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so what i'm hearing from general impressions of witcher 2 combat is this:
left click is fast strike, right click is heavy strike. gone is the 'stay in one place and click once in a while' combat. strikes are mapped to the mouse button in a one-click-one-hit fashion; if you want a flurry of strikes you'll be going clickclickclickclick a lot. dodging is supposed to be taking the general place of the rooted group style; geralt is a lot more mobile this time around - if you get hit or surrounded you'll need to get the fuck out of there in a jiffy.
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edited March 2011
I just find the swamp a bit tedious. The combat isn't what makes me love this game. I like talking to people and running around solving mysteries, and the humour. The swamp is largely just kill this thing, run five yards, kill another thing, repeat forever. To be honest after spending hours running around it in the last act I was kind of hoping I'd be done with it but nope, now I'm back there and there's bigger things to fight every five yards including ones that chain-stun me. Yay.
they said it tranfers over your character status, i took that to mean levels/talents, but youll probably be able to respec them, depending on how they even handle it or if you start from level one again, which would be weird since its tranfering over armour and equipment.
I've never played The Witcher. Honestly, I don't really know much about it, other than it's an action RPG sorta dealy, and that some people seem to like it.
So, how terrible would I be if I don't pick it up on the 10 dollar steam sell?
System requirements for forthcoming PC RPG The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have gone public.
According to Destructoid's translation of Polish site Polygamia's scoop, here's how your hardware will need to shape up:
Recommended specs:
Processor: Intel Quad Core or AMD equivalent
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 260, 1 GB memory / Radeon HD 4850 with 1 GB memory
Memory: 3 GB for Windows XP / 4 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Disk: At least 16 GB of free space
Minimum specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD equivalent
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce 8800, 512 MB memory or ATI equivalent
Memory: 1 GB for Windows XP / 2 GB for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Hard Disk: 8 GB for the game installation and 8 GB for bonus materials
The CD Projekt-developed sequel is due to launch on PC on 17th May.
Ugh, I need to upgrade my CPU. I meet the min spec on CPU but blow away everything else in recommended.
Hopefully it's GPU intensive.
I personally wouldn't worry too much about the quad core recommended spec since they make absolutely no reference to what model/speed. Just look at the min spec, 2.2 Ghz core 2 duo. That is pretty low end at this point. I assume you will prolly be able to just make recommended with a fast 3.2 Ghz+ core 2 duo (Wolfdale or later). But I'm guessing a midrange (2.8+ Ghz) i5 will be more than enough for recommended.
I wish the quad cores that can fit in my mobo would come down in price ever so I don't have to replace my mobo/cpu and ram.
I'd love to move to an i7 or something but when I run everything I do so damn well it's really hard to justify at all. My core2duo is holding up just fine for the most part. But with my GTX 460 I can be fairly sure when I hit a bottleneck in game performance it is probably my CPU.
I've never played The Witcher. Honestly, I don't really know much about it, other than it's an action RPG sorta dealy, and that some people seem to like it.
So, how terrible would I be if I don't pick it up on the 10 dollar steam sell?
For $10 its a steal.
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Ugh, I need to upgrade my CPU. I meet the min spec on CPU but blow away everything else in recommended.
Hopefully it's GPU intensive.
i am in your EXACT BOAT. got me a 3 Ghz dual core and and a 460.
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smof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
edited March 2011
I just got an Intel i5 and have the recommended RAM. Not sure about my GPU though. I have a 1gig ATI Radeon HD4650 and I don't really know where that sits between minimum and recommended. Want to upgrade it but ugh, money.
I have an i7-920, which is clocked at 2.66Ghz, but then I see recommended requirements that list higher clock speeds for quad cores and it leaves me with a frown. Are i7 speeds somehow different? Now I don't expect I'll have any trouble with The Witcher 2, but this is just a general concern of mine.
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Also, loving the first game. Seeing so many different outcomes to when I first played it. I'm mostly siding with humans unless a wench is involved. Already got shunned out of the Yaevinn quest for delivering the letter but its cool. Less running around.
Also, loving the first game. Seeing so many different outcomes to when I first played it. I'm mostly siding with humans unless a wench is involved. Already got shunned out of the Yaevinn quest for delivering the letter but its cool. Less running around.
i'd sympathize more with the elves if they weren't all stuck up bastards
Siegfried, on the other hand? he's a bro.
