You can just take any and change when it's too difficult or easy. You can choose the difficulty whenever you like. The second highest difficulty seem to be the sweetspot for a lot of people, so try that first. Personally I play on the second lowest, since I am not that good and I still get my ass kicked sometimes, so it's not necessary a walk in the park. Either way I enjoy the healing by meditation thing.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Gwent Player, Monster Slayer, EVEN RACISM
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darkwing-buck
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The Eternal Fire guy was innocent although you can still kill him and catch the real killer. Just gotta ask the motive before doing so.
Played a bit yesterday just running around White Orchard. Game is stunning, Geralt controls as you'd expect him to really. The music is phenomenal. Not quite Witcher 2 Flotsam level yet but it's up there.
Now I just gotta finish Witcher 2 :lol. Wish I had my old W2 save that was imported from the first ;/ and in the middle of act 2. I'm just about to go slay me a Kayran
Game runs better than Witcher 2 which is quite a feat!
Now I just gotta finish Witcher 2 :lol. Wish I had my old W2 save that was imported from the first ;/ and in the middle of act 2. I'm just about to go slay me a Kayran
Game runs better than Witcher 2 which is quite a feat!
Majukun
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hard if you want a challenging game and don't fear to have to bring with yourself tons of food to heal yourself..and the occasional bullshit fight where the camera and lock system don't work as advised and you get maimed
if you wanna play a more relaxing game..go with normal (second level of difficulty)...there you heal just by meditating and after the first part the game is much more forgiving in terms of damage you can sustain
Definitely agree with this. It's a huge pain in the ass having to remember where the herbalists, inn keeps, etc are. Especially when there are like seven of each.
zkorejo
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I would also like to know this. Can anyone confirm if it effects the relationships?
Majukun
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ask again since nobody answered before...do hairworks affect only people and monster's hair or something else?
someone mentioned foliage physics too is affected
can't confirm but in multiple places i read that as long as you don't bang both,you are good to go.
someone mentioned foliage physics too is affected
can't confirm but in multiple places i read that as long as you don't bang both,you are good to go.
Tower full of Mice spoiler
Aww, another bitter story about a couple in true love that ended up badly, is what I thought until bittersweet turned into bitterbitter. And seeing that the peller asked me to come to the island and that the wraith is free now, it's not over yet. Gurgl.
Thanks.
Is Skellige as big as Velen?
Fixed2BeBroken
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that tactic wont work all the time. you'll see. ive pretty match played everyone in velen and novigrad
lordfuzzybutt
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Want to share some well-duh moments during my game last night:
I was mucking around in Velen, chasing chicken and shit when I stumbled upon a cave, it was dark so I used Cat (I prefer Cat to torch because it makes me feel safer knowing that the enemies can't quite see me as well as I see them with Cat), spotted a tons of Ghouls inside eating some corpses. So being a good witcher that I am, I slightly backed out, applied my enhanced necrophage oil on my silver blade, equipped my enhanced grapeshot, knocked down a Swallow potion too because I just fell from above and got severely hurt.
So the moment to attack came, just before I plunged into the crowd I apply Quen, then quickly switched to Igni, aimed my bomb and released.
The bomb fucking decimated all the ghouls, blew them to bits, all of them. I was left quite stunned because how easy it turnt out.
Apparently that cave tied to a quest, which I seriously overlevel.
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I was mucking around in Velen, chasing chicken and shit when I stumbled upon a cave, it was dark so I used Cat (I prefer Cat to torch because it makes me feel safer knowing that the enemies can't quite see me as well as I see them with Cat), spotted a tons of Ghouls inside eating some corpses. So being a good witcher that I am, I slightly backed out, applied my enhanced necrophage oil on my silver blade, equipped my enhanced grapeshot, knocked down a Swallow potion too because I just fell from above and got severely hurt.
So the moment to attack came, just before I plunged into the crowd I apply Quen, then quickly switched to Igni, aimed my bomb and released.
The bomb fucking decimated all the ghouls, blew them to bits, all of them. I was left quite stunned because how easy it turnt out.
Apparently that cave tied to a quest, which I seriously overlevel.
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thequickandthedead
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Professor Friedrich of Oxenfurt says god is dead? lol
toastyToast
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It's not him, he's just an asshole. The actual killer frames him because he knows you'll catch him doing what he's doing.
