Game News The Witcher is Fully Enhanced

[inwoker]

Got my copy.
Almost every component in PC is like 5 year old. And the game is playable on medium settings. I like new Triss tits... ahem, enhancements so far.
For fuck's sake is there way to disable bloom?

 

[Lesifoere]

I think you can disable/lower the bloom with one of the lighting settings, or something.

And yeah, funny thing, when I first got the game I too played it on a computer five plus years old. God, the performance in chapter three was fucking terrible.

 

[inwoker]

English VO and writing is head above russian. English font is nicer too.

edit: maybe it's because i'm too anal to quality of russian and may skip tons of english mistakes.

 

[MetalCraze]

Is there anything that can be below?
Considering that russian version had castrated dialogues and only 4 voice actors.
And as I take it they didn't fix a thing so russian localization still remains the shittiest one to date.

 

[DraQ]

Got my copy.
For fuck's sake is there way to disable bloom?

Set the lighting to minimum.
I leave it on, as it's relatively tame, compared to, say, oblibians and it makes signs, especially Aard, significantly more spectacular.

 

[Suchy]

@Suchy: patch installation issues see OP: http://www.thewitcher.com/forum/index.php?topic=16868.0

Thanks, but I already fixed the problem using the Universal Extractor method.
Simply extract the installer to some dir, put language pack and adventures in that dir and run setup, works all right.

As for the voice acting... I think the best way is to use Polish voices+whatever subtitles you like. From what I've seen it's still the best voice acting in this game, except some terribly annoying females. Vincent Weiss had the best voiceover i've ever heard in a video game.
English dubbing is OK imho, but nothing special. Maybe I'm just more tolerant for poor acting in a foreign language.

 

[made]

I'm curious, how do the Polish voiceovers work out for those of you not familiar with the language? Do they fit the setting and characters, does it enhance the atmosphere, or does it sound totally weird and breaks your immersion having to read subtitles and not understanding the spoken word? Share your experiences plx.

 

[Oarfish]

It makes the problem of the still slightly stilted (but better than oblivion) acting go away. I don't understand Polish at all, so cannot hear inflection or pacing (or bad attempts at regional English accents..). So as long as it's delivered reasonably naturally it sounds like good acting - the arthouse movie effect.

And the good thing about subtitles is you can read them faster than they are delivered too.

 

[Trash]

There is another module out. Haven't tried it out yet, but it's nice to see new content popping up allready. Apparently it's a fan project that's been around for awhile, so it might actually provide some quality. Check it out!

http://www.rpgwatch.com/#10332

 

[KazikluBey]

I'm curious, how do the Polish voiceovers work out for those of you not familiar with the language? Do they fit the setting and characters, does it enhance the atmosphere, or does it sound totally weird and breaks your immersion having to read subtitles and not understanding the spoken word? Share your experiences plx.

What Oarfish said. The Polish VA also makes the setting feel more natural and alien.

 

[inwoker]

Tried polish VO. Language has slavic roots so I understand some of. Some phrazes sound like ukrainian. But I can't play for long with it. And I don't see that it's better voiced than english.
More like english==polish>>>>>>>>russian

 

[Rhett Butler]

http://www.redtube.com/3249

 

[Suchy]

Beutiful :D

 

[buccaroobonzai]

If I already have the original version, can you download everything in the Enhanced Edition, or is there exclusive material in the EE that can only be purchased with the CD?

 

[Lesifoere]

Physical things like cloth maps and such, I imagine, but everything else you can get for free: language packs, soundtrack, "making of" videos, and all the rest.

 

[RainSong]

http://www.rpgwatch.com/#10537

and another module is out (english and polish version). it seems from the comments it's played more like an adventure game the an actual rpg (in Geralts way stands a series of puzzles to solve instead of hord of enemies)

 

[Frau Bishop]

Online registration needed to patch, great idea in the first place, but even funnier with this lousy and buggy reg-tool. Witcher keeps telling me to enable cookies in IE. And the support tells me to turn off the firewall and antivirus. And defrag some.
"Game registration - problems and solutions here « 1 2 ... 53 54 »
"Enhanced Edition installation problems and solutions « 1 2 ... 68 69 »"
Lots of people with defrag-problems for sure.

So what now, am I going to crack a game I paid for? Again?
No. I will deinstall and forget about this great patch you generous guys made for us.
Thanks for trying, CD Projekt. It was no triumph. If anything it made me wary about Witcher2 and it's copy protection. Three installs maybe? We'll see.

 

[Elwro]

Yup, this registration problem is a serious fuckup of theirs. I wrote some detailed posts about this on their forum a YEAR ago, but it seems they decided it wasn't worth the hassle. Too bad for their image. Their web-related coders are either 1) lazy or 2) stupid when it comes to prioritizing (because such issues as registration are goddamn MPORTANT) or 3) incompetent.

And when I was only told to enable cookies, check the firewall and antivir, which I of course did, and then saw their attitude was basically "whateva dude the problem is on YOUR side", I was pretty offended.

The problem resolved itself when I reinstalled Windows 3 months later.

 

[OSK]

The problem resolved itself when I reinstalled Windows 3 months later.

So I guess the problem was on your side!

 

[DraQ]

Online registration needed to patch

Odd, I seem to be able to access the patch without logging in.

 

[Elwro]

The problem resolved itself when I reinstalled Windows 3 months later.

So I guess the problem was on your side!

:D

 

[Frau Bishop]

Online registration needed to patch

Odd, I seem to be able to access the patch without logging in.

That's because you are allowed to download the 953 MB without registration.
Then you have to "activate" your game, or try to activate it, to finally be able to install your download. That's a thing between your already installed Witcher and the internetz.
And one of them fails pretty often, or so it seems when you take a look at the Witcher forum.