therealminime
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It'll be like $10 max during the inevitable Steam Summer sale in a few weeks.
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The Witcher 2 getting full combat rebalance mod with new animations and big changes
- Thread starter jacksepticeye
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It'll be like $10 max during the inevitable Steam Summer sale in a few weeks.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Its $10 on gog.com right now.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I thought it was 5.99?
Pinko Marx
Banned
Nope, just checked, its %50 off the $20 price, so $9.99.
I only played with controller for a bit but it seemed viable enough.
Dragon1893
Member
You can move while blocking now, probably the most obvious way to see if it's working.
DeathGlobe
Member
I have a copy of each witcher for gog you can have for free. I mentioned I was going to give it away a page back no one asked me for it
can i get part 1?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
So it is. For the record, it was 5.99 for me last night.
masterkajo
Member
It was a daily deal for a short amout of time for more than 50% off. Now it is back to $9,99.-
DeathGlobe
Member
I sent a pm with the key
thx
Regarding the text:
That's how Geralt should've moved from the start, Witchers are supposed to be faster and more skilled than humans.
Flash said:
That's how Geralt should've moved from the start, Witchers are supposed to be faster and more skilled than humans.
UnluckyKate
Member
I intalled this but I have a message error. Launching the mods through the launcher and the game boot up but I have no idea or indication if the mod is running through a new game or not.
jacksepticeye
Member
Then I wish they changed how he looked when he moved, like a different animation.
Ah, yes. That'd be quite nice, but probably a lot of work for one dude.
Dominic_Shade
Member
Played the Prologue up to the encounter with Aryan La Valette. Combat is different, but in subtle ways. Running towards crossbowmen and automatically deflecting their arrows is badass stuff, some Metal Gear Rising shit right there. It feels pretty weird to use Quen as a standard block, but I'll take it. Also, it's nice how enemy blocks aren't stopping my attack strings anymore. I think shielded enemies can still parry Geralt's sword, but I need to test that. Still, I'm digging sword fights now. And Yrden still laughs at heavy swordsmen and shield soldiers, so that's cool.
New Experience system (getting EXP from quests only) is working out pretty well. I'm not going to make any final judgments on the new combat mechanics until after I complete Chapter 1. I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy fighting Letho with these changes.
EDIT: I just loaded up the game to read the descriptions of the new skills. The Magic development path has a late skill that allows you to decrease the defense rating of nearby enemies using Geralt's medallion. Holy crap, that changes things.
New Experience system (getting EXP from quests only) is working out pretty well. I'm not going to make any final judgments on the new combat mechanics until after I complete Chapter 1. I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy fighting Letho with these changes.
EDIT: I just loaded up the game to read the descriptions of the new skills. The Magic development path has a late skill that allows you to decrease the defense rating of nearby enemies using Geralt's medallion. Holy crap, that changes things.
polyh3dron
Banned
Is the REDkit site slow as hell for anyone else?
Feels like its running off a 56k dialup connection to me.
Feels like its running off a 56k dialup connection to me.
Same here. Still loading the page after 10 minutes.
So I played with the mod enabled for about ten minutes and found that the combat is better than before. However, even though my game is installed on my 1TB drive, the mod installs on to my SSD which takes way too much space (60GB SSD). Oh well, perhaps another time when I have a larger SSD, but worth the venture to play with it enabled.
Coffee Dog
Banned
So do i miss anything major by not importing a witcher 1 save? Do decisions carry over?
Pinko Marx
Banned
You start with some equipment from part 1 and some decisions you made are referenced in 2.
DeathGlobe
Member
I have a SSD and dont have this issue I use a 2nd drive for my games and the mod let me choose where to install it
Witcher combat in general puts a heavy emphasis on preparation, especially going into monster hunts.
Passive Assassin
Member
This is out? Ahh yiss. Time to do a Ioverth playthrough.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Damn. Dealbreaker for me. Oh well, I probably wasn't gonna really play it anyway due to the interface issues... >_>
Seeing how the tutorial is optional and not part of the main game. Yes.
DeathGlobe
Member
Flash said:
OK,
Since today, suddenly mod's audience increased from one guy to thousands of players, few bugs were discovered in matter of hours after mod release.
