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The Witcher III: Blood & Wine |OT| One last contract, one last plough

So what do I need to do to get the expansion installed? I have the Season Pass but my TW3 main menu still says "Coming May 31" for Blood & Wine.
 
What platform are you on?

Nevermind. I get so confused by the X1 patch requirements. Sometimes games patch automatically, some require you to launch them to get patched, and in this case, I had to go into the "Manage Game" menu and manually select Blood and Wine to be installed.

So...installing now!
 
Guys, It's so beautiful.

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Biggest downside of new UI is to break apart a material, you have to scroll through so much shit and each time I scroll on ps4 the console stutters. So it made it a chore to get beast mats for the grandmaster armor
 
Some of the references on the graves in Beauclair are hilarious.

There's a Jean-Luc Picard, a traveler from Azeroth and one from Thedas, and even a man of the rare trade known as Bitcher.
 
That second alchemic mutagen perk is insanely good. You can increase sword damage in an alchemic build up to 150% (so far).
 
Not sure what just happened,got to a question mark,a few drunks there but nothing was happening then I have to fight one guy,barefisted,then another joined,I died,woke up saying one hour later...fill something quest lol...oh well,whatever.

And those plants,man who thought those where a good idea with this kind of combat lol...

You dont want to die on the PS4 in this game,the loading to continue from your last save is brutal lol...
 
Actually having this issue as well. Finished the quest and I'm pretty sure I'm still having the issue as well :\

Hope you didn't play on too far. I'm going back 4 hours and I'll just let the quest sit before that point.

I sent in a save file to CDPR support, so hopefully it goes in the eventual patch/hotfix.
 
It's really kind of amazing this game gets all the love from the mainstream and from people who mostly have never touched the books. The expansion so far is hitting book material hard.
Toussaint being largely from the books, meeting Anna Henrietta and having her talk about the incident with Dandelion from the book, the crest choices Geralt has for his heraldry, and mother-fucking Regis.
 
So last night I got back to Witcher 3 after just barely starting it back in September. For some reason my horse was all fucked up. The hair and saddle and eyes were there, but the body model was stretched out triangle glitched, but other horses in the game were fine. I tried different AMD and in-game settings and nothing fixed it. I came to realize/remember that hard drive was failing so hopefully that was it, installing to a different hard drive now.

However, I also did try a few mods to make life easier. Adjustable weight limit, indestructible weapons, wealthy shops, and animals always drop items. All but the shops one gave errors so the game wouldn't load, so I removed the mod folder. I wonder if one of those fucked up the horse somehow. Have these mods just not caught up with the new patch? Anyone using them right now?
 
I love this game and CD Projekt are a pretty fine dev but GoG Galaxy is awful, really bad. Significantly worse than Origin, Uplay, Steam etc. I downloaded the DLC this morning. Went to play the game and no DLC. I'm now re-downloading. Luckily I have unlimited internet but how these things fuck up is beyond me.
 
So last night I got back to Witcher 3 after just barely starting it back in September. For some reason my horse was all fucked up. The hair and saddle and eyes were there, but the body model was stretched out triangle glitched, but other horses in the game were fine. I tried different AMD and in-game settings and nothing fixed it. I came to realize/remember that hard drive was failing so hopefully that was it, installing to a different hard drive now.

However, I also did try a few mods to make life easier. Adjustable weight limit, indestructible weapons, wealthy shops, and animals always drop items. All but the shops one gave errors so the game wouldn't load, so I removed the mod folder. I wonder if one of those fucked up the horse somehow. Have these mods just not caught up with the new patch? Anyone using them right now?

the patch came out yesterday. I'm pretty sure most mods don't work for 1.2 yet.

I'm just waiting here for debug mode. Too lazy to find all the receipts for the School gear.
 
I love this game and CD Projekt are a pretty fine dev but GoG Galaxy is awful, really bad. Significantly worse than Origin, Uplay, Steam etc. I downloaded the DLC this morning. Went to play the game and no DLC. I'm now re-downloading. Luckily I have unlimited internet but how these things fuck up is beyond me.

Yea the way Galaxy handles downloading updates is kind of silly. I have it set to auto-update and I still had to go in and manually check B&W dlc to download/install. Apparently, if you do the verify method, it will only download PART of B&W and then you still need another ~9 gigs or so...eeeeesh. Shouldn't be this hard GoG.
 
Man this DLC is brutal. Everything is destroying me in a few hits on DM. Might have to go grind a few levels from 37...

Any places I can do this quickly?

Might need a better build as well.
 
Yea the way Galaxy handles downloading updates is kind of silly. I have it set to auto-update and I still had to go in and manually check B&W dlc to download/install. Apparently, if you do the verify method, it will only download PART of B&W and then you still need another ~9 gigs or so...eeeeesh. Shouldn't be this hard GoG.

for some reason it keeps uninstalling the 'freebie dlc' pack for me, happened when i loaded the game up before heart of stone, same yesterday lol.
 
