Comments on: Pleasing The Witcher Extras

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:16:32 +0000

Patch 1.2 fixed the loading times, at least for me.

By: Alarik

Alarik — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:02:23 +0000

Still waiting for the promised overahaul, more specifically for that 80% improvement on those insane loading times. Judging from the content of savegame files, there is really a lot of space for improvement (nearly everything seems to be saved in those files – every item description and so on). Even displaying journal parts (for example ingredients or all finished quests) in later chapters takes quite a lot of time until it loads (which is pretty bothersome).

Witcher really appreciates 4 GB or RAM I guess.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:17:56 +0000

That’s a hold-over from Neverwinter Nights and the way it stores saved games. If you patch the game and load a saved game anything you’ve already encountered will be the unpatched version, but any new stuff will be the patched version, e.g. it won’t fix bugs you’ve already run into. The best thing to do is wait until you’re just at the end of one of the Acts then patch the game; it’ll load the new Act fresh.

By: Zuffox

Zuffox — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:52:01 +0000

A thing that makes me cringe even more about the brokenness of the game is that installing the patch 1.3 might void your savegames or at least cause some conflicts eventually.

I might have completed the game from where I stopped playing, after having downloaded the EE, but rebooting?!

By: RLacey

RLacey — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:13:28 +0000

It’s all about the freebies that are supposedly going to be in the new release. Otherwise I’d probably have forked out for this game by now, but as it is I’ll finish up some other ones first.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:01:09 +0000

you can get the enhanced version through a free patch. no need to wait.

Except with a game of this size and scope, I’m likely to only play through it once. So when I finally do get around to playing it, I want the experience to be as complete and bug free as possible. Plus, waiting almost always means that I pick the game up for $20-$30 less than what it was at launch.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:41:54 +0000

But the free patch is best suited to people who had bought the game before they announced the Enhanced Edition – the retail release of same sounded like it was going to have in box fiddly bits the current release doesn’t. Of no actual purpose, of course, but still, if you’ve waited this long to buy the game, why settle for the version that has less in the box when you’re probably not actually going to *play* the game until the EE releases anyway?

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:42 +0000

I already finished the game, with patch 1.1a (and would give it easily 9.5/10, cause I am a sucker for a good rpg, and this one is the best since Vampire Bloodlines, and also few years ago I read all the books and loved them ).

But I will not play it again until all the enhancements are out, that’s what I meant..

By: martin

martin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:36:51 +0000

you can get the enhanced version through a free patch. no need to wait.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:24:27 +0000

Here is one still waiting for the Enhanced Edition, though.Improved translation, reworked inventory, new character models etc. etc. are easily gonna make me finish the game again.

In a way I think they kind of screwed themselves by announcing that so early. There have been a number of times where I’ve seen this game on sale and would probably have bought it had it not been for the thought that the enhanced version is just around the corner.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:22:00 +0000

Still witcher is based on the same system as NWN2 so I forsee awesome offerings from the mod community.

It’s based on the first NWN actually, and at first glance the game editor is very similar to it (You have to model your own areas rather than use tiles but that appears to be the only major difference) so there could be a very good turn out on the mod scene.

The new adventure’s pretty good, if a little straightforward (Pretty much chose your ending five minutes from the finale) but it’s typically Witchery in a “They’re all bastards; who do I help?” way.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:01:02 +0000

Here is one still waiting for the Enhanced Edition, though.Improved translation, reworked inventory, new character models etc. etc. are easily gonna make me finish the game again.