But it's a story quest :,(
That makes me feel like I miss out big time by doing all the amazing sidestaff primary.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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That makes me feel like I miss out big time by doing all the amazing sidestaff primary.
LonelyGreyWolf
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^ Imo, even if you don't get exp, a lot of quests are worth doing for the story alone.
Atraveller
Banned
And tons of people were complaining about over-leveling, now's their chance.
Ghostmaster
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If it's a story quest you'll still get some XP, so engage at your own risk, not everyone is affected by the XP bug.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
One thing that I've really enjoyed so far, besides exploring the lore of The Witcher world, is exploring the lore that the The Witcher itself is based on.
Like that the Wild Hunt is actually based on myths from Jacob Grimm and other European cultures. So neat.
Like that the Wild Hunt is actually based on myths from Jacob Grimm and other European cultures. So neat.
Ghostmaster
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Yeah it's cool that we have a game based on Slavic mythology. Though it's a shame that most of the Gods are skipped. All the runestones(or most) in the Witcher 3 are named after Slavic Gods.
matrix-cat
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So, it's grey, I shouldn't do it unless I don't want exp? Or is is fixed already?
At the moment I'm not even getting EXP from green quests. I just checked, and I went all the way through Get Junior only getting EXP from enemies I killed, nothing from the quest itself, and I'm only Lv 15. Hopefully CDPR fixes it soon.
toastyToast
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I think if you find swords and whatnot they still scale to your level. Did a level 7 quest at 23 or something and got a level 20 sword, which promptly sold.
Lovely Salsa
Banned
I didnt know my people had gods LOL
Yes, but I still don't want to end up underleveled for the next content, since the major chunk of exp is awarded in the story mission.
That said, I tackled quests ten levels above mine with very little trouble. So maybe I should just go in.
Uguu.
Few people know a lot abotu europaen myth outside the british ones (and well, norse and greek gods, everybody knows some of those). I hate that. The rest of Europe has a lot more to show than what is used in pop culture.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
WHATTTTTTT. Oh man that's so cool. I need to go read up on those now!
I guess it's hard to insert the gods into the story, but it certainly would have been neat to get more than just the name references. I'd really like to see more stuff inspired by Eastern Europe get made.
Apparently there's an entire pantheon!
Absolutely true. I know that before I started browsing the internet to figure out where stuff from The Witcher came from, I didn't know much about Slavic myth. It's a shame that the Western European myths really dominate over the Eastern European stuff.
blueteainfusion
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I know it's irrational, but I judge people who prefer Triss to Yen. Yes, even the writers, for giving players that option. I know, different strokes and all that, but I seriously can't help it. I didn't dislike Triss, she mildly annoyed me sometimes, but I think I'm going to hate her, purely because she is the reason Geralt could break Yennefer's heart.
And she is allergic to magic, but in potions. She can only heal herself with the magic amulets. I honestly never saw anything about the fact that she is natural beauty, can somebody provide a quote? Because I think it's just a fanon that spread like a wildfire among the fandom and has little to do with the canon. Same thing about her actual age.
And she is allergic to magic, but in potions. She can only heal herself with the magic amulets. I honestly never saw anything about the fact that she is natural beauty, can somebody provide a quote? Because I think it's just a fanon that spread like a wildfire among the fandom and has little to do with the canon. Same thing about her actual age.
Ghostmaster
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Yep, there's a bunch of them.
Same as me. I had a save from right before the last two missions I did so once its patched I will be starting from there, but this shit blows. I really want to continue lol
Ghostmaster
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These are the ones mentioned in the Witcher 3 (runestones)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dažbog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzanna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triglav_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svarog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veles_(god)
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Not the person to find a quote, but on another note, do we know how appearances are changed? Is it only spell-based or does it include anything related to potions?
Atraveller
Banned
It'll grow back.
Dark_castle
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Spoiler for Redania's Most Wanted.
Should I hold onto the crystal till much later and give it to her or Yen then?
Found a crystal in Philipa's place, wanted to give Triss to examine, killed the witch hunters, but she has already left Novigrad? Already did Now Or Never quest with her previously and sexed her, but I guess she's gone to Kaer Morhan now.
Should I hold onto the crystal till much later and give it to her or Yen then?
It's not even "western", it's mostly english. People barely know Jeanne D'arc or Siegfried, but not much else in international pop-culture from german countries (post-WWI) or France. Also: there isn't west and east, there are various cultures in europe. Germanic, nordic, slavic, greek, baltic, celtic, etc... etc... Europe is a collection of hundreds of different cultures that developed in thousands of years. Somehow anime and japanese videogames are the thing that seem to grab the most out of it.
matrix-cat
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I know! I've got an earlier save, and I don't mind replaying a couple of quests, it's just the downtime that's getting to me. After 50 hours in the last week or so, I still just want to spend my whole day playing the game. I'm itching for some Witching even now
Ghostmaster
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It's just hard to break the triumvirate of Greek, Nordic and Egyptian mythology since they cover most of the bases.