Okay, so I started Blood and Wine and went to the Village were you meet
the two Knights, but due to being underlevelled for the fight against the bandits i reloaded the safe before closing in to talk to the knights to level up a bit.
Now I am lv 30 and the red skull is gone from the quest, but the door to the house they are in now is locked.
 
Who else in here a bear bro?

We have the best armor god damn

I just started the Blood and Wine expansion and
the giant and the Bruxa
you fight early on in the Main Quest did like almost no damage to me. I'm playing on Death March NG+ so i'm like lvl 68. So I think with the high defensive stats from the Ursine set and the elemental resistance runes (From Hearts of Stone enchanter) in every socket my Geralt really is built like a tank.

EDIT;
Did they tone down the Deathmarch difficulty? I'm just destroying everything in my path without a scratch.

Im curious about this as well. Human enemies still seem deadly, but monster barely deal damage.
 
I actually haven't ever had any problems with Gog Galaxy. I've used it ever since this game came out. I believe everyone that's having problems and that sucks, just saying I've always had a good experience and like how it's barebones compared to the others right now lol :P
 
Just finished the warble of a smitten knight quest, and i was curious if anyone got a different ending.
vivienne got her curse cured, but looks to only have seven years left of her life. She also got mad at guillaume and sent him away rather than getting his help.
while a good ending, i was wondering if there were different endings if you
tell gillaume rather than keep it a secret like she wants.
 
So I've re-downloaded it. Why is it saying Coming 31st May on the Main Menu? I know I got it because it's showing in my Account as being bought. When I choose a game it's either a new game, new game+ or Hearts of Stone. What the hell. And I have the newest patch.

Yea the way Galaxy handles downloading updates is kind of silly. I have it set to auto-update and I still had to go in and manually check B&W dlc to download/install. Apparently, if you do the verify method, it will only download PART of B&W and then you still need another ~9 gigs or so...eeeeesh. Shouldn't be this hard GoG.
So I have to verify to get the rest of the DLC? Dumb motherfuckers.
 
Exploration music reminds me of this somehow:

https://youtu.be/y_Dgj83Q-50


And also fuuuuuck that grandmaster stuff is expensive to craft. I think I'll be done with the Addon before I have completed a set. Sold pretty much everything expensive and could only afford Chest, SIlver and Steel sword. Gotta work hard for the rest...
 
So I've re-downloaded it. Why is it saying Coming 31st May on the Main Menu? I know I got it because it's showing in my Account as being bought. When I choose a game it's either a new game, new game+ or Hearts of Stone. What the hell. And I have the newest patch.


So I have to verify to get the rest of the DLC? Dumb motherfuckers.

On GoG? Make sure you have it checked under DLC in the settings (should show 3 DLC installed, assuming you have the freebie).

I had to verify to get the patch and then I had to check the DLC for B&W to get that to download. Really assbackwards.
 
Just finished the warble of a smitten knight quest, and i was curious if anyone got a different ending.
vivienne got her curse cured, but looks to only have seven years left of her life. She also got mad at guillaume and sent him away rather than getting his help.
while a good ending, i was wondering if there were different endings if you
tell gillaume rather than keep it a secret like she wants.

I got the same result. I was wondering if i should have
investigated the pond beforehand though, felt like Geralt was trying to clue me into it. Also the bird constantly spying on the group makes me think there was more to it than i figured out.
 
Lvl 40, cat school and feline armor. I rarely spec defense, just run full offense with quen as safety net. I destroyed the
bruxa
in 5 secs lol

That fight (like almost all fights against single opponents) is kinda trivial with a strong Quen but it definitely took me longer than that on a way lower difficulty (normal). You must have an extremely well optimized build, although I don't know how I could enhance my build even further since I already have pretty much all the enhancements in terms of attack power you can have I think.
 
I'm confused as to why I wasn't declared victor
in the melee part
of warble of a smitten knight.
I defeated everyone else, and then the guy declares someone else the winner
 
On GoG? Make sure you have it checked under DLC in the settings (should show 3 DLC installed, assuming you have the freebie).

I had to verify to get the patch and then I had to check the DLC for B&W to get that to download. Really assbackwards.
Thanks. I actually remember now having to tick the box for Hearts of Stone. Must have forgotten about that. But why require ticking the box? I mean every other game I've played that has DLC automatically installs them and they're done. They really need to learn how to streamline and simplify their shopfront/installer.
 
Would anyone do NewGame+ after playing this? It seems kind of pointless to me playing through the entire game with the top equipment and never finding anything better. Or is that not how it is?
 
Would anyone do NewGame+ after playing this? It seems kind of pointless to me playing through the entire game with the top equipment and never finding anything better. Or is that not how it is?

I might consider it, mostly just to have the "look" of a true Witcher (fuck all that random junk armor you had to wear during the majority of a normal playthrough). But yea, aside from that, I don't see much point (achievements/difficulty being the exception).
 
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