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

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Fliesen

Member
What's making so many of you guys
choose to release the tree spirirt? The atmosphere below, and around, the tree is so obviously evil that I felt like the game was beating me over the head with it...

I agree.

Also, why would i want to piss off
the Crones
. After all, I depend on them
telling me where to find Ciri and Anna
 

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Wow, I know this is an extremely long game but according to PlayStation's trophy list under 1% of players have completed the game at this moment in time, given it's been out for 9 days now I expected it to be at least a little more.

I feel like I've been no lifing the game as much as I can and I'm still in act 1. This game is insanely packed full of stuff, I never believe length estimates from developers but they really weren't kidding with this one.
 
i wonder if they're going to rebalance the XP on death march in a later patch.

I'm confident i did the right thing of going for a 100% run on normal first and then doing a bee-line story-quests run on death march, "eventually"

I hope so. The difficulty itself is fine although it starts to get easier once you settle into your build. Im level 16 now and rarely die now unless im trying something 10 levels higher than me.

All the XP limit has done is take away the fun of levelling by delaying it for hours. Its also stopped me bothering with the majority of encounters too. So 2 fun aspects that have been taken away by a stupid design decision; under leveled for loot and drawn out level stalling.

Seeing the XP mods for PC is making me envious too :(
 
The lack of XP on Death March is really starting to piss me off. By the time I can safely take down a guarded treasure the loot inside is absolute trash and the crafted gear I have is almost always better. And then the game gives me diagrams I cant use for another 10 levels.

I find myself running from most fights now as they offer absolutely nothing of value. 1xp, no loot and no ingredients I need for alchemy of crafting. I tried lowering the difficulty to hard but the game becomes a button mash fest. Quite sad really, I love the game but Death March XP gimping is sapping the fun for me now.

Wait, what?

So how much XP do you get on lower difficulties?
 

Fliesen

Member
Some please tell me. If I have sex with
Keir's, Triss and Yen.
what are the consequences? Positive or negative? Spoil it for me. Thank you.

So far the only person I've done it with is
Keira.

if you tell
Triss you loved her which results in sex
, you'll
be able to tell her to come to Kaer Moren
, which is needed for a trophy, too.

I don't think there's any downside to sleeping with anyone.

Sleeping with
both, Triss and Yen
will open up the possibility for a
threesome
.
 
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ZombieFred

Unconfirmed Member
Where do I find the items to increase the amount of weight I carry around? It's starting to kill me now :p
 

Klyka

Banned
Jesus this game can do some throwbacks:
Went to Novigrad and followed the main story for quite a while. I get to meet Priscilla the Bard and as she talks to me suddenly the god damn Innkeeper from White Orchard shows up and shouts at me that I killed some Temerians back there

Actually took me a bit to recognize who that was
 

Banzai

Member
What's making so many of you guys
choose to release the tree spirirt? The atmosphere below, and around, the tree is so obviously evil that I felt like the game was beating me over the head with it...

Well the spirit promised to free the children. I thought I could deal with whatever else it did afterwards. Turns out that's what triggers anna dying and the baron hanging himself though.
 

Chariot

Member
you'll also receive one from a horse race quest in Skellige, i think.

the 80kg one, if not the +100kg one.
You get a 100kg one there. I did the races yesterday when I was sidetracked from my sidetracking. Isn't that sad? Rushing to Skellige to play gwent and then finishing races and fist fights instead. Main story am cry.
 

Klyka

Banned
I fully believe that in my game Geralt doesn't even know what he set out to do and is just going along with his normal Witcher life.

Ciri? Who?
 

Fliesen

Member
You get a 100kg one there. I did the races yesterday when I was sidetracked from my sidetracking. Isn't that sad? Rushing to Skellige to play gwent and then finishing races and fist fights instead. Main story am cry.

Main story? what's that.

instead of going the 200m from the ship
wreck
to where i should go for the main story, i cleared 3 of the smaller islands, did horserace quests and collected like 5 sunken treasures.

Thankfully, Skellige gives you a fast travel point to each of the islands right from the get-go (or is that from those maps / books you can buy in that one town?)
 

WanderingWind

Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I like this game, quite a bit. Wasting a lot of hours in it. Can you avoid the romance options in the game?

You're not forced to have sex or anything, but there is no way around the central theme of reuniting with a long-llost love. And
then summarily dumping her for the hotter red head.
 

Fliesen

Member
Really? He's narrating the "Time of the sword and the axe" speech? It sounds nothing like him!

oh, i might be wrong. Sorry.
I figured from that one loading-screen narration where he retells the story of
how she teleported away from being caught at the temple
. And i recall him saying "me" then.

i don't even know which "time of the sword and the axe" speech you're talking about, really.
 

Chariot

Member
I fully believe that in my game Geralt doesn't even know what he set out to do and is just going along with his normal Witcher life.

Ciri? Who?
"Geralt, I heard you're looking for Ciri."
"Yes she has like 15 strengh and is a hero card, that's insane!"

Main story? what's that.

instead of going the 200m from the ship
wreck
to where i should go for the main story, i cleared 3 of the smaller islands, did horserace quests and collected like 5 sunken treasures.

