captjohnboyd
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When I played the quest the other day I found a bracelet in one of the houses but obviously it wasn't the correct one. Is this where you found the bracelet because if so it's not the right one.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT2| Wanted to find Ciri, but everything Gwent wrong
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When I played the quest the other day I found a bracelet in one of the houses but obviously it wasn't the correct one. Is this where you found the bracelet because if so it's not the right one.
So this is a dead end for now? Good to know, time to uncover the other 34 interesting locations on my map lol
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Make sure to read all of them then once thats done sell.
Ah that's disappointing. Wasted a fair bit of wedge to learn you use a whetstone to keep a blade sharp. Which is kind of useless even lore wise. I could have used that cash to buy some upgrade mats. Never mind.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
So, I guess this game is selling well huh?
Lol wth?
loaf of bread
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No, books aren't just for lore. Not all books do something, but many of them give you stuff like bestiary entries and undiscovered locations.
Nah. Later on you may find plans for armor sets from the various witcher schools. For instance, there's a set of light armor plans from the Cat school. That armor can be upgraded, at least 3 more times. To do the upgrade you need the previous version of the armor plus some other stuff.
So if you craft other witcher gear hold onto it. There may have been plans to upgrade the starting armor but I haven't found it and I prefer the light armor anyway (starter is medium).
He didn't say TW3 needed any of those things, in fact, the post literally says they aren't criticisms. He's merely pointing out that TW3 and Bethesda RPGs are different open-world RPGs, the world has room for both of them.
e: well, looks like seanspeed himself replied to you already
But yeah, TW3 is missing a bunch of stuff. It's still fucking great and aside from FO: NV, so far a much better game than any of the Gamebryo games.
knew about the former, didn't know about the latter. Interesting.
Anyone?
Veritigo_X
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It asks you the choices you made in those games. It changes whether some characters are alive or dead during the Witcher 3, meaning you can possibly miss out on side quests. I never played the other games but I went ahead and did it. Since I didn't know any of the characters I looked them up and decided from there if I wanted them alive or dead.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Yeah go for it. Early on in the game you will be asked some questions regarding choices you made in the past. Just select what you prefer even if you can't remember.
That's the sort of thing I thought it would do. Add a bestiary entry or a crafting schematic or something. Especially since at the time it was a large amount of my cash. Alas the fine merchant in Velen exploited my curiosity and lightened my wallet.
Usually those are just walls that uncover and exit. After going through a cave or something. You get that talisman pretty early on, so just do some quests and you'll get it.
OverturePT
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Definitely worth reading. Books events happen before the game, they only make the game that much better.
Sorry, I did pick up what you meant. Wasn't right when I said 'criticisms'. I suppose my point was that everything in TW3 is so well justified that these things would probably detract from it in various ways. Whereas even in Skyrim a lot of stuff feels unnecessary or like filler. I agree with you that both do things very well – though I strongly believe TW3 is greater than any of the Elder Scrolls games (maybe not Morrowind but I never got into that enough to know properly).
Yeah got back saying as much, my bad. However I don't feel TW3 is missing anything really. Perhaps it would benefit from an external storage system, even something simple like a chest at an inn or whatever, like Dragon's Dogma.
I personally believe practically everything in the game is in its perfect place and that if they added anything significant (eg stealth, first person, houses) the game as a whole would suffer.
This isn't to say that they can't pull something like stealth off in a later game. I mainly mean that in this specific title's case, they were obviously pushed for resources already, and putting more features in like this might have detracted from quality elsewhere/overall.
i wasn't able to verify this, but supposedly it's
let Letho live
side with Vernon Roche
save Triss
OldAsUrSock
Banned
I'm going down that same path my friend.
I've dealt with archers by using Quen or focusing them first or being gangsta and dodging the arrows.
No but the games, Wild Hunt in particular spoil a whole lot from the books. To be expected since they take place after them.
Strategy Guide information regarding the choices and what they mean in the Witcher 3.
Arjan LaValette
If you killed Arjan LaValette (PC save game), or tell Voorhis you did (PC, consoles without save game), your interactions with a woman named Molly are different during Main Quest: Broken Flowers.
The path of Roche or Iorveth
This only effects a very small conversation choice during Main Quest: Get Junior, when you visit Roches camp for the first time.
Sile de Tansarville
If you allowed her to die (PC save game) or tell Voorhis this (PC, consoles without save game), she does not appear during Main Quest: The Great Escape.
The Witcher Letho
Answer any questions and mention Letho is still alive, and Secondary Quest: Ghosts of the Past, becomes active later.
