Hints
- How to use RED Tools:
1) Back up the existing base_scripts.dzip in your installed game's [CookedPC]
2) Make two folders: one for the [existing base_scripts] and another for the [mod's base_scripts]
3) Drop each base_scripts.dzip on Gibbed.RED.Unpack.exe, and you'll get a [base_scripts] folder in each
4) Find the modded files in the mod's [base_scripts] folder and copy them into the existing [base_scripts] folder, overwriting as you go.
5) Drop the new existing [base_scripts] folder onto Gibbed.RED.Pack.exe to make a new base_scripts.dzip
6) Replace the base_scripts.dzip in [CookedPC] in your game's install folder.
- Saving:
- I'll only mention this once: Save often.
- Quick Save before every conversation. It'd suck to screw one up only to have to reload from a slot you saved an hour or more ago.
- Unlike the previous game, there is a quick save slot, so I do recommend making a "hard" save every now and again.
- Save just before choosing sides in Chapter I, so you don't have to repeat everything if you want to see how the other half lives.
- Save your final save game. You can import it into The Witcher 3, and your choices will affect many of the side-quests, and some other subtle options. Keep old final saves in sepearte folders with descriptive names, and possibly a readme.txt describing your choices in that playthrough.
- Combat:
- Use your Signs and Potions often. They make combat easier, especially on the higher difficulty levels.
- You can't drink in combat, so be sure to prep for battles through the Meditation menu.
- On higher difficulties, spend more time dodging than attacking.
- Leveling:
- Enemies level up at the same rate as you do, so the game is consistently challenging. This also means you need to keep your gear upgraded.
- Enemeis respawn, so you can grind out a few levels every now and again if you like.
- Loot:
- I haven't made a guide to any gear or items because the list would be huge, and the game has a good way of comparing stuff. If you do everything, you'll find the "best" stuff anyway.
- Money (Orens) is scarce in this game, so loot everything and sell it to vendors.
- The game won't let you sell a quest item.
- Different vendors buy and sell different things, so be sure look around for different types of vendors to sell stuff to.
- Unlike the previous game, Trophies are carried by Geralt indefinitely, and endow him with bonuses.
- Gameplay:
- Read the manual.
- On higher difficulties, you need to Meditate first before you can distribute Talent Points.
- Only some skills can be Mutated. To do so, look for a skill with a small circle on it, then press the assigned key to open up a menu. Pick a Mutagen from the list.
- When following an NPC who's talking, you may be attacked as you go. The sounds of battle can make the conversation impossible to hear. Therefore, stop moving while the conversation goes on, and only advance when there's no talking.
- The decisions you make in this game have very little bearing on The Witcher 3. Just some minor dialog, really.
- System:
- Read the books before you play the game. The game takes place 5 years after the books, and they give some great background for the games. There are many times where you'll recognize characters and history, where you'd be lost otherwise.
- There is no save editor. I recommend using the mods above and just not selling stuff.
- To get rid of the grainy graphic effect go to C:\Users\User\Documents\Witcher 2\Config\ and edit User.ini, then set AllowSharpen=0
- Also set UberSampling=0 in the same place as above.
last modified 25 June 2020