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.
Telling off the villagers was pretty badass.
Shame they forced me to chop them all into chunky bits.
Doing every side mission and being amazing at poker will get you there. My first run through I didn't buy the armour at all and still had barely enough to afford all the monster/herb books. Second run through and I am DROWNING in gold.
but mostly not spending a ton of money on expensive books until i absolutely need them.
as for wyverns, brew up an Argentia rub for your silver sword (plus 40% damage? fuckyes) and take a swallow. you also want to ingest that potion that offers resistance to poison. i think by that point i also had the skill that ups your natural poison resistance.
they still don't go down easy. feel free to run around and let swallow regen for a bit.
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edited March 2011
I managed to do the wyverns by luring them off one at a time and putting a fireball in their face, which I kind of assumed they'd be immune to, but apparently they're not.
Yeah I haven't played much dice because I've not been that lucky at it. Also I'm probably buying way too many books. I just hate getting out in the middle of nowhere, encountering a new plant or monster, and then not being able to get ingredients from it because I haven't read a stupid book. So I just read them all.
Yeah its good to keep in mind when you run into difficult locations, like that Wyvern camp in the swamp; most differing enemy types will fight each other.
I had initially picked them off one at a time when I went through there but for whatever reason forgot to save and subsequently got killed by something I can't remember. Maybe the Golem.
Anyway the next time I went through there I rounded up some Drowners and Drowned Dead and pulled them over to the wyverns. When trying to attack me the started fighting each other allowing me to kill all the wyverns from behind while they were occupied by the (to me) no threat drowners and such.
Worked quite well and got some great loot and xp from all the chaos.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Argh I don't know whether to
help the Scoiatel (I can't be arsed to look up the correct spelling) or the Order of the Rose. One is a bunch of terrorists and one is a cult, and they're both big old racists. Siegfried is pretty cool though. Maybe I could avoid getting involved but then I'll probably miss out on precious XPs.
I managed to do the wyverns by luring them off one at a time and putting a fireball in their face, which I kind of assumed they'd be immune to, but apparently they're not.
Yeah I haven't played much dice because I've not been that lucky at it. Also I'm probably buying way too many books. I just hate getting out in the middle of nowhere, encountering a new plant or monster, and then not being able to get ingredients from it because I haven't read a stupid book. So I just read them all.
Dice is massive bullshit. Just save before trying, the game seems to randomly determine the winner before the dice are rolled, so you'll see ridiculous comebacks in the second toss if the AI's first one was bad.
help the Scoiatel (I can't be arsed to look up the correct spelling) or the Order of the Rose. One is a bunch of terrorists and one is a cult, and they're both big old racists. Siegfried is pretty cool though. Maybe I could avoid getting involved but then I'll probably miss out on precious XPs.
Do whatever you think feels better.
There's no wrong or right, good or bad, in this conflict, or the game really.
It's one of the beauties of the Witcher. There's no imposed morality like in other RPG's where it's "clear" who is good and who is bad. It's more "real" in the sense that both sides have valid reasoning and points, neither side are the good guys, they both do shitty things, and neither side are the bad guys, they're both doing things that are positive.
It's a considerably less meaningful quest than what you're referring to but when I was playing the other day I had to choose whether or not to send some girl back with her brother or let her keep being a whore with
Vampires
.
I chose the latter and when you finish the quest by
killing the brother in a confrontation in the brothel
you make a snide comment about what kind of Witcher you've become, you're supposed to kill the monsters not help them.
But as soon as he said that, I said to myself "but I did kill the monster". The fact that the
Vampires
are literally monsters; at least what they were doing was moderately noble, as opposed to the brother.
Either way, it still wouldn't have been wrong to go either way, both had positives and negatives; I mean I did leave the girl to
become a vampire
for fucks sake.
Don't get me wrong, things like the morality wheel in, say, Mass Effect, or the karma system in Fallout 3/NV, fit those games fine. But sometimes it's way too blindingly obvious what the developers intended to be "right or wrong", "good or bad", and to me, that takes me out of the immersion of the game and story considerably more than some bad animations or character models.
