I'm in Vizima right now, and God dammit will the amount of things you can do here ever cease? It's insanity! I am seriously overwhelmed with side quests in Vizima.
A few things. Should I keep my witcher's steel sword or go for the blue meteorite sword?
When can I break in Shani for that "favor"?
I delivered a note for a Squirrel from the swamps, and now to return the reply. However, he's not in the druid forest anymore. I can't seem to find him at all.
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A few things. Should I keep my witcher's steel sword or go for the blue meteorite sword?
As far as I can tell, there's no benefit to keeping your Witcher sword. Get three meteorites and get a new one forged... I went with two red and a blue, and it seems to be effective.
I delivered a note for a Squirrel from the swamps, and now to return the reply. However, he's not in the druid forest anymore. I can't seem to find him at all.
you need to ask around the camp and you'll find some clues.
So the bcdedit seems to be working, but it seems like kind of a pain in the ass just to get one game working right. Do we have any hope of a patch fixing this?
Still, anything's better than G.R.A.W. 2, which plain doesn't work on my 360. Ha ha, joke's on me, Ubisoft.
So the bcdedit seems to be working, but it seems like kind of a pain in the ass just to get one game working right. Do we have any hope of a patch fixing this?
Still, anything's better than G.R.A.W. 2, which plain doesn't work on my 360. Ha ha, joke's on me, Ubisoft.
The command line edit? I take it you're on Vista. I had to use that a few times before, but Microsoft released some updates to address that crashing issue/memory overflow. I believe it came down to the handling of memory and virtual memory, and how Vista changed the command line from XP that dealt with that. Thus we had to manually enter the new command line into the .exe via Visual Studio's command line prompt or similar tools.
The update(s) not via Windows Update, for some reason, though. Here's the link for it:
So I've collected all but one of the sepi-whatsises that I need to get into the Mage Tower. Kalkstein's notes say that the last one will be given to me by Destiny. Yeah, right.
Now, if the game is totally awesome, I need to get into the graveyard and chase down the Wild Hunt, who I pissed off in Chapter 1 by telling him that I don't believe in destiny. But if this isn't true and it's really just something random I have to do, please spoil for me.
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As a sidenote, what do people think of the 'card' system? While it's somewhat nifty, I also feel like it's promoting the 'women as sexual objects' ideal, based purely on my own thoughts of "I wonder when I can unlock the option to collect her sexcard!" whenever I meet a new female character.
When I first heard about the cards, I wasn't very pleased about the system for that very reason. But now that I'm playing the game, I don't really mind them. The game itself doesn't refer to them as "trading cards", they're more like a nice reminder of Geralt's happy lovin' times. Geralt seems to genuinely like women, and the women have varied and interesting personalities just like the male characters in the game. They also have logical reasons for wanting to sleep with him; he can't just walk up to a woman and have her say, "Oh, you big strong Witcher you, come hop in the sack!"
In the end, I've enjoyed this as a game that is both sex-positive and that treats its female characters with the same respect as the male characters... they have personalities and motivations, some of them are decent and many of them are jerks. I could do without Triss' ridiculous magical-boob-glue outfit, though.
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As a sidenote, what do people think of the 'card' system? While it's somewhat nifty, I also feel like it's promoting the 'women as sexual objects' ideal, based purely on my own thoughts of "I wonder when I can unlock the option to collect her sexcard!" whenever I meet a new female character.
When I first heard about the cards, I wasn't very pleased about the system for that very reason. But now that I'm playing the game, I don't really mind them. The game itself doesn't refer to them as "trading cards", they're more like a nice reminder of Geralt's happy lovin' times. Geralt seems to genuinely like women, and the women have varied and interesting personalities just like the male characters in the game. They also have logical reasons for wanting to sleep with him; he can't just walk up to a woman and have her say, "Oh, you big strong Witcher you, come hop in the sack!"
