Also I didn't know before going into the fight about a specific method of killing him and I hadn't talented that anyway.
Semi-related, is there some way to respec? Like, at all, even by resetting values in a file or something? I have just been randomly putting talents into things that sounded mildly interesting.
i finally reinstalled this and decided to try and beat it again, since the last time i kind of flickered out on it in Act 3.
mostly because all this witcher 2 hub bub.
My Win7 64bit did not like the 32bit tages driver that witcher installed, caused me no end of problems even after i patched to 1.5 and removed tages.
I'm running Win7 64bit as well, and had 0 problems with tages after I updated the game. Sounds like more technical jankyness.
the only remaining issue is some weird thing where windows boots into the login screen even though i have it set up to sign automatically into my user account.
started right after i installed witcher but before i patched. weird issue and seemingly unrelated, but with no other changes to the system it has to be that.
Also I didn't know before going into the fight about a specific method of killing him and I hadn't talented that anyway.
Semi-related, is there some way to respec? Like, at all, even by resetting values in a file or something? I have just been randomly putting talents into things that sounded mildly interesting.
You're not far enough for it to really matter. By the end of the game you get enough bronze talents to fill out most everything. There aren't many bad choices for building a guy anyways. Unless you stick it all signs and try to use swords or something.
Also I didn't know before going into the fight about a specific method of killing him and I hadn't talented that anyway.
Semi-related, is there some way to respec? Like, at all, even by resetting values in a file or something? I have just been randomly putting talents into things that sounded mildly interesting.
Doesn't matter in the first chapter, you'll have more than enough bronze talents that it won't matter later anyway. Things start getting a little more tricky when you start getting silver and gold talents.
Basically the drunken one, while amusing, is useless. Otherwise go with your gut, it's doubtful it'll hurt you in the long run.
EDIT: Whoops, captaink beat me to it. Damn that page 38!
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
Also I didn't know before going into the fight about a specific method of killing him and I hadn't talented that anyway.
Semi-related, is there some way to respec? Like, at all, even by resetting values in a file or something? I have just been randomly putting talents into things that sounded mildly interesting.
I'm not sure if it's a specific method so much as instakilling things stunned by Aard never gets old.
And you'll be in exp feeding frenzy soon enough so don't worry about respecs. You literally can fill up every Bronze talent by the end game IIRC. I got stuff like that stupid drunken fighting talent early on and still didn't really have huge trouble. The only real must have bronze talent is herbalism IMO but not like you get tons of potion recipes to use it for even if you beeline to it.
Edit: See? Everyone takes that dumb drunk one but we still manage.
Yeah, I thought the drunken thing was fun until the fun was over and I had to walk to the nearest campfire. It's so annoying to be stumbling around town when you want to get something DONE!
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"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
I finally, finally beat this. Bought it ages ago, played up to chapter 4, then the enhanced version came out, and I decided to restart. Only just got back to it now.
Well!
I have several problems with the game, the most major being that the pacing is extremely uneven. There are several parts where it just drags on and on and on, and you don't really do anything interesting or meet anyone interesting. Best chapters were 2 and 3 by far, but if I never have to trek all the way through Vizima again it'll be too soon. You won't hear me complaining about the sequel being shorter overall.
Also, the general lack of polish is more apparent than ever. The whole enhanced edition project was an incredible feat, but relatively speaking, the writing went from "incomprehensible" to "decent". There are times when the dialogue shines, but there are still untold cases of weird animation issues, poor voice acting and stiff character mannerisms. I thought the game looked good when it came out, but I won't say that time has been particularly generous to it.
And, god, the combat really isn't very compelling. Might be a side effect of the pacing issues, but by the end of the game I was pretty goddamn sick of drowners and fleders and whatever the fuck. I think they could've done a lot more with less - as is, there really isn't much, if any, variety in terms of mission or combat design. Take the Striga fight for instance; something that should've been really cool, but in reality you just run in circles around a sarcophagus while a poorly rendered monstrosity tries to figure out its pathfinding.
Maybe I'm sounding too harsh, as I really did like the game overall, but I think it's much too dense and dreary for me to want to play through it a third (or 2.5th) time. A lot of personality in the world, though, and some really cool branching storytelling mechanics. I really, really hope they can match their own ambitions in the sequel.
Also, is it just me or do the Greater Brothers look exactly like the big hammer dudes in Golden Axe?
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Oh, so I should just find someone on the "professional" list and play them? I guess I was expecting some quest complete notification prior to being able to start the next quest.
Oh, so I should just find someone on the "professional" list and play them? I guess I was expecting some quest complete notification prior to being able to start the next quest.
It's a little light on information. If I remember, the's a Pro in each chapter that you have to beat. Except 1 I guess.
The "professional" level players bet considerably more money than the novice level. is it an exponential curve as you go up in "difficulty" or no? Just wondering if I should spend some time farming some cash from these guys.
