Notice that WO looks bigger on the map that it is and Skellige looks a lot smaller.
Somebodt needs to do a map with actual scale.
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Notice that WO looks bigger on the map that it is and Skellige looks a lot smaller.
Somebodt needs to do a map with actual scale.
Exentryk
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So, I was just running around in
trying to find some Places of Power, and I randomly ran into an area with
I naturally kept going and a level 8 (7?)
. I was level 5, on DM difficulty, and I actually almost killed it. It had like 5% health left.
But I decided to reload my save and do this section proper later. Anyway, I like how you can go anywhere, and run into interesting things even if you don't have the quest accepted
Velen
someone shouting "begone, turn back" etc.
werewolf jumped me
But I decided to reload my save and do this section proper later. Anyway, I like how you can go anywhere, and run into interesting things even if you don't have the quest accepted
Admiral Woofington
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Her reasoning isn't because
she doesn't want to make it work or doesn't want to get hurt
(Universe/novel and romance spoilers from Witcher 1/2)
- Yen and Geralt were transformed into soul mates at one point way before the games
- While Geralt and Yen were in love basically because they didn't have a choice, Triss also fell madly in love with Geralt.
-She's best friends with Yen and while she doesn't want to get in between the two, she still loves Geralt.
- In Witcher 1 and 2 Yen isn't in the picture so it's just Triss and Geralt.
- In this game you find Yen and she's trying her hardest to let go of you because she thinks Geralt only has 'happily ever after' eyes for Yen. You can choose Triss instead.
- While Geralt and Yen were in love basically because they didn't have a choice, Triss also fell madly in love with Geralt.
-She's best friends with Yen and while she doesn't want to get in between the two, she still loves Geralt.
- In Witcher 1 and 2 Yen isn't in the picture so it's just Triss and Geralt.
- In this game you find Yen and she's trying her hardest to let go of you because she thinks Geralt only has 'happily ever after' eyes for Yen. You can choose Triss instead.
Apoleptica
Banned
I love being inside a building and seeing rain falling outside through a window.
You can't tell her what to do, you're not her real dad.
*Geralt voice
"You're not hunting monsters in that outfit, young lady!"
MrCompletely
Member
I knew what was behind the spoiler tag before revealing it. So deliciously weird even before the context of where it came from which is pretty disturbing.
Yeah, for a modern style "cinematic" RPG, the game is incredibly accepting of players finding and doing things out of order. I've had so many cutscenes where Geralt said he had already slain the monster or retrieved the wanted item.Anyway, I like how you can go anywhere, and run into interesting things even if you don't have the quest accepted
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Hahah, I thought the same thing. Maybe it's because they look so much alike and their stories are kind of similar.
I did recognize Tywin Lannister's voice right away though.
So I went from having no money and basic equipment to having some really good equipment, as well as having swords and armour that I'm not at a high enough level to use yet which I can use in the future. It's fun to feel so powerful, even if I see a skull I most likely get the fuck outta there!
In terms of story, Ive finished the Velen part of the Find Ciri quest, but still have so much to do it's unbelievable. Probably only explored about 30/40% of it so far and not even thought about going onto my next objective yet! My favourite parts have been (Velen Spoilers)
In terms of story, Ive finished the Velen part of the Find Ciri quest, but still have so much to do it's unbelievable. Probably only explored about 30/40% of it so far and not even thought about going onto my next objective yet! My favourite parts have been (Velen Spoilers)
the whole Kiera quest line, as well as the good old Bloody Baron. Ended up killing the tree spirit so unfortunately the children died? I liked them that sucks! And the whole family reunion at the end! Although I didn't go and see the daughter before I met the witches so maybe things woutd have been different if I had? Oh well part and parcel of being a Witcher I guess!
Dance Inferno
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Is it really worth it? I came across a reddit post that says I could run hairworks on my AMD for a minimal performance hit but I'm not sure it would add much to begin with. I turned it on for 5 minutes and it looked like Geralt's hair was made of weightless silk rather than real hair.
Not to be a Debbie downer but white orchid area was a lot smaller than what people hyped it to be, so I'm starting to think those 100 hour reports will be more like 30-40 for me (which is still fine)
I finished orchid in about 4 hours and I did everything on the map and every sidequest (according to a IGN guide at least)
I loved it tho so that's what matters
I finished orchid in about 4 hours and I did everything on the map and every sidequest (according to a IGN guide at least)
I loved it tho so that's what matters
ClayKavalier
Banned
The whole story is
the Baron met his wife when he was injured in combat and she was his nurse. They fell in love, he proposed, they were really happy. The Baron then had to go on leave and was sent to the frontline of a war. He couldn't handle the stress and became an alcoholic, and claims that letters from his wife were the only thing that kept him going.
