Introduction

Witcher 2 modding can be a little finicky owing to the way the game is packaged and bundled. Unlike Witcher 3 the vast majority of Witcher 2s scripts are contained in a little file called base_scripts.dzip and while it isn't too difficult to extract and modify the scripts (Gibbed RED Tools are very handy here), the file must be packed back as base_scripts.dzip.

What this means in summary is that mods making any changes to parts of the games logic will likely have a base_scripts.dzip file. This is the case for Project Mersey and Yet Another Mod Compilation and if it isn't obvious, you can only have one or the other

Until now.

Design

The attached base_scripts.dzip file I have made contains the edits of both mods with only one exception, this is concerning a change both mods make to market pricing ratios in the game

Project Mersey: Reduces the selling:buying ratio from 1:25 (Vanilla) to 1:10. Aim is to make the economy more fairer but still requires some level of grinding and farming. Is also balanced around dark difficulty so may be less balanced in other difficulties

Yet Another Mod Compilation: Reduces the selling:buying ratio from 1:25 (Vanilla) to 1:5. Makes the economy much more fairer and generally makes grinding almost not usually needed

In this case I decided to go with YAMC purely out of a preference as I myself prefer to minimise grinding. If there is enough demand I may make a second version which uses Project Mersey's ratio instead

Installation

• Download and install both Project Mersey and Yet Another Mod Compilation
• Download this file and place it in the CookedPC folder in your Witcher 2 directory
• Accept the override prompt if shown
• Done

Compatibility

Any mods that also touch base_scripts.dzip will conflict. If you want to merge additional mod edits into the base scripts then you will need to learn how to use the Gibbed RED Tools to do so

Credits

• MerseyRockoff for the base_scripts.dzip from their mod Project Mersey

• glesson for the base_scripts.dzip from their mod Yet Another Mod Compilation

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