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[Akhe]

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Gwent match.

ON Horses

I lol'd.

 

[BlackGhost]

Friendsss, the magic lamp quest

Spoiler

is it worth it to do? Because I'm really thinking about walking away. Already did in one save actually, but I'll go back if need be

 

[ColonialRaptor]

ColonialRaptor are you going to share this supposed xp fix mod with the rest of us or what?

I already did a couple of pages back.


http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/119/

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

You should make a thread about that mod.

If I didn't happen upon your post I would have skipped playing this entire weekend.

Edit: Also, thanks!

 

[LegalEagleMike]

Probably common knowledge but I sure as hell didn't know. Just ate a magical acorn (by accident was my last food) and it gave me +2 ability points.

actually i bet a ton of people miss that entirely.

 

[Lunar15]

I absolutely adore how they play a subtle version of the Witcher 2 theme whenever you meet a character from that game.

 

[Rhaknar]

I already did a couple of pages back.


http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/119/

Will try it later thanks. But you know how fast this thread moves, you shouldn't assume most people saw it. In fact you should assume the opposite lol

Edit: site won't load for me :/

Probably common knowledge but I sure as hell didn't know. Just ate a magical acorn (by accident was my last food) and it gave me +2 ability points.

Where do you get this acorn?

 

[neojubei]

I love this game. I saved a guy from pirates and he went on to tell me about a sister who was kidnapped by them. I almost thought I would have to go on a quest and find her but no I've already met her in a pervious mission so I told the guy where she was and he rewarded me.

Friendsss, the magic lamp quest

Spoiler

is it worth it to do? Because I'm really thinking about walking away. Already did in one save actually, but I'll go back if need be

Yeah because you will need the lamp for a mission.

 

[King Cobra]

Ugh I have stopped earning XP in certain quests, is this permanent?

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Ugh I have stopped earning XP in certain quests, is this permanent?

If a quest is 6 levels lower than your current level you won't receive experience. If that's not the case you were hit by the XP bug, which randomly fails to reward quest experience.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

Ugh I have stopped earning XP in certain quests, is this permanent?

If you are 6 levels above the recommended, yes.

If you are within that range, then it stage bug that will be fixed 'soon'.

 

[Rhaknar]

Aparently the xp fix mod makes it so gray quests also still give full xp lol

Better than no xp I guess

 

[BlackGhost]

I love this game. I saved a guy from pirates and he went on to tell me about a sister who was kidnapped by them. I almost thought I would have to go on a quest and find her but no I've already met her in a pervious mission so I told the guy where she was and he rewarded me.



Yeah because you will need the lamp for a mission.

Fuuuuu, ok thanks

 

[erawsd]

1. Map icons not being present. In a normal open world game if I need to see a specific NPC there is a map icon that will let me know at all times where that NPC is located. In Witcher 3 those icons would appear and disappear seemingly at random. I need to go and see a Blacksmith, why is there no Blacksmith icon showing up. For the most part I now know where specific vendors are when I need something, but why not just make them ALWAYS appear? It makes no sense and can be very annoying when you're in a new area or in a city that is difficult to get around if you are looking for a specific vendor.

2. Weapons unselecting between combat sessions. I almost always keep my crossbow as my go to item, but quite a few times I would have to inexplicably reselect it.

3. Long load times between dying. No explanation needed.

4. Fall damage. Why does falling 10 feat take away three quarters or my health? That's ridiculous. While most games allow you to fall from ridiculous heights with little to no health penalty, but in this game its frustrating at parts where you have to drop down several ledges and given its very easy for geralt to walk too far you can end up taking fall damage from falling the shortest of differences. This is a game. Dont make it be realistic.

5. Inventory management can be a nightmare and really bogs down later in the game. There should have been a way to sort items better than the default. Sometimes I'd like to know what items are heaviest and I should have also been able to equip items easier. Very poorly designed. Simple things like trying to sell enemies or equip new potions were a biiger pain in the ass than expected.

