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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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Thanks! Guess I better find where that is. All I know is the Bloody Baron is there. I guess if I keep following the main quests it should take me there eventually.
Atraveller
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I did exactly that, so fingers crossed! And yes, she's a natural.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I feel pretty confident saying that isn't a problem in this game. The world is joined together by a fantastic lore, and everything feels pretty lively. Quest design and sidequests are incredible, and the open world really serves the game rather than detracting from it. However...you might be overwhelmed by the size...
Hot damn.
truestatic
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If too open a world bothers you, then that doesn't bode well. Mass Effect 3's world is positively claustrophobic in comparison. There's direction if you're willing to focus your efforts on the main questlines and those sidequests you find appealing. Most of the central stuff is quite engaging and well written. But if you're easily distracted by the many points of interest and small sidequests, you may find the scope of the game spilling far beyond your liking and interest.
BitterSidekick
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Thanks so much for this, was getting tired of the recap going over and over.
If you get hit by XP bug, you are not getting xp at all, or just from the main quests?
Lovely Salsa
Banned
Does that mean yen would look like one of the crones if she didnt use magic to alter her appearence?
Atraveller
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No, just an ugly human, I think the books implied she was hunchbacked? It's been a while, kind of forgot.
Thanks for providing those links. As someone who only just got round to starting the game yesterday but haven't played the previous games, this will be really useful. I'm only an hour or so in to Wild Hunt but I'm fucking in to it already.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
She does have that great moment at the start of act one in The Witcher 2 where while holding up the butterfly barrier she spaces out and nose bleeds, but that might be just due to spell intensity.
Wild Hunt is really just split between Yennefer and Triss, and I think it's a way of playing to both fans of the games and the books. Geralt has had romance with Triss, and Triss is madly in love with Geralt, but in the books Yennefer is ultimately Geralt's soul mate. With amnesia hitting at the start of the games and Yennefer nowhere to be found, Triss is is his canonical interest (suffer, Shani fans). So she does, to an extent, exploit his amnesia to hook up.
Wild Hunt deals with this pretty directly, both Yennefer and Triss acknowledging everything that's happened, and ultimately leaving it up to the player to decide which is their waifu.
orthodoxy1095
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Well the crones are on a particular level of grotesque. So, no I don't think she'd look like that. Perhaps "plain" or more on the side of ugly, but I don't think she's going to look like this (spoiler).
Reading them right now. I think the passage you're thinking of is Geralt's personal musings. He thinks she might have been hunchbacked, but he can't be sure of course. It's safe to guess that she wasn't probably a knock-out beauty though.
Happy to help! They really got me started and helped me dive even deeper into the story and lore.
truestatic
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Sorry. Hope I didn't sour you on it too much. Make no mistake, I absolutely love this game. And it does a reasonably good job of making the world feel... lived in. But some of your pet peeves just make me a little bit reticent to wholeheartedly recommend it to you.
borborygmus
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orthodoxy1095
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Now, now, we're only talking outer beauty, it's inner beauty that matters right?
(Plus she's gorgeous now anyways, and Geralt loves her in spite of his suspicion that she was a hunchback in the past 
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)Supposedly, yes. I haven't confirmed it myself, but people say they've done it.
Turin Turambar
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They answered you already, but I wanted to add that well, in the books monsters aren't that common In the games their numbers are exaggerated for gameplay reasons, to have enemies to slay.
Atraveller
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Geralt knew, but he doesn't care, and I can live with that.
Ghostmaster
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Yes.
You kind of had to goad her into further confrontation while she's working on her teleporter.
borborygmus
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Yes, that's how it went for me, but I'm not sure of the exact conversational choices that will make this happen.
Treated Triss nicely but didn't pursue romance, made Geralt romance Yennefer. Had both Triss and Yennefer at Kaer Morhen.
Cool. I just found that revelation to be simultaneously hilarious and shocking.
Huggers
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Nah that's cool man. I kinda had a feeling these things might be the issues. I'll get to it in the future and who knows, May end up loving it. Cheers for the help though.
guys have you seen this. fkn hilarious!
Fuckin' Roach at it yet again.
OmegaDL50
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I was on my way to do the Griffin Gear Scavenger quest line, climbing this cliff. I found a Place of Power on top of a cliff, turned my camera back in the opposite direction and was greeted with this view. Just wanted to share with you all.
Should make a nice desktop background.
Should make a nice desktop background.
Yeah, I dont know if its ever made clear. Book Spoiler:
Triss was naturally good looking. However, she was burned beyond recognition at Sodden Hill and her body/sight was restored using the "highest magic".
matrix-cat
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I think I've got this no EXP bug. Just went through Get Junior and a bit of Sigi Reuven's Treasure and I don't think I got any EXP from it, though I was still getting 25-50 EXP here and there from Gwent and a couple of other side missions. I'm Lv 15 doing Lv 12ish quests and getting nothing from them.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Oh ho. That's interesting. Wonder how she was able to withstand that given her allergy. Guess I need to keep reading!
