Sentenza
Member
No?
The first one still is a PC exclusive, while the second one was a PC game with a late port on 360.
Oh well, take your time, no need to hurry.
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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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The first one still is a PC exclusive, while the second one was a PC game with a late port on 360.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
The first game never released on consoles.
Fucking great. Downloading once again.
lets not lie, you're not gonna play witcher 2 when you can shoot things instead
PastorOfMuppets
Banned
CDP reminds me of what Western game development was like in the late 90's and early 2000's. Long tail support, lots of free updates and SDKs being released into the ether and having the community make a go at it.
That sort of thing is one of the great losses of the last generation IMO.
That sort of thing is one of the great losses of the last generation IMO.
Agreed.
It's why I love and support them so much, especially in these times when it's virtually non existent.
Thug Waffle
Member
Did you think about how many other developers started off as modders or did/do mod in a hobbyist fashion when you trivialized this update like that?
Sentenza
Member
What surprises me is that CDPR isn't the only company doing this.
There is another model and it's also very successful: Valve.
Valve released hundreds of patches, updates/DLCs etc over the years and they never charged for any of them. All free post-release support.
And they proved way before CDPR that is a good thing to do because every time you release new free content, sales of your games peak once again.
That's how they gathered all this good wil that a lot of people seem to think it's credited to them without good reason.
And yet for some reason most of the industry, EA ahead, keeps ignoring both these examples, milking without shame their customers and wondering how is it possible that the "fanbase" is angry with them and jaded about new announcements.
Baller. PhD
Banned
Damn, no love for 360 version. :-(
Vasili2K38
Member
Very impressive changelog :O, more than I expected. I'm very curious to try it, a first glimpse of The Witcher 3 ;D
You can't mod the 360 version.
Felix Lighter
Member
I like the current Witcher 2 combat, personally, but there are a lot of other people who really dislike it. It's probably worth waiting and then comparing the 2 systems at that point and choosing which one you like best. The change log suggests major major changes to the feel so it's hard to know how it will play.
Sentenza
Member
Hard to say without trying it first.
While there are good chances this is going to be the definitive version, I'm usually all for people trying vanilla version of a game before modding it in any way.
Pinko Marx
Banned
I had a Dark Mode Elf Run I was doing with some other mods, but I'm definitely going to delete those, restart, and run with this mod. So excite.
Baller. PhD
Banned
You can DLC it though.
From what I've gathered this thing is 8gbs.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
What in the world, that's the size of a mod that adds new meshes and textures. Can't be.
Sentenza
Member
He said he downsized all that to "merely" 2GB, actually.
Lol. I think DLCs have a file size limitation on XBL.
Sentenza
Member
You understand right, then.
OverturePT
Member
I freaking love these guys. So hyped for Witcher 3 (just bought The Witcher 2 on Steam btw, for... easy access and because wth, I wanted to give them more money).
Guess it's time to replay The Witcher 2.
Guess it's time to replay The Witcher 2.
Sentenza
Member
Sure.
Beside, you should be able to claim a copy of the game on GOG using your Steam serial key anyway.
Awesome, can't wait. Been meaning to play through the game again ever since I upgraded my GPU, I'll wait for this mod to hit before I do so.
HammerOfThor
Member
The mod is not out yet, so we can't really judge its quality. But if it's good then play it the game without mods and, if you like it, install this mod and replay it.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
June 20.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
For the Witcher 1, I played the game with the mod the first time and it was a great experience. For Witcher 2, I played the game for some time (first chapter only) and thought the combat sucked. I would highly recommend you wait for the mod before playing since Flash, the creator of the mod, is the one who made the mod for the first game and he is now hired by CDPR based on that work. He knows his shit.
jacksepticeye
Member
Cheers dude, I'll edit the OP
The changes are gigantic and it's basically gonna be a different game now. It's incredible
jacksepticeye
Member
Yeah I went through the game twice before and nothing really enticed me to go again a third time. I will now
That's fantastic news.
I kind of stopped my Witcher 2 playthrough once I get to the Chapter 1 boss fight. The difficulty curve is just really bad in the game (and I started playing after Quen got mega-nerfed which made things much harder). Easy was stupidly easy, and normal was a frustrating roll-fest. I'm really looking forward to this.
DenogginizerOS
BenjaminBirdie's Thomas Jefferson
Does the X360 controller now work with it? I remember it didn't at launch.
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Deleted member 17706
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Fantastic! Looks like I'll be playing through TW2 yet again! Maybe I'll finally take on Dark mode.
Fried Food
Banned
I'd rather them focus on their new games
jacksepticeye
Member
It's one guy doing this.