What do you think should be top priority for patch 1.4? Here's my personal top 5:

5.) Fix for "Input not recognized" Bug

Of all bugs left in the game, this is the one I'd recommend to fix first. A lot of people are affected and it occurs throughout the entire game, so it's a pretty common bug. I guess for those affected it pretty much ruins combat, and thus hurts the gameplay experience a lot. Also, a bug that, in the long run, causes you to die makes the insane difficulty utterly useless. For more information, There's a bug description in the List of known Bugs, including links to several threads the bug has been discussed in.
Since I'm not affected myself (doesn't seem to occur a lot for gamepads) this one's only on 5th position.

4.) Fixes concerning Navigation

While some of the most pressing issues have been fixed concerning the inventory, navigation hasn't seen any improvements at all so far. Most important fix would be, of course, to enable the player to figure out where he's going without trial-and-error - which could either be done by adding a north-marker to the automap, or by making it non-rotational. Furthermore, the maps themselves need to be revised badly: there are several places where the automap and the big map don't match (e.g. Flotsam forest). Also, on some maps it's difficult to figure out which parts are the accessible ones and which parts are the solid (rock, etc.) ones, for example in the areas around Vergen.

3.) Improvements for Alchemy

While it was a very attractive feature in the first Witcher, alchemy is considerably less useful and attractive in The Witcher 2: potion effects wear of very quickly, while it is way more bothersome to drink potions. The re-drink potion button I suggested in another thread could serve as a partial solution for both problems. Apart from that, potions should last longer, the drinking animation should be shorter, skipable, and meditation should automatically quit after drinking potions.

2.) Improved Game Balance / Difficulty

While it is certainly a matter of opinion whether normal is too easy or too difficult (and I don't see any reason to change something there), most people will probably agree that the difficulty is quite inconsistent throughout the game, and that the later chapters are way easier than the earlier ones. To fix this I'd suggest to tune down chapter 2/3 equipment a bit and make the late-game monsters more powerful and numerous. Also, experience is gained too quickly, especially near the end of chapter 2, making Geralt reach the level cap quite early.

1.) Improvements for XBox 360 Controller

Obviously, this one's pretty useless for all Mouse/Keyboard users, but it's my personal favorite: Since it's about my input device, it affects the entire game, even more than user interface issues. Also, this stuff will have to be fixed anyways during development of the XBox 360 version of the game. I've posted details about the most important improvements before. To sum it up: Rumble should be supported, analogue sticks should be supported properly, Triggers should be more responsive, and the Back-Button should actually be used.

There are many small things I could mention, but I will prioritize:

1. Fix bomb bug
2. We need hotkeys to navigate directly from menu to menu, instead of backing out each time.
3. We need to know how much we have of each item in the main UI and the popup menu. This seems like an easy one to implement.
4. Consider tweaking the recovery time between actions, ie; combat tweaks. This would likely take the most effort to fix.

If nothing else but those 4 things were ever addressed, I'd be perfectly happy.

Potion timer should freeze during cutscenes, and the problems that popped up in 1.3 should be fixed (resolution problems, the Flotsam storage problem, and the 3D shadows allegedly being 2D).

More than anything, I want a button that allows Geralt to make obscene gestures toward people. Superficial? Maybe. Incredible? Undoubtedly.

A much needed topic I'd say.

I will repeat the General input issues - whatever we call it and however we try to describe the various elements of the controls (input lag, mouse lag, mouse smoothness, input responsiveness, blah blah), their overall feel and smoothness just isn't right. I'd like to see that fixed - of course, keyboard not reacting at all not withstanding (happened to me temporarily for no visible reason).

One of the things I would like to see fixed is the Dice Poker.
It works relatively fine, but very often I suffer missing icons, and I think the camera angle towards the gameboard isn't that good either.

One time I threw a few dice outside of the board right off the table, and I lost them for the entire game...
I think it should be more like the dice poker in Witcher 1.

As for the Alchemy, can we have secondary ingredients back, like Albedo, Nigredo and Rubedo.
I loved mixing my potions manually and creating potions with more potent effects.

Make mutagens switchable or at least upgradeable by combining a number of less potent mutagens. That would actually give lesser versions some purpose.

Aside from that the top priorities should be control issues and ui functionality. Even the original Witcher's ui is more functional than what they have in place right now. Not to mention, that it looks far prettier. The person responsible for the switch from the originals menu to that generic flash crap should be sacked. I love the game, but in some ways it has really taken leaps backwards.

1) 3D Vision fix for the shadows not being rendered properly.

2) Camera swinging around wildly when you open/close doors.

3) Controls sometimes aren't recognized when sheathing/unsheathing sword.

I disagree with the OP on alchemy.

Gulping potions in the middle of combat, as in TW1, was properly removed from the game. Geralt should prepare himself for combat, not charge in, get hammered, and drink a saving potion.

Potion durations and strengths are about right. If you do not improve, you should expect to get inadequate results. If you spend just 4 talents on improving these, potions become uber, though not so ridiculous as in TW1.

Maybe there could be a separate meditation that is just for drinking potions, and the animation could be skippable.

Did they not fix the control bug in 1.3? Wonderful...

Fix/revamp the UI
Fix bugs and improve control responsiveness
Some new DLC? ^^

Option to enable camera auto-follow, please!

For Christ's sake, no more patches dear CDPR, please! Focus on some epic DLC or expansion.
I have no idea what new "bugs" you have found, but it seems like finding bugs is the only reason you play games. I want to point out that I had absolutely no problems with this game since the very release date, neither a single bug, nor crash.

You are very fortunate, then. But I agree with you: most additional effort for this game should now be going toward a public editor or SDK, DLC, and/or expansions.

There needs to be some continuing effort on problems with controls responsiveness and advanced graphics configurations (3DVision, SLI, Crossfire, Eyefinity).

But the rest of the remaining problems are not even bugs, the problems are with players who are dissatisfied with the game as it was designed and meant to be played.

You are one lucky person or just simply lying.

Because even after 3 patches I've had tons of annoying bugs with the game, and random crashes as well. At the moment it's best if they focus on fixing the bugs for everyone's sake. There are people who haven't even yet played the game because of some serious bugs.

My specs:


AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor
Radeon HD 6800 Series
4 GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-870A-UD3 Motherboard
Windows XP SP 2

I have installed NO mods for TW2. Like I said: No bugs, no crashes, everything runs smoothly. Believe it or not.