Lovely Salsa
Banned
when you guys say you're reading the book.....what book are you talking about? There's a witcher series book line?
OmegaDL50
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It's implied that she's allergic to magic potions, If it was just magic in general then would she not be able to cast spells herself?
Also there is a contradiction with her potion allergy in books compared to the games. For example one of the very first quests in The Witcher 1, was creating a potion for Triss to heal her from injuries she got when Kaer Morhen was attacked in the beginning of the game.
Yes, the games are based on a series of novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
The books follow the journeys and tales of Geralt. Which is why the Witcher games have such a well established world and lore, due to the books it has to draw from.
Atraveller
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Games are adaptions. Unofficial sequels.
Littlebigbenny
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The games are based on the series of books from Andrzej Sapkowski. They continue the story where the books left off.
Ghostmaster
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The games are based on a series of books, there is no one book, there're 6 of them.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Specifically I'm reading the first book right now:
The Witcher was a series of books long before it was ever a game. Started in 1992.
blueteainfusion
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I love facial animations in this game. I am especially impressed with the variety of all the subtle emotions you can see in the character's faces, and especially eyes! Eyes have a believable depth to them, it's great. I am so, so glad the tech went far enough for games to be able to deliver this - without it, the story wouldn't be half as resonant as it is now. I have my suspicions that people who didn't connect with Geralt simply couldn't, due to the lack of facial expression.
The zones are separated and you have to fast-travel between them. CDPR clearly had a story they wanted to tell in this specific regions and since staying true to the source material was a factor too, they didn't fill out the whole map of the Continent. Don't worry though, each of them is definitely big enough on their own.
1)
Yes, Ciri is adopted, neither Geralt nor Yen can have biological children. Her hair color is not something she takes from Geralt, just her own genealogy. It's hard to deny though that the author of the original books did want to connect the three of them through the color symbolism.
2)
She went to another world/dimension, as she's wont to do.
3)Her father and Geralt's history is quite complicated, so I will just give you cliff notes. SPOILERS from the books!
- Young Emhyr, Ciri's biological father, is exciled from Nilfgaard after assasination of the previous emperor (his own father). A sorcerer curses him so that each day he turns into an ugly monster.
- One day he saves the life of the king of Cintra (a Northern Kingdom neighboring with Nilfgaard). Greatful king offers him payment in form of the Law of Surprise ("You'll give me something you already have but don't know about" or some variations of that). It turned out to be the king's unborn daugher, Pavetta.
- King dies and Emhyr (assuming the name Duny) turnes out in Cintra 15 years later to collect his prize. Pavetta falls in love with him, but their relationship is secret.
- Pavetta's mother, Queen Calanthe, hires Geralt to get rid of the monster that haunts the halls of the royal castle in Cintra. But instead of killing Duny, Geralt lifts the curse off him. As a reward for saving his life, lifting the curse and allowing Duny and Pavetta to get married, Geralt invokes The Law of Surprise again. Yep, you guessed it, Pavetta was pregnant. Geralt is to return to Cintra in six years to take the child with him and make him/her a witcher. Of course, nobody suspects then that it would be a girl, Ciri.
- Sometime later, Pavetta and Duny are lost at the sea and presumed dead. Ciri miraculously didn't go with them. Much later it's revealed that the ship wreck was Duny/Emhyr's plan. He learnt the throne in Nilfgaard was up for grabs again and he intended to fake his own death and take Ciri with him. Pavetta sensed that something was wrong, sent Ciri away and got killed by her husband for her trouble. Emhyr later claims that it was an accident, but her death was awfully convenient anyway. The connection between Duny and Emhyr had to be kept secret.
- Geralt turnes up in Cintra like he promised, but has no intention to take the child (he doesn't even realize that it's a girl). Even after he meets Ciri in person sometime later, he still wants to defy destiny and thinks that she's better suited to being a princess than the witcher.
- Nilfgaard invades Cintra. While it's not a sole reason for invasion, it is heavily implied that Emhyr (now the Emperor) did it in large part to take Ciri again. The whole kingdom of Cintra is destroyed and annexed, the capitol slaughtered, Calanthe commits suicide when the castle gets sacked and Ciri barely escapes with her life. Only 11 at that time, she's left to wander the war ravaged countryside until Geralt finally finds her again and this time takes her to Kaer Morhen for the witcher training.
