The Witcher

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Not to be a spoiler but, I'm told that the Czech (pretty close to Polish AFAIK) translation was butchered too.
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[cegorach]

Hmm that is strange Sapkowski's novels (about the Witcher) were translated to Czech years ago - strange they didn't use the opportunity - it would be so easy...

Hell... maybe they will learn for Witcher 2 or any expansion which surely will follow the success of this game.


EDIT - Polish and Czech are similar, but any translation is not without certain hazards.. to say the least a number of words has extremely different (and sometimes offensive) meaning and it is very easy to create an unintended comedy of the most grim or tragic situations because both languages seem work perfectly as parodies of each other...

[Bob the Insane]

Okay, a little help here please...

The Beast is kicking my butt... I have had no real issues in any fights up to now, but after numerous tries it is clear that I must have missed something in my preperation for the fight (of which I admittedly did little)...

I am playing on medium...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I elected to take the witch's side against the villagers if that makes any difference

[AggonyDuck]

Siding with the witch makes the whole the Beast thingy a lot harder. I personally struggled for a long while with the battle. From what I've read there are a couple of alternatives to deal with it. The first is to hope that you get lucky with the Aard sign and manage to knockdown/stun it and then follow up with a coup de grace. The other option is to concentrate on the hounds that attack Abigail and protect her. She should keep healing you every now and then, which should be enough to allow you to battle against the beast, especially if you have drunk a Swallow potion. Additionally there's one skill you can purchase that makes you immune to pain when intoxicated, which is very useful for this battle. Either way it's a frustratingly hard battle.

[Bob the Insane]

Thanks...

[Xiahou]

RE: The Beast

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First thing- you don't need to keep Abigail "alive" during the fight with the beast. If she gets knocked down, she'll be up and alive again for the next segment. For me, the fight got alot easier once I realized I didn't need to protect her.

I thought the Beast was kinda cheesy, so I decided to get cheesy to beat him. I drank a swallow, a tawny owl, and started running in circles around the flaming ring until both bars (health/endurance) were full. Then I turned around and hit him with a flame sign and ran again til my health was full. Rinse and repeat until he's dead. In my case, when he was 3/4 dead, I switched signs and managed to stun him, but I could've kept on with the same tactic and killed him the other way too. If you get agony on you and get stunned, it's because you ran too close to the flames. Don't do that.

I think the easiest thing to do would've probably been to make the spectre oil (whatever its called) and use that on your blade to pwn him. But, I didn't have the foresight to learn to make oils prior to the battle, so it wasn't an option for me.

Incidentally, another time saver I found it that you can actually pull off a quicksave right before the fight with the Beast starts, so you don't have to keep watching the cutscenes over and over if you die.

I've gotta say, after playing this game for awhile longer, my opinion of it has only improved since my earlier comments. A thoroughly enjoyable game.

[Kekvit Irae]

After playing it more, I have come to the conclusion that I totally gimped my skills. I may have to restart, and I HATE Chapter 1. :(

[alman7272]

RE: The Beast

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

First thing- you don't need to keep Abigail "alive" during the fight with the beast. If she gets knocked down, she'll be up and alive again for the next segment. For me, the fight got alot easier once I realized I didn't need to protect her.

I thought the Beast was kinda cheesy, so I decided to get cheesy to beat him. I drank a swallow, a tawny owl, and started running in circles around the flaming ring until both bars (health/endurance) were full. Then I turned around and hit him with a flame sign and ran again til my health was full. Rinse and repeat until he's dead. In my case, when he was 3/4 dead, I switched signs and managed to stun him, but I could've kept on with the same tactic and killed him the other way too. If you get agony on you and get stunned, it's because you ran too close to the flames. Don't do that.

I think the easiest thing to do would've probably been to make the spectre oil (whatever its called) and use that on your blade to pwn him. But, I didn't have the foresight to learn to make oils prior to the battle, so it wasn't an option for me.

I did this as well :) I'm not sure...but I may have also used Blizzard (an extremely useful potion that I wish I had a lot more of)

Really, what's absolutely key is potions believe it or not. And a recommendation: get the toxicity removal potion...it helps A LOT.