Mention that Letho is dead, or ignore the conversation, and Secondary Quest: Ghosts of the Past cannot be accessed.
If you killed Arjan LaValette (PC save game), or tell Voorhis you did (PC, consoles without save game), your interactions with a woman named Molly are different during Main Quest: Broken Flowers.
The path of Roche or Iorveth
This only effects a very small conversation choice during Main Quest: Get Junior, when you visit Roches camp for the first time.
Sile de Tansarville
If you allowed her to die (PC save game) or tell Voorhis this (PC, consoles without save game), she does not appear during Main Quest: The Great Escape.
The Witcher Letho
Answer any questions and mention Letho is still alive, and Secondary Quest: Ghosts of the Past, becomes active later.
Mention that Letho is dead, or ignore the conversation, and Secondary Quest: Ghosts of the Past cannot be accessed.
flipswitch
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Homes that come up with ' needs key'. I'm assuming this mean someone is carrying the key around with them in the game. Has anyone managed to find a key?
Fair enough. Most of those things aren't compelling to me, but I recognize that you didn't say that they would be.
Yeah, it's just that it's more expensive since it just came out (that publisher's version anyway) and I have to finish another trilogy first anyway.
the alternate yrden destroys all arrows or u could brainwash them and let them kill the others
TimeEffect
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I got bored of Skyrim, and yeah, the dungeons were partly why. Just copy pasted, it felt like.
I felt Fallout was constantly rewarding on the other hand. Maybe it was just the atmosphere and setting, but vaults always had an interesting and eerie backstory, and it was fun to explore huge creepy buildings.
What's it like in Witcher? Lots of dungeons or caves or something?
Pancakes
hot, steaming, as melted butter slips into the cracks, drizzled with sticky sweet syrup OH GOD
Not really, unless you were like me and wanted to get revenge on that snobby Nilfgardian noble who I couldn't beat in the beginning at Gwent.
No, most quest locations are above ground. Dungeons exist but it's not like Skyrim where, like, every single quest is in some cave.
Thank you!
Blue Ninja
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If you buy the Respec potion, do you keep the points you get from those sources of power?
Wish there was a mod to increase the witcher's senses sensing radius or something. At first they didn't bother me nearly as much as they seemed to bother some people, but I'm slowly starting to get sick of the "here's a circular area, go through every nook and cranny with your witcher's senses" parts of many of the quests.
I finally finished the prologue yesterday (Dont burn me, Im playing at my pace to savor the game), and my take so far:
-The combat, Im sorry but whoever is saying the combat is, Slugish, bad, unresponsive, etc, I think they are doing it wrong, the combat mechanics are excellent, it plays way better than the Witcher 2, and just like the Witcher 2 its not just a hack and slash type of combat, you need to understand your situation before attacking a group of people/monsters, I usually lure monster one by one to tackle them, and when fighting humans always take out archer first which so far get killed with one attack.
Of course not everything in the combat is perfect, I cuuld had liked the camera to be closer to Geralt during combat. I also not sold on the decision on using slots to decide what abilities are active.
-Storytelling is still as good as before, very immersive in whats going on, the conclusion to the epilogue was impressive for me and the audience wit Tyw... Emyr was as epic as I imagined it was going to be.
-Im still at awe at the vastness of the world maps, the new area that Just opened contained what it looked like (at least) 2 Flotsam sized towns.
-The Graphic on this game are really nice and colorful, and just as I started the second area, a rain storm started and the gloom that comes with a rainstorm was nicely simulated in the game.
Thats my take so far, I basically did every sidequest and Point of Interest in White Orchard, but Im contemplating in turning of the Point of Interest marks in the map to have a more immersive experience.
-The combat, Im sorry but whoever is saying the combat is, Slugish, bad, unresponsive, etc, I think they are doing it wrong, the combat mechanics are excellent, it plays way better than the Witcher 2, and just like the Witcher 2 its not just a hack and slash type of combat, you need to understand your situation before attacking a group of people/monsters, I usually lure monster one by one to tackle them, and when fighting humans always take out archer first which so far get killed with one attack.
Of course not everything in the combat is perfect, I cuuld had liked the camera to be closer to Geralt during combat. I also not sold on the decision on using slots to decide what abilities are active.
-Storytelling is still as good as before, very immersive in whats going on, the conclusion to the epilogue was impressive for me and the audience wit Tyw... Emyr was as epic as I imagined it was going to be.
