Getting hit at beginning of fights

[Reaver129]

Getting hit at beginning of fights

Aside from the combat system in general (which I think is horribly clunky and frustrating), my biggest gripe with this game has to be how unfair the beginnings of fights can be. the way it always seems to go is that you have a conversation, exit the conversation, geralt tries to draw his sword while the enemy already has theirs drawn, and then geralt gets hit at least once before I can dodge or move. It seems to be completely random chance whether I can get away before getting hit at the beginning of any fight after dialogue. This was apparent in the Letho fight, annoying in the fight with Thorak, and insanely unbalanced in the draug fight. I load the game, often with the draug swinging his sword as the game finishes loading and immediately lose anywhere from 25-75% of my health. These scripted fights, on average, require reloading anywhere from 5 to 20 times.

Did they even have play testers for these? I don't have words to describe how frustrating these fights are.

 

[Thothistox]

This doesn't really happen for me. With Letho, for example, I can usually hit him first. I wonder if your rig is just particularly slow or maybe there's a bug that only affects your system.

 

[Mataresa]

I had that problem aswell. especially in the Draug fight. It seems to be the problem, when you have weaker hardware. Apparently the opponent already starts acting before the scene is loaded and we can only do so after it is.

 

[Wizigard]

I have never experienced this and I have played and finished game on dark mode, where being hit few times might sometimes mean death. It might be, as others have said that your PC is just too weak and you need to adjust graphics properly. Some of the advanced options, if activated might drasticly drop framerate or make game stutter. Also try to check if your game is updated. I have heard that earlier non-enhanced versions of both Witcher 1 and 2 tend to perform worse than enhanced versions in terms of loading times so perhaps that may be an issue, or just check for background programs that may drain performance.