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

Finally finished the main quest.
I'm blown away by how good this expansion is, just like I was with HoS.
I feel like I should've paid more for it lol.

Was really pleased with the ending I got which seems to be the best possible outcome.

I withheld the information about Syanna's last victim in the hopes that they would reconcile and I was really pleased that it turned out that way. I almost told the guard about it to get him to let me in but then it ocurred to me that keeping it a secret could pay off. Then when I saw the dialogue option about telling Syanna to forgive her sister I knew it was possible.
That last talk with Regis and returning to Corvo Bianco with Yen waiting, it was perfection. It actually feels too perfect, certainly not something Sapkowski would write lol.
So I'm assuming that if you don't give Syanna the ribbon she dies?

All in all it was fantastic, I already said this a few pages back but the
land of fables
was probably my favorite part of the game.
Everything about this expansion is just so damn good. 10/10 without a doubt.
 
Am I losing my mind or is movement more laggy after installing the DLC? Geralt has a pause before moving now that I haven't felt before. I made sure I was using the alt movement too, but he feels heavier.
 
Is the game more visually glitchy than it was at launch?

I'm playing through the story again before I get back into the DLC, and I swear I see more dumb glitchy shit happening, like hair clipping, objects moving on their own, getting stuck on geometry, etc.
 
orthodoxy1095 said:
Is the game more visually glitchy than it was at launch?

I'm playing through the story again before I get back into the DLC, and I swear I see more dumb glitchy shit happening, like hair clipping, objects moving on their own, getting stuck on geometry, etc.
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Weird shit happens on old save games. I started my game when Witcher III first released (May 2015) and I get a lot of whacky stuff going on - distant trees flickering in and out, NPCs bumping into things, collision issues on the horse, etc.

Playing a new game, I don't get hardly any of that stuff. For example, on the main bridge in Novigrad, my old save game has a bunch of random barrels rolling around that all the NPCs confusedly bump into, which causes all these knocking noises. There are also like, chests and boxes that are embedded halfway into the street there. When I go to the same spot on a freshly started game, the bridge is totally clear - just normal NPCs walking their normal path.

So if you've had the misfortune of surviving the 10+ patches that they've done for the game on a single playthrough, there's gonna be some residual weirdness. But I don't know, it sounds like you started a new game and are seeing that. It's not the MOST bug free game in the world, I will admit that.
 
CHC said:
Weird shit happens on old save games. I started my game when Witcher III first released (May 2015) and I get a lot of whacky stuff going on - distant trees flickering in and out, NPCs bumping into things, collision issues on the horse, etc.

Playing a new game, I don't get hardly any of that stuff. For example, on the main bridge in Novigrad, my old save game has a bunch of random barrels rolling around that all the NPCs confusedly bump into, which causes all these knocking noises. There are also like, chests and boxes that are embedded halfway into the street there. When I go to the same spot on a freshly started game, the bridge is totally clear - just normal NPCs walking their normal path.

So if you've had the misfortune of surviving the 10+ patches that they've done for the game on a single playthrough, there's gonna be some residual weirdness. But I don't know, it sounds like you started a new game and are seeing that. It's not the MOST bug free game in the world, I will admit that.
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I guess that explains it.

I finished the game back when it came out (think I was done by June '15). Didn't touch the game for months, but kept my save file around.

I started my new game as a NG+ file off that old save. So something must be screwy about that. I remember last year there was some weird pop-in and such here and there, but nothing like the weird shit I see now.

It's just kinda immersion breaking when you're at an emotional reunion scene and the woman's hair is flickering in and out of her body and items on her belt are spinning like they're possessed :p
 
Oh yeah, did anybody else have that glitch at the start of Blood and Wine in the cutscene where
Milton and whatshisname shows us the drawings but... the drawings aren't there? I wanted to see the drawings.
So, yeah. That kinda sucked.
 
Just finished Hearts of Stone. What a fantastic expansion. I think the HoS main quest is better than the vanilla game, by far. Such a tragic tale.

I loved how it focused on a small cast of characters, yet the villain felt more threatening than the entire Wild Hunt combined.

Fantastic characters. amazing new theme (nice touch that the kids are singing it near the von Everec estate), nice to see some old friends too.

Downloading Blood and Wine as I type this, hope it's as good as HoS.

As for the ending:

I helped Olgierd by tricking Dimm. He wasn't a bad person, just extremely misguided by love and greed. I also released his wife, seemed like all she had was painful memories. The rose wasn't enough to warrant eternal grief, so I took it.
 
