Apparently 3 epilogues.
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Apparently 3 epilogues.
Virtually every RPG quest can be boiled down to fetching something for someone. The extra trappings and story stuff are important.
Well it wouldn't be the first time. CDPR has no problem with canonizing endings after TW1.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
I think it absolutely gets worse in Novigrad, it felt like half the time I was just running from one place to another just to have a conversation or fight a handful of guys.
It was also a lot more following orders from random people compared to making decisions in Veleen.
CyberPunked
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Haha, yeah I did the same thing XD
His Majesty
Banned
I like Novigrad, reminds me of Chapter 2 in The Witcher 1.
No. That's the swordsmith. The armorer requires you to get
acid from a monster who happens to be an archgriffon iirc
LurkerPrime
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You're... not supposed to be able to? Hrm.
littlemagician
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NOOOOO, I can not save my game AT ALL
edit: shit....
edit: shit....
Thanks! Havent dared ventured to Oxenfurt yet, looks soooo big!
Nyteshade517
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finally can take screenshots now (having to use Afterburner)
iNvid02
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there is a herbalist outside novigrad who buys everything at full price, he appears between 6am and 12pm iirc
http://www.gamersheroes.com/game-guides/where-to-turn-in-monster-trophies-in-the-witcher-3/
he also bought the florens and other currency off me, if you use a mod and give him more gold you'll get rich super easy offloading everything to him
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Banned
The path to Fort Etnir through the village of Rogne on Ard Skellig is just the most beautiful fucking thing. The scenery porn in this game oh god
truestatic
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Kill the spirit and the crones kill the orphans and Anna loses her mind. Let the spirit free and it causes the inhabitants of the nearby village to murder each other, and Anna and the Baron end up dead. It's terrible that the orphans die, but even the village alderman in the other path tells you that the village murdered its own children in the tree spirit induced rage.
His Majesty
Banned
You can trade in other forms of currency at the Vivaldi Bank by the way.
| Praxis |
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Really loving this game, it is so much better than the first two. I thought I had become bored of this fantasy setting, but this has proved me wrong. It definitely has problems, mainly the control of your character and design of the menus, plus random jank. The world is so realised though, I just get sucked in for hours. It looks incredible for a game of this scope too. Even my wife has been sitting down watching me play, she has only done this with a few games before.
Few things after a lengthy play session today:
- Goddamn, this game is good. Better than TW1 and TW2 combined, and better than most WRPGs of recent memory. Shits on the DA series from a great height and I liked DA:I.
- Despite having been playing GTAV and Skyrim w/ mods, and fearing open world fatigue, this game does the most with its open world. Putting enough in so you don't have wide open boring areas, but not so much that you can't get away by yourself or explore.
- Waypoint fast travel is the best fast travel.
- Roach is awesome.
- Just finished A Tower Full of Mice and that is also one of the best sidequests I have ever done in a game. Love the choices you are given with it and how the game rewards your exploration of the area.
- Mounted combat, especially horse-to-horse combat is fantastic. Remember, hold DOWN your button to strike for time to slow so you can line up your strike.
- Felt like the game looked decent with its graphics, especially close-up, but considered the wide ranging shots to be a bit weak due to the poor texturing on the distance foilage. The patch today has changed that for me. Game looks astounding now, especially using the more palette neutral SweetFX I'm running.
- Goddamn, this game is good. Better than TW1 and TW2 combined, and better than most WRPGs of recent memory. Shits on the DA series from a great height and I liked DA:I.
- Despite having been playing GTAV and Skyrim w/ mods, and fearing open world fatigue, this game does the most with its open world. Putting enough in so you don't have wide open boring areas, but not so much that you can't get away by yourself or explore.
- Waypoint fast travel is the best fast travel.
- Roach is awesome.
- Just finished A Tower Full of Mice and that is also one of the best sidequests I have ever done in a game. Love the choices you are given with it and how the game rewards your exploration of the area.
That kiss.
- Mounted combat, especially horse-to-horse combat is fantastic. Remember, hold DOWN your button to strike for time to slow so you can line up your strike.
