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Lycus posted:Try going to the beach at any time and then meditating there until 2300. That's pretty much exactly what I've done each time. I usually get there at sunset, meditate, and then head to the marker. And then I wait and wait, and eventually it's past midnight, so I meditate at the marker till 2300 again. Lather, rinse, repeat. I wouldn't care so much if it wasn't for that ridiculous QUEST FAILED YOU HORRIBLE gently caress music. No, I didn't fail that drunk dude quest, I got the information I needed from the hooker nurse!
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Cthulu Carl posted:That's pretty much exactly what I've done each time. I usually get there at sunset, meditate, and then head to the marker. And then I wait and wait, and eventually it's past midnight, so I meditate at the marker till 2300 again. Lather, rinse, repeat. Depending on your dialogue options you need to meet the dude just before the beach and head there together.
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Apr 27, 2012 22:59
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Hackan Slash posted:Depending on your dialogue options you need to meet the dude just before the beach and head there together. His pathetic pants-making GBS threads mug is right there next to me, yeah. Meh, maybe I'll just say gently caress it this play through and try again some other time.
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Apr 27, 2012 23:22
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If I recall, there is at least one way to incorrectly sequence the sisters quest so that it becomes unfinishable. Not that you've pissed someone off or broke a conversation chain, but something in the detective/information collecting. I had to reload an old save (PC, pre EE) to try again.
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Sputnik posted:If I recall, there is at least one way to incorrectly sequence the sisters quest so that it becomes unfinishable. Not that you've pissed someone off or broke a conversation chain, but something in the detective/information collecting. I had to reload an old save (PC, pre EE) to try again. Ah, drat, that's probably it. I missed one of the tombstones before checking out the hut's basement. Oh well, I'm almost at the end of Chapter 2 so I'll just try it on another run-through.
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Apr 28, 2012 00:12
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Apr 28, 2012 00:14
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Cthulu Carl posted:Ah, drat, that's probably it. I missed one of the tombstones before checking out the hut's basement. Edit: Yep, the wiki confirms that. Jokymi fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Apr 28, 2012 |
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Apr 28, 2012 00:37
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Did they do a small patch for the EE version? Steam downloaded like 10 mb of something for The Witcher 2, wondering if they addressed the whole 16:10 bug yet.
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OAquinas posted:I think you're missing the point about the Bioware complaints: pretty sure most/all of the complainers would agree the universe and general story are well done and engaging. Where it stumbles or falls is in the game mechanics and ham-handed "choice" options you get....and of course that terrible ending. If their game worlds were flat and uninteresting they'd get wholly dismissed as crap subpar efforts and forgotten. Well yeah, but my point was that everyone is "RAWR BIOWARE WRITING SUCKS!" but Bioware writing also wrote the whole drat setting... they prioritized the universe and thematic stuff over the nitty gritty story, which is their style and a questionable choice from a gaming perspective, but still... it's not like they make utterly horrible RPGs or something. Regardless, dumb derail, let's talk more about how awesome Witcher is and hypothesize on how they might change gameplay or allow for branching plots in 3. I'm mostly worried that they'll go full bore on the whole personal storyline of Geralt and Yennefer and the Wild Hunt, which wouldn't be terrible but it really was the least compelling of all the plotlines in this game and felt the most tacked on and out of left field... it mostly had nothing to do with anything, and existed only to tie the games back to the books and make a weak bridge back to the first game. (the Foltest assassination was a better hook) I really hope CDPR doesn't get so caught up in fanboying the books so hard that they alienate the rest of their playerbase and trim down on all the monster slaying and political intrigue, because while I love Geralt as a character, I really do not care to see him in anything resembling a love story.
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I'd really like to give this game another playthrough now that EE is out, but I keep crashing when I attempt to exit the tent in the prologue. I've just given up for now.
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Hannibal Smith posted:I'm pretty sure the bug involves talking to Dethmold about the scroll you find in the basement before finishing the rest of the quest. I don't know why that would break it, but I remember reading about that issue awhile back. Ah gently caress. That's what I did. Oh well.
