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

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GReeeeN

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what do you do when you have no potions and stuck in the middle of a story quest (Dungeon) with very little health??

everything is pretty much killing me in one hit, and its not fun running around with 1% HP trying to fight 100s of enemies and no potions for HP regen..
 
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Lulubop

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Exuro said:
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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:( how could you?

I've played like a million hours and I'm still in act 1. This game tho. That said I die a lot after not having saved for a while and end up doing shit again pretty often.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
GReeeeN said:
what do you do when you have no potions and stuck in the middle of a story quest (Dungeon) with very little health??

everything is pretty much killing me in one hit, and its not fun running around with 1% HP trying to fight 100s of enemies and no potions for HP regen..
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I find it literally impossible that you don't have alcohol to replenish your potions by meditating
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
GReeeeN said:
please explain further
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Explain that when you meditate you replenish ALL your potions and use up 1 alcohol to do it, or explain that I find it impossible that you are out of alcohol to do it since its everywhere and i have literally hundreds, unless you don't loot anything.

You just need to meditate 1 hour to get your potions back (potions, oils, bombs etc)
 
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ICKE

Banned
Rhaknar said:
I find it literally impossible that you don't have alcohol to replenish your potions by meditating
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Same here. After the first 10 hours or so I was probably never in a situation where I had less than 20 bottles with me. Maybe that should be changed with mods, there is too much loot and money to be made to be quite frank. The game needs more challenge resource wise.

I really hope someone will change the Gwent rules so that player decks are more limited in scope. Also the loot needs balancing.
 
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Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
I had a SUPER awkward "locked into combat" scenario while I was getting the Ursine armor. There's a bunch of harpies outside and some jumps to make, but Geralt partway into it started his combat pose right over a gap so I fell inbetween and was on a small patch of ground, unable to get out and just jump up to fight on a better area. I'm not missing something there, right? There's no button to disengage? Running didn't help when I went through the area again as you still can't actually jump, only roll and dodge even though the whole area was awkward as shit to actually combat in.
 
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Nose Master

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Found some new mountain climbing strats: throw out a heavy punch, and then immediately spam dodge. Doesn't matter if you're in combat, and you should be able to get over most inclines.
 
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texhnolyze

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GReeeeN said:
please explain further
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Rhaknar said:
Explain that when you meditate you replenish ALL your potions and use up 1 alcohol to do it, or explain that I find it impossible that you are out of alcohol to do it since its everywhere and i have literally hundreds, unless you don't loot anything.

You just need to meditate 1 hour to get your potions back (potions, oils, bombs etc)
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I have like 140-ish alcohol with me as of now.
Yeah, it's impossible to get run out of alcohol, except if you don't loot anything at all. They're also cheap, just buy a few before adventuring once in a while.
 
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Leezard

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Papercuts said:
I had a SUPER awkward "locked into combat" scenario while I was getting the Ursine armor. There's a bunch of harpies outside and some jumps to make, but Geralt partway into it started his combat pose right over a gap so I fell inbetween and was on a small patch of ground, unable to get out and just jump up to fight on a better area. I'm not missing something there, right? There's no button to disengage? Running didn't help when I went through the area again as you still can't actually jump, only roll and dodge even though the whole area was awkward as shit to actually combat in.
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I had the same experience in what I think is probably the same area. You have to kill all harpies.
 
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ICKE

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didamangi said:
Damn, already on your 2nd playthrough? 61 hours in and I'm still dicking around in Novigrad and haven't even seen Skellige.
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Some of us are completely hooked. I'm doing anything I can in order to resist starting a second playthrough right away. Need to stay in the land of the living lol.
 
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GReeeeN

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Rhaknar said:
Explain that when you meditate you replenish ALL your potions and use up 1 alcohol to do it, or explain that I find it impossible that you are out of alcohol to do it since its everywhere and i have literally hundreds, unless you don't loot anything.

You just need to meditate 1 hour to get your potions back (potions, oils, bombs etc)
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thanks

also how do I repair my swords?, it keeps telling me to use oil, but i cant find any oil in my inv (even though it said oil obtained)
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
GReeeeN said:
thanks

also how do I repair my swords?, it keeps telling me to use oil, but i cant find any oil in my inv (even though it said oil obtained)
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Oil is to buff them, repair kits is to fix them. Or at any blacksmith they have a repair tab

so I guess you didn't know meditating replenished your potions? :)
 
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GReeeeN

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Rhaknar said:
Oil is to buff them, repair kits is to fix them. Or at any blacksmith they have a repair tab

so I guess you didn't know meditating replenished your potions? :)
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nope, didn't know meditating replenished potions, really handy, thanks

so in the middle of this dungeon, if its telling me to constantly repair my Sword, do I need to wait for a blacksmith before doing so?, i repaired the sword just before entering
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
GReeeeN said:
nope, didn't know meditating replenished potions, really handy, thanks

so in the middle of this dungeon, if its telling me to constantly repair my Sword, do I need to wait for a blacksmith before doing so?, i repaired the sword just before entering
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Do you not have any repair kit on you? It's the little tool bag looking items, there's one for swords and one for armor. They are square shaped items
 
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m_shortpants

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Just got the full griffin set...wish it looked better :\

I had a heavy armor piece, the one with the long robe before, that looked so much better!
 
