Even the intro was atmospheric :lol
I'm not very good at the combat, but I've improved a ton just over the few hours that I've played so far. At first I was staying right in enemies' faces, blocking and trying to go back at them, but I'm finding it much better to just be mobile. Using roll a lot and making sure to never get dudes hitting me from behind.
The endregas are creeping the FUCK out of me. They aren't even spiders or bugs really, but the way they move is terrible. Especially when they slither out of a tree all of a sudden. Fuck that shit. For real. I'm going to try and do the contract soon so I can cut down on their spawn numbers. Fuckers.
I also need to explore the crafting more. Bombs and traps seem to be a huge help, but I've been neglecting them so far.
Also, Roche is a god damn OG. Absolute boss of the highest order.
Great first impression overall. Can't wait to play more.
I'm not very good at the combat, but I've improved a ton just over the few hours that I've played so far. At first I was staying right in enemies' faces, blocking and trying to go back at them, but I'm finding it much better to just be mobile. Using roll a lot and making sure to never get dudes hitting me from behind.
The endregas are creeping the FUCK out of me. They aren't even spiders or bugs really, but the way they move is terrible. Especially when they slither out of a tree all of a sudden. Fuck that shit. For real. I'm going to try and do the contract soon so I can cut down on their spawn numbers. Fuckers.
I also need to explore the crafting more. Bombs and traps seem to be a huge help, but I've been neglecting them so far.
Also, Roche is a god damn OG. Absolute boss of the highest order.
Great first impression overall. Can't wait to play more.
My xbox just had to deal with 2 hours of awesome sauce. Loving the game and made it past the tutorial(which was neat in its own way) and am now in the middle of the
. Combat has just been me rolling and rollin'.
Lotta screentearing and some of the voice work isn't great but man if I'm not having a damn good time. Can't wait to play more tomorrow.
fortress attack
Lotta screentearing and some of the voice work isn't great but man if I'm not having a damn good time. Can't wait to play more tomorrow.
The guy just doesn't give a damn. It's hilarious.
seems good to me.
I don't think that is bad.....I chose not to deflect arrows and put that point somwhere else, but the more important choices begin in the different branches.
yep, should have looked for this easter egg. It was near the catapult.
Been away for a wedding and decided to start again now that I'm home and I cannot believe I have missed this every other play through. Was very amusing.
Wow really? I'm arachnophobic and didn't have the slightest problem with them. To me, they were kind of a mix between pure awesome and goofiness with those pinecombs on their backs and their invisibility thing.
Also, I don't know why, but both the GOG downloader and the game's patcher is wrecking my internet connection. I kinda wish I had bought it on Steam, just for the simple patching, though I probably dodged a bullet in that regard a year ago...
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Yeah. It's unbelievable. I can't imagine how many people are going to run into this problem. The fact there is no message or anything. It tells you it's saving just like normal. I just noticed when I clicked on game properties that my steam cloud was almost full and pieced the great mystery of vanishing saves together.
Hawk269
Member
Plus it gives an attribute as well when you find that spot.
Yeah, the only reason I took a point in that was for the mutagen slot.