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chaosapiant posted:FCR is great on paper, but I find it makes the game too drat frustrating. As in, I can't get past the Barghests in the opening of Chapter 1, and have to constantly cycle through that drat cutscene over and over again. And i've beaten the game on hard, twice, no sweat. I love the intent of the mod but...it's not for me. I may not have noticed if it wasn't for that bleed stun animation, I'm kinda glad it did because after I removed it I completely obliterated the rest of the Barghests, cleared the crypt, faced Salamandra on the bridge without as much as reloading once (I did use potions, of course, and I've been spending my talents), but gently caress that stunlock. Besides, I just want to play through 1 to play 2, so I really didn't want the experience to be an exercise in frustration
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Deketh posted:I tried to get FCR to work for me, but something must have gone wrong cos Geralt will never do this auto block thing and the skills look messed up too. I don't really have a problem with vanilla anyway, though the extra animations look cool. The skills have an issue where the new names and descriptions FCR give them don't show or something along those lines. I don't remember how to fix it but there is a way, a quick google should hopefully help you there. I remember also thinking that the auto block seemed bust, apparently it's supposed to block the first blockable attack made on you in a certain time frame but I found it more reliable to just dodge non stop.
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GoldenNugget posted:Storywise I still like witcher 1 better. I've seen other people say this and I'll never understand it. The plot of TW1 was really quite simple. It just ended with a memorable twist. I was far more invested in TW2's story.
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The Sharmat posted:I've seen other people say this and I'll never understand it. The plot of TW1 was really quite simple. It just ended with a memorable twist. I was far more invested in TW2's story. What hooked me on Witcher 1 was the actual investigation section and the fact the bad guy of the game might be 100% completely justified in everything he did. If the white frost is coming and his actions saved the human race, they could be excused no matter how evil the deed. But we'll never know now.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:What hooked me on Witcher 1 was the actual investigation section and the fact the bad guy of the game might be 100% completely justified in everything he did. If the white frost is coming and his actions saved the human race, they could be excused no matter how evil the deed. But we'll never know now. The question is whether there's anything left that was worth saving after he's done.
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I thought humanity would mostly go on as before, just with the Grandmaster presiding over them with an army of Greater Brothers?
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The Sharmat posted:I thought humanity would mostly go on as before, just with the Grandmaster presiding over them with an army of Greater Brothers? Naah, I think the idea was everyone completely mutated.
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I got the impression that the Greater Brothers were to serve as protection for humanity's long journey southward, not as a replacement for humanity.
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Jimmy Noskill posted:I got the impression that the Greater Brothers were to serve as protection for humanity's long journey southward, not as a replacement for humanity.
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Also The Greater Brothers are probably sterile, so not exactly a sustainable replacement for vanilla Homo sapiens.
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Any recommendation on forging swords? I have the started sword set and a few meteorite pieces (1 red, 2 blue) and some runes, but I'm hesitant to spend them; do you get better swords down the road, or all upgrades come from reforging? And if you get better "base" swords, should I just save the meteorites/runes until then? /edit: some further reading cleared that up, you don't upgrade them, you forge new ones (meteorite ones). I guess I'll forge a new one till I start getting new swords. Edmond Dantes fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Edmond Dantes posted:Any recommendation on forging swords? I have the started sword set and a few meteorite pieces (1 red, 2 blue) and some runes, but I'm hesitant to spend them; do you get better swords down the road, or all upgrades come from reforging?
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So I'm coming up to the route split at the end of chapter 1. Which route would you guys suggest for someone who only intends to play through the game once?
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Do you want a darker more dramatic story? Go with Roche. Do you want a more epic and heroic story? Go with Iorveth.
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Lycus posted:Do you want a darker more dramatic story? Go with Roche. Does one have more important overall story to it than the other? I haven't read the novels or whatever, but I'm just looking to pick whichever route will prepare me for TW3 the best.
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Not really, no. The one story point that the entire the series is concerned with, the Wild Hunt, is equally presented no matter which path you take. So go whichever way you feel more inclined to.
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Verranicus posted:So I'm coming up to the route split at the end of chapter 1. Which route would you guys suggest for someone who only intends to play through the game once?
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Asehujiko posted:Keep a savegame from before the split if you want to avoid playing through all of the prologue and act 1 again, you need to see both paths to really "get" everything and there's almost no duplicate content in act 2 and 3 so by onply playing one set you'll miss out on 30% of the game or so. Overall, the game works best if you go with Roche first and then Iorveth. How much is almost no duplicate content? I'm not really interested in playing through 2 chapters again if the changes amount to talking to some different NPCs in the same places, etc.