Just discovered a Hanse base for the first time and fought all the homies inside to the bitter end
because the runner got to light the signal fire in time
. Its still blowing my mind that 221 hours into this game, new things are still being introduced.
 
I finished everything up last Thursday. Spent another couple of hours just enjoying Toussaint. 148 hours 26 minutes when I saved and switched off. Saturday came around and I went to remove the disc from the PS4 to finally kick off Doom after spending all of June and upto now in July with Geralt.

I didn't remove the disc. I just started NG+ on Death March instead. Another 17 hours down.

This game man. It has me whipped.
 
Well, gave up on the gwent tournament. After it taking 5 tries to beat the first guy and 4 tries in against the second, I decided having to keep reloading is probably not worth whatever you get for advancing in the tournament. The skellige deck is really not for me.
 
roytheone said:
Well, gave up on the gwent tournament. After it taking 5 tries to beat the first guy and 4 tries in against the second, I decided having to keep reloading is probably not worth whatever you get for advancing in the tournament. The skellige deck is really not for me.
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Have you collected every Skellige card? Be sure to use your leaders ability against Nilfgaard because they have a ton of spies and can bring people back, your leader card disables that for a round.

I couldn't do it the first time because my deck wasn't complete. After I got them all I did it in 2 tries I believe. Cerys + the handmaidens is very powerful. I also brought 2-3 decoys because they can be used against Nilfgaard too.
 
I'm about 15 hours past the end of Blood & Wine, just clearing ? when I run into an entirely new side mission structure and a new monster.

150+ hours in, new missions and monsters.

This game.
 
CosmicQueso said:
I'm about 15 hours past the end of Blood & Wine, just clearing ? when I run into an entirely new side mission structure and a new monster.

150+ hours in, new missions and monsters.

This game.
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I bought both expansions, but I'm not even done with the base game, lol. I'm still looking for Ciri, but all the side missions and "?" on the map have had me busy for a long time. Every time I clear out an area, I check the map and there's 20 more question marks, lol. I thought about ignoring some, but I just can't. The side missions can sometimes be huge undertakings that are just as fun, if not more enjoyable than the main story. This game is an incredible achievement, and I don't know how CDPR got all this done in the time they did.
 
My completionist OCD is killing me... I stumbled upon a checklist of all quests and noticed a few were missable, ever since I've been going through the list instead of going through the game naturally. I'm getting 1XP and like 30 gold per quest and fast travelling around. I am not having much fun but I can't stop. I don't know why I am so afraid to miss stuff, probably because evrything is so well-written I want to catch every little event. What do I do to get out of this mentality GAF?
 
Robiin said:
My completionist OCD is killing me... I stumbled upon a checklist of all quests and noticed a few were missable, ever since I've been going through the list instead of going through the game naturally. I'm getting 1XP and like 30 gold per quest and fast travelling around. I am not having much fun but I can't stop. I don't know why I am so afraid to miss stuff, probably because evrything is so well-written I want to catch every little event. What do I do to get out of this mentality GAF?
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Umm I got a message that said if I continue I'm not going to be able to finish "certain quests". Does that mean they will automatically fail or I just won't be able to finish them at that point?
 
Robiin said:
My completionist OCD is killing me... I stumbled upon a checklist of all quests and noticed a few were missable, ever since I've been going through the list instead of going through the game naturally.
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I'm sorry. This sounds really awful. I honestly hope you can get past that.
 
Robiin said:
My completionist OCD is killing me... I stumbled upon a checklist of all quests and noticed a few were missable, ever since I've been going through the list instead of going through the game naturally. I'm getting 1XP and like 30 gold per quest and fast travelling around. I am not having much fun but I can't stop. I don't know why I am so afraid to miss stuff, probably because evrything is so well-written I want to catch every little event. What do I do to get out of this mentality GAF?
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If I don't think something is fun to do, I don't do it. I didn't go after every question mark in the game and still had a blast. I'd play the game without a checklist and get quests naturally.
 
Well the day has finally come. I have completed The Witcher games. Still remember when the first one came out and getting lost in the story/world. What a fantastic series, one that I will hold in memory for years.

Enjoy the vineyard life Geralt, you deserve it.
 
Ugh sometimes I wish CDPR didn't work so hard on their games.

I swear to god I've played 300 hours and only done one playthrough. I have been dying to start a new one but not until the game is "finished." First I was waiting for Blood and Wine to launch, now I'm waiting for the Game of the Year edition to see if they make any more changes or stamp out the last few bugs.

