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Wow. This game is gorgeous. I'm playing on Hard (but not Insane... fuck permadeath), and it is definitely a challenge. I'm with you, Ed, on the controller. I started off with the M/Kb, but the setup is so different than the first game that it's more like Oblivion and very controller friendly.
I wonder what the 12 hidden Achievements are...
So is combat actually responsive with sounds that sync up and such? The first game rather killed my desire for this so I'm waiting for impressions before deciding if I should really care.
I really have to figure out if I can run this, I hear a lot of people saying it has graphics up there with Crysis. Although I recall being able to run Crysis pretty well back when I first got this computer, so it's probably fine.
The requirements for this are notably higher than Crysis. This is the first game I ever recall being below the required specs for, although not by much so I'm hoping I can still run it. Gonna try a "demo" before I spend money, though.
::unsubscribes::
It's gonna be at least a year before I play this and wanna go in relatively fresh. Have fun, y'all.
It reminds me of Oblivion's melee combat after a relatively short sample, although this has an option for a heavy attack as well that I don't remember in Oblivion.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
So when you press attack an attack comes out, and your weapon has a hitbox that will strike things it comes into contact with? In the first game if you selected an enemy it would just take damage if you were close enough, and unless you picked the specific command "AOE strike" (whatever that stance was called) your attack would only hurt the selected enemy regardless of who else it passed through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Basically I'm asking if the character actually has a presence and weight in combat and is based more on player skill instead of dice-rolling.
Does the story continue directly after The Witcher 1. Can I jump right into this one without knowing what unfolded in part one are should I play part one first?
The combat in the first game was laregly the product of trying to hammer an action based combat system into an engine completely built for turn based combat. Red has always said that Witcher 2's combat would be completely rethought and that they never wanted it to be like it was in the first place. Why is this so unbelievable to you?
Preordered this last night to save a few bucks, despite not being ready to play it. I wonder how disciplined I should be in trying to play through the first game before this one...
I read that it'll have a recap kind of integrated into the game Yakuza-style. So it's not necessary to play them both, but if you intend to play both at some point, best to do it in order.Quote:
Originally Posted by sedition
There's a short recap although it's nothing like the Yakuza games. Any questions you might have about characters are answered in the excellent journal system.Quote:
Originally Posted by sedition
Despite the improvements here, I think the first game is still worth playing just because its decision/consequences system is so unique.
Yes. You control each swing now and the dice rolling only appears to affect damage, not accuracy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
The developers have talked about how Demons' Souls is an influence and it's pretty obvious. The combat is slow-paced and deliberate and you'll get cut to pieces very quickly if you're not playing carefully.
When's this coming to consoles?
I can't find any dates.
So all developer promises automatically happen?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I was asking questions about how it felt and responded to get an exact answer. Oblivion's combat was designed to work from first-person, I thought it did pretty well there but from the third-person it felt a little clunky and unfinished. Why is it so odd to you that someone wants to know about a new game?Quote:
Why is this so unbelievable to you?
Cool, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
No console release has been announced yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
Oh, I was sure they had said it was coming to ps360.
Officially. Their statement was as soon as Witcher 2 was released on PC they would immediately begin work on porting it to console.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...i-console-talkQuote:
"We failed due to reasons we could not have foreseen," recalled Gop, "so it seems [a game's development is] always dependent on something. But the truth is we're not holding back [with Witcher 2 on console]; we definitely know that after finishing the PC version we want to sit down and we want to start working on this," promised Gop.
"We won't wait to see how well The Witcher 2 does on PC first," he added. "After we release The Witcher 2 on PC we just sit down with Excel or Project and make schedules, make plans. Then we will be totally glad to announce what is coming out; we know what team we have, what capacity we have, but we still have to plan out the amount of work. Then we will tell the world what we plan to do and 'it will be that day of release', potentially."
I really like that approach, btw. Everyone wins.
Nah, the people playing the console port still lose.
Oh god what have you done.
I meant to quote this when I typed that:Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
It's just weird that the one thing they've been emphatic about changing would be the reason you're almost not interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
It asks if you want to load a saved game from the first one. It's not clear what that does yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by sedition
After playing a lot more, epmode is right. It's closer to Demon's Souls than Oblivion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I think it carries over some items, like the special armor you get near the end of the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
They also said it was greatly improved over the original release, so their basis for good combat and mine already started off with discrepancies. I was also being particularly specific because the two sources for info in this thread are epmode and Yoshi, who both loved the original so I can't trust them to just say it plays well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Even among Witcher's fans, I've not heard anyone really praise the combat. People are just bothered by it to different extents.