In the end, I've enjoyed this as a game that is both sex-positive and that treats its female characters with the same respect as the male characters... they have personalities and motivations, some of them are decent and many of them are jerks. I could do without Triss' ridiculous magical-boob-glue outfit, though.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Geralt isn't really a mysogynist most of the time: he has a profession that isn't conducive to settling down (high danger, lots of travel, no children), and he doesn't ask for anything from the women he sleeps with except for the good time. I'm still in Chapter 2, so I really don't know much about his ongoing relationships (if Triss considers herself to be his girlfriend, for example), but it's hard to blame him for wanting to find some small comfort in a world that's cold, dark, and often fatal with a willing partner. He can't have or (probably) pass on diseases or have illegitimate offspring, so he even gets a pass on dodging responsability.
I'm just glad we're getting games that are actually for grownups, as opposed to stupid sex crap like Leasure Suit Larry. I swear, playing most JRPGs, I wanted to claw my own eyes out every time the hero was brave enough to stand by a girl and face wave after wave of enemy monsters, but couldn't ask her out on a date (I'm motherfucking looking at you, Cloud).
I already have the windows hotfix, but I needed something over and above that to make The Witcher work. Which, as it turns out, is not the command line edit; it crashes just the same as always, now. The tech support forums suggest a million different possible solutions, but none of them seem to help in all the cases.
I'm a little peeved, and normally I'd drop any game that crashed this frequently like a hot rock. Luckily (or unluckily?) The Witcher is fantastic, so I'm willing to work through my problems with it.
EDIT: And what does it say about us that we've got 30 pages in this thread, and most of it's about the sex? On that note, I think it's well done. It's nice to see a game that's honest about sex, in that it isn't a world where there's murder and monsters and war, but everyone is chaste as a nun.
I already have the windows hotfix, but I needed something over and above that to make The Witcher work. Which, as it turns out, is not the command line edit; it crashes just the same as always, now. The tech support forums suggest a million different possible solutions, but none of them seem to help in all the cases.
I'm a little peeved, and normally I'd drop any game that crashed this frequently like a hot rock. Luckily (or unluckily?) The Witcher is fantastic, so I'm willing to work through my problems with it.
Well if it's still crashing with the command line edit and the hotfix, it's probably not Vista that's causing the game to go down. Try updating your graphics drivers if you haven't been on top of that, and perhaps the beta drivers if they're ahead of the official release. I'd also try enabling compatibility mode in the .exe and disabling visual themes and desktop composition under the compatibility tab.
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As a sidenote, what do people think of the 'card' system? While it's somewhat nifty, I also feel like it's promoting the 'women as sexual objects' ideal, based purely on my own thoughts of "I wonder when I can unlock the option to collect her sexcard!" whenever I meet a new female character.
When I first heard about the cards, I wasn't very pleased about the system for that very reason. But now that I'm playing the game, I don't really mind them. The game itself doesn't refer to them as "trading cards", they're more like a nice reminder of Geralt's happy lovin' times. Geralt seems to genuinely like women, and the women have varied and interesting personalities just like the male characters in the game. They also have logical reasons for wanting to sleep with him; he can't just walk up to a woman and have her say, "Oh, you big strong Witcher you, come hop in the sack!"
In the end, I've enjoyed this as a game that is both sex-positive and that treats its female characters with the same respect as the male characters... they have personalities and motivations, some of them are decent and many of them are jerks. I could do without Triss' ridiculous magical-boob-glue outfit, though.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Geralt isn't really a mysogynist most of the time: he has a profession that isn't conducive to settling down (high danger, lots of travel, no children), and he doesn't ask for anything from the women he sleeps with except for the good time. I'm still in Chapter 2, so I really don't know much about his ongoing relationships (if Triss considers herself to be his girlfriend, for example), but it's hard to blame him for wanting to find some small comfort in a world that's cold, dark, and often fatal with a willing partner. He can't have or (probably) pass on diseases or have illegitimate offspring, so he even gets a pass on dodging responsability.
