The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Discussion Thread

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ubergeek said:
the best part is i havent even started to play the game yet,with all those extra content ill be having one helluva time
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Same here. My PC puked it's guts out, initially, due to my poor GPU. This time though, hopefully, things should be smooth. Else, there's always the X360 version. I had a blast with the prologue chapter, so hope this enhanced edition is worth the wait.
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jojothedragon said:
Hmm. You'll missing out an awesome title. Do play it if you find time.
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I know Jojo.
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But even if I do pick it up, it won't have native 360 controller support, which is a deal breaker for me. I can't stand action RPG's, which focus on melee based combat with a mouse and a keyboard. Controller feels natural to me.

jojothedragon said:
In the mean time enjoy Witcher 2.
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Oh I absolutely will.
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Which is the best armor in the game ? I'm about to complete Act I made a backup copy before the final decision.
 
dinjo said:
Which is the best armor in the game ? I'm about to complete Act I made a backup copy before the final decision.
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Are you talking about the Witcher 1 OR Witcher 2?

Personally, every Act has its own armour sets that dominate the Act and confer specific bonuses that keep advancing, personally my favourite armour pack was the Dark Armour sets but sadly they are only available in the Dark Mode difficulty.

Other Armour sets worth a mention are --
  1. Blue Stripes set -- overall decent armour especially at the beginning of the game.
  2. Elven armour set -- found in Act 3 once you complete the Gargoyles quest.
  3. Kaedweni armour / random hodge-podge -- Act II depends which choice you made at the end of Act I.

    If you follow Roach, you can easily access the Kaedweni armour because you will be in that camp also the Dethmold will give you a special armour set to enter the Battle-mist, if you opted to support Iorveth you will keep upgrading your armour in Vergen and that lesbian hag [I forgot her name] will do the same as Dethmold giving you a special armour set to enter the Mist.
 
started playing Witcher 1 the controls are horrible (or maybe just too tough)

you can't make a half -decent swing if you are not perfect on the timing of the slashes

sad to let it go

so i started playing Witcher 2

the controls are much easier and the graphics is awesome (HD6850)

although the draw distance is set to medium (even after i set it to far)

started playing on Hard difficulty but was totally pawned at the first stage (the first encounter with dragon)

so i had to start off again at easy
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is there any way the difficulty can be changed in-game?
 
Quick question, is there a possibility to complete all the side quests in this game? or does it have some quests like Skyrim which will keep on repeating? I hate the latter.
 
Ethan_Hunt said:
Quick question, is there a possibility to complete all the side quests in this game? or does it have some quests like Skyrim which will keep on repeating? I hate the latter.
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No fetch quests, but you will encounter a few basic types [grunts and weak swarm] of enemies in all the chapters whilst the others will not be very common OR out-rightly won't be found depending upon which ACT you are in and which MAP you are in.
 
To add side quests are limited to each chapter and they are inaccessible just before major decision of chapter.

There are 4 quests which keeps running in entire game
 
4 quests which keep running in the entire game? What do you mean? Like repetitive quests where you're asked to gather something and it can go on and on forever?

Allow me to explain the motto of my query. I want to know if there are, say, 20 side-quests in the game. Can they all be completed and erased from my quest log? I want them to be definitive, and not repetitive. I don't want it to end up like Skyrim's massive list of stupid misc quests, piling up on top of the already existing faction and main quest. That's way too much baggage. They must be engaging and most of all, should provide the satisfaction of completing it.
 
Ethan_Hunt said:
4 quests which keep running in the entire game? What do you mean? Like repetitive quests where you're asked to gather something and it can go on and on forever?

No these quests differ in the fact that every chapter contain certain clues and add ons for the quests in question and in the final ACT they end up having a seamless ending / conclusion.

Allow me to explain the motto of my query. I want to know if there are, say, 20 side-quests in the game. Can they all be completed and erased from my quest log? I want them to be definitive, and not repetitive. I don't want it to end up like Skyrim's massive list of stupid misc quests, piling up on top of the already existing faction and main quest. That's way too much baggage. They must be engaging and most of all, should provide the satisfaction of completing it.