Yoshi said the game was about as close to perfect as it gets, you should talk to him about that. ;)
I just found out this is on GoG, which confuses me. I think I'll get it from them, because they have been so good to me and I almost never get stuff from them for a combination of reasons.
I put a lot more time into this so I'll nitpick the combat for MechDeus.
The combat is unrecognizable from the first game. I love the focus on crowd control and the importance of waiting for an opening (so you can avoid being interrupted by enemy attacks). But that's not to say that the system can't use some tweaking. The big problem is that regular sword strikes will only hit the guy you're targeting so group fights are harder than they should be. You're going to have to use spells and traps to keep the extra enemies off your back.
Which reminds me: Initial skill balance seems off. A few spells and traps are infinitely more useful than others though this might change with tougher enemies or a higher level.
The combat system won't stand up to a dedicated action game but it's a nice improvement over your typical long-form RPG.
And I should probably mention that everything else about the game is goddamned awesome.
The nicest thing I've ever said about the combat in the first game is that I don't despise it. It's obviously not very good but it's easy to overlook.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
GOG is owned by CD Projekt, a sister company of the Witcher developers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
Damn, this game is almost 16gigs installed.
That says more about its competition than the combat. I wasn't bothered by it anywhere near as much as you were though. I still prefer it to the JRPG-style, but I am happy with the more action-based approach in the sequel.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I like the massive trebuchets in the opening area. Even though they're little more than background props, they still have a full reload animation complete with a four man crew. Completely unnecessary! <3 CD Projekt <3
I am going to buy this, just not sure if I should do it now or wait till I finish the first one.
Hard for me to focus on the first one knowing there is shiny sequel out there...
So, this runs on my system. The system requirements seem to reflect what's necessary to run everything on mid-to-high, not what's needed to run. I didn't even have to put it on low.
It looks pretty fucking amazing, too. I turned all the effects on, but compromised on things like AA and texture resolution because I only have 320 MB of video RAM and it runs pretty well. Bottom line it's not quite as much of a monster as the box would have you think.
I've got a 9900 GTX, and then everything else meets the recommended specs. I guess I'll have to try this out once my finals are through, goddamn this game looks pretty as SHIT.
I'm in the same boat. I guess I'll start the first one.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
For those with nvidia cards, the new 275.27b drivers allegedly help the performance of this game more than a little. I'm installing them now. They've also woken up and included the 3D Vision drivers as a mater of course in the GeForce drivers, which is a nice, overdue change.
This game can look good, but it doesn't run that great. I have the beta drivers already and it runs better with them but it still needs some love from somewhere to clean it up a little bit.
What's the story with AMD cards?
This is no lie. Probably doubled my framerate in the intensive spots, allowed me to bump up the res and detail a bit. I dare say it runs comparably to the first game, now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I'm going to guess that the bottleneck for your system might be something other than the video card, then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Opaque
I think it runs really well. Most complaints are due to people accidentally leaving ubsersampling enabled even though it's only going to be bearable on ultra top-of-the-line machines.
I'm getting ~30 FPS at 2560x1600 with a >3 year old machine (which was only recently upgraded to a GTX570). Much better than I expected without upping the CPU and motherboard, and I only disabled SSAO, ubersampling and antialiasing.
In other news, has anyone else finished the prologue? Shit is rad and I love the new area. Someone should really do some comparison shots between that town and Dragon Age 2's Kirkwall.
Oh yeah, it was Ubresampling. Now it runs great and looks awesome.
Side note, did anyone leave motion blur on? I found it overbearing and terrible.
I like buffer accumulation motion blur. I find it adds a film-like quality. I enjoy it in games like this, Crysis, and Portal 2.
Probably stupid question: Why does it say "Action not allowed for this item" when I try to use or equip any potions? Are they locked out in the prologue or is there something basic I'm not getting?
Game runs just fine on my radeon 5850 using the latest catalyst drivers. I only disabled Ubersampling, depth of field and kept LOD to normal. All other settings is on high and ultra (at 1080p res) and I get maybe 20 to 30 fps at times. Not exactly ultra smooth or anything but fine for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Uriel
Damn fine looking game and love the detail on the model outfits.
