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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong

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Enosh

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

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.
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I never got the second part of the quest, the 2 guys insulted me at the start like usual, guy stood up for me, did the quest left and that's just it, kinda sucks reading I missed out on like half the quest :/ idk why it didn't trigger

also i thought the guys wife wasn't in a coma she just had some advanced stage of alzheimer's
 
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peonlin

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Lets say i onlye want a secondary sign skill form example igni firestream. Does the melt armour influence the secondary sign skill?
 
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Raxious

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Sooo, I just did
that Last Wish quest and turned down Yen as I had already gone for Triss. Bugs me though cause I felt Yen is a much more interesting character. Sadly you have to make the choice for Triss even before you ever meet Yen :(
I'll guess I'll change that in my 2nd playthrough.
 
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jim2point0

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The Hairworks on fiends is super impressive

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Exuro

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Raxious said:
Sooo, I just did
that Last Wish quest and turned down Yen as I had already gone for Triss. Bugs me though cause I felt Yen is a much more interesting character. Sadly you have to make the choice for Triss even before you ever meet Yen :(
I'll guess I'll change that in my 2nd playthrough.
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No you don't.
You decided to do her quests before Yens. You could have gone to Skellige and done Yen's first if you wanted to.
 
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phaze

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Raxious said:
Sooo, I just did
that Last Wish quest and turned down Yen as I had already gone for Triss. Bugs me though cause I felt Yen is a much more interesting character. Sadly you have to make the choice for Triss even before you ever meet Yen :(
I'll guess I'll change that in my 2nd playthrough.
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Next title of this thread should be "Go to Skellige before doing Triss quests"

or alternatively "You can get to know both waifus before you commit yourself"

cause yeah, you can stave off the Now or Never quest till after Skellige questline.
 
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phaze said:
Next title of this thread should be "Go to Skellige before doing Triss quests"

or alternatively "You can get to know both waifus before you commit yourself"

cause yeah, you can stave off the Now or Never quest till after Skellige questline.
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phew! glad I just read this. Tonight when I got home I was headed to Triss... Time to chart a new across the sea.
 
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Exuro

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PunishedSnake said:
Can't you do both quests (so
both Yen and Triss will be in the fortress?
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Yep. His complaint though was about
forcing to do Triss first and romancing her before learning more about Yen, but he doesn't know you can go to Skellige before doing Triss's side quest.
 
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phaze

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Alpende said:
Can someone tell me without too many spoilers when some quests become void when progressing trough the story?
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Haven't finished the story yet but there already was one express point where the game warned you of this happening. So it doesn't just happen out of the blue.
 
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SomTervo

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peonlin said:
Lets say i onlye want a secondary sign skill form example igni firestream. Does the melt armour influence the secondary sign skill?
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This aspect of the system bothers me, too.

If I upgrade Quen level 1 to 3/3, then I unlock Quen level 2 and upgrade it to 1/3, but Quen level 1 isn't in an active slot, do I only get the 1/3 Level 2 effect or do I get the buffs from Level 1 as well? (Eg +1.5% sign intensity).

Not getting the active effect seems fair enough, but not getting the intensity/stat buffs seems unfair.
 
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Flipyap

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Alpende said:
Can someone tell me without too many spoilers when some quests become void when progressing trough the story?
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Gangs of Novigrad is an alternate way of doing the Whoreson Junior quest and is cancelled if you do it the regular way.
Dandelion's and possibly Zoltan's personal sidequests are cancelled if you sail to the point of no return - you get a pop-up warning, but it doesn't tell you which quests could be cancelled. I just accepted, watched a couple QUEST CANCELLED pop ups and reloaded a save to finish those.

PunishedSnake said:
So doing Triss's side cut you out on doing Yen's one?
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You can do both quests, but the game rewards monogamy.
 
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ManCannon

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Anyone else find themselves thoroughly consumed with Gwent? Spent a whole day doing nothing but traveling around winning cards. In a few more levels it's time to crush the high stakes tourney. Hopefully things will get mixed up a bit, right now I really don't have any reason to experiment with other decks since my same basic strategy and setup has beaten everyone I've played and it just gets stronger now that I have some 15 hero cards. I also wish it was easier to tell who I've played / not played as I know I've surely missed one here or there.

