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Shagg
Finland825 Posts
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Madkipz
Norway1643 Posts
On May 27 2011 01:53 Bibdy wrote: While I agree that the interface screams of 'consolization', I have to wonder how health regen outside of combat is a console characteristic? It's more of a quality-of-life mechanic. Nobody wants to stand around eating/drinking for 30 seconds after every battle. Halo did it first, I guess. The main point of pc gaming has never been quality of life, its about the challenge of the UI, inventory management and all the other things console devs remove or put on one universal button. | ||
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Shinobi1982
1605 Posts
On May 27 2011 06:14 Shagg wrote: Patch 1.1 for other than steam version around 30mb or smthing for steam 9gb cause it replaces a file with a new1 ;_; lol, gl downloading :D | ||
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TsoBadGuy
United States221 Posts
I don't even know if there is a quickload hotkey. You can definitely press Esc and load a Savegame though before you die. This doesn't help too much though because the greatest danger is imo being one-hit from behind. The only time i really needed this was in Chapter 2 for + Show Spoiler + the quest in which you play the battle as a ghost, as you have to fight multiple enemies without the ability to dodge/use signs/use items at all. I reloaded every time I lost health, which made this quest really annoying. You should also always watch out for the Quicktime Events, if you die in one of those the game will be over too. I didn't have my Witcher 1 Savegames anymore, so I can't tell you anything about the second question. From what I've heard though, the differences are very small.[/QUOTE] I was refering to hard loading, I should've been more specific. As in, you're in a bad spot, don't wanna try an get out of it, not about to die necessarily, but you get knocked down an surrounded. Could you load from Esc at that point. And about your spoiler sir, I feel your pain so hard. I thought I might scream, because I was definitely talking in sarcasm like nerds do when they really want to scream, "YEAH! GREAT CHECKPOINT INTO BOSSFIGHT, OH WAIT!" + Show Spoiler + Every time I was about to die to the big shield boss guy I internalized having to spend 5 or so minutes getting back through mobs and a mini-boss. Such rage... And I hadn't really thought about QTE events like that either. In one particular fight there was a 3 button QTE event, and after doing it perfect the first few times and dying to other things, one of those time I hit right click instead of spacebar. Just a flustered mistake that could happen at any time. I wasn't even on the right side of my body. That's like having a typo with ¿ in it. I still wonder how I did it. | ||
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Invoker
Belgium686 Posts
On May 27 2011 06:14 Shagg wrote: Patch 1.1 for other than steam version around 30mb or smthing for steam 9gb cause it replaces a file with a new1 ;_; lol, steam does that, a lot :D | ||
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Jinsho
United Kingdom3101 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [Witcher 2 ending spoiler] + I do think that Letho only talks about three people indeed, all of which are accounted for in the game. So the previous assassin must have been from a different Witcher clan, probably approached by Nilfgaard the same way the Viper clan was to assassinate Foltest directly? | ||
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zer0das
United States8519 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Letho mentions another 2 of the Viper clan whose whereabouts are unknown, and that they could come out of hiding now. Given that Letho has two short blades that were similar to what Foltest's attempted assassin used, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the two died at Geralt's hands. A bit of a loose end, as one would figure that Geralt would mention it at the very end. Especially since the ending of the first Witcher was so "WTF?!?" and the question of who exactly that was never gets resolved. | ||
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
where I let Letho walk I don't see any other game being Game of the Year for me. This right here is one of the Greats. On May 27 2011 10:26 zer0das wrote: I don't think so. I think there's a simpler explaination. + Show Spoiler + Letho mentions another 2 of the Viper clan whose whereabouts are unknown, and that they could come out of hiding now. Given that Letho has two short blades that were similar to what Foltest's attempted assassin used, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the two died at Geralt's hands. A bit of a loose end, as one would figure that Geralt would mention it at the very end. Especially since the ending of the first Witcher was so "WTF?!?" and the question of who exactly that was never gets resolved. If you're talking about the master of the Order of the Flaming Rose, I believe that was + Show Spoiler + Alvin | ||
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Jinsho
United Kingdom3101 Posts
On May 27 2011 10:26 zer0das wrote: I don't think so. I think there's a simpler explaination. + Show Spoiler + Letho mentions another 2 of the Viper clan whose whereabouts are unknown, and that they could come out of hiding now. Given that Letho has two short blades that were similar to what Foltest's attempted assassin used, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the two died at Geralt's hands. A bit of a loose end, as one would figure that Geralt would mention it at the very end. Especially since the ending of the first Witcher was so "WTF?!?" and the question of who exactly that was never gets resolved. I see. I suppose you are correct then. | ||
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befek
Poland413 Posts
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BEARDiaguz
Australia2362 Posts
I did eventually find the bastard, but it had said I'd already failed the quest. Decent game so far, but the combat is quite frustrating >< | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + So it was the Lodge that hired Lethos & co to kill the nothern kings and for what reasons? I know they didn't think that first king (the one killed before Foltest) wasn't an adequate ruler or whatever, but why Foltest? What was the Lodge's overall aim? How does Nilfgaard figure in with the assassinations if at all? Also, were those two assassins that tried to kill Henselt just two of Lethos's random goons? | ||
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vetinari
Australia602 Posts