Potions can no longer be consumed in combat so there's no point to equipping them ahead of time. You can only use a potion while meditating which is unlocked partway through the prologue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Thanks. Hopefully my 6970 will do well.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
Madness. That's going to take some getting used to. I feel like that's going to water down a lot of the strategy in the game, though, isn't experimenting with potions a big part of the whole Witcher experience?Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
Most potions are just significant stat buffs with long durations, not the kind of thing that has to be taken NOW NOW NOW like a Diablo health potion. Limiting potion use to meditation is in line with the books since they're used for preparation only.
That said, I don't really see the problem with allowing you to drink potions in combat. The toxicity meter is already keeping you from from taking too many at once, so...
Yeah, but it's nice to be able to experiment in battle so you can see the results first hand. If you're using a buff going into a battle you don't have as much of a sense of how it's helping you.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
Whoever said they were worried about this game being consolized was pretty much right. Everything from the controls, to the menus, to the way looting works has been streamlined to be controller-friendly.
But it's not really a negative thing. The first game was sort of a mash up of accessible forward-thinking ideas and this clunky Baldur's Gate-era stuff that didn't fit. I do kind of wish I could sift through item pick-ups manually, but the way it's done now certainly improves the pace of the game.
You can with the keyboard and mouse scheme. This is the one thing that really bugs me about the controller input.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I agree that the game was obviously designed around a controller but I wouldn't call it consolized. Consolization is needlessly streamlining and removing features so that your average mouthbreather won't be confused by anything, and that definitely didn't happen here. Most every concept from the first game is expanded upon or improved, not hidden or stripped out.
You're thrown in the deep end right from the beginning, and it's a deliberate choice, not just a lack of dev time. You have full access to the combat system as soon as you see the first enemy. The same goes for the storyline. There's little exposition and you're expected to pick it up as you go. After playing through so many 2+ hour tutorials (see: any big budget game made in the last five years), it's refreshing.
That's too cynical a view of console gaming. But you're right, they didn't dumb it down, they just rethought the way you interact with the game. But also the very actiony combat is very console-like, it just plays more like a console game. Not dumber/smarter, just different.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
It's kind of amazing that an independent Polish developer has managed to put out a game that shames Dragon Age, not just in terms of gameplay, but production value. This game looks amazing and it's not just great lighting, it's an amazing attention to detail, really good writing, voice acting... This game is a real class act, I tell you.
This game is excellent. I'm running it on Ultra settings without übersampling at 1920x1080 and I've been getting a solid 30 frames/second. Shit is bomb!
This game is so good, but jesus do I suck at it. Swarms of nekkers still get me sometimes, and I have a ton of mats weighing me down. I'm afraid to sell alchemy stuff because I want to be able to make bombs, but I'm always missing Aether.
Eurogamer review
9/10Quote:
Fans of RPGs should consider The Witcher 2 a must-buy. There's simply no competitor that can touch it in terms of poise, characterisation and storytelling, or the way in which it treats you not as a player - someone to be pandered to and pleased - but as an adult, free to make your own mistakes and suffer a plot in which not everyone gets what they deserve.
Everybody else should approach excitedly, but with a little caution. The Witcher 2's opening ten hours are as impressive as they are clumsy, and a little patience is needed until the game hits its stride. What a stride, though. What bravery and gravity. With a little time investment, this game offers everything the fantasy genre can be.
Going by first impressions and after adjusting my expectations to "this is an RPG," this game balls so damn hard. Difficulty seems solid on Hard mode, combat seems to be inspired by Demon's Souls. Maybe a little sloppier, but not bad. A huge step up from stuff like God of War, Arkham Asylum and AssCreed.
Runs great on Ultra for me, too!
Whatever you do, hold on to the Queen Endrega Pheremones you can get in chapter 1. I whiffed while making a potion and it used both, and now I need them for a sidequest in chapter 3. Shit sucks.
Goddamn Letho is an asshole.
Beat it following Roche pretty much the whole way through. The ending of the game really kind of sneaks up on you, and it made me want to do another playthrough to check out the other side of the story. Apparently Chapter 2 can be 100% different depending on who you side with.
I won't get started on the game until the patch and amd hotfix drivers come out (sometime this week) but I read that people who have the non-GOG version of the game are getting better performance by using the GOG .exe file (and some .dll). Could the DRM used in the other version cause a big performance drop? In any case those who don't have the GOG version should find out more about it and see if it improves things.
