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After playing a Dragon Age Inquisition not so long ago, something that jumps out as a giant improvement is the conversation direction. The back and forth talking is framed and blocked far, far better than basically any big open world game I can think of. It isn't the greatest in a game ever, of course, but the different interactions differ just enough to have that little extra effect.

 

[Auctopus]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

 

[CHC]

The game is beautiful, and I'm sure once I spend some significant time with it I'll become thoroughly immersed, but I have to echo what others have said about the "feel" of the controls. Geralt controls like crap, it's simultaneously clumsy, but weightless. The combat sounds are really quiet and light, and it's hard to tell when enemies are actually hitting you. Trying to manuever the horse out a fenced in area or jump over something are needlessly difficult exercises.

Like I said I'm sure I'll love the game when I sink into it, but the controls are really awful feeling.

 

[Ferrio]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

Wait what? It's not safe? Why not?

 

[brau]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

Gwent... that name sounds so dumb. haha.

Played it... didn't really get it. Lost. Moved on. I dont get some of this card games. The only one that was somewhat fun was the xenogears card game, and it was really hard to win because of the controls.

 

[Beelzebufo]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

Huh?

 

[OnionPowder]

My game (PS4 copy) has taken over an hour to install less than 25%. Has anyone else had this problem?

Digital or retail? If it's digital you might not be done downloading it.

 

[HoopzBarkley]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

I played last night in the first area and it went fine. Didn't know there was a problem for it.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

Gwent... that name sounds so dumb. haha.

Played it... didn't really get it. Lost. Moved on. I dont get some of this card games. The only one that was somewhat fun was the xenogears card game, and it was really hard to win because of the controls.

Yeah same I didn't care for the card game lol

 

[matthieuC]

Huh?

It crashes the whole game sometimes

 

[SliChillax]

Wrong, hit "yes" to simulate choices, and you get a scene where you make them through dialogue. He was complaining the opposite happened when you hit "no", which is nothing happens and the game goes to defaults.

That is laughable that they didn't explain that better in game.

I hit yes and I didn't get a scene, I'm at the point where I'm gathering info about the griffin in the beginning.

 

[Denton]

Really don't get the complaints about controls, it controls normally for me.
My only niggle so far is that I wish the camera was closer to geralt, similar to Witcher 2.

 

[jacobs34]

Digital or retail? If it's digital you might not be done downloading it.

Retail. I'm just stuck on a black loading screen.

 

[Bisnic]

Are CD Projekt Red known for listening to fan complaints and fixing them in patches? Seeing as i'm not the only one having some issues with the controls, it be nice of them to do something about it.

 

[danowat]

Can't play Gwent without the game crashing :-(

 

[Baldwin_the_First]

Is it safe to play Gwent on PS4 yet?

I didn't get any problems kicking that NPC guy's arse when the time came, so yes. ;D

I have the digital version.

 

[Newman96]

Can we go back to Kaer Morhen from the fast travel screen?

 

[Apoleptica]

After playing a Dragon Age Inquisition not so long ago, something that jumps out as a giant improvement is the conversation direction. The back and forth talking is framed and blocked far, far better than basically any big open world game I can think of. It isn't the greatest in a game ever, of course, but the different interactions differ just enough to have that little extra effect.

Agree so hard with this. Dialogue in dragon age inquisition bored me to sleep so much that after a while I just began to skip most of it, where as in the witcher 3 the dialogue is so much more interesting and gripping it's amazing.

 

[patapuf]

Are CD Projekt Red known for listening to fan complaints and fixing them in patches? Seeing as i'm not the only one having some issues with the controls, it be nice of them to do something about it.

Yes.

 

[LProtag]

Is there any warning about failing or missing quests due to advancing the main story too far? I'm always worried about missables.

 

[30IR]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt First Impressions at 1080P, 1440P, 4K, and 5K with all settings maxed out including GameWorks: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt First Impressions

 

[Beelzebufo]

It crashes the whole game sometimes

Thanks for the heads up!

Also, bought the game. Anyone else using Polish audio? Witcher releases are like the only time anything Polish is big in American pop culture, so I figured I might as well get the full experience.

 

[Grady]

Sitting here looking out the window waiting for UPS to arrive.

You and me both

 

[Serrato]

Err i really don't know where to go.

Spoiler

I'm level 4 and got into Velen but everything bandits and monster I find are like lvl 7, 9 or 10. And since i'm playing on Death's March, I kinda don't want to be one shotted by everything yet hahaa

 

[ChrisD84]

Lol. need a gif of that.



Hope that works...did you check you have the latest update?

Yes it was updated, the reboot did the trick though, thanks

 

[Rhaknar]

so I guess for the save import you just choose the latest save from the fuckload it presents you with?

thats what I did at least :/

 

[viveks86]

Can't play Gwent without the game crashing :-(

Platform? Not even the first time?

 

[brau]

Yes it was updated, the reboot did the trick though, thanks

Awesome!!

Have fun man! the game is great so far from what i have played. Can't wait to go play it some more in a few hrs.

 

[Afrodium]

The patch hasn't appeared for me on PSN yet. Still running version 1.01. None of the DLC is showing up either.

 

[Fractology]

total play time is way off.

It says I have more time played than I've even had the game for.

I came here to post the same thing. What is up with this? Says I've played for more than a day when the game hasn't even been out for a day. At first I thought it might be in game world time but I've definitely ran around and meditated for much more than one in game days worth.