When he returned home it turned out his wife had been cheating on him the entire time. She and her lover ran off and the Baron confronted them. He planned on trying to convince Anna to return home with him, but he ended up killing the lover. Anna was devastated and tried to kill the Baron, so he hit her to subdue her and took her home.
After that they were basically both broken people. The baron was depressed, alcoholic, and wished things would go back to the way they were before he went on leave. His wife feels hopeless after the guy she was in love with was murdered.
When his wife got pregnant the second time the thought of having another of the baron's children was sickening enough that she went to the Crones to see if they could get rid of it. She assumes they can just make her not pregnant somehow with magic, but instead they make her miscarry (contrary to Gies' review, that's the cause of the miscarriage, not the baron's abuse). The price for that service is her acting as the Crone's slave. She tries to run away from them, but they capture her and she becomes the Gran you meet in the Bog.
When he returned home it turned out his wife had been cheating on him the entire time. She and her lover ran off and the Baron confronted them. He planned on trying to convince Anna to return home with him, but he ended up killing the lover. Anna was devastated and tried to kill the Baron, so he hit her to subdue her and took her home.
After that they were basically both broken people. The baron was depressed, alcoholic, and wished things would go back to the way they were before he went on leave. His wife feels hopeless after the guy she was in love with was murdered.
When his wife got pregnant the second time the thought of having another of the baron's children was sickening enough that she went to the Crones to see if they could get rid of it. She assumes they can just make her not pregnant somehow with magic, but instead they make her miscarry (contrary to Gies' review, that's the cause of the miscarriage, not the baron's abuse). The price for that service is her acting as the Crone's slave. She tries to run away from them, but they capture her and she becomes the Gran you meet in the Bog.
So yeah, nothing novel about it and it's pretty melodramatic at times with the magic curses and whatnot, but I can't think of a more grounded portrayal of a family affected by war in a video game, and seeing all that and coming to the conclusion that the game and its creators are misogynist really sells it short, as well as makes you look like a moron.
So many games writers have trouble making that distinction, which is weird since a lot of them studied English or film in college.
I think it's funny too how Gies takes offense that there's a "sympathetic" dialogue option in that scene. You really don't have that much control over Geralt's character, and even when you hear the baron's explanation out it's pretty damn obvious Geralt is disgusted by him.
Sebastiano
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Found my new wallpaper from Reddit:
It's a fan art. Amazing work.
Beautiful! But I don't like the quality of the background so I changed it a little, it can be improved here and here but oh well:
White Orchard is a fraction of the size of the other areas and far less dense in terms of content.
LegalEagleMike
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White Orchard is not at all representative of the size of the rest of the game, both in content and environment. It's basically a mini-open world intended to serve as an introduction to the game's systems and setting.
Found my new wallpaper from Reddit:
It's a fan art. Amazing work.
Would love that in 3840x1080.
Cool. Doesn't change the fact I read a lot of "omg I'm 20 hours in and I'm still in the first zone" comments
Also I'm playing on the second to last difficulty if that matters
Edit: don't get me wrong I WANT you guys to be right
This game is phenomenal so far.
The performance was subpar for me on the Uber Rig @ 5K but as of today, it works fantastically well! Scaling is quite good and I'm getting 60 - 75 FPS with every setting maxed out including HairWorks and HBAO+ (AA turned OFF).
A couple of snaps:
Does anyone know how to toggle the HUD OFF completely so that I can take some nice screenshots? There are so many elements in the HUD that turning them off and on manually would be a huge PITA.
Before scaling was good, here's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 5K w/ every setting maxed out.
The performance was subpar for me on the Uber Rig @ 5K but as of today, it works fantastically well! Scaling is quite good and I'm getting 60 - 75 FPS with every setting maxed out including HairWorks and HBAO+ (AA turned OFF).
A couple of snaps:
Does anyone know how to toggle the HUD OFF completely so that I can take some nice screenshots? There are so many elements in the HUD that turning them off and on manually would be a huge PITA.
Before scaling was good, here's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in 5K w/ every setting maxed out.
Didn't realize all that. Thanks. Too late for me to change it now.
