Game News The Witcher is Fully Enhanced

[RainSong]

Are you challenged in some ways?

hehehehe

he?

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hahahahahahahaha

I finished the game unpatched back in the day.

I played it not so long ago and still had to use cheats in one place cause door didn't open (with unofficial patches ofcourse)

Still, I don't see why I need to register to download a patch other than to give the marketing department my details. I don't want your "cool newsletter" or "developer updates".

Is it possible for an admin to dumbfuch himself?

There were much better reasons in earlier topics for DU tu DUmbfuck himself.

 

[bozia2012]

For those interested...

Doesn't work for me. just keeps refreshing the site.

There's a discussion on the official forums about this issue (something about IE/Flash/cookies/being-logged-in IIRC with the emphasis on IF).

 

[bezimek]

TW was perfectly playable and enjoyable from the start, except maybe for the performance issues, totally worked out with the 1.2 patch.

No it wasn`t. If Witcher was perfectly playable form start patches should be useless ( look on change logs in patch 1.1 and 1.2). IMHO CDP fuck up in beta tests. Load/save and Chapter III CTD were game kill bugs - beta testers should find them.

This may be nitpicking, but Bezimek - how the fuck you were playing TW 1.0? Patch 1.1 was available on the day of the release.

In other words (per analogiam) - Witcher was so buged that CDP have to release first patch 1 (one !) day after putting game on market. :twisted:

I say one more time : fixing bugs is obligation of company who release game and it is normal action. In the past all game were PERFECTLY playable from release date, just look on: PS:T, Bg1 , F1, Wizardry 7,BiK or older games and it was normal thing.
After that came Fallout 2 which was unplayable in version 1.0 and 1.1 ( game CTD on Oil Platform) . It was funny that after instaling patch 1.2 you couldn`t use savegame from version 1.0, 1.1. Now most (maybe all) games are highly unplayable, just look on Troika or Obsydian games and we are starting to thanks for patches. It is stupid. It is like:
I buy broken thing (game), returned it to fixing (waitning for patches) and after repair (patching) - we thanks for wasting our time. You can buy it, I don`t.

btw1. We should thanks Bioware,too for : one patch and one adventure for ME - both free of charge

btw2. We should thanks Betsy for: xxx patches and editor for Oblivion - all free of charge :twisted:

 

[Niektory]

For those interested...

Doesn't work for me. just keeps refreshing the site.

There's a discussion on the official forums about this issue (something about IE/Flash/cookies/being-logged-in IIRC with the emphasis on IF).

And it's all bullshit, it doesn't work at all.

 

[Skankster]

Can anyone get on the Witcher website to download the damn thing? I keep getting WSoD.

 

[bozia2012]

For those interested...

Doesn't work for me. just keeps refreshing the site.

There's a discussion on the official forums about this issue (something about IE/Flash/cookies/being-logged-in IIRC with the emphasis on IF).

And it's all bullshit, it doesn't work at all.

I could care less, you poor bastards. I have Vegas 2, Stranglehold and Kane & Lynch on my playlist (so much good RPGs are released these days). Witcher is scheduled for like next month - when the dust will fall down. I'll also be playing WAR starting next week [/douchebag]

 

[Shannow]

btw1. We should thanks Bioware,too for : one patch and one adventure for ME - both free of charge

THX, Bio! You show them CDP how it is done!

Register Your Mass Effect (PC) CD Key and get a Mass Effect: Bring Down the Sky CD Key for free!

 

[RainSong]

TW was perfectly playable and enjoyable from the start, except maybe for the performance issues, totally worked out with the 1.2 patch.

No it wasn`t.

Yes it was. I played it on my 3 year old comp with no crashes, no bugs stopping game, no slow loading times.

If Witcher was perfectly playable form start patches should be useless

If your mother would be perfectly playable from the start, your sister would be usles? Wrong, playing with your mother and your sister is more fun, but still you can play only with your mother.

