A lot of the negative reviews don't inspire confidence in me (especially at this high of a price point). Player choice mattering up until some point where you're apparently railroaded and forced to take a particular course, for instance. But one thing that stuck out to me in multiple reviews was: apparently the enemies cheat? Their attacks are way faster than your attacks, they leap forward with every slash, while you supposedly remain mostly stationary during attack animations and are tied to quite a rest...

now i'm on act 4. I've killed giant ripper(i guess silverback?) when i was on quest 'ripper hunt' by olaf, and 'drunken fury' by eugen. At that moment i didn't get the claws perk so i just skipped to get those claws. Later, I found the corpses of them but i just can't get claws from them. They just remain unactivated. and i went to the ripper's den for the first time, the Silverback that should have been there wasn't. Is it some kind of error?...

Am I doing something wrong?

I've played through the story in January and was wondering if there were enough content updates since then, that would warrant another playthrough. I'm grateful for any insight.

but all I get is incredibly tedious fights against monsters that I am barely able to scratch. This is the opposite of fun. I have nice weapons in my backpack I can't wield beacuse I lack prowess, I have 17 unspent points I wish I could spend on training Mind, I don't know where to go, as frogs and mosquitos are too tedious to deal with, especially with my starter weapons. All I do is run around like a scared chicken hoping there is a quest that doesn't involve combat until I find someone who can train Mi...