Fuck. Wraiths. Seriously, fuck these guys. I was in the middle of doing the bug queen hunts. And I wandered into the area that triggers this quest. The bug queens shouldn't be anywhere near the asylum right? Because being tag team fistfucked by asshole ghosts when you're set up to chop down an army of MANTIS MEN isn't fun.
Do you mean you are aggroing Wraiths while in the middle of fighting Endregas? Don't they sometimes end up fighting each other? During the Malena quest the Scoia'tel ambush got delayed by a sudden influx of Drowners, letting me set up some bombs and traps.
I have only fought Wraiths in the hospital, but I find rolling around then stabbing in the back very useful. If overwhelmed, just run!
No I ended up in the hospital by accident. There shouldn't be any queens in that area so I probably read my map wrong. I probably should have just reloaded when that guy came coming over the hill. But just to be clear the queen pods to draw them out of predator mode should be in the same general area right?
I think so. I haven't completed the Endregas quest yet so I am not sure. I have come across two pods clustered together (which I promptly chopped up).
Rolling is really fantastic. I cannot emphasise that enough. Getting the first Dodge upgrade is almost necessary for how much manoeuvrability it gives you.
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I beat the monk downstairs in the inn at dice and it told me I'd unlock something and that I should go to (I think) the extras section on the main menu. But the only thing there is the credits. I don't remember exactly what the monk said though. Does anyone know what that is?
I beat the monk downstairs in the inn at dice and it told me I'd unlock something and that I should go to (I think) the extras section on the main menu. But the only thing there is the credits. I don't remember exactly what the monk said though. Does anyone know what that is?
Apparently it's an in-game advertising for GoG. Something called www.goodoldmonk.com or something.
The camera angle and the new dice make it difficult to see what numbers you get.
I just realised that sometimes Geralt is able to pull off attack combos, like a triple mid-air spin that hits the enemy multiple times. Anyone have any idea how to pull this off?
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Mashing.
Additionally, Geralt is capable of freeform target to target combat like Batman AA
I am not always able to pull off combos. Wish the manual gave more details on this. W + LMB sometimes gives me a front row and stab, other times it's a jumping stab. Completely random. And the jumping stab is slow, so you can get hit when you W + LMB thinking the enemy has left an opening, when he suddenly blocks.
Sorry if I sound complainy. I do like the combat. But it really needs more responsive input and some command-cancelling.
Yeah, the responsiveness is a nuisance. Just started, and Geralt's inability to pull a sign off until he comes to neutral position or whatever has unpleasant consequences. When moving forward and attacking, if I don't stop advancing before attacking, Geralt does a little two-step shuffle after the swing.
I hope they can eventually remedy this with a patch, because it's a slight tarnish on a system I'm really liking.
I am not always able to pull off combos. Wish the manual gave more details on this. W + LMB sometimes gives me a front row and stab, other times it's a jumping stab. Completely random. And the jumping stab is slow, so you can get hit when you W + LMB thinking the enemy has left an opening, when he suddenly blocks.
Sorry if I sound complainy. I do like the combat. But it really needs more responsive input and some command-cancelling.
The choice of those animations seems based on distance, but there's a lot of randomness to it, too. The weird thing is that some of them have higher damage than others. There's one that has three separate hits and will practically instant kill enemies. I don't know if it's a crit or a combo hit that bugs out into playing on the first strike or what.
The thing is that it seems like starting a fast attack is supposed to interrupt the AI a bit of the enemy you're attacking if they're open to an attack when you click. When you start the attack, they'll freeze, and that makes the combat work properly. Sometimes it doesn't interrupt them, though, and they'll just hit you out of every attack you start regardless of whether they're even open or not.
Also, it takes 3 points to get it, but the sword talent of being able to hit multiple people is great, as it means that they are all getting stunlocked. Also, using walls and chokepoints is very advantageous. Allowed me to take on about 8 guys in a house.
I'm doing the ch1 nekker contact. I blew up one nest by left-clicking on it when it told me to, but now when I left-click on the next one Geralt just stands there and goes "I've got to blow up this nest." Huh? Is there something I need to do?
Edit: nvm figured it out. You need grapeshot to destroy the nests. But now I can't find the last two. I've looked everywhere...
