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I'm currently playing with focus on the swordmastery path and I was wondering what kind of runes I should focus on for the steel and silver swords? It appears that Incineration doesn't do much against monsters but is more effective agains humans. Does this apply to all effects or do monsters have weakness for the bleeding status or something else?
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Jan 14, 2014 23:21
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Roach vs Iorveth is easy. Iorveth's path is just so much more interesting. I still cant decide what to do with Cynthia though. On one hand the next game is literally called The Wild Hunt and has to do a lot with Nilfgard. Cynthia is a high ranking Nilfgardian agent who is an expert on the Wild Hunt, and is infatuated enough with Geralt, to betray her country by letting him use the megascope, killing her fellow agent and lying in her reports(which is punishable by horrific death.) So she could easily be a super useful source of information and help in the next game. But on the other hand she got Triss tortured. Sylphosaurus posted:I'm currently playing with focus on the swordmastery path and I was wondering what kind of runes I should focus on for the steel and silver swords? It appears that Incineration doesn't do much against monsters but is more effective agains humans. Does this apply to all effects or do monsters have weakness for the bleeding status or something else? Blocking isn't very effective so I'd recommend just not bothering with earth runes unless you're having a lot of trouble and really need the extra HP. as for fire vs ysgith. I put at least one on each sword to get the fire and the bleeding effects. Then I usually just go for pure damage with ysgith. The only exception is I like to have pure fire runes on my silver sword for act 3 because of the dragon. the extra fire resistance is great. It depends on the monsters as for how effective effects are, like fire is good for drowners and harpies.
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COOKIEMONSTER posted:Roach vs Iorveth is easy. Iorveth's path is just so much more interesting. I still cant decide what to do with Cynthia though. I killed her because The information she is after could be really, REALLY bad news in the hands of the Emperor. The last thing we need is Nilfgaard with the capacity to engineer a magical plague to wipe out undesireable lesser races
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Jan 15, 2014 00:51
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Cynthia: I still think it's hilarious that you can have sex with her. While one of your closest friends is being held captive in the very city that you're in, you can sleep with her captor. It's so assholish. Sylphosaurus posted:I'm currently playing with focus on the swordmastery path and I was wondering what kind of runes I should focus on for the steel and silver swords? It appears that Incineration doesn't do much against monsters but is more effective agains humans. Does this apply to all effects or do monsters have weakness for the bleeding status or something else? Sun runes are literally worthless, I don't know why they're even in the game. Lycus fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Jan 15, 2014 |
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Jan 15, 2014 01:33
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Captain Oblivious posted:I killed her because
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Jan 15, 2014 14:27
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So, a quick question because I don't want to spoil myself by reading a walkthrough: Iorveth's path spoiler:So, am I understanding this correct, do I basically have to choose between murdering a bunch of Niilfgardians and freeing Triss or free Philippa from the dungeon and break the mindcontrol on Saskia?
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Jan 18, 2014 12:13
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Sylphosaurus posted:So, a quick question because I don't want to spoil myself by reading a walkthrough... Not quite: if you choose the second option, another character will rescue Triss for you.
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Jan 18, 2014 12:29
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Kopijeger posted:Not quite: if you choose the second option, another character will rescue Triss for you.
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Jan 18, 2014 13:04
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COOKIEMONSTER posted:and is infatuated enough with Geralt, Yeah given what she did with Philippa, I'm not buying the "I'm just helping you because I like you." thing. Lycus posted:I still think it's hilarious that you can have sex with her. While one of your closest friends is being held captive in the very city that you're in, you can sleep with her captor. It's so assholish. Really, the game lets you be a tremendous rear end in a top hat to Triss the entire time if you think about it. If you wanted to consistently take certain choices you could make it a hilariously dysfunctional relationship where Geralt is clearly just using her for sex but Triss is too emotionally codependent on Geralt to do anything but take the constant abuse, neglect, and infidelity. So sorta like how Yennefer treats Geralt in the first two books, really. Kopijeger posted:Not quite: if you choose the second option, another character will rescue Triss for you. Way to ruin the suspense. That was actually a really hard decision for me the first time I played. That said, even then, not saving her has other horrible consequences that you wouldn't necessarily have seen coming.
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Jan 18, 2014 13:44
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Basically, there are no mega-happy endings in the Witcher 2. You can't help everyone.
