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[Dangoesforth]

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fighting with higher vampires really makes the wild hunt seem weak. pretty sure regis would have tore those stupid evil elf people a new asshole by himself.

The mission where you have

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both higher vampires fighting with you was insane, I just waited and watched in awe.

 

[frontovik]

The visuals! *swoons*

screenies:

 

[m_dorian]

I am currently on my third playthrough, slowlly getting to Skellige isles and enjoying all the way..
I came to post my praise for the superb voice acting this game has.

Edit: ^ There's a dog riding a horse? lol

 

[GwyndolinCinder]

Any fix for lock on bug?

 

[Copper]

Don't ever use GOG Galaxy, it's shit. GOG downloader is the way to go.

Gog galaxy seems to work really well for me. I was getting 12 MB/s downloaded the expansion in about 15 min

 

[Exentryk]

Bosses have been fun but that 3rd boss was sure a pain in the ass

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because of Palmerin's dumb AI... I had times where I had the boss down to 20% with Palmerin not even hurt, and then he goes and stands beside it while it does that AOE attack and he gets absolutely destroyed. Wasn't a hard boss but it was tricky to keep that idiot from dying hehe though when I finally did keep him alive, I do so without him even being hurt at all lol https://youtu.be/7KqAYOl708M?t=4091

I just did that (third) boss last night. Let's just say the fight was over pretty quickly, lol.

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(https://youtu.be/3dB1oJX0bzs)

 

[Rellik]

New UI is fucking horrible. I'm beyond frustrated with it to the point I quit. I'm not playing this game again until CDPR fixes it. Maybe it's not an issue on PC (although I've read that there's considerable menu lag even on that platform) but on PS4 it's worse than ever. The menu is complete shit in every way- 3-4 seconds to switch between tabs, tons of lag and lack of response while viewing items, and the the sort function doesn't even fucking work. Like you literally sort -> price and the result is a random clusterfuck of items that makes it a complete chore to find what you want to sell, and the "star" indicating you have new items is useless because they are randomly scattered through your laggy-ass inventory, and with the new pop up box blocking your view, it's a big pain in the ass to find anything anyway.

After a year on the market and 15 or so patches, I can't believe it's at it's worst now. Maybe I'm just picky, but it's unplayable for me due to the fact that it makes me angry instead of giving me enjoyment. Perhaps CDPR thought they were doing the community a favor with this, but clearly they didn't have it tested beyond their studio.

Am I insane or does anyone else feel the same way?

Although I agree the delay is annoying, most people feel the new UI is a positive change.

My only complaints are the million of bugs that have been added like the floating body parts and camps so populated the PS4 can't handle it and just crashes. But they aren't enough to rob my enjoyment of this amazing game and expansion.

 

[Yeul]

Edit: ^ There's a dog riding a horse? lol

A donkey lol. With a cat and rooster on top of the dog. It's based on the Bremen Town Musicians.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Yup, though I'm more annoyed that they removed slow walking. I liked slowly strolling through a village, to watch NPC's go about their day. Now he's always going at a brisk pace, like he's in some kind of hurry.

Did this break again? I'm having a hard time with slow walking again too.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

To people who have completed BW and HoS;

Does it make sense to play the expansion areas after the main quest (for chronologically make the narrative best?)

 

[Flipyap]

Are there any Ekimmaras in Blood and Wine, or can we at least buy their hides?
I'd really like to be able to finally complete my oil collection.

 

[Sifl]

I just realized you can put sockets on special weapons like

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Aerondight

. Time to spend like 10k gold and slap a severance runeword on this.

 

[Exentryk]

Anyone using a ds4windows setup for instant sign casting?

The profile I used for the vanilla game+HoS doesnt seem to be fully working anymore. The touchpad swipes for ui stuff still works fine but the R2+face buttons to cast base signs and R2+HOLD face button to cast secondary are not.

My Inputmapper profile still works. Haven't been keeping track of DS4Windows profiles, but if you want to try inputmapper, use the profile in this mod and then edit accordingly.

