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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Gwent Player, Monster Slayer, EVEN RACISM
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ZombieFred
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At work and all I can think about is continuing my adventures as the White Wolf. The waiting is painful 
To have a game on your mind for all the week and not playing it just shows how special this is. It's been a long ass time I've had this feeling of excitement and eagerness to keep playing. I need my fix!
To have a game on your mind for all the week and not playing it just shows how special this is. It's been a long ass time I've had this feeling of excitement and eagerness to keep playing. I need my fix!
Cpt.Underpants
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Anyone knows where can I find a journeyman blacksmith? I'm still rockin' my lvl 1 silver sword at lvl 10 now
What's the quickest way to farm meat or anything I could eat to recover hp or recovering my hp faster?
What's the quickest way to farm meat or anything I could eat to recover hp or recovering my hp faster?
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
At work and all I can think about is continuing my adventures as the White Wolf. The waiting is painful
To have a game on your mind for all the week and not playing it just shows how special this is. It's been a long ass time I've had this feeling of excitement and eagerness to keep playing. I need my fix!
Yeah, I still have 7 1/2 hrs. Today's going to be bad. Not only because of Witcher, not only because it's Friday, but also because I have Monday off for Memorial day.
piratethingy
Self professed bad raider
At work and all I can think about is continuing my adventures as the White Wolf. The waiting is painful
To have a game on your mind for all the week and not playing it just shows how special this is. It's been a long ass time I've had this feeling of excitement and eagerness to keep playing. I need my fix!
Same... Just another five hours and I'm free to a 3-day weekend that will probably contain at least 40 hours of Witcher.
Admiral Woofington
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Jesus lol that's his daughter figureI understand, I want to sex Ciri, too.
Do you use the potion Swallow?
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ZombieFred
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How do I refill my Swallow potion? I've made it but it doesn't allow me to make more saying it's already done?
His Majesty
Banned
Meditate. It will automatically refill providing you have enough alcoholest.
Meditate. It'll consume 1 alcohol to refill all potions and bombs.
I find the combat great, maybe it's you?
ChubbleDucks
Member
Meditate and it will auto refill as long as you have alcohol. The same for all potions you make for the 1st time.
I'm playing on the hardest difficulty and the game feels like I am playing it through remote play on the vita.
Its so sluggish, so slow and animations are so odd and disjointed. W3 makes Assassins Creed feel like a Nintendo game in quality. I can understand someone saying the combat is passable and it doesn't bother them as much as me but it is in no quantifiable way great.
Its pretty terrible. I never played other games in the series but if they played anything like this game no wonder people disliked them so much. I can't think of any other game like it except maybe Assassins Creed if Assassins Creed ran at 15fps and only registered some of your button presses.
Oh my god I forgot this is a 3-day weekend. I don't know about 40 hours for me, but it will probably be close.
Has anyone been using dedoctions? Now that I have generic colored mutagens that have the same effects I can use in the skill tree, I should probably make more of them. Some of them seem insanely powerful, but I tried out the Griffin one (I think) and honestly didn't notice a difference.
I'm assuming they don't do any sidequests. From what I hear, the main quests take about 40 hours.
Admiral Woofington
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Today I have a half day. Gonna return to second area and do all of the witcher hunts. Gonna grab the ursine sword schematics I missed as the ursine school armor is the best of the school armors hands down.
Hey guys I have yet to find a horse saddle bigger than 30. Are there bigger ones? If so where?
Hey guys I have yet to find a horse saddle bigger than 30. Are there bigger ones? If so where?
RoadHazard
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Absolutely. JC2's world is just huge, it's not very interesting at all. I was just pointing out his factual error in claiming that TW3 has the largest world of any game. It's not even close. But it might very well be the best one ever if you weigh quantity and quality together.
I have so much of that stuff, last time I looked and I had 54.
Switch to kb and m, this is works a lot better. It's not the polished combat, but bringing AC in this is just too much. I still have plenty of fun with it. It's more than with any AC combat.