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Jamaro85

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Apparently finishers can be a bit OP. I was watching my cousin play as a level 6 facing a level 16 bandit camp. He allowed the archer to take out a couple of his own swordsmen then faced the other two. With a swordsman having full health, my cousin parried one of it's attacks, cast Axii, and went on to slice his head off. He repeated for the other one. His strong attacks barely even moved the health bar of these guys but he was able to one shot them.

How do you pull off a finisher anyway? Do they use adrenaline points? And did Axii have anything to do with it at all? He mentioned that he held the button for strong attack when he did this. The first time was a complete accident according to him, but with repeating exactly what he did to the first guy he was able to pull the finisher on the second guy as well.
 
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Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Jamaro85 said:
Apparently finishers can be a bit OP. I was watching my cousin play as a level 6 facing a level 16 bandit camp. He allowed the archer to take out a couple of his own swordsmen then faced the other two. With a swordsman having full health, my cousin parried one of it's attacks, cast Axii, and went on to slice his head off. He repeated for the other one. His strong attacks barely even moved the health bar of these guys but he was able to one shot them.

How do you pull off a finisher anyway? Do they use adrenaline points? And did Axii have anything to do with it at all? He mentioned that he held the button for strong attack when he did this. The first time was a complete accident according to him, but with repeating exactly what he did to the first guy he was able to pull the finisher on the second guy as well.
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AFAIK it's a random chance.
 
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jett

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Oh for fuck's sake... I was this close to getting mastercrafted everything, I didn't realize I was missing enhanced ursine trousers and gauntlets. :< How annoying.
 
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Blablurn

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I love this game

I really do.

Played plenty already. But man. Is it just me or are the framerate problems getting worse over time? Playing on PS4. Feels a lil like Skyrim back then on PS3. The longer you play it, the worse the performance becomes :/
 
Croatoan

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Jamaro85 said:
Apparently finishers can be a bit OP. I was watching my cousin play as a level 6 facing a level 16 bandit camp. He allowed the archer to take out a couple of his own swordsmen then faced the other two. With a swordsman having full health, my cousin parried one of it's attacks, cast Axii, and went on to slice his head off. He repeated for the other one. His strong attacks barely even moved the health bar of these guys but he was able to one shot them.

How do you pull off a finisher anyway? Do they use adrenaline points? And did Axii have anything to do with it at all? He mentioned that he held the button for strong attack when he did this. The first time was a complete accident according to him, but with repeating exactly what he did to the first guy he was able to pull the finisher on the second guy as well.
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Its a dice roll. There are items that increase the probability of doing a dismemberment.
 
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ICKE

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The Dear Leader said:
Triss for life m8's.
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I'll hang out with Triss any day of the week while Geralt can have his family. Then again
the lodge is about to be operational again so there is the possibility that one might run into Philippa Eilhart or Sile Tancarville

/BailTheFuckOut
 
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Lakitu

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I've spent over 70 hours in the game and I've yet to reach Skellige or (I think) get passed Act 1 in the story. Currently level 16.

I have however explored the entirety of the main map (Novigrad + Velen).. well except for Bald Mountain and I've done a shit ton of side-quests.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
GReeeeN said:
only got the armor one, guess i have to buy it at a blacksmith?
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Well these are expendable unlike the potions. I'm starting to think you don't do a lot of looting my friend >_>
 
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The Dear Leader

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Rhaknar said:
You spelled Keira weirdly
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ICKE said:
I'll hang out with Triss any day of the week while Geralt can have his family. Then again
the lodge is about to be operational again so there is the possibility that one might run into Philippa Eilhart or Sile Tancarville

/BailTheFuckOut
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Akhe said:
Shani>Yenn>Ves>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Triss
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no

I've got 2 games, 150+ hours of love for Triss, I can't dump my girl like that.
 
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dedhead54

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I just grabbed the feline armor and am not too pleased with the appearance. I don't hate it, but I definitely prefered the griffin armor in terms of looks. Maybe after I grab the feline swords I will go get the diagrams for the next upgrade for the griffin.

Jesus, man. I am never going to get through this game. I finally just sailed to Skellige this morning then when I fired the game up tonight I immediately left (before doing a single quest/sidequest in Skellige) and went back to Novigrad to get the cat armor and ended up picking up a new Witcher contract there. I wish I could take a week off just to play this game non-stop.
 
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erawsd

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People have found some references to NG+ in the game files. One related to NG+ versions of the Nilfgaardian DLC and another in the scripting files. Could mean they are planning NG+ as one of the DLC or its expansion prep.


