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Samurai Sanders posted:Before you can get in that cave you have to go out into the hot springs or something that is to the northwest, I think. It's up near Iorveth's house. But once you're there it will take some careful looking to find the path up high where the item is. Ok I don't know where Iorveth's shag pad is. I ended up in the Catacombs some where while trying to find the pointy ear ghetto.
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NuckmasterJ posted:Ok I don't know where Iorveth's shag pad is. I ended up in the Catacombs some where while trying to find the pointy ear ghetto. If you're heading out of Vergen via the main gate, head up the stairs to the right just before the last gate, and continue north.
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May 1, 2012 00:55
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folgore posted:Did you go to the quarry harpy cave yet? This quest is really hilarious since once of stored dreams is a wet dream fantasy of Saskia from some random peasant.
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May 1, 2012 00:57
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etalian posted:This quest is really hilarious since once of stored dreams is a wet dream fantasy of Saskia from some random peasant.
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May 1, 2012 00:59
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Samurai Sanders posted:While watching that I couldn't figure out if it was a peasant's dream of having sex with Saskia or Saskia's dream of having sex with a peasant. It's labeled as "peasant's dream" though so it's the former I guess. That's more boring. Awww man, I saw it as Sakia dreaming about having a gangbang with a bunch of dwarves. Way less fun the other way around.
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May 1, 2012 01:02
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I've been playing around with the PC settings a bit after I've switched back to the PC for my EE playthrough (too used to my multibutton mouse over the 360 controller) and I've found that although the Witcher ini Tweaker Launcher calls SSAO a subtle setting it makes a big difference to me in terms of graphic immersion. (Specifically without it some shadows have a crosshatched look and the models feel as though they have less depth). Someone asked about settings that don't tax CPU earlier so it's worth noting that wikipedia states that SSAO can be handled entirely by the GPU.
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May 1, 2012 02:04
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Why does Iorveth hate Phillipa so much, is it for taking control of Saskia or is there something else too?
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May 1, 2012 02:47
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homerlaw posted:Why does Iorveth hate Phillipa so much, is it for taking control of Saskia or is there something else too? He has a boner for Saskia.
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May 1, 2012 02:50
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etalian posted:He has a boner for Saskia.
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May 1, 2012 03:30
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SpRahl posted:Unfortunately Iorveth is a little too tall for her taste Yup she has a hankering for dwarves instead.
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May 1, 2012 03:47
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etalian posted:This quest is really hilarious since once of stored dreams is a wet dream fantasy of Saskia from some random peasant. What was up with the Iorveth dream? I can't remember if anyone figured it out
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May 1, 2012 03:52
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Sputty posted:What was up with the Iorveth dream? I can't remember if anyone figured it out In other words, he's not this lover of violence that everyone, even Saskia, seems to think he is.
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May 1, 2012 03:53
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Lycus posted:Iorveth dreams of peace and comfort. It's an easy mistake to make, considering he's a crazy racist terrorist.
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May 1, 2012 05:12
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I just finished a second playthrough yesterday, and right after the new epilogue slides the game just quit to the desktop. No error message, nothing in the taskbar, etc. Did I miss anything?
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May 1, 2012 05:23
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SpaceViking posted:It's an easy mistake to make, considering he's a crazy racist terrorist. Well I guess you could always be like the guy who's wife was kidnapped and used as a sex slave for a year to only have her commit suicide and be left with the half breed kid. Or the 'thief' that was hanged in the market square. Or drink all day. Yep, thats pretty much the career options for an elf in the Witcher. The Iorveth path is just so much more satisfying thematically imo. The Roche path is filled with awkward 'alliances' and so much "Certainly didn't see this coming, no way" that I think its almost a joke. Like, they need conversation options during that path that reflect it. Even Zoltan is like "gently caress, this poo poo is wrong, why aren't we on the other side? gently caress it, I'm coming with you and staying there."
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May 1, 2012 05:31
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Zoltan's attitude is very illustrative of the difference between the paths. He's so happy and energized when you're on Iorveth's Path, and he's depressed as poo poo on Roche's Path.
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May 1, 2012 05:38
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homerlaw posted:Why does Iorveth hate Phillipa so much, is it for taking control of Saskia or is there something else too? He also loathes sorceresses and the Lodge in general cause the Elven state of Dol Blathanna is run by a sorceress and Lodge member, Findabair. She sold out to Nilfgaard and betrayed the Scoia'tael and allowed them to be butchered. His unit, the Vrihedd Brigade, was murdered after one of the wars by Nilfgaard following their defeat. The Nilfgaardian ambassador insists it was at the insistence of the Northern Monarchs, but I think he holds both them and Findabair responsible.