So,
- becoming stuck after using upgraded Axii - fixed,
- no charm effect on enemy after using Axii - looking for the cause,
- wrong install directory of localization strings - fixed,
- overpowered Igni - fixed,
- need to reintroduce stamina regeneration cooldown after Sign use - done,
- fix roll/piruette direction while strafing - wip,
- add info about restarting the game, not using old savegames with the mod installed - done,
- fix typos in readme and translation - wip,
- scale dark difficulty down,
- tutorial, I'll probably leave it as it is.
Did I miss anything?
Thanks for your patience. That's a nice motivation boost.
Now, to sleep, to work, back to the mod.
I'll update the mod this weekend.
OK,
Since today, suddenly mod's audience increased from one guy to thousands of players, few bugs were discovered in matter of hours after mod release.
So,
- becoming stuck after using upgraded Axii - fixed,
- no charm effect on enemy after using Axii - looking for the cause,
- wrong install directory of localization strings - fixed,
- overpowered Igni - fixed,
- need to reintroduce stamina regeneration cooldown after Sign use - done,
- fix roll/piruette direction while strafing - wip,
- add info about restarting the game, not using old savegames with the mod installed - done,
- fix typos in readme and translation - wip,
- scale dark difficulty down,
- tutorial, I'll probably leave it as it is.
Did I miss anything?
Thanks for your patience. That's a nice motivation boost.
Now, to sleep, to work, back to the mod.
I'll update the mod this weekend.
universalmind
Member
ridiculous opinion
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Hard/Dark difficulty is just impossible now (at least for me) Geralt is dying in 1 or 2 hits to Endregas =/.
Also, getting stuck while in the bomb throwing animation is plain bullshit and makes the Nekker tunnel quest really annoying.
Also, getting stuck while in the bomb throwing animation is plain bullshit and makes the Nekker tunnel quest really annoying.
Pinko Marx
Banned
This guy most be playing on easy mode where damage is next to nil. I saw dude get hit in the back several times and take next to no damage, whereas half of my life would be missing after 1 backstab.
DeathGlobe
Member
I take it combat was different then?
Game is a total pain in the harder difficulty modes. There is no sword fighting... it's just rolling around and getting in quick attacks. Nothing like what you see in the cutscenes or even when two NPCs are engaged in combat.
I don't know about this mod yet. I think I'll wait until all the bugs are fixed. Moving around still feels very bad. Very floaty and there is absolutely no sense of getting hit/striking an enemy. These things are probably not within the scope of this mod though.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Yeah my first run through was on hard mode (cause I'm a true gamer) and boy did I have some problems. I'm getting used to this mod though, but I've only gone through the prologue. We'll see how things turn out in Ch.1
It's a mod.
Hard mode I found really easy except for a few sections. I am an alchemist so some times when I didn't have time to take potions can be a pain. A scenario where you don't have a sword and have to arm yourself then kill 5 guys? On hard mode getting hit without a sword is pretty much game over because they were doing 130 damage to me no matter what. I had 90 vitality total. Yet by working creatively some hard situations suddenly become easy. Using bombs to take out large packs of nekkers and they were comically easy. Using Aard on the act 1 boss let me kill him in about 4 seconds. Aard on large groups of humans can make them trivial. I think the game is easier with the mod than vanilla.
I selected the specific path to install on my E Drive (1TB) as well, but each time it extracts the mod files to my documents folder on my C Drive (by the way I have the GOG version instead of Steam) C:\users\dorian\documents\witcher2\usercontent
It takes a whopping 5GB's, but perhaps another time I will give this more of a chance.
DeathGlobe
Member
That is odd. I have both versions and right now I'm using the gog version and it installs it in my E
I feel the same way. At first, I was a little reluctant because I was getting my butt kicked, but after getting used to the new mechanics and animations, I actually find this new combat system really amazing. For those of you talking about how hard it is on Hard/Dark, it's actually not too bad once you really get the feel for things. I'm breezing through it now. The quick Quen block and the strafing work wonders. And a smaller detail that I noticed is when you have your sword out and stand still, Geralt will raise the sword over his head and scan the area attentively. It looks badass. lol
I would really like to grab Riposte at some point, but I'm wondering if it's broken outside of the tutorial as well? Has anyone tried it?
Well, not just chapter 2. In the prologue, while at Foltest's side, he'll mention some details surrounding Adda, depending on how you approached her situation in the first game.