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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Gwent Player, Monster Slayer, EVEN RACISM
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If you pre-ordered digitally, good news! It unlocks in about 10 hours.
Oh, since everybody is talking about difficulty:
I started with the second one, but found it too easy, due to the health regeneration while meditating. So I started a second time on the third difficulty level. The beginning was quite challenging, however, as soon as you do some quests, level up some skills and so on, it become quite doable.
I will reserve the highest difficulty for my second run.
And some pro tips regard the interface:
Switch off the ridiculous dotted line leading to your quest target! Furthermore, switch off the controller help in the bottom left, as soon as you are used to all the controls. Lastly, I would recommend using the small interface, since this only really affects the radar and status bar.
Hell, I would love to play the game without any interface at all, but health and active buffs are too important to acknowledge. It is soo beautiful!
I started with the second one, but found it too easy, due to the health regeneration while meditating. So I started a second time on the third difficulty level. The beginning was quite challenging, however, as soon as you do some quests, level up some skills and so on, it become quite doable.
I will reserve the highest difficulty for my second run.
And some pro tips regard the interface:
Switch off the ridiculous dotted line leading to your quest target! Furthermore, switch off the controller help in the bottom left, as soon as you are used to all the controls. Lastly, I would recommend using the small interface, since this only really affects the radar and status bar.
Hell, I would love to play the game without any interface at all, but health and active buffs are too important to acknowledge. It is soo beautiful!
The Jackdog
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But isnt it 9am EST and 2pm CET right now? Meaning 1am cet=8pm est?
There is no perma death this time around. The hardest has much harder healing though.
MrRoflWaffles
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Wut. You can heal by meditating?!?!
I feel like there's so much I don't know about TW2 simply because the tutorial didn't work for me
ScepticMatt
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It's 3:04 PM CET right now (I live in that time zone)
Yeah, only for the first two diffculties.
Yeah just meditate for one hour - full health.
LordAmused
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Yup, seems like it's down. Wonderful.
The game is being released at midnight GMT, not midnight CET. EST is currently GMT -5.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
I'm sure i meditated for like 20 minutes yesterday and it restored all my health too
Haloid1177
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If I had known this would release digitally so early I never would have preordered at Best Buy. Now I gotta wait until after work tomorrow this is a bummer.
hobblygobbly
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The game releases at 23:00 UTC.
Now go find your your UTC offset and add or subtract from that. Germany/Central Europe is +2 UTC (summer, +1 UTC winter/daylight savings). 23+2 = 01:00
UK is +1 UTC (summer, UTC+0 winter/daylight savings). 23+1 = 00:00
East Coast USA is -4 UTC (summer, UTC-5 winter/daylight savings). 23-4 = 19:00
Pacific Coast USA is -7 UTC (summer, UTC-8 winter/daylight savings). 23-7 = 16:00
UTC, it saves lives. Just know your offsets.
Now go find your your UTC offset and add or subtract from that. Germany/Central Europe is +2 UTC (summer, +1 UTC winter/daylight savings). 23+2 = 01:00
UK is +1 UTC (summer, UTC+0 winter/daylight savings). 23+1 = 00:00
East Coast USA is -4 UTC (summer, UTC-5 winter/daylight savings). 23-4 = 19:00
Pacific Coast USA is -7 UTC (summer, UTC-8 winter/daylight savings). 23-7 = 16:00
UTC, it saves lives. Just know your offsets.
res1nbawlz
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Is it really not unlocking digitally for Xbox until midnight?!
I have a feeling my PC is going to choke and die on this game, but I'll survive somehow.
i7 920 - oc'd to 3.6
16gb RAM
7950 3gb
500gb SSD
Barely above minimum. CPU will likely be my biggest downfall. If I can't get a solid 30fps with middling to high settings I'll just have to shelve the game till later this year or early next when I build my new rig.
i7 920 - oc'd to 3.6
16gb RAM
7950 3gb
500gb SSD
Barely above minimum. CPU will likely be my biggest downfall. If I can't get a solid 30fps with middling to high settings I'll just have to shelve the game till later this year or early next when I build my new rig.
