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The Witcher 2: PATCH 1.2 OUT NOW - plus a hairstyling dlc
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Here's what do:
Quen: Damage shield, wears off early after it absorbs all it's good for. When it's up, you don't flinch and can't be interrupted.
Axii: Charm, brief channel before it activates, turns any minion to your side. They will then either murder their friends, or turn their back so you can shank them. Tends to break if you hit them with more than one incidental light attack.
Yrden: Trap, stuns and holds whomever walks on it. Great for shanking dudes in the back.
Basically, pop on that Quen, rock that Axii, then hit people in the back with heavy or light attacks to taste. Roll lots.
Alternatively you can play bomberman, once you've got enough supplies. You do start with three neato exploding traps, and you'll be able to make TONS once you get out of the prologue.
Also, check for a haycart behind the ballista. Go look at it.
It doesn't. The game just throws you into the deep end from the start. It's like going to your first swimming lesson expecting the instructor to start you off in the wading pool, but no! He manhandles you, holding you in a bear hug so your arms flail about helplessly, and you watch in horror as you go flying into the water with a splash, and after much struggling, miraculously discover that you can keep aloft.
Combat Tips (or so You Wanna be a Witcher)
1. Know that The Roll and the Mid-Roll Directional Change are your best friends. Always roll away from enemy mobs, not into them. Pick off the outliers first. Get a point in Footwork on the Swordsmanship tree if you need better positioning.
2. Roll around enemies that hold shields or can block. Stab them from the back instead. Aard or Igni are useful against them too.
3. Learn to anticipate attacks when they come. There is always a discernible animation when an enemy is about to strike at you. Roll away, and hit him from the back.
4. Use your potions, oils and bombs. They can radically change the landscape in your favour.
5. Watch out for your Vigour bar. You have too low Vigour early on to be parrying often.
6. Speaking of parrying, put at least one point in the upgrade to block from all directions. But remember not to spam block. It does not work.
7. Grit your teeth and bear it when it comes to the Prologue. Trust me, the combat gets smoother as you progress.
They're just so ridiculously cheap to make (one of each of the two most common herbs) and deal a good bit of damage. Get a mob of Nekkers or grunts on you? pop on a Quen and throw four or five of them, they'll be dead before they can react.
Also, after you kill the Kayren, be sure to buy/make 10+ throwing daggers if you bought the skill. They'll make the boss in the elven ruins so much easier.
this is going in the op, awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6DcQdLvK1Q&feature=related
Ending spoilers for Witcher 1, of course.
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edit- Yrden works on wraiths 100%. Stuns them and everything.
"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
So I looked at the clock. It was 21:00. Figured I'd play a little then go to bed, right?
After a while, I look at the window. It's daylight outside.
I check the clock. It's 4:15am.
anybody know of any kinda save generator?
Does anyone have any idea how many talent points you'll have by the end of the game, anyway? There are so many damned talents, and each one with a second tier, that I'd hate to run out of points and be only halfway down a tree by the time I reach the finale.
Edit: I just did a Google search for the answer and apparently the max level is 35? It says you earn two points per level up, but up to level 7 I've only received one. I'm guessing now that once I hit level 8 and beyond, I'll earn two points?
I downloaded the Triss/Neutral save, loaded it in the original game, and then just read through the quest log to see if the player made the same decisions as me.
I don't find it really necessary to upgrade Alchemy, since most potions and bombs already perform as advertised. Abilities on the Swordsmanship tree seem like a must, since without them Geralt is weak and doesn't move so well on the battlefield. And also since Roll + Sign doesn't work as smoothly as Roll + Stab.
Personally, I'd go for the Quen upgrades and the sign intensity boost followed by either Aard or Ignii buffs. After that, pick up the bomb boosting talent and spend the rest in either Swords or Magic. Supposedly, you can redo your talents at some point.
sounds like a codec problem, thats just a fmv.
What is it that makes silver better than iron for monster slaying?
Narrativium?
Nice
Forced to pirate game I bought because of shitty DRM instance #4
How is this a DRM problem?
The purity of silver? That's all I've got.
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ok can somebody edit the OP? I found a working Triss / Order save
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4LGSJGAZ
It imports into Witcher 2 and all of the proper choices are made for that kind of path.
Sounds the same to me. She seems like more of a character now and less a caricature, anyway.
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Various things I've read suggest an problem with securom and some DVD drives. I've had problems like this in the past and that was the cause, which would make it securom's fault and not cd projekt
Not a big deal, I just find it hilarious. I could use my laptop over the network since it has a bluray drive (although some reports suggest those don't work with it), but it'd be faster to just download the first disc somewhere
This is one of the things they're going to patch in, but it's curious that it wasn't in the release version to begin with.
I loved the way for instance they construct the character of the king in the first chapter. I really need to buy the books once they come out on kobo/kindle in NZ.
"I think I can comment on this because I used to live above the Baby Doll Lounge, a topless bar that was once frequented by bikers in lower Manhattan."
Eradicated the local giant spider/mantis/scorpion population as well
I guess I'm ready to do the other half of Chapter 1. Jesus christ this game @_@
Also he is not a duck
Those same saves keep getting passed around here, at Gamefaqs, and elsewhere, and I keep seeing people getting screwed by them when they realize being impossibly rich isn't part of the game.
All things considered, nothing you gain from using a Witcher 1 save makes the game better. The plot is scripted, from what I've seen so far, such that your previous choices rarely matter - cleverly so, I'd say - and the gear that carries over only serves to be annoying. I.e. get ready to spend your first 4 hours or so going "yay new armor! ...oh, worse than the stuff I started with. Yay new armor schematic! ...oops, that one too. *sigh*"
Anyway, once more in bold for those in the back: DON'T USE THE SAVES IN THE OP. IT WILL RUIN YOUR GAME.
There is no "fratbro" in the world cool enough to be like King Foltest.
Henselt on the other hand is a pure bastard.
The save I grabbed is perfect too, came witih D'Yaebl, Aerondight, and Raven's Armor (although no oren's or extra levels or skills or anything)