The choices in the Witcher are easily the most natural feeling choices in a game I've ever played. And by natural, I don't mean easy; I mean it feels more like a decision someone would actually have to make. So people can bitch about combat, or animations or whatever but I still maintain that this is one of the best RPG's out there bar none.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
Yeah I have noticed that in the couple of choices made in the first village.
Helping the witch, and not letting squirrels take Haren Brogg's goods. The first one was pretty easy for me to decide, I'm not big on mob justice. But dealing with the squirrels was harder and afterwards I wasn't sure I was happy with my choice. Especially as Valdini gets arrested and his nephew hanged as a result, that totally took me by surprise.
I quite like how you get those still-image recaps when you encounter the consequence of something you did. It's a nice touch.
But as soon as he said that, I said to myself "but I did kill the monster".
My favorite line in the game was when that woman was asking about his two swords, one for monsters and one for humans, and Geralt goes, "They're both for monsters."
so i just got to chapter 3 after finishing nigh-everything in chapter 2
boss battle at the end of 2 was so damn trivial it wasn't even funny. by that point i was going around the swamp un-potioned-up, and was still killing everything.
i doped up like crazy expecting a tough fight, and my vitality bar never dipped from full for more than half a second
i'm not the witcher anymore
i'm the witchest
stayed neutral so far. the game's starting to berate me a bit about it, though. :P
shani's card has her looking through a big book of sex diagrams :winky:
EDIT: so now i'm looking at the collectors edition of the witcher 2 on amazon and my brain is coming up with ridiculous excuses for me to get it
the artbook ALONE is making me go
EDIT 2:
fuck me, i'm going full fanboy froth now
i think if i do preorder it's gonna have to be with GoG because of extra stuff. although the artbook is only pdf not hardcover
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I preordered at amazon but just because I had a gift card there.
I have this deep fear that with all the hoopla about how there will be no DRM on GoG the boxed copy is going to have some absurd DRM.
Hopefully not though.
What is stupid is that I have this sadness that I won't have The Witcher 2 next to The Witcher on my Steam library. Maybe a miracle will occur and it'll be registerable on Steam. I doubt it though.
DrakeEdgelord TrashBelow the ecliptic plane.Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
You can always do the Add a Non-Steam Game bit for it. You won't get the cool big icon, but it will be there.
I think I'll be just as happy to see the box sitting on my GoG shelf next to some of my favorite old school games. And no DRM. That's great stuff right there.
so i just got to chapter 3 after finishing nigh-everything in chapter 2
boss battle at the end of 2 was so damn trivial it wasn't even funny. by that point i was going around the swamp un-potioned-up, and was still killing everything.
i doped up like crazy expecting a tough fight, and my vitality bar never dipped from full for more than half a second
i'm not the witcher anymore
i'm the witchest
stayed neutral so far. the game's starting to berate me a bit about it, though. :P
shani's card has her looking through a big book of sex diagrams :winky:
EDIT: so now i'm looking at the collectors edition of the witcher 2 on amazon and my brain is coming up with ridiculous excuses for me to get it
the artbook ALONE is making me go
EDIT 2:
fuck me, i'm going full fanboy froth now
i think if i do preorder it's gonna have to be with GoG because of extra stuff. although the artbook is only pdf not hardcover
your getting the geralt bust version right? the only real version.
Chapter 4 is the best chapter, just so you're aware. I am such a good gambler, I beat a ghost that had the sole reason for returning from the dead to gamble.
Any word if this supports the Xbox 360 gamepad wth full button prompts? I prefer playing 3rd person games with the 360 controller. I heard they where doing demonstrations with it but the Steam store doesn't mention anything.
i honestly don't know. i'd be willing to try it with 360 controls if they offer them, but it being a PC exclusive title at the moment seems to indicate kbam only.
/moreresearchrequired
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I'm gonna wait til May before pre-ordering. Unless Gog charge once the games been released?