IMHO CDP fuck up in beta tests. Load/save and Chapter III CTD were game kill bugs - beta testers should find them.

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The ability to save/load is called bug now? What? You are some console fanboy or something? Did you even played TW? Cause it seems like you are referring to the problem (of some people, not all of them) of long world-location loading when leaving buildings. I also don't understand your problem with Chapter III, but I'm guessing it's as intelligent as your problem with loading/saving.

This may be nitpicking, but Bezimek - how the fuck you were playing TW 1.0? Patch 1.1 was available on the day of the release.

In other words (per analogiam) - Witcher was so buged that CDP have to release first patch 1 (one !) day after putting game on market. :twisted:

Better put away analogiam [and this glue that you are sniffing] and start using logic, it's not painful, then you will understand that no game is perfect, and "day one patches" are a sign of good support and not something to bash.

I say one more time : fixing bugs is obligation of company who release game

orly? make them

In the past all game were PERFECTLY playable from release date

yup, and it was perfectly normal for them to crash every few hours (if not minutes)

It is like:
I buy broken thing (game), returned it to fixing (waitning for patches) and after repair (patching) - we thanks for wasting our time. You can buy it, I don`t.

Nope, it's like you are buying a thing, then after some time the producer that listen to his clients takes to his heart all the good advices about what could be better in his product, then make it better and give it to you for free. I'd like to see it for example with a car. You can drive it, but you would be more happy if the engine or something else could work better, so the company makes it better and gives it away for free - ye right.

btw1. We should thanks Bioware,too for : one patch and one adventure for ME - both free of charge

btw2. We should thanks Betsy for: xxx patches and editor for Oblivion - all free of charge :twisted:

EE isn't path, that why it's called EE. Nobody is thanking CDP for pathes, some people are thanking them for probably the best support ever in the game industry, the rest are dumbfucks.

 

[Ander Vinz]

Was Gothic 2 unplayable? A bad game? A feature-less rip off a-la Dungeon Lords?

No.

Gothic 3? Fuck you! If you like the game, join the community and patch it yourself, you worm! Our programmers are too good for this.

Or buy a decent computer.

3.2 GGhz dual-core, 2 GB RAM and Radeon X800 wasn't good enough for 2006? I can't enjoy it yet with GF8800 on the same configuration. Any advice?

Arcanum? Wait for 7(!) years until some nutso programmer shows up. Only then you'll see the awesomeness of our game.

Wait? Arcanum is also unplayable?

It's a buggy mess. Still playable, but... Read Drog's changelog.

Even though it was praised as one of the best or *the* best RPG during those 7 years?

Irrelevant. I do not adress gamedesing, I am talking about technical side.

Bloodlines? Patching is still in progress.

Even though it was perfectly playable out of the box

Oh, was it? Game-crashing bugs make for a "perfectly playable" game now?
I did encounter it. I remember being very happy on that occasion.

or with the first patch released in 2-3 weeks after the release

Interesting, why people like Wesp are still doing something if it is so perfectly playable?

That is nit picking.

Ok. I was just pissed that I played vanilla Gothic 2 two or three times before the add-on since it's less enjoyable. The game became better balanced with add-on, if you remember.

TW was perfectly playable and enjoyable from the start, except maybe for the performance issues, totally worked out with the 1.2 patch.

Why the patches then if it was perfectly playable?
Btw, I played 1.1a and it was a pain in the ass because of loading times, autosaving and bad optimisation.

If Witcher was perfectly playable form start patches should be useless

If your mother would be perfectly playable from the start, your sister would be usles? Wrong, playing with your mother and your sister is more fun, but still you can play only with your mother.

Very strange analogy. But I do get your point from the rest of the post.
I assume you think that pushing incomplete software is acceptable and developers deserve special thanks when they optimize it and make it work properly.
Correct me if I am wrong about you.

Btw, the car example doesn't work since you have a warranty for the case if something's broken in your newly bought automobile.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of the Codex. That is the will of the Codex.

