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[Veritigo_X]

This is something else. You can deactivate undisocvered POIs in the video options.

Does deactivating these still make them show up when you read notice boards? I'll sometimes read a notice that marks an undiscovered location on my map, but you can't tell where it is with so many ?'s.

 

[DarknessTear]

Is there a way to find out how long I've been playing The Witcher 3 on console?

 

[PFD]

Great OT

 

[pahamrick]

Still thinking my biggest complaint so far about the game is the damage calculation for fall damage is seriously nuts. Be running along a path, fall down a small hill and suddenly 25-40% of your health is gone.

 

[kamineko]

Is there a way to find out how long I've been playing The Witcher 3 on console?

Right trigger on the inventory screen, maybe others

 

[cresto]

Only if the card has a special ability like that. It says the abilities on the card, just press R2 to zoom in. Personally I thought after three - four rounds of Gwent it all became obvious, but yeah, check out Gwent |OT|, there are tips in there, I'm sure.

I just haven't spent a lot of time with it. Hence the question. I'm going to look into it some more today.

 

[Gattsu25]

100% guesswork of the ending based on previous statements made by the devs:
I thought this was the third and final

Spoiler

CD Projekt RED game with Geralt as a main character, not the Witcher series as a whole

.


Amazing OP, btw.. and I love the title.

 

[brau]

Can someone give me some advice on how to use the combat system properly? I'm tag teaming this game and Dark Souls 2 and I'm finding the combat in this game nothing but frustrating. I've resorted to dropping the difficulty to easy, dropping the Yrden sign, and spamming quick attacks. But I'm not having fun and I want to figure out how the combat works.

My problem is when I'm fighting multiple enemies I can essentially get stunlocked by them all attacking me at different times. The dodge is iffy at avoiding damage and it's hard to get more than one or two hits off before getting hit by another enemy. Problem is my swords also do shit damage (I'm level 4) so if I constantly dance in, get one hit off, then dance out, it'll take forever to kill anything.

I think playing it alongside Dark Souls 2 is just emphasizing to me how janky the combat system in Witcher 3 can be, but maybe I'm missing something.

When fighting humans. Side step or block to parry. If its a lot of them dodge roll out of hte way. You can use the force push to knock people and crowd control, same as igni. I tend to hack away at enemies evenly instead of focusing on one. If i focus on one chances are i will get hacked by multiple enemies at once. So just keep on hte look out.

With monsters side step and roll.

The thing that works the most is the protective shield, and if you upgrade it it pushes enemies away and sometimes knocks them off. You can also use the mind control, upgraded it slows enemies and stuns them in place.

Also, learn to use your fast slash and heavy slash. Sometimes you want to go into a heavy slash from a fast slash and always end in a side step or a roll if you are around enemies.

I tend to not lock on enemies, and it doesn't let me engage the closest. Only with big enemies that are solo i lock to keep them always on screen.

Hmm... i think thats it. Use your bow to bring things down, or take away health from enemies as they are moving.

Hope that helps.

 

[Chariot]

100% guesswork of the ending based on previous statements made by the devs:
I thought this was the third and final

Spoiler

CD Projekt RED game with Geralt as a main character, not the Witcher series as a whole

.

They outright stated already that this is the last Geralt game, but not the last Witcher. Be at ease.

Does deactivating these still make them show up when you read notice boards? I'll sometimes read a notice that marks an undiscovered location on my map, but you can't tell where it is with so many ?'s.

I don't think so. I have deactivated the questionmarks and have none. I guess I have find these places by myself from what can read from the papers. But it's fun to ride around the place and randomly see something, instead of following such markings.

 

[nbraun80]

Can someone give me some advice on how to use the combat system properly? I'm tag teaming this game and Dark Souls 2 and I'm finding the combat in this game nothing but frustrating. I've resorted to dropping the difficulty to easy, dropping the Yrden sign, and spamming quick attacks. But I'm not having fun and I want to figure out how the combat works.

My problem is when I'm fighting multiple enemies I can essentially get stunlocked by them all attacking me at different times. The dodge is iffy at avoiding damage and it's hard to get more than one or two hits off before getting hit by another enemy. Problem is my swords also do shit damage (I'm level 4) so if I constantly dance in, get one hit off, then dance out, it'll take forever to kill anything.

