Combat is being overhauled (again) and this time Geralt will be able to target individual parts of enemies.
But the risk is to overstate the threat and focus on the whole rather than the individual parts.
Sports teams and franchises often insure their star players for extortionate sums, and generally take the stand of insuring an entire player rather than their individual parts.
The challenge now is to design a regulator for the finance industry that actually measures and focuses on systemic risks, rather than on the individual parts of the system.
When the Tribune Company management begrudgingly put the company on the auction block at the behest of the Chandler family, they said they would not consider bids for individual parts of the company.
Less a drawing room than a market or "agora" although the city's marketplace was officially moved to the Campo dei' Fiori in 1869 it has a history of its own that includes and surpasses its individual parts.
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Government strong enough to protect the whole of society against the depredations (real and imagined) of its individual parts and to protect itself against a revolt of the hosts will eventually destroy itself by starving its hosts.
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Dr Swade, agreed that this was the correct approach and said a virtual recreation of the machine could solve "95% of problems" and allow them to use computer to design the thousands of individual parts needed to make the behemoth.
Others are bidding for individual parts.
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Given the boom in mergers and acquisitions this year, Tilson and Tongue believe that the individual Tyco's parts will prove particularly appealing to private equity investors or a competitor.
If western Europeans are to counter Russian aggressiveness over energy, they must present a united front: for example, by making clear that, should the Russians ever threaten to cut off energy supplies to individual countries, including former parts of the Soviet Union that are not yet in the European Union, their western friends will step in to help.
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B-52 bombers, but modern jets have 4m parts and are customised for individual airlines.
It is for this reason that you need a device, such as Dr Shields's, which can detect and count individual photons as they come out of different parts of the beam-splitter.
Occasionally, however, an individual player will go to extraordinary lengths to protect parts of their anatomy, regardless of whether they are crucial to their performance or not.
By selecting fluorescent proteins in three primary colours they made pictures of parts of mouse brains in which the individual nerve cells glow in all colours of the rainbow, depending on the mixture of proteins within.
Because the performance ratio looks at the whole, rather than the sum of the parts, this indicator can take into consideration individual variables that are ignored by current metrics.
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In other words, all the individual components benefit so that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
No company or individual can partake in the manufacturing and selling of electronic gaming equipment plus its parts and accessories headed to China.
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Large parts of the population of the northern West Bank, and of individual cities like Nablus and Jericho, simply cannot leave their home areas without special permits, which are not always forthcoming.
This allows the machine to accurately register the movement of individual limbs, for example, of its arms, and thus to learn what body parts it has just moved.
Individual cloud offerings, when paired together, can offer value equal to more than the sum of their parts.
The axiom that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts is exactly what the Cowboys needed to succeed, no matter how many All-Pro caliber individual players are in the locker room.
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What begins as a lineup of manipulated individual tubes, at times as if escaped from a pipe organ, climaxes in the arrangement and rearrangement of its parts now as starbursts, then as galloping horses, and again into male and female stick figures that tell of the Pulcinella and Pimpinella characters in the music's commedia dell'arte scenario.
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