I'm doing the ch1 nekker contact. I blew up one nest by left-clicking on it when it told me to, but now when I left-click on the next one Geralt just stands there and goes "I've got to blow up this nest." Huh? Is there something I need to do?
Are you out of grapeshot bombs? Those are the specific bombs you need to close the nests
I'm doing the ch1 nekker contact. I blew up one nest by left-clicking on it when it told me to, but now when I left-click on the next one Geralt just stands there and goes "I've got to blow up this nest." Huh? Is there something I need to do?
It's kind of goofy and you don't figure it out until you've unlocked the 3rd tier journal entry for nekkers.
You have to have grapeshot bombs in your inventory.
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I like that there's very little hand holding as far as the quests go. I found out what to do by actually reading the book text on nekkers from the dorf bookstore
I'm doing the ch1 nekker contact. I blew up one nest by left-clicking on it when it told me to, but now when I left-click on the next one Geralt just stands there and goes "I've got to blow up this nest." Huh? Is there something I need to do?
Edit: nvm figured it out. You need grapeshot to destroy the nests. But now I can't find the last two. I've looked everywhere...
Three of them are clustered close to each other. The last one is near the waterfall.
I like that there's very little hand holding as far as the quests go. I found out what to do by actually reading the book text on nekkers from the dorf bookstore
I'm pretty sure I found that book in the monastery basement at the end of the prologue as well. Along with a whole pile of useful ingredients.
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That reminds me, is anyone having trouble registering their copy?
I made an account through the launcher, but when I try to login it tells me it's an invalid username. If I try to reset my password it tells me it's sent an email but I never receive it. I've checked that the email address is correct by trying to make a second account with the same address and it refuses as the address has already been used. I've not received any emails from them at all, not even the usual account activation email that comes with opening any account nowadays.
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I've owned The Witcher 1 since launch, but I just now managed to make myself sit down and get past act 2 and beat the game. Holy shit that was an awesome end game.
Does anyone know how to actually use all these mutagens?
You put them into skills. Open your skill menu and click on a skill with an open mutagen slot (should be an empty slot in the top-right of skills that can hold them). I don't think there's any way to swap them out though, so you should probably only use the Greater mutagens.
I think there is no point saving the slots for better mutagens, since you are likely to have some use for lesser/mid-level mutagens throughout the game. A lesser mutagen used earlier means more returns in the long-run.
So where can I get endrega teeth? I want some to forge this one sword - but endregas don't seem to spawn anymore, and that witch girl in the village outside the walls won't seem to stock anymore.
Anyone know if you can activate the Witcher 1 from the demo version? I can't find my damn install discs but I still have my manual and key. If not maybe from Steam? I don't know if I can activate it there since I've used the key before.
Anyone know if you can activate the Witcher 1 from the demo version? I can't find my damn install discs but I still have my manual and key. If not maybe from Steam? I don't know if I can activate it there since I've used the key before.
Nope to both, I'm afraid - serial can't be activated on Steam, and the demo is only a tiny chunk of the full game (and is based on the original edition anyway). Not sure what the legal grey area is on aquiring a direct, uncracked copy of the iso and using your legitimate serial key on it is, but it's honestly far less effort to rebuy it for $5 here - no DRM, so you don't have to worry about losing your key or discs, and it's patched to the latest version (as well as containing all the extras you may or may not already have from the Enhanced Edition).
Man, those wraiths at the asylum are kicking my ass.
Specter Oil helps if you picked it up. They don't seem to be fully stunned by attacks, so you'll be hit-and-running almost constantly. Just dodge by their attack, hit them twice, and dodge away. Once you get one down, you can push the other up against a wall and light attack them down. Just play it patiently, and keep Quen up at all times.
The first encounter is the hardest. The others you'll generally be able to isolate them.
Man, those wraiths at the asylum are kicking my ass.
Specter Oil helps if you picked it up. They don't seem to be fully stunned by attacks, so you'll be hit-and-running almost constantly. Just dodge by their attack, hit them twice, and dodge away. Once you get one down, you can push the other up against a wall and light attack them down. Just play it patiently, and keep Quen up at all times.
