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havenwaters posted:It's pretty much capped at 30 fps and on low settings. It sometimes dips below 30 I think. I got W2 when it came out, and since then I've started a new game and got to Flotsam... three times? Four? Then I've always dropped it after an hour of frustrated fiddling with the video settings. But I started (again) with the combat rebalance mod a few days ago, and some combination of game patch and video driver bumped my framerate up by 20fps or so (or maybe just smoothed it out, I dunno), and now it's goddam gorgeous, on mostly max everything. My system is modest - GTX460 1gb, Phenom ii triple core at 3.2 ghz and 3 gig ram, playing at 1920x1080.
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Ludwig van Halen posted:If you can stick more RAM in there it would be really helpful. Thanks - what I meant was that it's actually running perfectly on my so-so specs after being fully patched up. Anyway I'm on win7 32 bit, so 3 gig is the most it can recognise. I've got a copy of 64 bit windows kicking around, but I have yet to find a really good argument for upgrading. I've always been a little skeptical of the performance benefits once you get past 4 gig in non-specialised applications - I thought that 2 gig was the biggest process Windows can handle?
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The Sharmat posted:Patch for the FCR2 mod officially coming out Monday. This is excellent - I have been staring at Phillipa thingummy's empty skull cavity with horrified fascination, and my next three quests all require me to go talk to her at length. So I'd like for her to have a face. Tangentially, and this might belong in PYF video game things, I love the way W2 does leadership - Foltest is, charitably, flawed in many ways but it's plain that he is a motherfucking KING. And when Saskia does her first big speech in Vergen, it's genuinely inspiring and convincing, even though what she's trying to convince the Council of is marginal. And Loredo is a bastard, but he's a smart bastard and you can see how he keeps hold of Flotsam.
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Jul 14, 2013 22:41
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The Sharmat posted:I thought the stuff with Triss in The Witcher 2 was legitimately good. But yeah some of the first game's stuff was rather cringe inducing. I can't blame him for being leery of it in the second game coming straight off the first. The Witcher 2 is set in a world that is as sexist as all hell.
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ElProducto posted:If I install FCR, should I restart the game? I'm 10 hours in and I'd really rather not, but then it seems like I'll be missing some things, like a few skills. I think you have to, actually.
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Jul 21, 2013 21:28
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hopterque posted:Well, if you can run two you'll probably be fine. Just as a benchmark, the requirements for high settings are lower than they were before they finished patching it: I've got a Phenom II triple core at 3.2 ghz, 3 gig memory and a GTX 460 with 1 gig and it runs nicely on high settings at 1080p. That's a pretty average gaming sytem these days. But I agree you should wait until you have at least a conlarable system before playing it, it's too pretty to waste.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:If you've already played the game before the act 3 fix, is it even worth it playing it again to see the changes? Save it until you have a decent computer. For reference: a 1 gig Radeon GTX 460 and an Athlon 3.2ghz triple core (pretty modest kit by gamer standards) is enough to get very high settings and good framerate at 1080p.
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Megasabin posted:I've finally given up on playing through the Witcher I. I made it about 25 hours in (Act III), put the game down for around a year, and attempted multiple times to pick it back up, and just couldn't do it. I really loved the setting and story telling, but the gameplay was just dull. There is an enhanced edition, which you probably have (and if not you should). It's the one with the kickass cinematic on the ship at the beginning. The big overhaul is called Full Combat Rebalance and is good but not essential; there are a lot of changes that are a matter of taste rather than fixes. Personally, apart from getting the enhanced edition I'd just play til something irritates you then see if there is a fix for that, it's very good indeed as a vanilla experience.
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steinrokkan posted:Yeah, I actually liked Chapter I the best. It was very... picturesque and atmospheric. Even better than W2, I guess. I liked the first bit of W1 too, though it's objectively bad in lots of ways, because it was bad in such different and interesting ways from the bland d&d style fantasy. I was on the edge of my seat up to just before the big fight, at the end of Act 1. Then i had to do that 15 min sequence again and again because of no auto save, which damped my jolly enthusiasm right back.