I think playing it alongside Dark Souls 2 is just emphasizing to me how janky the combat system in Witcher 3 can be, but maybe I'm missing something.

1. I'd say use your spells. yrden is good to slow swarms, and ghosts, quen is good if you like to go in, just fight til it's popped, then back out and put it on again, fire is good against drowners.
2. Dodge is good, but working the side-step in works well to. you see a drowner charging, he's gonna luge, side-step, slash him, and dodge out.
3. You sound like you want to just keep hitting people until they die, and you simply can't do that. If you keep hitting, they'll dodge, others will jump you, or they'll parry, stick and move, stick and move!

 

[Pancakes]

Can someone give me some advice on how to use the combat system properly? I'm tag teaming this game and Dark Souls 2 and I'm finding the combat in this game nothing but frustrating. I've resorted to dropping the difficulty to easy, dropping the Yrden sign, and spamming quick attacks. But I'm not having fun and I want to figure out how the combat works.

My problem is when I'm fighting multiple enemies I can essentially get stunlocked by them all attacking me at different times. The dodge is iffy at avoiding damage and it's hard to get more than one or two hits off before getting hit by another enemy. Problem is my swords also do shit damage (I'm level 4) so if I constantly dance in, get one hit off, then dance out, it'll take forever to kill anything.

I think playing it alongside Dark Souls 2 is just emphasizing to me how janky the combat system in Witcher 3 can be, but maybe I'm missing something.

Sounds like you need to find some better weapons pronto. There are diagrams for the Viper weapons somewhere in the starting area that are fantastic early game. Also, for big groups of enemies like wolves and whatnot you probably want to use bombs to soften them up. Yrden is really only useful against wraiths and spectres, sometimes against big bosses as well. Quen and Igni are the spells you want early on for managing big crowds and not getting stunlocked to hell. Don't ignore alchemy either, it really comes in handy in specific scenarios.

I'm playing on the hardest difficulty and while the game has its bullshit moments (I'm looking at you OP Wraiths) It's not too difficult to abuse certain mechanics.

 

[Spikematic]

Amazing OT. And the title made me lol.

Absolutely loving the game so far. I spend a lot of time just exploring the beautiful world and trying to kill stuff that I have no business of being in the presence of at my current level (13). I haven't really gotten into Gwent yet but I really should as so many people seem to love it.

If Mankind Divided and Fallout 4 come out this year we'll be in RPG heaven like in 2011!

The Witcher 2 > The Witcher 3
Xenoblade > Xenoblade Chronicles X
Skyrim > Fallout 4
Human Rev > Mankind Divided
Dark Souls > Bloodborne

And of course, we already had Pillars of Eternity and may get Persona 5! Yay!

 

[Atkison04]

I've been playing this as often as I've been able since release,which hasn't been much. I'm trying to find Iron Ingot and Silver Ingot to craft the viper sword set. How to I obtain those materials? Thanks!

 

[AuthenticM]

hell yes

 

[Boof]

Finished the game. What a ride. Has it's flaws (loading, combat, etc) but one of the best games I've played. At the end, I had full mastercrafted Ursine (including weapons) and I went with a adrenaline build. I hit like a freaking mac truck. That along with the insta kill talent at the end of the defense tree and I was unstoppable. I took basically 0 dmg from physical attacks. Magic attacks shredded me however.

 

[Starviper]

I've been playing this as often as I've been able since release,which hasn't been much. I'm trying to find Iron Ingot and Silver Ingot to craft the viper sword set. How to I obtain those materials? Thanks!

Just by searching around you should come across them; otherwise break down some other weapons to get the right materials.

 

[Atraveller]

Priscilla song

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Still thinking my biggest complaint so far about the game is the damage calculation for fall damage is seriously nuts. Be running along a path, fall down a small hill and suddenly 25-40% of your health is gone.

i wonder if it takes into account the amount of weight you are carrying or it's just buggy/unbalanced as shit

 

[Pancakes]

I've been playing this as often as I've been able since release,which hasn't been much. I'm trying to find Iron Ingot and Silver Ingot to craft the viper sword set. How to I obtain those materials? Thanks!

Buy it from blacksmiths and armorers or have them dismantle equipment into iron ingots. Silver is a bit trickier since you need to buy silver then craft it into silver ingots. Check the dismantle tab at a blacksmith and you probably have something that can be broke into it.

 

[fastmower]

lol

I am at 26 hrs. 502 kills and 3 potions created

Where can I see my game stats?

