The queen harpy fight is solved with a bomb or two and the wonderful "Area of Effect" swordtalent (which is really one of the things you should get right away if you're leveling the sword tree)
The queen harpy fight is solved with a bomb or two and the wonderful "Area of Effect" swordtalent (which is really one of the things you should get right away if you're leveling the sword tree)
Once you got that the fight is pretty easy
Upgraded Ignii makes all the harpy fights a complete joke. First of all, they clump together. Second of all, they're weak to fire (it's even in the monster manual for them). Lastly, upgraded ignii features aoe and incineration.
I got bored fighting them and just ran in with upgraded Quen and watched them kill themselves after a while.
You guys disgust me with your petty infighting and slow combat skills. I'm doing my third playthrough on hard BARE CHESTED! No armor and no quen for Geralt.
Sometimes I wonder if the cheesy way of fighting is the "true" witcher's way. A witcher takes all the advantage he can get after all.
Heliotrope on the Draug makes him too easy. Wayyyyyyy too easy.
Heliotrope is God Mode. After getting that you realize why everyone treats Geralt with respect. This dude used to be able to do crazy shit like this all the time before he lost his memory. You don't mess with that, even a little bit. Dude is a monster.
The good news is that the patch is ready. The bad news is that we have encountered some problems with the server infrastructure, making downloading DLCs impossible. We want to apologize to our fans for not meeting our target of delivering the patch last night. We will update you when we know more.
Fuck their servers, just put the patch out anywhere. It will spread. It doesn't need to get to everyone at the same moment.
The queen harpy fight is solved with a bomb or two and the wonderful "Area of Effect" swordtalent (which is really one of the things you should get right away if you're leveling the sword tree)
Once you got that the fight is pretty easy
See, I didn't even know there was a Queen in there. Granted, I'm on Normal and had a two fire rune'd 30-33 red meteorite silver sword as a 100% Swordsman specialist. I was cleaving through bitches left and right without any signs or bombs. It's all about combos and rolling. Whirl helps a bit, too. Group Finishers might've also come in handy.
The weird thing is, I'm on a q6600 OC'd to 3.2GHZ, 6 gigs of ram and a 4890 HD OC'd to 975mhz and I don't remember where I've got the memory at. I've got everything on as high as it will go, save for ubersampling which I have set to 1, versus the 2 that the configuration utility sets it to, and this game is like butter. I'm getting between 50-55 consistently, usually will go up to ~60 or so, only ever dips down to 45 when I'm in a heavily populated area.
The good news is that the patch is ready. The bad news is that we have encountered some problems with the server infrastructure, making downloading DLCs impossible. We want to apologize to our fans for not meeting our target of delivering the patch last night. We will update you when we know more.
Fuck their servers, just put the patch out anywhere. It will spread. It doesn't need to get to everyone at the same moment.
its their anti-piracy thing, you can only get updates via the dlc menu if you've registered your cd key.
Sometimes I wonder if the cheesy way of fighting is the "true" witcher's way. A witcher takes all the advantage he can get after all.
Heliotrope on the Draug makes him too easy. Wayyyyyyy too easy.
Heliotrope is God Mode. After getting that you realize why everyone treats Geralt with respect. This dude used to be able to do crazy shit like this all the time before he lost his memory. You don't mess with that, even a little bit. Dude is a monster.
That's something I dig, Geralt is just such an obscenely badass monster slayer in the setting.
Even though the game runs a bit iffy on my pc at times, I can't quite seem to stop playing it. Not sure if I should head in to the Alchemy tree once I get riposte and the talent that stops backstabs from murdering you. Thoughts?
Even though the game runs a bit iffy on my pc at times, I can't quite seem to stop playing it. Not sure if I should head in to the Alchemy tree once I get riposte and the talent that stops backstabs from murdering you. Thoughts?
Hmmm, I haven't really been having any problems running the game, might be best to actually skip the ati hotfix unless something major happens. I still have 11.4 installed.
Even though the game runs a bit iffy on my pc at times, I can't quite seem to stop playing it. Not sure if I should head in to the Alchemy tree once I get riposte and the talent that stops backstabs from murdering you. Thoughts?