Usually I hate superfluous second screen companions that inevitably steal development resources from the core game but man I wish I had an app that let me play Gwent. (a nice interactive map would be handy as well) Obviously I can't really complain given the sheer amount of content in the game but hey, one can always dream.

tl;dr - more Gwent please!
 
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Alpende

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Flipyap said:
Gangs of Novigrad is an alternate way of doing the Whoreson Junior quest and is cancelled if you do it the regular way.
Dandelion's and possibly Zoltan's personal sidequests are cancelled if you sail to the point of no return - you get a pop-up warning, but it doesn't tell you which quests could be cancelled. I just accepted, watched a couple QUEST CANCELLED pop ups and reloaded a save to finish those.


You can do both quests, but the game rewards monogamy.
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Thanks, I did the Junior quest the alternate way and that didn't bother me that much.
 
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toastyToast

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Lots of cool touches depending on the order you do things

Couple of examples

Regarding the contract on the
doppler
in Novigrad (level 13 I think)

If you do this contract after Count Reuven's Treasure but before finding
Dudu
you can ask them to
take the form of Menge and go to Temple Isle etc, the doppler says fuck that and Geralt lets him go anyway

Also if you go to Skellige before doing Count Reuven's Treasure and do the quest where
Yen uses necromancy to talk to a dead Skjall
if you leave
Triss to suffer her torture and she kills Menge herself you can bring up necromancy as a solution to getting Menge to free Dandelion except if you've gone and done that mission there's a new dialog option where Geralt will say, "Yen did it" and Triss'll say "I'm not Yen" or some such

Crazy level of detail.
 
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As much as I love Gwent I really wish that Dice Poker would return. Once you build an OP Gwent Deck it's pretty much impossible to lose but Dice Poker was based entirely on luck.
 
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CHC

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Gahhhhhhhhhh I just did the
3 witches
quest and played as Ciri for the first time.... so good. So fucking good. I
freed the spirit
and have no idea what the fuck the ramifications of that are going to be. This game is so vast, I can't even deal with it, I feel like I've done so much and I'm barely level 7....
 
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Alpende

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Lovely, Geralt walks slowly inside buidlings which is understandable but in this side quest I have to walk outside, onto a narrow walkway and the moment you step outside your walking speed speeds up. I've fallen off the damn ledge twice now resulting in two deaths.
 
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aku:jiki

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Alpende said:
Lovely, Geralt walks slowly inside buidlings which is understandable but in this side quest I have to walk outside, onto a narrow walkway and the moment you step outside your walking speed speeds up. I've fallen off the damn ledge twice now resulting in two deaths.
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I dislike the rare instances where you're allowed to run indoors (or while using witcher sense) myself. Feels so unnatural and like something broke.
 
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faer0n said:
So. If i don't get xp for a level 11 mainquest while being character level 14, i have to wait for the next patch?
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What colour was the quest in your quest log? If it was grey, you get no XP because you were over levelled.
 
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SomTervo

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Alpende said:
Lovely, Geralt walks slowly inside buidlings which is understandable but in this side quest I have to walk outside, onto a narrow walkway and the moment you step outside your walking speed speeds up. I've fallen off the damn ledge twice now resulting in two deaths.
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Several people have complained about this exact bit in OT1, haha. Bad times.

You're playing on PC I assume? On console this is offset by the fact that we have far more control over movement speed with an analog stick, so when you know you need precision no matter what, you just push the stick a little, and any quick-move deaths are avoided.
 
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Anton Sugar

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CHC said:
Gahhhhhhhhhh I just did the
3 witches
quest and played as Ciri for the first time.... so good. So fucking good. I
freed the spirit
and have no idea what the fuck the ramifications of that are going to be. This game is so vast, I can't even deal with it, I feel like I've done so much and I'm barely level 7....
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Duuuude, that is one of my favorite quests. The tree "talking" to you, its weird demands, and its terrifying appearance.

I actually thought that
letting it loose would be horrible, but I kinda wanted to see what would happen, so I did it. Looks like the red demon horse is actually...good? Who knows if it'll show up later, haha.
 
