Witcher 2: The Assassins Of Kings

I hate Letho with a passion. The Kayran had a pretty good excuse for being able to three-hit me, but Letho? Fuck him.

I'm specced completely for bomb throwing, and he takes jack damage from bombs, he never get a status effect other than Yrden (he even ignore that sometimes).

The video that showed the fight was entirely innaccurate. Instead of Geralt and Letho fighting as equals, it should've been Letho that trips through the thousand snares I've placed to harm him while Getalt was rolling everywhere and calling names to Letho. Thank god for those retarded bandits that layed several bear traps I could steal and use against a human-like bear. Why the hell snares are so strong against him I have no idea, but he shouldn't have been able to walk away. Maybe crawl, but not walk.

Before that tho, I've continued my distribution of justice: bandits died (and lended me their bear traps), two ex-soldiers of Aerdin died to appease a vengeful ghost and I exterminated more critters from the forest.

Oh, and I delivered this squirrel commander to Vernon. Yaaaay.

edited 24th Jan '13 12:00:14 PM by QuestionMarc

The stealth sequences are not well done at all. Do they impact the story if you fail them?

edited 25th Jan '13 11:01:36 AM by Rationalinsanity

I think the only change is that people will call you out on not being stealthy, but you'll find another way to do your bidings.

For instance, the bard who tells your story in the journal (press J for journal) will point out that you're clumsy and shits.

At least, that's what I saw after 2 failed stealth sequence.

I actually got through the dungeon undetected thanks to abusing quick save. Adam Jensen Geralt is not.

edited 25th Jan '13 12:07:41 PM by Rationalinsanity

As far as I can remember failing a certain stealth section just means you won't get materials for a trap to make a boss battle easier, and failing another one just means you don't get an achievement. Otherwise I don't remember any big penalties for getting caught.

How does one destroy monster nests?

Toss a bomb in them. You can get a Grapeshot diagram and materials from Cedric.

Cool thanks.

Another question, how in God's name does armwresting work? I get the concept but I'm not even sure which key (on the PC) to press cause they don't bother to explain that part.

Not too impressed with how they changed dice poker either, that roll off the table mechanic is unnecessary and I'm pretty sure the RNG heavily favors your opponent.

edited 26th Jan '13 4:16:42 PM by Rationalinsanity

I think you click and hold the mouse. Maybe, I'm on the 360 so I'm not sure.

edited 26th Jan '13 4:07:45 PM by Spirit

You gotta use the mouse to center it back.

It's a bit iffy but eh.

Arm wrestling is the worst. It's hell to control with the mouse and is generally a lousy minigame.

My advice would be to avoid that shit like the plague unless it's forced on you (I can only remember one or two times it's forced on you so thankfully it's mostly avoidable).

So I just finished chapter one, and my head is full of fucks.

First, why Geralt completely forgot that Letho said specifically he was going after Triss is beyond me, but he take way too long to figure out that Letho kidnapped Triss.

Second, why the fuck is Loredo's mom brewing drugs?

Third, Loredo impregnated an elf? Didn't he hate those? What the hell

Fourth, Vernon's entrance in the apex of the attack on Loredo's compound, he says "I was delayed a bit" (paraphrased) and then we get control of Vernon to fight Iorveth in the past... Where the fuck did that come from, I just wanted to know what took him so long before getting Loredo's place.

Fifth, screw those stealth parts.

Sixth, why the hell did that king bash that priest's face on an altar? Nice job King Jerk Face, you cursed us all.

How useful is grabbing the Impregnation talent (the one in the Alchemy tree that boosts mutagens) for a primarily sword specced Geralt? I'm generally going the melee route with a little magic but this one thing from the potion tree looks pretty appealing.

And lo, my run continue.

I'm still struggling to lift the curse of Sabrina, but in the meantime I've solved a soldier's haunting problem. Which was disturbingly confusing at first. I mean, pretty much the only fact we get is the name of the 3 dead children. I wasn't even sure of the sexes.