- Emhyr basically continues to try to invade the Northern Kingdoms again and again, sending his spies and hunters to capture Ciri at the same time. The whole Saga of books detail those events and LOTS of shit happens in-between. Emhyr destroyed fuckton of lives while attempting to get his daughter (and he wanted to make her his queen at the time, Elven prophecies and whatnot - he backed away from that at the last moment). Geralt, Yennefer and their friends suffered a lot during the war. So when Emhyr meets Geralt again, reveals himself as Dun, wants to take his daughter away from him and orders him and Yen to commit suicide - Geralt is suitably unimpressed with all this shit.
- One day he saves the life of the king of Cintra (a Northern Kingdom neighboring with Nilfgaard). Greatful king offers him payment in form of the Law of Surprise ("You'll give me something you already have but don't know about" or some variations of that). It turned out to be the king's unborn daugher, Pavetta.
- King dies and Emhyr (assuming the name Duny) turnes out in Cintra 15 years later to collect his prize. Pavetta falls in love with him, but their relationship is secret.
- Pavetta's mother, Queen Calanthe, hires Geralt to get rid of the monster that haunts the halls of the royal castle in Cintra. But instead of killing Duny, Geralt lifts the curse off him. As a reward for saving his life, lifting the curse and allowing Duny and Pavetta to get married, Geralt invokes The Law of Surprise again. Yep, you guessed it, Pavetta was pregnant. Geralt is to return to Cintra in six years to take the child with him and make him/her a witcher. Of course, nobody suspects then that it would be a girl, Ciri.
- Sometime later, Pavetta and Duny are lost at the sea and presumed dead. Ciri miraculously didn't go with them. Much later it's revealed that the ship wreck was Duny/Emhyr's plan. He learnt the throne in Nilfgaard was up for grabs again and he intended to fake his own death and take Ciri with him. Pavetta sensed that something was wrong, sent Ciri away and got killed by her husband for her trouble. Emhyr later claims that it was an accident, but her death was awfully convenient anyway. The connection between Duny and Emhyr had to be kept secret.
- Geralt turnes up in Cintra like he promised, but has no intention to take the child (he doesn't even realize that it's a girl). Even after he meets Ciri in person sometime later, he still wants to defy destiny and thinks that she's better suited to being a princess than the witcher.
- Nilfgaard invades Cintra. While it's not a sole reason for invasion, it is heavily implied that Emhyr (now the Emperor) did it in large part to take Ciri again. The whole kingdom of Cintra is destroyed and annexed, the capitol slaughtered, Calanthe commits suicide when the castle gets sacked and Ciri barely escapes with her life. Only 11 at that time, she's left to wander the war ravaged countryside until Geralt finally finds her again and this time takes her to Kaer Morhen for the witcher training.
- Emhyr basically continues to try to invade the Northern Kingdoms again and again, sending his spies and hunters to capture Ciri at the same time. The whole Saga of books detail those events and LOTS of shit happens in-between. Emhyr destroyed fuckton of lives while attempting to get his daughter (and he wanted to make her his queen at the time, Elven prophecies and whatnot - he backed away from that at the last moment). Geralt, Yennefer and their friends suffered a lot during the war. So when Emhyr meets Geralt again, reveals himself as Dun, wants to take his daughter away from him and orders him and Yen to commit suicide - Geralt is suitably unimpressed with all this shit.
4)
Geralt cares, but he tries to remain neutral, like witchers are supposed to be. Giving his experience with Nilfgaard, I doubt he's such a big fan of the Empire, but he's but a simple witcher and has little influence over the course of war (theoretically, anyway. Geralt knows a lot of powerful people, more than capable of changing the world's history)
5)
Geralt and Yen got separated before the start of the first game and he loft his memory. Once he regained it in the end of The Witcher 2 and learned about her whereabouts, he immediately stated to look for her
Ghostmaster
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Yen is older and stronger than Triss. It is known.
the_batman
Banned
kind of disappointed all the sex scenes so far follow the same template.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
c-c-c-c-combo breaker
I think I got my answer
I think I got my answer
orthodoxy1095
Banned
The two main love interests don't.
I guess then it has something to do with the magic being used on herself. So maybe she could throw a fireball at someone else, but she can't cast a healing spell on herself? Not sure.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I sure hope so, since that crap was cluttering up my inventory
Atraveller
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I know, I've read all of the available English and Chinese versions, no fan versions though.
thequickandthedead
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How the fuck do you defeat the Champion of champions?
So, it's grey, I shouldn't do it unless I don't want exp? Or is is fixed already?
What a strange game. The only way to win is not to play.
Ghostmaster
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So, it's grey, I shouldn't do it unless I don't want exp? Or is is fixed already?
What a strange game. The only way to win is not to play.
You won't get XP even if it's fixed. Grey quests don't award XP by design.
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