The first encounter is the hardest. The others you'll generally be able to isolate them.
Roll, roll, roll and roll. Learn to anticipate their attacks - they will usually rear up a little to swing - and do the mid-roll trick and stab them in the back.
So I caved. This game is so good (and definitely the best looking game yet. Just... jesus)
Bummed that thunderbolt is kind of shit now. +20% damage with a -50% health trade off. Really?
edit: I guess this might have something to due with the new alchemy tree. Being a low level witcher I haven't even looked at it yet. I assume there are ways to negate this sort of thing?
Anyone know if you can activate the Witcher 1 from the demo version? I can't find my damn install discs but I still have my manual and key. If not maybe from Steam? I don't know if I can activate it there since I've used the key before.
Nope to both, I'm afraid - serial can't be activated on Steam, and the demo is only a tiny chunk of the full game (and is based on the original edition anyway). Not sure what the legal grey area is on aquiring a direct, uncracked copy of the iso and using your legitimate serial key on it is, but it's honestly far less effort to rebuy it for $5 here - no DRM, so you don't have to worry about losing your key or discs, and it's patched to the latest version (as well as containing all the extras you may or may not already have from the Enhanced Edition).
Only $5? Eff the extra work I'll just buy another copy. They deserve the money anyway. Danke sir.
So I caved. This game is so good (and definitely the best looking game yet. Just... jesus)
Bummed that thunderbolt is kind of shit now. +20% damage with a -50% health trade off. Really?
edit: I guess this might have something to due with the new alchemy tree. Being a low level witcher I haven't even looked at it yet. I assume there are ways to negate this sort of thing?
Yep, there's a skill that both increases the bonuses and decreases the negatives of potions.
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So I'm hearing that this game doesn't support setups running SLI/Crossfire
a fix I hear tossed around is to disable it so that one gpu is doing the work instead of one gpu doing half the work and the other half getting lost in limbo.
What the fucking fuck am I supposed to do? I hack off some limbs and then there's a QTE thing. Then it starts throwing rocks at me. There's an orange glowing part but I cant get close to it or I get electrocuted by something. It's too far away to hit with igni. If I go into the open I get hit with rocks and stunlocked to death. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now. ???????
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What the fucking fuck am I supposed to do? I hack off some limbs and then there's a QTE thing. Then it starts throwing rocks at me. There's an orange glowing part but I cant get close to it or I get electrocuted by something. It's too far away to hit with igni. If I go into the open I get hit with rocks and stunlocked to death. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now. ???????
Juke left and go up the ramp made by the fallen pillar that fell on the fat bastard's neck. Receive your tail carve and craft yourself some bitching tentacle monster clothes
This is exactly what I keep thinking as I play--that THIS is the RPG that failed to happen when DA2 came out not to long ago.
I enjoyed DA2, but the dialogue was boring with the same 3 choice types as usual... not to mention the re-used non-open world going on.
DA2 has a bit smoother combat... or maybe its just easier, because when you are kicking ass well with Geralt it feels smooth too. But for story and dialogue choices, The Witcher 2 performs a giant fucking teabag to the crap that was DA2.
What the fucking fuck am I supposed to do? I hack off some limbs and then there's a QTE thing. Then it starts throwing rocks at me. There's an orange glowing part but I cant get close to it or I get electrocuted by something. It's too far away to hit with igni. If I go into the open I get hit with rocks and stunlocked to death. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now. ???????
you have to roll dodge and get to that marker, that is if you have a kayran trap, if not you have to use yrden, its tricky and i died a few times figuring it all out, you have to start where the orange marker is, then go to the other side, take out that one in the same way (or with yrden) then take out the back two and then when it swoops for you, youll get a qte to jump on him and after that the pillar will fall on it and then you just run up and score a homerun.
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Rolling is really fantastic. I cannot emphasise that enough. Getting the first Dodge upgrade is almost necessary for how much manoeuvrability it gives you.
Steam achievements and cloud saves, basically.
Apparently it's an in-game advertising for GoG. Something called www.goodoldmonk.com or something.
The camera angle and the new dice make it difficult to see what numbers you get.
Additionally, Geralt is capable of freeform target to target combat like Batman AA
"...only mights and maybes."
