Gorth

No Half a million corpses in various degrees of decomposing would have been more accurate decoration.

I live in a townhouse with a small 'garden' in the front (flower beds) and a nice enclosed (2m stone wall) backyard, where I can sit in peace and quiet when it isn't too hot, also with roses and a few vines and trees... and of course all the mandatory weeds which are now victims of chemical warfare

To the best of my knowledge, Xard is not prevented from posting anything. The reasons lie elsewhere.

Lucky for him, you're a dog lover DR. It's time to get your doggie ready for on-leash training. Don't forget your poop scoop. I prefer cats over smelly dogs. What I do today? Watch Michigan lose to Penn State. Boo! Cats are superior beings Started the war against weeds in my drive way and my garden today. Fritz Haber would have been proud of my approach. All is fair in love and war against weeds.

Mostly playing The Witcher. What an awesome game Bought Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. "What a pile of Crap" was my first impression. The disk was one of a batch released in North America and Australia that was mastered badly, with all the .exe files missing. Nothing to click, nothing to play, no help on the help pages , faq pages or support pages at either EA and Mythic. Talk about leaving bad first impressions. Spending good money and buying a months subscription leaving you with *nothing* Well, Google to the rescue. EB Games have provided a link to download the .exe file that will patch your game (and download the missing files), but sheesh, talk about crappy support. That kind of help should have been at the very least on Mythic's support pages. EA and Mythic both lost a bunch of influence points there (and I consider myself happy that I only bought one months subscription so far if that is a sign of things to come). Created my account and started taking first baby steps, familiarising myself with the controls.

If you question Vaska more, she'll tell you that you can leave items in the Voydanoi "mailbox" (where you put the logger's axe, if you did that quest in Ch 2), and they will exchange it. Not things of dry land, however, so only leave swamp herbs, fish, swamp animal extracts etc. Now I never bothered to try it but it might be fun for you to see what they leave! Just save first in case you leave something that pisses them off... you do not want to make Vaska mad. I tried to leave a fish. Found hellebore petals the day after. So, they do swap things Less sure if it is useful or not, sort of like the Meliteli (sp?) statue in the church after you've got the quest item. Solving some witcher contracts, following the main quest a bit. Having great fun so far. Latest achievement was cleearing out the Salamandra hideout in the sewers. Decided to side with the "squirrels" during the bank robbery. I met a nurse in distress and managed to sneak into the basement of her mothers house and kill the fleder down there. Talking to the mother afterwards reveals that she thinks the fleder to have been her son. I can't find the nurse anymore though, so I can't finish the quest at the time being. Tried to visit the church inside and outside at dawn, dusk, midnight and noon Are there any good hunting grounds for cocatrices?

with every detail can we see this locked. There is a thread for discussing future Kotor's here

What a shame. With all the real world references, it would have been fun with a Fish that could turn water into wine I liked the story about the gnome Alfred Nabel who created that stuff that could blow mountain sides away... and a book called 'Ain't so far' Good to know that I didn't leave an unfinished quest behind

Trust the Brits to come up with 42 as the answer to their problems

Thanks That is exactly what I did. I gave up finding the missing child though. Everything else I suspect I could possibly do (exempting stuff like fistfighting and poker quests and the likes which I suspect is ongoing), I did. That included buffing Geralt up with Tawny Owl, Swallow, blade coating (sorry, can't remember the name), and the potion that increases the damage you do at the cost of not evading enemies. Either that or the 5 levels I gained in the meantime made a differnce. The wyverns were toast and I got myself a shiny new steel sword While still being well and good buffed, I payed the tower a visit and whooped some sorry pyromaniac butt Just started chapter 3, exploring the streets around Triss' place. Edit: The old lady in the swamp said something about their water lord being able to turn water into healing potions etc. Is that just superstition or will the voysomething actually take bottled water and do something with it?

You never know, maybe he ate some of the food served there?

I, Gorth, who had thought that he would never join the MMO mob has finally had a change of heart. My general "fanboyism" of the Warhammer universe/setting pushed me to the edge and a friend gave me the last push over the edge. Going shopping for the game come the weekend. May the most brutal faction win!

A much underrated game. I just wish I could run it without having to resort to all kinds of tricks.