WE are also the Codex, just dumbfuck yourself and lets have this over with.

 

[bozia2012]

Gothic 3? Fuck you! If you like the game, join the community and patch it yourself, you worm! Our programmers are too good for this.

Or buy a decent computer.

3.2 GGhz dual-core, 2 GB RAM and Radeon X800 wasn't good enough for 2006? I can't enjoy it yet with GF8800 on the same configuration. Any advice?

Funny shit - I was playing 1.1 on AthlonXP 3000+ (1,8GHz, single-core), 2GB RAM and a muthafuckin' GF6600 @ 1240x1028 with some options maxed and some obsolete on medium level and the only problem was the loading times (fixed completely for me in 1.2). WinXP of course.
Plz be more specific - maybe you tried to play on a 24" widescreen with x16 AA and Vista with no swap file?

 

[RainSong]

Ander Vinz I'll start from the end.

The car example works, as I wrote that ''the engine could work better'', it isn't broken, it would make the customer happy if it's performance would be better. So the warranty have nothing to do with it.

As for thanking the developer for optimizing their product. Did I say that? Oh and correct me if I'm wrong but did You just call adding quests, music, stories of author who inspired to game and so on, a game optimization?

And finally - how TW was incomplete when released? It lacked some important npc/items? Cause somehow, I finished it with no problems on my old comp just after it was released. I had to miss somehow the "incompleat part of this software''.

 

[Vault Dweller]

3.2 GGhz dual-core, 2 GB RAM and Radeon X800 wasn't good enough for 2006? I can't enjoy it yet with GF8800 on the same configuration. Any advice?

It was perfectly (and I do mean "perfectly) playable on:

"Pentium D processor 930, Dual Core, 3GHz, 800FSB
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM, 533MHz
nVidia GeForce 6800, 256 MB"

Wait? Arcanum is also unplayable?

It's a buggy mess. Still playable, but... Read Drog's changelog.

I'm not interested in fanfiction.

Even though it was praised as one of the best or *the* best RPG during those 7 years?

Irrelevant. I do not adress gamedesing, I am talking about technical side.

Well, this is RPG Codex. Not BENCHMARK Codex.

Even though it was perfectly playable out of the box

Oh, was it? Game-crashing bugs make for a "perfectly playable" game now?
I did encounter it. I remember being very happy on that occasion.

From my previous post:

"Some people did have a game breaking crush after completing the Leopold society quest, some people didn't. Hence the "or" in my statement."

or with the first patch released in 2-3 weeks after the release

Interesting, why people like Wesp are still doing something if it is so perfectly playable?

Good question. Let's read the fanfiction together:

"Turned hospital into Elysium area during your encounter with Pisha."
I can't believe Troika shipped this piece of shit game with this gaem braking bug!

"Adjusted double Ithaca reload sound and added several drop sounds."
The game was absolutely unplayable without the drop sounds.

"+Increased xp gain on freeing Ash and delivering Imalia's magazine."
Not getting enough XPs was a major flaw in the game. I was forced to use a console to give my character 100,000 XP! What's up with that? If Troika was still around, I would have like sent them an angry letter or something.

The game became better balanced with add-on, if you remember.

Well, nobody is denying that add-ons and continuous love and affection tend to make games better. However, stating that Gothic and Arcanum are better after an add-on or several years worth of various improvements is one thing, while claiming that they were unplayable is something entirely fucking different.

Btw, I played 1.1a and it was a pain in the ass because of loading times, autosaving and bad optimisation.

You poor thing. Nobody should be forced to suffer like that.

I assume you think that pushing incomplete software is acceptable...

It wasn't directed at me, but I will try to answer.

Some of you righteous faggots expect nothing but perfection. OMG! They shipped a game with a bug! Teh horror!

