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[Akhe]

Probably well known, but keep in mind:

Lmao

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

Probably well known, but keep in mind:

This is incorrect.

Always eat the yellow snow. There's a chance that it might be beer, so it's worth it in the long run.

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trust me I'm a doctor

 

[Flipyap]

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Yes, Yen cheated several times on Geralt, but initially they weren't...so close. I mean, they just used to have sex together

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Too bad Geralt wasn't informed about this fact when they were living together. That was a fun surprise, finding out that they aren't "so close" BECAUSE she's so deeply in love with him... and another dude. Crazy granny logic.

 

[vall03]

Question and spoilers for Carnal Sins quest.

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Will I still be able to find Hubert Rejk? I completely lost the chance to find the guy since I was lost in Novigrad and I couldn't find the morgue and ended up just reporting to Dandelion. Now that I found the morgue, the dude apparently escaped. Is he gone for good or can I find him somewhere else?

I feel like I didn't complete the quest *sigh*

 

[Shogun_of_Truth]

I might pick up the game today.


Should I wait for the next patch, or its it pretty solid right now?

I've heard there is an XP glitch, will that effect me?

 

[Onimusha78]

Kinda bummed that everyone's gonna end up wearing the same gear. Gimme that cloak from the trailers or mastercrafted wolf school armor and I'd be happy though

 

[LonelyGreyWolf]

I might pick up the game today.


Should I wait for the next patch, or its it pretty solid right now?

I've heard there is an XP glitch, will that effect me?

I've never heard anyone at the beginning of the game get effected by it. Seems to happen quite a bit later on. But maybe, not sure. The XP glitch is the only major worry, all other glitches are pretty minor and are for later quests that will have been patched when you get there.

 

[EatChildren]

I might pick up the game today.

Should I wait for the next patch, or its it pretty solid right now?

I've heard there is an XP glitch, will that effect me?

Consistency of the XP glitch is difficult to measure, as is its impact, as there's been a bit of misinformation. Some people are confused that they're not getting XP due to the glitch, when the game does not reward you XP for quests you've over levelled for (as in, you can't hit level 25 and go back and clear level 10 quests to milk XP). But it does exist and is yet to be patched.

I finished the main story and a majority of side quests at 139 hours and if I hit the XP glitch I never noticed. Finished at level 35, never felt under levelled or ill equipped, if anything over levelled.

 

[Nordicus]

Wow, even making a contract version of Ekhidnas can't make them any threatening. I simply parried it to death...

 

[iNvid02]

Question and spoilers for Carnal Sins quest.

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Will I still be able to find Hubert Rejk? I completely lost the chance to find the guy since I was lost in Novigrad and I couldn't find the morgue and ended up just reporting to Dandelion. Now that I found the morgue, the dude apparently escaped. Is he gone for good or can I find him somewhere else?

I feel like I didn't complete the quest *sigh*

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you should stumble upon notes and a body while running around novigrad, geralt realises the killer is still at large.

I never ran into him again but I gotta visit the morgue after dark to see if he appears now that Geralt came across the body. you should be able to find him again.

 

[Shogun_of_Truth]

Thanks guys. Sounds like I have nothing to worry about then.

Just finished up my Witcher 1 and 2 playthrough yesterday, so I'm so ready for this.

 

[daninthemix]

So I'm just a few hours in but every story mission seems to recommend a higher level than I am. Am I supposed to just wander towards the various question marks and fight enemies to level up?

 

[dex3108]

And next two W3 DLCs (will be out next week)

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 'Ballad Heroes' Neutral Gwent Card Set
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Fool's Gold

 

[Onimusha78]

Saw the game start to update and got excited. Update was only 3.4mb

 

[Wind's Howling]

Saw the game start to update and got excited. Update was only 3.4mb

Could be the hot fix for the exp?

 

[vall03]

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you should stumble upon notes and a body while running around novigrad, geralt realises the killer is still at large.

