That boss fight with the kikimor warriors, et. al. (the one shown in the Utube movie) can be completely skipped by attacking the Salambra base camp in the northeast section of the swamp (where the squirrel camp used to be). It's a much easier fight, since no more than one or two enemies can get to you as long as you stay on the wooden walkway. I beat it on my second try (ver. 2.04). First time through the mage's effreet got me from behind. Turns out the salamander fighters are extremely vulnerable to Aard attacks.
i wanted to remove the need for excessive grinding by increasing experience rewards for killed enemies. it works just fine but was prepared for initial versions of the mod - 1.xy. later versions are harder and thus grinding helps. its not necessary in version 2.04 if you know how to fight. higher level makes player mistakes forgivable. i play only with mod 3.03 and beside act 1 i didnt intentionaly level upped (not that it was necessary, i just like to do it. bad habit from action RPGs), but when seeing some enemy i dont avoid it/him, i always engage everything i see on swamps. this is usually enough but fighting on swamps is time consuming. to be honest you'll get better results (less time spent) by gringing a bit in vyzima sewers and avoiding drowners and other low exp enemies.from my experience its possible to finish version 3.03 without grinding at all but you need to know the mod, strengths and vulnerabilities of every enemy, methods, strategies, optimal character development, game mechanics etc. version 3.03 is easy when you know how to play it. the moment one struggle with each enemy is only caused by players' experience with the game, not by geralts' experience.. original game without the mod have all these complicated mechanics and possibilities but most of them were never used because its completely unnecessary. people never made black blood potion other then from curiosity, now
with this mod poeple discover what this game really has to offer in terms of combat.DanConnors said:
The wine celler, temple district, 4 Graviers, 3 bottles of rare wine. One Igni blast, the Graviers scatter to the 4 quarters of the room affected by fear. Close on one, hack it to pieces. The other 3 regroup, try again. One more Igni blast scatters them. Hack up another. Repeat till all are dead. It's really wierd how powerfully undead creatures are affected by the fear improvement in the Igni sign.
I have a question flash. at first i installed the 2.04 medium version (way too hard ) 
so i removed it and installed the 1.04 easy version, now i already had saved with the 2.04 but now that im using 1.04 the difficulty dosnt seem like its changed, so would a save with 2.04 conflict with 1.04? it would really suck if it does and i hope i make sense here.BTW what about a blocking mechanic? it might be difficult to add but man it would be priceless!
so i removed it and installed the 1.04 easy version, now i already had saved with the 2.04 but now that im using 1.04 the difficulty dosnt seem like its changed, so would a save with 2.04 conflict with 1.04? it would really suck if it does and i hope i make sense here.BTW what about a blocking mechanic? it might be difficult to add but man it would be priceless!as written in changlog in first post of the topic, list of changes in mod version 1.04 and 2.04 differ only with this feature:- dealt damage increased to 150-200% of original valueif you installed mod 1.04 on top of 2.04 everything should work perfectly with newly spawned enemies (not those you already have in line of sight in savegame). depending where you are in the game the difference might be unnoticable because ie. first monsters dealing increased damage starts to appear in act 2.if the game is too hard with mod version 1.04 there's easy solution. mod is modular and you can choose its content. there are changes to swords, armors, enemies, skills etc.just read the changelog and decide removing of which part might help you:
i'll specify which file is responsible for each change. you'll customise the mod for your need.
im open for suggestions but i dont know what do you mean. please describe your idea.
