The Witcher 2 - Thread

MOOGLEYS · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:01

I find easy hard....

opethdisciple · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:04

So what does the new patch bring?

Kurisu Makise · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:11

whats in this 11gb patch its got me downloading lol

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:14

Samsara said:
whats in this 11gb patch its got me downloading lol

It's all the extended edition content I think. Although it's probably steam being silly again. They can't just add the patch, they have to reload the entire game with the added content.

ColdAsIce · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:23

N19h7m4r3 said:
Is it harder than Hard?

I hope so, I found that too easy, while Insane was fun, until i accidently walked into a fire

Yea apparently slightly harder than hard but not so much as that insane mode.

Has whole new item set to collect if you play the game through in this mode.

N19h7m4r3 · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:39

ColdAsIce said:
Yea apparently slightly harder than hard but not so much as that insane mode.

Has whole new item set to collect if you play the game through in this mode.

I'll have to give it another play through so.

Destination · 17 Apr 2012 at 11:40

Patch notes anyone?
Is it a 280mb patch with steam being silly or what?

If you bought from gog, does their website update so a new dl will bring you right up to date?

Witcher1979 · 17 Apr 2012 at 13:33

If you own retail Witcher 2 stick your cdkey into GOG for a free backup:

http://www.gog.com/en/witcher2/backup/

May have already been mentioned

The Halk · 17 Apr 2012 at 14:16

voorhees1979 said:
If you own retail Witcher 2 stick your cdkey into GOG for a free backup:

http://www.gog.com/en/witcher2/backup/

May have already been mentioned

I came to the thread to mention that. I got my serial number from a grey reseller, for £11.49... pretty pleased it's now on my accounts on both Steam and GoG.

Amnesia · 17 Apr 2012 at 14:35

downloaded a 12gb patch last nite and now this morning i was about to play and it wants to do another 11gb update.
pretty annoying

Reppyboyo · 17 Apr 2012 at 15:50

ugh, 8 hours to download the EE and I can only use their downloader to get it.
Would rather have a torrent, at least I can pause it and come back to it then.

Witcher1979 · 17 Apr 2012 at 15:57

Reppyboyo said:
ugh, 8 hours to download the EE and I can only use their downloader to get it.
Would rather have a torrent, at least I can pause it and come back to it then.

My connection dropped, gave me an error and it allowed me to retry and start where it left off. Maybe you can do something to make it give an error

FutileBreadMachine · 17 Apr 2012 at 16:54

I had some bug where the downloader got stuck verifying the patcher in a loop even though I already downloaded the 10GB patch. Now my game won't launch

. Just going to uninstall it.

Mr Krugga · 17 Apr 2012 at 17:16

Reppyboyo said:
ugh, 8 hours to download the EE and I can only use their downloader to get it.
Would rather have a torrent, at least I can pause it and come back to it then.

What? You can just pause it and come back to it whenever you want.

Komedy · 17 Apr 2012 at 19:18

that new opening cinematic is a work of art - totally Epic :cool:

jakspyder · 18 Apr 2012 at 03:02

That opening scene!!! :O awesome! After reading the "a song of ice and fire" series this game sprung to mind and just as the EE came out! I want a westeros mod for this so i can take up sword as a stark and give the lannisters what for.

Witcher1979 · 18 Apr 2012 at 09:22

jakspyder said:
That opening scene!!! :O awesome! After reading the "a song of ice and fire" series this game sprung to mind and just as the EE came out! I want a westeros mod for this so i can take up sword as a stark and give the lannisters what for.

Just started those books myself, loving them and very very easy to read.

N19h7m4r3 · 18 Apr 2012 at 15:02

The only disappointing thing for me that that Nvidia is still behind AMD for performance in The Witcher 2.

I've the game running at 2560x1440, FXAA + Sharpning, and everything maxed bar motion blur, blur, bloom and ubersampling. GTX 680

The blurs and bloom don't really take away much from my performance but they annoy me and look ugly.

I also changed the texture memory limit in the config files to 1000MB as 600 is just not enough, looks blurry.
The game runs around 38-67 FPS depending on scenes. Although it mostly stays around mid 40's-high 50's.

Although it seems the EE is bit more demanding, as I had little problem running the game on my GTX470 at 1920x1200.

blueshift · 18 Apr 2012 at 15:04

Am i not computing something here? ive had the withcher 2 enhanced edition on steam for ages, so whats this a new version of it?

N19h7m4r3 · 18 Apr 2012 at 15:09

blueshift said:
Am i not computing something here? ive had the withcher 2 enhanced edition on steam for ages, so whats this a new version of it?

I think it's just you, it was only recently released really, it adds about 4 more hours of gameplay, plenty of cinematics, quests and fixes. it also finally adds some content explaining what happened to Shani in the first game.

There's also the Dark difficulty which is harder than hard apparently, not noticed it so far.
It also includes some new items on that setting.