This kind of thing bugs my data mining self since it throws off any true sense of play time that I like to keep track of.

Is it a bug or am I being stupid and missing something?

 

[NeuAscension]

Just got my physical edition, box was super heavy. Came with an actual manual, some stickers, a soundrack, a compendium, a map, free code for skins for the mobile game and a download code for digital issue of The Witcher comic. Pretty nice bunch of extra free stuff.

 

[Auctopus]

Sorry, guys. I'd heard Gwent crashes some games.

Is there a way to heal fully in death March without using food? I see meditation doesn't heal in this mode.

 

[Horp]

Nah, still hardlocks. Third failed attempt on first boss because of the game freezing up. Feeling kind of done until next patch I think.

 

[Primethius]

GOod point, I wish it had dark souls style targetting in terms of distance. Otherwise, I actually really like the combat

Yea, the combat is actually pretty good this time around. It's only held back by the odd quirk or jankiness.

However, I've had no major issues with it playing on Death March.

 

[CuckFupertino]

PC version has crashed 4 times in about 6 hours of gameplay. Currently it's freezing in menus. Music keeps playing but controls are unresponsive. Task Manager shows it is Not Responding.

I have Nvidia Shadowplay enabled. Could that be it? I didn't see this menu freezing but until I enabled it.

I'm running an i5 2500 and GTX 980 on Windows 8.1.

The worst is that I can't force close it from task manager because I can't get the task manager window in focus, but I can somehow get to the Start screen and restart. Go figure.

Anyone else having similar issues?

 

[Tigress]

Dang... now that I've played Gwent would have been nice to have a physical deck (too bad that's only a perk of one special edition. I could totally see people buying that to play if they liked card games).

 

[SpokkX]

seriously, that's the second comment I read about framerate being not an issue on PS4. Have you tried combat at night with multiple enemies and your torch out? It becomes barely playable. Even at daytime combat against multiple enemies the framerate is nowhere near 30 fps. I can't believe that's an issue for specific consoles.

Yeah.. If 10 people say its smooth and just 1 sees major frameratedrops... I always trust that 1 person

Many people really cant tell

Anyway i have yet to see major fps drops in the xbox version. Does anyone have footage during night in a fight on xbox?

 

[danowat]

Platform? Not even the first time?

PS4, first match, 4 crashes in a row, seems to be when I try to pass

 

[loaf of bread]

UPS is taking their GODDAMN time today.

 

[mrlion]

PC version has crashed 4 times in about 6 hours of gameplay. Currently it's freezing in menus. Music keeps playing but controls are unresponsive. Task Manager shows it is Not Responding.

I have Nvidia Shadowplay enabled. Could that be it? I didn't see this menu freezing but until I enabled it.

I'm running an i5 2500 and GTX 980 on Windows 8.1.

The worst is that I can't force close it from task manager because I can't get the task manager window in focus, but I can somehow get to the Start screen and restart. Go figure.

Anyone else having similar issues?

A lot of people has had issues with Shadowplay...disable it. If you need to capture use something else like FRAPS.

 

[Relix]

Ah crap no timer to see my played time. That's basic cd projekt!

 

[mumbles365]

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt First Impressions at 1080P, 1440P, 4K, and 5K with all settings maxed out including GameWorks: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt First Impressions

Im guessing 4 titan x's is a big deal.

 

[Dante316]

I don't know how to upgrade the character at all, I'm level 2 now and see 2 blank squares. Is there a digital manual for this game?

 

[abundant]

PS4, first match, 4 crashes in a row, seems to be when I try to pass

I've read this exact comment enough times to know that I'm not going to touch Gwent until a patch comes out.

 

[Xaero Gravity]

I guess I'm not as sensitive to frame drops since I don't really notice anything significant outside of cutscene stutter in the PS4 version. Unfortunately, my CE statue came with the ugly ass derpface, so that's heartbreaking.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Yea, the combat is actually pretty good this time around. It's only held back by the odd quirk or jankiness.

However, I've had no major issues with it playing on Death March.

All it needs to be fixed is a simple lock on system. That's it.

Hope it gets modded in.

 

[FairXchange]

UPS is taking their GODDAMN time today.

Gr... same story except it's Canada Post that's stringing me along right now.

 

[erawsd]

Ah crap no timer to see my played time. That's basic cd projekt!

Inventory>Character stats

 

[Terbinator]

Which option donl you select to choose your own Witcher 2 choices?

 

[Ateron]

I'm liking the game so far, but there's a bit of a problem that's driving me nuts (playing on ps4 btw).

The game seems to hold up 30fps pretty well, and I haven't noticed drops even when fighting 5-6 enemies at a time, but everytime I pan the camera, even the slightest the game stutters, like it's streaming the landscape.

I'm a layman so I don't know how else to put it. It happens *everywhere*, even inside houses and other indoor environments. If I run forward without panning the camera none of this is apparent. If you pan the camera fast you might not notice it, but try to do it slowly (as I found out first, by admiring the landscape).

The slowest you pan the camera the bigger the stutters, more like bumps to me. It's really annoying and can't unsee it anymore. Again, I'm a layman, but it doesn't seem your average framedrops. The slower you move the camera the bigger the stutter becomes. Anyone else noticing this? Patch 1.02 here

Other than that I like the game but this is really killing the immersion for me.