I wonder if I can pick the quest back up, I found a body with the same MO in the street but it didn't start a quest.
On the other hand it is awesome that they have friendly fire. I was in the middle of a fight and a pirate shot and killed his own comrade.
This would mean I should do some Mainquests first, cause they give more XP -> therefore higher level earlier. Afterwards do the sidequests for better loot =D
Didn´t knew that, but I am only level 5 yet.
Sodding_Gamer
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Always satisfying to see that happen. Arrows are goddamn annoying af in this game too, so seeing one take out an enemy is always good
zkorejo
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I see.. Thanks for letting me know.
To paraphrase Danny O'Dwyer: "If they pull off what they have in mind for Cyberpunk 2077, it will make Witcher 3 look like garbage in comparison".
If you get enhanced grapeshot, humans are basically a joke. I thought Geralt slicing through dudes diagonally was brutal, but you can literally blow a dude's torso up with arms flying everywhere.Want to share some well-duh moments during my game last night:
I was mucking around in Velen, chasing chicken and shit when I stumbled upon a cave, it was dark so I used Cat (I prefer Cat to torch because it makes me feel safer knowing that the enemies can't quite see me as well as I see them with Cat), spotted a tons of Ghouls inside eating some corpses. So being a good witcher that I am, I slightly backed out, applied my enhanced necrophage oil on my silver blade, equipped my enhanced grapeshot, knocked down a Swallow potion too because I just fell from above and got severely hurt.
So the moment to attack came, just before I plunged into the crowd I apply Quen, then quickly switched to Igni, aimed my bomb and released.
The bomb fucking decimated all the ghouls, blew them to bits, all of them. I was left quite stunned because how easy it turnt out.
Apparently that cave tied to a quest, which I seriously overlevel.
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Exentryk
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Switched from sword focus to sign focused. It's my first Witcher game as well. But since I started with DM difficulty, this is the only thing I've experienced and now gotten used to it. It's a good trick to start games on the hardest and your mind adapts to it.
Lol. Once I update my build a little more, I'll try to take on stronger monsters just for the fun of it.
I am just going with the flow, as there will always be something good turning up. Plus, all the best stuff does not scale.
Denton
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That is a terrible sentence no matter how good Cyberpunk can be.
Hehe, yeah could be read like didn't even try with Witcher xD
Hyperbole City. Why even say something like that?
It really surprised me the first time when my Enhanced Grapeshots blew the torso right off.
darkwing-buck
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Exactly. It wasn't supposed to be a dig at the Witcher 3, more like "holy cow, TW3 is amazing and if they get everything they want in Cyberpunk 2077 right, it will be even better". I am also paraphrasing, will try to get the actual quote later (it's in one of his CDPR videos).
I hate wraiths, the only enemy I have trouble with even when they are lower level than me. They just disappear, dodge my attack as a result, and then reappear with huge huge damage, now if there is one of them it's no problem but even with quen I get disoriented and destroyed afterward. Yeah I know I have to use Yrden but even that doesn't neutralize them much and leave me vulnerable to others. They gotta nerf their HP a lot, 2-3 slashes should kill them. In dark, tight areas it's so hard to fight these. I don't have amazing gear but these things shouldn't do that much damage that fast compared with everything else :\
Darkstorne
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Using oils? And Griffin decoctions are useful against enemies you can't reliably dodge.
lordfuzzybutt
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I know, first time I saw that I was kinda disgusted at myself (Geralt).
You can use Moon Dust to keep them from disappearing, as well as not having to use Yrden all the time. Instead use Quen.
This may sound nuts, but I kinda wish there was a way to toggle off exp gain. It's just impossible at this point for me to not be over-leveled for either the main quests or the majority of sidequests I pick up, and when you're playing quests at or a bit above your level, both the gameplay and rewards are more rewarding imo.
It's not a big deal though honestly, it's just part of open world quest design. But as someone who likes to jump between doing main quests and big chunks of side quests, it does irk me a bit.
It's not a big deal though honestly, it's just part of open world quest design. But as someone who likes to jump between doing main quests and big chunks of side quests, it does irk me a bit.
When they vanish just dodge somewhere infront of you since they will appear somewhere close to where you stand.
There are multiple ways to get the pass so don't worry about it. That guy's probably better off dead anyways.
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