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

i feel like I need a freaking wing-suit or something with how vertical this city gets towards the castle. It took me a while to stop thinking "how do I fucking get down again?"
 
Pretty damn interesting they went with
Regis. I never read the novels, but I knew it was him immediately from all the lore books in the Witcher series.
 
So I'm pretty much done. Just got Grandmaster Armours minus Ursine and Manticore to find and like 1 treasure hunt.

Damn went by too fast.
 
EatChildren said:
This is something I've been arguing for awhile, and why Wild Hunt impresses me so goddamn much. Other games look better in the sense that backdrops are handled as just backdrops, and thus the processing cost and vision can be tailored specifically to the context of vistas, but The Witcher 3 manages to look so fucking amazing because almost everything you see is a real place to be visited and explored. It's not just a skybox. Even in Wild Hunt when standing on an edge and can see a dense forest in the distance, you know you can travel all the way there in real time, without a loading screen, and walk right up to each and every tree.
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"See that mountain? You can plough there."
 
Having to do a new game because I lost my saves really killed my hype.
I had all witcher armors fully upgraded.
I have to get over it, the fact that it's a brand new location does help me get into the mindset of starting a new adventure from scratch but damn, this really stings.
Barely had any time to play yesterday too, fuck my life.
 
Mifec said:
So I'm pretty much done. Just got Grandmaster Armours minus Ursine and Manticore to find and like 1 treasure hunt.

Damn went by too fast.
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How long did it take you to go through the main story/sidequests and POIs?
 
Not sure what it is exactly, but the expansion hasn't really grabbed me in the first few hours. Maybe I'm spoiled by Hearts of Stone, but tonally that game just had me 100% invested immediately, there was something tonally that struck a chord with me immediately entering Von Everic's mansion -- here, the setting seems quite interesting, as does the Duchess, but so far it's not quite at the last expansion level for me, at least not yet.
 
A question for Gwent card collectors.

If I failed High Stakes, shouldn't the quest Collect 'em all automatically fail? I dont remember if I failed that quest, but I remember that dwarf absolutely destroyed me. IDR if I tried it multiple times.
 
Hasemo said:
How long did it take you to go through the main story/sidequests and POIs?
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I finished some quests and 2 main story ones + all the POI stuff and Grandmaster Ursine from like 2am till 4pm. Then I woke up at 4am today and finished the rest of the quests I had and main story by 9am. I have to reload my save and do one divergent path still. Pissed me off pretty hard that they'd exclude it.
 
Just finished my first playthrough of Far Harbour at the weekend (loved it), took a break for a couple of days and got a wee start on Blood and Wine last night.

Loving it.

I enjoyed the way it starts with some big fights against different enemy types. I've got a half Signs/half Potions build that is working well and I was right back in the swing of things, downing Decoctions and Potions, applying Oils, swapping out Signs, throwing my awesome Clusterbombs...

Now things seem to have quieted down a touch and I'm excited to go explore some of this big, beautiful map. And as much as I like strutting in my new Ofieri robes, I really can't wait to see how the Grandmaster Wolven armour looks.
 
EatChildren said:
This is something I've been arguing for awhile, and why Wild Hunt impresses me so goddamn much. Other games look better in the sense that backdrops are handled as just backdrops, and thus the processing cost and vision can be tailored specifically to the context of vistas, but The Witcher 3 manages to look so fucking amazing because almost everything you see is a real place to be visited and explored. It's not just a skybox. Even in Wild Hunt when standing on an edge and can see a dense forest in the distance, you know you can travel all the way there in real time, without a loading screen, and walk right up to each and every tree.

[my shot of almost the exact same vista]
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No you can't as I said earlier on the thread that huge mountain that exists is just there for decoration and you can't go anywhere close.

"You see that mountain over there? Yeah you can't go there...."
 
EatChildren said:
This is something I've been arguing for awhile, and why Wild Hunt impresses me so goddamn much. Other games look better in the sense that backdrops are handled as just backdrops, and thus the processing cost and vision can be tailored specifically to the context of vistas, but The Witcher 3 manages to look so fucking amazing because almost everything you see is a real place to be visited and explored. It's not just a skybox. Even in Wild Hunt when standing on an edge and can see a dense forest in the distance, you know you can travel all the way there in real time, without a loading screen, and walk right up to each and every tree.

[my shot of almost the exact same vista]

witcher32016-05-2917-fts7k.jpg
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It really is amazing. Was doing the Cat School scavenger hunt and went sailed from the tower of Novigrad to just past the lighthouse at night during a storm, Novigrad's lights sinking into the distance as I sailed. So simple, yet breathtaking.

No other game captures this sense of scale and tangible world like Wild Hunt. Haven't sunk my teeth into Blood and Wine yet, but ecstatic to hear it keeps this awe inspiring trait.