I'm just glad we're getting games that are actually for grownups, as opposed to stupid sex crap like Leasure Suit Larry. I swear, playing most JRPGs, I wanted to claw my own eyes out every time the hero was brave enough to stand by a girl and face wave after wave of enemy monsters, but couldn't ask her out on a date (I'm motherfucking looking at you, Cloud).
Just wanted to say that you took the words out of my mouth.
I bought this yesterday as the christmas present I didn't recieve.
Fun so far, mucking about in chapter 1. I've had 2 random CTDs as I load into areas, but it's fine otherwise. The "escort the barmaid" quest was pretty hard. Barghasts are fast little bastards and of course Geralt responds more slowly when it's time critical.
Do you guys have AA turned on? I'm going to try playing with it turned off.
About saving Vesna, I didn't have much trouble with the Barghasts, but at one point a Ghoul lurked in and beat the living crap out of her before I realized what was going on. The rest of the way back to her house she barely had any health, and I had to be paranoid about keeping the Barghasts from even looking at her. Only after I finished did I realize that I had just completed an escort quest and I hadn't once bitched at the structure of the assignment. Is that because there's the promise of sex at the end?
I would have been more careful with my companion cube if I thought I could fuck it at the end.
About saving Vesna, I didn't have much trouble with the Barghasts, but at one point a Ghoul lurked in and beat the living crap out of her before I realized what was going on. The rest of the way back to her house she barely had any health, and I had to be paranoid about keeping the Barghasts from even looking at her. Only after I finished did I realize that I had just completed an escort quest and I hadn't once bitched at the structure of the assignment. Is that because there's the promise of sex at the end?
I would have been more careful with my companion cube if I thought I could fuck it at the end.
One thing that helps with the Vesna quest is that you can still use campfires to restore health. I still had to take a long route to avoid any ghouls though.
Does anyone know where I can find alghouls in act two? The journal says in crypts and necropolises, and I'm assuming that they're in the cemetary that's closed off in Vizima. So I guess I'm really asking who to talk to to get that open. The gravedigger just mentions the possibility that someone may offer a reward for clearing that area out.
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Does anyone know where I can find alghouls in act two? The journal says in crypts and necropolises, and I'm assuming that they're in the cemetary that's closed off in Vizima. So I guess I'm really asking who to talk to to get that open. The gravedigger just mentions the possibility that someone may offer a reward for clearing that area out.
It's possible to open the graveyard in Act 2, later on in the storyline. It's very missable, though, depending on your plot choices. Check in on the gravedigger from time to time as you advance the main plot, and eventually he'll have an extra dialog choice. (When he does, you might want to wait on advancing the main plot further, and you should be able to get into the graveyard once you do what you need to do to open it.)
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Does anyone know where I can find alghouls in act two? The journal says in crypts and necropolises, and I'm assuming that they're in the cemetary that's closed off in Vizima. So I guess I'm really asking who to talk to to get that open. The gravedigger just mentions the possibility that someone may offer a reward for clearing that area out.
It's possible to open the graveyard in Act 2, later on in the storyline. It's very missable, though, depending on your plot choices. Check in on the gravedigger from time to time as you advance the main plot, and eventually he'll have an extra dialog choice. (When he does, you might want to wait on advancing the main plot further, and you should be able to get into the graveyard once you do what you need to do to open it.)
So I just have to keep doing the main story, and eventually I'll be able to go there. So far I've just been doing secondary quests and I haven't even touched the main quest yet for act two. Lots and lots of things to do!
I think I'm almost as far as I can get with side-quests, though. A few questions, though, so I can finish this off.
Can I prove Kalstein innocent or guilty before doing the main quest for act two? Or do I have to go to the detective and continue with the main quest line before getting to that point. He's the only one left I have to prove guilty or innocent.