I know it's really pedantic and weird but I just can't get fully involved in a fresh playthrough until I know they're done making changes.

But I love CDPR. I do.
 
orthodoxy1095 said:
I guess that explains it.

I finished the game back when it came out (think I was done by June '15). Didn't touch the game for months, but kept my save file around.

I started my new game as a NG+ file off that old save. So something must be screwy about that. I remember last year there was some weird pop-in and such here and there, but nothing like the weird shit I see now.

It's just kinda immersion breaking when you're at an emotional reunion scene and the woman's hair is flickering in and out of her body and items on her belt are spinning like they're possessed :p
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Yeah it's got to be that. That's why I'm doing a plain old New Game as opposed to NG+. Just a lot of weird old code that is embedded in that save file I guess, no real way to scrub it out. Never see any of that weird stuff on a fresh start, or at least I see much, much less of it.
 
So after hearts of stone (which I actually just finished and thought was absolutely amazing), the first 4-5 hours of blood and wine have been a little bit of a let down. Does the story pick up at all?

Also, CDPR definitely went overboard with the filtering in toussaint. Dear God, it's tough to look at in the daytime.
 
Fourman said:
Well the day has finally come. I have completed The Witcher games. Still remember when the first one came out and getting lost in the story/world. What a fantastic series, one that I will hold in memory for years.

Enjoy the vineyard life Geralt, you deserve it.
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I can't bring myself to play Blood and Wine.

Well... I've already spent 15 hours on it but I don't want to finish it...

I was there since the Witcher 1 ... I'm not ready for it to end ...
 
BumRush said:
So after hearts of stone (which I actually just finished and thought was absolutely amazing), the first 4-5 hours of blood and wine have been a little bit of a let down. Does the story pick up at all?
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Main questline does pick up, but the general opinion is that the story and its characters aren't as strong as the smaller Hearts of Stone. It'll be more reminiscent of the experience you had in the main game, exploring a large new land, while tending to the main quest when you feel like it.

Unfortunately, once you get into the main questline, there aren't as many lulls as you would find in the main game to comfortably trail off and explore secondary objectives. You'll literally have to put the main questline on hold to do the other stuff, and it doesn't quite feel as "natural" as it would in the main game's search for Ciri 'n such. Once you meet
The Beast and Regis
things really get going, and while you're given the option to hold off on moving on to the next thing later on, it doesn't feel appropriate to do so... Am I making sense to anyone else? >_<

Also, CDPR definitely went overboard with the filtering in toussaint. Dear God, it's tough to look at in the daytime.
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Supposed to accentuate that fairy tale feeling of the place, but I can understand why some folks don't like it.

Iceternal said:
I can't bring myself to play Blood and Wine.

Well... I've already spent 15 hours on it but I don't want to finish it...

I was there since the Witcher 1 ... I'm not ready for it to end ...
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I was the same way. Enjoy it as much as you can while it lasts, man.
 
BumRush said:
Also, CDPR definitely went overboard with the filtering in toussaint. Dear God, it's tough to look at in the daytime.
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I sincerely hope that in some future patch they tone it down A LITTLE. I get what they are going for but it doesn't look good - there is no gradation from dark to light, it's just all blown out. If you play all of Blood and Wine without leaving, and then travel back to Velen or Skellige, it's mind-blowing how much better they look.
 
Finally completed the main quest and got the tragic ending where
Anna and her sister die
.

Very tough pill to swallow since I don't feel like I made any "bad" choices, per se.
 
orthodoxy1095 said:
I haven't gotten to B&W yet and HoS just bankrupted me -_-
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Don't worry, man. It's easy to get money in Toussaint. Every merchant there pays a shit ton more than... every merchant in all of the main game. The lowest price I've sold a rope ladder in Toussaint was 19 gold. Freaking nineteen! And if you've got jewelry, you can go to one of the inns/bars in Beauclair (the underground-looking one, not "The Pheasantry") for the highest price. Although that merchant doesn't have a lot of money, so you can kind of only sell one at a time... Of course, the other merchants will pay a lot of money for them too. Looting bandits and shit is also really lucrative, since you can sell their weapons for at least 500 gold each. Dump it at the gradmaster blacksmith/armorer guy. He deserves to lose all his money. Speaking of which, if I recall correctly, blacksmiths and armorers are the second-highest paying merchants for jewelries.

