TW2 savegame import brings over your ORENS???

Ruds · Post by **Ruds** » Wed May 18, 2011 11:20 pm

Started up TW2, imported my TW1 savegame, and I have all of my orens from the first? This feels so much like cheating, I'm extremely tempted to not import my savegame.

Does anyone have any insight as to just how broken this really is? If good items cost tens of thousands of orens, I won't really care, but if you're expected only to have a few hundred, I'd like to know and just go ahead and restart before I spend all of this time on a save I'm just going to abandon.

Any insight would be very welcome.

Ruds · Post by **Ruds** » Wed May 18, 2011 11:31 pm

Actually, I haven't played TW1 in quite a while, so I don't know how many orens I had, but after getting a quick refresher from some internet searches, there's noooooooo waaaaaaay I had the 420-something THOUSAND orens that it's starting me with in TW2.

Seriously, I start with over 420,000 orens. This sucks... I guess something flubbed in the import. Looks like I'm starting over.

vio · Post by **vio** » Thu May 19, 2011 2:36 am

I haven't played Witcher 2 yet (waiting till I get paid) but perhaps it's intended? I recall Monkey Island 2 you started the game with a fortune but were robbed blind five minutes later. perhaps W2 has you start with a lot of money regardless of import for story reasons?
otherwise you could just spend it on crap and destroy the items (assuming the game allows this) or hit the first tavern you can find

AvatarOfLight · Post by **AvatarOfLight** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:27 am

Also haven't started the Witcher 2 yet so this is all pure speculation:

At the end of the Witcher 1 you've decapitated a serious threat to the Kingdom, potentially saved the King's Daughter and even saved the King himself from assassination. I imagine you'd receive quite a reward for this, maybe that's why you have so much?

Perhaps you'll even get captured and lose it all in a little bit.

ricksog · Post by **ricksog** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:01 am

I've started the game without import and you start with no oren (or very few), so i think yes it would be like cheating..I've played only the prologue, but the first impression is that is a bit confusing..the package of the game speak about strategy in combat, words that had make me hope..but there is no strategy, only frenzy.."easy" setting is too easy, "normal" setting is almost impossible in some combats where you are surrounded from enemy's, at least at the beginning..i haven't tried higher difficulty..no way to pause the game or even to change camera view (too close for me)..it is in effect an action game in combat at least..models and graphic are not the best ever seen, but i like how are dialogues..well, we'll see, it's still the beginning..

jklinders · Post by **jklinders** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:34 am

might be a bug. I didn't start off with thousands of orens. I did start with the moon blade silver sword, raven's armour and an unusual steel sword. The steel sword has already been replaced. Pretty sure I had over 10000 orens in that save file so it's not like I was a pauper or anything.

Charnel · Post by **Charnel** » Thu May 19, 2011 6:53 am

I would share the number of orens that I got but can't seem to import any of my Witcher saves. I kept my save files from The Witcher but don't actually have The Witcher installed on my PC. It doesn't seem like The Witcher 2 will allow import of saves unless The Witcher is installed though.

jklinders · Post by **jklinders** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:03 am

Try having a manual save file in the Ice fields from the Epilogue. Worked for me.

Charnel · Post by **Charnel** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:37 am

I'm not sure how I would accomplish that. When I launch the game and select New Game the game tells me

Witcher 1 Saves Not Available
Character Settings Will Not Be Imported

EDIT: Nevermind, I see what you meant now. All I needed to do was to place a copy of my last save game from TW1 play through into saves directory for TW2 and the import option became available.

I had 344 orens after importing my TW1 save.

jklinders · Post by **jklinders** » Thu May 19, 2011 10:09 am

That's not quite what I meant but I'm glad you got it working. There was a mention over at the CDPRED site that they only are able to import saves from the default save directory. I was unaware you could manually move a file into the Witcher 2 in that way. Cool. Good to know.

Nightmare · Post by **Nightmare** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:07 pm

I got a savegame from TW1 off the internet with choices I wanted rather than replay the first game, but yeah, I had over 250,000 orens transfer over. I made to some merchants at the beginning of Chapter 1 with the orens (and the good equipment you can carry over too), and I felt the same way, that I was cheating. At very least, it kind of breaks the game, and there's no need for loot or foraging.

I restarted the game, didn't import a save, and only have about 1000 orens reaching the same point. I suppose I'll miss out on some tiny things, but I'll save those for another playthrough when I won't mind having a lot of cash at the start.