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[caleb1915]

Does anyone else get Deus Ex or Alpha Protocol vibes in the way the quests can advance?

Like when I took the contract for the

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gravehag I think is what it was called, I went to the graveyard at night and got fucked up by the ghouls inside the fence, when I left to meditate and came in the morning there were rabid dogs there. When I took care of the dogs Geralt actually specified what had happened that brought the ghouls there and the dogs later in the morning.

I thought it was a really nice touch that left me wondering what could have happened if I had just taken care of the ghouls originally.

Edit: I also just love how grounded everything looks to be even tho it's a world full of fantasy and monsters. There's not just lore, but reasons and motives to everything it seems.

 

[foxtrot3d]

So general background lore question: it seems like the other Witcher schools are way more in tuned or at least physically closer to city life than Wolf School / Kaer Moren, Witcher Gear Hunt Spoilers:

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atleast this seems to be true with the Cat school where it actually seems to be a base instead of a drop spot hideout.

Seems like a weird with at least in this current/last war age it seems Witchers are just mutant scum to average populace and they need to hide their paths from outside eyes. Always took them to heavily push hermit life away from the populace, book readers or otherwise go any general state of the Witchers context?

As far as I remember the books don't seem to go into too much detail regarding the other Witcher schools. Generally, Witchers are looked down upon and dwindling in numbers soon to be gone for good. As far as the Wolf School, Kaer Morhen was attacked a while back by an angry mob incited by inflammatory literature that painted Witchers as evil, black magic practicing, baby stealers. The mob with the aid of mages attacked and killed all of the Witchers inside Kaer Morhen, even the children, with only Vesemir surviving and those Witchers who were "out on the path." Due to this attack the Witchers from Kaer Morhen are the last of their school and are unable to train or make new Witchers since all of their leaders along with the knowledge to make new Witchers have been lost.

 

[Aeana]

If you don't mind sharing.
Final playtime?
Did you rush things or delve into the non-essential content and explored?

I did almost all of the sidequests in the game besides the gwent (didn't touch it at all), racing, and fist fight stuff. Those didn't really interest me, so I just kinda passed them by. I'm sure I missed a handful of things, but I did what I came across. In-game save says 9 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes. Steam says 104 hours. Not all of that is playing; I left it running a lot while not playing. As a result, I don't have a reliable playtime to report, sadly.

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Geralt kills her in the "bad" ending.

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Man, that is so disappointing. Oh well.

Wow. High praise from you given your experience with the genre. You think it'll last the test of time, or is it more of a great now kind of game that won't be as relevant in the future?

I'm 35 hours in and I'm still leaning towards the latter. The feeling of running from POI to POI and having the game so focused on quests to the detriment of existing in the world has me a bit down on it. As always with Witcher games, my enjoyment of the world and characters is the primary joy I get from it.

If a game like Baldur's Gate 2 is considered a classic to this day, I see no reason why this game shouldn't be. To be completely honest, I think the stories in this game are among the best in the genre, and many surpass greats from the classics. They're so creative and interesting, and it really helps that they leverage mythology that a lot of people are less familiar with so it doesn't feel like the same-old Tolkien fantasy. And importantly, there were so few quests in the game that I felt like I was being fed as filler. I was enthralled the entire way through, and that's something that literally no open world RPG has ever managed for me personally. Witcher 1 and 2 gave glimpses of greatness, but Witcher 3 reaches them and soars.

 

[Kojirospath]

i hope you get to play solely as ciri in one of the expansions

I want this too! Playing as Ciri is great fun. She is a little op though so it might be hard to balance.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Question about the Now or Never quest.

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If I had asked Triss to stay, would she have? I felt it was the noble thing to do to say farewell but now I wish I hadn't. Feel like an arse.

 

[Ghostmaster]

I got the point with Yen

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but I was too chicken to say I didn't want to be with her anymore despite the fact I already told Triss I love her.

lol

You dun goofed son.

Question about the Now or Never quest.

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If I had asked Triss to stay, would she have? I felt it was the noble thing to do to say farewell but now I wish I hadn't. Feel like an area.

