Ok. Yeah, given how far I've played already I'm not going to start over, so I'll just finish the vanilla. Still, good to know for future reference and it's good to hear the combat is improved in W3. All the rolling around on the floor is a bit weird/annoying. It makes sense in a game like Ninja Gaiden, but for Geralt ... I'm not so sure.

I apologise for the late reply, yes, Melitele's Heart is the quest I was referring to. It triggers during the prologue (if a certain condition is met) and carries over into Chapter I. Not that difficult, but certainly worthwhile. For me it wasn't so much about the reward as it was about the story behind it.

In Chapter III you will reach my favourite location in the game (and of the best overall in the series), a place where two worlds collide and contrast. I always had the feeling that this area will never truly belong to those claiming it during the events of The Witcher 2. The Epilogue only enforced that belief even further.

Ok, that sounds good. I'm still in Chapter 2 and I recently found the caves underneath the Kaedweni camp and I've been exploring through there. On the beach at the back I found a wrecked ship, which looks like it might be related to the 'Mystic River' quest from Chapter 1, although there doesn't seem to be anything there I can interact with (despite there being a chest sitting right in front of it).

Also, it looks like there is another little area of the camp with some tents behind the area where the Kaedweni nobles are. I don't seem to be able to get there though, as it's behind a big gate I can't open and from the beach side there is a barricade that I can't pass. Will I be able to access that at a later point?

It also seems that I can row out to Roche's ship, but there apparently isn't anything to do there. So, there are a few odd things around the Kaedweni camp that are puzzling me a bit atm.

Yes, you will be able to access that area at a later stage of the story.

Ok, thanks for the hint!

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Let's see how much longer CD Projekt RED can ignore the will of the fans.

I can give you my take on Achievements, but many people may find it very odd.

I absolutely hate achievements and Microsoft for inventing them. I think they ruin games. How? Here's an example:
Devs in some generic interview: We've worked hard to let players play the game in any way they wish, all paths are valid.

Also Devs: Finish the game on insane difficulty, while wearing a pink dress, using only a wrench and a particular skill tree only. If you do not, there will be this annoying progress bar telling you that you've not completed the game. Game completion is tracked not by mission number or any sort of logical in game goal, but purely on whether or not you wore that pink dress. Pray you never accidentally take it off during the game.

As a completionist, with some mild OCD, I get VERY annoyed by some stupid achievement tracker using the term "Game completion". I may have finished all optional objectives and found all secrets, etc, but I dared to not wear that pink dress. So now I'm obligated to play games that one pre-determined way, instead of the way I wish. Achievements have turned games into a secondary job, instead of entertainment.

I respect Studios like Telltale games where all achievements are simply chapter counters or something like that. If you actually beat the game, you will be done. If I was a game developer, I would make a game with a single achievement awarded for clicking "New Game", just to mock this concept.

Now I realise that a part of this hatred is my own fault, for not being able to ignore these stupid trackers, but I feel true freedom and relief whenever I play some old PC game that does not have them.

Very much agree. Achievements suck. One of the very, very (VERY!) many benefits to not using GOG's bloatware is that I don't have those blasted achievements in any of the Witcher games (and probably many others). They are usually badly done, stears people into this, that and the other direction, and the game becomes more about ticking boxes than actually playing the darn game. The world was a better place before that curse was invented. And of course other curses too, like gambling boxes, micro transactions, and all the other BS gaming companies come up with to lure more money out of easily fooled (or too young to know) consumers.

I just dont care about acheivements. If tbeyre good and the game itself is really good it can be a fun way to add replay value as long as theyre not too insane. I guess its different for someone who played for decades before they existed, so I can understand a person that always had them available missing them.

In this case its not so much about the acheivements themselves as it is about the game missing a feature on the devs own platform that is available on others. Youd think you would get more for supporting their platform, or at least not be missing features.