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I tend to side with the underdog usually but its so hard to discern who the underdog is. I mean its obviously the non-humans, since they're being pushed aside so easily but in my mind the underdog is also the humblest and most likeable. Nothing here is likeable.
That's pretty much it really. Morality isn't a black and white thing in the Witcher, Geralt doesn't make choices based around what's most good because it can't really be painted in absolutes like that. He makes choices based around what's most expedient, and when the consequences of those choices come to fruition, whatever they are, it's just explained as the nature of the situation, not as good or evil.
I tend to side with the underdog usually but its so hard to discern who the underdog is. I mean its obviously the non-humans, since they're being pushed aside so easily but in my mind the underdog is also the humblest and most likeable. Nothing here is likeable.
Which is why the game fucking owns.
I went with humans simply because Siegfried is a cool dude.
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The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
I couldn't stand the order but Siegfried was a bro but I was all for the squirrels plight, i was always trying to get siegfried to understand but back before I knew of a neutral path
I joined the squirrels and got really upset at him refusing to talk to me then having to kill him, yeven was abit of dick about it. If I recall the neutral is best for this since you become friends with both and you let them both live and sort it out themselves since you got witchers work to do.
God dammit. I'm going away 2 weeks after this comes out, and I won't have access to a gaming computer for 6 months. Gonna have to play a lot during those two weeks.
God dammit. I'm going away 2 weeks after this comes out, and I won't have access to a gaming computer for 6 months. Gonna have to play a lot during those two weeks.
Looks like it. Geralt spent most of his time in Vizima during the events of The Witcher. According to the screenshots (and the recent map), it appears that he'll be able to explore the rest of the major kingdoms (which would be Redania and Kaedwen) in Witcher 2!
You can see just how big has the world scale up to compared to the little zone you played in The Witcher. Yeah, most probably it will be zones from the whole map, but it will still be bigger and much more varied than in the original game.
Also you can see one of the main things in the story just be looking at the map, as we know for the title and trailers theres an assasin thats been killing kings. Or rather we say it has killed 1 king.
If you look at the map, theres a vacant throne in the Kingdom of Aedirn, which means that the kings head in the trailer was from there. The other 3 kings are:
-King Foltest from Temeria (the main king in the witcher 1)
-King Radovid V the Stern of Redenia (the king that appears also in the game and future husband of Adda, Foltest's daugther if you didnt kill adda, of course)
-King Henselt of Kaedwen (isnt mentioned in the first game)
Summary:
As for the presentation, a quick summary for you:
- Gop treats RPGs as the electronic/interactive equivalent of reading a book.
- sadly, there's little support on the author (i.e Sapkowski) side and the team receive very little feedback regarding the Witcher Universe but they're doing quite well without it and that's an old news anyway.
- this is a PC exclusive as of now. Console versions are planned, but not in the works and their eventual fate will be decided based on a reception of a PC version.
- the combat system is distinctively RPG and "heavily based on rolling" which was emphasized on one the slides.
- in practice, for me and apparently most of the public it seemed very chaotic but Gop assures us that it feels very tactical when you're the guy playing the game.
- game is hugely customizable and tailored to suit various gamestyles and tastes. For example, storyfags can practically get rid of a "combat as a challenge" by setting the difficulty level to easy while for the combatfags fighting may prove to be very tactical and rewarding, exploration- and itemfags may give vent to their deviations by examining every location using the witchers' medallion, alchemyfags will have their fairly developed oils and potions system etc.
- combat certainly looks way too biased towards magic/signs., and, as I mentioned, very chaotic but it too is to be highly customizable so you can choose between variety of styles, including setting traps, throwing bombs, using magic, relying on oils and potions, different style of fencing (you can for example block the attacks of other swordsmen, lead them to loose their balance and counterattack) etc.
- Geralt looks the way he looks and his hair moves the way it moves and if somebody don't like it then Gop "is sorry" for that. Curious thing: one of the merchants in the dwarves' city shouts EMO!!111 at the top of his lungs after seeing Geralt passing by.
- you can see the way the dialogues look like in the released videos - for me the "Mass Effect Effect" of the dialogue system didn't turn even half as bad as I'd imagined; generally you CAN see the line Geralt is to deliver, of corse sometimes he adds something from himself, but the same happened in the first installment either. What breaks the, er, immersion are the pauses between the lines - CDP-R is aware of this issue but it's not that easy to address and they decided they'd rather focus their resources on some other areas.