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Yes but only if, and get ready this is probably the stupidest thing in the game, you tell Djikstra to fuck off with his sad love story, if you let him tell you then she leaves.

 

[Blastoise]

Question after you finish the Bloody Baron quest line.

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Just before we headed to Crookbacks Bog, and ugly little human thingy ran into the room. It was the guards play thing. However I can't find him anywhere?

 

[El Jaffe]

Finally got superior feline armour. Now to work my way up to mastercraft.

Gotta say out of all the armors, I liked the original Feline Armor the best. looked real good with a short hair/ponytail combo and shaved face

 

[foxtrot3d]

Question after you finish the Bloody Baron quest line.

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Just before we headed to Crookbacks Bog, and ugly little human thingy ran into the room. It was the guards play thing. However I can't find him anywhere?

Ever heard of Chekov's Gun?

 

[Apt101]

The quest Lord of Unvick. This is the quest that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends!

Seriously though, who though it would be a good idea to have the player basically follow breadcrumbs for an hour. Ugh.

 

[LurkerPrime]

I really wish full-body cloaks were in the game, like in the Killing Monsters trailer. Some NPCs in Novigrad have them, but I sorta doubt I'll ever get one for Geralt...

Order is

Basic - Enhanced
Superior - Mastercrafted

Feline Set



Griffin Set



Ursine Set

Forgot to say, thanks a lot for this. They all develop really nicely, though Griffin's breastplate is oddly offputting.

 

[Blastoise]

Ever heard of Chekov's Gun?

I just wiki'd it. I'm confused as fuck now...

 

[texhnolyze]

Wow. High praise from you given your experience with the genre. You think it'll last the test of time, or is it more of a great now kind of game that won't be as relevant in the future?

I'm 35 hours in and I'm still leaning towards the latter. The feeling of running from POI to POI and having the game so focused on quests to the detriment of existing in the world has me a bit down on it. As always with Witcher games, my enjoyment of the world and characters is the primary joy I get from it.

The POIs are totally optional.
Just turn it off and you won't miss a thing. Treasures are covered in treasure hunt quests anyway. I turned it off and never look back, the game has fully immersed me so far.

 

[Aeana]

The quest Lord of Unvick. This is the quest that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends!

Seriously though, who though it would be a good idea to have the player basically follow breadcrumbs for an hour. Ugh.

If you want to bypass that stuff, the game tells you exactly where to go from the start. It's your choice to investigate the rest of the island.

 

[Ghostmaster]

I just wiki'd it. I'm confused as fuck now...

Don't worry about it just continue with the story, all will be explained.

 

[Blastoise]

Don't worry about it just continue with the story, all will be explained.

Ok. Good to know.

 

[Pop]

Holy moly that Baron's quest was something.

Yeah, that quest line was truly amazing. I felt that one.

 

[Dresden]

The POIs are totally optional.
Just turn it off and you won't miss a thing. Treasures are covered in treasure hunt quests anyway. I turned it off and never look back, the game has fully immersed me so far.

It's so much better without POIs or the minimap. If the game had a small on-screen compass function, it'd be perfect.

 

[EatChildren]

Isle of Mists spoilers:

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random snow white and the seven dwarves reference, lol

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[ufo8mycat]

I strongly recommend to turn off the mini-map. At least temporarily while exploring a new area for the first time.

I turned it off when first arriving in Novigrad and have been just wandering around blindly exploring Novigrad & the surrounding Northern region around Novigrad.

To put it simply

Mini-map ON : Half my attention was on the mini-map and looking for quest icons and points of interest, while the other half was on the world/exploring

Mini-map OFF: My whole attention was on exploring. This really increased immersion and the enjoyment of the exploration aspect. I was running into quests and points of interests etc out of luck and it was much more fun

I have explored enough of the Northern part now with the mini-map off. Now I will turn it on and concentrate on the quests etc

I really recommend having it off, at least until when you feel you have explored an area enough by your own.

 

[Danj]

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I let her keep the notes and told her to seek refuge in Kaer Morhen, she and Lambert hooked up there and she used the notes to cure some plague.