- Felt like the game looked decent with its graphics, especially close-up, but considered the wide ranging shots to be a bit weak due to the poor texturing on the distance foilage. The patch today has changed that for me. Game looks astounding now, especially using the more palette neutral SweetFX I'm running.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Skellige is so beautiful, the music is outstanding.
Haven't even made it to Skellige yet. Level 15 and still working on Novigrad. Really looking forward to getting back into the wilderness.
I'm going to venture a wild guess and say they drop from higher tiered nekkers. I farmed the giant group of basic nekkers below Devil's Pit for eyes and didn't get a single heart. Or maybe they're just fairly rare.
Shame, I need them as well.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Anyone have the weird hitching problem running at 60fps? Seems every second the game kinda stutters or m8sses a frame. I also have a strange screen tearing problem. Version says 1.04 so maybe the newest nvidia drivers wint cause so many crashes for me. Going to test it out, i guess.
truestatic
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Found an exclamation mark in Velen that doesn't have a quest giver, or any NPC located at it. It's a swamp southeast of Crow' Perch surrounded by nekkers. Anyone know what the deal is here?
Admiral Woofington
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Just beat the game and did every witcher contract plus every sidequest I cared to do. Didn't do many question marks on maps after a certain point since I was playing on normal and already overpowered. Great fucking ride. I wouldn't have beaten it this fast if I wasn't obsessing though.
Pretty sure I got the best ending relative to the others. Honestly? This is now my favorite rpg. Amazing game.
Pretty sure I got the best ending relative to the others. Honestly? This is now my favorite rpg. Amazing game.
therealminime
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Oh god yes, the music when you are out roaming around the wilderness on the main island is so good. It might be one of my favorites pieces of fantasy music ever, it just has such a great feeling to it that is perfect for that area and the game as a whole.
Bl@de
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Novigrad... Played for 28h, never been there^^ Just so much to do in the swamps and forests.
Philtastic
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I haven't played the Souls games nor Bloodborne because I don't have any consoles and didn't bother when they came out on PC, so admitting that what I say lacks the actual play experience, I've watched a number of videos on all of them, and the combat looks really slow. Monsters generally have large tells for their attacks and often have long recovery times which grant openings. The player moves in an arcadey fashion, however, which may make it feel a lot better than the more momentum-based Witcher 3. For that reason, I can see how someone might prefer Souls/BB since it possibly feels better to them.
That said, I really have to disagree with this being "amateur at best". Even though you've put 30 hours in and you're allegedly "not having any problems beating enemies and bosses", it sounds like you're playing in a very boring way which is probably super safe, stay back while you wait for another Quen, and only attacking when it's up. Then I could see why you think the combat sucks.
What I would like to see is a video of you in combat to see how you're playing and how it's apparently so bad to be amateur. Maybe we could help you out in terms of finding a more interesting play style because, even though I haven't gotten that far yet, I've found the combat quite exciting and seemingly much quicker and more dangerous than Souls/BB (again, based merely on impressions from videos) mostly because either there are multiple opponents or they don't have huge wind ups/downs. Here's how I've been playing early in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IguE_LG3Rc
You need to make your own openings sometimes. You know how eg. drowners work so stop waiting for an opening and make one. Stop using Quen and use Igni/Aard to stagger the whole group which let's you basically kill or heavily maim one of them while momentarily CC'ing the rest which makes the fight easier since there's one less leaping at you.
Also, I'm seeing comments about the somewhat awkward camera. Don't use lock on unless it's 1vs1. If you're not locked on, it's pretty easy to adjust it to point the right way (unless you're indoors or in an enclosed space, in which case, I agree that it can be very frustrating). It also, whether intentionally or not, simulates a blindspot: don't get surrounded and you will never have problems with the camera. Keep all of your enemies in front of you. Positioning is actually important in this game.
truestatic
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It should be in your game folder.