 

[Hysterical]

This fucking soundtrack man...smh. Soooo good

 

[SugarDave]

Crafted all of the Grandmaster armour and weapons, have them proudly on display at Corvo Bianco. Is there no Viper School variant of it? I'm so lost in this, I can easily see myself putting 50 hours into it. You can tell CDPR decided to have a lot of fun with some of the dialogue and references too, I assume the 'Golden Stick of Joy' you can display at home is meant to represent them winning GOTY at the Golden Joysticks.

Anyone know what the cooking recipes you find from the Spoon Key quest can be used for?

Love this track.

 

[mileS]

^ how dare you kill that dwarf 87 times in a row with bees

Not trying to sound like 'one of those people' but I'm surprised at the amount of people that actually noticed or even used lock on for any of the game.

In most cases it only makes the game harder (but not in a good way)

 

[Hostile_18]

New UI is fucking horrible. I'm beyond frustrated with it to the point I quit. I'm not playing this game again until CDPR fixes it. Maybe it's not an issue on PC (although I've read that there's considerable menu lag even on that platform) but on PS4 it's worse than ever. The menu is complete shit in every way- 3-4 seconds to switch between tabs, tons of lag and lack of response while viewing items, and the the sort function doesn't even fucking work. Like you literally sort -> price and the result is a random clusterfuck of items that makes it a complete chore to find what you want to sell, and the "star" indicating you have new items is useless because they are randomly scattered through your laggy-ass inventory, and with the new pop up box blocking your view, it's a big pain in the ass to find anything anyway.

After a year on the market and 15 or so patches, I can't believe it's at it's worst now. Maybe I'm just picky, but it's unplayable for me due to the fact that it makes me angry instead of giving me enjoyment. Perhaps CDPR thought they were doing the community a favor with this, but clearly they didn't have it tested beyond their studio.

Am I insane or does anyone else feel the same way?

Must admit the slow response time of the UI is a strong negative on an amazing game. I don't think it was the redesign though as it was going pretty slow before. Maybe it's just an end game problem with having too many items at once on your person?

 

[Wagram]

Is the story mysterious or not? The marketing made it seem like a dark secret would unfold. Really curious but the comments seem to be that the story isn't that focused nor as meaty as the HoS story.

Based on what i've experienced in about an hour and a half of the main story is that it's decent. However, I don't like it as much as the main campaign or HoS.

 

[Exentryk]

Not trying to sound like 'one of those people' but I'm surprised at the amount of people that actually noticed or even used lock on for any of the game.

In most cases it only makes the game harder (but not in a good way)

Yeah, I've never used lock on.

 

[Nordicus]

Got my first B&W quest bug. Nothing too major but still irritating. Geralt's villa

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apparently has a certain "hidden" room behind a destructible wall in the cellar that the Majordomo informs you about, but in my game, the shelf blocking the destructible wall has not been moved despite the quest telling me to go there and check the room out

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Got my first B&W quest bug. Nothing too major but still irritating. Geralt's villa

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apparently has a certain "hidden" room behind a destructible wall in the cellar that the Majordomo informs you about, but in my game, the shelf blocking the destructible wall has not been moved despite the quest telling me to go there

Have you upgraded the vineyard yet?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Is there a way to revert to the old control scheme for the sign wheel? You used to scroll with the right stick, now it's the left stick. It's a minor thing, but I was trying to equip stuff and nothing was registering, and then I randomly started throwing the wrong grenade because I thought I was still perusing the wheel. It seems completely unnecessary to change how that functions after getting used to it for a solid year.

 

[Nordicus]

Have you upgraded the vineyard yet?

Yes, got the first 3 upgrades that were available.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

Yes, got the first 3 upgrades that were available.

Ah, must be a bug then. Try reloading the save prior to the upgrade?

 

[Nordicus]

Ah, must be a bug then. Try reloading the save prior to the upgrade?

And undo the three in-game days of progress I spent actually doing quests rather than cheese the building time by meditating?