Nope go magic or swordtree
save Alchemy for a 2nd run because it can be iffy
Alchemy is pretty fuckin sweet though on hard. You really have to prepare on that and there is a lot of satisfaction in stockpiling herbs and materials and everything just gels with some alchemy talents.
Sometimes I wonder if the cheesy way of fighting is the "true" witcher's way. A witcher takes all the advantage he can get after all.
Heliotrope on the Draug makes him too easy. Wayyyyyyy too easy.
Heliotrope is God Mode. After getting that you realize why everyone treats Geralt with respect. This dude used to be able to do crazy shit like this all the time before he lost his memory. You don't mess with that, even a little bit. Dude is a monster.
That's something I dig, Geralt is just such an obscenely badass monster slayer in the setting.
Man, if I was a witcher, I'd just have a thousand daggers. I would make a cloak out of daggers, and then make pockets to hold daggers, out of daggers.
I had about 60 of them when I fought the Draug, and 47 when I finished. He never even attacked me, I have no idea what happens in that fight.
I read this thread and wonder how many people have also read the books, translated or otherwise. I've read the 2 currently translated to English and wish to hell that the others would get translated, I want to know what happens in the rest of the story, and wonder if the books leave off where the games are picking up flashback wise, or if this is entirely new information to everyone. Also, I can't play Geralt as anything but a serious Sign mastery sword fighter. Sorry alchemy, you will never be talented. Maxing out the adrenaline skills and igni/aard is just disgusting when you also have maxed Vigor. Run around in circles and cluster the enemy and throw about 3-4 igni's on them and heliotrope because adrenaline is based off how many people you hit, so one igni on 3-4 people will fill about 1/3 of your adrenaline in one shot. Not to mention practically kill them. Mmmmm good.
I wish there was some kind of talent tree flash utility that I could use to plan out my progression for an insanity run. I am not going into that shit not knowing exactly how it's going to go.
I can't tell if Vernon Roche is well or badly written.
I just completed Chapter 2, and Roche is wailing about how Henselt is a dick for killing his men. He complains that Henselt shouldn't have killed them in cold blood because they were innocent. Roche is not a stranger to bloodshed, and he is hung up over the deaths of his comrades. I get that.
Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
I read this thread and wonder how many people have also read the books, translated or otherwise. I've read the 2 currently translated to English and wish to hell that the others would get translated, I want to know what happens in the rest of the story, and wonder if the books leave off where the games are picking up flashback wise, or if this is entirely new information to everyone. Also, I can't play Geralt as anything but a serious Sign mastery sword fighter. Sorry alchemy, you will never be talented. Maxing out the adrenaline skills and igni/aard is just disgusting when you also have maxed Vigor. Run around in circles and cluster the enemy and throw about 3-4 igni's on them and heliotrope because adrenaline is based off how many people you hit, so one igni on 3-4 people will fill about 1/3 of your adrenaline in one shot. Not to mention practically kill them. Mmmmm good.
I've read the last wish, haven't got around to blood of elves just yet but i got the gist of the story for the saga, and in regard to the game picking up point
witcher 1 is set 5 years after the end of the last book where geralt dies, the flashbacks hes getting in witcher 2 are what happens to him in-between the books and the first game.
the next book in the saga is due out in english next year according to amazon.
So I just spent all my money on a Jagged Blade design and materials and now this lazy fucking dwarf won't even make it for me, how the hell can I get this constructed? Is there a mail order system I can use?
I'm assuming you have the materials, but do you have the money? Those fancy designs cost quite a bit to design. The best sword in the game costs 2k to construct.
So I just spent all my money on a Jagged Blade design and materials and now this lazy fucking dwarf won't even make it for me, how the hell can I get this constructed? Is there a mail order system I can use?
Is that in chapter one? I remember one blade in that chapter that actually required TWO tiers of materials to build. I was wondering what was going on, too, until I realized I didn't have enough for that second tier.
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I can't tell if Vernon Roche is well or badly written.
I just completed Chapter 2, and Roche is wailing about how Henselt is a dick for killing his men. He complains that Henselt shouldn't have killed them in cold blood because they were innocent. Roche is not a stranger to bloodshed, and he is hung up over the deaths of his comrades. I get that.
Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
Yep, I think Ves is either bugged or unfinished content. The way it worked for me was that she seemed to be just written off.
Maybe there's a place to follow up on her, but I haven't seen it anywhere myself.
Strange, because the hint is quite interesting. Maybe the patch'll fix it.
I can't tell if Vernon Roche is well or badly written.
I just completed Chapter 2, and Roche is wailing about how Henselt is a dick for killing his men. He complains that Henselt shouldn't have killed them in cold blood because they were innocent. Roche is not a stranger to bloodshed, and he is hung up over the deaths of his comrades. I get that.
Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
Yep, I think Ves is either bugged or unfinished content. The way it worked for me was that she seemed to be just written off.
Maybe there's a place to follow up on her, but I haven't seen it anywhere myself.
Strange, because the hint is quite interesting. Maybe the patch'll fix it.
I half-expected some mind control or some double-crossing shit. But nothing. At the moment it just seemed like she's still enjoying the afterglow of being sexed by an older man.
I read this thread and wonder how many people have also read the books, translated or otherwise. I've read the 2 currently translated to English and wish to hell that the others would get translated, I want to know what happens in the rest of the story, and wonder if the books leave off where the games are picking up flashback wise, or if this is entirely new information to everyone. Also, I can't play Geralt as anything but a serious Sign mastery sword fighter. Sorry alchemy, you will never be talented. Maxing out the adrenaline skills and igni/aard is just disgusting when you also have maxed Vigor. Run around in circles and cluster the enemy and throw about 3-4 igni's on them and heliotrope because adrenaline is based off how many people you hit, so one igni on 3-4 people will fill about 1/3 of your adrenaline in one shot. Not to mention practically kill them. Mmmmm good.
I've read the last wish, haven't got around to blood of elves just yet but i got the gist of the story for the saga, and in regard to the game picking up point
witcher 1 is set 5 years after the end of the last book where geralt dies, the flashbacks hes getting in witcher 2 are what happens to him in-between the books and the first game.
the next book in the saga is due out in english next year according to amazon.
Good stuff. I was hoping that was the case, so reading the other books won't be repetative from the looks of things. Now hurry up and translate those bitches
I can't tell if Vernon Roche is well or badly written.
I just completed Chapter 2, and Roche is wailing about how Henselt is a dick for killing his men. He complains that Henselt shouldn't have killed them in cold blood because they were innocent. Roche is not a stranger to bloodshed, and he is hung up over the deaths of his comrades. I get that.
Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
First of all, he'd hardly be the first person to defend brutal tactics used by someone on his side and then be pissed off when someone uses them on him. Second, what Raupeneck did as described is really not the same thing Henselt did to the Blue Stripes.
Roche's men were killed and he was pissed off - I think anyone would be, I don't see why that's inconsistent at all.
Just did a couple side quests, they are very well done especially compared to the first game. In fact I think I am going to do all the side quests this time.
I can't tell if Vernon Roche is well or badly written.
I just completed Chapter 2, and Roche is wailing about how Henselt is a dick for killing his men. He complains that Henselt shouldn't have killed them in cold blood because they were innocent. Roche is not a stranger to bloodshed, and he is hung up over the deaths of his comrades. I get that.
Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
First of all, he'd hardly be the first person to defend brutal tactics used by someone on his side and then be pissed off when someone uses them on him. Second, what Raupeneck did as described is really not the same thing Henselt did to the Blue Stripes.
Roche's men were killed and he was pissed off - I think anyone would be, I don't see why that's inconsistent at all.
Also he states he was infuriated that they weren't even given the chance to die fighting/in combat. He was angry his unit was lured under the guise of him being given an honor/celebration by the king, and were then ambushed and hanged.
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Once you got that the fight is pretty easy
Upgraded Ignii makes all the harpy fights a complete joke. First of all, they clump together. Second of all, they're weak to fire (it's even in the monster manual for them). Lastly, upgraded ignii features aoe and incineration.
I got bored fighting them and just ran in with upgraded Quen and watched them kill themselves after a while.