6. LET ME RUN PAST THE FUCKING ENEMIES WITHOUT FORCING ME INTO COMBAT MODE. Most of the time I could manage, but in combat mode you slow down and Geralt has annoying tendency to turn around and when you just want to ignore wolfs it can be annoying.

7. The interact prompt seems to not work at times. This could affect some quests even.

8. Finding the enhanced or superior versions of recipes should automatically unlock the regular version. Or the recipes should be available at all vendors once you reach a certain point in the game.

9. Once you unlock a fast travel station, just let us use fast travel whenever.

10. Minor complaint in Gwent, the cards will some times block out the cards you want to see.

If anyone has solutions for the complaints that I may have missed. I am all ears.

Stuff other people complained about, but I am not really noticing.
Bad framerates - been pretty smooth for me.
XP glitch - I can see this making my blood boil.

1. Thats because they are not always available, such as in the night when shops are closed.

2. Not sure what you mean there.

3. If it really does take 1minute+ on consoles then yeah that is nuts.

4. Yeah it is annoying. However, there is an easy work around if you hit dodge to a roll while falling and you'll take no damage.

5. Agreed, UI is easily my biggest issue with the game. I dont know what they were thinking.

6. Hold the sprint button and Geralt won't do the sticky targetting, he'll just run.

7. Its finicky, but never had it effect a quest.

8. They do. For instance, you can find all the basic versions in Valen, if you havent by the time you reach Novigrad you can buy them from Herbalist.

10. Not sure what you mean.

 

[neojubei]

Where is a good monster spot to grind?

 

[LegalEagleMike]

Where do you get this acorn?

From looting a certain boss during a main quest mission

Spoiler

Imlerith

 

[Rhaknar]

From looting a certain boss during a main quest mission

Spoiler

Imlerith

I don't think I've done that yet

 

[Heel]

20 minutes of solid Gwent battlin' on PS4 wiped out by a hard lock. Blah, so deflating. Game didn't even boot until the 3rd error report.

 

[Exentryk]

Probably common knowledge but I sure as hell didn't know. Just ate a magical acorn (by accident was my last food) and it gave me +2 ability points.

Woah, really? If it was received after a boss fight, there probably aren't any more of them? Are there other foods that do this?

I ask because the strategy guide doesn't count these ability points in it's max 85 pts total.

 

[Flipyap]

That's a childish counterargument, c'mon man.

The novels matter in that they are what the games drew from in terms of story, setting, and characters, themes, and tone. But since this game isn't canonical, and it's CDPR's game and not Sapkowski's, they can tweak their vision of the world as it suits the gameplay and their own internal interpretation of the novels.

If Triss' dress and characterization in the Witcher 3 dosen't suite you because it's contradictive to her depiction in the books, that's fine and an appropriate reaction, nothing to talk about there. All I was saying is that the dress itself in the 3rd game is not something that's raunchy or is "proudly presenting her sizable assets". It fits the Triss as I know her from playing W2 and W3 and does not ruin her character, having not read the series.

It was just a joke. I'm not seriously suggesting that this game could or should have starred Jazz Jackrabbit, though it does make some sense if you think about it from the lore perspective.

Sorry if I wasn't clear, I was trying to explain why the outfit was disappointing to me, as a book reader. It's the removal of such traits that makes Video Game Triss a dull character. She's basically just an attractive celebrity without the trauma and sadness she's always trying to hide or mask with her giggly personality, and the games justify these changes with a lazy journal entry that basically said "oh, I guess she's changed at some point," and a dumb joke about her scars healing.
It would be a perfectly fine dress for everyone else (maybe not Geralt).

Spoiler

But Zoltan would look fabulous in it.

 

[Lunar15]

Fuck, just read a fairly big spoiler for something near the ending.

Ah well.

 

[Sai]

Where is a good monster spot to grind?