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Berk Berkly posted:
I dunno, I kinda liked that about the Roche path. It fits in with the whole "morally grey" thing The Witcher has going on, I enjoyed the idea of working alongside gross/evil people because they were the only ones who could help you get the job done. That said, I still liked Iorveth's path better because mucking around in the camp got old pretty fast and after a while I got confused about exactly which curse I was lifting and how and why...it got as twisted and muddled as the streets of Vergen. That and I liked the dwarves ("lesbomancy," etc).
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Berk Berkly posted:Well I guess you could always be like the guy who's wife was kidnapped and used as a sex slave for a year to only have her commit suicide and be left with the half breed kid. Or the 'thief' that was hanged in the market square. Or drink all day. Yep, thats pretty much the career options for an elf in the Witcher. Yeah, things are pretty lovely for nonhumans in the witcher, I'm not arguing that, but being a justified crazy racist terrorist doesn't make you less of a crazy racist terrorist Ainsley McTree posted:I dunno, I kinda liked that about the Roche path. It fits in with the whole "morally grey" thing The Witcher has going on, I enjoyed the idea of working alongside gross/evil people because they were the only ones who could help you get the job done. I agree about Roche's path working better with the setting. You deal with this crazy murdering rear end in a top hat rapist king and indirectly help him squash a bunch of brave freedom fighters because you have to, not necessarily because you want to. And then when said crazy murdering rear end in a top hat rapist king crosses the line with your ally, you can let Roche totally murder him, because just like stopping Henselt wasn't your call, neither was stopping Roche.
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SpaceViking posted:I agree about Roche's path working better with the setting. You deal with this crazy murdering rear end in a top hat rapist king and indirectly help him squash a bunch of brave freedom fighters because you have to, not necessarily because you want to. And then when said crazy murdering rear end in a top hat rapist king crosses the line with your ally, you can let Roche totally murder him, because just like stopping Henselt wasn't your call, neither was stopping Roche.
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Shumagorath posted:Actually, there's a part to that arc I never quite figured out. Does Ves actually get raped by Henselt or was she part of the plot to sell the Blue Stripes out? While I don't doubt Henselt's loathsomeness there was a bit of dialogue I didn't quite make sense of and you never see her during Act 3. Edit: Think back to the camp tournament. Ves gets pissed if you let her win, but you bond with her if you beat her. She wants to be treated like a soldier, not a defenseless woman. Her getting raped and left alive while her comrades were massacred made the ordeal even worse for her, and she projected how she felt about herself at that moment onto how she thought Roche and Geralt would see her. Edit: Also, Henselt confirms it if you ask him. Lycus fucked around with this message at 08:25 on May 1, 2012 |
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Lycus posted:Yes, she was raped. She was ashamed and didn't tell Geralt and Roche that part, but Geralt picked up on it. It wasn't meant to be a huge plot twist thing, just a character thing. It was confusing because the cutscene showed exactly what happened but yet we are supposed to think she didn't tell us via in character dialog, thus we get the weird "She isn't telling the truth" by Geralt which makes us think something else is going on.
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Berk Berkly posted:It was confusing because the cutscene showed exactly what happened but yet we are supposed to think she didn't tell us via in character dialog, thus we get the weird "She isn't telling the truth" by Geralt which makes us think something else is going on.
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Asehujiko posted:Is the Operator available in the Epilogue? I'm considering to do everything except the optional final boss before him because gently caress that tiny room full of crap designed to snag rolls, exploding enemies and fireballs that cover the entire room, the fucker himself knocking me down simply by walking or teleporting near me and straight out telefrags by gargoyles that have three times as many health as those on the surface and punch me in the face for more then my entire health bar. I came here to ask this. I just made it to the operator for the first time and just what the gently caress?  How do you beat this cocksucker?
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Decided to pick up this game and from what I've seen in the tutorial I like it quite a bit, but one question. In the tutorial at the end I managed to kill like five guys before exploding myself with my own incineration trap (hosed if I can remember what it's called), and it still said I should play on Easy. Is... is this game really that hard? 
