Doing that also solves the problem of Raven's Armour. It sucks ass to get that and be "Oh sweet, new armour" only to find out that you got the spellcaster version instead of the swordfighter version.
There are different versions? I've gone for all 3 sides, and I never noticed that. I mean, I know that you visit different places, but what are the different types?
There are different versions? I've gone for all 3 sides, and I never noticed that. I mean, I know that you visit different places, but what are the different types?
The three versions are
Scoia'tel get the spellcaster version, give extra endurance and endurance regen
Order get the swordfighter, gives vitality and regen and some other stuff maybe
Neutral gets a combination of both
It basically cuts out the need for a Tawny Owl if you focus on Signs, which I'm doing this run through. Unfortunately, I'm not going with the squirrels this time because I did that LAST time.
You're doing it wrong? Takes like, an hour to get used to timed clicking. Then you lose track of time. Before you know it you're tearing the life out of everything that moves without even noticing.
You want shitty melee combat? Go play Risen then come back here and tell me The Witcher is that bad.
I've always found it great when you get in a rhythm, and you end up cutting a swathe through what feels like the population of a largish city. Focusing on the timing, especially when you bump it up to the hardest difficulty and loose the mouse indicator, gets rather hypnotic.
You're doing it wrong? Takes like, an hour to get used to timed clicking. Then you lose track of time. Before you know it you're tearing the life out of everything that moves without even noticing.
You want shitty melee combat? Go play Risen then come back here and tell me The Witcher is that bad.
Geralt seems to be kind of slow at reacting when I tell him to attack people. Sometimes he just stands there and gets hit, or I stun a dude with Aard or whatever it's called and try to finish them off but he doesn't react, and then the stun passes and the enemy starts attacking me again. It's pretty annoying.
Most fights have been pretty straightforward so far, I'm not saying it's too hard. Although now I'm at
the fight with the Beast and a load of dogs after saving the witch from being burned in that first village
and I am just getting insta-raped. Seems like no matter what I do I get staggered loads and die within about 20 seconds.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Think I'm going to have to reload an earlier save and make some Blizzard to take with me to the fight, that stuff is amazing. Glad to hear it's one of the toughest fights though, I was kind of dreading things getting harder than that as the game went on.
so uninstalling/reinstalling did nothing to help Morenn's Thousand-Year-Old Boobs. they're still reaching her knees.
now looking to see if replacing the actual mesh will help
WHO KNOWS
EDIT: further research leads me to believe it's related to nvidia's 3D drivers. will investigate more tonight.
This might be the strangest bug I've ever heard of. Thumbs and boobs? It sounds like an obscure fetish mod.
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DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Are you playing the game in 3D Curly?
'Cause something tells me that could break the hell out of the game. You can already practically hear the Aurora engine creaking and groaning under the surface as it is.
'Cause something tells me that could break the hell out of the game. You can already practically hear the Aurora engine creaking and groaning under the surface as it is.
i'm not, but i have the 3D toggle enabled. i can turn that off in the drivers. :P
i had it on for wacky borderlands red/blue glasses shenanigans, and it nearly made me go blind
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DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Haha, yeah. I can totally see that with all the red and blue that's already in that game.
Think I'm going to have to reload an earlier save and make some Blizzard to take with me to the fight, that stuff is amazing. Glad to hear it's one of the toughest fights though, I was kind of dreading things getting harder than that as the game went on.
For me that was the hardest fight in the whole game.
Think I'm going to have to reload an earlier save and make some Blizzard to take with me to the fight, that stuff is amazing. Glad to hear it's one of the toughest fights though, I was kind of dreading things getting harder than that as the game went on.
For me that was the hardest fight in the whole game.
its only hard due to the game wiping all your buffs from you when you exit the cave any time after midnight, and you dont have time to reapply them during the fight and some people might not even notice them getting wiped, its not a bug persay but its never been fixed, since the whole event happens at night and the second you exit the cave the game will jump to the next 00:00 so if its 00:01 it will jump to the next night wiping all the potion preps.
best way to deal with it is to rest in the cave until something like 11:30/45 then buff up and go out so only 15/10 in game mins pass and you keep all the potion buffs, the fight is a piece of cake then.
Is it worth buying good armour and weapons? Some RPGs you always end up picking up crap that's better than anything you can buy.
A good steel sword can be found early in the game in the swamp, but it's guarded by wyvern (get that oil and buff up!)