Nice to know Thanks Sounds like there is wyvern bashing in the air tonight. Spent all of yesterday night (real time) trying to find the tenth sephirath (sp?). Just to discover after giving up finding it, that the "detective" has it I've activated all 10 obelisks, but I'll wait with the tower until the I've seen what those wyverns are guarding. Call me paranoid, but I don't really trust the game to let me get back there I really love those swamps. I hate to say it, but they are even nicer than the sewers Edit: I guess there is no point hoarding my 4 pieces of red meteorite, besides the point that a new sword is quite expensive to make. I'll never be able to afford that nice leather armour

Instant death is not good, no Looks like it has to be done the hard way. I finally got some literature on wyverns too, just to discover that they are vulnerable to silver, not steel. So much for me trying to slash them to pieves with my steel sword. I've stocked up on bombs, blade coatings, Swallow and I think it was called Tawny something (the one that regenerates endurance). I've more or less relied on the first Sign (the one that repulses/stuns enemies) so far, so now I've spent two handfuls of talents on Ignis. Lets see if that works better together with a buffed up Geralt. The sign that causes damage/pain to enemies ganging up on you is not to be underestimated. Saved some witcher butt more than once when getting swamped by enemies. The "shield" one is the only one I've found no use for yet, but I suppose that it because battles are over fairly fast. Either with dead enemies or a dead witcher Edit: Cheat question: Is the sword on the body a steel or a silver sword? I.e. should I leave my current nice blue meteorite sword at home in the Inn before retrieving it?

the detection of where you are on that thing is terrible. I got splattered several times because it thought I was inside the triangle. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks

Well, I am heading back to the swamp anyway to play with golems and lightning rods. Activating all three pylons and see what happens without it was a bad idea

Are the wyverns in chapter 2 a neverending respawning thing?!? I've been exploring the swamps outside New Vizima and found a small island in the north of the swamp with a group of wyverns hovering around a body. I first tried to fight the wyverns piecemeal, drawing out small groups, but two is more than a handful for me and three were too many. So, I tried to draw them out one by one and that is manageable. Things is just, it doesn't seem to matter how many I kill, there will always be at least three of the critters guarding the body (I got seven wyvern "steaks" in my inventory). Is it bad design (endless respawn) or am I just unlucky and giving up with the last three left? Is there anything of interest on the body and if so, I might just decide to make a run for it, try and grab what is in there and then run like crazy back to the ferryman

They did. And that despite those despicable terrorists who kept blowing up the nice Death Stars

No no no no!... completely wrong. Zombie Communism is the way to go. Brains should be shared. The ZCP is always recruiting

Are you thinking of the droid interface thing that is used by the droid swoop racer to control it's swoop bike?

The water block I ordered is a "full cover" model. Covers both GPU's, RAM, the whteverthebuschipsarecalled etc. with either direct contact or through some little "pillow" thingies you cut out with a scissor and stick to the chips and makes contact with the cooler. If I want to oc my machine I would have to solve the Northbridge temperature first, lots and lots of copper there, but it's barely keeping it under 45. How does that work, can it help out any board significantly. No idea. My Asus board has half a tonne of copper there, leading the heat to an array of cooling "fins" around the CPU area. The intention being that the CPU fan would suck air past them as part of the CPU cooling. In the case of passive/water cooling they provided two small fans designed to mount on the copper plating to make up for the lack of air flow. ... So, got home from work yesterday and voided the warranty on my Sapphire gfx card right away, tearing off the stock fan. Applied the thermal paste and those little pieces of "padding" to the various chips on the card. Fixed everything in place and was careful not to tighten the screws too hard. Attached the hoses, put the card back into the computer, switched on the power and... nothing. Oh yeah, forgot to put the powercables from the powersupply back After that, everything seemed to work nicely. Downloaded a little usitility to monitor the various temperatures on the card, everything looking Ok. Then for the big test, playing an hour of The Witcher to give it some workload and things sure started heating up a bit (50-55 degrees) but that was about it. Started an OpenGL screensaver to keep the card busy, checked the battery in the smoke alarm (in case the thing decided to catch fire) and went to bed. Checked the PC again this morning and while still running at around 50 degrees, nothing had fried and it was watertight Best of all, it runs quietly again. Now I just need to put my PC all back together

The promised comparison: ------------------ System Information ------------------ Time of this report: 10/10/2008, 21:12:59 Machine name: ILLIOS Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: System manufacturer System Model: P5E3 Premium BIOS: BIOS Date: 06/11/08 11:07:24 Ver: 08.00.12 Processor: Intel

I am running a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion on my system (64bit Vista) with no problems. Kotor2 runs fine. Disclaimer: I haven't updated my drivers the last couple of weeks. I'll check the driver version when I get home from work later today.

Hey, it has a home now Not much to say yet. Still too many "Coming Soon" buttons, but at least we can add a link to it in our browser favourites (those who are so inclined).