The Witcher

[fantomas]

Originally Posted by Lichbane

Is the Aussie version censored? Also, how do you get past "The Beast" in the first book. That damn hound an his Barghasts keep killing me.

1) Nope. it's the non-censored version

2) From memory (it was several months ago) quickly drinking some pots eg Blizzard & concentrating on the hound first. Took me a few reloads to get it to work.

[Jakob_Pavlov]

Originally Posted by fantomas

2) From memory (it was several months ago) quickly drinking some pots eg Blizzard & concentrating on the hound first. Took me a few reloads to get it to work.

Yeah, it was a few months ago now......but it took me quite a few reloads to get past it.

I used potions and actually concentrated on running around the whole area in circles to give myself some room to manourvre (and not get surrounded), before turning around and taking out one of the smaller "dogs", then I repeated that until I had the big guy on his own.......he wasn't so tough then!

Good Luck!

[hughnme]

I don’t know what got me reading six pages on the witcher!
Anyway, I heard Geoff Green on the GFW podcast shit canning the witcher a few months back just before I was going to buy it ,so it kind of put me off it.With the patches and what not, is it a good buy now you recon ?
Downloading the demo now

[Jigoku]

Originally Posted by Lichbane

Also, how do you get past "The Beast" in the first book. That damn hound an his Barghasts keep killing me.

Aard. Hit the Beast with it. If it is stunned, move in for a one hit kill. If not, double click your way around the screen to jump/flip/pirouette out of range and wait for your endurance to refill. Rinse, repeat. Sounds a bit cheap doesn't it ...

Originally Posted by hughnme

I don’t know what got me reading six pages on the witcher!
Anyway, I heard Geoff Green on the GFW podcast shit canning the witcher a few months back just before I was going to buy it ,so it kind of put me off it.With the patches and what not, is it a good buy now you recon ?
Downloading the demo now

I love it! I did suffer from a bit of "boredom" through Chapter II (it is a very long chapter ...) but after that the story progresses along at a bit better a pace and I have been hooked since. Had some severe slowdowns through Chapter III in the Trade Quarter. It was like it wasn't caching data properly or something. However it never happened anywhere of consequence, like in the middle of a fight for instance. Minor annoyance, easily ignored.

[Corpeces]

I got this game couple of days ago and let me just say...freakin' awesome game! I just put in 45 straight hours with this game and the only reason I stopped playing is cause I had to get at least 4 hours of sleep for work

I also picked up Elder Scroll:Oblivion and I did not find it as fun as Witcher but I am having a blust with it still.

[Torty]

Just an update as not seen this elsewhere here but a release date for Enhanced version has been announced. Starting September 16 (or 19), Your Life Will be Improved, Elevated, Augmented,Enriched Enhanced

I am actually tempted to buy another Collector Edition even though the download will be available for free to existing owners of the game. Read somewhere update would be in order of 2Gb in size.

[Spectre8]

Excellent!! I've been waiting for this version for ages!

[Rog69]

Me too, I bought the game just as they announced the enhanced edition was coming so I've been holding off from installing it, I can't wait to get stuck into it.

[fantomas]

I stopped playing at around chapter 3 while waiting for this to come out. With this & fallout 3 & the new Stalker game, looks like lots of RPG funness!

[ElPresidente]

If you don't want to go the Aard route (which is definitely the easiest way to go) to kill The Beast your other option is to keep the dogs off the healer as your first priority, she will heal both herself and you making the battle much easier as a result.