Sweet! 
Can't to see what they change/add.   :D

What does that even mean? I mean it could be a web 2.0 flash game... :p 
 
But im guessing they're going to add DX11 support, at least i hope so.

Teasing fucking bastards.

These motherfuckers sure know their crowdpleasers.

Sounds interesting, I'm still playing the first one but I'm only in act 3 still.  I probably won't get to this till the end of the year early next year, so hopefully this adds some cool stuff.   
 
Fingers crossed for a good deal on it during the Christmas sale.  

Total cock tease.

I just started chapter 1 of Witcher 2, wonder if I should wait now.

@mosdl said:

I just started chapter 1 of Witcher 2, wonder if I should wait now.

With all the improvements they already made since the vanilla version, there's no need. You already have a vastly more user friendly experience with better UI, the ability to store goods at taverns, new quests for an already lengthy game and better combat and difficulty curve.

I played it on release, warts and all, and still came away feeling it was one of the best RPGs I've played in years.

I'm really glad I held off on playing The Witcher 2 because they patched in so much great stuff and improvements. Now I guess I'll wait for 2.0 to start my second playthrough.

Considering what they did with the original Witcher, this could be huge

I'm halfway through chapter 5 in The Witcher, and buying Witcher 2 in 3 months when i upgrade my PC 
 
So @valrog:  what is this about? Is the game half-broken like W1 was and this is the "enhanced edition" of it? Or are they making radical unnecessary changes? :(

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

I'm halfway through chapter 5 in The Witcher, and buying Witcher 2 in 3 months when i upgrade my PC

So @valrog: what is this about? Is the game half-broken like W1 was and this is the "enhanced edition" of it? Or are they making radical unnecessary changes? :(

nah, this game is way better than even the enhanced version; dunno what they're really doing actually. I'd rather them announce a tried and true expansion like they said they might

Well, since I haven't actually transferred my game save from my last reinstall of Windows, I'm just going to wait until 2.0 gets released and start the game up fresh.

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

I'm halfway through chapter 5 in The Witcher, and buying Witcher 2 in 3 months when i upgrade my PC

So @valrog: what is this about? Is the game half-broken like W1 was and this is the "enhanced edition" of it? Or are they making radical unnecessary changes? :(

nah, this game is way better than even the enhanced version; dunno what they're really doing actually. I'd rather them announce a tried and true expansion like they said they might

@Ahmad_Metallic: Actually, you have to manually update the game from the launcher. I played through the game without knowing of any patches. So if this update brings changes that you don't want, it's just to not update the game that far.

I can't see what they need this 2.0 version for, the game was brilliant with some minor flaws.

@valrog: Reckon you're completely right with that, mate. After all, so far, every patch for the game has added a little extra something in terms of quests and additional character interaction besides the normal bug/balance/graphic fixes that ofcourse makes up the meat of any proper "patch". These patches have barely even been mentioned, and save for patch-notes on steam and their website, the method in which these patches have been contributed has been very low-key.

Now, from the looks of it, they're making a big deal out of whatever the heck this is. Heck, they're even revealing the full jist at gamescon. In other words, they reckon that they have something significant enough as to warrant an appearance. Now, I don't want to be deploying any spoilers here, but let's simply say that regarding the way the game ends, an expansion or sequal is inevitable.. Or another chapter delivered as per grand and great patch. It's not a bad idea, considering that they aim to be releasing the game for consoles in the beginning of next year. A year after it's computer release, they need to provide console players with a good reason for buying the game other than it just being a port. So, "new and improved, with a complete fourth chapter that continues the tale where The Witcher 2 originally left out."

And bam, seeing as they're only announcing the full content at the end of this month, I reckon that it's going to take at least until October time until we get our paws on it. Around when it would have been released on the Consoles. Makes sense, no?

Also, you totally need to be able to plough Saskia! Just remember her words in that Dwarf's dream, "Come, my hero. Let's fuck in the barn!"

Edit: "Plough", not shag.

I don't get it, does it mean that it will be like enhanced edition for the first game? 
I reckon us people who already bought the game get that as a free update? :D

Could it be all the changes they're making for the console version but in the pc version?
 
edit: if there is any changes, of course.

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

"Soon new & Improved PC version 2.0"

Soon - Quickly, promptly, Within a short period of time.
New - To see, feel, to experience something never seen before.
Improve - To increase something, more desirable, more excellent condition, that already excists.
PC version 2.0 - A big "update" on the already product on the PC platform.


To conclude: It will be released within a short period of time on the PC platform and It will introduce something new and fresh to the table. It will improve the already core mechanics and coding of the product, though nothing like a small patch since they're skipping over the patch numbers, but something bigger.

Is it an Enhanced Edition like the first game? who knows, but only 3 months after the release is a bit doubtful in my opinion.  
Is it a DX11, PhysiX GPU enabled update to the game, or something similar? Very likely.

@FritzDude said:

"Soon new & Improved PC version 2.0"

Soon - Quickly, promptly, Within a short period of time.
New - To see, feel, to experience something never seen before.
Improve - To increase something, more desirable, more excellent condition, that already excists.
PC version 2.0 - A big "update" on the already product on the PC platform.


