are you having a stroke or sth, mr. ?
WITCHER 1
Jace Moore
Jeremiah White
>Mods on first playthrough
Imbecile.
Parker Walker
A genuine reply to this question, as I just played like 3 hours ago:
FPS Mod Counter
Perfect Blood
Perfect Rain
Realistic Moon
Better Dice
If you want, Geralt's face from W3 is a mod
Scabbard Mod
Sword Overhaul
Faster Movement
Plentiful Herbs
Fairer Trade
Han Gives Han NOT Berbercane
Dontforceminreqs Low Res Texture Fix
All of this if you want for a vanilla-esque first playthrough
Trust me it's great
Dylan Adams
Don't install Full Combat Rebalance for a first playthrough, it makes the game way too hard for a newcomer.
Jordan Rodriguez
I'm playing it now after following this guide:
kirmiziperfect.com
Also using FCR. I didn't try vanilla because the combat is absolute trash in this game. With FCR, encounters last a more realistic amount of time. I picked Easy in the FCR install which is more like Nightmare difficulty. If you do FCR i'd go with Casual difficulty. On FCR-Easy I have to save before almost every enemy because if you miss 1 combo prompt you're toast.
As far as the graphics mods, here's my thoughts on that. The sword/armor and character mods are good. The environment mods are mostly just run through a sharpening filter and IMO look worse than normal. Nothing really is worse on the eyes than sharpening filters. I'm sure these modders may have deluded themselves into thinking "sharper" looking textures improves the graphics, but when geometry is this basic to begin with, sharpening is only going to make it look a lot worse.
Only other mod I installed that I liked is the HBAO mod.
Since I installed a bunch of huge packages I'm not sure where the biggested offenders are in the sharpened textures environment since some areas, like the swamp, actually look almost current gen. If anything maybe I'd skip the texturen mod since I'm pretty sure that is 100% just sharpened textures whereas the overhaul mod might have more legit textures.
Brayden Moore
>not modding the game with the worst combat system ever created by mankind
Imbecile
Landon Lopez
>worst combat system ever created by mankind
I take it you haven't played many games.
Brandon Richardson
Just play it on the easiest difficulty available and enjoy everything except for the combat.