The Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition

[Gord]

Anyone got the chance to try it yet?
I consider waiting for an inevitable update.

It's also available on the Nexus, btw.

 

[hiver]

Ill give it a spin.

- eventually -

 

[Exar Kun]

I like it but it actually makes the game harder.

 

[Gerrard]

Yeah, and so did the FCR for the first game. The question is, however, does it make it harder in absolutely retarded ways like that one did?

 

[Dreaad]

Isn't making it harder the point? Otherwise it was just roll to win.

 

[Gord]

Seems to have a few balancing issues and bugs from what I read in various comments.
So far, many human enemies seem to be push-overs (or so I read) thanks to auto-blocking, while some monsters (Nekkers in particular) can be devastating.

My plan is to wait for an update.

 

[Gerrard]

Isn't making it harder the point? Otherwise it was just roll to win.

Do you think adding a feature like "You have 15% chance of instantly dying in any fight" makes the game harder?

 

[Cromwell]

Yeah, and so did the FCR for the first game. The question is, however, does it make it harder in absolutely retarded ways like that one did?

I play the first again right now, this time with fcr in medium (easy package). I read that the fcr was even on the easies (easy, easy package) difficulty way harder then the original on hard. I dont know which retarded ways you mean, I have no problem so far with fcr. I even, to my suprise, managed to kill the beast in the first try, a fight which made me furious the first time I went there. But maybe my choosen difficulty is not hard enough to see it.

From what I understand from the first mod it is intended that normal humans are to be pushed over by you, in the first one at least as long as you dont let them surround you (for to long) wheras monsters by default should be hard.

 

[Average Manatee]

Hard mode for FCR basically required you to build your character nearly perfectly + use the right oils/potions and even then you'd have a decent chance of losing 2/3rds of your health in any given monster fight. It was a little extreme but hardly "absolutely retarded". Certainly better than fights that were a several minute QTE with only 1 button.

 

[DraQ]

Isn't making it harder the point? Otherwise it was just roll to win.

Geralt just kept rolling natural 20s.

Spoiler

Because that's how he rolls.

 

[Dreaad]

Isn't making it harder the point? Otherwise it was just roll to win.

Geralt just kept rolling natural 20s.

Spoiler

Because that's how he rolls.

 

[ManjuShri]

Aside from the bugs how is the FCR 2 mod? Once the problems are fixed will it be simply different to the vanilla combat or definitively better?

FCR2 1.1 patch strings: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8057616/FCR2_Translation.txt

The 1.1 will be a framework for the community to fix the mod instead of Flash doing it himself.

 

[ManjuShri]

The patch is out.

http://redkit.cdprojektred.com/index.php?c=mod&m=show&p=77

 

[RRRrrr]

Does the mod make the game decent or is it still just as shitty?

 

[J_C]

You are the edge man!

 

[RRRrrr]

You are the edge man!

Nah, you just like it popamole.

 

[MasPingon]

It's still Flash mod, he is incapable of making combat look good

 

[Dreaad]

How does one make combat "look good"?

 

[Declinator]

How does one make combat "look good"?

 

[Dreaad]

That explains it.

 

[Sensuki]

Max Payne 2, Jedi Knight 2 (the lightsaber bit) and Enter the Matrix had great PC action combat. How far we hath fallen since.

 

[Dreaad]

Really jedi knight 2? From what I remember you just timed clicking 1 mouse button. Besides there is still good pc combat being made i.e. Arkham Asylum, grated the batman games are rather forgiving but still.

 

[Sensuki]

....

Jedi Knight 2 Lightsaber multiplayer was awesome. Jedi Knight 3 was pretty good too (arguably better but the game didn't 'feel' as good). 3 lightsaber styles and different combos of swings and stuff per combo of movement keys, plus special moves. They were probably the last good melee FPS games made (Rune before that). I remember a 5v5 CTF clan war we had of that at a LAN in 2002, awesome fun.

Unfortunately Chivalry: Medieval Warfare ended up being clunky as fuck.

Arkham Asylum is a console port man.

 

[Dreaad]

Dark Souls is also a console port... as is the entire legacy of kain series. Just because something was ported from a console doesn't make it auto bad man. Yes there were 3 lightsaber styles and combos, but there was still only one button to attack, also you could just run in clicking that one button while running around in a strafing circle and you would have a good chance to win (it did have good looking combat that's true). Besides I wasn't talking about MP.

 

[Sensuki]

TBH I've never played JK or JK2 singleplayer. Just MP.

Point with the three games I gave an example of was really fluid action combat designed for PC.

Dark Souls might be an awesome game but it's still a rather clunky game designed for 30 FPS. AFAIK the PC port controls are fucked as well. I did hear there was a fix or something though, I refuse to use a controller.

The console has ruined the action game. I am doubtful I'll ever see another fluid PC action game ... instead we'll just get horrible attempts at it like The Witcher 2 (combat being the worst part of the game IMO).