I've tried the GOG and Steam files and I can't see any difference at all. But the Steam version doesn't have DRM aside from the usual Steam stuff so I'm not surprised. It might be a different story with the retail SecuROM version
I've also heard that the performance improvement may only happen on SLI setups, not sure if it's true.
My only issue with the game is how the free DLC quest doesn't want to install properly. This is supposedly going to be fixed early this week.
I've heard the same. I'm shocked to see that sort of thing in a modern game with high production values. Most developers are more concerned with making sure that anyone who finishes the game sees all there is to see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vlos
Was going to get it from GoG, until I saw the retail package and now I want that instead.
This game is kind of ruthless. I spent like two days stuck on one boss. Backtracked and geared up a bit and managed to take him down, finally.
Seems like some of the perks on the skill tree will make things more manageable once I get there.
Improved Aard, Quen, and maybe Ydren are good starts, but the talent in the sword tree that makes backstabs do less damage is mandatory.
The Witcher 1 is a good game, but playing through it when you've got TW2 downloaded is rough. I got a few quests deep into the first area of Vizima proper that you can access, and eventually lost my patience. I dived right into TW2 at that point and am having an absolutely wonderful time (god, these environments!). I still feel a little bad that now I might never finish the first game.
So yeah, anyway, I can't think of anything bad to say about this game yet (currently in Flotsam). It's easily the prettiest game ever made as far as I'm concerned. The tech doesn't seem much different from what's in something like Metro 2033, and therefore shows the power of art direction and using rich colors imo.
EDIT: OK if I'm going to find a nitpick then it's the combat. I love it but I wish it was a little more fluid, reaching Assassin's Creed levels. I don't want the controls to be that simplified or the combat to be that easy. I just wish there were ways to deal with crowds effectively via swordplay, rather than magic and rolling. I hear that later on you get the ability to hit multiple opponents with a swing, but that's not really what I'm getting at. It needs to be more responsive to cancelling/redirecting attacks. Right now it's hard to even change targets with 100% reliability and accuracy, much less immediately focus on the new target.
There's a skill you can unlock that let's you attack multiple opponents at once, which helps crowd control, but targetting is definitely the Achille's heel of the combat system.
The other thing is context sensitive attacks that close distance, but the requirements seem really arbitrary. Like, I've parried a blow and whiffed swings on a guy who was literally inches away from the tip of my sword, yet if I happen to target a dude just a little further away Geralt will spin and leap at him for the attack.
Assassin's Creed, to me, absolutely nailed the feel/flow of sword combat. Everything in the fight plays out just like you'd imagine it would in a movie or something, without being heavily scripted. The only problem is that they over simplified/automated it. If we could get the same end result but with gameplay that rewarded skill more, there would be your perfect fighting system for these kinds of games.
That is very true, the combat in AC was amazing except for how fucking easy it was.
I kind of like the combat system in this but they should have unlocked certain abilities from the jump, and polished up the targetting. It's so bewildering to string a combo along and hit magic and have it shoot a completely different enemy. Or an ally.
Maybe a Zelda-like targetting button or something.
? There is a target lock. It's not great but it'll definitely prevent what you described.
Left bumper on a pad, left alt on keyboard, I think.
Yeah, but target lock is a super great way to die really fast when you're fighting multiple guys and need to turn around and keep one from stabbing the shit out of you. Especially in the early parts of the game.
The new patch gave me a pretty noticeable spike in performance that I'd been expecting.
I'll play past the intro now.
The new patch was massive, what the hell.
Steam patches stuff by replacing files that changed with the new version. CD Projekt put over half of the game content into a single 9.5 GB file.
hah. The downloadable patch is like 20 megs.
I beat this. It was awesome. And the ending was not really as abrupt as some of the reviews had claimed, and while it sets the stage for further stories, it's not even as cliffhanger-y as the first game.
I followed to the Vergan/Upper Aedern path, which I liked, not so much because of Iorveth, but because Vergan is a great city and I liked Saskia a lot more than Henselt. I might give this a second playthrough in a little while and try the other major path.
Has anyone read the Witcher novels? W2 looks absolutely amazing, I am finding it very difficult not to play it until I finish 1.
