Correct, one of the reasons you die so easily early on, low health overall + weak armor + somebody hitting you in the back = insta death
Just read the Eurogamer review and have to agree with him, the combat has its moments of brilliance but they got the progression wrong. The special attack(s) you get by endgame (adrenaline) looks great but is ridiculous from a gameplay point of view.
The problem is one of balancing. The Witcher 2 has an inverted difficulty curve. Rather than starting you off gently and getting tougher as you learn, The Witcher 2 starts off ungodly tough after an inadequate tutorial, then eventually plateaus into being hugely tricky, before you finally end up progressing far enough into the game’s skill trees that everything becomes too easy.
I was speaking about The Witcher 3.
Yes, Draug. And how the hell you hadn’t problems with him!
-You can’t use potions
-Most magic doesn’t seem to affect him a lot
-Invulnerable to knives
-He throws you to the ground with almost every hit.
-Hugee range of sword.
-Even with his big size, he is fast and will hit you if you try to run too much. Even rolling sometimes with this speed and the huge sword he would hit me.
-It calls arrows and meteors.
-You can’t block his attacks.
-And of course, he does a lot of damage. 4 hits and i am out.
I used quen and strong attacks…really I beat him on first try, didn’t even consider him that much of a boss…no idea what is the problem : ).
i just did it… on easy. Where you have like 10 times more health, lol.
edit: did you have quen leveled up? Mine is not that good as to hold his attacks with quen.
I secretly miss randomly finding a woman you have to get a certain item or talk in a specific way and you get reward with casual ploughing and a sexy card. Not enough ploughing, I tells ya.
The Witcher 2 starts off ungodly tough after an inadequate tutorial, then eventually plateaus into being hugely tricky, before you finally end up progressing far enough into the game’s skill trees that everything becomes too easy.
I’m trying to figure out if I dislike this style of progression. I don’t mean the beginning. It wasn’t that tough for me but I can see they should have done it better. I’m talking about the plateau and the end. After a long game, it’s kind of fun to kick ass and obliterate everything (as long as it looks cool). If I’m near the end of the game I don’t always need to spend hours trying to beat Bowser or whatever. I guess both styles are nice for variety.
I’m eager to see how I feel about the latter half of TW2.
Also not mentioned in that paragraph (I didn’t read the review) is the difficulty spikes and puzzle-difficulty with certain bosses. I’m more concerned about that.
I think I had quen on level 2…it was only sign I leveled. I just always cast it once it ran out.
Because you roll around him or dodge his charge and hit him five times in the back and he dies. I was expecting some kind of second form or something, to be honest.
How do you know if you installed the DLC correctly? I think I installed it but there is no notification in-game.
Man, those DRM-free files make a huge difference in load times and performance. Atari really screwed their customers with it.
There should be a green check next to it in downloadable content. You get the quest from the notice board in Floatsam.
Why? The writing and setting of the Witcher is vastly better than anything of the Ultima.
Man, I just entered Chapter 2 and now I am on work travel for a week and no access to TW2. I am in serious withdrawal. This game is simply amazing - a real masterpiece so far. I think this may be my personal favorite CRPG of all time, assuming things don’t suddenly change for the worse. Better even than Planescape.
Having just made it into the Kaedweni camp and talked to some of the soldiers and their concerns, and talked to the King - damn, the quality of the writing and plotting is just so much better than anything else out there. Did the original Witcher writer (Sapkowski?) write this?
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Hey, where did you get the non-DRM Witcher 2 files and/or can you link them? :)
I have the D2D version, and after that video you linked, I’m jonesing for freedom.
I really think “Bats! Baaaats! Swarms of 'em! Get 'em away!!” has a chance at Nerd Catchphrase of the Year. The ones from Portal 2 never really caught on.
As far as I know Sapkowski was just being consulted ocasionally, but lead story designer is Sebastian Stepien. The writing blew me away too, it was so good. I don’t think Sapkowski himself would have written it better.
Yrden sign helps on these kinds of bosses, as it catches and traps them when they charge you. Then you roll behind them and slash away.
Damn. Maybe the difference is the upgraded rolling? Mine didn’t reached enough to escape his huge sword.
I am beginning to suspect the talents i have picked are to blame, in part. Heavy magic users have upgraded quen and yrden for this fight. Heavy swordmen users have upgraded rolling and +damage and +vitality. But i am mostly an alchemist. :(
I swear when i finish the game i will load the savegame and try this combat again. Just to know if it was that easy.