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Jan 18, 2014 19:25
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If you help Triss, her amazement at Geralt's fighting skills is superb.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:19
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Yeah that was pretty awesome. Even she was a bit disconcerted that Geralt murdered the ENTIRE Nilfgaardian delegation to Loc Muinne. Also if you don't help her she seems pretty traumatized by all the poo poo that happens in the end, which made me feel bad. And I have to give props to CD Projekt for making me feel any sense of danger or urgency like that in the first place. It had been a long time since a video game did that to me.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:25
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I had pretty much no attachment to Triss whatsoever, to me she was the least likable member of Geralt's circle of friends, so I was more than happy to ignore her in the name of the bigger picture. 
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Jan 18, 2014 20:26
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Did you play the first game and/or read the books? That might make some difference. Or it's just one of those weird things where people have opinions or something, I dunno.
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Jan 18, 2014 20:44
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I've read most of one of the books, and Triss wasn't in it, so it didn't affect my opinion on her either way. But when I played the first game I didn't like her, and that carried over to the second game.
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Jan 18, 2014 22:06
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Is Witcher 2 enough reason to buy an 360? My PC sucks and a 360 is just 100 euroes.
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Jan 18, 2014 22:12
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Is Witcher 1 with the combat mod tolerable? I couldn't stand the combat system of TW1. It felt so fake.
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Jan 18, 2014 22:15
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Nf3 posted:Is Witcher 1 with the combat mod tolerable? I couldn't stand the combat system of TW1. It felt so fake. Well it's definitely much much harder. I ended up using the flash mod (the combat mod before the combat mod) and set it on easy/normal. I forget. That along with a couple quality of life things made the game passable. I got the point where I was just spamming a super agni aoe for all of the combat though.
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Jan 18, 2014 22:18
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Wasn't there a scene early in Witcher 1 where you overhear the end of a hush-hush conversation between Triss and Philippa, so you have this constant impression that Triss might be lying to you about something important and is taking advantage of your amnesiac state? So I can see not liking her in Witcher 1.
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Jan 18, 2014 22:18
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Lycus posted:Wasn't there a scene early in Witcher 1 where you overhear the end of a hush-hush conversation between Triss and Philippa, so you have this constant impression that Triss might be lying to you about something important and is taking advantage of your amnesiac state? So I can see not liking her in Witcher 1. We also know from the books that when it came to the Lodge, Triss (in the end) always deferred to Philippa and it was only Yennefer that was willing to directly defy the Lodge. Honestly, after having read the books, it's a little harder to warm to Triss in the games, as she definitely knows the entire score.
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Jan 19, 2014 00:34
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Lycus posted:Wasn't there a scene early in Witcher 1 where you overhear the end of a hush-hush conversation between Triss and Philippa, so you have this constant impression that Triss might be lying to you about something important and is taking advantage of your amnesiac state? So I can see not liking her in Witcher 1. Yeah. Plus she's a tiny bit out of character in TW1 compared to in TW2. Still. At the time I figured she had prior oligations so... Leb posted:Honestly, after having read the books, it's a little harder to warm to Triss in the games, as she definitely knows the entire score. To be fair Letho unfortunately abducts her more or less exactly when she's sure enough about what's happening that she decides to do something about it.. And she makes it pretty clear earlier (unless you assume she's lying about everything) where her loyalties ultimately lay. Of course that also leads to her shamelessly taking advantage of Geralt's amnesia for entirely personal reasons in a kind of scummy way. Guess I was just so used to how horribly flawed most of the characters were that it just made it feel like she fit in with the rest of the cast, rather than making me angry or paranoid.
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ManOfTheYear posted:Is Witcher 2 enough reason to buy an 360? My PC sucks and a 360 is just 100 euroes. It is, but I'd just hold out until you can get a better PC. That would also let you play TW3, and import a save.
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Jan 19, 2014 00:48
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The Sharmat posted:Yeah. Plus she's a tiny bit out of character in TW1 compared to in TW2. Still. At the time I figured she had prior oligations so... I'm actually rather curious as to how Triss is going to play it once Yennefer comes back into the picture. Pre-amnesia, I'm quite certain Triss would never dream of going against Yennefer, whether out of friendship, loyalty or just common good sense, but after the events of the past 5 years, coupled with Yennefer's amnesia, I'm not quite sure...