I wouldn't worry too much about finishing 1. It definitely sets the stage for 2, but even in the first game you're left feeling like you didn't play some non-existent prequel because it takes place after the novels.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I gave up on 1 early on and switched over to 2. Other than some wink-wink appearances from previous characters that don't matter, I don't feel like I've missed anything.
Same, I got past Vizima in the first game and stopped. I'll have to go back and finish it at some point after I finish my Scoiatael playthrough.
If you're past Vizima, you're in the home stretch. Chapters 4, 5, and the epilogue are collectively like 5-7 hours.
I read the book, way before it became the game, and they were all quality read. Great characters, some awesome action on those pages, and hell, and there are some surprises, as no one is safe, as stories go.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I finally started working on this, and so far got past the prologue stories, and wow, this is freaking beautiful. But jumpy auto lock can eat my dick.
Review. This is now a comment thread.
This really was the best fantasy RPG I've played in a long time. Not quite sure if I like it more than the Mass Effect games, but I'd have to at least think about that for a while.
Done with the first chapter, it's pretty good overall. The voice work is good although whoever did the sound mixing is either new to the field or deaf, people's voices keep getting drowned out by ambient sound effects. One unnamed side character was all but mute during a conversation thanks to loud noises going on in the background, I was unable to understand a single word he said. Some of the more odd terms also get lost in the lack of tutorial, when fighting the Kayren the sorceress kept telling me to use "ear dens" to fight the monster. It wasn't until three deaths that the game popped up a window telling me that "Yrden" was a sign and how to use it. On the flip side of voices, I really love the timed responses during conversations which help keep it at a more natural flow, though I wish they'd do it more.
The writing is really good so far and the characters are wonderfully ambiguous, I've actually had a harder time than I thought I would deciding who to side with and who I should tell to fuck off. The hangover quest was fucking great, I wasn't expecting any of that to happen and the accompanying story was pretty hilarious. The atmosphere is so great and they did a wonderful job with the forest. It's almost annoying how I can barely see anything at times (dark monsters and snare traps just blend right into the shadows) but it's also a very convincing effect so I can't really fault it. The amulet highlighting is nicely integrated but also kind of annoying to spam so I don't use it too much.
The combat system is still fairly half-assed at best but it's way more tolerable than the original's shitfest. The target locking is probably the worst implementation of such that has ever been seen in videogames, there at least needs to be an option for the camera to cooperate with it. Even with multiple enemy striking ability the sword fighting just feels way too tuned for one-on-one, and the way enemies gang up and alternate attacks is almost too smart for the limited knockback/recoil system that's offered. Riposte also seems to have the tiniest possible window to activate, I need to experiment a little more with it but I feel like I've only got one or two frames to pull it off. So yeah, it's okay but they really need to finally learn how to use hitboxes properly.
I once died because one of those spider queen things got into a scuffle with a wandering elf and right at the end both of their AIs just locked up and they stood totally still staring at each other. After a few seconds I went up and stabbed the elf in the back, but this also somehow absorbed all of his equipment into my inventory and the spider queen killed me because I was then over encumbered and couldn't dodge. I laughed, but I was also sad inside.
I'm happy at the latest patch as it fixed the one controller problem in the menus (the attributes page was hyper-sensitive and nothing could be selected properly) but it also disabled the use of the analog sticks in the menus so the journals entries can't be scrolled down. I also ran into the troll head bug but thankfully someone made a mod to correct that, hooray for easy item scripting!
Shit, that was quite a wall of text.
The combat is half-assed compared to God of War or Devil May Cry, but honestly, it's a lot more fun than most fantasy RPGs. It's challenging, and you can't really button mash through it, but it lends a real feeling of agility that most RPGs don't have.
Riposte is super easy. The visible window isn't the actual window. Just hold block and mash attack.
More like it's half-assed even compared to Zelda or Fable. It's annoying to be facing three guys and if I swing and hit all three then it splits them up and they can all just immediately attack from different directions. This gets even more annoying when fighting wraiths because they can just absorb all the damage from an attack and strike at the same time, effectively being invincible with no way to fight against that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
I do like that shields are protection no matter where they are, unlike most games that only consider a shield blocking if the character has it in a certain position.Oh okay, the manual made it sound like I had to do it with the sword icon which I barely even noticed on my own.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
Barack Obama snags The Witcher 2 Collector's Edition. It's good to be president.
Good to see that idiot stumbled onto both useful things he's done through no fault of his own.
