News: This file has been updated to fully support The Witcher 2.0

There's a lot of talk about how the game starts out difficult, but becomes
too easy around chapter 2 and 3. Yes, there are mods out there that attempt
to solve this issue, but they change way too much about the game for my liking.

I think this issue can be solved with a minimalist approach, by simply lowering
values on each skill in the skill trees. This doesn't really weaken you too hard
at the beginning, and as you gain more and more nerfed skills you become much
weaker compared to a geralt using a non nerfed skill tree, thus balancing out
endgame to make it harder, or at the very least, not godmode.

This mod is designed to make the game more difficult as you progress.


Installation: Copy contained CookedPC folder into the game directory.

Uninstallation: Deleted the following files:

\CookedPC\abilities\geralt_skills.xml
\CookedPC\globals\abilities_tokens.csv


This is the first version, I'm sure there will be issues, this may make
some skills superior to others, may make the game too hard later on,
or may still have little effect on the difficulty. Please report any issues
to me and I'll personally see to fixing it.

this should work on existing savegames

Note: Arena Leaderboards will be disabled with his mod

Changelog:

v1.2 10-15-11: Changed Parrying 2 to reduce damage while blocking by 70% (up from 25%)
v1.2 10-15-11: Changed Guard to reduce vigor drained by blocking by 50%/100% (to encourage blocking instead of rolling)