I never ran into him again but I gotta visit the morgue after dark to see if he appears now that Geralt came across the body. you should be able to find him again.

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That's the problem, I still kept on seeing the notes all over the place and then I stumbled upon the body. I spent around 20 mins looking for the morgue again, and only found a note that he fled to another settlement. I'm currently thinking Oxenfurt but there's nothing.

I kinda blame my own lack of direction sometimes and the size of Novigrad *sigh* Carnal Sins quest is still bothering because I feel like it never had proper closure for me.

 

[Onimusha78]

Could be the hot fix for the exp?

Possibly. Haven't got the bug to check though

 

[Tom Penny]

So Aard cant push my boat when its stuck in shallow water but can break through walls...c'mon mang

 

[Nordicus]

So I'm just a few hours in but every story mission seems to recommend a higher level than I am. Am I supposed to just wander towards the various question marks and fight enemies to level up?

That's just the way it is in early game. Once you get around to level 7ish that should change easily.

Contracts, destroying monster nests and liberating abandoned sites give big chunks of XP outside of story quests. Regular old combat gives barely anything.

 

[tootsi666]

It's when

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Yen talks with Triss to an enchanted device, and she soon notice Triss isn't alone and there's Philippa with her.

Never saw it like that. I guess you're right

 

[Veritigo_X]

And next two W3 DLCs (will be out next week)

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - 'Ballad Heroes' Neutral Gwent Card Set
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Fool's Gold

Got a link to this? Gwent cards sound great but I'm curious what Fool's Gold is.

 

[toastyToast]

This isn't good. Didn't get any XP for Count Reuven's Treasure either.

Where is the heck is that patch?

 

[Onimusha78]

Anybody got a screenshot of default Yen? Can't decide if I should use the alt look because I don't remember what she normally looks like lol

 

[Gen.Grievous]

This isn't good. Didn't get any XP for Count Reuven's Treasure either.

Where is the heck is that patch?

Check the XP in your inventory screen (top right). For some strange reason it doesn't always popup when you complete a quest but it does increase the amount of XP you have.

 

[Majukun]

Anybody got a screenshot of default Yen? Can't decide if I should use the alt look because I don't remember what she normally looks like lol

 

[Onimusha78]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=445639652

Cheers

 

[dex3108]

Got a link to this? Gwent cards sound great but I'm curious what Fool's Gold is.

https://steamdb.info/app/292030/history/

 

[Pastry]

I think I'm almost done with Novigrad thank god, really haven't enjoyed this area as much as what I've seen before it.

 

[MrCompletely]

PC Version is $35 on GMG (VIP Deal)

 

[Veritigo_X]

https://steamdb.info/app/292030/history/

Ah I thought there was an actual announcement. We'll probably get more info later in the week.

 

[toastyToast]

Check the XP in your inventory screen (top right). For some strange reason it doesn't always popup when you complete a quest but it does increase the amount of XP you have.

Nope. Had a checkpoint right before the quest conclusion and nothing.

Secondary quests and contract still give XP though

 

[VE3TRO]

LOL the Olaf fist fight.

Nope. Had a checkpoint right before the quest conclusion and nothing.

Secondary quests and contract still give XP though

What colour was the quest? Green or grey?

 

[Denton]

Dandelion quest spoilers

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god dammit this game...so funny, getting money for Dandelion through his bandit ruse...and then such gut punch with Prisscila getting attacked

 

[Lupercal]

Experienced a bug with the

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Triss quest in Novigrad where you follow her on her appointments. In the room where you meet Kluhg you have to go down in the basement. After trying for 10 minutes, I still can't open the basement door

reaaaalllly hope I don't have to replay all that beforehand because I hadn't really saved in about an hour or 3.

 

[Applesauce]

Kinda bummed that everyone's gonna end up wearing the same gear. Gimme that cloak from the trailers or mastercrafted wolf school armor and I'd be happy though

Unfortunately we are limited with options, unless you want to look like a color blind court jester.

