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I scavenged like 20 traps in the forest and placed them all in between me and those Nekkers. They oneshot the little ones and twoshot the big ones. Hilarity ensued.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Being in the nekker cave getting my ass raped by thousands of nekkers
I'm seriously beginning to wonder about the combat....
They don't walk close to the cliff that you had to jump down. Just kill a few, walk back and regen then kill a few more. It's what I did. It took a damn long time though.
On the subject of doing things wrong, group finishers are so good that I didn't think anything of it when my steel sword was unequipped by a cutscene and I spent the next two hours hacking at people doing only Minimal Damage. I thought they'd just sprouted plot armor.
Eventually I just happened to open my inventory and oh hey my sword. Woops.
My most recent bonehead discovery: When you're locked on, you'll see their icon change briefly when you have the chance to riposte.
I'm going high magic with perhaps some dabbling in alchemy. I love using the signs. Charming dudes into killing their buddies for me never gets old. I also really like the trap one.
I laughed when you first get to Flotsam and they mention they're hanging a dwarf and a bard. I just went "GOSH I WONDER WHO THAT COULD BE".
Haha, I'm guessing most of us thought it. Already those of us who played through the first and I absolutely lice the way the journal is written. Makes so much sense.
Can't change controls? Ffs, have to edit them manually now. Otherwise all is well, playing on mostly high settings on my C2D system.
You can change some of the controls in the launcher. It doesn't work with all keys tho.
Well, yes. Can't change movement keys to cursors.
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
If I could send a message back in time to myself, it would read something like, "THROW MORE BOMBS. THROW MORE DAGGERS. USE MORE SPELLS. SET MORE TRAPS. Seriously you're playing a walking armory stop trying to cut things to death and growling when you reload."
Throwing knives are pretty good. I have a ton because iron and lumber weigh a lot and they're made from 2 iron one lumber.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
This game is truly hard as a sack full of nails at the beginning, I don't know if I could have got through the opening act without the trap spell to help me in the big fights against lots of soldiers. Ha, and I was all excited when I leveled up the first time and thought I might be able to get something good... +10 health, woo.
The combat is really poorly explained though, sometimes I do these flashy special moves, sometimes not. Sometimes I seem to just eat the enemies for breakfast and whip about, other times I'm lumbering about swinging at air.
I even got an 'assasin' ability which appeared at random that I can't figure out what does.
The voice work and acting is great though, more atmosphere in the first 30 minutes than in the whole game of DA2. And I haven't even been inside the same dungeon once yet!
Throwing knives are pretty good. I have a ton because iron and lumber weigh a lot and they're made from 2 iron one lumber.
When can you pick up the schematic?
I'm pretty sure its from the dwarven blacksmiths in Flotsam.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
I haven't even used any traps yet, been hoarding the shit.
I'm thinking I'll use them if I get to the point of reloading you're all describing, but..... I'm about 20hrs into the game, game's piss easy.
I'm playing on Normal.
Are you all playing on like the hardest difficulties or something?
Maybe I should do that.
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BeezelThere was no agreement little morsel..Registered Userregular
edited May 2011
Chapter 1 spoilers
JWhoo boy. Well I did a string of quests. Got one where Some local boys were accusing an elf chick of murderdeathkill. Since Witcher elves are the equivalent of Batarians I was going to keep stepping but I got a good look at her. A solid 7, maybe 8 if you're drunk. And it's our old boy Geralt so naturally he'll fuck anything with a pulse and a smile. I made up my mind! "I'm going to help Geralt get some trim!" This process involved going into a cave to get gangfucked by nekkers but I persevered! Oh hey...soldiers....hum they have arrows stuck in their backs.
Well it looks like I have a moral dilemma here. Tell the truth and send elvish maiden to the gallows, or lie. Lie and get that elf booty. I chose to lie. Oh shit she's grateful! Our old boy Geralt is IN LIKE FLYNN. Meet her out in the woods? Sure! Maybe there's a hot scene where you slambang this chick against a tree and...oh...hey those are mean words...TREACHERY! Holy shit elf muggers! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL! What are you running from elf lady? The disease is inside of you! Long story short the devs knew we'd expect sex and tricked us
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Tentacle monster boss fight was that good shit. And now I have sweet monster skivvies
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"...only mights and maybes."
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The Rocking MBrisbane, AustraliaRegistered Userregular
edited May 2011
Dancing Stars and Grapeshot bombs make combat against groups ridiculously easy I suggest everyone stock up on those.
I haven't even used any traps yet, been hoarding the shit.
I'm thinking I'll use them if I get to the point of reloading you're all describing, but..... I'm about 20hrs into the game, game's piss easy.
I'm playing on Normal.
Are you all playing on like the hardest difficulties or something?
Maybe I should do that.
Mostly we're just doing it wrong, over and over and over again.
Habits from other games intruding and getting us horribly murdered, or just failing miserably for some other reason.
I blame Monster Hunter for much of my suffering. You wouldn't believe how many times I got myself pancaked hoping for invincibility frames on my roll, or the number of utterly unsuccessful jukes I made when I should have just kept going straight.
guys how do i destory nekker nests? he just keeps saying he needs to blow this shit up and im thinking ok, with bombs amirite? and bombs are not doing anything. :?
You need to get the Grapeshot design from Cedric. They're the only bombs that can blow up the tunnels. It was mentioned in the book you read about nekkers.