Zoltan. Where the bloody Hell is he? I need to talk to him about a sword, and the tracker points me to the inn, but he's never there throughout the day and night, as far as I can tell.
Coleman.
I need to talk to him for the Berengar's Secret quest, but I can't seem to bring up that dialog option. I can only talk to him about what he's selling and ask him about Salamandra, and for that he just shoos me away.
And this is later in the game, but I read about a few issues people had with this in Vizima.
Shani's party. Some people can't seem to get invited to it, while others can and saying it depends on what you do in the side-quests, mainly with Ratsmeat, I think. Any opinions/advice on this?
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If you're running around town during the twilight or morning, he'll be walking the streets between the nonhumans' street and the Hairy Bear. I often catch him on the street and gamble a round with him.
If you have done the "fetch me some plants" side-quest for Shani, you should be set. Your "Old Friend of Mine" quest log should say that Shani owes you one and you should talk to her more often. You will need her help for part of the main plot, and after that, she will get the party started.
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it's hard to discuss this in terms of secondary and main quest since many secondary quests are directly related to your main quest line. to me it's one of the strongest thing witcher has going for it. very few quest in the game seems trivial.
I'm in Vizima right now, and God dammit will the amount of things you can do here ever cease? It's insanity! I am seriously overwhelmed with side quests in Vizima.
Haha, I'm in Vizima right now, and was almost stunned at how many quests are thrown at you, almost immediately.
Too much to do!
I need help with one of them though.
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Does anyone know how I can get this Messenger in the Inn to talk to me? I've done a few options, but he always tells me to "Shove Off"
So, I hear this game is not all that good, yet there is a thirty page thread on it on the PA. Confusion.
I'm not sure what you've been hearing. The majority of reviews I've seen on it have been around a 8.0 and up, and I personally love the game.
It's one of best PC-RPG's to come down the pipe in quite awhile.
Edge and PcGamer were pretty down on it, and I normally trust their reviews. Apparently combat isn't up to much. However, if a game seems to be enjoyed by the people here then I normally end up a getting it.
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So, I hear this game is not all that good, yet there is a thirty page thread on it on the PA. Confusion.
I'm not sure what you've been hearing. The majority of reviews I've seen on it have been around a 8.0 and up, and I personally love the game.
It's one of best PC-RPG's to come down the pipe in quite awhile.
Edge and PcGamer were pretty down on it, and I normally trust their reviews. Apparently combat isn't up to much. However, if a game seems to be enjoyed by the people here then I normally end up a getting it.
I will admit that the combat could have been a little deeper (even with the stances and combos it get's a little repetative), and the inventory system is somewhat clunky.
But the story line and feel of the game are top notch, and the number of booty calls Geralt can line up is pretty impressive.
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So, I hear this game is not all that good, yet there is a thirty page thread on it on the PA. Confusion.
I'm not sure what you've been hearing. The majority of reviews I've seen on it have been around a 8.0 and up, and I personally love the game.
It's one of best PC-RPG's to come down the pipe in quite awhile.
Edge and PcGamer were pretty down on it, and I normally trust their reviews. Apparently combat isn't up to much. However, if a game seems to be enjoyed by the people here then I normally end up a getting it.
EDGE is decent, but in the end their reviews are still subjective at the end of the day. Most of the time I agree with them, but sometimes they just hate or love a game for reasons that completely befuddle me (I'm looking at you Halo 1 review!). Plus, three "10" rated games in a row is stretching it a bit.
In any case, there's a demo out, so I'd recommend you at least try that.
So, I hear this game is not all that good, yet there is a thirty page thread on it on the PA. Confusion.
I'm not sure what you've been hearing. The majority of reviews I've seen on it have been around a 8.0 and up, and I personally love the game.
It's one of best PC-RPG's to come down the pipe in quite awhile.