 

[Onimusha78]

Unfortunately we are limited with options, unless you want to look like a color blind court jester.

Lol hopefully the later dlc gives us some decent looking armour that's worth using at the same time

Edit: Gained about 5fps after that tiny 3.4mb update, wth lol

Edit 2: Nevermind. Just where I was on the map lol

 

[toastyToast]

What colour was the quest? Green or grey?

Green. I was level 16, quest was level 12.

 

[Catdaddy]

After about 15 tries starting at level 6, finally beat "Jenny O' The Woods" at Level 12, with nothing more than Yrden. So far that's by far the roughest encounter I've had and I've done contacts with higher level creatures, with little or no problem.

 

[O.DOGG]

DLC is out. Does anyone know where to get the armor/crossbows?

EDIT: Nevermind. Got this on Reddit:

The armor set and Nilfgaardian crossbow can be purchased from the Barons Quartermaster in No Man's Land.

The Skellige crossbow can be bought from Skellige Kaer Trolde Castle Blackmsmith.

The Elven crossbow can be purchased from the Novigrad Fancy Shop Owner.

 

[Augemitbutter]

Dandelion quest spoilers

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god dammit this game...so funny, getting money for Dandelion through his bandit ruse...and then such gut punch with Prisscila getting attacked

i just finished it. pretty great quest, albeit a little disgusting. good conclusion and good exp.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Got damn, this fucking game. I experienced an awesome chain of quests tonight in Skellige. Side Quest spoilers:

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Decided to clear out more greyed-out quests from my log tonight and one of them was the "Black Pearl". Had to travel to one of Skellige's islands and dive for a black pearl for this retired soldier's wife. Finding the item was easy enough. But once I had found it, I needed to meet the old soldier back in Novigrad. So I decided to run over to the nearest fast travel point I had already discovered by buying a few maps from a Skellige merchant.

It turns out that that fast travel point was on another smaller island with a lighthouse. Cool, no big deal. Except the lighthouse turned out to be haunted by several Wraiths and even had a Witcher Contract for the "Pentinent" after talking with the lighthouse care taker. So I figured, what the hell, I'll knock out this contract while I'm in the area. About 15 minutes later, and a reloaded save due to a death, the contract was cleared. But now I had to travel to the local village to claim my reward. Again, no worries, I had fast travel unlocked. So I pop on over and head into the local tavern to meet the actual quest giver. Upon entering, two local Skelligan give me a hard time and the quest giver actually sticks up for me. Then I sat down with him, had a drink and collected by reward.

As I go to leave the tavern, the two local give me some shit again. This causes myself and the quest giver to get to into a fist fight with these idiots. But one of them pulls their sword half-way through the fight and mortally wounds the quest giver. So of course I proceed to literally cut them in half. After paying my respects to giver and hearing his final words, I walk outside to the father of the two idiots crying on about how I murdered his two idiot sons and ended his line. Of course I killed enough for one day so I agreed to be arrested and brought forth to the local Jarl for trial.

It turns out that Jarl was one of the dudes I met at the King's wake with Yen, just after first arriving on Skellige. So he basically lets me off the hook with the condition that I help his son prove his honor in the Cave of Dreams. Cool, no big deal. So I ride out to meet this son and his small band of warriors. We arrive at the cave, wipe out a few Nekkers and proceed to take some hallucinatory drugs to go on a vision quest in order to confront our deepest fears. Que flying ghost whales, flying ghost fish and a few other surprises.

I make it through the cave with the Jarl's son and friends intact and I'm free to go my own way now that I have completed the favor to Jarl. I remember that I still have to turn in the quest for Black Pearl Novigrad still I pop over there.