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PureRok posted:Good. Less games should have auto save. I'm tired of being forced to wait for when the developer says it's okay for me to save and quit playing. Right - I misspoke. This is a bit where you literally couldn't save between the end of the fifteen to twenty minute climactic dialogue scene of Act 1 (where you decide the murky and morally grey fate of the whole village) and the totally deadly boss battle that you probably aren't ready for and would have to do multiple times. If they'd let me quicksave I'd have had no problem with it. As it was all the excellent weight of that decision was squandered because by the third or fourth try I was just hitting 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 to get through the cutscene dialogue faster and take another go at the boss. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 10:19 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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SpRahl posted:Im kinda the same, I loved the atmosphere of Act 1, kinda makes me wish there was a game where you just play a Witcher traveling from dreary village to dreary village killing monsters solving problems and trying to make just enough money to support yourself. I liked Act 2 because it was the best fantasy city I'd ever played in. I mean they sheltered from the rain, so cool.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:yep Aw jeah. That was such a great trailer.
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Mickey McKey posted:Supposedly they want to have more of the basic Witcher-ing to do. If they have the dynamic hunter-stalks-prey and certain creatures have certain habitats, they need a big world. I thought Skyrim was ridiculous with how much content there was in both a good and bad way. Good because some of it is really really neat; like a cave you go into that has poachers... they have lines they say to each other and there is poacher paraphernalia (including a mammoth carcass) laying around. The bad is that the good ones are few and far between which means a lot of caves and ruins are the exact same tileset without much variation with the same Draugr or bandit enemies. I say this because I get the feeling that what CDPR is trying to do will have much more variety and require more thought/observation/skill to do encounters. Also there will probably be a decent bit of "well poo poo I walked right past here and never saw this path or that moss which means this monster lives here" which will mean you will need to do more searching around/exploring/whatever. I think I have now rambled quite a bit but what I am trying to say is I have a feeling they know what they are doing and I doubt that there will be that much useless huge tracts of land. I thought Skyrim got an unfair amount of grief for its dungeons - they're composed of a limited number of tile sets, sure, but they're all excellent tilesets and every dungeon has something unique about it and they all had distinctive qualities. I remember a neat ice one where little firefly spirits started following me round for no apparent reason.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Moscow? We've got a studio in Krakov, not Moscow. Krakov is a lovely town. I arrived there one sunset off the train and walked into the square and they were grilling those ridiculously delicious sausages on huge round griddles over aromatic woodfires and the light and the beautiful old buildings and it was p much the most romantic motherfuckin thing i'd ever even seen.  e: oh and from experience u can get by fine in polish for a couple of weeks with the words for yes, no, thank you very much and beer which I can teach you in like five min sebmojo fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Rdubs posted:Greetings everyone. First post to SA and just wanted to check in on the Witcher section. My wife thinks there is something wrong with me about how much I follow the series and she is probably right. First clued into the Witcher based on a recommendation from someone I was talking to expressing my -WTF- with the Mass Effect 3 ending, a series I was really into before that disaster. Played Witcher 2 and the story was amazing, even though I did not follow all the political maneuvering. Then played the original Witcher game, which got me into it enough to read the books. Filthy JFW, ban him. I haven't seen anything from Sapowski that's not grindingly terrible fantasy shlock, but I'm willing to say that's bad translation - have you got an example of one of his better passages?
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Lycus posted:There's no way in hell my computer can play this. It's either buy a PS4 or build a new computer. The SA parts picking megathread is incredible, for anyone who's building a new one - they'll give you the perfect price/power combo.
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Mad Pino Rage posted:The Witcher 3 on pre-order sale for 10% but on the Steam store page it was 20% off. I'm guessing this is a glitch? Either way, I'm really excited to play it. Yeah, that city in Chapter 2 is one of the better fantasy rpg cities. So dirty and full of life.