Just finish quests. Grinding XP via fights will be a much longer and tiresome endeavor; just fight whatever's between you and your next quest.

 

[King Cobra]

If you are 6 levels above the recommended, yes.

If you are within that range, then it stage bug that will be fixed 'soon'.

If a quest is 6 levels lower than your current level you won't receive experience. If that's not the case you were hit by the XP bug, which randomly fails to reward quest experience.

I am 4 levels higher, it's the maim quests in novigrad. That's a shame really it's unfortunate that you can't really grind killing beasts to boost up for missing XP.

 

[Faenix1]

Is completing each maps Monster Nests a bad idea when I still need some items from them?

I ask because I don't know if any of those bug spider (endger. something.. lol) spawn naturally like Drowners do, and I need some hearts and that for potions. Just did a few monster nests of em and I hope I didn't screw myself.

 

[Brandon F]

Again, should i handle that early Keira M quest (tower of mice) before this Disturbance/Uma arc finishes?

It's an early game quest line so probably.

 

[Rhaknar]

Is completing each maps Monster Nests a bad idea when I still need some items from them?

I ask because I don't know if any of those bug spider (endger. something.. lol) spawn naturally like Drowners do, and I need some hearts and that for potions. Just did a few monster nests of em and I hope I didn't screw myself.

I've seen a lot with no nest

 

[-Deimos]

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Gwent match.

ON Horses

I think that was a season of YuGiOh.

 

[nib95]

I want to enter the Novigrad Gwent tournament, but he says I need better cards. Pretty sure I've beaten everyone there is to beat up to and in Novigrad, though I have not been to Skellige yet. Do I have to wait till later before I can enter?

 

[Tom Penny]

I already did a couple of pages back.


http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/119/

That shit is legit. Thanks. Probably lost a few levels previously but whatevs.

 

[DXLelouch153]

so how did you guys do your questing and exploring for each region?
ive been going from quest board to quest board and gathering quests and POI
then im gonna do the horse races and gwent
then im gonna do quests and the POI that are near those quests that are near my level

 

[Exentryk]

Is completing each maps Monster Nests a bad idea when I still need some items from them?

I ask because I don't know if any of those bug spider (endger. something.. lol) spawn naturally like Drowners do, and I need some hearts and that for potions. Just did a few monster nests of em and I hope I didn't screw myself.

Not a bad idea to leave some nests open as quick respawn fights.

If you don't know already, there is a bug in monster nest loots, where if you loot everything but leave one item, and then come back to it immediately, it'll refill all of the items again for you to loot. You can keep repeating this until you have enough of the item/s you need.

so how did you guys do your questing and exploring for each region?
ive been going from quest board to quest board and gathering quests and POI
then im gonna do the horse races and gwent
then im gonna do quests and the POI that are near those quests that are near my level

(POIs off on map)

Exploring - Pick an area of the map that looks interesting, and go exploring.
Quests - When I get to a town, collect the quests from the board, and then do the side quests from lowest level to highest level, but while not overly outlevelling main quest. When you are getting too far, do the main quests and then go back to side quests.

 

[texhnolyze]

so how did you guys do your questing and exploring for each region?
ive been going from quest board to quest board and gathering quests and POI
then im gonna do the horse races and gwent
then im gonna do quests and the POI that are near those quests that are near my level

I turned off POI and do side quests, contracts, and treasure hunts only.
Ended up finding the POIs as I did those activities. I hate POIs, I'd rather find them naturally.
So far I've already finished most, if not all, available side quests and contracts in Velen, except fist fights, horse races, and gwent. Might do them later.

 

[KyleP29]

so how did you guys do your questing and exploring for each region?
ive been going from quest board to quest board and gathering quests and POI
then im gonna do the horse races and gwent
then im gonna do quests and the POI that are near those quests that are near my level

I really dont hunt down point of interest. They overwhelmed me with the velen/novigrad ones. I do them if im close, or ts close by, but thats about it.

