btw. assigning each magic sign to a hotkey does wonders. I barely ever go into the LEFT-CTRL quick-menu anymore (just for switching between dagger/bombs/traps and meditation).

Replaced 3,4,5 with magic, as well as extra mouse buttons. Who needs 'cycling through magic', if you can have straightforward hotkeys?

It's a great game - the only issue I have is how cluttered the main screen is - it's just filled with icons and bars and it takes getting used to. Also, Normal difficulty is a pain, but Easy is WAAAAYYY too easy. There should have been a middle-ground between the two.

@Tennmuerti said:

@Seppli: @rawr: @MaFoLu:

FYI there is a talent that will give your sword attacks 100% AoE dammage, once you get that, groups become much easier.
The signs also have AoE effects at 2nd level talents.
Not to mention the AoE grenades that anyone can use with stun and blind efffects.

@Seppli

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Unlike DA2 hard difficulty in Witcher2 is meant to be hardIf you are disliking the combat and are having to cheese fights, drop it down to normal.

I know that, I'm just not there yet levelwise to specc for it, hence I can't talk about the 'AoE Group Melee Talent' effects on how combat feels. Guess you didn't play DA2 on Nightmare, because its definitely harder than the Witcher 2 will ever be (at least on Hard, not even going to consider Insane).It's a fact combat 'feels' like shit, when you visibly hit something but don't, because it ain't your 'target' which the game's designated automatically (often poorly) or you've backed a foe against a wall and he 'diceroll' evades your blows, while he clearly couldn't. Hoping that most of my complaints will go away once I've got the AoE Melee talent (if so, it's silly for it to be a talent in the first place).I love the Witcher 2 as much as the next guy, but combat is a miss. If you want to defend its poor melee combat mechanics design, be my guest. Your arguments certainly didn't sway my opinion on the topic.

btw. assigning each magic sign to a hotkey does wonders. I barely ever go into the LEFT-CTRL quick-menu anymore (just for switching between dagger/bombs/traps and meditation).Replaced 3,4,5 with magic, as well as extra mouse buttons. Who needs 'cycling through magic', if you can have straightforward hotkeys?

It's a great game - the only issue I have is how cluttered the main screen is - it's just filled with icons and bars and it takes getting used to. Also, Normal difficulty is a pain, but Easy is WAAAAYYY too easy. There should have been a middle-ground between the two.

@Korolev said:

It's a great game - the only issue I have is how cluttered the main screen is - it's just filled with icons and bars and it takes getting used to. Also, Normal difficulty is a pain, but Easy is WAAAAYYY too easy. There should have been a middle-ground between the two.

I agree there gap between these two difficulties is too big. Normal is too hard to be considered normal and easy is too easy. I don't even want to find out what hard is like. There definitely should be a medium.

I like the combat. I feels challenging. In the first game all group combat was a total joke. You'd just dive in the middle, spam fire and group sword and just demolish everyone. This one, a group of 5 Nekkers or Drowners can be terrifying, it forces me to use all my signs, many types of bombs and traps and it makes me feel more like a Witcher who isn't meant to be a heavy dude jumping into the fray, but a quick and agile guy who uses leather armor and many potions and gadgets to win.

I hate that i can't play this game because of my outdated PC.

I hate not having a computer powerful enough to run it.

I hate the inability to compare items you have equipped with shop inventory.

@TekZero said:

I hate not having a computer powerful enough to run it.

I don't. 

If i had said powerful computer, i'd be blowing money on LA Noire and Witcher 2 now, whereas i'm only buying LA Noire and keeping W2 for later

if i had the powerful computer, i'd be playing like others here and suffering from buggy hitboxes and shit.. whereas when i buy it in a few months, it'll be patched/enhanced and i'll never have to go through the current shittiness which'll leave a bad taste of the game in my mouth.

i'm glad i can't currently run it, and that i'll be able to in just a few months ^^

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

@TekZero said:

I hate not having a computer powerful enough to run it.

I don't. 