It's fucking software. It will never, ever be perfect, especially if you consider all the hardware variations. No, I don't like bugs and CTDs. However, I'm well aware that the best, most interesting and ambitious games were buggy. Daggerfall, Fallout, Arcanum, XCOM, Darklands, etc. As long as a game is playable and there are some workarounds, I'm happy. I do understand that ADD kids are too impatient for that and deserve only the best. Go play fucking Minesweeper.

 

[Rohit_N]

For those interested:
http://www.sciagnij.pl/programy/1,90718 ... tania.html

There's a download link there and you DON'T need to be registered.

I think the game checks registration during patch installation.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

It might also be good to point out that ambitious aspirations are harder to get working ideally... Not to mention angry publishers demanding you to deliver the goods NAO, problems with resources and the possible faggotry in the licenced engine.

 

[meeneque]

For those interested...

Doesn't work for me. just keeps refreshing the site.

There's a discussion on the official forums about this issue (something about IE/Flash/cookies/being-logged-in IIRC with the emphasis on IF).

It didn't work with IE or FF. Works with Chrome though :shock:

 

[Ander Vinz]

Plz be more specific

From what I've learned from various forums, it's bad support of some Radeon cards (including mine). Also caused graphical glitches back in the day.

Oh and correct me if I'm wrong but did You just call adding quests, music, stories of author who inspired to game and so on, a game optimization?

Oh, who cares about these shitty "adventures" and worse than mediocre "music inspired by the game"?

And finally - how TW was incomplete when released?

Did I say it was?

Wait? Arcanum is also unplayable?

It's a buggy mess. Still playable, but... Read Drog's changelog.

I'm not interested in fanfiction.

My point still stands, duh!

Let's read the fanfiction together:

"Turned hospital into Elysium area during your encounter with Pisha."
I can't believe Troika shipped this piece of shit game with this gaem braking bug!

"Adjusted double Ithaca reload sound and added several drop sounds."
The game was absolutely unplayable without the drop sounds.

"+Increased xp gain on freeing Ash and delivering Imalia's magazine."
Not getting enough XPs was a major flaw in the game. I was forced to use a console to give my character 100,000 XP! What's up with that? If Troika was still around, I would have like sent them an angry letter or something.

U r veri funni, LOL!!!
Seriously, taking plus pack for Bloodlines while ignoring tons of corrected bugs for Arcanum is silly.

However, stating that Gothic and Arcanum are better after an add-on or several years worth of various improvements is one thing, while claiming that they were unplayable is something entirely fucking different

I didn't. I tried to say that the best customer strategy is waiting until all people who bought the hype and paid for their beta-versions finish playing the game and all the shit get fixed. Like it happens nowadays with Witcher, Drakensang and other games.

Some of you righteous faggots expect nothing but perfection. OMG! They shipped a game with a bug! Teh horror!

So the game should remain buggy until they decide to sell an add-on or GOTY edition? Or forever because hiring testers is too costly?

It's fucking software. It will never, ever be perfect, especially if you consider all the hardware variations.

Oh, so you've never played bugfree and stable game. Poor thing.

No, I don't like bugs and CTDs.

Then you're ADD kid too.

Go play fucking Minesweeper.

Oh shut up. It's RPG Codex, not Recommend-me-a-game Codex.

 

[Xi]

Masturbation is artificial sex!

 

[bezimek]

Yes it was. I played it on my 3 year old comp with no crashes, no bugs stopping game, no slow loading times.

So you have luck but as we all know there is no luck - it is only force and force was with you during your Witcher play.
btw. Just look on patches loges and topics on TW forum young padawan.

yup, and it was perfectly normal for them to crash every few hours (if not minutes)

Bik , PT:T, BG 1 , Wizardy 7 or older game ? - in you wet dreams.

EE isn't path, that why it's called EE. Nobody is thanking CDP for pathes, some people are thanking them for probably the best support ever in the game industry, the rest are dumbfucks.