Harvall can be found in Chapter II, or III in the swamp on a decomposing body on Wyvern Island (in the north central part of the swamp),
there's only 2 sets of armor you can get I think, one you can buy from vendors in vizima and the other you can collect late in the game, so if you got the moneys to spare you can get that early armor. Cant remember how much better it is than the standard one.
Remembe rthat you can sell back books once you learned the recipes in them.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
I managed to do it by downing a Blizzard as soon as the fight started. Reached the point of almost dying before I remembered to use Aard, which stunned the beast so it was dead 2 seconds later. Bit dumb not doing that sooner but I keep forgetting about the signs.
And now it's 5 hours later and I just stopped playing because my mouse hand hurts. Playing detective in Vizima is pretty fun. Don't really mind all the running about any more because there's a lot of stuff to do all over the place. Really love the design in this game, it totally looks like the designers made use of real buildings for references and there's loads of variety, Vizima looks so much more like a real, lived-in medieval European town than anywhere else I've seen in a fantasy game. Makes Oblivion's cities look even more like a cardboard movie set than they did before.
Also pleasantly surpised at how much dry humour there is. Geralt is constantly sassing people and people are constantly giving it back.
Still find the dialogue a bit like watching a really low budget film with rubbish actors sometimes. But overall I like it enough that I pre-ordered the sequel today. Pretty excited to imagine what it will be like if it's improved as much as those gameplay videos suggest.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Yep.
It's not so much the actual wording of things, by and large I think it's a fantastic translation and you can't really tell it was converted into English. It's more the actual delivery of lines. Sounds like the VA's all recorded their lines separately, without any real direction. Geralt especially can be pretty hilarious when he hears some dramatic news and responds with a dead "I see." I mean I know he's meant to be stoic and everything, but it still sounds funny.
It's only like 10-20% of the lines that sound like it. Kalkstein and that detective guy and a lot of the incidental characters sound pretty good actually. But Geralt and Shani in particular sometimes sound like they're in a B movie.
The most infuriating part of the Beast may be that the last autosave point prior to the fight starting is before the cutscenes outside the cave.
I think I tried the fight unsuccessfully 4-5 times before I managed to make a save right at the beginning of the actual battle.
All of my failing attempts I think I was trying to take down the pack of regular barghests before going after the Beast itself because I was under the impression that those damned things would heal him or something, and I tried kiting around and using food and stuff to heal but always ended up getting Pain-stunned and killed without accomplishing anything. I think I tried for an Aard stun a couple of times and got nowhere. Then on my final try I focused on the Beast exclusively, just went toe-to-toe with him, and for some reason he went down like a relative punk. Not sure what exactly made the difference. Abigail never did shit for me that I noticed aside from sell me the specter oil, although I think when I finally beat it all of the barghests may have happened to pick on her for some reason so I didn't get mobbed or have to use Group style. I can't really remember. I was just damned glad to have that over with.
Think I'm going to have to reload an earlier save and make some Blizzard to take with me to the fight, that stuff is amazing. Glad to hear it's one of the toughest fights though, I was kind of dreading things getting harder than that as the game went on.
That fight was ridiculous. I tried going in with the proper buffs and kiting and doing everything I could but was still getting raped - I had missed specter oil, which made it much harder than it needed to be. Eventually I just kept popping aard until the stun worked (best upgrade ever). I had just reloaded, immediate aard, stun, finishing blow. Shortest fight since, in game time.
It's a pity that that fight is such a bitch, because that whole sequence (from going to the inn to entering the city) was one of my favourite bits in a video game ever.
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4 is the one where you
The one away from Vizima?
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certain mages would have thumbs that stretched into the ground
i didn't mind it then cause it was rare
then in chapter 2 i meet a dryad and
HER TITS ARE STRETCHED INTO THE GROUND
backed up my saves. hoping a reinstall fixes it.
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The three versions are
Order get the swordfighter, gives vitality and regen and some other stuff maybe
Neutral gets a combination of both
:?
You're doing it wrong? Takes like, an hour to get used to timed clicking. Then you lose track of time. Before you know it you're tearing the life out of everything that moves without even noticing.
You want shitty melee combat? Go play Risen then come back here and tell me The Witcher is that bad.
Currently playing: GW2 and TSW
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Except for the fucking plant boss. Dear god.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
now looking to see if replacing the actual mesh will help
WHO KNOWS
EDIT: further research leads me to believe it's related to nvidia's 3D drivers. will investigate more tonight.
