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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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Sir Garbageman
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Quick question. Any issues if I out level the main quests? Have only been doing Contracts and Secondary quests but I am already at level 18 and still in the middle of the Novigrad for the critical path.
The quest is now gray and I am getting 5 exp per each step I believe.
The quest is now gray and I am getting 5 exp per each step I believe.
Arjen
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I was like 6 levels ahead of the main quest and they still gave lots of xp.
Exentryk
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Felix Lighter
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I can feel a shitty ending in my future based on how the
recruiting allies is going. Some small decision early on are biting me in the ass apparently. Dijkstra and Emhyr var Emreis won't help. Crache just gave me the most amazing sword man has ever set eyes on, which was significantly less powerful than the sword I was already using. At least Roche, Keira Metz, Zoltan, Ermion agreed to come, and Cerys sent her brother. I'm guessing there are others I just don't have access to like the Bloody Baron or something. I didn't want to do a min/max playthrough my first time so I accepted a lot of decisions along the way and have stayed spoiler free this long but I didn't anticipate this type of recruitment mission. I hope I don't end up with a terrible ending after all this time.
I just did The Great Escape.
Sile survived in my Witcher 2, so she popped up here again. She was a very selfish character who was instrumental in destabilizing the northern kingdoms, but she looked absolutely horrible. I remember Letho called you "heartless" in Witcher 2 for letting her go due to what would happen if she was captured. HE WAS RIGHT. I gave her a mercy kill though.
Who you recruit doesn't have any effect on what ending you get. It all depends on how you treat Ciri in Acts 2 and 3
Denton
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Emhyr gets refused by Geralt no matter what I think, I had Dijkstra refused me too, got the best ending (one I hoped for) anyway.
Yep, same here. I also remembered what Letho said. The bastard was right.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Annoyances I have so far:
- Textures/music/NPCs taking forever to load if you sprint to a new area, this is especially egregious in Novigrad
- Roach stopping randomly mid sprint
- Being locked into fighting animations
- Too much useless loot
- Waypoint marker being absolutely useless, half the time it shows you the wrong thing
- NPCs spitting on the ground constantly is disgusting and annoying
- Witcher sense thing is not a fun mechanic and the detective aspect would be better without it
These are just my observations. Overall I think the game is good and I'm absolutely addicted but it's not even close to being the best rpg of all time like some publications would try and have you believe.
- Textures/music/NPCs taking forever to load if you sprint to a new area, this is especially egregious in Novigrad
- Roach stopping randomly mid sprint
- Being locked into fighting animations
- Too much useless loot
- Waypoint marker being absolutely useless, half the time it shows you the wrong thing
- NPCs spitting on the ground constantly is disgusting and annoying
- Witcher sense thing is not a fun mechanic and the detective aspect would be better without it
These are just my observations. Overall I think the game is good and I'm absolutely addicted but it's not even close to being the best rpg of all time like some publications would try and have you believe.
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Does anyone know where I can get the Moon Dust bomb diagram so I can craft it? Thanks.
el_colibri
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Got this last Wednesday night. Taking my time with things but I love this combat.
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LonelyGreyWolf
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Everything but the bottom three are common annoyances, yeah. I've played the game a lot though and the waypoint marker almost never shows the wrong thing. And the NPC's spitting on the ground (which the only do in Velen and maaaaaybe in some places outside Novigrad) adds to the feeling. You're a witcher. Witcher sense works great imo, and most praise it, but each to their own on that, of course.
Felix Lighter
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LordAmused
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There's an herbalist northwest of Oxenfurt selling it.
Fbh
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Quick question of a small issue.
Is the music in the main menu supposed to sound like crap on Ps4? It sounds like you are listening to it with some headphones that have a damaged cord.
Other than that, I didn't really like The Witcher 2 but I'm loving this game so far.
It's open world design done right, the sidecontent is just amazing. Even if it's a generic task like "go here and kill that" they all have characters and stories.
Is the music in the main menu supposed to sound like crap on Ps4? It sounds like you are listening to it with some headphones that have a damaged cord.
Other than that, I didn't really like The Witcher 2 but I'm loving this game so far.
It's open world design done right, the sidecontent is just amazing. Even if it's a generic task like "go here and kill that" they all have characters and stories.
Denton
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Cool gif.
Made similar after I got Whirl ability
http://gfycat.com/DisloyalTartDotterel
I love combat in this game
LonelyGreyWolf
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obin_gam
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I hope they never fix Roach's issues with some patch. That would ruin a huge part of his charm.
I love that stupid idiotic horse <3
Denton
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Hahaha I did not take the money but I will have to check this on youtube.
You're starting Act 2. If you just focus on the main quests, you still have 10 - 15 hours left.
el_colibri
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Cool gif.
Made similar after I got Whirl ability
http://gfycat.com/DisloyalTartDotterel
I love combat in this game
I didn't even know you could get this ability. Oh my this will be fun!
So the games not perfect.....which ones are? Game is awesome imo and best in series. Has a place in my top 3. Respect your entitled to a different opinion though.