Turns out the old soldier was getting this black pearl as a gift to his wife, But the kicker is that his is basically in a coma and has been non-responsive to him for several years. They used to joke with each other about him finding her a black pearl and he though if he finally found one, that it'd snap her out of coma. But it didn't work. Damn, I genuinely felt bad for the guy.

I'm only 65 hours in, but this is the game of the year. No doubt about it.

I had the (almost) exact same experience last night and just posted about it in the DA:I vs W3 thread. Amazing stuff.

wow, I will let you know how this happened for me.

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first of all, I did this quest twice because I replayed quite a portion of skellige because I amde a bad decision.
the first time I did not go to jail, I think it was because I solved the "penitent" quest differently, if you search the lighthouse you will find log books that show that the guy who lives there actually manipulated them, you can choose to exile him if you found that out.
that was my first palythrough and the dude in the inn did NOT attack me.
now the second time I did not search the lighthouse, I could not exile him and imagine my surprise when the dudes attacked me at the inn and I got in jail.
and the jarl released me because I did the quest with his son already, the game reacted correctly to that.

Interesting.

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Finding out the lightkeeper is responsible is definitely not the trigger for getting arrested. I banished him and still got arrested in the town (even had a "but I saved your lighthouse" line.

This isn't good. Didn't get any XP for Count Reuven's Treasure either.

Where is the heck is that patch?

The main Novigrad quests seem to be the most commonly hit by the XP bug. However while I didn't get XP for Get Junior or Count Reuven's Treasure I got normal XP for the following main quests so it may be worth continuing on.

 

[O.DOGG]

So the new armor looks badass, and the base stats are pretty good. It's a medium armor. But the gauntlets have a level 37 requirement and I finished the game at level 35 so I can't see them on Geralt.

 

[Alpende]

Goddamn loading times are insane. I keep dying at a side quest and it's getting really tiring to sit here and wait for what feels like a long time.

 

[kriskrosbbk]

you mean the runes with the various +3%/5% on signs and so on?
in that case you have 2 option..remove the rune ,but then it gets destroyed,or dismantle the item and get back the materials,including any rune attached

Thanks man! A bit new to the game where do I dismantle?
Also do I have to leave White Orchard in order to find blacksmith?

 

[Applesauce]

Thanks man! A bit new to the game where do I dismantle?
Also do I have to leave White Orchard in order to find blacksmith?

Blacksmiths can dismantle weapons, there's one in WO nearby the bulletin board.

 

[HalfBakedProphet]

After about 15 tries starting at level 6, finally beat "Jenny O' The Woods" at Level 12, with nothing more than Yrden. So far that's by far the roughest encounter I've had and I've done contacts with higher level creatures, with little or no problem.

that was the quest that convinced me to get serious about using oil and bombs.

Moon Dust bombs make that fight much more manageable

 

[Onimusha78]

Music at the

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Nilfgaardian camp in Velen is super intimidating

 

[Skilletor]

Just finished the Bloody Baron quest.

It's INSANE how long I've played and feel like I haven't done anything. Still tons of exploring to do. I swam Novigrad and started some questlines there, but I want to finish up a lot of these witcher contracts before doing much more.

I found a vendor that sells the schematics for enhanced moondust, I bought it, but I can't seem to craft it. Is there a quest that I have to do or a certain level I need to be for that?

 

[Applesauce]

I found a vendor that sells the schematics for enhanced moondust, I bought it, but I can't seem to craft it. Is there a quest that I have to do or a certain level I need to be for that?

You are probably just missing one or more of the ingredients required for it. You also must have crafted basic moon dust for it too.

 

[RageWaffles]

Thanks man! A bit new to the game where do I dismantle?
Also do I have to leave White Orchard in order to find blacksmith?

Blacksmiths can dismantle weapons, there's one in WO nearby the bulletin board.

The dude in the White Orchard village is an armorer. There's a blacksmith in the Nilfgaardian camp in the northwest corner of the White Orchard map.

Both of them can dismantle things, though.