Don't worry this RPG is not from Skyrim's / Mass Effect school of thought to keep a players Journal chock full of pointless quests like gathering certain herbs and ingredients. For e.g., assume you have to RID an area of a certain monster, following are the ways quests generally play out --
  • Geralt learns more about the monsters by slaying them and reading tomes about them, finally reaches a conclusion to RID the MAP of majority of that type of monster, at night those monsters re-spawn but in reduced numbers and due to loss of natural habitat structure fight ineffectively.
  • Geralt asks the locals about the monsters he is facing and same outcome as above.

Some times Geralt is requested by NPC's for certain help, a few are concluded amicably and in a few choices have to be made that can determine the fate of the NPC's in question.

The main thing about quests in The Witcher series is [both 1 and 2] that it is completely at your discretion how you want to do a certain quest, with choices thrown in middle which might seem minor at first but are extrapolated for added effect.

But the gatherer can effectively use his own Meditation skills to formulate OILS, ELIXIRS and TRAPS / BOMBS if he has the requisite ingredients + recipe / schematics.
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Hope this answers your query Allwyn [this IS your name right
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There are some repetitive side missions like dice roll, arm wrestling, fist fight in each act.

The side missions are highly satisfying some even run longer than main mission but they add so much value to that you don't wanna miss.

You are on pc right ? Or 360
 
dinjo said:
There are some repetitive side missions like dice roll, arm wrestling, fist fight in each act.]

I want term them as side-quests [they take their space in the Journal], but rather smaller distractions that take your mind of the tedium of the usual taking a very altruistic choices that later own shape the game.

Also, apart from the Dice-roll [I never really fancied gambling] both arm-wrestling and fist-fighting have a small continuous thread of NPC's egging you on to the next chapter, till in the end you are again confronted by a choice.

The side missions are highly satisfying some even run longer than main mission but they add so much value to that you don't wanna miss.

True I really liked the side-quest titled "a sackful of fluff" [ACT II] and "the claws of madness [ACT 1]" the last ACT doesn't have much of a side-quest line to it, but that might change on the 18th of April.

You are on pc right ? Or 360

360 he is on Sire. He tried to play The Witcher 2 v1.0 on PC, it started stuttering like crazy, UNINSTALL.
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Hope this helps, Cheers!!
 
No these quests differ in the fact that every chapter contain certain clues and add ons for the quests in question and in the final ACT they end up having a seamless ending / conclusion.
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So they are intertwined?

Don't worry this RPG is not from Skyrim's / Mass Effect school of thought to keep a players Journal chock full of pointless quests like gathering certain herbs and ingredients. For e.g., assume you have to RID an area of a certain monster, following are the ways quests generally play out
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Well, that's a relief.

* Geralt learns more about the monsters by slaying them and reading tomes about them, finally reaches a conclusion to RID the MAP of majority of that type of monster, at night those monsters re-spawn but in reduced numbers and due to loss of natural habitat structure fight ineffectively.

* Geralt asks the locals about the monsters he is facing and same outcome as above.
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I'm afraid, I lost you on this point. Could you provide an example for it?

Some times Geralt is requested by NPC's for certain help, a few are concluded amicably and in a few choices have to be made that can determine the fate of the NPC's in question.

The main thing about quests in The Witcher series is [both 1 and 2] that it is completely at your discretion how you want to do a certain quest, with choices thrown in middle which might seem minor at first but are extrapolated for added effect.
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That's nice. IMO, conversations must have some moral (or immoral) impact, else they are completely pointless.

There are some repetitive side missions like dice roll, arm wrestling, fist fight in each act.

The side missions are highly satisfying some even run longer than main mission but they add so much value to that you don't wanna miss.
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Ah now we're getting somewhere. I assume, those dice roll and arm wrestling games are time-killers, just like the mini-games in Red Dead Redemption. I could live with that, as they won't be mandatory.

