"Medical Problems," a new, fan-made adventure for The Witcher, is now available!
Description: Shani needs help fighting an epidemic of a new, unknown sickness. But what could a monster slayer possibly do about a medical problem?
The game has several different possible endings, depending on which choices you make while playing. Three choices each have consequences, making eight different paths through the game, and which ending you get depends on the combination of choices. (Post #2, in this thread, talks about which choices have consequences and what those consequences are. A lot of it is under spoiler tags, so you can pick and choose what you want to know.)
Geralt has monsters to kill, human lives to save, a mystery to solve, and witcher contracts to fulfill. There are also some ladies to woo, though all but one of them are optional. :-)
Features: * 12 quests (only 11 of which can be completed in any one game, since two of them are mutually exclusive)
* 45 NPC's, all of which have names and conversations of their own.
* 18 explorable areas plus three special areas, with 19 new loading screens
* 40 monsters to kill
* 6 sex cards to get, including one new one and 5 recolored ones
* Many, many recolors of clothes, items, and even some areas
* Several new items
* 3 - 6 hours of gameplay
How to get it:
There are two versions of "Medical Problems" available; choose the one that best suits your needs:
1. For everything you need in one file, download the version available from ModDB:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/medical-problems. (The official
Witcher website isn't accepting new uploads at the moment; they're in "maintenance mode" to prepare for the announcement of you-know-what. :D)
a. Download the all-in-one version.
b. Unzip the folder.
c. Follow the installation instructions.
d. Play.
2. For those who are comfortable moving files around on their hard disks, the version available from my website (
http://corylea.com/) has the adventure and the movies in two separate files. This should give you somewhat faster loading times.
a. Download the no-movies version.
b. Download the movie folder.
c. Download the main loading screen.
d. Unzip the adventure.
e. Follow the installation instructions for the adventure.
f. Unzip the movies folder.
g. Put the movies folder into the folder where your other Witcher movies are. (On many computers, this is at The Witcher Enhanced Edition\Data\Movies, but the location of the folder varies, depending on whether you installed the EE from a disk or upgraded the original edition to the EE via patch.) In any case, if the folder has files like "cs_sex_abigail1.bik" and "intro.bik" in it, it's the right place.
h. Put the ls_load.dds file in The Witcher Enhanced Edition\Data\Override. (Remember to take this out of your Override folder when you play the main game or another module!)
i. Play.
How to get help, ask questions, and make comments:"Medical Problems" comes with four text files:
1. An installation manual
2. A hint sheet
3. A list of cool things to be sure to see
4. A walkthrough
Walkthroughs take half of the fun out of a game, so it's only there in case of a playing "emergency." :D If you get stuck or have a question that isn't covered in the installation manual or the hint sheet, ask it here in this thread, and I'll answer you.
Oh, and if you think you can make a better adventure for
The Witcher than "Medical Problems," please do! :-)
Estimated playing time:There's a lot in "Medical Problems," but most of it is elaboration. If you talk to every villager, read all the tombstones, read the "History of Riverford" that's in the library, kill all the monsters (including the ones nobody is paying you to kill :teeth:), well, it could take a
long time. If you talk to only a few of the villagers, don't explore much, don't read any of the "lore" stuff and focus fairly narrowly on accomplishing the quests (and bedding the women ;)), I'd guess about three hours. If you explore most of the game but aren't obsessive about seeing every last thing, then I'd guess about five hours.
Credits:"Medical Problems" is copyright 2010 by Cory Lea Kerens. Everything that wasn't made by CDPR was made by me, with these exceptions:
1. Heartfelt thanks to Unkreativ for the Shani sex picture.
2. Thanks to RedFlame Interactive for the placeable trees.
3. Thanks to Felldude for the wonderful new Shani texture.
4. Thanks to the authors of the Djinni wiki -- especially RedFlame Interactive -- for a few of the script lines.
5. Thanks to 56236 for Trughbull's brains joke.
6. Thanks to
http://resources.bravenet.com for the crowd cheering sound.