Sorry if I sound complainy. I do like the combat. But it really needs more responsive input and some command-cancelling.
I hope they can eventually remedy this with a patch, because it's a slight tarnish on a system I'm really liking.
Also game is gorgeous geez.
The thing is that it seems like starting a fast attack is supposed to interrupt the AI a bit of the enemy you're attacking if they're open to an attack when you click. When you start the attack, they'll freeze, and that makes the combat work properly. Sometimes it doesn't interrupt them, though, and they'll just hit you out of every attack you start regardless of whether they're even open or not.
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.
Never allow yourself to get surrounded.
Steam // Secret Satan
Edit: nvm figured it out. You need grapeshot to destroy the nests. But now I can't find the last two. I've looked everywhere...
It needs more
Are you out of grapeshot bombs? Those are the specific bombs you need to close the nests
"...only mights and maybes."
It's kind of goofy and you don't figure it out until you've unlocked the 3rd tier journal entry for nekkers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OLcAGbXhWIVcl5IziVpG0eKFJS3xi_Sac9kYMkRFvD8/edit?usp=sharing
"...only mights and maybes."
Three of them are clustered close to each other. The last one is near the waterfall.
I'm pretty sure I found that book in the monastery basement at the end of the prologue as well. Along with a whole pile of useful ingredients.
Edit: I figured it out. You have to register your game first through the launcher, login, and then you can enter your code.
I made an account through the launcher, but when I try to login it tells me it's an invalid username. If I try to reset my password it tells me it's sent an email but I never receive it. I've checked that the email address is correct by trying to make a second account with the same address and it refuses as the address has already been used. I've not received any emails from them at all, not even the usual account activation email that comes with opening any account nowadays.
My copy of TW2 arrives tomorrow. Soooooo excited.
You put them into skills. Open your skill menu and click on a skill with an open mutagen slot (should be an empty slot in the top-right of skills that can hold them). I don't think there's any way to swap them out though, so you should probably only use the Greater mutagens.
Nope to both, I'm afraid - serial can't be activated on Steam, and the demo is only a tiny chunk of the full game (and is based on the original edition anyway). Not sure what the legal grey area is on aquiring a direct, uncracked copy of the iso and using your legitimate serial key on it is, but it's honestly far less effort to rebuy it for $5 here - no DRM, so you don't have to worry about losing your key or discs, and it's patched to the latest version (as well as containing all the extras you may or may not already have from the Enhanced Edition).
Specter Oil helps if you picked it up. They don't seem to be fully stunned by attacks, so you'll be hit-and-running almost constantly. Just dodge by their attack, hit them twice, and dodge away. Once you get one down, you can push the other up against a wall and light attack them down. Just play it patiently, and keep Quen up at all times.
The first encounter is the hardest. The others you'll generally be able to isolate them.
Roll, roll, roll and roll. Learn to anticipate their attacks - they will usually rear up a little to swing - and do the mid-roll trick and stab them in the back.
Stab stab stab.
Bummed that thunderbolt is kind of shit now. +20% damage with a -50% health trade off. Really?
edit: I guess this might have something to due with the new alchemy tree. Being a low level witcher I haven't even looked at it yet. I assume there are ways to negate this sort of thing?
Only $5? Eff the extra work I'll just buy another copy. They deserve the money anyway. Danke sir.
Yep, there's a skill that both increases the bonuses and decreases the negatives of potions.
a fix I hear tossed around is to disable it so that one gpu is doing the work instead of one gpu doing half the work and the other half getting lost in limbo.
Can anyone confirm/deny?
"...only mights and maybes."
Where? I'm looking under DLC right now and I just see the English ones and Troll Trouble.
"...only mights and maybes."
This is exactly what I keep thinking as I play--that THIS is the RPG that failed to happen when DA2 came out not to long ago.
I enjoyed DA2, but the dialogue was boring with the same 3 choice types as usual... not to mention the re-used non-open world going on.
DA2 has a bit smoother combat... or maybe its just easier, because when you are kicking ass well with Geralt it feels smooth too. But for story and dialogue choices, The Witcher 2 performs a giant fucking teabag to the crap that was DA2.
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