Haha, yeahAnd Lambert impersonating Vesemir with the hat and all. Once they contacted that one mage, I just had to laugh. It was actually quite funny. I haven't laughed at a videogame like that in a while
Ha, same for me. I haven't laughed due to a videogame in a long while. When they presented you with choices I just thought, what the hell. Geralt's
drunk might as well go as far as I can. Them dressing up was great.
Financial stress goes away once you hit level 10 or so. You can try to get around this during the prologue by harvesting random herbs (1 coin each!) and selling pelts.
obin_gam
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It's perfect for flying monster (like those bloody harpies whose everywhere out to sea)
matrix-cat
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Wait, forget this, I did a better one:
You can see the spot I took the last screenshot from down at the left there. There's actually a mountain behind me in this shot, so once I figure out a way up there I'll try and take a better one. I can't praise this glorious draw distance enough; the 'See that mountain? You can climb it' bullet point is so much more meaningful when you can actually see all the exciting castles and lighthouses and stuff from miles off, as opposed to the Gamebryo games where you just see an indistinct pile of rocks that slowly congeals into a tower as you get closer.
Aard has a chance of knocking down necrophages for an instant kill. Even works on high level Hags on occasion
iamsirjoshua
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Almost always works against Foglets too. Makes them much less annoying.
20cent
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Same here
ending:
After checking the other available endings, it seems that I just had the one that I wanted, Ciri lives and becomes a Witcher, Geralt left with Yen to spend his life "taking bath and waking up after noon"
You've arrived at this conclusion BEFORE finishing it? Cmon doggie.
Well, I got the worst possible ending.
My only complaint with this amazing game:
I guess I didn't treat Ciri right during the final act. The worst thing is, I wanted to say the things that would have resulted in her living, but I wanted to see the actual conversations more which is why I went with her to speak to the Lodge. Oh well.
Thankfully I've got plenty of saves so I'll just go back and replay the last few hours so I can get a good ending. Then after that, at some point, I'll have to replay the entire game so I can choose Yen as my love interest. Hopefully it won't take me 68+ hours to do that.
Thankfully I've got plenty of saves so I'll just go back and replay the last few hours so I can get a good ending. Then after that, at some point, I'll have to replay the entire game so I can choose Yen as my love interest. Hopefully it won't take me 68+ hours to do that.
My only complaint with this amazing game:
Triss doesn't get anywhere near enough screen time. Why have her as a romance option, or even bring her along at the end, if her only dialogue is during her Novigrad quest? Yen is great and all, but Triss needed more time.
RustyNails
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You and me both
The game is decieving in this regard. I just did not want her to give any cure/potion to Radovid because Radovid's an ass.
CDP should have a combat indicator on dialogue trees, meaning if you select this dialogue get ready to fight. I really didn't expect to be KILLING her especially after the cute love scene. It doesn't make sense. If it was an option either let her take the potion or fight to death, I'd have picked former.
I'm having fun but damn the framerate is a mess sometimes and the game crashed three times already (textures didn't load properly and it crashed). I can't shake the feeling that the game is much more enjoyable ON PC (PS4 here).
Problems aside the scope of this game is insane!
Problems aside the scope of this game is insane!
Wow, I honestly think this game delivers on the hype. Jank is common in RPGs, even the great ones, so I don't dock the Witcher for it here. Overall, I would say that Witcher 3 may be the best RPG ever. I'm consistently impressed how much care and detail has gone into each side quest. Almost every quest I have done has been interesting in its own right, with a beginning, a story twist, interesting choice, and impactful ending. I can't think of any RPG that has been written this well. It's even more amazing when you realize it's fully voiced and the care that went into the cinematography for the cutscens (which blows away DA:I's similar system.)
Writing is right up there with Planescape Torment for me, I am completely engrossed in the game.
I can see where you're coming from on most points but I have no idea what you mean here. I'm seriously confused by this complaint.
You're annoyed because your plan didn't work and that's cool, but come on, if you take a step back I think you'd agree that a game where your choices throughout the game can actually matter is better and more interesting design than having a "good ending: on/off" switch dialogue choice at the very end.
Agreed on this one. I would have liked the game to show me the way to a custom waypoint.
Felix Lighter
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Oh, ok. At this point I'm ready to put my head down and complete the main quest.
Yeah, that really annoyed me :l
I agree really. Although my plan was always to go for the 'good' ending, I did everything right except for the tiniest of things that I had no idea would make a difference.
Actually I'm annoyed because
the ending you get is based on on how you treat Ciri in five[?] different conversations? A simple mis-click and you could end up with a completely different ending to what you wanted.
I'm not actually that annoyed, it's a far better system than anything I've ever played, I'm just really bugged that I lost the ending I wanted because I wanted to see the conversation with the Lodge and accidentally told Ciri to 'Calm down' when she was pissed. Eh, one day I'll get around to replaying those last 10-15 hours, but I can't be bothered to do it now.
I'm not actually that annoyed, it's a far better system than anything I've ever played, I'm just really bugged that I lost the ending I wanted because I wanted to see the conversation with the Lodge and accidentally told Ciri to 'Calm down' when she was pissed. Eh, one day I'll get around to replaying those last 10-15 hours, but I can't be bothered to do it now.
YouTube will have to do.
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