Thankfully, Skellige gives you a fast travel point to each of the islands right from the get-go (or is that from those maps / books you can buy in that one town?)
You get them from the maps. But yeah its pretty easy, to get them. But yeah, Skellige is insanely fun.
 

glaurung

Member
130 is the maximum inventory capacity right? I'm constantly at 115 once I have sold the trash swords ;(
I got the rugged saddlebags as well, but even with a massive collection of crafting and alchemy ingredients, I level out at ~60 weight.

I haven't managed to get the overburdened status once after buying the rugged saddlebags.
 
He does the ones with the story recaps. Is the one with the old man voice that repeats supposed to be anyone in particular?

Yeah, that's
Dandelion as an old man, I believe. In one of them he says something like "...Ciri and I, the bard Dandelion...". Weird choice of voice actor, I agree.
 

Maximo

Member
The lack of XP on Death March is really starting to piss me off. By the time I can safely take down a guarded treasure the loot inside is absolute trash and the crafted gear I have is almost always better. And then the game gives me diagrams I cant use for another 10 levels.

I find myself running from most fights now as they offer absolutely nothing of value. 1xp, no loot and no ingredients I need for alchemy of crafting. I tried lowering the difficulty to hard but the game becomes a button mash fest. Quite sad really, I love the game but Death March XP gimping is sapping the fun for me now.
Level 31 on Death March and I haven't finished the main quest yet, I personally haven't had a problem with it. Honestly if Death March gives less XP I haven't noticed and frankly I would feel way overleveled if it gave me more XP. As I said not finished with the main quests but they definitely give the largest amount of XP. Would be dissapointed going in a expansion when I can carve everything like hot butter.
 

Shahadan

Member
I got mine in Novigrad, from a regular merchant in the Putrid Grove. It costs 906 gold, but it's worth every penny (and by the time I got there I had like 7,000 gold anyway :p).

You can win it in the races in Skellige, but when I did I already had one. So you can get one somewhere in Velen. Maybebin another horse race. Horse races are good in general for horse stuff.

Many thanks, will hunt for it when I get to these places. Still in Velen and doing lvl 6 main quests at level 12.
 

Zakalwe

Banned
The lack of XP on Death March is really starting to piss me off. By the time I can safely take down a guarded treasure the loot inside is absolute trash and the crafted gear I have is almost always better. And then the game gives me diagrams I cant use for another 10 levels.

I find myself running from most fights now as they offer absolutely nothing of value. 1xp, no loot and no ingredients I need for alchemy of crafting. I tried lowering the difficulty to hard but the game becomes a button mash fest. Quite sad really, I love the game but Death March XP gimping is sapping the fun for me now.

PC or console?

On PC you can mod the amount of xp you get from quests and enemies.
 
Level 31 on Death March and I haven't finished the main quest yet, I personally haven't had a problem with it. Honestly if Death March gives less XP I haven't noticed and frankly I would feel way overleveled if it gave me more XP. As I said not finished with the main quests but they definitely give the largest amount of XP. Would be dissapointed going in a expansion when I can carve everything like hot butter.

Im not saying its difficult. It just seems levelling is drawn out and locked behind the main quests. I think quests give the same amount of XP on all difficulties but monsters give much less (at least according to some reviews i've read). Im already able to carve through the majority of smaller monsters/humans without the lower XP yields.

PC or console?

On PC you can mod the amount of xp you get from quests and enemies.

Console peasant :'(
 

Klyka

Banned
Is it just me or does Ciri sound like Clara from Doctor Who...? Is it the same actor?

It's kinda weird but to me Ciri's voice always sounds like she is in a recording booth.
I mean,I know she is,they all are, but like, everyone elses voice sounds like it's actually coming from the characters while Ciri sounds like some weird "look at me I will be the new protagonist!" voice actress
 

ZobEater

Neo Member
There's one thing i don't get (probably because I haven't read the books): what's the beef geralt's got against nilfgaard? All the Nilfgaardians i meet in the game seem more pleasant than the northerners. I gotta admit, if the game had a TES-like "be who you want to be" setup, they're certainly the guys I would be siding with.
 

EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Seems I've failed Cave of Dreams even though I'm pretty sure it was ticked off earlier and the feed has no red crosses, probably because
I got paid and the clan's heir is pissy about it
.
 
Does anyone notice a humming(annoying) sound in Novigrad sometimes ? I noticed it, it's not my tv or my PS4 or something from outside.

It's like bzzzzzz.
 

Chariot

Member
There's one thing i don't get (probably because I haven't read the books): what's the beef geralt's got against nilfgaard? All the Nilfgaardians i meet in the game seem more pleasant than the northerners. I gotta admit, if the game had a TES-like "be who you want to be" setup, they're certainly the guys I would be siding with.
He doesn't have beef with Niilfgard, he just doesn't like commandend around. Magbe he is even a bit disgruntled about what Niilf did in W2, but generally he doesn't really care who rules as far as I understood.
 

WanderingWind

Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
The
Witcher
4, featuring
Ciri
in
the
elf
world is going to be
interesting.
Wonder how they'll handle the
romances
in
that
one.
 
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