Finally finished the "Blue eyes" quest. Not sure how you managed to fight both the knights AND the vampires, but I took on the vamps, since it's the more challenging encounter. Black blood didn't work too well here, but the Igni (with fear) sign did. Split them up. Blizzard saved my bacon here, that and white honey. The first 4 times through (mod 2.04) I got up to 3 of them before blizzard wore off and the boss lady got me. On the 5th run when blizzard expired, I took a white honey, followed immediately by another blizzard. I had already discovered I couldn't I couldn't close with the top vamp (she does something that kills me very quickly). But I had Igni'd her down to about 1/3 her hit points. One good Aard blast floored her, and then she died. Completely unrelated here, but did you not modify Moa (queen of the royal wyverns)? After working through the royals--each of them a real challenge--Moa went down very fast.
what i mean by blocking mechanic is a button or a combination of buttons pressed causes geralt to raise his sword and take no damage or half damage instead of full damage oh and we need sheaths great mod btw flash!Oh and i cant get the walk function to work when i bind it to a key geralt just moves forward at his jogging speed.
oh and we need sheaths great mod btw flash!Oh and i cant get the walk function to work when i bind it to a key geralt just moves forward at his jogging speed.walking only works in OTS - TPP view. are you sure you use correct camera. there are other methods to walk using other camera modes.i guess it should be possible to implement this blocking the same way as fistfight active dodge works. even if it would be possible and im not sure it is, i dont see the reason for this feature. dodging works fine as it is.yea, i know about sheats. one day i might try to do it. its one of the hardest things to do now.Practiti0ner said:what i mean by blocking mechanic is a button or a combination of buttons pressed causes geralt to raise his sword and take no damage or half damage instead of full damage
Yea now that i really think about it, a blocking mechanic would be pointless... maybe slow down the turn rate on enemies... so that when you jump over them you have some time to attack without being hit.Okay i found out where i have the trouble at.. its the health on enemies, its just too much every fight is a boss fight, is there a way to eliminate there health boosts without taking away there damage, hit chance and everything else?
i would have to make another version of the mod. i can do it but cant promise exactly when. you could play with unchanged swords. this way you'll have up to +130% more damage with sihill for example. thats more then twice as fast killing. just dont install "swords change/override/" folder. other thing is that ammount of enemy health is just an initial shock after playing original game. you'll quickly get used to it and probably even think 1.04 is too easy.act 1 ghouls takes so much time because you use steel not silver sword..
No no theres no need to make another version just because i cant hack it lol dont get me wrong i do love the difficulty change its just that every fight is like a boss fight, i will get use to it. And my current status is on act 3 and the swamp is a dreaded place now lol but i will get use to it, i need to find one more rune of my silver sword for a much needed uprgrade, and i need to know more about the game in order to survive, which im sure i will thanks flash.
thanks flash.Try fist fighting the champ boxer at the New Narakort inn. He coughs up a blue rune stone as one of your prize possibilities. Hope you didn't fight him already.....
Hmm..not sure which fight you are showing there. I haven't reached Chapter 4 yet.
Aloha fellow adventurers. I'm using this mod for two days now and all I can say is: It's great! Thank you!But I think, Geralt is a bit weak at the offense so I'd like to uninstall the sword modifications. Greedy as I am, I want to keep the new sword modells and only get rid of the lowered damage.Which file(s) do I have to delete? Maybe "weapon_abl.lua"? And will this give Geralt more horsepower instantly or do I have to start over?
I'm using this mod for two days now and all I can say is: It's great! Thank you!But I think, Geralt is a bit weak at the offense so I'd like to uninstall the sword modifications. Greedy as I am, I want to keep the new sword modells and only get rid of the lowered damage.Which file(s) do I have to delete? Maybe "weapon_abl.lua"? And will this give Geralt more horsepower instantly or do I have to start over?thank you for kind wordsdeleting weapon_abl.lua will bring original weapons damage back. uti files are responsible for models but also for item descriptions so you'll have upgraded item descriptions with removed bonus to damage. thats only cosmetic inconvenience but a word of warning is necessary.
its should work instantly. in worst scenario it will start working with new sword, not the one currently wielded.
Thanks for the answer, Flash.The item descriptions don't seem to work anyway since I'm using a german installation with english voices only. Geralt wields a meteorite sword (2 reds and 1 blue) at the moment but the description says "damage: +20%" and "pain: +10%" and if I got it right you removed the damage bonus from the meteorites and replaced it with something else, right?