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function CDLCManager::IsNewGamePlusAvailable(): Bool
function CR4IngameMenu::OnNewGamePlusCalled(saveListIndex: Int32): Bool
function CR4IngameMenu::SendNewGamePlusSaves()
function CStoryScenePreviewPlayer::EnableNewGamePlus(enable: Bool)
function CStoryScenePreviewPlayer::NewGamePlus(flag: Bool)
function CStoryScenePreviewPlayer::StartNewGamePlus(filename: String)
function IngameMenuStructureCreator::AddNewGamePlusOption(tag: Int32, parentArray: CScriptedFlashArray)
function W3GameParams::GetNewGamePlusLevel(): Int32
function W3GameParams::SetNewGamePlusLevel(playerLevel: Int32)
function W3PlayerWitcher::NewGamePlusInitialize()
function W3ReplacerCiri::NewGamePlusInitialize()
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Edit: This other bit suggests its def DLC, potentially the 9th.

function CDLCManager::IsNewGamePlusAvailable(): Bool {
return theGame.GetDLCManager().IsDLCAvailable('dlc_009_001') && hasSaveDataToLoad();
}
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texhnolyze

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dedhead54 said:
I just grabbed the feline armor and am not too pleased with the appearance. I don't hate it, but I definitely prefered the griffin armor in terms of looks. Maybe after I grab the feline swords I will go get the diagrams for the next upgrade for the griffin.

Jesus, man. I am never going to get through this game. I finally just sailed to Skellige this morning then when I fired the game up tonight I immediately left (before doing a single quest/sidequest in Skellige) and went back to Novigrad to get the cat armor and ended up picking up a new Witcher contract there. I wish I could take a week off just to play this game non-stop.
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Just wait until you get that ursine armor set. :p
Oh, and apparently you're in Skellige, go get them.
 
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dedhead54

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texhnolyze said:
Just wait until you get that ursine armor set. :p
Oh, and apparently you're in Skellige, go get them.
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I was wondering if maybe I should take some time off of quests/sidequests and work on the scavenger hunts I currently have (all the griffin upgrades, just got the feline + have maps for all the upgrades, and I THINK I have the maps for the basic bear diagrams). I feel like I am going to never feel like I know which armor to go with.
 
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Stoze

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Flipyap said:
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).
But Zoltan would look fabulous in it.
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Yeah that's totally understandable. My biggest gripe with Triss having not read the books is that she just seems bland compared to the other characters in this game. Maybe your point still stands then, because making her more conservative in how she acts and dresses could have better distinguished her. Then again some people on here seem to like her a lot.

I do like that she's non-materialistic and gets her hands dirty as opposed to the other sorceresses, but that's about it. There's was actually a point in the story where I was just like "I'm done" concerning Triss, takes place during the Now or Never quest:

If you choose to save the couple instead of going to the Kingfisher, the Innkeeper gets killed, and a conversation can arise that goes like this;

Geralt: Well we saved these two
Triss: Yes, but at the cost of one other person
Geralt: At least the other mages are save and sound
Triss: GERALT THIS ISN'T A MATTER OF HOW MANY PEOPLE WE SAVE

triss pls
 
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Malalaw

Member
Level 21 right now, making my way through Skellige, probably my favorite place so far. Just overall a pretty cool area. Seem to be finding upgrades for my armor and weapons almost everywhere I go, feels good.

http://www.twitch.tv/deeptopgaming if anyone wants to come watch and hang out, help me decide what I should say, lets make this interesting lol.
 
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The Dear Leader

Banned
Just when I thought I was out of Novigrad/Velen they pulled me back in, I'll be 10 levels over the first set of Skelige quests at this rate.

I also wish this game had a mobile app that had all the beastiary, character profiles and books in it, I would love to read that stuff on the toilet and what not.
 
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Uriah

Member
Well, I can't progress further because I have the King's Gambit's loading screen bug. Wish they would hurry and release the patch.
 
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GReeeeN

Member
Rhaknar said:
Well these are expendable unlike the potions. I'm starting to think you don't do a lot of looting my friend >_>
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I do, although I've just been doing the story and only about 2hrs in

also how do I obtain the chance to get potions?, looking at my consumables i only have Tawny Owl and Thunderbolt, and no potions, so when i mediate, I only replenish these 2 items, no potions
 
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squadr0n

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So I went back to the Baron's office to get his gwent card but all I found in there were 2 pieces of paper. One of no importance, the other describing someone that owes the Baron for a gwent game gone bad. No card to be found anywhere. Any idea where to look or if that was it?

On the quest Gwent: Velen Players it says I lost the Baron portion because I never won against him before he left to heal his wife, but it has a green check mark next to the look for a unique card and info about players in the baron's office.

What card is it in my deck? There doesn't seem to be anything new, especially a "Blood Baron" Hero card.
 
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