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theDOWmustflow posted:Is the Wild Hunt a fallible mortal force? I've never read the books but the impression I got from the games is that they're akin to mythological wardens or reapers of dead souls, in which case they can wear and wield whatever the gently caress they want. Aren't the maps in glagolitic runes? As to Foltest, I got the feeling that was his fancy King armour. You want to be visible when you're leading from the front, tally ho pip pip and all that. Foltest is pretty much my favourite fantasy king.
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so i'm thinking I should probably make my third run at witcher 2 - can you uninstall FCR midway through, or does it have to be a clean save?
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The first trailer didn't actually do much for me (felt too mass-market, though I understand why that's important) but hoo that actual play looks fine.
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I unironically prefer them to anything Bioware has done, since BG2, anyway. Geralt has sex, the cards are his memories. Seems staightforward.
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Leb posted:Yeah, the cards for Abigail and the Queen of the Night were especially bad because in addition to being bad, they were also totally inconsistent with the characters they were supposed to represent. I liked the Abigail card! It took you from 'yes, sex up the pretty witch lady who's certainly innocent of those terrible things she's accused of' to 'ah. hmm.' What's the official argument against the cards? I mean I'd way rather have a card that is vaguely soft-porny while revealing character (while still at least being reminiscent of someone having had sex) than the weird clothed grappling in the Mass Effects. And, yeah, it hooks into Pokémon style collect-em-all instincts, but you're playing a game after all. And you don't need to have sex with any character if you don't want to.
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Roshnak posted:The argument against the cards is it's pretty easy to interperet them as a minigame where you try to manipulate as many women into having sex with you as possible -- which is almost every woman or class of woman you run across -- so you can collect trophies of your conquests. How about that Witcher 3, eh.
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Jun 23, 2014 05:11
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:I don't think it's total trash, it's got some good stuff, but it's definitely a mod and feels like a mod. Yeah, it's a very different philosophy of how the game should work; and it doesn't quite deliver on that philosophy. I played through the first couple of acts with FCR2 and it was fine, but I liked the original combat too so it's definitely not required or even recommended for a first go.
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Jul 2, 2014 01:38
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theDOWmustflow posted:How much of the Witcher fantasy world is Slavic mythology inspired? Like are godlings and Silent Hill-esque crones a staple in their folktales? I think all of it?
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Dr. Abysmal posted:heels BURN THIS SICK poo poo TO THE GROUND
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The Sharmat posted:Video games are treated with a totally different standard though. Remember when Mass Effect had those fade-to-black "sex scenes" that you could have gotten away with showing in any PG-13 movie or on TV no problem, but because it was in a video game people freaked the gently caress out? The (excellent) recent Wolfenstein reboot had some actual no-bullshit loving in it; like pounding away. I think that's the first time I've ever seen that in a game.
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The Sharmat posted:I was sure that actual penetration at least would put you in the AO category. Oh, no it wasn't explicit in that way. But it wasn't that vague dreamy fumbling you get in, say, Mass Effect.
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EightBit posted:I don't see a Witcher 3 thread anywhere, so I figure I'd ask here: how insane of a machine do yall think I'll need to play it at 3840x2160, high settings (no ubersampling of course)? pretty insane, EioghtBit. Pretty mother f***ing insane
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Mars4523 posted:At least they learned from those godawful collectible sex cards. I unironically prefer the sex cards to anything Bioware has done in the 'romance' area. The bit at the beginning where you can choose to sex up the witch in a blatant misuse of power then the card is all jarringly hideous and demonic was pure genius. And the pokemon aspect is a nice stand-in for Geralt's raging libido, if you want to approach it that way. People like sex. Games can ignore that or recognise it, and I find the straightforward way CDProjekt do the latter to be preferable to the coy US approach. E: RPS posted:For those like me who found The Witcher 2 uncomfortably difficult in the early going (and I’ve finished Dark Souls without breaking a sweat or a controller) Whhaaaattt. DS is vastly harder than W2 ever was.
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