Edge and PcGamer were pretty down on it, and I normally trust their reviews. Apparently combat isn't up to much. However, if a game seems to be enjoyed by the people here then I normally end up a getting it.
They took a different track for combat than we're used to. It's timing based, involving a series of combos, based on your stats and what combat style/weapon you choose. The controls aren't fantastic, but they're servicable, and really most fights are a foregone conclusion, because the main character is an established badass.
The strength of the game is the ability to make morality-based choices and think your way through problems. Do something stupid in the first act, and it could haunt you later. This is the core of a good CRPG.
Also, dames.
Anyway, if you're looking for Final Fantasy, this ain't it. Not only is it nowhere near as slick and polished as most JRPGs, but it's obviously intended for grownups instead of people with anime teen sensibilities. If you're looking for a rare gaming experience and don't mind sporadic technical issues, Witcher may be your thing.
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A few things. Should I keep my witcher's steel sword or go for the blue meteorite sword?
When can I break in Shani for that "favor"?
I delivered a note for a Squirrel from the swamps, and now to return the reply. However, he's not in the druid forest anymore. I can't seem to find him at all.
So worth my money.
As far as I can tell, there's no benefit to keeping your Witcher sword. Get three meteorites and get a new one forged... I went with two red and a blue, and it seems to be effective.
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Still, anything's better than G.R.A.W. 2, which plain doesn't work on my 360. Ha ha, joke's on me, Ubisoft.
The command line edit? I take it you're on Vista. I had to use that a few times before, but Microsoft released some updates to address that crashing issue/memory overflow. I believe it came down to the handling of memory and virtual memory, and how Vista changed the command line from XP that dealt with that. Thus we had to manually enter the new command line into the .exe via Visual Studio's command line prompt or similar tools.
The update(s) not via Windows Update, for some reason, though. Here's the link for it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105
Yeah, I think so. I was fine with 2 red and a blue. Same with runes for the silver sword, I think.
Now, if the game is totally awesome, I need to get into the graveyard and chase down the Wild Hunt, who I pissed off in Chapter 1 by telling him that I don't believe in destiny. But if this isn't true and it's really just something random I have to do, please spoil for me.
When I first heard about the cards, I wasn't very pleased about the system for that very reason. But now that I'm playing the game, I don't really mind them. The game itself doesn't refer to them as "trading cards", they're more like a nice reminder of Geralt's happy lovin' times. Geralt seems to genuinely like women, and the women have varied and interesting personalities just like the male characters in the game. They also have logical reasons for wanting to sleep with him; he can't just walk up to a woman and have her say, "Oh, you big strong Witcher you, come hop in the sack!"
In the end, I've enjoyed this as a game that is both sex-positive and that treats its female characters with the same respect as the male characters... they have personalities and motivations, some of them are decent and many of them are jerks. I could do without Triss' ridiculous magical-boob-glue outfit, though.
Just start following the thread of the other main quest lines and it'll turn up.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Geralt isn't really a mysogynist most of the time: he has a profession that isn't conducive to settling down (high danger, lots of travel, no children), and he doesn't ask for anything from the women he sleeps with except for the good time. I'm still in Chapter 2, so I really don't know much about his ongoing relationships (if Triss considers herself to be his girlfriend, for example), but it's hard to blame him for wanting to find some small comfort in a world that's cold, dark, and often fatal with a willing partner. He can't have or (probably) pass on diseases or have illegitimate offspring, so he even gets a pass on dodging responsability.
I'm just glad we're getting games that are actually for grownups, as opposed to stupid sex crap like Leasure Suit Larry. I swear, playing most JRPGs, I wanted to claw my own eyes out every time the hero was brave enough to stand by a girl and face wave after wave of enemy monsters, but couldn't ask her out on a date (I'm motherfucking looking at you, Cloud).
I'm a little peeved, and normally I'd drop any game that crashed this frequently like a hot rock. Luckily (or unluckily?) The Witcher is fantastic, so I'm willing to work through my problems with it.