Made all the more impressive and immersive by being able to see in and out of Windows.
 
This addon is way too fucking hard. I'm dying a lot, even on easy difficulty the enemies deal insane damage....and then the 1-2 minute loading screen every time. Ffs. This can't be right.

Edit: Nope. This quest is a fucking joke. Frustrating shit.
 
Seem to be facing a bug with the "Till Death Do You Part" side-quest...

I chose to move the guy so I could get the gwent cards from the lady, and defeating the archespore in that yard doesn't seem to yield the cards.
Has anyone else faced this issue?
 
The perfect Dark said:
This addon is way too fucking hard. I'm dying a lot, even on easy difficulty the enemies deal insane damage....and then the 1-2 minute loading screen every time. Ffs. This can't be right.

Edit: Nope. This quest is a fucking joke. Frustrating shit.
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Which quest? What's your level?
 
Nere said:
No you can't as I said earlier on the thread that huge mountain that exists is just there for decoration and you can't go anywhere close.

"You see that mountain over there? Yeah you can't go there...."
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The maps have always had boundaries. I don't see how it is anymore more egregious than normal that it just happens to be a mountain in the distance instead of a lake, forest or open ocean.
 
Nere said:
No you can't as I said earlier on the thread that huge mountain that exists is just there for decoration and you can't go anywhere close.

"You see that mountain over there? Yeah you can't go there...."
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I mean, obviously there's a limit to it. The game is not infinite. But for the most part, when you look out in the distance, you can go where you see, and without loading screens.


As I said, you can see Novigrad from many miles away, ride there, and walk into an inn, grab an ale, and look out the window back at the place you traveled from, and never see a loading screen. It's insane.

The perfect Dark said:
This addon is way too fucking hard. I'm dying a lot, even on easy difficulty the enemies deal insane damage....and then the 1-2 minute loading screen every time. Ffs. This can't be right.

Edit: Nope. This quest is a fucking joke. Frustrating shit.
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I find that 99% of the time, in The Witcher series, when I find something frustratingly difficult, it's because I'm not properly prepared or tackling the fight in the right way.


The series is unique in the way that you really do have to know your enemy/prey before you fight it, and prep accordingly.
 
Gotta say the romance side of things is very disappointing in this DLC. Only one option, and it's some random girl who goes
we won a big fight
, lets fuck? Feels like CDPR tacked it on as an afterthought because they needed a way to get Geralt laid. I'd rather they had picked someone who Geralt had a history with (maybe Fringilla Vigo?) like
Shani
in Hearts of Stone instead of her.

Shani
is still one of the most well done romance options in W3 (also Yennefer) after Hearts of Stone to be honest.
 
Nere said:
No you can't as I said earlier on the thread that huge mountain that exists is just there for decoration and you can't go anywhere close.

"You see that mountain over there? Yeah you can't go there...."
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Well that's why I said almost everything.
 
The perfect Dark said:
I'm level 41

It's the quest where you have to kill
the statues after a short ceremony
. The game loads and before I can move my life bar is already at 50%.
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I didn't have a problem with my health going down rapidly before I could move, I'm not sure why that's happening to you. I do think one of the mage spells is OP because there's no travel time and it does lots of damage. Use Northern Wind and/or Dancing Star bombs as a form of crowd control. That will allow you to kill them off one or two at a time as needed.
 
BeeDog said:
Seem to be facing a bug with the "Till Death Do You Part" side-quest...

I chose to move the guy so I could get the gwent cards from the lady, and defeating the archespore in that yard doesn't seem to yield the cards.
Has anyone else faced this issue?
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You don't get the cards from killing the archespore, you have to loot the garden, under the roses.
 
BeeDog said:
Seem to be facing a bug with the "Till Death Do You Part" side-quest...

I chose to move the guy so I could get the gwent cards from the lady, and defeating the archespore in that yard doesn't seem to yield the cards.
Has anyone else faced this issue?
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As someone else said you have to examine the roses but then again you won't get anything if you already have the cards.

The cards are Barclay Els and Bruxa I believe.
 
FYI, the alchemist in the city is invaluable for cleaning up your high level recipes. He'll sells manuscripts for recipes you haven't found yet (so if you're missing your missing Superior Insectoid Oil or something he should have it), along with the rare minerals you usually need to craft via White Gull just as an ingredient for those high level recipes.
 
Whoever voiced the zealot lady near the tourney
"The Gods have sent the BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST as punishment for our sins!"
should get a VA award.
 
Artdayne said:
I didn't have a problem with my health going down rapidly before I could move, I'm not sure why that's happening to you. I do think one of the mage spells is OP because there's no travel time and it does lots of damage. Use Northern Wind and/or Dancing Star bombs as a form of crowd control. That will allow you to kill them off one or two at a time as needed.
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Thanks I'll try it!
 
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