The Walkin' Dude
Watcher of the Keep
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Witcher 2 is one of my favourite RPGs. However, I'm losing patience with it and on my 2 last playthroughs I almost rage quit as well. Here's the issue (and I'm playing on the Dark difficulty):
I'm re-enacting the Vergen battle in chapter 2 as Selkirk. Whenever I load the latest save game, this is how it goes:
1. Watch the unskipable battle between Selkirk and some knight.
2. Watch the cut scene of Geralt becoming Selkirk
3. Defeat the first 3 enemy soldiers. After defeating them you can't save.
4. Defeat the 4 other soldiers. Still can't save.
5. Watch the cutscene of Geralt talking to Selkirk, which can't be skipped. Only the individual lines can be skipped as in regular dialog.
6. Still no save.
7. Geralt starts to lose health for some reason rapidly and has to defeat a powerful opponent.
8. More cut scenes.
9. Finally an auto save happens, but when I load it Geralt is still rapidly losing health and has to face even a more difficult opponent. After loading, Geralt is directly in front of the opponent and if I don't move quickly the game is over.
10. Click load, which freezes the screen while the game accesses the thousand saved games, because Witcher is unique in this regard. Wait for the loading to finish and start over. Can't click quick load since I would start with 10% health, losing it quickly and right before the enemy with no Quen activated.
One of the worst designed levels of any game I've played recently, pretty much, because of these technical reasons. When you first enter the area it's equally annoying, with 3 or so different load screens, an unskippable conversation between a group of soldiers, after which you're thrown in to a ring surrounded by fire and with no warning, in a body of a regular soldier, facing 4 or 5 opponents. If you fail, which you will likely to do, you need go through the painfully long loading screens, the first of which is Geralt just facing the fog for a second.
EDIT: So it seems the difficult can't be changed during the re enactment thing either. I don't remember Geralt losing health rapidly during non Dark playthroughs, but I might be wrong.
I'm re-enacting the Vergen battle in chapter 2 as Selkirk. Whenever I load the latest save game, this is how it goes:
1. Watch the unskipable battle between Selkirk and some knight.
2. Watch the cut scene of Geralt becoming Selkirk
3. Defeat the first 3 enemy soldiers. After defeating them you can't save.
4. Defeat the 4 other soldiers. Still can't save.
5. Watch the cutscene of Geralt talking to Selkirk, which can't be skipped. Only the individual lines can be skipped as in regular dialog.
6. Still no save.
7. Geralt starts to lose health for some reason rapidly and has to defeat a powerful opponent.
8. More cut scenes.
9. Finally an auto save happens, but when I load it Geralt is still rapidly losing health and has to face even a more difficult opponent. After loading, Geralt is directly in front of the opponent and if I don't move quickly the game is over.
10. Click load, which freezes the screen while the game accesses the thousand saved games, because Witcher is unique in this regard. Wait for the loading to finish and start over. Can't click quick load since I would start with 10% health, losing it quickly and right before the enemy with no Quen activated.
One of the worst designed levels of any game I've played recently, pretty much, because of these technical reasons. When you first enter the area it's equally annoying, with 3 or so different load screens, an unskippable conversation between a group of soldiers, after which you're thrown in to a ring surrounded by fire and with no warning, in a body of a regular soldier, facing 4 or 5 opponents. If you fail, which you will likely to do, you need go through the painfully long loading screens, the first of which is Geralt just facing the fog for a second.
EDIT: So it seems the difficult can't be changed during the re enactment thing either. I don't remember Geralt losing health rapidly during non Dark playthroughs, but I might be wrong.
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