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ManCannon

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Alpende said:
Lovely, Geralt walks slowly inside buidlings which is understandable but in this side quest I have to walk outside, onto a narrow walkway and the moment you step outside your walking speed speeds up. I've fallen off the damn ledge twice now resulting in two deaths.
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It's a bit ridiculous how feeble Geralt is when it comes to anything more than a two foot drop. Jump over a three foot wall and lose over half his health. > <
 
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Alpende

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SomTervo said:
Several people have complained about this exact bit in OT1, haha. Bad times.

You're playing on PC I assume? On console this is offset by the fact that we have far more control over movement speed with an analog stick, so when you know you need precision no matter what, you just push the stick a little, and any quick-move deaths are avoided.
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No I'm on console. Part of it is my impatience :), took it slowly the third time.
 
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CHC

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Anton Sugar said:
Duuuude, that is one of my favorite quests. The tree "talking" to you, its weird demands, and its terrifying appearance.

I actually thought that
letting it loose would be horrible, but I kinda wanted to see what would happen, so I did it. Looks like the red demon horse is actually...good? Who knows if it'll show up later, haha.
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Yeah it was so creepy. I really considered
betraying it and just killing the goddamn thing
but then I actually went back to the meadow and
saw that all the kids were gone
, just like it said. That there made me choose side. Still, kind of disturbed about Geralt's commentary: "
strange... these aren't human bones
" when I went to the
spirit's burial site
..... Kind of a WTF moment.
 
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ManCannon

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Lol I'm going about my business fighting bad guys and clearing quests thinking, "damn suddenly everything feels way, way tougher, it's taking twenty hits to bring down one bandit!?" Then I realize I've been questing for two hours with
the prop sword from Dandelion's theater shenanigans still equipped :0
 
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SomTervo

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ManCannon said:
It's a bit ridiculous how feeble Geralt is when it comes to anything more than a two foot drop. Jump over a three foot wall and lose over half his health. > <
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May be controversial, but I'm actually totally okay with the fall damage in this game and how CDPR designed it.

In games, spaces and heights often seem pretty trivial unless they're exaggerated to get around the small-2D-spaces effect.

But in TW3, fall damage is realistic. Geralt isn't damaged by a fall of 4-5 feet, like in real life. But falls of 10 feet or so, which would stun you a bit even if you land on your feet, stun him, too, with a small bit of damage.

Fall from 15-20 feet &#8211; something which is brushed off by protagonists in basically any game ever &#8211; and you will very likely be hurt to some degree, and Geralt is, indeed, hurt.

Once I saw how significant and realistic fall damage is in this game (vaulting off of the catwalk up to the Baron's house), I never dropped significant heights again unless I had to. It's been a non-issue for me because the game's language taught me not to take any chances with it, like you wouldn't in real life.

TL;DR: In real life, gravity's a bitch. In The Witcher 3, gravity's a bitch. Get used to it.

Alpende said:
No I'm on console. Part of it is my impatience :), took it slowly the third time.
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Haha, fair.
 
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Nordicus

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Alpende said:
Lovely, Geralt walks slowly inside buidlings which is understandable but in this side quest I have to walk outside, onto a narrow walkway and the moment you step outside your walking speed speeds up. I've fallen off the damn ledge twice now resulting in two deaths.
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Yup, I know the exact spot you're talking about. So annoying

Weirdly enough however, there's this honest-to-god platforming obstacle course in Skellige that you have to at least complete halfway through to get the Bear armor, and I really, really enjoyed doing it.
 
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Grimsen

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ManCannon said:
It's a bit ridiculous how feeble Geralt is when it comes to anything more than a two foot drop. Jump over a three foot wall and lose over half his health. > <
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I dunno, I've rolled away unscathed from pretty big drops. I think you're overstating the gravity of the situation.
 
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Nordicus

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SomTervo said:
TL;DR: In real life, gravity's a bitch. In The Witcher 3, gravity's a bitch. Get used to it.
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In Witcher 3, Geralt is often a bitch...

...to control

Edit: Just giving Geralt a Roach-like reaction to automatically stop a second before big falls unless you're jumping or going full sprint, would help things a lot
 
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