The Witcher 2 - Thread

m0r94n said:
Just trying to do the fight against Letho. Really bored of the cheese style combat. The kayran before it was just as bad, just rolling and getting a hit off and hoping the fight doesn't last longer than ten minutes. I wouldn't mind if I felt like there was some element of skill to it, but fighting an enemy that takes about 90 hits to defeat to my 3 is a tad bit boring. Wearing the Kayran armour and wielding a Jagged Blade (Best I could find at that point) seems to have no effect over trying it with lesser armour and weapons. Inevitably the same result each time.
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Yep, that bit was annoying for me too. After dying for the umpteenth time I gave up and lowered the difficulty to Easy. Then it was a 20 second job of spamming the attack button.
 
dreigns said:
Wanted to do witcher 1 before starting on this so installed the game got the patches but bang cannot register the game as there servers are down atm and have been for aweek as far as I can work out :(
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IF you cant wait get it from GOG only cost about £3 but may of gone up now thats one i bought so was no drm or registration required also its the enhanced edition which is supposed to be allot better?
 
Fenris said:
The difficulty isn't the problem, it's the combat mechanics as a whole, I enjoy challenges in fact I revel in them, hell I recently got done doing a no armor/magic playthrough of demons souls last week, what I'm finding with this game is not challenging, it's frustrating, it's from bowmen whose arrows you can't avoid by any means, it's from the game randomly deciding I can't attack an enemy because he's a certain way through his attack animation even if my attack would hit first, it's the block function being about as useful as throwing a hanky at them and spending every single fight with more than one enemy running around waiting for one to move away from the other because even if you stagger attacks between two enemies they will ALWAYS find time to hit you leading to a stun and being hit by the other. It's the fraction of a second after setting a trap that Geralt is completely unresponsive so if you try to do it in a fight you have to be THAT much father away or you get caught in the explosion, it's the fact you can't look around without changing targets or locking on (what was wrong with just locking on to the target geralt is pointing towards?) It's the fact that if I kill an enemy and I happen to be looking at an enemy 10ft away and accidentally hit attack again Geralt will flop about like a gymnast towards that enemy disregarding the one trying to stab me in the spine.

There are just so many things that can lead to your death that you have either no control over or have to actively avoid.
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Just a few points, the points are in chronological order.

1) There's a skill to parry arrows mid-flight, I guess they wanted to give it a point. IIRC, that was a very pointless skill in TW1. Also, I don't think you could avoid them in that either.

2) Actually haven't experienced this one yet. Nor the animation thingy. I spend most of my fights flanking enemies, but flanking them without running away, so rolling past them, but very very close still.

3) Links back to point 2, I can deal with about 3-4 things at once, depending on what it is; those scorpions in chapter 1, it reduces to about 2-3. Nekkers, more though.

4) I like this idea; traps seem like a more planning your assault weapon, rather than drop a few on the fly. And with Yrden, when i use it, i generally make a bit of room. Which you also had to do in TW1, cause Yrden took ages to cast.

5) Alt. Use Alt. I do, a lot. Locks you onto one target, so you can do whatever the hell you like, spin camera madly, without losing the lock on that target. Prioritisation is key. I agree that after you've killed something that one is kind of annoying, but not massively so.

Additionaly, I don't mind that damage is biased against me, but its mostly the back stabs that kill you quickly. And there's a skill for that too.
 
overclick said:
Krooked the kids follow you because they know you are a witcher and think you are a cool badass monster killer. You can see this cus in one of the houses a kids is running around saying i want to be a witcher etc.
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Thanks for clearing that up :) I just thought it was odd that Geralt had a fanclub all of a sudden :)
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Completely agree with this. It just gets better and better!
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Yeah it's a bit of a slog at times but very rewarding.

Are the servers down because i have been trying to get the dlc for a few days now but npthing is happening?

Having just finished The Witcher, the ending was brilliant and i have just one very important question which i need to know the answer to in order to understand the story of the first game.
It is kind of a spoiler I suppose;). Just a yes or no:)

SPOILER- DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE WITCHER

Is Alvin in The Witcher 2? I am certain that he is the grandmaster, but if he is in 2, then it blows that out of the water
Cheers
 
Well I got out of the horrible prologue and have to say the game has certainly changed, much less cluster-****ish combat also enemies seem to be allot less dangerous but still require caution, which is nice.

Oh and for anyone who got the premium edition on steam an can't find their extra stuff, go to Library > drop down menu > tools, it will be under The Witcher 2, over a gig oddly enough.
 
Murray said:
How do you get the Premium stuff online like the paper characters and stuff?
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Dunno, but I am going to save my ink :p

There are some glaring problems with this game, one of them being the save system. I cannot select a name for my save-game and neither can I delete them. There must be a way as I now have 1.5 gig of saves on my system drive! Surrely they cottoned on to a similar issue from TW1.
 
simpletom said:
Dunno, but I am going to save my ink :p

There are some glaring problems with this game, one of them being the save system. I cannot select a name for my save-game and neither can I delete them. There must be a way as I now have 1.5 gig of saves on my system drive! Surrely they cottoned on to a similar issue from TW1.
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You can delete and edit the name in (name)/My Documents/Witcher 2/gamesaves
 
There are some minor issues with the combat at times i think, but overall I like the it and the fact that it's a good challenge without simply being a reflex test. Other 'big' games get off too easy these days with shallow but 'hey it's fun anyway' type combat.

The fight with Letho, I died quite a few times but the longer i fought him the easier it got. I started to realize at what points his guard was down and when i should attack, parrying and using the knock-back/stun sign helped a lot against him. If you put the difficulty down to easy you're missing out on a good challenge, it can be frustrating but with patience it's worth it imo, try to resist! :D
 
megalomanic said:
There are some minor issues with the combat at times i think, but overall I like the it and the fact that it's a good challenge without simply being a reflex test. Other 'big' games get off too easy these days with shallow but 'hey it's fun anyway' type combat.

The fight with Letho, I died quite a few times but the longer i fought him the easier it got. I started to realize at what points his guard was down and when i should attack, parrying and using the knock-back/stun sign helped a lot against him. If you put the difficulty down to easy you're missing out on a good challenge, it can be frustrating but with patience it's worth it imo, try to resist! :D
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I agree. it was the same with the Kayran. I kept on getting hit and died after getting 2 tentacles off. Then I started using the shield magic and got the timing right when to dodge the tentacle so it landed in the trap.

On my last attempt I didn't get hit once.
 
simpletom said:
Cheers, I got that but it should really be patched in, rather elementry! :)

God knows why they're using *.bmp as a preview icon as well :confused:

Still, game is keeping me entertained.
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Saves in this game compress very well, much more so than TW1. I compressed about 2.7gb to 195mb.
 
I had 4gbs worth of saves... I just deleted the last 300 auto and 300 manual saves which left me without 40 auto and 40 manual = 350 odd mb of saves
 
Right this is becoming a pita, these pesky kids are following me around everywhere in Flotsam and don't even run away when I pull out my sword. It's frustrating because they keep surrounding me and blocking me in ffs.

Here's a couple of pics to explain,

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