EAKendalP: How can you say that the game is too Easy?

I started playing at Hard and made it through to Chapter 1. Then when I tried to do a quest called "Malena", where you are to go into a cave and see what happend to 2 guards, I just flipped out how impossible it is. I died like 15 times and I even swaped to Normal difficulty and still died.

In the cave you will gett attacked by about 15-20 Nekkers at once and it is inpossible almost.

1: if you try to focus down 1 of them then all of the others will run you over and you die in 1 sec.

2: if you gett hit in the back from one of the bigger once (Nekker warriors) then you will die instantly sinc you take backstap damage of +200 % if not more.

3: You don't have time to place a Trap or Sign sinc they catches up to you and kill you since you stand still,

Now I managed to kill them all after I had done some other quests in between but I'd say it was more becaus of luck. The luck that they sepperated 1 and 1 after I ran around abit and the luck that more then 1-3 ran into my explosive trap.

However this isn't the big thing I'll whine about.

I just did the Endrega Contract quest where you are too destroy 3 coccones to spawn an Endrega Queen. And you have to kill 2 Queens.

The first one was Hard, I died maby 3-5 times but there was a bugg sort of that when I went into an area the Queen thought I was gone and didn't engage me untill I ran out of it. So I killed her after some time.

However the second one was impossible. I died maby 30 times. First of all I was now playing on Normal since Hard was close to impossible since I died on 1 hitts several times. But the differance isn't in the Damage and I will come to that.

So the tactics for the queen is to Use the Yrden sign to slow here down and then attack as many times you can untill she blocks then you roll away since she will attak you quickly after.

Now this happend to me several times:

1: I attack her after she walks over my Yrden trap untill she blocks. But when she blocks I can't roll away when I want to since I'm in the middle of an swing or somthing so my roll comes to late and I gett hittet and taking 100+ damage and chanse of poison.

2: The Queen blocks and attack at the same time making it impossible to evade it.

3: I engage the queen after she hase walked on my Yrden trap. Durring my attacks Geralt stops attacking for 1.5 sec and runs in the air even if I keep spaming the Mouse. Within this 1.5 sec of non pressure on the queen she attacks me and I take 100+ damage with the chanse of Poison or bleed.

Number 2 and 3 are probubly buggs witch are realy annoying. Nr3 is probubly that Geralt thinks the opponent is far away and has to run to it but when the targget is actioly right in fron of him.

The 1'st problem is just an realy annoying flaw in the game. Parrying and Dodging commands ist prio in the game. If I'm in the start or the middle of an atack swing then Pressing "E" for Parry or "Space" and Direction for Doge wont happen untill he is finished with his attak. This is realy annoying since this has gotten me kille several times. I am about to attak an enemy when I see another one going for an attack on me but I can't block it even if I'm spamming E since I'm in the middle of an attack therfor I gett damaged.


I finally gave up on the Queen and swaped to easy mode where I killed her within a minute since in Easy mode she doesn't block... So boring.


I don't want to be able to glace though the game with eas I wnat an challange but not an impossability.

Parrying/blocking command and Dodge command should be priotaty 1 over any attack and therby interupting any swing in motion to do ither of them.

And another thing is that it is impossible to fight mor ethen 1-2 ebemys at the same time.

At this moment I have died 2 times now from an Nekker Ambush where I gett overrun by 6-8 nekkers and they don't leav me even if I run far away. and I can't kill them for the same reasons I explained in the start.

1: If I attack 1 then 3 attack me.
2: If I gett hit in the back I die alsmost instant
3: I i try to use Quen sign then 3 jumps on me at destroys the sheild instant
4: If I try to place and Yrden Trap on the ground then I gett over run by 4 and die.


So This Game is by far not Easy unless you play on Easy.'

If I am wrong in any of what I am saying then please tell me what I am doing wrong since I have bin trying to find fighting tuturials online but there arn none but 1 fighting vido posed by CDprohect. And in that fighting video he runs around picking them one by one and using aloot of signs. However all off his signs ar at full lvl since they effect more then 1 and are mutch stronger. And in non of them is he over run by 10 Nekkers who are Fast as hell and go clustered in a group. Human enemys are easy but mosnters like Nekkers are impossible when in group.

Goodmongo: So after reading more here and other threads people basically say that the game isn't that hard or even easy "once you know what to do". This is true but for the most part the WHAT just seems like a gimmick to me. For example here are some of the tips where posters say the fights are easy. I'm not doing this to pick on people but to show that the game has issues:

Before the fight lay a dozen traps or so and lead the enemy over them. This one is borderline gimmick to me.

Run in circles and lay a trap once you gain some distance. This is real cheese to me. It just seems extremely silly. If you were chacing someone in real life you would 'cut corners' instead of running in a circle.

Run a short distance and the mob disengages. Run back and hit it again or throw a bomb and run to disengage point. This is also cheesy to me.

A quen spell with two talent points let you stand and face almost any enemy with no tactics now required. This spell takes the game from having to do gimmicks or tactics to overpowered. Coupled with whirl and you no longer have to prepare for any fights.

I can name many other cheese tips or gimmicks for the fights. And THAT is the problem for me. Early on I have to resort to these gimmicks till I get some talents and then I never have to do any tactics. This is the balance issue I was referring to.

We as players play two different ways during the game. Early on we gimmick our way through fights and later on we just blast our way through. I guess I would have preferred a consistent style where the difference in winning or losing depended upon your preperations. Did you use potions? Did you enchant your gear/weapons. Did you use oils.

EAKendalP: But I am rather curius to when you say that I shouldn't block and just run around and fight them all from the front. BEcaus it still doesn't help since I can only hit 1 at a time unless I am at an highe enuff lvl to have the Group Talent from the tree. Or am I missing somthing? Trust me I have tried several times but still no use.

KenR7A: Busted!!!!

Freewind: I just check my character: I only use 4 skills for basic witcher training, adds 3 more skills on Magic paths, I do have lv2 quen, and 3 vigor points by lv 7