You are dumbfuck after all and don`t know about it. Why ? I will tell you. Witcher is one year old game so what I have to do to sell more copies ---- make GOTY edition (vide Oblivion etc) . You - "DUMBFUCK" - is not target audience of EE. CDP make EE to sell more copy of Witcher - end of story. In Poland you can buy full game with EE, EE for 19,99 PLN or download EE (3 GB). So CDP make two meals on one fire: fix bugs and make game to live one more year = earn money. Now the most fun part - you thanks CDP for above.

Don`t take me wrong Witcher is good game but not perfect (vide patches) and CDP made it for ......... the money and money should they get (for EE , too).

You are wrong - Bioware have the best customer support in game industry and it is fact not myth.

 

[RainSong]

Oh and correct me if I'm wrong but did You just call adding quests, music, stories of author who inspired to game and so on, a game optimization?

Oh, who cares about these shitty "adventures" and worse than mediocre "music inspired by the game"?

Did you play these ''shitty adventures''? No? Then you must be a troll. Hello mister Troll, hows your vagina? still eachy? Hey wait a minute... why the hell am I talking to a troll?

And finally - how TW was incomplete when released?

Did I say it was?

Yup. Right here

I assume you think that pushing incomplete software is acceptable and developers deserve special thanks when they optimize it and make it work properly.

see, it's you spilling your trolling poo, and ohh so happy and proud of yourself. In before you'll try to make some half ass intelligent coment about it saying that there isn't TW mentioned in that quote I'll answer you with this - you answering to my post indicates that the "incomplete software" you are talking about is no other then the _very complete_ TW.

 

[MetalCraze]

This September: The <s>Best</s> Mediocre Reaches <s>Perfection</s> Acceptable

Let the truth be spoken

I'm glad they did it all for free! Oh wai...

Russian publisher sells 1.4 patch solely for money.

 

[Durwyn]

Played TW without the patches all the way to Chapter 5 with no bugs or CTDs, with only minor complaint about loading times...

Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6 ghz)
2gb DDR
GF7600gt 256 DDR3

All maxed out, 1280x1024 no AA and worked like a charm.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

It costs as much as the 1.2 patch did. Unless you want them to release the Enhanced Edition free to everyone, without requiring them to buy the original game to play it?

If what you're annoyed about is the hype, fine. But the lengths people are going to here to bash the EE are farcical.

 

[RainSong]

Yes it was. I played it on my 3 year old comp with no crashes, no bugs stopping game, no slow loading times.

So you have luck but as we all know there is no luck - it is only force and force was with you during your Witcher play.
btw. Just look on patches loges and topics on TW forum young padawan.

Bug fixes don't indicate that the game is unplayable. Why the fuck does it have to be explained? You don't believe it? Ask thousands of people that finished it few days after it's release.

yup, and it was perfectly normal for them to crash every few hours (if not minutes)

Bik , PT:T, BG 1 , Wizardy 7 or older game ? - in you wet dreams.

You are really trying to tell me that you believe games back then didn't crashed/were bugfree? Tell me when I should start laughing, then try to remember your experience with games like might & magic for example.

EE isn't path, that why it's called EE. Nobody is thanking CDP for pathes, some people are thanking them for probably the best support ever in the game industry, the rest are dumbfucks.

You are dumbfuck after all and don`t know about it. Why ? I will tell you (...here is something that should change my mind but the only thing it accomplishes is making me look into the monitor with -_- expression...) Now the most fun part - you thanks CDP for above.

Now I'll try to make you change your mind (and I hope that I'll have more luck in it then you had, cause you my friend FAILED). CDP worked on their TW for a long time (4 years?). I've spend my money on the product of their 4 years of work, but gues what, the guys at CDP are so cool that they worked another year and now they give me the product of a year of hard work for free. How the fuck should I not be happy about it?

 

[Ander Vinz]

Did you play these ''shitty adventures''?

Yes. "The price of neutrality" is already available. The other one is definitely the pinnacle of role-playing judging by the description.

Why the insults? Are you polish?
And I generalized about the incomplete software since the problem is larger that this <s>pathetic</s> glorious reissue of the Witcher.