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Guess Im one of the few people that genuinely liked Triss  Lycus posted:Wasn't there a scene early in Witcher 1 where you overhear the end of a hush-hush conversation between Triss and Philippa, so you have this constant impression that Triss might be lying to you about something important and is taking advantage of your amnesiac state? So I can see not liking her in Witcher 1. Beginning of Act3 shes talking to some sorceress in her mirror though it may not have necessarily been Philippa. I think it was more the Lodge was using the whole salamander situation to get better influence in Foltest's court. Riso posted:If you help Triss, her amazement at Geralt's fighting skills is superb. I think my favorite bit about saving Triss on Roche's path is that it implied that Roche took out most of the Kaedwin delegation by himself as well. Edit: So Radovid has to feature prominently in Witcher 3 right? Cause I mean no matter what happens in the endings he makes out like a bandit SpRahl fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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SpRahl posted:Beginning of Act3 shes talking to some sorceress in her mirror though it may not have necessarily been Philippa. I think it was more the Lodge was using the whole salamander situation to get better influence in Foltest's court.
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SpRahl posted:Guess Im one of the few people that genuinely liked Triss SpRahl posted:Edit: So Radovid has to feature prominently in Witcher 3 right? Cause I mean no matter what happens in the endings he makes out like a bandit Lycus posted:Of yeah, as the player I eventually figured that they were just talking about the Lodge's plans for acquiring power in Temeria, without any harmful intentions toward Geralt. But from Geralt's perspective, it could sound like Triss was doing something behind his back. I'll be very interested in seeing Yennefer in the next game, no matter what state her memory is in. There's no way that can't play out in an interesting way.
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Jan 19, 2014 06:01
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The Sharmat posted:I liked her. She doesn't seem tremendously popular though. Guess people don't like it when people have secret agendas aside from the main character. I liked her as a character as well. If she didn't have a secret agenda and was just Geralt's sex toy she wouldn't have been interesting at all.
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Ice Fist posted:I liked her as a character as well. If she didn't have a secret agenda and was just Geralt's sex toy she wouldn't have been interesting at all. For me the problem with Triss wasn't so much her character, but her voice acting always came off as kind of flat/monotone or almost sarcastic-sounding even when she was being sincere. I liked her as a character, but sometimes it would really grate just to hear her speaking and I could see how that might put some people off her altogether.
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I found her voice acting greatly improved in the second game, myself.
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The Sharmat posted:I found her voice acting greatly improved in the second game, myself. I haven't played Witcher 1, so I didn't have that to compare it to. I just found her acting a little flat at times personally. Still better than some of the others though!
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Jan 19, 2014 06:56
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I agree. Just taking Witcher 2 into account, I think Triss's voice actress was noticably the worst of the main characters. A friend of mine played through the prologue at my house, and even he commented on it.
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Jan 19, 2014 07:10
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Lycus posted:I agree. Just taking Witcher 2 into account, I think Triss's voice actress was noticably the worst of the main characters. A friend of mine played through the prologue at my house, and even he commented on it. Well, except maybe Dandelion. And it isn't even exactly that he's a bad voice actor, but man did his Floridian accent sound wildly out of place in the northern kingdoms.
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Lycus posted:I agree. Just taking Witcher 2 into account, I think Triss's voice actress was noticably the worst of the main characters. A friend of mine played through the prologue at my house, and even he commented on it. Yeah it wasn't just the tone thing, the delivery was always a little stilted too. Like she'd pause in the weirdest spots in a sentence and it just sounded odd in comparison to most of the other voices. Apparently she's a British actress, so maybe all of this was a side-effect of trying to tone down her accent. I agree about Dandelion too. The guy has a great voice, but his accent sounds really out of place. Kimmalah fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jan 19, 2014 |
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Jan 19, 2014 07:31
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Hi, just curious what you mean by "Yennefer? I barely knew her!" It always confuses me when I'm browsing games.
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Buckwild Dorf posted:Hi, just curious what you mean by "Yennefer? I barely knew her!" It always confuses me when I'm browsing games. It's a play on the '-er? I barely knew her!' jokes -- in this case, Geralt has amnesia resulting from his exposure to the Wild Hunt and so when it comes to Yennefer, he really does barely know her.
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Jan 19, 2014 08:09
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Big spoilers in this question: What are the conditions to kill Dethmold? Is it choosing the option to not save Triss like I imagine?
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Konsek posted:Big spoilers in this question: What are the conditions to kill Dethmold? Is it choosing the option to not save Triss like I imagine? Yes.
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Jan 19, 2014 11:52
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Just a quick question: I have started this game way too many times but never gotten super far. How important is it to play through the first couple areas when Geralt is being questioned? I know there is a kill/not kill choice in there but is it super influential on the game at large? IIRC the player can skip these events, right?
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Lycus posted:I agree. Just taking Witcher 2 into account, I think Triss's voice actress was noticably the worst of the main characters. A friend of mine played through the prologue at my house, and even he commented on it. Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks this way, but I find that the game sounds best with the original Polish voices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSjB1IXErZY
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