ScepticMatt
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Beeblebrox
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No biggie, it's just slightly spoilerish. After playing Witcher 2, you could expect to find something about those people somewhere in Witcher 3, and I think it's gonna be a nice little surprise when (and if) we do
Hmm, ill do the decrypting on another drive then and move it back to my SSD afterwards.
DistortionOfReality
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Actually getting pretty hyped considering I have only played like 2 hours of the first one in the past. Really looking forward to it!
Wished I could have afforded the CE though. Dat statue
Wished I could have afforded the CE though. Dat statue
is down for me too
Emperor_Uriel
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Amazing OT, everything a witcher could want.
It sucks that we still don't have an explanation of the specifics of each difficulty, though. I'm really struggling to decide between BaBB and Death March, and I hate the gameyness of starting with one and switching to the other mid-play.
From what I've heard, both disable health regen from meditation and Death March gives less XP from killing monsters. There has to be more to it than that, right?
It sucks that we still don't have an explanation of the specifics of each difficulty, though. I'm really struggling to decide between BaBB and Death March, and I hate the gameyness of starting with one and switching to the other mid-play.
From what I've heard, both disable health regen from meditation and Death March gives less XP from killing monsters. There has to be more to it than that, right?
ScepticMatt
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I never said there was? Just that the game doesn't release midnight GMT.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
You don't get xp from killing monsters anyways. Just for completing quests/contracts etc
Yeah, my bad. I got the daylight savings -4/-5 mixed up.
All I know is that is unlocks here in EST at 7PM.
I have hopes that you can get special gear like in TW2. I need one good argument to play through the game on Death March difficulty.
Summer Haze
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For anyone playing on PS4, are the framerate/pacing issues bad enough to suggest waiting for another pitch in the near future? I'm having a hard time deciding what I want to do. I don't mind some slight framerate drops, but stuttering from framepacing issues will drive me mad.
Emperor_Uriel
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The streamer yesterday (CohhCarnage) leveled up from killing a Drowner on Death March.
MrTroubleMaker
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Geralt killed steam. yeah its not working for me either.
orthodoxy1095
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Does anyone know, what is the stock looking like for the Best Buy steelbook? I ordered way after they took it off the store, so I'm fairly certain there won't be extras, but I was curious.
Yep, you get XP. But compared to other RPGs it's a joke. You mainly level up doing quest. If you miss like 5 XP points, you can try beating up a bear or some wolves.. Otherwise it is faster to do some miniquests around the map, which are worth like 20-40 points.
OmegaDL50
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Probably killed a monster he hasn't killed before.
You get EXP for monsters added to the monster journal or whatever it's called. This only works for new monsters added to the bestiary and not ones you killed before. At least that's what I read.
SneakySneaks
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You level up for gaining knowledge of creatures by killing them (i think) and there is a cap to that.
For someone who's played the game I picture a system similar to the autopsy part of Eternal Darkness but here you get xp and info.
Good question. My pin for the game shows may19 still, but based on info direct from The dev the game should go live I about 9.5 hours
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Hmm, sure it wasn't a part of a quest? I haven't been receiving xp for killing random monsters (I dont think)
MistaPropella
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Yeah I preordered it, but in 10 hours it is 1 A.M. in the morning and my sleep is more important to me than a Game. So I will play it tomorrow after my office hours end.
Wolvesinthebathroom
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Good question. My pin for the game shows may19 still, but based on info direct from The dev the game should go live I about 9.5 hours
Notice the 12:01 UTC part.
Edit: I accidentally quoted someone else by accident.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
In addition to my question about the Steelbook, I forgot to also ask, Best Buy still isn't doing a midnight release right? I have to go in the morning?
Cross-Section
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Anyone else's GOG Galaxy client showing a 19-hour-long unlock time in the game's library page? Wonder what's going on with that.
So does anyone know if the XP is similar to W2 or have they made it even harsher? In W2, you'd barely see the XP bar move with each kill but it did move if you paid attention.
I just don't want killing random mobs to feel utterly pointless. As long as I'm getting something... (And, no, stupid hides I can sell don't count! You always end up with like 3 billion gold you can't really spend on anything in every RPG. I need dat XP nectar.)
They use that word a lot in Witcher 2 and the word sounds stupid so people use it for lols.
The title really should've said "Monster Plougher" or something too.
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