Also, I found the Dun Banner standard by deceiving the ghost, answering all his questions correctly from the first get go. Checking the backstory aho!

I've also got a Dun Banner cloak from a dwarf and I have no idea what it's for. Confusion aho!

Then we have the dice poker game I dont understand at all. I've been brute forcing my way most of the games I played. More confusion aho!

I've also told a lady (Ves) that she had balls, but she didn't like the compliment. More confusion!

Anyway, lifted the curse of King Asshole McJerkface. Although he didn't do that much bad thing apart from getting cursed. And bashing that priest's face into a rock. And burning that witch. But that one was a serious bitch.

Oh and my girlfriend (Triss) is now a jade figurine... what

And that dude who really likes harpy feathers. Everyone with me, C - O - N - F - U - S - I - O- N! What does it spell! I don't know! What's going on!

edited 2nd Feb '13 9:41:50 PM by QuestionMarc

Witcher 3 officially announced.

Snippets of information from the issue.

edited 4th Feb '13 7:57:51 PM by JotunofBoredom

I finally finished the game. It was fun, but some mechanics rubbed me the wrong way a bit.

And I still don't know how Iorveth fled when we captured him in Flotsam...

Anyway, I liked the game all around, especially the story. Liked Geralt an awful lot as protagonist.

I'll most probably pick up the third, but I'm still not sure if I should pick up the first or not.

The RE Dkit modding tools are GO!

http://redkit.cdprojektred.com

...or not. But they're supposed to officially go live this monday: http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?/topic/35008-redkit-is-here/page__view__findpost__p__971442

Finally got around to playing this. The story is pretty good, but the combat is horrible. TW1's combat was unbalanced as hell, but it (in theory) required you to think about what type of enemy you are facing, brew potions / oils needed to face that enemy and use the appropriate style. So far, TW2's combat consists of rolling away while occasionally using a sign until you wear your enemies down.

CD Projekt should have improved the combat rather than replacing it with a generic hack and slash fest.

I am enjoying the game though overall.

edited 20th May '13 3:58:00 PM by lrrose

I finished Chapter 1. I sided with Iorveth since he was willing to take me directly to Vergen (once he had a boat) while Roche wanted me to play politics first.

I'm starting to enjoy the combat, though neither of the two boss fights impressed me. The Kayran was too QTE focused and I didn't like how Geralt suddenly got a bomb strong enough to knock down the last third of boss's health in one blast.

Letho was a fun challenge, but the Heads I Win, Tails You Lose was really annoying.

The game is pretty great and I think its surpassed the original IMO.

edited 22nd May '13 10:21:14 PM by lrrose

Thank you! You're one of the few people I know who felt the same way about the combat, and that's a very concise way of putting it.

I still seem to be the only one who really utterly despises the arm wrestle minigame though.

Steam sale. 4 euros...

I picked this up and I'm about two hours in. The difficulty settings are odd. I'd like something between not-even-trying easy and holy-shit-fuck-this normal. Combat seems skewed towards dodging and trying to only have one enemy at a time over anything else. It's not particularly difficult in that the timing is really specific or the enemies take a lot of hits but that the big guys have such range that dodging is a pain and magic is piss poor for stunning.

Yeah, it's easier to dodge than parry. I need to get parrying more because I tend (unless I'm in one-on-one situations) to just wail on someone.

I myself also bought this on Steam sale (beat the first game in like two weeks and enjoyed it) and right now I'm on Chapter 2. Combat took a bit of getting used to after using timed clicks for the first game especially since dodging and parrying was done for you, but I'm still having fun with it. I'm glad CD Projekt released these games on Mac, I hope they release Wild Hunt on them soon after it comes out.

Dear lord, Triss's VA is pretty damn awful.

I think at this point if given a choice I'll be picking Yennifer in the third game, if only because the one line we heard that may have been from her at least didn't totally suck.

edited 2nd Jan '15 10:24:51 PM by Mars444