I'm convinced the Letho fight is impossible on Hard. The Kayran was bad, but Letho is just bullshit. His Aard cancels my Quen, but not the other way around. And he can do this bullshit juggle where the Aard knocks you back, and he throws bombs and Igni at me that I can't escape. And it's like three hits to death.
edit: I guess taking a minute to bitch here calmed me down enough to get lucky, er, win. They mean "Hard" when they say it. Insane can blow me.
I think the upgraded dodging ability helps a lot in that fight. The Quen is annoying but it's easy to just wait out. That fight takes a lot of patience.
The writing in this game continues to impress me. For a long time during act 1 I really liked the quality of it but I felt the game lacked some of the personal side that comes with the party member interactions in Bioware games. Having finished act 2 I've come to find that the interpersonal stuff is way better than I thought, people may not be directly discussing stuff with Geralt but it's much more natural and shows they're all working on their own side projects. I like not seeing someone for a while and then having them show up and talk about everything they've accomplished while away.
I've also discovered that upgrading the dodge immediately moved the game to nearly-invincible mode. Aside from the artificial difficulty that plagued a couple spots in the first act, it turns out that quick strike + roll away > everything. Doesn't matter what the enemy is or how many of them there are, as long as Quen is up to absorb the occasional block/strike that can't be manually stopped I rarely take damage anymore.
Having a weapon with frost is pretty awesome too, making people explode into ice chunks is great.Yeah, it gave me some trouble at first because there's very little room to move around and Letho has way more reach, but I just ran in circles until his Quen ran out, poked, and then continued to run away like a little girl. If only I had upgraded the dodge back then, I probably wouldn't have kept getting hit by Aard which is what dragged me down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
It sounds like I made that fight harder than it needed to be. I neglected to craft my new armor right away and didn't choose the dodge skill, so I was getting hit more and harder than perhaps was necessary. Now I'm on to Chapter 2 with my armor crafted. I'm definitely going up the sword tree for skills but only have Riposte thus far.
I didn't realize until fairly late in the game that skills on the tree could be upgraded twice so I think I made some things harder on myself too.
It's a pretty tough game, overall. Even though fighting groups gets a LOT easier over time and the final fight is a joke a lot of the boss battles are damned tough throughout.
I've found riposte to be useless. Going into the block stance after a sword attack takes a lot longer than dodging away, so striking then trying for a riposte isn't really viable considering how fast the enemies can return fire. It also has a much shorter range than many enemy attacks and I think will only activate if the person the cursor is on attacks you (i.e. if the guy next to him attacks you riposte won't trigger).Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
When I looked at the other talent trees besides swordmaster I thought they all looked stupid except for the Quen boosting ones (once I knew what Quen was) and the final two or three, but that means taking a lot of useless abilities just for a couple neat things. The sword tree gives ridiculous amounts of damage, percentage chance instant kills, crit boosts, the ability to instant kill three guys at once, and the 200% dodge that renders the combat nearly pointless. I'm not even sure why anyone would even pick the others.
I broke one of the scripted fights because I "killed" someone that wasn't supposed to be able to die, took me a minute of being stuck in a room to figure out what happened. I put that in quotations because he didn't actually die, per se, I simply got multiple health bars of his to zero despite him having an ability that made him invincible and let him heal. Then he froze up with an empty lifebar in his scripted speech zone and I had to reload.
In Hensalt's camp I also kept getting lit on fire during conversations since talking to people teleports Geralt in front of them. I got to do an arm wrestling match while on fire, which was particularly great.
WoW flashbacks!Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
WoW has definitely had the side-effect of having me plan out min-maxing as soon as I see a selectable leveling layout.
I took a look last night and saw Witcher 2 has a level cap of 35 and I'm at 27 so far, and apparently there's only one specific way to respec and no way to reset mutagens. Glad I only used a couple rare greaters and didn't waste slots with crappy lessers, I figured you could at least destroy the old one to implant new ones in. Kinda lame, but whatever.
Yeah, I wasted a slot on a lesser too, so that sucks.
360 port incoming, this year. Possibly November.
In other news, PC patch tomorrow, helps with targeting and also adds all of the retailer-specific preorder bonuses for free.
Also also: The PC version is $10 off on a bunch of sites for the weekend.
Happy the game is doing well. I hope 360 gamers embrace The Witcher 2 even with all the big name heavy hitters coming out in November.