Aside from that i usually hit up all notice boards, do side/contracts/treasure missions up to my level then do a run of story missions before touching back on side/contract/treasure missions. rinse and repeat.

 

[DXLelouch153]

gonna be awhile till i finish this game
my OCD compels me to finish all the POI

 

[Rhaknar]

What PoIs do I do in a Witcher 3 map?

I've done everything in Velen besides 1 ? Which you go to late in the game aparently

 

[Faenix1]

Another question, I forget the areas around him, but anyone do that person in distress event in Velen (Right side of the map) where there's an elf guy in the cage and he says to go to his camp nearby for reward. Where the hell is that? I've looked, and looked, and looked. Can't find no "camp" nearby.

Spoiler

Hope it's not the camp with the horses, cause I did the quest for that before this and they are gone.

I googled but only found information regarding the Mulbry.. one.

Not a bad idea to leave some nests open as quick respawn fights.

If you don't know already, there is a bug in monster nest loots, where if you loot everything but leave one item, and then come back to it immediately, it'll refill all of the items again for you to loot. You can keep repeating this until you have enough of the item/s you need.

I didn't know that, that's hilarious.

 

[Virdix]

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Gwent match.

ON Horses

Please be the final free DLC

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

Was just looking a trophy data

Ultra Rare : 3.1%
Finish the game on any difficulty

Hmmm lol. A lot of people doing stuff other then main plot it looksike

Well, the game has only been out for barely 2 weeks. And its a massive open world so I doubt people are rushing through the main story.

 

[jett]

Unless there's some sort of switcheroo, I think I've reached the endgame part of TW3, and the world map reminds me a lot of GTA5 in that there's a LOT, I mean A LOT of unused areas that appear to be hand-crafted and designed. Maybe they will be used in the upcoming DLC.

 

[Alucrid]

well just beat the game, pretty sure the hardest fight on death march is the very first one with the ghouls

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I think that was a season of YuGiOh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku9PqLXLnF8

 

[Einchy]

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Gwent match.

ON Horses

I'll send your bitch ass horse to the shadow realm, brah.

 

[ColonialRaptor]

I love how triss' house is all bend and on an angle and then outside during the day there are workmen trying to put up beams to support it... Damn this city is incredible a really impressive feat of game design.

 

[KorrZ]

The Lord of Undvik quest was pretty damn cool. I also love how it's seamlessly transitioned into another side quest now. I love that everytime I sit down to play this game and do a quest it's like tuning into an episode of TV. Great self-contained little stories, except I get to push forward any stories I want to.

 

[Chris1]

Just finished it.

Spoiler

Got the ending where Ciri becomes a witcher. I'm ok with that, just looked up the other endings and I'm glad I didn't get the one where she died

In a year where I thought Arkham Knight was going to walk away with my GOTY and no game would come close... Witcher 3 not only came close, but I think may even outdo it. Brilliant game, bravo CDPR. The main reasons I even bought the game as I had some gamestop money left over, I liked how CDPR were going about it pre launch and wanted to support those practices and it reminded me of RDR a bit. Never in a million years did I expect it to be that good.

It's the first RPG I've played and it's blown me away and even got me excited for Fallout 4 now, and I had no real interest in fallout games prior. I think I have a new favourite genre.

 

[Tom Penny]

Just found out I just started act 2 and have been playing forever..this game is crazy.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Game is starting to crash on me :-/

 

[NoSkillz187]

Crap. I've been doing some Main quest in Novigrad and haven't been getting exp. Think I'm going to have to wait for the patch before playing again unfortunately. On PS4 btw.

 

[Exuro]

Fighting the botchling on Death March is kind of terrible, just due to how much health it has. It isn't a hard fight, but it takes forever to get through.

 

[Rhaknar]

Fighting the botchling on Death March is kind of terrible, just due to how much health it has. It isn't a hard fight, but it takes forever to get through.

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