Heliotrope is God Mode. After getting that you realize why everyone treats Geralt with respect. This dude used to be able to do crazy shit like this all the time before he lost his memory. You don't mess with that, even a little bit. Dude is a monster.
I am also beginning to think my game is not very responsive because maybe I should be turning down even more graphical settings
See, I didn't even know there was a Queen in there. Granted, I'm on Normal and had a two fire rune'd 30-33 red meteorite silver sword as a 100% Swordsman specialist. I was cleaving through bitches left and right without any signs or bombs. It's all about combos and rolling. Whirl helps a bit, too. Group Finishers might've also come in handy.
The weird thing is, I'm on a q6600 OC'd to 3.2GHZ, 6 gigs of ram and a 4890 HD OC'd to 975mhz and I don't remember where I've got the memory at. I've got everything on as high as it will go, save for ubersampling which I have set to 1, versus the 2 that the configuration utility sets it to, and this game is like butter. I'm getting between 50-55 consistently, usually will go up to ~60 or so, only ever dips down to 45 when I'm in a heavily populated area.
its their anti-piracy thing, you can only get updates via the dlc menu if you've registered your cd key.
I will see if it is more responsive on a work machine, and look into upgrading in the future, because my machine is pretty balls compared to that
That's something I dig, Geralt is just such an obscenely badass monster slayer in the setting.
Apparently it ups your damage crazily.
Replacing my retail .exe with the GoG.exe does wonders. I also tried the hotfix, but I'm not really sure how much benefit I'm getting.
Nope go magic or swordtree
save Alchemy for a 2nd run because it can be iffy
Alchemy is pretty fuckin sweet though on hard. You really have to prepare on that and there is a lot of satisfaction in stockpiling herbs and materials and everything just gels with some alchemy talents.
Man, if I was a witcher, I'd just have a thousand daggers. I would make a cloak out of daggers, and then make pockets to hold daggers, out of daggers.
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Then we transition to Chapter 3, and the first thing that Roche says is a defence of some Marshal Raupeneck, who massacred a bunch of elves, some presumably innocent. Roche also says that in times of war, commanders must do drastic things for victory.
Erm what? Wasn't that precisely what Henselt did with suspected spies camping right at his doorstep?
How can Roche justifiably accuse Henselt of murdering people in cold blood when he can see the logic of sending people to their deaths for victory?
Maybe Roche was too emotional over the deaths of his men. I can understand that. But then how does such an emotionally conflicted man run a secret military organisation for Temeria?! Something doesn't make sense.
Incidentally, what was up with Ves by the end of Chapter 2? I expected more from Geralt's comments when he left the camp canteen.
I've read the last wish, haven't got around to blood of elves just yet but i got the gist of the story for the saga, and in regard to the game picking up point
the next book in the saga is due out in english next year according to amazon.
Is that in chapter one? I remember one blade in that chapter that actually required TWO tiers of materials to build. I was wondering what was going on, too, until I realized I didn't have enough for that second tier.
Same with hardened armor and the cloth recipe, no crafters make it. I checked all 3 in Flotsam and the outside area.
Well this is embarrassing, I didn't scroll down
I really want to know what is up with Ves.
Yep, I think Ves is either bugged or unfinished content. The way it worked for me was that she seemed to be just written off.
Maybe there's a place to follow up on her, but I haven't seen it anywhere myself.
Strange, because the hint is quite interesting. Maybe the patch'll fix it.
Hopefully, this isn't the syndrome she suffered under. At 3:33.
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I half-expected some mind control or some double-crossing shit. But nothing. At the moment it just seemed like she's still enjoying the afterglow of being sexed by an older man.
Good stuff. I was hoping that was the case, so reading the other books won't be repetative from the looks of things. Now hurry up and translate those bitches
Sixty -40- on Origin for some ME3 goodness.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/brilliantinsanity/
Roche's men were killed and he was pissed off - I think anyone would be, I don't see why that's inconsistent at all.
Sixty -40- on Origin for some ME3 goodness.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/brilliantinsanity/
edit: Its already on youtube, if you want to search for it. But it is also really spoilery, so yeah