Anyway, in the middle of doing fedex quests in Act II and my biggest complaint about the game, thus far, is that.
The needless quests. All the "collect 5 drowner tongue" quests are totally worthless and add nothing to the game at all. There's enough combat in the actual main story that adding in that crap just isn't necessary. I really feel like they could just straight up remove every single bounty board mission and several of the side missions and the game would lose nothing for it. They could just scale up the money and xp rewards from the rest of everything to compensate and it would be a much better game.
I realize they were aiming to make you feel like you were in a living world, but it feels like that even without those dumb missions. I know they're optional but my personality and my desire to actually have enough money to buy things makes me do them.
Regardless it's not a very big complaint. It's just the only thing thus far, besides the unfairness of the ocassional dice game, that really sticks out at me as a bad thing in the game. All peoples complaints about the combat fall on deaf ears having spent the last week playing Oblivion.
Either way I'm having a grand time. I've had the game for awhile just never really touched it. I loaded it up the other day to test what happened if I turned off Catalyst A.I. and it was like a magical improvement in the performance of the game. I wanted to try a few quests with it running super smooth and well..I just didn't stop playing.
My problem isn't killing enough, it's having enough money to buy the books I need in order to even get crap to drop at all.
cant you get a lot of that information from the peasentry, I know you can get practically all the herb info for chapter 1 from the old women in exchange for food
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I'd like to think I'm almost done. Doing the Nehelenia mirror quest.
What the heck is a Sailor Moon villain doing in Witcher? O_o
(I'm sure this is a bit of mythology I'm not familiar with)
My problem isn't killing enough, it's having enough money to buy the books I need in order to even get crap to drop at all.
cant you get a lot of that information from the peasentry, I know you can get practically all the herb info for chapter 1 from the old women in exchange for food
I can't find anything like that in act 2. I'm talking to everyone, I checked the wikia for most of the books the antiquary sells and there's no alternate method of getting most of them without waiting for stuff in later chapters.
My problem isn't killing enough, it's having enough money to buy the books I need in order to even get crap to drop at all.
cant you get a lot of that information from the peasentry, I know you can get practically all the herb info for chapter 1 from the old women in exchange for food
Failing that, make sure you do the major monster hunts in each act, which will net you several hundred orens a piece. And immediately sell back books after you read them. You don't need them and you can get a pretty good chunk of their value back.
If you're really strapped for cash, from act 2 onwards I remember there being an ingredient that Kalkstein will buy for 50 orens each that are dropped by the drowners in the swamps. You can just grind on those for a while.
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I spent about 45 minutes earlier trying to beat the Beast
Little did I know that she can't die in that fight if you protected her from the villagers, she will fall down but will get up after a bit.
So many reloads trying to keep her up, and not dying myself at the same time.
Bleh.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
If it makes you feel better that's actually the hardest fight in the game and can be done fairly easy if you use a certain spell or two.
That's a bit disappointing.
Also I didn't know before going into the fight about a specific method of killing him and I hadn't talented that anyway.
Semi-related, is there some way to respec? Like, at all, even by resetting values in a file or something? I have just been randomly putting talents into things that sounded mildly interesting.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
mostly because all this witcher 2 hub bub.
My Win7 64bit did not like the 32bit tages driver that witcher installed, caused me no end of problems even after i patched to 1.5 and removed tages.
I'm running Win7 64bit as well, and had 0 problems with tages after I updated the game. Sounds like more technical jankyness.
the only remaining issue is some weird thing where windows boots into the login screen even though i have it set up to sign automatically into my user account.
started right after i installed witcher but before i patched. weird issue and seemingly unrelated, but with no other changes to the system it has to be that.
You're not far enough for it to really matter. By the end of the game you get enough bronze talents to fill out most everything. There aren't many bad choices for building a guy anyways. Unless you stick it all signs and try to use swords or something.
Doesn't matter in the first chapter, you'll have more than enough bronze talents that it won't matter later anyway. Things start getting a little more tricky when you start getting silver and gold talents.
Basically the drunken one, while amusing, is useless. Otherwise go with your gut, it's doubtful it'll hurt you in the long run.
EDIT: Whoops, captaink beat me to it. Damn that page 38!
I'm not sure if it's a specific method so much as instakilling things stunned by Aard never gets old.
And you'll be in exp feeding frenzy soon enough so don't worry about respecs. You literally can fill up every Bronze talent by the end game IIRC. I got stuff like that stupid drunken fighting talent early on and still didn't really have huge trouble. The only real must have bronze talent is herbalism IMO but not like you get tons of potion recipes to use it for even if you beeline to it.
Edit: See? Everyone takes that dumb drunk one but we still manage.
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how many times can you throw all six 5 five of a kinds, zoltan you cheating dwarf bastard.
