Forward flip.

[lancer31]

Sometimes, Geralt will do a forward sommersault, over the top of enemies. I really need that manouvre when trying to get past the Kikimore workers, when the Queen is coming after me.
Is it possible for the player to initiate that?

[Ron AF Greve]

Do you mean double clicking on an area?

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by Ron AF Greve:

Do you mean double clicking on an area?

Yes, when you use the isometric camera mode. If you are playing the Over-The-Shoulder- mode then you manage it by double-tapping the movement keys (W,S,A,D). Before you begin running, draw the sword and switch to fast style (Geralt is very speedy then!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbk0pKvONYo

[lancer31]

Thanks for the help! That should do it!

[lancer31]

It was still very tough to do, but I finally made it. Thanks Max!

[OxfordCommaCrusader]

Ah, same kind of problem. I have my sword out, a nd usually I have no problem flipping when in battle, but there were a few times(during kikimora queen thing)that I just can't jump over them. I'm definitely in fight mode and have my sword out, i'm not stunned or shocked or frozen or anything, I can swing, but no matter how many times I pressed double forward(the key W) two times in a row, I wouldn't jump.

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by OxfordCommaCrusader:

... but there were a few times(during kikimora queen thing)that I just can't jump over them ...

I had the same effect during my video above at 0:15. Seems to be a question of the proper distance to the surrounding kikimora. But if you repeat the double tap it should help eventually...

Or try it this way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuVv-pWdcSo

Much more entertaining than the prosaic version above.

[OxfordCommaCrusader]

Thanks! And FINALLY finished that mother-er lol!! I had trouble the first playthrough, but I forgot what I did to pass that. I had to do that many times though, but I eventually made it. Worst part of the game, or at least one of them(in terms of difficult, not in terms of being a bad game)

[Vashra]

Originally posted by OxfordCommaCrusader:

Thanks! And FINALLY finished that mother-er lol!! I had trouble the first playthrough, but I forgot what I did to pass that. I had to do that many times though, but I eventually made it. Worst part of the game, or at least one of them(in terms of difficult, not in terms of being a bad game)

If you simply accept that your goal is to get the mine collapsed onto them already and not to fight them, it's a lot easier ;)

I just used Igni to set 'em on fire and push them outta the way and ran like a yellow-bellied coward to the spot where you shatter the supports and kill...everything (including yourself if you're not fast enough hehe).

[OxfordCommaCrusader]

Originally posted by Vashra:

Originally posted by OxfordCommaCrusader:

Thanks! And FINALLY finished that mother-er lol!! I had trouble the first playthrough, but I forgot what I did to pass that. I had to do that many times though, but I eventually made it. Worst part of the game, or at least one of them(in terms of difficult, not in terms of being a bad game)

If you simply accept that your goal is to get the mine collapsed onto them already and not to fight them, it's a lot easier ;)

I just used Igni to set 'em on fire and push them outta the way and ran like a yellow-bellied coward to the spot where you shatter the supports and kill...everything (including yourself if you're not fast enough hehe).

Exactly! In my case, I kept just bolting for the end of the cave and turning to aard the final beams, but I found I was surrounded by so many things I had to kill, and I think it may've been some kind of bug. Meaning, the queen was waiting in the back doing nothing while I was killing the kikimores, waiting politely until I killed all her babies. What I found worked, at least for me, was doing each support beam, then the kikimores ahead of me got scared and burrowed under and didn't come at me to attack, more of them did that with each beam I broke. I found when I just tried to get to the end, no matter what or who was in my way, it wasn't working right.

At least in my case, or what worked this time, there are probably different ways, like you said, using igni, etc, this was just what I experimented and found worked this time. I think I might've done something different for my first playthrough and eventually managed(after the 60th attempt)

[Vashra]

Weird...I had the opposite of your problem. In all of my runs (took me several to finally get passed it) of this part, the Queen was NOT ok with me offing her kids.

If I stopped for even a second to do anything but run, the "babies" as you called them were on me like white on rice, and then the Queen made it her personal crusade to get to me asap ... and then I was bug food. I barely had a second to loot the body with the rune stone on it in the tunnel.

I hope I didn't sound snide about your survival rate. It took me at least five tries to get passed this point in the game, and it was frustrating because it almost seemed *random* whether or not the game engine decided I'd "survived" any given cave-in along the way.

[OxfordCommaCrusader]

Originally posted by Vashra:

Weird...I had the opposite of your problem. In all of my runs (took me several to finally get passed it) of this part, the Queen was NOT ok with me offing her kids.

If I stopped for even a second to do anything but run, the "babies" as you called them were on me like white on rice, and then the Queen made it her personal crusade to get to me asap ... and then I was bug food. I barely had a second to loot the body with the rune stone on it in the tunnel.

I hope I didn't sound snide about your survival rate. It took me at least five tries to get passed this point in the game, and it was frustrating because it almost seemed *random* whether or not the game engine decided I'd "survived" any given cave-in along the way.

Yeah, which is why I think it was a weird glitch or bug, it was odd, her just standing there waiting while I was killing kid after kid.

When I was running, before I decided to knock each pillar, when I was just running bloody hell, I couldn't get anywhere, her babies piled on me.

Yeah, I missed the loot, it was whatever, I just wanted that boss done with after at least 10 times.

Nah, it's ok, it looks like alot of people had trouble surviving this. It felt like 50 of course, but honestly, I think it was close to ten times for my first run-through, it was like 5 times, this rerun.

[max.strauss]

Originally posted by OxfordCommaCrusader:

Yeah, which is why I think it was a weird glitch or bug, it was odd, her just standing there waiting while I was killing kid after kid.

As you can see in the videos above, OCC, it's not necessary to kill any of the kikimora workers.

But there are other alternatives to get rid of the Queen. You can kill here using Devil's Puffball - or you can kill her by the sword:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUoRjxZiuiI