Jay Shadow
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Yes,
Three to Tango = Forever Alone
Still only middle of Act 2.Hey all, checking in again
I'm at the part now where I am tohow close to end game am I?recruit followers to help me defend kaer morhen against the wild hunt"
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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Quen (combined with the upgrade that causes it to explode and damage enemies when it depletes) is a lifesaver at the earlier levels of the game. It's pretty much a free hit.
Protip: Use it just before you engage in a fight. If you pop quen before Geralt pulls out his sword to get into a fighting stance, the stamina will recharge much more quickly which will free you up to use quen again or another sign early in the battle compared to if you waited to use it when you first got into the fight.
shinobi602
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Darn. Ah well, I'll leave it to the second playthrough then. Did anyone here immediately start a second playthrough? I've done SO many sidequests, contracts, etc that a second playthrough at this point feels incredibly daunting.
Jay Shadow
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I normally would, but with the possibility of a new game plus I'm just occasionally loading it up and exploring random Skellig Islands instead to pass the time.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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If I do a second playthrough I'm probably just going to put it on the easiest difficulty and ignore contracts/treasure hunts/PoIs and insignificant secondary quests entirely. I think if I'm just doing plot/ally/romance quests it'll probably go by way faster. I'm super close to beating it for the first time now, but I am debating whether to finish all the PoIs in Skellige. I got all of the ones on the main islands now I just need the ones in the water/minor islands.
Ok guys, seems like I'm in the final stretch now, at the start of Act 3
How much longer will it take me to finish if I just mainline the story from this point? Currently in
How much longer will it take me to finish if I just mainline the story from this point? Currently in
Novigrad having to talk to multiple people including Triss, Yen, The Elf that helped Ciri and Ciri herself
Wind's Howling
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I am not often stunned, floored and dropped to the ground with my eyes and jaw wide open out of sheer awe in how developers managed to create an game that is both beautiful and downright awesome, but CDPR managed to do this for me on a scale that I have not seen before by any other developer outside of Rockstar's games.
The diversity in this game's quests that draw you in, surprise you with its story and then the eventual outcome has struck a chord somewhere inside where I actually get the feeling that the actions I do as an Witcher has severe consequences across the world I traverse.
I go into this simple tavern in Skellige to retrieve my award by doing another awesome lighthouse quest, and by doing so another action I take in a split second totally reverses the outcome that I thought I have seen coming, but no.. Every action I take has consequences. Severe consequences.
The quests. I have been in awe thanks to some of them, but then the lands I traverse has had my eyes glued on the screen from Day 1. Velen perfectly portrays the war torn land that it has become, also because of the actions you took in the previous games.
But then you reach Skellige.. Viking islands through and through. It is a harsh land full of beasts and monsters trying to kill you but it also comes with its beauty not seen before. Mountains with snowy tops. Rivers. Lands full of flowers and deers running around. Dangerous places full of myst and flooded caves. Stormy weather that makes the isles feel deadly but beautiful at the same time.
CDPR did it. They managed to create that one game that makes me feel like that child back in the day who opened up my X-Mas present and noticed it was Ocarina of Time. Tears of joy flooded. Heart warmed. Glad to see that at the age of 26, this feeling has not left my body to feel that way for videogames.
The diversity in this game's quests that draw you in, surprise you with its story and then the eventual outcome has struck a chord somewhere inside where I actually get the feeling that the actions I do as an Witcher has severe consequences across the world I traverse.
I go into this simple tavern in Skellige to retrieve my award by doing another awesome lighthouse quest, and by doing so another action I take in a split second totally reverses the outcome that I thought I have seen coming, but no.. Every action I take has consequences. Severe consequences.
The quests. I have been in awe thanks to some of them, but then the lands I traverse has had my eyes glued on the screen from Day 1. Velen perfectly portrays the war torn land that it has become, also because of the actions you took in the previous games.
But then you reach Skellige.. Viking islands through and through. It is a harsh land full of beasts and monsters trying to kill you but it also comes with its beauty not seen before. Mountains with snowy tops. Rivers. Lands full of flowers and deers running around. Dangerous places full of myst and flooded caves. Stormy weather that makes the isles feel deadly but beautiful at the same time.
CDPR did it. They managed to create that one game that makes me feel like that child back in the day who opened up my X-Mas present and noticed it was Ocarina of Time. Tears of joy flooded. Heart warmed. Glad to see that at the age of 26, this feeling has not left my body to feel that way for videogames.
The game has a weird difficulty curve. I struggled in velen until I was level 6 or so.
Also, I think you can't parry monsters. Can anyone confirm that? I can parry humans all day but monsters always seem to blow right through it.
captjohnboyd
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Yeah, I think the only monsters I can parry are those flying sirens.
shinobi602
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Did they mention they're thinking about a new game + mode!?
LegendofDragoonLives
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Why is there no legend letting us know when we have already beaten someone at gwent? That way, we don't spend time playing someone and not winning a card. I'm going to tweet the gwent lead designer for this again. Tweeted him a few days back to allow PS4 owners to swipe left, right and down for quest, gwent & inventory and he favorited it. So if they add it in the next update, you're all welcome.
Denton
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I am fighting the desire to start second playthrough, because I really want to go back (despite playing for 200 hours), but I will wait for the expansions and then do it. I don't see it as daunting when it is so enjoyable though
Not many other games can give me as much enjoyment as this one.Jay Shadow
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I guess NG+ is listed by name in the files as one of the future dlcs, but when asked they deny it and just say they're looking into it.
You can parry Nekkers entirely, dogs/wolves, any non-jumping melee attacks from drowners and rotfiends, grave hag tongue slash and wraiths (with exception of the teleport combo)
LurkerPrime
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100% agreed. I'm nowhere near completing it yet, but I feel confident in saying that it can join the Pantheon of Great RPGs, standing right beside games like Torment or Baldur's Gate. It really is that much of an accomplishment, one that will be looked to for years to come. And that's just on the RPG side of the game.
I'd say the open world aspect of Witcher 3 has set as much of a standard for variety, quality, and sheer content, as the RPG side of the game. It will be something all future open world games will be compared to, likely unfavourably, if open world design, in general, continues as it has.
This is the first Witcher game I've played and it is fucking amazing. I just finished the Keira sidequest and the Greedy God side-quest and it keeps getting better and better.
Are the books any good? I might read one of them since the universe is very interesting and Geralt is a badass protagonist.
Are the books any good? I might read one of them since the universe is very interesting and Geralt is a badass protagonist.
Bought the game at launch but finally played for the first time this weekend. Took me 3 discs to get it to work, but it finally worked.
Still pretty clueless on what I should be doing, just been picking up a lot of plants and looting a lot of houses, heh.
But last night something very cool happened, not sure if it was scripted or I just got lucky with the dynamic weather. But it had been clear weather the whole time so far, but then just as I was approaching the haunted well it started to get super windy and dark like a big storm was coming. It made the walk to the well and then all the examining around it super creepy. Awesome experience.
The actual fight was a blur as I was super spooked and I still have a hard time telling if I am leveled up/strong enough to fight monsters. But man, that walk to the well was pretty memorable. That wind was strong and loud and creepy.
Still pretty clueless on what I should be doing, just been picking up a lot of plants and looting a lot of houses, heh.
But last night something very cool happened, not sure if it was scripted or I just got lucky with the dynamic weather. But it had been clear weather the whole time so far, but then just as I was approaching the haunted well it started to get super windy and dark like a big storm was coming. It made the walk to the well and then all the examining around it super creepy. Awesome experience.
The actual fight was a blur as I was super spooked and I still have a hard time telling if I am leveled up/strong enough to fight monsters. But man, that walk to the well was pretty memorable. That wind was strong and loud and creepy.
The Last Wish is good which is a compilation of short stories based on fairy tales. The Blood of Elves has some weird pacing and just kind of ends. I'm almost finished with Time of Contempt which is much better than the first (Blood of Elves).
Freezasaurus
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They seem to get better the further you go. I still have yet to read Sword of Destiny, but Time of Contempt and Baptism of Fire were my favs so far.
LOLCats
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3 discs? dang... I got a bad PS4 disc on release and had to exchange, but the second worked fine.
I see you didn't mention Sword of Destiny. You should read that. It's short stories that take place between The Last Wish and The Blood of Elves. It's great. I almost like it better than The Last Wish.
Blood of Elves is probably my least favorite of all the books. The saga does get better. Time of Contempt is one of my favorites, probably followed by The Tower of the Swallow.
Oh wow, that's more than I expected! Looking forward to it though
You'll be looking for Ciri for most of the game, to prevent her superpowers from being misused by the Wild Hunt. Most everything else, such as the Baron plotline, is RPG filler. The Baron has a "clue" as to where Ciri is, but he won't tell you until you do a bunch of quests for him. To be fair, the Bloody Baron portion of the game is probably the most interesting story content prior to the late game material.
Ya, was pretty disheartening. Used Best Buy but didn't play right away due to Destiny DLC coming out the same day. When I finally give it a try the disc was all scratched to hell. I got to the title screen but it sounded like it was killing my disc drive in the Ps4 and the animation wasn't working on the title screen. Then all of a sudden it started moving then stopped again, then went super fast (particle effects, wind effects, etc). So I pulled the disc and desided to return to Best Buy.
No issues, they gave me a second disc. Didn't try that one for a while either, dang Destiny addiction. Finally tried it Saturday evening and the disc looked good, no scratches. But then it came up with Disc Load error and wouldnt' even get to the title screen.
Went back to Best Buy and the guy said it was probably my PS4, would need to be reformatted and fixed by Sony or get a new one. I asked if I could just try a new disc one more time but he was pretty sure it was the PS4, even though all my other games worked. He said the same thing happened to his Xbox with GTA.
I was passed the 15 days of what they normally allow for exchanges, but he was nice enough and manually over rided that and said I could try a third disc but still was convinced it was my PS4. So I asked if this one doesn't work can I just return it for a refund and he said that would have to go through a manager since I'm past the 30 day refund timeframe now.
Anyhoo, long story, but the third disc works like a charm so far.
DamagedInc
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Looks like I'm on the final stretch now and I really don't want it to end, I've done all the witcher contracts and all the side quests I have available that are not gwent or racing except for one triss one which seems bugged.
It's been and amazing game and the only niggles I have are a few control ones really but they're very minor, I might have to invest in the elder scrolls after this!
It's been and amazing game and the only niggles I have are a few control ones really but they're very minor, I might have to invest in the elder scrolls after this!
Hasphat'sAnts
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Skellige is dope.
Freezasaurus
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Probably my favorite area in the game. I really liked the Norse atmosphere they had going.
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shinobi602
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It also has my favourite side quest chain in Lords of Undvik / King's Gambit. Really enjoyed those.
Heavy emphasis on probably. It sounds like they are just "experimenting" with it for now.
Blue Ninja
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I'm holding out hope, but it might be added in a patch instead of DLC at this point. I dunno.
shinobi602
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Ya'll raining in on my parade
Praying they add it. Having to get all the Gwent cards, special armor sets, etc again will drive me mad lol.
Ya'll raining in on my parade
Praying they add it. Having to get all the Gwent cards, special armor sets, etc again will drive me mad lol.
They'd have to do something to spice up the game if they do NG+ though. I'm not sure if it'd be fun to go another 80+ hours with no gear upgrades, alchemy upgrades, ability upgrades etc. to look forward to if they didn't add anything new except upping the level of everything.
shinobi602
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I suppose, in my personal situation there's quite a bit of points of interests and sidequests I haven't done yet so that's good enough for a second playthrough for me but I understand that point of contention.
I actually just want to go through the game way overleveled a second time around lol. Make some different decisions in story beats, etc.
LurkerPrime
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There's always consequences. And the game's confident enough to not hit you over the head with what they are. I've had several cases where I only serendipitously realised what the consequences of my actions were, long after I left that plot line.
I usually try to be all "at your service your Majesty" in front of Emhyr, but what happen if you try to be a smartass and just don't give a shit?
The 2nd time I saw him, Geralt bowed to him
without me having any input on it. I suppose it's because I did it the first time i met him?
The 2nd time I saw him, Geralt bowed to him
as well as Uma lol
Well, there are consequences most of the time...
That specific quest doesn't have any.
shinobi602
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I didn't bow to him the first time and I basically tell him to shove it at every instance but
he still bowed when I brought Uma to him. Felt out of character for my Geralt.
If I remember correctly you can dismantle Specter Dust to get it.
I am not exactly sure, but look into dismantling some monster parts. Bet something will give out what you are looking for.
Gurgelhals
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Easiest way is to dismantle some monster parts from your inventory. There's almost no possibility that you don't have at least something in your inventory that can be dismantled into monster tissue.
bananafactory
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I think this game might be too much for me
I'm 35 hours and still in Velen/Novigrad. The game is great but I can see myself getting worn out soon.
Really hope something happens soon to keep my interest
I'm 35 hours and still in Velen/Novigrad. The game is great but I can see myself getting worn out soon.
Really hope something happens soon to keep my interest
Blue Ninja
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Ya'll raining in on my parade
Praying they add it. Having to get all the Gwent cards, special armor sets, etc again will drive me mad lol.
I started a new replay yesterday. Gonna opt for a similar build (signs + combat), but gonna try and invest in strong attacks as well this time around.
Haven't really focused on Gwent yet, so that's what I'm doing this playthrough as well.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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I put some points in the alchemy tree recently. Being able to stack decoctions is nearly OP on top of the points I have in the combat tree.
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