How to get rid of the ******* Cow monster (Chort)

[Schmaptain Shmerica]

I somehow killed too many cows right from the beginning of the game and now the Chort keeps hunting me whenever I go to White Orchard. Im just level 7 so I cant kill it, and another one will respawn anyway. So is there any way to completely get rid of this ****boy? because I still have some business there and the monster just f***s everything up

[Russty]

lol you awakened the Bovine defence force initiative there is nothing you can do it's meant to be there to discourage farming. If you are level 7 you must have finished white orchard by now, if you need to go there for some reason level up before you return and exploit the chort as a lot of people did/do.

edit... you could try the console command "killall" on it i never tried it so i don't know if that would work on the chort.

[Bongo Bongo]

>,< No way to kill it legitmatly it's simply created to discouraged "farming." Basically, it's there to kill you and knock off the farming. Reload a recent ave and dont kill the cattle.

[GhostyBoi69]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Except it sort of defeats the whole point in the first place. Yes, it was put there to discourage the farming of the cows but farming the Chort yields a ton of alchemical ingredients. Who really cares if you have to cheat to kill it. Plugging up the exploit itself was a cheat introduced by the devs. It just poorly designed.

It was also just a joke. It wasn't meant to seriously stop farming, otherwise the devs would just have patched the price if the items to be next to worthless. If people want to duck up their own game by cheating, that's on them.

[deidian]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

No, they actually did intend it as a message to players. Shortly after that, they fixed the monster nest glitch. It was never their intention to have players farm xp or gold in the game. In fact, they were so clueless back then, they still insisted that earning gold was hard in the game as that would be in keeping with the Witcher lore. But as anyone who's ever played the game can tell you, accumulating gold without cheating is so easy, it's obviously a game design flaw.

I have seen lots of games over the years and I still haven't seen any game system that hasn't been exploited by players, so calling developers clueless only show how little tought you give to game mechanics. It's delusional to think that a team of some dozens or hundreds of developers creating rules and limits are going to outsmart the millions of people that play the games they make. Actually they divide the work between them, so at the end a dozen of people working behind a game system is even possible for a medium/big studio.

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

And if they really wanted to prevent cheating, they could have disabled or removed the debug console entirely. Dragon Age Inquisition did despite having it available for the first two games. But then again, one would assume that Bioware was more capable of coding games back then. Since Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda, that's clearly not the case anymore and it led to the closure of one of their development studios.

The debug console remained in the game(though is disabled by default) because modding, you again being clueless. Debug console use is a must if you want to mod anything in the game, you modding or any developer don't keep 2 millions of savegames in different quests and stages of the game to test things, that's for what the debug console is, you create your own functions(clueless gamers call the functions commands) that set the game state the way you need it for your tests. Stop calling it cheating tool, was never created for cheating, was created for accelerating game testing, and since modders need to test mods the developers didn't strapped the DEBUG console from the release version of the game. Same reason why Skyrim and Fallout and possibly every game that supports mods has the debug console in the release version instead of being removed.

Also, since CDPR didn't left any docummentation(bussiness reasons, is not worth time and money to create and hand documentation for modding), not even class hierachy tree or even what you can actually import to scripts from the inner game code for modding you end using the debug console to know how some things work internally before even attempting any modification.

You should really keep your mouth closed when it comes to programming, really, when someone doesn't know is generally better to stay quiet.

[Schmaptain Shmerica]

thanks for the replies, I think the chort farming doesn't really matter as you have to be in very high level to kill them but at those levels, u won't need much of the loot when you already have lots of alchemy items as well as money

[DrNewcenstein]

Devs need to let gamers play the way they want. If they want to farm defenseless cows who pose no viable combat threat, where's the harm? No one cares about "what the devs want". It's entertainment, not a life simulator. As paying customers, what we want to do in the game is far more important than "having the experience the devs worked so hard to provide".
Yeah, you do it once and it's been done. A second playthrough doesn't change anything.

[bgray9054]

Does it definitely spawn infinitely or just a few times? I'd say just run the killall command from god mode (so you don't have to worry about it hitting you and killing you in one hit) through a handful of spawns and see if it stops spawning eventually.

And just to add if it doesn't stop spawning, like someone else suggested, just reload an earlier save and don't kill the cows.

[HunterAlpha1]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

Devs need to let gamers play the way they want. If they want to farm defenseless cows who pose no viable combat threat, where's the harm? No one cares about "what the devs want". It's entertainment, not a life simulator. As paying customers, what we want to do in the game is far more important than "having the experience the devs worked so hard to provide".
Yeah, you do it once and it's been done. A second playthrough doesn't change anything.

Absolutely! If it's a single player only game, then the devs shouldn't have any problem with people using cheats.