 

[boskee]

CDPR released a new video of Priscilla's song in all language versions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMvAAfPs0UE

edit: beaten

 

[Chariot]

Priscilla song

Aww yes, I love multilanguage mash-ups of one songs <3

 

[CarbonFire]

Amazing OT for an amazing game! Thumbs up Coreda!

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Any idea where to find red mutagens? I have tons of blue and green ones but so far have only found 4 red.

I know Fiends and Werewolves drop them. Not sure if anything else drops them semi-consistently. Fiends are fine to fight, but god I hate fighting werewolves. Regenerating health enemies are almost always BS.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

It's childish sure, but everytime someone says the name Dudu, I laugh.

 

[Nose Master]

Finally made it to

Spoiler

Skellige

, and everyone is still super-free in Gwent. IS THERE NO ONE LEFT FOR ME TO CRUSH

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

What's the consensus on the

Spoiler

Viper Silver Sword

?

I know it's an early game weapon, but I like it. Can I use the silver sword on creatures like ghouls or necrophages and expect similar damage as compared to my steel sword?

 

[pahamrick]

i wonder if it takes into account the amount of weight you are carrying or it's just buggy/unbalanced as shit

I'm leaning towards the latter. During the (opening spoilers, just in case)

Spoiler

dream sequence when you're racing Ciri down the walls, if you miss one of the ladders which is like a 4-5 foot drop, you lose a good chunk of health.

 

[Number45]

How do people identify what they can and can't sell? Or which items to dismantle? Add how far to go down the dismantling rabbit hole before stopping? I'm sure the game will let me break the items down to their component molecules if I want to. D:

I seem to have missed the option to buy saddle-bags from the vendor you save (they were there first time I checked but I didn't have the cash, now they're not there) and now I can't find any for sale.

Sounds like you need to find some better weapons pronto. There are diagrams for the Viper weapons somewhere in the starting area that are fantastic early game. Also, for big groups of enemies like wolves and whatnot you probably want to use bombs to soften them up. Yrden is really only useful against wraiths and spectres, sometimes against big bosses as well. Quen and Igni are the spells you want early on for managing big crowds and not getting stunlocked to hell. Don't ignore alchemy either, it really comes in handy in specific scenarios.

I'm playing on the hardest difficulty and while the game has its bullshit moments (I'm looking at you OP Wraiths) It's not too difficult to abuse certain mechanics.

I found these (I actually found the location before the quest, but the box needed the key from the quest), but I don't have the materials to make them. I'm sure my loot is being stolen or something, I could have sworn I had two iron ore. :'(

 

[justjim89]

The potion system in this is such bullshit. Instead of lasting several minutes, like all the other games, let's limit the player to only 3 potions and only have them last 20 seconds. You know how you're gonna be riding across the country side, fighting shit all the time? Better hope you pick the right three 20-second intervals to heal!

Or you could eat food, which heals health marginally and doesn't stack, so you have to eat one piece at a time.

Ugh, who thought this would be a good change? There's no preparing for combat anymore. It's just so much more action gamey.

 

[BumRush]

What's the easiest way to gain EXP? Side missions?

 

[Bytes]

after playing the Witcher 3 did anyone buy the expansion pass? i did and i have no regrets.

I am waiting. The content won't be released until October anyway, so might as well wait and see if I can get it at a better price before then.

 

[Chariot]

I'm leaning towards the latter. During the (opening spoilers, just in case)

Spoiler

dream sequence when you're racing Ciri down the walls, if you miss one of the ladders which is like a 4-5 foot drop, you lose a good chunk of health.

Got a good laugh out of me. Geralt, Witcher of legends, breaking his legs while racing a kid.

What's the easiest way to gain EXP? Side missions?

Au contraire. Story is your main boost for exp. Sidemissions give generally relatively little exp, except for contracts.

 

[PFD]

Is it possible to extract the soundtrack from the game files? I already got the 35 track soundtrack from Steam, but it's missing like half the music from the game.

 

[Fliesen]

So... that played time on PS4 can't be accurate. I believe Suspend / Resume fucks with it.

i have played plenty of Witcher 3 this week (being on legitimate(!) sick leave since monday) ... but not THAT much.

3 days, maybe. 117 hours, no way!

 

[Chariot]

The potion system in this is such bullshit. Instead of lasting several minutes, like all the other games, let's limit the player to only 3 potions and only have them last 20 seconds. You know how you're gonna be riding across the country side, fighting shit all the time? Better hope you pick the right three 20-second intervals to heal!

Or you could eat food, which heals health marginally and doesn't stack, so you have to eat one piece at a time.

Ugh, who thought this would be a good change? There's no preparing for combat anymore. It's just so much more action gamey.

You do know you can refill your potions while meditating with alcohol?

 

[JeffG]

Where can I see my game stats?

I got that from XBox 1 - Smartglass. (But you can also get it on the main Achievement screen on the XBox 1)

 

[Yeul]

Is it possible to extract the soundtrack from the game files? I already got the 35 track soundtrack from Steam, but it's missing like half the music from the game.

Oh god I would love for someone to do this. I'm waiting for the purely instrumental version of the song that plays when you're sailing in Skellige. It's like a totally stripped down version of the song "Fields of Ard Skellig". Hopefully soooooon.

 

[cslesce]

from White Orchid to Velen difference in map size is too big

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

What's the consensus on the

Spoiler

Viper Silver Sword

?

I know it's an early game weapon, but I like it. Can I use the silver sword on creatures like ghouls or necrophages and expect similar damage as compared to my steel sword?

both

Spoiler

viper swords

are the best kit of equipment youll find until you reach level 8+(IMO), still was hard to switch my silver one because i loved that 20%+ xp from monsters

I'm leaning towards the latter. During the (opening spoilers, just in case)

Spoiler

dream sequence when you're racing Ciri down the walls, if you miss one of the ladders which is like a 4-5 foot drop, you lose a good chunk of health.

you know what you are right, i almost died when i jumped with

Spoiler

Ciri

 

[Palette Swap]

Priscilla song

I wish they added all these versions to the OST.
Yeah, watch me complain about a freebie.

 

[Alpende]

So... that played time on PS4 can't be accurate. I believe Suspend / Resume fucks with it.

i have played plenty of Witcher 3 this week (being on legitimate(!) sick leave since monday) ... but not THAT much.


3 days, maybe. 117 hours, no way!

Yeah, it's a known issue.

 

[m_shortpants]

Best game I've ever played!

Pack it up, generation!

CDPR has rocketed past Rockstar as my favorite devs with this game.

 

[SDCowboy]

I feel weird replacing my orange-relic sword with some common trash steel one that is somehow better. :/

 

[Fliesen]

Yeah, it's a known issue.

oh ok. because people kept saying "press R2 on character screen" when others asked about how to tell your played time; without adding "but that number's bollocks!"

so i guess it's a known issue but not widely known among players.

Not like it really matters, though.

Best game I've ever played!

Pack it up, generation!

CDPR has rocketed past Rockstar as my favorite devs with this game.

yeah ... no.
In content, maybe. Not in polish.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

So how long is just the main story quests? Im playing on "just the story mode" and I just finished the

Spoiler

Bloody Baron

quest.

Just wondering how long the main quest takes so I can trade it in for ESO by June 9th.

thanks guys!

 

[m_shortpants]

after playing the Witcher 3 did anyone buy the expansion pass? i did and i have no regrets.

Thanks for reminding me, I need to do that. I got the game with my GPU and I'm sure they get money for that, but I need to support them as much as possible because the game is so damn good.

 

[Gr1mLock]

I feel weird replacing my orange-relic sword with some common trash steel one that is somehow better. :/

I know that feel. Im lugging like 7 relic swords just because they're so pretty.

 

[Yeul]

So how long is just the main story quests? Im playing on "just the story mode" and I just finished the

Spoiler

Bloody Baron

quest.

Just wondering how long the main quest takes so I can trade it in for ESO by June 9th.

thanks guys!

I finished the game in about 48 hours give or take.

 

[m_shortpants]

yeah ... no.
In content, maybe. Not in polish.

I'm playing on PC and have had zero problems. *shrug*

 

[Chariot]

So how long is just the main story quests? Im playing on "just the story mode" and I just finished the

Spoiler

Bloody Baron

quest.

Just wondering how long the main quest takes so I can trade it in for ESO by June 9th.

thanks guys!

Man, this post makes me so sad.

I'm playing on PC and have had zero problems. *shrug*

I sadly get some random frezzes sometimes. Keeps my quicksaving finger quick tho.