If i had said powerful computer, i'd be blowing money on LA Noire and Witcher 2 now, whereas i'm only buying LA Noire and keeping W2 for later

if i had the powerful computer, i'd be playing like others here and suffering from buggy hitboxes and shit.. whereas when i buy it in a few months, it'll be patched/enhanced and i'll never have to go through the current shittiness which'll leave a bad taste of the game in my mouth.

i'm glad i can't currently run it, and that i'll be able to in just a few months ^^

Keep justifiying it to yourself mate.Whatever helps you sleep better at night knowing you aren't playing this awesome game :DlolololololJK(PS: also hitboxes aren't buggy, Seppil is just pissed off at some game mechanics) plus there is no shittiness really

The only thing that's been bothering me so far is that I can't find the last nekker nest in act 1. Three by the river, last one nowhere to be found.

So basically you want another action game and not an RPG. We get 500,000,000,000 action games a year and only a tiny handful of RPG's, Im glad its a diceroll.

@Tennmuerti said:

@Ahmad_Metallic said:

@TekZero said:

I hate not having a computer powerful enough to run it.

I don't. 

If i had said powerful computer, i'd be blowing money on LA Noire and Witcher 2 now, whereas i'm only buying LA Noire and keeping W2 for later

if i had the powerful computer, i'd be playing like others here and suffering from buggy hitboxes and shit.. whereas when i buy it in a few months, it'll be patched/enhanced and i'll never have to go through the current shittiness which'll leave a bad taste of the game in my mouth.

i'm glad i can't currently run it, and that i'll be able to in just a few months ^^

Keep justifiying it to yourself mate.Whatever helps you sleep better at night knowing you aren't playing this awesome game :DlolololololJK(PS: also hitboxes aren't buggy, Seppil is just pissed off at some game mechanics) plus there is no shittiness really

Agreed. The game's in stellar condition. Didn't run into any bugs thus far. As I've got pretty much the perfect system for the game (low highend 64bit first generation DX11 rig), I've not got any technical issues either. While I'm enamored with the game overall, I'm not looking past its flaws as they present themselves to me. I just don't like some of the early 'crippling' mechanics (which can be allivated by talents). Flaws by design, not by bugs.

Ok, I'm gonna admit that the more I play the more I hate how ridiculous the difference between easy and normal is. There needs to be a middle ground.

@Stephen_Von_Cloud: The optimization is bad, but I'm hopeful this will get worked out in an update pretty soon.  I just hope I don't finish the game before then.  

I'm running the game on Ultra w/o ubersampling, with a GTX580, i5 2500k, 8gb Ram.  I get about 30-40 FPS in combat and really detailed environments, and 55-60 when I'm in caves and houses.  I know it could be worse, but I'd much prefer a stable frame rate through out.  I switched to High for an hour or so at one point, and didn't really notice any major gains in FPS, so I switched back to Ultra.

Now having more experience with the AoE melee talent, it's better, but thanks to somewhat context sensitive attacks (depending on distance and angle and whatnot) and the faulty targeting system, it still doesn't allow for the reactive precision and control I expect. Instead of being in full control of every swing, it's more like riding a barely broken-in horse without saddle. It goes in the general direction I want to, but often bucks or just doesn't do exactly what I want and need it to do.

The Witcher 2's melee combat mechanics are its achilles heel. It's close to 'perfection', except for that one beefy flaw (all the other flaws are rather minute).

I hate that no matter what I do I can't register my copy.

Nothing I really hated about the game, but all the cities were a bit meh.

Journal being written in third person bothers me a little.

Parry. My best form of defense is the Sign and/or Dodging. 
They should have given parry it's own kind of mechanism. Now I don't parry because I want to keep the Vigor for Signs.
Plus you have to stand still, worst thing to do - against virtually anything - in Witcher 2 is standing still.

Journal being written in third person bothers me a little.

Parry. My best form of defense is the Sign and/or Dodging. They should have given parry it's own kind of mechanism. Now I don't parry because I want to keep the Vigor for Signs.Plus you have to stand still, worst thing to do - against virtually anything - in Witcher 2 is standing still.

Not being able to drink potions on the fly. 
Surprise boss fights fuck me up for this very reason.