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Fuzz posted:
Yeah it never meshed well with the story and if anything really confused people not familiar with the short stories. And most of the elements such as the Wild Hunt would randomly show up for scene or two which really didn't help the confusion.
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How am I supposed to make money in Witcher 1? I'm in Chapter 2, can't get to the swamp (at least, I see no entrance anywhere), can't get any further leads, and spend all my money on books for contracts (which are all in the swamp I can't get to yet afaik) and the tower quest and now some old woman won't let me see Shani until I get some gloves worth 100 gold. I have 4 gold.
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RBA Starblade posted:How am I supposed to make money in Witcher 1? I'm in Chapter 2, can't get to the swamp (at least, I see no entrance anywhere), can't get any further leads, and spend all my money on books for contracts (which are all in the swamp I can't get to yet afaik) and the tower quest and now some old woman won't let me see Shani until I get some gloves worth 100 gold. I have 4 gold. I'm pretty sure you can see Shani anytime in the evening or at night. Also it's only 5 gold to go to the swamp and the entrance is a ferryman in the dike area. Just sell something you have for 1 gold and go to the swamp and do contracts and quests there. You don't have to take the ferryman back, there's another way so you don't have to pay 5 gold again. This was when I ran out of money too, but after this chapter I was swimming in it.
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The old woman is probably the most annoying part of the game. You can keep entering the house and she will sometimes let you go through or just make smaller demands. There's an easy way to get by her, though. Beat Thaler at a drinking contest and he will give you a book. Give it to the bootblack and he will give you a ring. Wear that and show it to the old lady and she'll never stop you again.
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RBA Starblade posted:How am I supposed to make money in Witcher 1? I'm in Chapter 2, can't get to the swamp (at least, I see no entrance anywhere), can't get any further leads, and spend all my money on books for contracts (which are all in the swamp I can't get to yet afaik) and the tower quest and now some old woman won't let me see Shani until I get some gloves worth 100 gold. I have 4 gold. Dice Poker sadly. Prepare for lots of save scumming cause the AI cheats like a motherfucker.
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If you're on chapter 2, provided you're on Roche's path, it's incredibly easy to make enough money to last you until the end of the game if you spend a little bit of time. Mid Ch2 minor spoiler, Kaedwin camp You can arm-wrestle Adam Pangrett as many times as you drat well please, making 100 orens a pop. And it's basically impossible to lose at arm wrestling. In any case, I just finished through the game on Dark, and also didn't find it to be terribly difficult. That is most likely in part due to having played up to Ch. 3 on hard just before, and losing all my saves. Playing the two back to back, there really didn't feel like any kind of difference in difficulty, Dark is just cool because of the cursed armor sets. It took way, way, way too long to do it, but I managed to complete all three sets on my play through. They're pretty badass. Thanks CD Projekt, for making the best western RPG I've been fortunate enough to play. Bring out The Witcher 3, please. 
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Fuzz posted:Well yeah, but my point was that everyone is "RAWR BIOWARE WRITING SUCKS!" but Bioware writing also wrote the whole drat setting... they prioritized the universe and thematic stuff over the nitty gritty story, which is their style and a questionable choice from a gaming perspective, but still... it's not like they make utterly horrible RPGs or something. That's why I'd like to see a Witcher game that doesn't involve Geralt at some point. Geralt's great and all, but you're right in that Geralt's personal story generally isn't as interesting as the setting itself and how they pull the setting off. I'd personally like to see a Witcher game set at some point in the past when Witchers were (more) plentiful, with a possibility of making your own witcher (though not having one would not be a dealbreaker for me).
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I have a question in regards to an Iorveth Act 2 quest Are there any ways to get forensic tools to pull out the claw in the dead guy's arm? Geralt says it was a succubus that killed him but he also mentions he could use tools to take out the claw and I read a book about autopsies that say the same. Only thing is, I have no idea where to look for such tools.