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Different storylines, different quests, except for the boss battles. The paths share two mandatory boss battles, and one optional one.
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The correct answer is to go with Iorveth because he is the loving best and Roche is just a big fuddy duddy.
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Verranicus posted:How much is almost no duplicate content? I'm not really interested in playing through 2 chapters again if the changes amount to talking to some different NPCs in the same places, etc. *not really optional but at one point you get to choose between three different quests you can only do one of before the plot advances, one that requires you to be with Iorveth, one that you can do regardless of your path and one that requires you to be with Roche. Geography wise, chunks of the act 2 and 3 overworld are shared but your quest hubs are in different places and areas where you'll spend 75% of your time in one path appear for about 5 minutes in the other and all but one side areas are unique. Asehujiko fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 12, 2014 |
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But really, I wouldn't worry too much about that until the future when you decide whether or not you feel like playing again. For now, which path you take doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. And my only advice, again, is are you personally in the mood for more drama or more heroism?
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Also, in terms of long-term plot plot, there are basically three major factions. By the end of the game, you will have chosen to screw two of the three and save the remainder. The end of Act 1 determines which two options you'll be able to pick from to save (one is available on both paths). Deciding on drama vs heroism is probably a good way to go.
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Hakkesshu posted:The correct answer is to go with Iorveth because he is the loving best and Roche is just a big fuddy duddy. gently caress Temeria, Upper Aedirn all the way. 
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Iorveth is only good if you want to have a lot of new non-human buddies and accidentally want to end up as father of a nation.
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A very specific take on Iorveth's path has an interesting end scenario that depending on how TW3 handles it, if at all, makes it either awesome or awful. I initially chose Iorveth over Roche for roleplaying reasons though, with no foreknowledge of what came next. It's best that way, really.
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The Sharmat posted:A very specific take on Iorveth's path has an interesting end scenario that depending on how TW3 handles it, if at all, makes it either awesome or awful.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume the save saskia, unite Aedern under her ending because that path at the end of the game the only "good"-ish leader is in power but the last scene implies that it basically doesn't matter because the empire is just going to conquer everything and there is nothing Saskia can do about it
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Lycus posted:Do you want a darker more dramatic story? Go with Roche.
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Wachepti posted:I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume the save saskia, unite Aedern under her ending because that path at the end of the game the only "good"-ish leader is in power but the last scene implies that it basically doesn't matter because the empire is just going to conquer everything and there is nothing Saskia can do about it Eh, I doubt that. The thing about the Witcher endings is it isn't pointlessly grimdark. You can't save everyone, and that's a good thing, but you can make a difference for somebody. It would be throwing that all away if the Empire just unilaterally stomped everyone. I personally suspect the Wild Hunt is going to somehow gently caress everything up behind Nilfgaardian lines
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Sylphosaurus posted:Oh, which one are you thinking about? Iorveth path, don't save Saskia, but don't kill her. That leaves Philippa (and Sile if she's not dead) in control of a dragon, and now quite desperate and angry. That better loving have repercussions in TW3. It makes the victory rather bitter sweet though. Which I like.
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Personally, I'm not expecting major repercussions from any of the various W2 storylines. I'm expecting it be more like the W1 import; i.e. mostly dialogue references (with the biggest possible difference being Siegfried popping up, though not changing a whole lot).
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I expect that for everything but the instance I sighted, which seems to demand resolution, and even hints at one at the end of the game. If you don't save Saskia, you can get Philippa's dagger from Iorveth's captors in the epilogue.
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I don't think it's gonna happen, but we'll see. I mean, I don't think we have any reason to say definitively that the resolution must take place within Witcher 3's time frame, however long that is. So right now, my guess is that it's not gonna come up in the game. Lycus fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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gently caress that son of a whore Iorveth. Broche all the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGjyqqHU7JI
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Konsek posted:gently caress that son of a whore Iorveth. Broche all the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCBGFiyq75w
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Lycus posted:I don't think it's gonna happen, but we'll see. I acknowledge this is a possibility but I really hope it's not the case. I mean Philippa and possibly Sile just kinda sitting on a dragon without using it would be kinda lame.
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The Sharmat posted:I acknowledge this is a possibility but I really hope it's not the case. I mean Philippa and possibly Sile just kinda sitting on a dragon without using it would be kinda lame.
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I wonder if She still has eyes as an owl? And how long does regeneration take, anyway? I know Vilgefortz lost an eye in the books and grew it back..
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Looks like NexusMods changed their website layout without having redirects. For example: http://witcher.nexusmods.com/mods/272 (Comfy Couch from the OP) became http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/272/ Most of the mods in the OP(s) are outdated.
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