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Geralt seems to be kind of slow at reacting when I tell him to attack people. Sometimes he just stands there and gets hit, or I stun a dude with Aard or whatever it's called and try to finish them off but he doesn't react, and then the stun passes and the enemy starts attacking me again. It's pretty annoying.
Most fights have been pretty straightforward so far, I'm not saying it's too hard. Although now I'm at
This might be the strangest bug I've ever heard of. Thumbs and boobs? It sounds like an obscure fetish mod.
'Cause something tells me that could break the hell out of the game. You can already practically hear the Aurora engine creaking and groaning under the surface as it is.
i'm not, but i have the 3D toggle enabled. i can turn that off in the drivers. :P
i had it on for wacky borderlands red/blue glasses shenanigans, and it nearly made me go blind
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if it turns out that the 3D toggle is the issue, i'll post some before/after screenshots :P
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For me that was the hardest fight in the whole game.
its only hard due to the game wiping all your buffs from you when you exit the cave any time after midnight, and you dont have time to reapply them during the fight and some people might not even notice them getting wiped, its not a bug persay but its never been fixed, since the whole event happens at night and the second you exit the cave the game will jump to the next 00:00 so if its 00:01 it will jump to the next night wiping all the potion preps.
best way to deal with it is to rest in the cave until something like 11:30/45 then buff up and go out so only 15/10 in game mins pass and you keep all the potion buffs, the fight is a piece of cake then.
I'm not sure if you have to keep x alive, so don't worry too much about that. I went 'fuck! reload' but it wasn't necessary IIRC
A good steel sword can be found early in the game in the swamp, but it's guarded by wyvern (get that oil and buff up!)
there's only 2 sets of armor you can get I think, one you can buy from vendors in vizima and the other you can collect late in the game, so if you got the moneys to spare you can get that early armor. Cant remember how much better it is than the standard one.
Remembe rthat you can sell back books once you learned the recipes in them.
And now it's 5 hours later and I just stopped playing because my mouse hand hurts. Playing detective in Vizima is pretty fun. Don't really mind all the running about any more because there's a lot of stuff to do all over the place. Really love the design in this game, it totally looks like the designers made use of real buildings for references and there's loads of variety, Vizima looks so much more like a real, lived-in medieval European town than anywhere else I've seen in a fantasy game. Makes Oblivion's cities look even more like a cardboard movie set than they did before.
Also pleasantly surpised at how much dry humour there is. Geralt is constantly sassing people and people are constantly giving it back.
Still find the dialogue a bit like watching a really low budget film with rubbish actors sometimes. But overall I like it enough that I pre-ordered the sequel today. Pretty excited to imagine what it will be like if it's improved as much as those gameplay videos suggest.
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It's not so much the actual wording of things, by and large I think it's a fantastic translation and you can't really tell it was converted into English. It's more the actual delivery of lines. Sounds like the VA's all recorded their lines separately, without any real direction. Geralt especially can be pretty hilarious when he hears some dramatic news and responds with a dead "I see." I mean I know he's meant to be stoic and everything, but it still sounds funny.
It's only like 10-20% of the lines that sound like it. Kalkstein and that detective guy and a lot of the incidental characters sound pretty good actually. But Geralt and Shani in particular sometimes sound like they're in a B movie.
I think I tried the fight unsuccessfully 4-5 times before I managed to make a save right at the beginning of the actual battle.
All of my failing attempts I think I was trying to take down the pack of regular barghests before going after the Beast itself because I was under the impression that those damned things would heal him or something, and I tried kiting around and using food and stuff to heal but always ended up getting Pain-stunned and killed without accomplishing anything. I think I tried for an Aard stun a couple of times and got nowhere. Then on my final try I focused on the Beast exclusively, just went toe-to-toe with him, and for some reason he went down like a relative punk. Not sure what exactly made the difference. Abigail never did shit for me that I noticed aside from sell me the specter oil, although I think when I finally beat it all of the barghests may have happened to pick on her for some reason so I didn't get mobbed or have to use Group style. I can't really remember. I was just damned glad to have that over with.
That fight was ridiculous. I tried going in with the proper buffs and kiting and doing everything I could but was still getting raped - I had missed specter oil, which made it much harder than it needed to be. Eventually I just kept popping aard until the stun worked (best upgrade ever). I had just reloaded, immediate aard, stun, finishing blow. Shortest fight since, in game time.
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i got my problem fixed!
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I find it amusing that in the tv series they made her 14 and covered in badly applied green paint.