-boobs in the Witcher 1 were childish, they've grown up now (the developers, that is).
-the character development is talent-based and has implications on the game world. For example, if you're an alchemy freak, your character will become, well, a freak, which may in effect turn off some of the NPCs.
- there were numerous claims on have the players' actions affect the game-world and the story-line, this time for real, but we were spared any firm examples as this would have been spoilers.
-pretty much every quest is non-linear and there are multiple ways to end them. Your choices deeply affect the world and the attitude of the other people towards your character blablabla...
- there is a new minigame - armwrestling (fairly unimpressive, if you asked me); also, mechanics of boxing are changed and it is now quite difficult to win.
- Geralt will not be the only playable character.
- the quest log is now kept in a form of a book, or a tale told by Jaskier (Dandelion) - we were promised it would be fun to read.
-Gop and the CDP-Red team didn't play DA2 due to the lack of time, but he is assured the the Witcher 2 is a "different class of an RPG" as compared to Dragon Age 2.
- Polish and English language versions of the game are being prepared simultaneously and overseen by some Polish-American guy to assure coherence and adequate quality of both.
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left click is fast strike, right click is heavy strike. gone is the 'stay in one place and click once in a while' combat. strikes are mapped to the mouse button in a one-click-one-hit fashion; if you want a flurry of strikes you'll be going clickclickclickclick a lot. dodging is supposed to be taking the general place of the rooted group style; geralt is a lot more mobile this time around - if you get hit or surrounded you'll need to get the fuck out of there in a jiffy.
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they said it tranfers over your character status, i took that to mean levels/talents, but youll probably be able to respec them, depending on how they even handle it or if you start from level one again, which would be weird since its tranfering over armour and equipment.
So, how terrible would I be if I don't pick it up on the 10 dollar steam sell?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-25-the-witcher-2-system-specs-detailed
Hopefully it's GPU intensive.
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I personally wouldn't worry too much about the quad core recommended spec since they make absolutely no reference to what model/speed. Just look at the min spec, 2.2 Ghz core 2 duo. That is pretty low end at this point. I assume you will prolly be able to just make recommended with a fast 3.2 Ghz+ core 2 duo (Wolfdale or later). But I'm guessing a midrange (2.8+ Ghz) i5 will be more than enough for recommended.
I could be very wrong though.
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shit should be here on tuesday, i might restart this witcher 1 run im doing and actually be able to move around the trade quarter for once.
I'd love to move to an i7 or something but when I run everything I do so damn well it's really hard to justify at all. My core2duo is holding up just fine for the most part. But with my GTX 460 I can be fairly sure when I hit a bottleneck in game performance it is probably my CPU.
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For $10 its a steal.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
i am in your EXACT BOAT. got me a 3 Ghz dual core and and a 460.
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It's time.
Non-linear male-female relations! Real time mandolin fighting style!
Dandelion's hour has come.
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Also, loving the first game. Seeing so many different outcomes to when I first played it. I'm mostly siding with humans unless a wench is involved. Already got shunned out of the Yaevinn quest for delivering the letter but its cool. Less running around.
This is too cool for them to not throw out there as a fun little DLC. Even if it just pretty much replaces Geralts model.
EDIT: actually they should totally put this out as the demo for the game. Show off the engine and all that and make it a fun little side story.
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i'd sympathize more with the elves if they weren't all stuck up bastards
Siegfried, on the other hand? he's a bro.
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Which is why the game fucking owns.
I went with humans simply because Siegfried is a cool dude.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
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Sex picture, if you like that sort of thing.
THIS is why i preordered the game O_O
holy shit worthy indeed
this game is so goddamn classy and colorful and aaaaaaa
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Godspeed, sir! Godspeed...
The screenshots of the map and the castle siege are amazing! Looks like a full scale conflict has erupted between Temeria and Kaedwen.
My god.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Really?
Best thing:
I wonder if the author disapproves of the game or something?
Agreed
I also don't care for how wanting to play the new Witcher apparently obligates you to trash DA2 (huh?)
BUT the game itself looks all kinds of sexy. Visuals are great. Combat I'm a little worried about though - looks so similar to the first game.
And I still need to refinish the first game so that I have a save. I should get on that.
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.