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The Full Combat Rebalance 2 (FCR2) mod is a project by Andrzej Kwiatkowski aka Flash for the PC version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The mod was created with the brand new REDkit editor, which was first released on 20.06.2013 on the REDkit homepage. The mod includes a revised combat system, and also fixes some common mistakes of the original version of the game. Full Combat Rebalance 2 also fixes several minor bugs the original version of the game.

Download REDkit on the CDProjekt RED website

Changelogs[edit | edit source]

20.06.2013^[1]

This is a general combat tweak and bug fix mod.
The main goal was to increase Geralt's responsiveness and mobility.

• I do not grant permission for this mod to be released from or hosted on any site other than redkit.cdprojektred.com, moddb.com and nexusmods.com.
• You can incorporate this mod with yours as long as you link to original files.
• Requires The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition patched to version 3.4.
• This is a private afterwork project. It is not a patch.
• Instructions how to localize the mod can be found in translation.txt file. You can easily translate it yourself.
• Parry animations for moving and walking were done by Tomek Zawada from CDPR.

Personal favorite mods to play with FCR2

• Dynamic HUD by Presskohle
• Grass Color Fix by Diegog5
• The Witcher trailer armor by markoBG

— Andrzej Kwiatkowski

FCR2 v1.0 – 20.06.2013

Core changes[edit | edit source]

• Up to 80% increase in responsiveness per Geralt's animations.
• Up to 50% increase in responsiveness per NPCs animations.
• Added strafing while being locked on an enemy and walking.
• Geralt can block while moving ( NEW ANIMATIONS ). Static Guard Stance is no longer required to parry enemy attacks.
• Geralt automatically parries enemy sword attacks and deflects incoming arrows. It doesn't mean Geralt is invincible. It's not a 100% chance to parry and the value is not constant. It changes depending on how many hits you block in a short time and from where does the hit land.
• Geralt and his attackers are no longer bouncing off parry. It allows to continue attack sequence.
• Monster attacks still cannot be parried with a sword.
• While using Guard Stance Geralt channels an active Quen shield.
• Above listed changes to defence mechanics decreased importance of rolling in combat.

Enemies[edit | edit source]

• Durability of enemies is based on their defensive skills and armor, not just high vitality.
• Mages and assassins don't use duration based shields, instead they have a chance to block each attack separately, including witcher Signs. This removes the duration godmode from enemies that forced player to run away.
• Letho and elite assassins will counterattack when player is relentlessly attacking them.
• Arachas and Endriaga Queens learn they should defend against sword attacks after receiving few hits.
• Removed knockdown effect from enemy swordsmen attacks.

Character development[edit | edit source]

• Decreased the number of skills to ensure quality over quantity. Experience rewards and leveling were adjusted to current character development.
• Geralt now starts with core witcher skills already learned. No need to go through Training tree before unlocking other branches.
• Removed many passives from skill tree to replace them with more active abilities. Remaining passives are changed to make them more attractive.
• All skills now have one level ( previously 2 ).
• Aard and Igni Signs have been changed from projectile to cone area of effect.
• Riposte doesn't require Guard Stance to activate, only attacking in a timed window.
• Changed riposte animations ( NEW ANIMATIONS, DUH ) to prevent Geralt from sliding on enemies.
• Experience points are given only for progressing through quests, not for killing enemies. This encourages role-playing without worrying about missing experience.
• Geralt no longer buys witcher specific recipes from random merchants. He recalls lost memories as a part of character development.

Balance[edit | edit source]