ChubbleDucks
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Some choices I have made so far:
Keira -
Baron -
Allgod -
Keira -
Shagged
Made him carry his aborted child and bury it under threshold
Let him live, but told the peasants about the cave
I got one that brought me to 130 from someone at the baron's keep.
ldcommando
Banned
You switched to KB/M on PS4?
Hmm interesting ill try it. What difficulty are you playing at?
Glorious isn't it? 3day marathon incoming
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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So I'm now in Vellen... How does one get their hands on some better/badass armor?
Infinite_Daremo
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Anyone else finding the magic tree over powered to the point of being broke. I'm on death march and it's starting to feel like cheating at level 8.
Cast Yrden Rank 2
Axii an opponent, repeat this step when outnumbered
Quen sustain for heal
I haven't found Igni and Aard very useful so far so I've ignored them.
Looking forward to my combat spec Geralt on my next play. Heavy armour seems like it has a great benefit to melee tree.
The alchemy tree seems very weak IMO. Seems like a secondary tree to the other two.
Cast Yrden Rank 2
Axii an opponent, repeat this step when outnumbered
Quen sustain for heal
I haven't found Igni and Aard very useful so far so I've ignored them.
Looking forward to my combat spec Geralt on my next play. Heavy armour seems like it has a great benefit to melee tree.
The alchemy tree seems very weak IMO. Seems like a secondary tree to the other two.
Do a few of the main quests in Novigrad. You'll get there eventually
The loading is another thing.
What in the world. There was a loading thread about BB and it was just 30 seconds this game takes over 1 min to load.
I'm thinking I might need to drop the difficulty to the easiest setting which is something I never do with games like this but it might just offset the jankiness for me to not get frustrated by the terrible controls and wonky camera killing me all the time.
Oh, no. I am PC gamer. Sometimes I forget that the others exist. I don't know how it works on the console, but on the PC kb+m feel definitly more responsive than controller.
And I am playing at normal, but changing the difficulty won't change how the combat feels mechanically I presume.
Ah, thank you very much!
psychotron
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Yes, it stutters like crazy when you're just moving forward. So now I only use the horse when I want to run fast. Other than that, I'll just get off the horse and walk.
Akiyama_AE
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Agreed it depends on how the devs do it after all
Sephiroth_GR_
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I'm still in Velen, but there is a mission that you take a boat to get there.
There is a fishy tavern at the harbour of Novingrad were you can find a very drunk captain. You should have a talk with him.
Some side quests end if you get too far in the story quests.
It's an accumulation, long loading (with unskippable outdated summaries) + punitive mechanic.
Darkstorne
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I'm mixing/matching. 3 points in Axii for the dialogue benefits. 3 points in Aard and a fourth for the AOE blast (so awesome against wolves and dogs!), most of my other points in combat (defence for arrow deflection and heavy attack damage).
I'm betting combat feels OP later on too, with insane adrenaline gain, massive damage from heavy attacks, and parrying an attack seems like it will double the damage of a follow-up attack when defence line is upgraded. Pretty much one hit kill heavy attacks right there, especially if you're wearing heavy armour =P
I agree about alchemy seeming weak, though a lot of those toxicity benefits sounds awesome, and the decoctions themselves are already amazing.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
While I'm yet to get to Skellige, question for those who have:
my gut feeling the bulk of content is in Valen due to the topography (less ocean), and the time to be spent on the Skellige Islands isn't that much. Am I right or wrong?
The framerate is pretty horrendous on PS4 I don't know about X1.
Plus it has crazy input lag.
I think it's great, playing on ''hard''. Sorry that it doesn't click with you.
statham
Member
Kiera :
This can play out several different ways, after the sex I follow her to the tower but didn't like the outcome , so I redid it and got a much more satisfying ending. I didn't expect it to vary so much with a secondary quest. I kept her alive and shes moving to a different town! yay! First time she threaten to tell Triss or Yenn about the hookup, so I had to do what I had to do.
psychotron
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His movements have a ton of input lag, but interestingly enough, the camera is extremely responsive. It's what makes the game so jarring at first. Turning the camera speed down to a level where Geralt can keep up makes it easier. It'd be nice if they worked on his responsiveness. He goes from a stand still to running like mad after a half a second wait.
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