Let me just start by saying I love this game. I have an AMD card with the framerate issue that AMD is currently working to fix. The game still looks good on low.

But I just had to vent when I got to, what appears to be, the final boss in chapter 2.

What the hell were they thinking with this one checkpoint???

Right before the boss fight you fight as a possessed ghost that is virtually indestructible. You could make a meal, get back and still have half health. So it's not like the checkpoint is hard at all, even with the difficulty setting ON hard. It just takes a while to kill things with shields. However, the boss itself is plenty difficult, and because you have to spend 3-5 minutes killing mobs and another 1 or 2 on a mini boss, this trial an error becomes a grievous chore. I'm gonna eventually beat it, but for now, I'm going to vent and wonder if anyone else got hung up at this spot, watching time swirl into a vortex of the most imbalanced checkpoint I've ever seen. What the hell?

Seriously... RPGs, adventures, hell even FPS, all have a checkpoint right before the boss. And most games are a lot easier than the Witcher 2 on hard. Where's the love??

ok, done :)

No, I didn't.

And, no, it's not the end of the Act.

The Draug savepoint? Yes, it's notorious. I think its reasonable to expect this to be fixed in a patch at some point.

Apparently venting helped, I went back and beat it in the first go.

@Revial - glad you didn't have trouble, why'd you tell me it's not the end? You know for a fact I don't know that. :/

@Cyjack - My aim is to have a discussion of the brutal checkpoint. Even more glad to see it's giving others the same trouble as me.

If you complain hard enough at the boss he stops bum rushing you at the beginning when it's still loading. :)

I screamed so hard when he started the first 2 battles with 2 clean hits. He just rammed me as the fight loaded, and again as I was getting up. And in the back of my head I knew what I'd have to do.

EDIT : I didn't actually scream, I just spoke in sarcasm like all nerds do. "YEAH! GREAT CHECKPOINT!"

That's pretty much the entire discussion. Its a brutal, poorly placed checkpoint. Everyone who has played the game is aware of it, and I doubt anyone would disagree. Its well covered territory around here.