Save import - the Wild Hunt question

[pomor]

Save import - the Wild Hunt question

When I import TW1 saves, I always use the manual save done on the courtyard, just before the final conversation with Dandelion, that finishes the game - the last possible moment. So the game should remember if I killed the Wild Hunt or not.
Also, in all my saves I have killed that ghost. I noticed that during the conversation with Cynthia, about Wild Hunt and amnesia, Geralt states that he had met the Wild Hunt the second time, and killed it.
I just stared to wonder, has anybody gone through this conversation while using using TW1' save with spared Wild Hunt, or without save import at all? Was the conversation any different?

 

[Kindo.824]

That plot flag is unfortunately not imported into TW2, so Geralt is always assumed to have fought and slain him ("it").

To clarify, the only plot states that are carried over from TW1 to TW2, are which faction Geralt sided with at the end of Chapter IV (Neutral/Order/Scoia'tael), whether Adda is alive or dead, and now, since EE, if custody of Alvin was given to Shani or Triss. It's unfortunate that so little from the first game matters in the second, but aside from a few snags, it's not that much of a distraction in the end.

 

[crygie]

To clarify, the only plot states that are carried over from TW1 to TW2, are which faction Geralt sided with at the end of Chapter IV (Neutral/Order/Scoia'tael), whether Adda is alive or dead, and now, since EE, if custody of Alvin was given to Shani or Triss. It's unfortunate that so little from the first game matters in the second, but aside from a few snags, it's not that much of a distraction in the end.

Wait.... What, when was that in the game?

 

[Kindo.824]

Wait.... What, when was that in the game?

It's a minor thing, but weighty nonetheless. Since version 3.0 (Enhanced Edition), the import feature also reads whether you gave Alvin to Shani or not. If you did, you get a nice little journal entry on everyone's favourite medic, once you start a new game of TW2. It's most likely a response to all those complaints, before, that Shani is not mentioned even once during the whole course of TW2, despite the fact that she was a romance option in TW1. It was reported in this thread.

 

[crygie]

It's a minor thing - since version 3.0 (Enhanced Edition), the import feature also reads whether you gave Alvin to Shani or not. If you did, you get a nice little journal entry on everyone's favourite medic. It's most likely a response to all those complaints, before, that Shani is not mentioned even once during the whole course of TW2, despite the fact that she was a romance option in TW1.

Oh Ya, I remembered that. I thought they added that to the game in patches before the EE. I was worried for a sec that I had missed a quest.

 

[SystemShock7]

You didn't kill the Wild Hunt. you fought a wraith of the Wild Hunt, which is supposed to be an avatar of the Wild Hunt... even so, wraiths cannot be killed, only sent back to wherever is it they come.

 

[Kindo.824]

You didn't kill the Wild Hunt. you fought a wraith of the Wild Hunt, which is supposed to be an avatar of the Wild Hunt... even so, wraiths cannot be killed, only sent back to wherever is it they come.

Semantics.

Geralt fought and defeated the King of the Wild Hunt's spectral apparition.

 

[emberstrife]

That plot flag is unfortunately not imported into TW2, so Geralt is always assumed to have fought and slain him ("it").

To clarify, the only plot states that are carried over from TW1 to TW2, are which faction Geralt sided with at the end of Chapter IV (Neutral/Order/Scoia'tael), whether Adda is alive or dead, and now, since EE, if custody of Alvin was given to Shani or Triss. It's unfortunate that so little from the first game matters in the second, but aside from a few snags, it's not that much of a distraction in the end.

It also carries over whether you saved Thaler and whether you killed Yaevinn or Sigfried(Yaevinn's life unlocks dialogue with Iorveth, Sigfried's death makes the Order camp outside Loc Muinne's walls hostile).

I found it most surprising that giving Aldersberg's body to the Wild Hunt at the end of the first game has no impact whatsoever. Considering the Wild Hunt's true nature and ultimate goal in the books, handing over an Elder Blood carrier to them would potentially doom humanity - and yet it's brushed off as meaningless personal preference in the end.

 

[dragonbird]

It also carries over whether you saved Thaler and whether you killed Yaevinn or Sigfried(Yaevinn's life unlocks dialogue with Iorveth, Sigfried's death makes the Order camp outside Loc Muinne's walls hostile).

I found it most surprising that giving Aldersberg's body to the Wild Hunt at the end of the first game has no impact whatsoever. Considering the Wild Hunt's true nature and ultimate goal in the books, handing over an Elder Blood carrier to them would potentially doom humanity - and yet it's brushed off as meaningless personal preference in the end.

Maybe it's going to have an impact in TW3.
That'll make a lot of people have to go back and play all the games again.

 

[Kindo.824]

It also carries over whether you saved Thaler and whether you killed Yaevinn or Sigfried(Yaevinn's life unlocks dialogue with Iorveth, Sigfried's death makes the Order camp outside Loc Muinne's walls hostile).

No, it doesn't. Thaler is always alive in TW2, and Siegfried is only considered alive if you sided with the Order in TW1. Even though you can avoid killing him if you went the Neutral path, the game assumes you killed him.

• Adda Alive/Dead
• Geralt went Neutral/Order/Scoia'tael
• Alvin handed to Shani/Triss

That is all.