-Im still at awe at the vastness of the world maps, the new area that Just opened contained what it looked like (at least) 2 Flotsam sized towns.
-The Graphic on this game are really nice and colorful, and just as I started the second area, a rain storm started and the gloom that comes with a rainstorm was nicely simulated in the game.
Thats my take so far, I basically did every sidequest and Point of Interest in White Orchard, but Im contemplating in turning of the Point of Interest marks in the map to have a more immersive experience.
That's good, because it's definitely a good one, and it should be read before the saga books (so, after The Last Wish and before Blood of Elves, etc)
Aces&Eights
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I have found keys but they never open the door close to where I am. I have no idea how that all works, lol. I really want in some of the houses that are locked. My only thoughts are they are quest related so I cannot enter until I start the quest.
I almost have the feeling, the downgrade was good for the game or let's say, the best what could happen for this game. Because without this impressive reveal- and target trailers this game wouldn't have received this huge awareness over the years, respectively couldn't have achieved its final budget.
That's why I can live with this downgrade, especially as a console gamer. This game is so huge, so impressive, this amazing atmosphere and graphics, especially this love of detail and every single sidequest or random event is much better than standard mainquests of "comparable" RPGs.
I admit, I was also a bit upset about CDPR about their communication and marketing tricks, but after hours of spending with this game I just can praise CDPR and wish them to sell millions of it. And honestly speaking, I'm pretty much OK with the same "downgrade" procedure for (hopefully) The Witcher 4, when the outcome is again such a gem.
That's why I can live with this downgrade, especially as a console gamer. This game is so huge, so impressive, this amazing atmosphere and graphics, especially this love of detail and every single sidequest or random event is much better than standard mainquests of "comparable" RPGs.
I admit, I was also a bit upset about CDPR about their communication and marketing tricks, but after hours of spending with this game I just can praise CDPR and wish them to sell millions of it. And honestly speaking, I'm pretty much OK with the same "downgrade" procedure for (hopefully) The Witcher 4, when the outcome is again such a gem.
Keira is so hot.
Story spoiler (NSFW)
http://xboxclips.com/Shadow+XBL/825e595f-303e-4d34-b2b0-6e8a49d588f8
Also, after the following "quest" ended I had 999/1000 EXP towards level 10. ugh.
Story spoiler (NSFW)
http://xboxclips.com/Shadow+XBL/825e595f-303e-4d34-b2b0-6e8a49d588f8
Also, after the following "quest" ended I had 999/1000 EXP towards level 10. ugh.
You should post this in the Downgrade thread , to enjoy the reaction and responses from people over there.
Too late for me, Im trying to explain this now. lol
Haha, dude, the northern town, Novigrad, is probably bigger than the entirety of Witcher 2. The tiny villages are Flotsam-sized.
That doesn't really make sense. CDPR is an independent company, they didn't have to beg their publisher for money and you don't make any actual money off of a trailer or pre-release awareness.
But, yeah, downgrade thread.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Me too, I am working off those question marks, witcher hunts and side quests in Velen...
Gonna take a loooong, looong time..
King Cobra
Banned
question for anyone who has finished the game
is it better to kill the tree spirit or let it free? I've heard a whole village gets ruined if you spare it but you save 3 children. But maybe that isn't really a good pay off?
Veritigo_X
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Ouch, I don't envy you right now.
Yeah I'm moving pretty slowly, too. I mean what's the rush? I'm gonna be sad when I finish this game so I'm taking my time to see everything. Sometimes I just pick a direction and go exploring for a bit. It's friggin' fantastic.
I came right from Bloodborne so it was a bit of an adjustment for me but now I'm really liking combat. The one problem I have is that I've gone with light gear and fast attack abilities and now I almost never use heavy attack. Maybe when I get a few more points I'll put some into one of the heavy attack abilities and see if that gives me more incentive to diversify.
I actually think this is an understatement, the story telling is world class.
After finishing WO I turned off the minimap, quest tracking and POI marks on the world map. It's too easy to hone in on the dotted line and just do what the line of text below it says. I'd love a compass, though. Sometimes it's frustrating to realize I went in the wrong direction but more often than not I end up finding something else to explore. This is one game where I really don't mind getting lost.
hobblygobbly
Member
GOG down? Doesn't load at all on my side.
Also, what is max level? 40? 50? Because I saw a piece of armour that is level 37.
Also, what is max level? 40? 50? Because I saw a piece of armour that is level 37.
Wow, that's fucking rough.
No idea why that guy didn't flag it NSFW when he posted. That was a junior move right there.
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