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May 1, 2012 08:02
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Holy poo poo found two swords in the forest in Loc Muinne with incredible stats. Their names are Dancer and Deithwin. Dancer the steel sword does more damage than that one the mage builds in Loc Muinne. Also the sword group finisher is the most loving amazing thing. 
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Ledneh posted:Decided to pick up this game and from what I've seen in the tutorial I like it quite a bit, but one question. In the tutorial at the end I managed to kill like five guys before exploding myself with my own incineration trap (hosed if I can remember what it's called), and it still said I should play on Easy.
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Ledneh posted:Decided to pick up this game and from what I've seen in the tutorial I like it quite a bit, but one question. In the tutorial at the end I managed to kill like five guys before exploding myself with my own incineration trap (hosed if I can remember what it's called), and it still said I should play on Easy. It certainly can be until you 'get it' but it sounds like you probably can play on normal/hard without to much difficulty. Don't play on Dark/Insane until you are really comfy.
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You don't really learn how to play until you're done with the Prologue and some of Chapter 1, so I would never listen to that tutorial recommendation.
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May 1, 2012 08:46
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Are there problems with Witcher 1 imports? I imported my final Witcher save but it has Geralt together with Triss in Witcher 2 even though he hugely pissed her off in the first game and she said she didn't want anything more to do with him.
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May 1, 2012 09:06
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Jerusalem posted:Are there problems with Witcher 1 imports? I imported my final Witcher save but it has Geralt together with Triss in Witcher 2 even though he hugely pissed her off in the first game and she said she didn't want anything more to do with him. There's no problem there. I think that particular choice got defaulted to Triss in TW2 afaik.
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Yeah, I have no idea how the game's story could have operated without Triss as Geralt's girlfriend. Would she get kidnapped and he would just be like "eh" and chapter 2 never happen?
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May 1, 2012 09:16
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It defaults to Triss, but apparently the EE adds a 'Shani Romanced' flag to the save import that wasn't there before. So maybe she'll at least get mentioned now, I don't have a Shani save to check though.
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I do find it disappointing considering I liked Geralt and Shani having a (doomed) dream of just getting the gently caress out of Vizima and settling down and trying to live a relatively normal life. I also really enjoyed the Autopsy and House Party missions with Shani, whereas Triss actually really annoyed me when Geralt wakes up and overhears her scheming with another sorceress and talking about manipulating him, and when he calls her on it she just tells him she won't talk about it and Geralt just drops it. It's shortly after that when Triss tells you to take Alvin away from Shani and you have to make your choice, and it just seemed a no-brainer to me to NOT trust the person lying to Geralt, openly admitting manipulating him and refusing to explain herself when caught out.
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That would have been a huge undertaking to get Shani into the same level of plot importance as Triss had during this game. She just isn't a politically involved Sorceress and all that jizzle. It would basically be a different story almost all together.
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I think that is the point though. Given that they did choose to go for an "import save from first game" feature, it's a bit disappointing to me that they chose to write the story around a character around which a fairly big choice in the first game revolves. Especially when the player had a fair amount of reasons to possibly not trust Triss at all in the first game. I guess they had the story finalized in the Witcher 2 before they chose to make use of an import save feature. It's disappointing when you play through the games in sequence because they are supposed to be very connected to one another, continuation of the story and events and so forth.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Yeah, I have no idea how the game's story could have operated without Triss as Geralt's girlfriend. Would she get kidnapped and he would just be like "eh" and chapter 2 never happen? Really, the biggest change would probably be to just change the opening prologue scene from waking up with Triss to Triss coming to tell you that Foltest wants to see you (instead of the soldier). That way you could keep the same exposition dialogue from that bit. Then you'd just have to remove some girlfriend-y dialogue here and there from the Prologue and Chapter 1. Lycus fucked around with this message at 11:06 on May 1, 2012 |
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Finished the prologue on dark mode and am wondering if I should spec into sword this time. Or maybe I'll just go full mage/alchemist again, or will not having riposte bite me in the dick?
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FrickenMoron posted:Finished the prologue on dark mode and am wondering if I should spec into sword this time. Or maybe I'll just go full mage/alchemist again, or will not having riposte bite me in the dick? Riposte is a huge help for the mist sequence in chapter two. Going magic/alchemy is totally fine, but seriously, do yourself a favour and put down a point each in Riposte and Footwork even if you don't plan on getting anything else from the swordsmanship tree. It'll save you a lot of pain in the long run.
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