You are on pc right ? Or 360
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360 he is on Sire. He tried to play The Witcher 2 v1.0 on PC, it started stuttering like crazy, UNINSTALL
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That was then. Since my graphic card upgrade, I'm happy to report, it runs fine on Ultra settings, minus Ubersampling and SSAO. I recently gave it a test run along with it's patches, just to see if my rig could handle it. Else, I would have picked up the 360 version in a heart beat. I'm just waiting for the Enhanced Edition patch to come out for the PC and will fire it up. The master race always wins.
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Ethan_Hunt said:
So they are intertwined?

Not intertwined, a better term will be that the quest in question will be continued in the next ACT. For e.g. --

you save a certain character X, they do not immediately reward you OR react to your actions, they can return a favour much later part of the game. I really like this delayed blow-back effect of your choices, it is very subtly done and it does not feel forced unlike immediate morality that is attached in other games.

I'm afraid, I lost you on this point. Could you provide an example for it?

Okay!! The best example for this will be the first quests of Nekkers in the forest, you have a single conclusion in the end, to get rid of these annoyances every-time you foray into the forest near Flotsam, so you start gatherin some Intel on them in one of three ways --
  • You start butchering every Nekker you spot, for every ~6 -->9 [Nekkers, dependent on difficulty] you down, you will unlock a piece of information how they operate.
  • You read the book on them by visiting the local librarian / barber, a dwarf [forgot his name].
  • You ask the elf Cedric about the local fauna and he elaborates. Although he will provide only 1/3 of the required information, he has the schematics for the Grapeshot bomb you will need later to eliminate the Nekker nests.

Now that Geralt has the information he needs to deal with these monsters he destroys their tunnel network and viola no more Nekkers OR reduced spawn rates.

Certain monsters like Ghouls cannot be killed only banished for a certain time-period and only spawn at a certain time [say Night] at certain locations.

That's nice. IMO, conversations must have some moral (or immoral) impact, else they are completely pointless.

No, Sire no such thing as morality OR immorality points are attached, but depending on your action and speech the world perceives you in a different light, far more effective than the usual Light side [Paragon] / Dark side [Renegade] conundrum and it is not loose either like Skyrim, where the world is so huge that you can basically show the finger to every-body once you reach a certain level and outfit yourself with appropriate gear.

In the Witcher world, your decision can change where you will end up going, which MAP or specifically how you will deal OR bypass certain events. I would not elaborate for fear of further spoilers.

In The Witcher universe, the Witcher's are not immortal, they have been killed [Geralt himself has supposedly returned from the dead] by various characters, felled in battle, or killed while on a contract to kill a certain monster.

Ah now we're getting somewhere. I assume, those dice roll and arm wrestling games are time-killers, just like the mini-games in Red Dead Redemption. I could live with that, as they won't be mandatory.

Not true, Dice roll keeps getting progressively harder [unlike the Witcher 1 where I exploited a particular bug-over and over the whole game].

Arm-wrestling has a back story to it where you keep getting referred to the next boss character for furthering of the story thread and concludes with a very ironic twist at the climax.

Fist fight starts as a casual thing initially until you decide that you cannot control your urge for easy money and get sucked into another mini-story thread. ACT II fist fights have repercussions in ACT III with certain characters making a cameo appearance.

That was then. Since my graphic card upgrade, I'm happy to report, it runs fine on Ultra settings, minus Ubersampling and SSAO. I recently gave it a test run along with it's patches, just to see if my rig could handle it. Else, I would have picked up the 360 version in a heart beat. I'm just waiting for the Enhanced Edition patch to come out for the PC and will fire it up. The master race always wins.

Me to needs a nVidia graphics card desperately. My HD 5770 displays wonderful levels of texture tears even on the latest drivers.
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Hope this helps, Sire. And do enjoy the world of The Witcher 2 which takes itself very-very-very seriously. Cheers!!
 
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