Crap. I

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took the notes off her because I was worried she'd make a weapon with them, but now you say she would've cured a plague? Bah

.

 

[Salsa]

Finally got superior feline armour. Now to work my way up to mastercraft.

agh dammit I dont like it

 

[Not Spaceghost]

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The ambiance for this quest was 10/10

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Yes but only if, and get ready this is probably the stupidest thing in the game, you tell Djikstra to fuck off with his sad love story, if you let him tell you then she leaves.

Not true

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I said "sure why not go ahead and tell it" and he began telling it then he was just like "turn around" and Geralt was all like "I'm in no mood for jokes" then he was like "no seriously turn around" and there she was

 

[Lys Skygge]

I just realized that the Dualshock 4s light changes whenever a sign is recharging. After casting Igni the light turns red, the light turns purple after casting yrden, etc...I thought it was a pretty cool feature.

 

[Visceir]

Finally got superior feline armour. Now to work my way up to mastercraft.

Neat, I'd be trying to get mastercraft now, but I'm not even level 20 yet.

 

[foxtrot3d]

Crap. I

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took the notes off her because I was worried she'd make a weapon with them, but now you say she would've cured a plague? Bah

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Same,

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I killed her too. Oh well, I hate all members of the Lodge anyway so she got hers in the end.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

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Yes but only if, and get ready this is probably the stupidest thing in the game, you tell Djikstra to fuck off with his sad love story, if you let him tell you then she leaves.

Hold the phone:

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This is only relevant for people trying to tell Triss they loved her right? Or can you get her to stay even without confessing love?

Yennefer warns you quite clearly

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that if you don't do it soon and by soon it means before the next story mission she will move on.

Up until that quest, I had never had a quest actually fail on me because of advancing the story too far. So I guess her saying "soon" didn't trigger anything in me.

 

[GodParticle]

Yeah, turning off POI makes it much more interesting to explore the world

 

[Maximo]

Is it crazy for me to start the Witcher 3 all over again ? I beat the Main quest and haven't done all the side quests but I really want to experience all these amazing characters again.

 

[Kwansu Dudes]

I'm having serious issues on PS4. Takes several seconds for textures/people to load before I can talk to them.

 

[toastyToast]

Definitely turn off POIs. I turned them back on when I was cleaning up looking for places of power but I feel like you discover enough stuff taking contracts from noticeboards and just walking around. Contracts take you just about everywhere.

 

[Ghostmaster]

Hold the phone:

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This is only relevant for people trying to tell Triss they loved her right? Or can you get her to stay even without confessing love?

Yes you can.

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You can tell her this and have a love scene with her and still in the end choose Yennefer if you say I love you to her, this just buys you more time to think. That's why I said it's extremely dumb with the whole djikstra thing

 

[Donthizz#]

Early parts of the dandelion quest line was so boring, hopefully it gets better.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Yes you can.

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You can tell her this and have a love scene with her and still in the end choose Yennefer if you say I love you to her, this just buys you more time to think

Ughhhhhhhh.

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So I let Dijsktra talk. Does that mean Triss won't show up at Kaer Morhen now?

 

[webkid94]

Question about a "side" quest after rescuing

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Dandelion

who was the

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serial murderer that targeted Priscilla: I killed lambert? or the director of the morgue? but later found out he wasnt the real killer, heart totally dropped when i found out. Who really did murder those people?

 

[Chubzdoomer]

Has anyone else not put ANY skill points into Alchemy yet? I'm level 10 and the only points I've spent are on Combat and Signs (Fast Attacks and Igni/Quen).

 

[Pop]

I'm having serious issues on PS4. Takes several seconds for textures/people to load before I can talk to them.

If you run through the city or fast travel, that's what happens.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Question about

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serial murderer that targeted Priscilla: I killed lambert but later found out he wasnt the real killer, heart totally dropped when i found out. Who really did murder those people?

Lol wut.

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Wait a second. Explain how you ended up killing him instead. How was that ever even an option?!