To conclude: It will be released within a short period of time on the PC platform and It will introduce something new and fresh to the table. It will improve the already core mechanics and coding of the product, though nothing like a small patch since they're skipping over the patch numbers, but something bigger.

Is it an Enhanced Edition like the first game? who knows, but only 3 months after the release is a bit doubtful in my opinion.
Is it a DX11, PhysiX GPU enabled update to the game, or something similar? Very likely.

This man has broken it down as best as it can be. No further discussion necessary.

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

I could perhaps see them balance the game, the first part was (as everyone says) quite tough, and the tutorial stuff was way too easy to miss (luckily there is a way to view them in the Journal).

I bet for the 360 version they have to do some sort of recap of the first game, possibly ME2 PS3 stye where you can make Witcher 1 choices in it.

And here I was about to actually start playing it. Well, I guess I can wait a little while longer.

if there improving the graphics im going to kill some one as im already upgrading my graphics card in order to play it XD

Maybe they are optimizing it more? 

It's shit like this and Steam sales that spoil people like me into waiting for games instead of buying them day 1. Which to me is a good thing because I never have to deal with day-one bugs and MSRP.

This is why CDProjekt is fucking king.

One issue I have (in Flotsam right now) is that shadows look really blocky on faces, almost like a quilt. Seems its on purpose for performance, perhaps they can make that configurable.

@mosdl: I believe that is called "shadow acne." There are top men of the games industry discussing ways to eliminate this graphical semantic error.

@nintendoeats said:

@mosdl: I believe that is called "shadow acne." There are top men of the games industry discussing ways to eliminate this graphical semantic error.

shadow acne is my death metal band name.

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

@Heltom92 said:

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

You've actually finished an RPG the same month it came out? How is that humanly possible

It's as simple as sticking to 1 game for a bit. Even big 50+ hour rpgs like Witcher1, DA:O, etc can be finished in a couple of weeks if you chew into them.

Also keep in mind Witcher 2 is not as long as Witcher 1.

Maybe it's a DX 11 patch to add tessellation and whatnot....  Whatever they do, they don't have to do much because the game is great as it is right now.

@Tennmuerti said:

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

@Heltom92 said:

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

You've actually finished an RPG the same month it came out? How is that humanly possible

It's as simple as sticking to 1 game for a bit. Even big 50+ hour rpgs like Witcher1, DA:O, etc can be finished in a couple of weeks if you chew into them.

Also keep in mind Witcher 2 is not as long as Witcher 1.

I finished DA:O in less than 2 weeks, and Witcher 2 in a matter of 2-3 weeks.

Then again, a 40 hour playthrough of my 200 mods game of Oblivion has taken me about 2 months.

It really just depends on the game. Some I like to take my time with, others really suck me in so I finish them ASAP

@Heltom92 said:

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

You've actually finished an RPG the same month it came out? How is that humanly possible 

Fuck, I just uninstalled it too!

@Tennmuerti said:

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

@Heltom92 said:

This is suprising, sounds like there will be some significant changes/improvements. Haven't played it much since I finished it in May so I will probably play again when this comes out.

You've actually finished an RPG the same month it came out? How is that humanly possible

It's as simple as sticking to 1 game for a bit. Even big 50+ hour rpgs like Witcher1, DA:O, etc can be finished in a couple of weeks if you chew into them.

Also keep in mind Witcher 2 is not as long as Witcher 1.

I finished DA:O in less than 2 weeks, and Witcher 2 in a matter of 2-3 weeks.

Then again, a 40 hour playthrough of my 200 mods game of Oblivion has taken me about 2 months.

It really just depends on the game. Some I like to take my time with, others really suck me in so I finish them ASAP

Great, now it won't be a big pile of shit hopefully.

wouldn't The Witcher 2 2.0 basically be The Witcher 3?

I'm guessing since they are patch 1.35 atm then it'll be like 2.0 with this patch similar to a WoW patch. Wonder what they'll add.

@emergency said:

I'm guessing since they are patch 1.35 atm then it'll be like 2.0 with this patch similar to a WoW patch. Wonder what they'll add.

I think it would be neat if they expanded chapter 3

@emergency said:

I'm guessing since they are patch 1.35 atm then it'll be like 2.0 with this patch similar to a WoW patch. Wonder what they'll add.

I think it would be neat if they expanded chapter 3

@valrog: There is a VERY good reason that you can't do that with Saskia, but I don't wanna point it out unless you've seen it or don't care about spoilerz.

So another Extended Edition?
My laptop's still too crappy to play it, so I've had it sitting on Steam for a month and a half(gah), and I've deliberately been avoiding any news post-release because spoilers, is it as flawed as the original was pre-EE?

So another Extended Edition? My laptop's still too crappy to play it, so I've had it sitting on Steam for a month and a half(gah), and I've deliberately been avoiding any news post-release because spoilers, is it as flawed as the original was pre-EE?

I still didn't play the other mid-game outcome for witcher 2, just played the campaign once. This will be a good time to go back in