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Here is my "first round" of annoyances / bugs / poor design choices
with this game to date.  I partially solved the mystery by which I
started this thread -- my weapons were apparently in a chest outside
the doors where I had to wait until dusk to see Loredo.  Oddly enough,
MY SILVER SWORD IS NOT IN THERE!  So, I'm not wondering if I
accidentally sold it back at the shop?  The game interface seems
conducive to making critical mistakes without realizing it..

Anyway..  aside from that (for which I will assume is my fault for
now), here is my initial list of things that I'm pretty sure are not
my fault, and which are destroying my ability to enjoy this game.  I
can't decide if I want to shelf it until a couple of patches and pick
it up later.  I'm afraid some of this stuff won't be addressed in a
patch:

========== here we go ================

Inventory - just feels poorly designed.  The updates (when I perform
some action) are displayed behind the list of inventory.. kind of like
they designed a nice screen but didn't test it on a 4:3 aspect?  I'm
not sure that's the issue but it makes it very hard to read what I
just did.

Combat updates and tutorial panels... similar to above, so small and
hard to read as to be useless. 


Lock Targeting - Doesn't always work.  Why?  No idea.  This game
leaves you guessing about a lot.  I'd like to just be able to hit a
button and it cycles through targets.  I'm sure there is probably a
logical reason why it doesnt work as I expect but the game makes no
attempt to explain it.


Searching - Is very picky about where I am standing before it gives
the left-click search option..  its a minor annoyance but it occurs so
often that it becomes a larger one.


Daggers (Everything I'm writing here applies to bombs as well) - Ok,
so I have some throwing daggers in the slot ready to throw.  I can
throw them, but only three times.  It still shows the dagger icon in
my throwing slot.  Nothing about the user interface has changed to
indicate I have expended my daggers.  What's worse, nothing in the
original inventory item told me I only had three tries to throw them.
Now I have no daggers but it looks like I do??  wtf!


Generally speaking, all combat aside from basic slashing feels
unintuitive and designed by someone out of touch with how other games
work.


Key bindings - Not being able to do this in-game is extremely
annoying!  What's worse, the manual refers to keys by the specific key
(i.e. "press the R key for that").  This means in order to see what
they are talking about you have to load up the (separate) tool to see
the keybindings, and if you've re-bound them, you must restore to
default (then cancel out) to even see which key they are talking
about.  I know they've said this will be fixed in a patch but as long
as the game has been in development


Grainy graphics - when light hits obstacles, there is what looks like
a "screen" (i.e. mesh) effect on them.  I'm running on  High Spec but
with ubersampling and bloom disabled.  

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Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-20 22:03 -0400
  Re: Witcher 2  question JAB <nochance@nohope.com> - 2011-05-22 07:48 +0100
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    Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 09:46 +0200
  Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-22 19:50 -0400
    Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 11:31 +0200
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        Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 18:30 -0400
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              Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-26 11:30 -0400
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    Re: Witcher 2  question Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-23 07:18 -0400
      Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-23 18:05 +0200
        Re: Witcher 2  question Frank E <fakeaddress@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-23 14:05 -0400
          Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 16:29 -0400
            Re: Witcher 2  question khaight@lefDELETEtistME.org (Kyle Haight) - 2011-05-23 15:57 -0500
              Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 17:43 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 08:15 +0200
                Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 09:37 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 16:51 +0200
                Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-24 19:10 -0500
          Re: Witcher 2  question Werner Punz <werpu@gmx.at> - 2011-05-24 08:09 +0200
      Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-23 23:12 -0400
        Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-24 01:28 -0500
          Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-24 09:38 -0400
            Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-27 20:52 -0400
              Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-27 23:41 -0500
                Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 02:34 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-28 16:11 -0500
                Re: Witcher 2  question Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@gmail.com> - 2011-05-28 17:32 -0400
                Re: Witcher 2  question Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> - 2011-05-29 01:08 -0500
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      Re: Witcher 2  question mcv <mcvmcv@xs4all.nl> - 2011-06-06 11:41 +0000

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