EDIT: haha this guy is still a "novice". He's, quite literally, gotten 4 of a kind every single round for the last 15 minutes.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
what are you talking about, real witchers earn a living playing dice.
King Foltest wept after I bankrupted his kingdom.
Plus it gets you some unique stuff if you beat the 'boss' of each chapter.
Hey. Hey. Pazaak was fucking awesome. You didn't even need to abuse the quicksave system to make money with it.
there is no way in hell any sane algorithm would let a NPC get nothing but 6 high straights and 6 6 6 6 6 five of a kinds roll after roll after roll.
even when half their dice bounce completely off the board and screen
It started chugging for me once I got into the nice part of town.
That's what I meant. The part with the hookers.
Well!
I have several problems with the game, the most major being that the pacing is extremely uneven. There are several parts where it just drags on and on and on, and you don't really do anything interesting or meet anyone interesting. Best chapters were 2 and 3 by far, but if I never have to trek all the way through Vizima again it'll be too soon. You won't hear me complaining about the sequel being shorter overall.
Also, the general lack of polish is more apparent than ever. The whole enhanced edition project was an incredible feat, but relatively speaking, the writing went from "incomprehensible" to "decent". There are times when the dialogue shines, but there are still untold cases of weird animation issues, poor voice acting and stiff character mannerisms. I thought the game looked good when it came out, but I won't say that time has been particularly generous to it.
And, god, the combat really isn't very compelling. Might be a side effect of the pacing issues, but by the end of the game I was pretty goddamn sick of drowners and fleders and whatever the fuck. I think they could've done a lot more with less - as is, there really isn't much, if any, variety in terms of mission or combat design. Take the Striga fight for instance; something that should've been really cool, but in reality you just run in circles around a sarcophagus while a poorly rendered monstrosity tries to figure out its pathfinding.
Maybe I'm sounding too harsh, as I really did like the game overall, but I think it's much too dense and dreary for me to want to play through it a third (or 2.5th) time. A lot of personality in the world, though, and some really cool branching storytelling mechanics. I really, really hope they can match their own ambitions in the sequel.
Also, is it just me or do the Greater Brothers look exactly like the big hammer dudes in Golden Axe?
It says I've beaten 3 people and I should find professionals to play. But I've beaten more than that.
I beat the 3 people in Act 1, on top of the dwarf, the elf in the prison and a hooker.
But my quest still says something about Mikul.
What the shit?
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
If you got the professional then you're on the right track, all the ones from act 1 are novices so it doesn't matter how many you beat of those.
Try Thaler the fence, Velerad etc
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Seems I rolled a number! Bad luck for you, Geralt. Try again?
It's a little light on information. If I remember, the's a Pro in each chapter that you have to beat. Except 1 I guess.
Anyway, in the middle of doing fedex quests in Act II and my biggest complaint about the game, thus far, is that.
The needless quests. All the "collect 5 drowner tongue" quests are totally worthless and add nothing to the game at all. There's enough combat in the actual main story that adding in that crap just isn't necessary. I really feel like they could just straight up remove every single bounty board mission and several of the side missions and the game would lose nothing for it. They could just scale up the money and xp rewards from the rest of everything to compensate and it would be a much better game.
I realize they were aiming to make you feel like you were in a living world, but it feels like that even without those dumb missions. I know they're optional but my personality and my desire to actually have enough money to buy things makes me do them.
Regardless it's not a very big complaint. It's just the only thing thus far, besides the unfairness of the ocassional dice game, that really sticks out at me as a bad thing in the game. All peoples complaints about the combat fall on deaf ears having spent the last week playing Oblivion.
Either way I'm having a grand time. I've had the game for awhile just never really touched it. I loaded it up the other day to test what happened if I turned off Catalyst A.I. and it was like a magical improvement in the performance of the game. I wanted to try a few quests with it running super smooth and well..I just didn't stop playing.
Getting pretty excited about Witcher 2 now.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
seeing as your sole purpose in life is to find people who need things killed, and will want proof of that kill before payment
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
cant you get a lot of that information from the peasentry, I know you can get practically all the herb info for chapter 1 from the old women in exchange for food
What the heck is a Sailor Moon villain doing in Witcher? O_o
(I'm sure this is a bit of mythology I'm not familiar with)
I can't find anything like that in act 2. I'm talking to everyone, I checked the wikia for most of the books the antiquary sells and there's no alternate method of getting most of them without waiting for stuff in later chapters.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
If you're really strapped for cash, from act 2 onwards I remember there being an ingredient that Kalkstein will buy for 50 orens each that are dropped by the drowners in the swamps. You can just grind on those for a while.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
5k for the upgraded armor in vizima.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Not really worth it. You should get some armor from the main quest anyway
Yeah, totally. I finished chap 3 before I realized I forgot to save up for the armor; didn't really need it.