EDIT: And what does it say about us that we've got 30 pages in this thread, and most of it's about the sex? On that note, I think it's well done. It's nice to see a game that's honest about sex, in that it isn't a world where there's murder and monsters and war, but everyone is chaste as a nun.
Well if it's still crashing with the command line edit and the hotfix, it's probably not Vista that's causing the game to go down. Try updating your graphics drivers if you haven't been on top of that, and perhaps the beta drivers if they're ahead of the official release. I'd also try enabling compatibility mode in the .exe and disabling visual themes and desktop composition under the compatibility tab.
Fun so far, mucking about in chapter 1. I've had 2 random CTDs as I load into areas, but it's fine otherwise. The "escort the barmaid" quest was pretty hard. Barghasts are fast little bastards and of course Geralt responds more slowly when it's time critical.
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About saving Vesna, I didn't have much trouble with the Barghasts, but at one point a Ghoul lurked in and beat the living crap out of her before I realized what was going on. The rest of the way back to her house she barely had any health, and I had to be paranoid about keeping the Barghasts from even looking at her. Only after I finished did I realize that I had just completed an escort quest and I hadn't once bitched at the structure of the assignment. Is that because there's the promise of sex at the end?
I would have been more careful with my companion cube if I thought I could fuck it at the end.
One thing that helps with the Vesna quest is that you can still use campfires to restore health. I still had to take a long route to avoid any ghouls though.
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If I could fucking play it.
Fuck vista.
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Also I am pretty sure that even if
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So I just have to keep doing the main story, and eventually I'll be able to go there. So far I've just been doing secondary quests and I haven't even touched the main quest yet for act two. Lots and lots of things to do!
I think I'm almost as far as I can get with side-quests, though. A few questions, though, so I can finish this off.
Zoltan. Where the bloody Hell is he? I need to talk to him about a sword, and the tracker points me to the inn, but he's never there throughout the day and night, as far as I can tell.
Coleman.
And this is later in the game, but I read about a few issues people had with this in Vizima.
couldn't hurt.. I stopped using AA on my games after having so much trouble with it in couter-strike:source and Never winter nights 2.
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Too much to do!
I need help with one of them though.
salamandra messenger
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How do I tell if I'm getting poisoned?
I'm not sure what you've been hearing. The majority of reviews I've seen on it have been around a 8.0 and up, and I personally love the game.
It's one of best PC-RPG's to come down the pipe in quite awhile.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
Edge and PcGamer were pretty down on it, and I normally trust their reviews. Apparently combat isn't up to much. However, if a game seems to be enjoyed by the people here then I normally end up a getting it.
I will admit that the combat could have been a little deeper (even with the stances and combos it get's a little repetative), and the inventory system is somewhat clunky.
But the story line and feel of the game are top notch, and the number of booty calls Geralt can line up is pretty impressive.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
EDGE is decent, but in the end their reviews are still subjective at the end of the day. Most of the time I agree with them, but sometimes they just hate or love a game for reasons that completely befuddle me (I'm looking at you Halo 1 review!). Plus, three "10" rated games in a row is stretching it a bit.
In any case, there's a demo out, so I'd recommend you at least try that.
They took a different track for combat than we're used to. It's timing based, involving a series of combos, based on your stats and what combat style/weapon you choose. The controls aren't fantastic, but they're servicable, and really most fights are a foregone conclusion, because the main character is an established badass.
The strength of the game is the ability to make morality-based choices and think your way through problems. Do something stupid in the first act, and it could haunt you later. This is the core of a good CRPG.
Also, dames.
Anyway, if you're looking for Final Fantasy, this ain't it. Not only is it nowhere near as slick and polished as most JRPGs, but it's obviously intended for grownups instead of people with anime teen sensibilities. If you're looking for a rare gaming experience and don't mind sporadic technical issues, Witcher may be your thing.