I've finished the game already and have fully upgrade my vineyard, and even crafted two grandmaster sets, and I've still got... about 90,000 plus? Highest I ever got in the main game was 30,000 plus, so yeah. Toussaint is just awesome.

The best place to sell anything at, though, is at the third inn/bar in Beauclair. Near the South entrance, I believe? The innkeeper buys at full price, I believe. He has a little more money than the other innkeeper person I mentioned above. And he sells food and drinks, so you can help refill his cash if you're just looking to dump your loot for the highest price or lose weight. It's unlockable via side quest (can't remember if it was a contract or just a secondary quest) and I didn't even realize it was there til the end of my game?
It's the quest "Father Knows Worst." I don't know if you'll unlock it if you don't successfully get the brothers to reconcile. Just, be smart and don't let violence happen.
 
Got the "worst" ending
but I'd finished everything so goddess Yen showed up for the happy ending I got in the epilogue of the main game's ending. So, bittersweet ending for me, I'd say. The two sisters died, though I felt the most sorry for Annarietta. Poor woman just wanted to make up with her sister, perhaps unreasonably so, considering her crimes. Dettlaff died, a fool too easily duped and too emotionally unstable and for his crime of causing the massacre of innocents on the Night of Fangs. Regis is now a marked man in Toussaint, which sucks, but he had my back and I'll have his, so I can't complain. All this and there still a huge chunk of decisions I could have made both on this path and if I had chosen to go reason with the Unseen Elder. This game is unbelievable. Based CDPR&#65279;
 
Ricky Ricardo said:
Got the "worst" ending
but I'd finished everything so goddess Yen showed up for the happy ending I got in the epilogue of the main game's ending. So, bittersweet ending for me, I'd say. The two sisters died, though I felt the most sorry for Annarietta. Poor woman just wanted to make up with her sister, perhaps unreasonably so, considering her crimes. Dettlaff died, a fool too easily duped and too emotionally unstable and for his crime of causing the massacre of innocents on the Night of Fangs. Regis is now a marked man in Toussaint, which sucks, but he had my back and I'll have his, so I can't complain. All this and there still a huge chunk of decisions I could have made both on this path and if I had chosen to go reason with the Unseen Elder. This game is unbelievable. Based CDPR&#65279;
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If you go to the
Unseen Elder, you get the ending you got. There is no other ending in that path as far as I know
 
There is a sale for the expansion packs and the main game on PSN right now.

Should I wait for GOTY (is it supposed to contain something special ?) or can I just go ahead and buy ?

(No difference to me if it's digital or physical)
 
Amjad said:
There is a sale for the expansion packs and the main game on PSN right now.

Should I wait for GOTY (is it supposed to contain something special ?) or can I just go ahead and buy ?

(No difference to me if it's digital or physical)
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Knowing CDPR, if there is anything additional in the GOTY edition, everyone already having the game will get it as well.

Anyway, I wouldn't wait, expansions are too awesome.
 
Amjad said:
There is a sale for the expansion packs and the main game on PSN right now.

Should I wait for GOTY (is it supposed to contain something special ?) or can I just go ahead and buy ?

(No difference to me if it's digital or physical)
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I didn't see any sale.
 
Sai said:
Main questline does pick up, but the general opinion is that the story and its characters aren't as strong as the smaller Hearts of Stone. It'll be more reminiscent of the experience you had in the main game, exploring a large new land, while tending to the main quest when you feel like it.

Unfortunately, once you get into the main questline, there aren't as many lulls as you would find in the main game to comfortably trail off and explore secondary objectives. You'll literally have to put the main questline on hold to do the other stuff, and it doesn't quite feel as "natural" as it would in the main game's search for Ciri 'n such. Once you meet
The Beast and Regis
things really get going, and while you're given the option to hold off on moving on to the next thing later on, it doesn't feel appropriate to do so... Am I making sense to anyone else? >_<
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Thanks for this. I'm at the end (I believe) and you're right. I hit a point where a bunch of secondary quests disappeared because I was too far into the main quest and I didn't see it coming :(

It did get a lot more intriguing though. Not Hearts of Stone level, but on par with some of the better main quest story lines in gaming.
 
Amjad said:
There is a sale for the expansion packs and the main game on PSN right now.

Should I wait for GOTY (is it supposed to contain something special ?) or can I just go ahead and buy ?

(No difference to me if it's digital or physical)
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I'd say do whichever choice gives CDPR more money because they damn well deserve it.

Unless you're short on cash, of course.
 
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