u/Ditros_

Hi everyone, I really need some urgent help because I’m literally unable to progress in the game, so sorry if this is annoying or ends up being a bit long, but I really need help.

Right after the cutscene where Geralt says goodbye to an elf who’s traveling with Moril’s son and the boat sails away (I’ve attached images), my game goes completely black and just… stops doing anything. This happens immediately after killing Loredo and after the Roche vs Iorveth confrontation.

From what I’ve read online, the game should switch to Henselt at this point and start Act 2 (I’m on the Roche path). The problem is: I never get to see Henselt. The screen just fades to black and stays there forever. The game doesn’t crash, it doesn’t close, nothing — I can barely alt-tab and have to force close it.

I don’t know if the issue is caused by my mods or if my save is corrupted. I’ll attach screenshots of my mod list in case anyone recognizes a conflict.

Side note: I suspect my mods (installed via Vortex) might not even be working properly. I don’t see most of the features they’re supposed to add, and I think this might be because I set the wrong game path at the beginning. Since the game felt fine overall, I didn’t pay much attention to it back then. Still, I’m not 100% sure whether this affects all mods or just some of them.

If anyone has any idea what could be causing this, I’d really appreciate the help. And if there’s no real solution, I’d also be fine with using a save file at the beginning of Act 2 (I know it’s not ideal, but I’m stuck anyway).

Thanks in advance!

the elf from the cutscene

the last frame before the game goes black

the mods in question

This might be a weird question. My game isn’t in English, so sorry in advance if I mix up some names.

Before going after the Kayran, you can talk to Cedric and he tells you about Ostmurk, an ingredient needed for the Mongoose potion, which according to its description protects you from the Kayran’s toxin. This starts a quest that sends you to a cave to get the Ostmurk.

The problem is that the cave is so heavily infested with Nekkers (and they seem to respawn infinitely) that I couldn’t even climb a small ledge to go deeper inside.

While checking my inventory, I noticed something strange: I already had the formula for the Mongoose potion, and not only that, I could actually craft four of them (???).

So my question is: how did I even get those ingredients? The description just says they’re found in dark places. I checked a guide, and it says you’re supposed to go to that cave and kill a specific monster at the end that guards the Ostmurk.

This is where I’m confused: maybe I’m mixing up terms, but I already have four Mongoose potions in my inventory.

I even loaded an earlier save to double-check, and sure enough,before even going to the cave,, I already had the formula — and the ingredients too.

Is this normal, a bug, or am I misunderstanding how Ostmurk works?

I’m really loving the game, but when it comes to explaining certain quests, it sometimes feels a bit half-baked.

The game is pretty brutal early on, so I’m not sure whether skipping some side quests from time to time—especially the boring ones like “kill X monsters”—and focusing more on the main story could leave me underleveled at some point in a way that’s hard to recover from. Or do side quests just not give enough XP to really be worth doing if my main goal is leveling up? I know that in modern games this kind of thing is usually balanced, but I’m not sure if that’s the case here as well.

I’m also wondering about this because I know the game splits into two paths in Act 2. If doing side quests is important to stay properly leveled, having to clear most of them across what is basically 5 acts total (Act 1 + two versions of Acts 2 and 3) sounds kind of exhausting and longer than I’d like.

That said, I’m definitely interested in most side quests that have actual dialogue and choices, since those at least seem more engaging and meaningful. I’ve done a few side quests already and I actually liked them.

I know I’m late to the party — almost 19 years late — but I’d heard so many bad things about The Witcher 1 that now that I’ve finally dug into it, I’m honestly impressed by how insane this game was for its time.

It’s obviously not the best game in the world. In fact, I dropped it the first time I tried playing it and went online looking for validation, just to reinforce the negative opinion I already had. That’s when I noticed a ton of people asking whether it was worth trying, only to be met with waves of replies telling them not to touch that game with a ten-foot pole. The hostility was so over the top that it actually made me rethink a few things about the community.

Anyway, I rage-quit the game a while back and don’t even remember why. Since I’d already started reading some of the books, I decided to actually commit and ended up finishing them all pretty quickly, partly because of the bad taste the game had left me with. After that, I came back to the game — and now I’m loving it. I’m pretty far into Chapter V, and knowing it’s the last one and that the epilogue is fairly short, I assume I’m on the home stretch. It’s kind of a shame how many people miss out on “older” games (not even that old in this case) just because of the opinions of a few loud voices.

I guess they’ll have to wait for the remake, but I mainly wanted to share how visually gorgeous Chapter IV was, with one screenshot from V. It honestly made pushing through the clunky, painful gameplay worth it, and I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to optimize and design something like that back then. Hopefully The Witcher 2 keeps that momentum going, because I know The Witcher 3, at least visually, is absolutely insane.

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Does anyone know what these “monkeys” are that appear in every open area of The Witcher 1? You can see them running around, and if you stop near them, they start playing around Geralt, doing jumps and weird spins.

I’ve read the books, and unless I’m missing something obvious, I can’t connect them to any known creature. So I don’t know if this is some kind of internal CDPR joke or if these little hellspawn actually have some interesting lore behind them.

monkey face

monkey ass