Yeeeeeaaaa nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[chefbags]

Fuck this game okay? I just fought

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Caretaker

on Deathmarch and beat him on the first try without wasting resources, and then the game FUCKING freezes during the cutscene; it didn't fucking autosave after the end of the boss fight.

WHY THE FUCKING FUCK YOU WOULDN'T PROGRAM THE GAME TO SAVE AFTER A MAJOR FUCKING BOSS BATTLE.

I've sunk in 240 hours and I am ready to delete this fucking turd now. I had nothing but issues every time they release a major update.

OK you can voice your opinion without going full on destructo rant man.

 

[Ruthless_Barbarian]

And undo the three in-game days of progress I spent actually doing quests rather than cheese the building time by meditating?

Yeeeeeaaaa nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Mistakes were made.

Meditating is not cheesing lol

 

[OverturePT]

Is there something else, apart from the vineyard upgrades, one needs to do to get people to visit? Is it something that's only available after a certain point in the main quest?

 

[azumihack]

nice tune.
https://youtu.be/TRT3FOOk9ZI?t=1h24m30s

 

[Hobbestetrician]

LOL. Same here, dude. Screw your potentially important matters which requires Geralt's assistance, NPCs. Gwent first, talky after.

Still wrecking everyone in Toussaint with my Northern Realm deck. Don't fuck with King Foltest's crew...lol

Managed to score 239 in a round today with my Northern Realms against Nilfgaard. Spies everywhere.

Love the look people give when you ask them if they play Gwent. Their face says "fuck yes, I play Gwent, let's go!"

Cerys' card is amazing, can be worth like 46 points. The Queen stay The Queen.

 

[Tenacious-D]

Torn between the Manticore and Grandmaster Ursine.

Manticore is awesome and fits Toussaint, but Grandmaster Ursine is so badass!

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Found the place with white and pink dye diagrams

It's not easy though. You gotta fight like a

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whole base full of bandits

who are like level 46-48

 

[Brandon F]

New UI is fucking horrible. I'm beyond frustrated with it to the point I quit. I'm not playing this game again until CDPR fixes it. Maybe it's not an issue on PC (although I've read that there's considerable menu lag even on that platform) but on PS4 it's worse than ever. The menu is complete shit in every way- 3-4 seconds to switch between tabs, tons of lag and lack of response while viewing items, and the the sort function doesn't even fucking work. Like you literally sort -> price and the result is a random clusterfuck of items that makes it a complete chore to find what you want to sell, and the "star" indicating you have new items is useless because they are randomly scattered through your laggy-ass inventory, and with the new pop up box blocking your view, it's a big pain in the ass to find anything anyway.

After a year on the market and 15 or so patches, I can't believe it's at it's worst now. Maybe I'm just picky, but it's unplayable for me due to the fact that it makes me angry instead of giving me enjoyment. Perhaps CDPR thought they were doing the community a favor with this, but clearly they didn't have it tested beyond their studio.

Am I insane or does anyone else feel the same way?

To be fair, the menu lag has pervaded the game since launch. Does at times feel slightly worse now, but hard to gauge as it was pretty bad before.

I do find the floating tooltip a real annoyance as well(makes picking through a massive tiledump in your bags a claustrophobic experience as it gets in the way moreso than it helps compared to before).

Otherwise, there are so many improvements that its hard to really be that upset. Better organized, many great new features I wish I had during vanilla. Hell, you can now click R3 to read books and notes you just picked up without scavenging for them in that shoddy inventory menu! Newcomers have no idea the frustration that was with before...so many little touches like these all over. I dig it, but it still has room for improvement sure.

 

[Dmax3901]

There's a square in Beauclair with a statue of a horse and it's called Epona Square

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

Grandmaster Griffin set is actually bananas.

Add to the fact that you run around machine gunning igni because of the 3 piece set bonus.

How are you getting a 60% bump from your greater mutagens?

I need this in my life

 

[Sifl]

How are you getting a 60% bump from your greater mutagens?