On May 27 2011 19:25 djcube wrote: Can someone clarify the ending for me? + Show Spoiler + So it was the Lodge that hired Lethos & co to kill the nothern kings and for what reasons? I know they didn't think that first king (the one killed before Foltest) wasn't an adequate ruler or whatever, but why Foltest? What was the Lodge's overall aim? How does Nilfgaard figure in with the assassinations if at all? Also, were those two assassins that tried to kill Henselt just two of Lethos's random goons? + Show Spoiler + It was the lodge who had letho kill demavend. Letho was working for the empire the whole time, however, and he killed foltest, and serrit/auckes (friends of letho's, and also witchers) tried to kill henselt. Nilfgaard wanted chaos in the northern realms, to make it easier to invade the north. The lodge only wanted demavend killed, cause he was an asshole. They wanted saskia (spoiling the Iorveth path) + Show Spoiler + a dragon, though the lodge didn't find out until after saskia was poisoned | ||
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snotboogie
Australia3550 Posts
On May 27 2011 19:25 djcube wrote: Can someone clarify the ending for me? + Show Spoiler + So it was the Lodge that hired Lethos & co to kill the nothern kings and for what reasons? I know they didn't think that first king (the one killed before Foltest) wasn't an adequate ruler or whatever, but why Foltest? What was the Lodge's overall aim? How does Nilfgaard figure in with the assassinations if at all? Also, were those two assassins that tried to kill Henselt just two of Lethos's random goons? MASSIVE SPOILERS + Show Spoiler + The Lodge is a secret society of sorceresses who want to influence and pretty much rule the world from the shadows through their positions as advisors to the kings. Their aim is to resurrect the system of The Council (or whatever it's called) which will allow them to outright decide which sorceress gets placed where. One of their aims was to get rid of the first king because they felt he was an ineffective ruler and should be replaced. To this end, they hire Letho and Co. Unbeknownst to them, Letho and his friends are under contract from the Nilfgaardian empire, whose goal is to kill various kings in order to create instability in the North, creating a weakened geopolitical situation which is ripe for invasion by Nilfgaard. In return, Nilfgaard promises to rebuild the Viper Witcher school so that the Vipers can become a force again. Letho can't believe his luck that the Lodge wants him to kill a king, so he goes ahead knowing that he can frame the Lodge for all further regicides. His two friends attempt to kill Henselt. Letho then decides to play the fool, tricking the Lodge to believe he had been indoctrinated by Iorveth. So after he kills Foltest, he returns to his "ally" Iorveth's area around Flotsam. (In fact he is just manipulating Iorveth's anti-human political bent). Sile de Tansarville comes to Flotsam to try to win back, or kill, Letho. In Act 2 she orders his death to cover up the Lodge's role in the regicides. Unfortunately Letho has set her and the Lodge up, and creates the illusion that the Lodge ordered Foltest's death and so on. This illusion was then used in Act 3 by the Nilfgaardian delegate to find a reason to arrest Sile and shine the light on the Lodge, all while obfuscating their role in several regicides. To this end Letho sabotages Sile's transportation gem as insurance. | ||
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Casta
Denmark234 Posts
http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/dlc_finishers.exe http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/roche_jacket.exe http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/magical_suit.exe http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/swordsman_suit.exe http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/merchant.exe http://wpc.420C.edgecastcdn.net/00420C/files/InstalDLC/alchemy_suit.exe (You need to run them as admin for them to install succesfully) Also if you are interested in old the witcher 1 saves, take a look here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1900752 I don't even think you need to have the witcher 1 installed, just copy it to this location C:\Users\(username)\Documents\The Witcher\saves | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
So a couple more followup questions then: + Show Spoiler + 1. Were those two assassins who tried killing Henselt (presumably witchers) the same two witchers from the Viper school that Lethos mentions at the end could come out of hiding now? 2. Why did Lethos need Iorveth for "protection" (hide the fact from Sile that he was actually working for Nilfgaard)? It seems like they both had leverage over the other as Lethos knew Sile ordered the first King to be killed and Sile knew Lethos had killed Foltest and could put a bounty on him. What was she trying to "win" him back for? 3. At the end, does anyone beside Geralt, Lethos, and Nilfgaard Empire actually know the truth behind the attacks? 4. I thought the Lodge was created by and consisted only of the Northern sorceresses because they were betrayed by their Nilfgaardian counterparts at the Thanned incident or something? | ||
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befek
Poland413 Posts
1. No those two were differnet persons. 2. Letho needed Iorweth to kill Foltest, he needed some help. Shila was trying to prob kill him after he tricked her and Lodge after killing king of Aedrin. 3. In a minute of Nilfgaard attack on Northern Kingdoms I think all pretty fast will come to clue that Nilfgaard was behind it all. Lodge knows about it also but like I said its easy to connect. 4. Lodge was created to take care of magic and ofc to have some influence in politcs. What happened on Thanned some of sorcerers betrayed Northern Kingdoms (Vilgefortz mainly), there was noone from Nilfgaard in Thanned. But that happened six years ago in witchers world so ofc by now they have come up with new more specific plans. | ||
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djcube
United States985 Posts
Ok, thanks for clarifying. Wow that was a stupid question, I completely overlooked that Iorveth helped Letho in the Foltest assassination. Btw, it seems like you've read the novels. How close are these games to the actual canonical story? | ||
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Casta
Denmark234 Posts
On May 27 2011 20:31 djcube wrote: + Show Spoiler + Ok, thanks for clarifying. Wow that was a stupid question, I completely overlooked that Iorveth helped Letho in the Foltest assassination. Btw, it seems like you've read the novels. How close are these games to the actual canonical story? Only read a couple of the books because not all of them are translated. I think the games are supposed to take place after the story in the books, Geralt having lost memory of most of it. Sometimes you hear a reference to the books, like The butcher of Blaviken, or the mentioning of Yennefer. I won't spoil them, but it is safe to say they are worth a read. | ||
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befek
Poland413 Posts
Geralt - Yennefer ( war just started at the end of the game) | ||
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