 

[EatChildren]

If a game like Baldur's Gate 2 is considered a classic to this day, I see no reason why this game shouldn't be. To be completely honest, I think the stories in this game are among the best in the genre, and many surpass greats from the classics. They're so creative and interesting, and it really helps that they leverage mythology that a lot of people are less familiar with so it doesn't feel like the same-old Tolkien fantasy. And importantly, there were so few quests in the game that I felt like I was being fed as filler. I was enthralled the entire way through, and that's something that literally no open world RPG has ever managed for me personally. Witcher 1 and 2 gave glimpses of greatness, but Witcher 3 reaches them and soars.

Yeah, this is how I feel. My opinion is that other open world RPGs, or RPGs in general, don't do better things so much as differently. As in, Morrowind and New Vegas have a completely different build diversity, whereas Wild Hunt is more of an ARPG in that respect. It's more narrative driven than build/skill driven in quest pacing. But for what it's aiming for there's nothing else I can think of that really approaches it in consistent quality. CDPR have gone to rather astounding lengths to make practically every single quest arc, no matter what it is or how trivial and short it may seem, built with deliberate context and lore. Contracts are probably the best example of this, because they're basically all optional, and in a gamey sense the most logical part of the game to dilute to simplicity: get contract, find monster, kill monster. But even these always have a little bit of story and development to them, often with their own twists and conundrums.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Question about

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serial murderer that targeted Priscilla: I killed lambert but later found out he wasnt the real killer, heart totally dropped when i found out. Who really did murder those people?

Holy shit, you really fucked up there pal.

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The guy who works at the morgue did it.

 

[Ghostmaster]

Ughhhhhhhh.

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So I let Dijsktra talk. Does that mean Triss won't show up at Kaer Morhen now?

Unfortunately

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I think she won't show up.

 

[webkid94]

Lol wut.

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Wait a second. Explain how you ended up killing him instead. How was that ever even an option?!

Ah wait not the witcher friend but the other dude? Forgot his name, was he the

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doctor/coroner

or something? Too many names to remember lol. the mission quest updated with

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[Guy] was guilty of many things but Geralt later found out he was not the one who attacked Priscilla, or something to that effect

 

[Kwansu Dudes]

If you run through the city or fast travel, that's what happens.

Ah interesting. Never seemed to be an issue before though it might just be that I have a large savefile.

 

[Not Spaceghost]

Holy shit, you really fucked up there pal.

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The guy who works at the morgue did it.

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What? But that's impossible I caught an eternal flame dude red fucking handed about to torture and murder a hooker, how on earth did you guys end up with the morgue guy / Lambert?

 

[Ghostmaster]

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What? But that's impossible I caught an eternal flame dude red fucking handed about to torture and murder a hooker, how on earth did you guys end up with the morgue guy / Lambert?

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He is just a sadist, he doesn't have the fluoride or the other ritual stuff

 

[webkid94]

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He is just a sadist, he doesn't have the fluoride or the other ritual stuff

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So who did it then?

 

[Not Spaceghost]

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He is just a sadist, he doesn't have the fluoride or the other ritual stuff

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Holy shiiiiiiit, I wonder if at some point Priscilla is gonna be found dead or something

 

[EatChildren]

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What? But that's impossible I caught an eternal flame dude red fucking handed about to torture and murder a hooker, how on earth did you guys end up with the morgue guy / Lambert?

If you start questioning

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the eternal fire guy he indicates he has no fucking idea what you're talking about with murders, and that he just likes torturing people, and intends to let the prostitute go. He says the only person who knew he was at the bar was the morgue guy. You can then either let the eternal fire guy go, or kill him, then chase down morgue guy. And then you learn he's a vampire, hence how he managed to scale the wall so easily, and why he looks so young.

 

[Ghostmaster]

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So who did it then?

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The young guy that works in the morgue, the one that hates the doctor

 

[Apt101]

This whirlwind attack in the fast melee combat tree is great, but I wish it would fire off faster. I killed the christ out of a room full of drunkards with it, and it saves one's ass when cornered. Also, if you haven't got the trait that negates 100% of damage while dodging you should get it. Makes contract and boss fights much easier.