Full Combat Rebalance Witcher 2.0

• Each enemy is balanced according to his constitution, combat skill, combat style, weapon and armor type. Following this pattern allowed to created consistent rules that every character follows. A barechested bandit won't survive more hits than a knight in platemail just because the bandit was encountered later in game.
• Decreased the disproportion in stats between starting equipment and late game equipment.
• Changed Geralt's starting equipment. He now carries core alchemical recipes and schematic for silver sword.
• Moved the weight of character power from equipment to character development. Learned skills should have as big impact on Geralt's badass factor as items.
• Geralt's armors are split into 4 categories: leather jackets, heavy leather jackets, combat jackets and heavy combat jackets. Heavier armors impose small damage penalty on Geralt. Players need to choose between max damage and protection.
• Items imported from The Witcher savegames are of the same quality as in the first game. An exceptional armor and weapon remains valuable. This makes the game easier, but it is an intentional reward.
• Set elixirs and oils duration to 1 hour.
• Added potion overdose and heavy overdose debuffs on toxicity thresholds 55 and 65.
• Removed Fatigue penalty that decreased sword damage and damage reduction on block when Vigor was spent on Signs or Parry. It discouraged some players from using Signs becaused it decreased Geralt's sword DPS.
• NPCs deal full damage to other NPCs.
• Removed 50% Hit Points condition for throwing enemy off height with Aard.
• Decreased Riposte damage multiplier to 1.0, but added 30% enemy parry chance debuff.
• Riposte no longer costs Vigor.
• Silver throwing daggers are considered as silver weapons for damage calculations against monsters.
• Made range weapons ignore armors when calculating damage -- armor penetration.
• Inceneration, Bleeding and Poisoning effects are allowed to be active at the same time.
• Made quest experience rewards more consistent. There are no longer any situations where player is rewarded with 50 experience points for one quests and 2000 for another.
• Made moral choices in quests equally rewarding in terms of experience and items. Players should be encouraged more to role-play instead of weighing quest rewards.
• Geralt gains knowledge about monsters faster.
• Changed rewards for gaining knowledge about monsters to monster specific oils for swords.
• Set minimal damage dealt by Geralt to zero ( was 5 ).
• Removed bonus damage for backstabs. Geralt is not parrying attacks coming from behind, so it is a penalty already. Backstab damage bonus would be an overkill. As for the enemies, this change removes the urge for immersion breaking behavior, like constantly rolling behind an enemy for bonus damage.
• Changed arena item rewards for each wave to fit mod item progression.
• Decreased amount of enemies in few arena waves.
• Finally soaked boots in tutorial weigh more than dry boots!!

Economy[edit | edit source]

• Moved DLC armors from starting equipment to quest rewards and shops.
• Decreased the number of armors and weapons present in game. Amount of equipment is adjusted to provide smoother item progression without making huge amount of items useless stat-wise.
• Weapons and armors that are present in the game were picked according to these rules: visual differentiation, witcher low level magic setting. Some items available in game assets but not used in original game were reintroduced.
• Moved more quality items from quest rewards to shops and distributed them among Chapters. Player should be encouraged to regularly spend money in shops.
• Decreased buying cost of swords and armors. Player should be able to buy items more often, not hoard money.
• Decreased amount of loot dropped from enemies.
• Removed some of the junk items from container definitions.
• Made vendors specialize in certain type of merchandize.
• Witcher specific recipes cannot be bought but also cannot be sold to merchants.

Visuals[edit | edit source]

• Added Focused Combat Stance. Geralt enters focused state during challenging encounters. It's a visual eye candy, so it happens automatically based on calculated combat threat level.
• While in Focused Stance Geralt performs piruettes ( NEW ANIMATION ) instead of rolling and uses Guard Stance idle animation.
• Enemies explode when killed by mage spells. Does not apply to witcher Signs - they are not that powerful.
• Made finisher animations which use Signs unlocked by upgrading Aard and Igni in character development.
• Removed cutscene swords. Geralt will use his currently equipped sword in all cutscenes.
• Equipped enemies with swords according to their social status, wealth and current situation in the game. For example, soldiers patrolling areas near ghost fog in Act 2 are equipped with silver swords like the story suggests.
• Decreased camera shake effect used on each step of huge creatures like trolls and golems.
• Removed green cloud effect from enemy poisoning FX.

Fixes[edit | edit source]

• Tweaked anim events in all combat animations to improve timings and responsivness.
• Fixed sword oils not providing bonus damage against monsters.
• Fixed Circle of Power: Endurance giving Circle of Power: Vitality bonus.
• Fixed a bug where Geralt was always doing 2 more steps after roll before stopping.