I need this in my life

It's 1 of the alchemy skills he has equipped. Increase the bonus mutagens give.

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Question

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What happens if you let Syvanna die? Does the douchess live?

 

[Exentryk]

How are you getting a 60% bump from your greater mutagens?

I need this in my life

The Alchemy skill called Synergy is the one you need. No build should exist without it.

 

[Hasemo]

Reposting my question about a possibly bugged quest/POI (PS4):

I think I have found one bugged sidequest very early in the new area - since there are no walkthroughs yet, I don't know if it's an actual bug or if I'm just missing something.

It's a quest which starts by killing bandits (I think it's a "hidden treasure" point of interest). You are supposed to get into a gardener's workshop and one of the enemies drops a key and a letter/document. There are 2 doors in the area, but both give me the "it's closed" message - I tried looking around for a secret entrance but haven't found anything.

Am I missing a secret entrance or should the key be working on one of the doors?
The quest in question should something with a "gardener" (Unfaithful Gardener would be a direct translation from Polish).

 

[~Kinggi~]

motherfuckas patched the bee trick so that the bees will distinctly attack you and leave the nest so you cant get close enough to AARD it. bastards. Always die now trying to move it.

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

It's 1 of the alchemy skills he has equipped. Increase the bonus mutagens give.

The Alchemy skill called Synergy is the one you need. No build should exist without it.

Indeed. Thank you

 

[Sifl]

Does the side quest

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Big Feet to Fill

give anything cool as a reward? Cause it's bugged for me.

 

[erawsd]

My Inputmapper profile still works. Haven't been keeping track of DS4Windows profiles, but if you want to try inputmapper, use the profile in this mod and then edit accordingly.

Awesome man, thanks!

 

[Stealthcobra]

New UI is fucking horrible. I'm beyond frustrated with it to the point I quit. I'm not playing this game again until CDPR fixes it. Maybe it's not an issue on PC (although I've read that there's considerable menu lag even on that platform) but on PS4 it's worse than ever. The menu is complete shit in every way- 3-4 seconds to switch between tabs, tons of lag and lack of response while viewing items, and the the sort function doesn't even fucking work. Like you literally sort -> price and the result is a random clusterfuck of items that makes it a complete chore to find what you want to sell, and the "star" indicating you have new items is useless because they are randomly scattered through your laggy-ass inventory, and with the new pop up box blocking your view, it's a big pain in the ass to find anything anyway.

After a year on the market and 15 or so patches, I can't believe it's at it's worst now. Maybe I'm just picky, but it's unplayable for me due to the fact that it makes me angry instead of giving me enjoyment. Perhaps CDPR thought they were doing the community a favor with this, but clearly they didn't have it tested beyond their studio.

Am I insane or does anyone else feel the same way?

this has not been my experience.. switching tabs is almost instant for me.. I'm on ps4

 

[cackhyena]

I'm surprised people find the menus slower. They are definitely improved for me on ps4. Pretty much everything is greatly improved. Lots of quality of life stuff.

 

[Alucrid]

Reposting my question about a possibly bugged quest/POI (PS4):

had the same thing. never figured it out. decided to just leave it be

 

[I_D]

Sorry if it's already answered, or this isn't the place, but has anybody gotten PhotoMode2inOne to work with the expansion? I can get a free camera, but I can't pause the game or change weather, etc.

 

[Exentryk]

I'm surprised people find the menus slower. They are definitely improved for me on ps4. Pretty much everything is greatly improved. Lots of quality of life stuff.

PC users have never experienced any slow menu issues up until this UI upgrade, so that's probably some of the complaints. This might have to do with how much stuff you have as well, but it wasn't ever an issue previously.
The console users have always had slower UI issues, so it actually might be improved for them.

 

[frontovik]

Question

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What happens if you let Syvanna die? Does the douchess live?

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IIRC, it's either both sisters die or they reconcile.

 

[The Dear Leader]

I'm having too much fun looking fabulous in all pink Manticore Witcher armor, this dye mechanic is great, I've bought up about every color I can find.