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The Witcher 1 Thread
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Quite a few Codexers, it would seem.
Lacrymas
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The people who all of a sudden started white knighting for him?
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I think he means that boiled water is hot.
What's so aggressive about it, that he never has sex with men? It's obviously not that he passes judgement on gays, depending on player choices he can at best seem slightly uncomfortable around them (white orchard hunter-homo) but that's a matter of interpretation.
Lacrymas
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So, I'm gonna fire up Twitcher 1 in a sec and I actually remembered nobody gave me any advice on mods because white knighting for Geralt was more important apparently. I'm eyeing that combat overhaul mod, is it worth it? Does the hardest difficulty require you to use the proper oils and elixirs for monsters? Yes, I know humans are the biggest monsters in the Witcher universe and that's the point (not a very original one, but hey), you get what I mean.
The Witcher is definitely meant to be played on Hard, and yes, you will need to use alchemy on that difficulty. Playing on Hard also gets rid of that annoying icon that tells you when to swing to chain attacks, and you instead have to rely on more subtle clues.
No idea about the mod as I've never used it.
You don't need any mods unless you really find the combat unbearable for some weird reason. From what I understand, the combat mod (FCR?) has a bunch of issues of its own anyway. And yes, definitely play on Hard.
I hear good things about the greater item stacking mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/736
Didn't try it out myself yet tho.
Hard is definitely the way to go. But even then, usually didn't have to use anything beyond potions. Oils for very specific bossfights. Bombs? What bombs?
Didn't try it out myself yet tho.
Hard is definitely the way to go. But even then, usually didn't have to use anything beyond potions. Oils for very specific bossfights. Bombs? What bombs?
Average Manatee
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Unmodded hard is still fairly easy if you are a completionist and have any amount of focus on a build. FCR is completely fine and plays well but is still a radical departure and not really suitable for a 1st time playthrough unless you really want a much more action-focused game.
The main difference between the two is that in vanilla Geralt is intended to sort of just sit there next to monsters while he wracks up higher and higher damage from increasingly long combos (needed to defeat enemies that have bloated HP pools), while Geralt himself just has a bunch of HP and can tank significant damage with large amounts of constant healing/damage reduction. It's very rare to die and if you do you usually just do it again with potions active. In FCR everything has low HP and Geralt instead has blocking, but it only works on the front so you have to constantly maneuver around groups because even drowners can almost instantly murder you if they get behind you. Certain bosses and monsters become a bit of an RNG fest though. This is partially due to the fact that the way the game is designed means animations don't necessarily line up with when damage is dealt (which matters in FCR when a single hit can kill you) and partially because status effects become way worse in FCR (even if its something minor you don't care about Geralt stumbles around for a few seconds and WILL die to any enemy in the vicinity stabbing him in the back).
The main difference between the two is that in vanilla Geralt is intended to sort of just sit there next to monsters while he wracks up higher and higher damage from increasingly long combos (needed to defeat enemies that have bloated HP pools), while Geralt himself just has a bunch of HP and can tank significant damage with large amounts of constant healing/damage reduction. It's very rare to die and if you do you usually just do it again with potions active. In FCR everything has low HP and Geralt instead has blocking, but it only works on the front so you have to constantly maneuver around groups because even drowners can almost instantly murder you if they get behind you. Certain bosses and monsters become a bit of an RNG fest though. This is partially due to the fact that the way the game is designed means animations don't necessarily line up with when damage is dealt (which matters in FCR when a single hit can kill you) and partially because status effects become way worse in FCR (even if its something minor you don't care about Geralt stumbles around for a few seconds and WILL die to any enemy in the vicinity stabbing him in the back).
yellowcake
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Also use this for positional audio (universal alchemy)
https://mega.nz/file/1OwF0QiB#QCXlgNZ5fzppQyqDse-wfjEXsWeRqzNCZlfktgH2-44
Danikas
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https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher/mods/669
Not a combat mod but I recommend it for great character redesigns, just compare Elfs from vannila to this mod.
Vannila
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Witcher 2
Danikas
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It's not, and drawing it out longer is excruciating.
Original designs are better than amateur shit 99% of the time, poorer textures or not.
Witcher 2
Those leaf patterned tights.
U-8D8
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Why change it? The fact that they too suffer from male pattern baldness is probably the most sympathetic the elves got in Witcher 1.
Wulfric Pinewood
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It's end times! Elves from Oblivion storm Witcher 1, nightmare reborn, ahh, so cruel, so nasty. By the way have you been at Imperial district lately ? Whom im fooolin , of course you dont.
Serious_Business
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My balls itch
Your mother sucks the dwarf D, the D D you could say
Beat it old man before I cut ya
Your mother sucks the dwarf D, the D D you could say
Beat it old man before I cut ya
Ninjerk
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sucks dwarf cock*
Lacrymas
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I killed the Beast (very gimmicky fight and there's only 1 way to win on hard) and here are some first impressions - walking, a lot of walking. The combat is weird but also dumb. The climax was a disaster writing-wise. Abigail goes like "hey, that guy raped his girlfriend so she killed herself, that other guy killed his brother and the third guy makes shady deals with bandits. You already know the priest SELLS CHILDREN to the Salamandra. Have fun out there." The fact she knows this and rapid fires you with it really struck me as out of place and even immersion-breaking. It reeks of cut content, like these things were supposed to be found out through clues that weren't implemented. You do get a sense there's something weird with the fat guy who has plants in his yard that only grow on top of buried people, but that's about it. It could've been a pretty good opening zone if hey had allowed you to investigate who is responsible for the Beast. I'm pretty sure the voodoo doll in Abigail's house was there so it could incriminate her had you not found any other clues, but as it stands now it's just there.
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