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General discussion (archive)New release: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut(236 posts)(236 posts)
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Posted May 10, 2011
We've been announcing this to all and sundry, but if you still didn't know - The Witcher Enhanced Edition is now available on GOG.com! And because, we here at GOG.com like to stir things a little, so to show you how much we love The Witcher franchise we’re running a two week promo starting now.

Before venturing into [url=http://www.gog.com/tw2]The Witcher 2 world and continuing Geralt’s epic story, stop by and check out how it all began with the award winning CD Projekt RED's foray into PC game development. The Witcher is an action-RPG, based on a best selling fantasy saga written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The game features the titular witchers who are monster hunters for hire with supernatural powers. You will be controlling Geralt, one of the witchers, in the rich, deep and enthralling medieval fantasy world created by Sapkowski. Starting the game, Geralt remembers nothing. Kaer Morhen, the last remaining keep of the witchers, was attacked by a mysterious organization, and although the attack has been repulsed the secret recipe for the mutagen, a substance required to create more of your kind, has been stolen. You know what you have to do right? To give you a tip, we'll say you will be fighting ferocious monsters with the help of a revolutionizing and award winning combat system and saving damsels in distress.

During the next two weeks we have a special promo and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut is available for you with a 50% discount and will cost you only 4.99$! Can you really resist such great deal?
Posted May 10, 2011
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TheCheese33: Word of advice for those about to jump in...
The first few acts of this game are fucking garbage. Give it time, though, and it gets good. Really, really good.
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Kingoftherings: The only part I didn't like was the swamps. Everything else in that act was good, but I dreaded going to the swamps. It gets tiresome having to kill drowners over and over to get anywhere.

The rest of the game is awesome. I liked Act 1 and everything.
I'm at that part now. Isn't there a scarf or ring that repels drowners? I know I have it but I didn't bring it with me.
IMO Chapter I is good but Chapter II gives you a lot more quests and conversations.
Post edited May 10, 2011 by OmegaX
Posted May 10, 2011
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Kingoftherings: The only part I didn't like was the swamps. Everything else in that act was good, but I dreaded going to the swamps. It gets tiresome having to kill drowners over and over to get anywhere.

The rest of the game is awesome. I liked Act 1 and everything.
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OmegaX: I'm at that part now. Isn't there a scarf or ring that repels drowners? I know I have it but I didn't bring it with me.
IMO Chapter I is good but Chapter II gives you a lot more quests and conversations.
Yeah there is. Kalkstein sells it if I remember rightly.
Posted May 10, 2011
The drowners were an excellent source of alchemy ingredients if you ask me - and so easy to kill as well. If you use magic, they're hardly a nuisance at all.
Posted May 10, 2011
Post edited May 10, 2011 by thewishingwell
Posted May 10, 2011
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thewishingwell: ADDX-387G-TWJS-DQES
Good luck to whoever comes after me to fetch the code. Please say thanks to tww. (I'm not interested, I'll buy the game when the price goes back to normal)
Post edited May 10, 2011 by Miaghstir
Posted May 10, 2011
Just bought The Witcher - the best Polish games since Rezerwowe Psy :-)
Posted May 10, 2011
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thewishingwell: ADDX-387G-TWJS-DQES
Thank you so much, tww! I greatly appreciate it! :)

This game has been on my to-buy list for a while.
Post edited May 10, 2011 by AvistTorch
Posted May 10, 2011
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Thiev: You can re-download the 4th part through browser.
Or, remove the game from downloader and try adding it again.
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Arteveld: Yeah, i'll do it the oldschool way, browserwise.
Though this should be looked into, in the future releases of GOG Downloader, an option, to retry merging, and be double sure, that chunks are deleted after merging. Hope GOG sees this. ;)

Anyhow, it's been tested.:P
I have been having this problem a lot (unmerged files, downloader shows complete and ready to install, but install obviously doesn't work), and it seems that the fix is to remove it from the downloader (but KEEP THE FILES), and simply hit the "add to downloader" link again. Took two tries once, but it has always worked to complete the merge.

You may need to exit the downloader (not just the 'X' button, but also choose exit from the notification-area icon's menu) before re-adding it.
Posted May 10, 2011
Buying it as I type this.

Edit: Got it. Now I'll restart my laptop on Windows and download it using GOG's brand new downloader. Oh and by the way, it would be nice to have an OS X compatible downloader.

Anyway, thank you CD Projekt for this fantastic site.
Post edited May 10, 2011 by MOGEnrique
Posted May 10, 2011
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Legacy: I just bought this (again, just because it's DRM free!) and had my first experience with the new downloader.

The downloader is downloading full throttle at 6MB/s (awesome), but wow... Seriously? It's also combining parts, and crc checking *at the same time*? Three disk-intensive activities at once? My poor poor hard drive actuator arm. :(

Can we get an option to not have everything happen at once? I could imagine if this happened on someone's laptop with a single 4200 RPM drive and a small amount of RAM requiring frequent swapping to the page file. The downloader would probably bring the machine to its knees...

Great game though, and a great value. Thanks GOG! :)
I have not tested this, but it may do less if you reduce it to a single concurrent download in the options. That option may just control # of threads.

(Note that downloading multiple chunks at once is going to require bouncing around the disk as well, even if it waited to do the combine . . . and the CRC checking can actually be done against the download stream, no need to re-read from the disk [haven't monitored it to see if that's what it's doing].)
Posted May 10, 2011
Oh is the Witcher out today? You should have made more of a fuss. ;)
Posted May 10, 2011
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Curunauth: I have been having this problem a lot (unmerged files, downloader shows complete and ready to install, but install obviously doesn't work), and it seems that the fix is to remove it from the downloader (but KEEP THE FILES), and simply hit the "add to downloader" link again. Took two tries once, but it has always worked to complete the merge.

You may need to exit the downloader (not just the 'X' button, but also choose exit from the notification-area icon's menu) before re-adding it.
Ha! I was thinking about doing that, but decided the Downloader is buggy and needs some tweaks, and that was all i wanted to test actually. ;) I'll stick with browser downloads for the time being. Thanks for the info though.;)
Posted May 10, 2011
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Curunauth: I have been having this problem a lot (unmerged files, downloader shows complete and ready to install, but install obviously doesn't work), and it seems that the fix is to remove it from the downloader (but KEEP THE FILES), and simply hit the "add to downloader" link again. Took two tries once, but it has always worked to complete the merge.

You may need to exit the downloader (not just the 'X' button, but also choose exit from the notification-area icon's menu) before re-adding it.
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Arteveld: Ha! I was thinking about doing that, but decided the Downloader is buggy and needs some tweaks, and that was all i wanted to test actually. ;) I'll stick with browser downloads for the time being. Thanks for the info though.;)
Heh, yeah, it's always that last test you decide not to bother with that actually solves the darn problem. I did that this past weekend fixing an unstable system upgrade - took all day and in the end it was a simple fix I'd thought of in the first 15 minutes but decided not to test because another method seemed more promising *facepalm*.
Posted May 10, 2011
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" The day is finally here! One, two! One, two! And through and through! Time to make my vorpal blade go snicker-snack!
Posted May 10, 2011
Did your confirmation emails say the cost was $9.99 or $4.99?

I bought this at the same time as TW2 and it says $9.99 in my confirmation email....
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