Pretty sure it's a worldwide unlock in 3h and 24 mins
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Pretty sure it's a worldwide unlock in 3h and 24 mins
Grady Durden
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Oh you mean that countdown in the OP. Lol thanks I'm too excited.
v0mitg0d
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Video of my stream-------> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfBGNM_KcAM
Starting area, tons of fun. XBO version and it looks great!
Starting area, tons of fun. XBO version and it looks great!
Only thing in 1.02 is cross region DLC compatibility. The real patch was 1.01.
That doesn't mean anything. Each platform can be at any version depending on what's getting fixed.
For approx. 500 MB? I'm sure there are a lot of undocumented changes/fixes in there.
TimeEffect
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Need some advice from players/casual fans:
Eurogamer compared this to Skyrim and Dragon Age, saying Witcher makes both of them look stiff. This had me intrigued.
The thing with me is that I want a nice RPG to get lost in, and always look forward to that aspect of exploring and getting immersed in an RPG. I played Skyrim, but got bored of it. I did enjoy it, but just didn't totally like the cold province.
I bought Dragon Age for PS4 after enjoying the original (though never beating it). I got bored of this too, and though I would like to finish it (and may), the combat is dreadful to me, and I hated getting stuck and having to reload a manual save. The solution here was to lower the difficulty. I just get bored of traveling the same places and playing the lame combat, and collecting the same random stuff.
I do finish and love RPGs. I enjoyed the hell out of Fallout 3 and did many quests and finished the game, I loved Dark Cloud 2 and finished it, and games like Golden Sun, Demon's/Dark Souls and Bloodborne
I was a little scared to jump into this because I felt burnt by Dragon Age, but it seems this is getting incredible praise for being on the same level as games like Red Dead Redemption and having genuinely good sidequests/exploration and diversity. It seems Dragon Age is considered in retrospect to be very outclassed by Witcher.
I don't know if I'm asking for comparisons or what, I guess I just want some perspective on what people think, and advice from more casual players who may not have the same time or dedication as devoted fans to play this. I don't want to suddenly find myself bored or uninterested, like I did with Dragon Age.
I guess with RPGs, I either find myself getting totally absorbed, or slowly bored and uninterested, and I'm not sure which Witcher will be going by my track record
Eurogamer compared this to Skyrim and Dragon Age, saying Witcher makes both of them look stiff. This had me intrigued.
The thing with me is that I want a nice RPG to get lost in, and always look forward to that aspect of exploring and getting immersed in an RPG. I played Skyrim, but got bored of it. I did enjoy it, but just didn't totally like the cold province.
I bought Dragon Age for PS4 after enjoying the original (though never beating it). I got bored of this too, and though I would like to finish it (and may), the combat is dreadful to me, and I hated getting stuck and having to reload a manual save. The solution here was to lower the difficulty. I just get bored of traveling the same places and playing the lame combat, and collecting the same random stuff.
I do finish and love RPGs. I enjoyed the hell out of Fallout 3 and did many quests and finished the game, I loved Dark Cloud 2 and finished it, and games like Golden Sun, Demon's/Dark Souls and Bloodborne
I was a little scared to jump into this because I felt burnt by Dragon Age, but it seems this is getting incredible praise for being on the same level as games like Red Dead Redemption and having genuinely good sidequests/exploration and diversity. It seems Dragon Age is considered in retrospect to be very outclassed by Witcher.
I don't know if I'm asking for comparisons or what, I guess I just want some perspective on what people think, and advice from more casual players who may not have the same time or dedication as devoted fans to play this. I don't want to suddenly find myself bored or uninterested, like I did with Dragon Age.
I guess with RPGs, I either find myself getting totally absorbed, or slowly bored and uninterested, and I'm not sure which Witcher will be going by my track record
Tested it last night and it works ok on my existing games...
Latvian Hitman
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What up GAF, my garden is ready, my beer is ready and you can bet the body is ready. Let's do this!