Do I have to pay for The Witcher 2 immediately when I preorder it on GOG.com?
No! Signing up for a preorder on GOG.com won't cost you a penny. When the game becomes available we will inform you about that fact and you'll be able to purchase it on GOG.com just like any other game.
Can I cancel my The Witcher 2 preorder?
It isn't possible to cancel the The Witcher 2 preorder, however preordering it on our site doesn't require you to purchase the game on our site, or at all. You will not be charged when the game is released. We would be more than happy should you wish to purchase this game from us eventually, though.
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I'm gonna wait til May before pre-ordering. Unless Gog charge once the games been released?
Do I have to pay for The Witcher 2 immediately when I preorder it on GOG.com?
No! Signing up for a preorder on GOG.com won't cost you a penny. When the game becomes available we will inform you about that fact and you'll be able to purchase it on GOG.com just like any other game.
Can I cancel my The Witcher 2 preorder?
It isn't possible to cancel the The Witcher 2 preorder, however preordering it on our site doesn't require you to purchase the game on our site, or at all. You will not be charged when the game is released. We would be more than happy should you wish to purchase this game from us eventually, though.
I have no idea how this makes sense but okay. I'll bite. Ordered.
Are they seriously not automatically charging us and giving us the game the day its released? Because that is fucking awesome if so.
edit: Ah I get it. Got a message from them the moment I ordered telling me they'll email me a few days before the game releases explaining hw to buy it.
Any word if this supports the Xbox 360 gamepad wth full button prompts? I prefer playing 3rd person games with the 360 controller. I heard they where doing demonstrations with it but the Steam store doesn't mention anything.
If not, get xpadder. That's what I've been using with Witcher 1 because I get RSI from using a mouse too much. It's not perfect but it does the job.
When will they let me pay for it! I wanna pay for it!
I'm afraid I'll be broke because of some unforeseen circumstance when it rolls out. Then they will all be, "That Drake guy is a dirty pre-order-non-buyer. Put him on the naughty list."
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Telling off the villagers was pretty badass.
i igni a few, run around
the ones that have the DoT ticking off die and explode, setting off a chain reaction of death
about to finish chapter 2, got the sword you get in the swamp and the 5000 coin armor
still got over 2k left to play around with
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How do you have so much money chb? I'm pretty much the same point in the game as you and I only have 600 gold. And I haven't bought that armour.
but mostly not spending a ton of money on expensive books until i absolutely need them.
as for wyverns, brew up an Argentia rub for your silver sword (plus 40% damage? fuckyes) and take a swallow. you also want to ingest that potion that offers resistance to poison. i think by that point i also had the skill that ups your natural poison resistance.
they still don't go down easy. feel free to run around and let swallow regen for a bit.
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Yeah I haven't played much dice because I've not been that lucky at it. Also I'm probably buying way too many books. I just hate getting out in the middle of nowhere, encountering a new plant or monster, and then not being able to get ingredients from it because I haven't read a stupid book. So I just read them all.
like i gave the herbalist a shawl and she told me where to get most of the good stuff
ALSO.
the 'get monster lore early' skill in the intelligence tree (iirc) is fucking awesome for saving you money.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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I had initially picked them off one at a time when I went through there but for whatever reason forgot to save and subsequently got killed by something I can't remember. Maybe the Golem.
Anyway the next time I went through there I rounded up some Drowners and Drowned Dead and pulled them over to the wyverns. When trying to attack me the started fighting each other allowing me to kill all the wyverns from behind while they were occupied by the (to me) no threat drowners and such.
Worked quite well and got some great loot and xp from all the chaos.
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Dice is massive bullshit. Just save before trying, the game seems to randomly determine the winner before the dice are rolled, so you'll see ridiculous comebacks in the second toss if the AI's first one was bad.
Do whatever you think feels better.
There's no wrong or right, good or bad, in this conflict, or the game really.
It's one of the beauties of the Witcher. There's no imposed morality like in other RPG's where it's "clear" who is good and who is bad. It's more "real" in the sense that both sides have valid reasoning and points, neither side are the good guys, they both do shitty things, and neither side are the bad guys, they're both doing things that are positive.