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Red Mundus posted:I have a question in regards to an Iorveth Act 2 quest One of the merchants in town sells all the goodies, so buy before heeding out to avoid backtracking. Probably the best reward for the quest is the ridiculous sex scene if you side with the monster.
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Red Mundus posted:I have a question in regards to an Iorveth Act 2 quest The mage vendor in the Vergen gate sells them
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Ahh, that quest. It provided the line that probably gave me the biggest laugh in the game: "loving idiot actually went in!"
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Lycus posted:Ahh, that quest. It provided the line that probably gave me the biggest laugh in the game: "loving idiot actually went in!" Sometimes it's best to let something with no brains make all the decisions.
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Coughing Hobo posted:This game looks good all of the time, but sometimes, god drat
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Is there a mod that removes the dark mode effects without attempting to rebalance the swords? The poor visibility is getting me killed more often then the curse itself.
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Lycus posted:Ahh, that quest. It provided the line that probably gave me the biggest laugh in the game: "loving idiot actually went in!" Do you blame him?
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Asehujiko posted:Is there a mod that removes the dark mode effects without attempting to rebalance the swords? The poor visibility is getting me killed more often then the curse itself. I take it you have already checked the OP? I swear I downloaded a mod that only removed the visual effects and posted it in the thread, but I couldn't find it. I know what you mean though, that poo poo is really annoying. I fought in basically every cave in Vergen without cat using the Dark swords and it was hilariously impossible. After dying a few times, I said gently caress it and drank a cat. I'm pretty sure the cat heartbeat is more annoying than not being able to see though. That got me to thinking, what do people think about game designers making helpful items really annoying? I mean, as a player, you need to strike a balance between how much something helps you and how much it hinders you. Take cat for example, I loving hate the heartbeat but recognize that I need it sometimes to win. Is that fundamentally different from the potions that decrease your resistances while increasing your damage? Same with the dark effects, they all provide something useful at the cost of being somewhat detrimental. Are the cat and dark weapon effects bad game design, or simply another form of balance?
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Lasher posted:Really on the fence about buying this at the moment. I read somewhere that in Witcher 1 there are various things you can do in the beginning of the game that can come back and bite you in the rear end in the endgame. Is it like that this time around? I LOVED Alpha Protocol for that aspect alone and I'm up for another RPG too. That concept has been pretty much removed from the game even though certain decisions still remove some minor NPCs.
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But from everything I've read it's still pretty deep and has a shitload of content. If I hadn't given up drinking I'd just spend my last 30 quid on booze instead. 1st world problems, right?
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Nothing that'll bite you in the rear end necessarily, but there are lots of things that change between playthroughs, biggest being two entirely different 2nd chapters.
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Bit the bullet and picked it up. Cant wait to get stuck in. I've skipped the thread for fear of spoilers as well so forgive me if I come back asking any daft questions that may have been answered during the thread.
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Is it still possible to do the quest From a Bygone Era? The one where you find a manuscript that leads you to the Operator in Loc Muinne if you take Iorveth's path? I remember doing it before, but the cellar is locked this time and I can't find a key for it.
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Torsade de Pointes posted:Is it still possible to do the quest From a Bygone Era? The one where you find a manuscript that leads you to the Operator in Loc Muinne if you take Iorveth's path? I remember doing it before, but the cellar is locked this time and I can't find a key for it.
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Lycus posted:Yes it is. Which part are you having trouble with? Remember, you have to use Aard to get into the cellar, and the candle sequence to open the secret room. I used aard to get rid of the barrels, but the door to the cellar with the candles just says locked and it won't open.
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Torsade de Pointes posted:I used aard to get rid of the barrels, but the door to the cellar with the candles just says locked and it won't open. Lycus fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Apr 28, 2012 |
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Lycus posted:Well, there's definitely no key, I can tell you that. I'm not sure what's wrong, you should be able to go down after you clear the barrels. I tried reloading and it says the same thing. I'll go ahead and finish up what I need to do in the Kaedweani camp and maybe that will fix it. I'm currently unable to wait at all as well, which I think is related to having this part of the quest active.
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