Oh shit. There are hidden abilities based on the Prologue:
Axii - intimidation and persuasion being all givens
Backstabber - this is the default first ability, obtained during the attack on La Vallette's castle in Prologue. The ability is further developed any time Geralt fights among three or more sides, where his opponents are busy staving off other foes so Geralt's hits land most often on enemies' unprotected backs. The ability grants a 20% damage bonus when attacking from behind at level 1.
Cover - this ability develops if you manage to stay under Triss's protective umbrella without exiting it at any moment during the early part of Chapter 1. Typically the ability grants a 5% damage reduction bonus.
Strong Back - denotes Geralt's affinity to carry a lot of loot. Encumbrance in the Witcher 2 is nothing really crippling (it only makes you walk slower and disables combat rolls); in fact, it can actually work to your advantage. If you manage to collect a lot of items while sneaking through La Vallette's Dungeons in Prologue, the ability will grant you additional 5 to 10 pounds of maximum weight, depending on your total encumbrance upon reaching Pontar Valley.
I only got the Axii one I think
I got everything except cover, and the strong back thing gave me 50 extra pounds of carry weight.
It seems the autoconfig has trouble to detect the proper settings for ATI cards. It put everything at minimal settings for my Gigabyte Radeon 5850. I set everything to max beside Ubersampling and disabled motion blur, and it runs great. 4 GB of RAM, windows 7 (64 bit), Intel core i5 2.67 GHz. The game is absolutely beautiful.
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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
Is anyone else seeing slight vertical lines? I have a 6870 with Catalyst 11.3. Downloading 11.5 now.
Edit - Apparently it's due to dithering and is a "design choice". Until they patch the option to take it out, we're stuck with it
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...and I thought of how all those people died, and what a good death that is. That nobody can blame you for it, because everyone else died along with you, and it is the fault of none, save those who did the killing.
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After the 20th reload of:
I'm seriously beginning to wonder about the combat....
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Just pull a few at a time and scrag em. Worked a treat for me, they're not all linked.
They don't walk close to the cliff that you had to jump down. Just kill a few, walk back and regen then kill a few more. It's what I did. It took a damn long time though.
ARRRGGGHHH!! *snaps keyboard in two*
Much worse.
I love this game.
On the subject of doing things wrong, group finishers are so good that I didn't think anything of it when my steel sword was unequipped by a cutscene and I spent the next two hours hacking at people doing only Minimal Damage. I thought they'd just sprouted plot armor.
Eventually I just happened to open my inventory and oh hey my sword. Woops.
My most recent bonehead discovery: When you're locked on, you'll see their icon change briefly when you have the chance to riposte.
Haha, I'm guessing most of us thought it. Already those of us who played through the first and I absolutely lice the way the journal is written. Makes so much sense.
Well, yes. Can't change movement keys to cursors.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
I still do it but now I know I'm doing wrong.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
When can you pick up the schematic?
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The combat is really poorly explained though, sometimes I do these flashy special moves, sometimes not. Sometimes I seem to just eat the enemies for breakfast and whip about, other times I'm lumbering about swinging at air.
I even got an 'assasin' ability which appeared at random that I can't figure out what does.
The voice work and acting is great though, more atmosphere in the first 30 minutes than in the whole game of DA2. And I haven't even been inside the same dungeon once yet!
I'm pretty sure its from the dwarven blacksmiths in Flotsam.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
I haven't even used any traps yet, been hoarding the shit.
I'm thinking I'll use them if I get to the point of reloading you're all describing, but..... I'm about 20hrs into the game, game's piss easy.
I'm playing on Normal.
Are you all playing on like the hardest difficulties or something?
Maybe I should do that.
Well it looks like I have a moral dilemma here. Tell the truth and send elvish maiden to the gallows, or lie. Lie and get that elf booty. I chose to lie. Oh shit she's grateful! Our old boy Geralt is IN LIKE FLYNN. Meet her out in the woods? Sure! Maybe there's a hot scene where you slambang this chick against a tree and...oh...hey those are mean words...TREACHERY! Holy shit elf muggers! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL! What are you running from elf lady? The disease is inside of you! Long story short the devs knew we'd expect sex and tricked us
Other spoiler
"...only mights and maybes."
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Mostly we're just doing it wrong, over and over and over again.
Habits from other games intruding and getting us horribly murdered, or just failing miserably for some other reason.
I blame Monster Hunter for much of my suffering. You wouldn't believe how many times I got myself pancaked hoping for invincibility frames on my roll, or the number of utterly unsuccessful jukes I made when I should have just kept going straight.
And lets not forget all the failed ripostes.
Aim directly at the thing, don't do any silly elevation stuff.
I think. It's how I did it.
Strange. When I did that he said "One and a half degrees" and the king promptly took out that piece of rampart.
Mine said "Two and a half degrees" and the guy ducked.
Canonically everything Geralt touches goes to shit anyway, so its not like you're doing the narrative a disservice.
I just want to get my outfit from Amazon and the Troll DLC.
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I got everything except cover, and the strong back thing gave me 50 extra pounds of carry weight.
FUCK YEAH, GET SOME
"...only mights and maybes."
Edit - Apparently it's due to dithering and is a "design choice". Until they patch the option to take it out, we're stuck with it
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
Waay at the end of the Magic tree. It's a bullet-time sign.