Reluctant-Hero
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I found a book that basically says
the tree spirit is the mother of the crones. She went insane and the crones inprisoned her so she wouldn't destroy all of Velen
But yeah, either choice is
completely FUBAR. Do you free the spirit so she kills the crones then goes on to kill everyone? Or kill the spirit and crones eat 6 kids?
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Big fricking
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Axii for the easy win lol
Frost Giant
Axii for the easy win lol
I think so. I just found a lone nekker warrior in a group of regular nekkers and only got a heart from the warrior
YankeeDonB
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Wow, after an earlier discussion in here, I just went and messed around and realized Geralt's short dodge cancels out of his attack animations. 40 hours and I had no idea. Mind you, it won't likely change the way I play (quick measured strikes in between dodges/parries). I think that's a mark of how well they did at creating clear tells for each enemy's attack--I almost always know when it's safe to strike, and when not.
As a side note, after about ten hours in Novigrad, I'm amazed at how engaging almost every main and major side quest is. I keep waiting for a generic half-assed move-the-plot-along quest, but it hasn't come yet. Reminds me a bit of the heyday of jrpgs, when every new location, quest, and character brought new surprises and diversions. Something that's been sorely lacking in big rpgs of late.
As a side note, after about ten hours in Novigrad, I'm amazed at how engaging almost every main and major side quest is. I keep waiting for a generic half-assed move-the-plot-along quest, but it hasn't come yet. Reminds me a bit of the heyday of jrpgs, when every new location, quest, and character brought new surprises and diversions. Something that's been sorely lacking in big rpgs of late.
Couldn't stop laughing after this:
https://youtu.be/SFbyqBGA5H4
https://youtu.be/SFbyqBGA5H4
Man I finished the quest for the Viper School swords, but now I'm missing an Emerald Dust. I know they drop from wraiths and I somehow spent or dropped the dust that dropped off the devil in the well Wraith. There's also supposed to be one guarding a place of power in white orchard, but I've been to it and there were only ghouls guarding it.
Are there any wraiths near the start of the second area after white orchard? Thinking about moving ahead story wise real quick just so I can get a dust and make one of these Viper swords then coming back and finishing all the white orchard side stuff.
Are there any wraiths near the start of the second area after white orchard? Thinking about moving ahead story wise real quick just so I can get a dust and make one of these Viper swords then coming back and finishing all the white orchard side stuff.
TimeEffect
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So, how massive and sprawling do the locations feel? Can you walk into a forest and feel sort of lost?
I'm trying to think of Skyrim, but can't recall any sort of land mass that felt so sprawling and huge, at least not in the same scale as I'm imagining a game should be.
I'm trying to think of Skyrim, but can't recall any sort of land mass that felt so sprawling and huge, at least not in the same scale as I'm imagining a game should be.
Ray Wonder
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Been playing since about 9am this morning. I haven't played a game that has sucked me in this bad in a long long time. I'd venture to say this is in my top 5 games of all time. It just seems so perfectly suited to what games I like. I can get lost in gwent for hours alone, let alone doing quests. I have to get off for today. I have 35 hours in now, and I need to get some irl things done. lol
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Assuming you have the PC version due to your screenshots. You already own it, just go to your game directory and the OST should be zipped in there in both mp3 and FLAC.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
You don't have to pirate, it's there, it always was.
Not on PC sadly since I'm abroad. Will be getting it later on in the year so I got it on console.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Whoa, ran into someone from The Witcher 2; quest called Ghost of the Past.
Letho! Didn't expect him just like that in a random quest. It was really cool to see him. I followed along with him, but honestly the quest was kind of disappointing. I intervened in the end and the final scene was kind of silly and didn't really make sense. Also there were some really weird loading screens during one of the cutscenes in this quest. Some random out-of-nowhere loading screen every two sentences in one of cutscenes.
Then it's in your box.
TimeEffect
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Did you finish DA:I? I felt fatigued with just about everything once I got to the stronghold chapter, and I am worried the same may happen here.
Yet I see people describe the open world and gameplay in a way that makes it never sound boring, tedious, or slowed down. I see lots of comments about GTA styled design, which is interesting to me.
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