Other[edit | edit source]

• Removed mashable quick time events. Single button QTEs that can end with player's death can be disabled from game options.
• Decreased cooldown for returning to exploration after combat from 7 to 2 seconds. Geralt will be able to interact with environment quicker after combat.
• Removed necessity to enter meditation panel to learn new skills on difficulty levels above Normal.
• Changed item rarity names to reflect witcher's low level magic setting. Items are no longer MAGICAL and EPIC.
• Decreased attacked enemy importance for targeting to make switching enemies easier.
• Many, many other changes that were required to make features listed above work.

TODO THAT I'LL PROBABLY NEVER DO

• I haven't changed icons in character development, so they do not reflect changes in skill trees.
• Special effects for new Aard and Igni Sign are lacking. I'm not a special effect artist.

I'll probably never fix these unless I won't have anything better to do.

References[edit | edit source]

1. ↑CDProjektRED.com

CD Projekt RED’s Andrzej Kwiatkowski is currently working on an update for his full combat rebalance mod for The Witcher 2. According to the modder and developer of The Witcher 3, this new update will allow Geralt to parry attacks from behind while he’s standing still. In addition, the update will address a lot of the bugs/issues that plagued the original version of his mod. Kwiatkowski plans to release this update for his mod sometime this week, and you can view its changelog below.

The Witcher 2 – Full Combat Rebalance 2 Mod Update Changelog:

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STILL INVESTIGATING
– Phillipa’s missing head.

CORE CHANGES
– Allowed Geralt to parry attacks from behind while he’s standing still. I don’t have animations to allow it for walking and running, which was the reason why it was disabled in initial mod release.

FIXES
– Fixed wrong installation directory of localization strings.
– Fixed t-pose on throwing items while being in Focused Stance.
– Fixed becoming permanently stuck in casting animation of upgraded Axii Sign.
– Fixed Resonating Crystals not being affected by Aard and Igni in The Secrets of Loc Muinne quest.
– Fixed progression break on riposte phase in Tutorial.
– Fixed Axii not having effect on enemies.
– Fixed locked rotation on opponent when rolling in strafing mode.
– Fixed crafting schematics that didn’t recognize their ingredients in crafting menus.
– Fixed fullscreen effect problem that occured when player maxed Adrenaline bar with skills Magic Atunnement, Adrenaline Rush or High.
– Fixed respec abilities removing core witcher skills.
– Fixed description in Falka’s blood oil.

BALANCE
– Mage friendly fire doesn’t affect Geralt and his allies.
– Increased Geralt’s parry chance. First attack coming in quick succession will always be blocked unless Geralt performs an offensive action.
– Scaled down difficulty levels with Hard becoming new Dark difficulty.
– Scaled up damage reduction of armors.
– Decreased mage’s block and spell block chance.
– Decreased spell block chance of Letho and elite kingslayers.
– Raised Letho’s resistance to Yrden.
– Increased hit points of celaeno harpies.
– Reintroduced 2 second Stamina regeneration cooldown.
– Decreased base Igni damage to 10 and upgraded Igni damage bonus to 10. With Control over the Power skill, Petri’s philter and Maribor Forest potions, player is still able to dish 108 Igni damage with 3 Vigor points.
– Increased duration of all potions and oils to 1 hour (was 10 minutes) with the exception of Cat potion, White Raffard Decoction and Anabolic Steroids.
– Changed the function of White Raffard Decoction to a very potent version of Swallow potion. Previously it worked like traditional healing potion known from other games.
– Added Gadwall potion recipy to Geralt’s starting inventory. Previously it was only obtainable by unlocking Witcher Secrets skill in Alchemy tree – shouldn’t be a requirement for items needed in quests.
– Decreased upgraded Aard stun chance to 10% (was 30%).
– Increased Adrenaline generation from Signs for Signs tree ultimate skill.
– Upgraded Quen stuns 3 enemies around Geralt.
– Increased the number of meteorite ores available in shops.
– Increased the number of rare ingredients available in shops.
– Put another effort to discourage players from immersion-breaking behavior where they constantly rolled behind enemy back to attack with impunity. Removing backstab damage bonus was not enough, so now enemies are allowed to Parry back attacks.

VISUALS
– Improved Igni special effect.
– Made enemies rotate to their targets on Aard hit and Parry.

OTHER
– Added more informations in skill descriptions.

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