Greek mythology has the sex and the gore
Egyptian has the exotic and outlandish
Nordic has the awesome and fuck yeah let's drink and fight.
The weirdest thing is how unpopular persian mythology is, especially since Gilgamesh is one of the core epics of the ancient era.
Shouta
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As far as I've found, they're the best for their level but there seems to be other recipes and higher level gear that will probably be better. It just has a set number of bonuses making them very strong.
I finished the game, I liked the ending I got and I definitely want to see the variations. =o I wish they had a new game plus to make it go quick, lol
orthodoxy1095
Banned
That's not really true. There are really four major regions of Europe, Central, North, East and West. They're grouped like that for political purposes but they share obvious cultural similarities within their groups in many cases. Western Europe at least gets a token representative in the mythos of France and England. Southern Europe even gets something from Latin and Greek mythos. Not that having two representatives is ideal, but at least those cultures have some cultural following, whereas Eastern Europe in particular is radically unknown to most people.
You could have just googled it lol.
the_batman
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you kidding, it had already turned dark when it got to the
baron's wife's miscarried baby coming back from the dead as a monster.
Mendax
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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.
Is it true that only 2 of the series are in english (yet) ? Was looking for them but could only find 2 and some spinoff
A lot of the books have official English translations. The ones that don't have amazing fan translations, so no, all the books are in English in one way or another.
Fan translations can be found here: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16494-Our-Community-Fan-Translations
orthodoxy1095
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The two short story collections The Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish are in English. Of the mainline saga, there are six books and three are translated officially. I'm sure you could find a decent fan translation though.
Mendax
Member
alright thanks, had no idea fan translations for novels were even a thing. sweet.
Doesn't seem like im the only one who finds continuing playing end-game very difficulty.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/39674-Mega-SPOILERS-Immersion-Destroyer
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/39674-Mega-SPOILERS-Immersion-Destroyer
People were really pissed that the translations took so long so they made their own.
There are decent translations to other languages though, i know that Italian is pretty good, so is Russian.
artsi
Member
I agree with this, came to my mind instantly in the endgame.
And generally I think the characters should always be somewhere in the game world so you could interact with them, but many times they just disappear from the world between story sections.
One huge interaction improvement would be if you'd be able to take a companion with you (your lover or friend) to do stuff like the POI content.
Many of them already have battle systems in place so I hope it can be modded to the game.
the_batman
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Velen's map...
and there's even more to the ploughing game after that, you whoreson.
I know! I've got an earlier save, and I don't mind replaying a couple of quests, it's just the downtime that's getting to me. After 50 hours in the last week or so, I still just want to spend my whole day playing the game. I'm itching for some Witching even now
I feel you. I want to play so bad right now. I'll start on my first job on Monday after finishing University and wanted to enjoy my last days of freedom with a few dozen hours of Witching :'(
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Does anyone have moregood screenshots of the characters from the PC version? The one thing that has bothered me is that Geralt looks amazing in nearly every instance, but often the other characters have very plastic looking skin. Like I found this of Triss and this of Ciri (in the screenshot thread) and the skin on console looks almost nothing like that to my eyes. Curious what Yen and the others look like
mostly Yen.
artsi
Member
Actually, yeah, middle eastern myths are pretty rare too, aside from dschinns.
Well, you can simplify the culture generally in those categories, but that ignores that there are actually different cultures with their own myths and legends. And what I am saying is, that most of those are grossly underused.
And that's just one of two big open world maps.Velen's map...
Original Man
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It's ridiculous how over leveled I am. I wanna get all these low lol quest done before I move to skelliage but damn
Agreed.
I feel the world after the end is so empty, sad and depressive. I was literally running around screaming inside myself "Where are everyone, where are you folks".
It's very difficulty to continue playing. Just having CDPR place Triss, Yen, Ciri etc. in Kear Morhen or somewhere else in the world and maybe just have this interactions "Hi, how are you?" would make everything so much better,
orthodoxy1095
Banned
Damn that looks good. Thanks!
drotahorror
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Is there any way to get the Arinbjorn innkeeper to talk to you? Is he bugged or do you HAVE to talk to him before completing a certain contract? Stupid game design if so. He's got the only 4 cards I'm missing.
I found the
botchling to be kind of cute and non-threatening.
The crones on the other hand... Oh my.
All decoctions affect your general abilities, no matter who you are stabbing at the time. Read the descriptions in the alchemy panel.
the_batman
Banned
how long until someone mods them into the sex scenes? LOL
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