I participated a lot in the downgrade thread but still hyped as fuck cause I cannot wait to see the cause and consequences, and going open world in the Witcher world is money to me.
Cheers!
Is this pre or post the day zero patch? Grass looks flat and poorly shaded. You need some of that self-shadowing and dang ole' HBAO+, scro. Also- that structure on the right does not look period-appropriate, and this screen appears to show Geralt having been replaced by a giant hand and a beer.
The delta patch system on PS4 always shows you the full combined size of all patches so far, but will skip the download of the patches you already have.
1.01 was 480 something MB, 1.02 is the rest.
Ahh right. Forgot about that
The_Darkest_Red
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Label texture is really the only impressive part of that screen, otherwise it looks like a PS3 game... I am so disappointed right now.
Except if you're on PS4 in SCEE's region, because they've messed up the timezones.
Australia is already unlocked, and EU unlocks in 2h17m.
Mad Season
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without spoilers..... is the starting area "explorable" or is it basically on rails?
steam?
KCroxtonJr
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"seems" to be in the depotcache folder (which is in the steamapps folder), I only have Witcher 3 Preload on my SSD and thats where 21GB is at. Idk if there are other necessary files anywhere else though, this is actually my first time every preloading a game on steam.
Circle Jerk
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Wow, I totally forgot just how absolute shit PS4 download speeds are. I guess I should have preordered earlier, but on the other hand, if I can get 50 megs a second on steam, I should get more than sub 1 meg a second on the PS4. Disgusting how Sony has done nothing about this.
From what I've gathered: its explorable, but its significantly smaller and just a closed off "intro" area from the rest of the world map.
indigo-cyclops
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There's a good amount of content in it alone. Open.
That's why I buy Amazon gift cards and apply them to pre-orders I care about in case I have no money on the card or I forgot to update my details. Have been doing that ever since one of my long awaited pre-orders didn't turn up because Amazon had my old, lost card on file and tried to charge it in the middle of the night when I couldn't read the email alerts.
Laurentius
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The starting area is
Kaer Morhen, right? I'm excited to explore that place again, as I just replayed the first couple hours of TW1 recently.
king grimlock
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dat MS money at work, unless it's fake?
Mine says 3h 8m
, so the only time SCEE fuck up in a good way, It doesn't affect the UK.
cripterion
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You're drinking the wrong beer.
Damn, that really nice, where you get that brew?
My grass looks fine as hell I just spent 6 hours tending to the garden. Pic is still missing forward lit particles (I was burning some shit but you can't see cause garden is loooooong).
Not long now. Haven't bee this hyped for a game in a long time. I feel shattered so a little gutted it's not hitting till 1AM but fuck it.
matrixman92
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maybe a dumb question, but with the downloaded save file in the OP, what exactly do I transfer over from the ZIP file to the witcher 2 savegame folder? There are several different sav files
Thanks for checking.
I've got nothing there, I moved the files over from Windows.old instead of copying, and I don't see them anywhere else sooo...
One and a half more hours of preloading ;_;
Yeah I was just going off the GoG one which unlocks in 3h 7mins for Euros.
Nope. 100% real. Posted by CDPR on their Facebook page.
Do you want to see a wonderful fake tho? Here
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Ugh... can't wait to get home!
Laurentius
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Oh, huh. It is in the game at some point, right? Pretty sure I saw it somewhere.
Mine says 3h 8m
Yeah, it's the CEST unlock they've messed up, albeit in a good way
Some people have lang packs and DLC available for download through Galaxy and some don't have. For e.g. I live in Finland and I don't have DLC available while another Finn just downloaded them.
Sign of very rough GOG [Galaxy] release happening in few hours?
Yes
Sign of very rough GOG [Galaxy] release happening in few hours?
Yes
The intro tutorial is in it yes.
Denton
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That is such a lovely fake.
My absolute preference would be CGI with Doug in style of Night to Remember, but live action with Mads is close second.
cripterion
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That movie was trippy as hell lol. Way darker than the Witcher will ever be but I agree, he looks the part.
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