It's a considerably less meaningful quest than what you're referring to but when I was playing the other day I had to choose whether or not to send some girl back with her brother or let her keep being a whore with
I chose the latter and when you finish the quest by
But as soon as he said that, I said to myself "but I did kill the monster". The fact that the
Either way, it still wouldn't have been wrong to go either way, both had positives and negatives; I mean I did leave the girl to
Don't get me wrong, things like the morality wheel in, say, Mass Effect, or the karma system in Fallout 3/NV, fit those games fine. But sometimes it's way too blindingly obvious what the developers intended to be "right or wrong", "good or bad", and to me, that takes me out of the immersion of the game and story considerably more than some bad animations or character models.
The choices in the Witcher are easily the most natural feeling choices in a game I've ever played. And by natural, I don't mean easy; I mean it feels more like a decision someone would actually have to make. So people can bitch about combat, or animations or whatever but I still maintain that this is one of the best RPG's out there bar none.
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I quite like how you get those still-image recaps when you encounter the consequence of something you did. It's a nice touch.
Steam // Secret Satan
I've never understood how you go about that. Don't you have to choose by at least act 4 or so
My favorite line in the game was when that woman was asking about his two swords, one for monsters and one for humans, and Geralt goes, "They're both for monsters."
boss battle at the end of 2 was so damn trivial it wasn't even funny. by that point i was going around the swamp un-potioned-up, and was still killing everything.
i doped up like crazy expecting a tough fight, and my vitality bar never dipped from full for more than half a second
i'm not the witcher anymore
i'm the witchest
stayed neutral so far. the game's starting to berate me a bit about it, though. :P
EDIT: so now i'm looking at the collectors edition of the witcher 2 on amazon and my brain is coming up with ridiculous excuses for me to get it
the artbook ALONE is making me go
EDIT 2:
fuck me, i'm going full fanboy froth now
i think if i do preorder it's gonna have to be with GoG because of extra stuff. although the artbook is only pdf not hardcover
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I have this deep fear that with all the hoopla about how there will be no DRM on GoG the boxed copy is going to have some absurd DRM.
Hopefully not though.
What is stupid is that I have this sadness that I won't have The Witcher 2 next to The Witcher on my Steam library. Maybe a miracle will occur and it'll be registerable on Steam. I doubt it though.
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I think I'll be just as happy to see the box sitting on my GoG shelf next to some of my favorite old school games. And no DRM. That's great stuff right there.
your getting the geralt bust version right? the only real version.
steam has me interested because of cloud saves and also i have TW1 on there
retail/boxed has all the physical stuff like the hardcover artbook, bust, etc.
my ideal solution would be to get the GoG version, add it to steam, and buy the hardcover artbook separately :B
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/moreresearchrequired
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Why can't all versions just be registrable on steam. I'll have to choose between convenience and another bust to pal around with Duke Nukem.
Because GoG/CDPR probably doesn't feel like paying Steam for that. Valve/Steam doesn't offer that service for free.
I have no idea how this makes sense but okay. I'll bite. Ordered.
Are they seriously not automatically charging us and giving us the game the day its released? Because that is fucking awesome if so.
edit: Ah I get it. Got a message from them the moment I ordered telling me they'll email me a few days before the game releases explaining hw to buy it.
Joke
Your head
Hah.
You got me pal.
You got me.
i am completely snared
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VS
If not, get xpadder. That's what I've been using with Witcher 1 because I get RSI from using a mouse too much. It's not perfect but it does the job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiPfY7jLPXY
around 17 minutes in
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So did I. Hi5.
Steam // Secret Satan
you cant really compare new concept art to last game polygon model, its just not done.
When will they let me pay for it! I wanna pay for it!
I'm afraid I'll be broke because of some unforeseen circumstance when it rolls out. Then they will all be, "That Drake guy is a dirty pre-order-non-buyer. Put him on the naughty list."