ClayKavalier
Banned
Cool. Doesn't change the fact I read a lot of "omg I'm 20 hours in and I'm still in the first zone" comments
Also I'm playing on the second to last difficulty if that matters
Edit: don't get me wrong I WANT you guys to be right
Wow, have people really claimed to have spent 20 hours in White Orchard? I don't see how that's remotely possible. I'm not even sure if I've played 20 hours and I've cleared a bunch of quests and areas in Velen.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Cool. Doesn't change the fact I read a lot of "omg I'm 20 hours in and I'm still in the first zone" comments
Also I'm playing on the second to last difficulty if that matters
I'm so confused by these posts. You were in a tiny little starter area and you're complaining it wasn't long enough? And when people who have played it are telling you the map is absolutely massive once you leave there you're being dismissive because of some unspecified comments you read on the internet?
Why not just play the game and find out for yourself. I don't think you could get through this in 30 hours if you tried your hardest.
Mad Season
Banned
Be sure to check the official MOD thread here on GAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1051137
They played 15 hours of Gwent.
You're not going to finish this game in 30-40 hours if you do sidequests, I can guarantee you that.
Is it safe to go to Skellige without auto failing quests?
I want to do
story but I'm afraid to go.
Edit:I'm now at 67 hours (manually counted) and I'm still on the
quest.
All I've done is the main missions up until that point, the side missions and a maximum of 35 ?'s. No exploring or anything, just straight up quests.
There's no way ANYBODY is going to get through this in 30 hours in their first play through, or second for that matter.
I want to do
Lamberts
Edit:I'm now at 67 hours (manually counted) and I'm still on the
get junior
All I've done is the main missions up until that point, the side missions and a maximum of 35 ?'s. No exploring or anything, just straight up quests.
There's no way ANYBODY is going to get through this in 30 hours in their first play through, or second for that matter.
Intheflorsh
Banned
Cool. Doesn't change the fact I read a lot of "omg I'm 20 hours in and I'm still in the first zone" comments
Also I'm playing on the second to last difficulty if that matters
Edit: don't get me wrong I WANT you guys to be right
Pretty sure most people are referring to Velen as the first zone.
Yeah, don't worry, going to Skellige shouldn't effect anything.
There will actually be a pop-up at a certain point warning you when you're about to hit the point of no return.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Let me warn you right now since it happened to me. That quest fails if
you don't do it before going to Kaer Morhen
Darryl M R
Member
No sorry I am talking about deciding between
the guy who killing all the mages, Ciri's father, and some other guy
If you don't pick Ciri's father he dies or something I heard
Admiral Woofington
Member
Oh. Well (very light spoilers)
no you don't make that choice.
Neither was I complaining it wasn't long enough nor was I dismissive of people that said the game is long. I was merely saying that from what I read before I was expecting white orchid to be longer. Expecting is not complaining. You need to calm down I wasnt attacking your game...well "your".
And the posts replying to me said I was wrong so I was wrong, and I'm happy for that.
This might very well be the case, which would make me doubly wrong
MarcoZombieCannon
Member
I can't remember when that one auto-fails, but to do part of it
you need to go there anyway, IIRC.
In regards to the whole Familiy Matters main quest and a potentially 'better' ending:
I've read several reports that you can save both the orphans and Anna if you set free the tree spirit from the ancient oak before receiving the Whispering Hillock quest from the crones. Apparently by doing the quest out of order the spirit will take vengeance on Dunharrow, free the children(they end up in Marabella's school for orphans in Novigradand), Anna still winds up insane but the Baron will take her to the blue mountains looking for a cure instead of hanging himself. Can anyone confirm this?
Thanks guys
, ill just manually save then at least if it fails anything I can just revert back to my old one.orthodoxy1095
Banned
I'm reading the book this is from right now, and I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation.
The story seems to indicate that their fates were bound together in an inseparable manner. It doesn't necessarily indicate that they fell in love without choice. That's certainly an interpretation I guess, but I don't necessarily buy it. The wish seems vaguer to me than that.
whatsinaname
Member
Nah. Rhaknar just got excited by some posters mentioning that the game was 200 hrs long. He then saw people saying they spent 20hrs in White Orchard and assumed they were the same posters and got dejected because he only got 4hrs out of White Orchard.
Rhaknar. I spent about 4 hrs in White Orchard. Am at 21 hrs now and am only at level 7. (I think some posters mentioned story mode endgame is at about level 30.)
ClayKavalier
Banned
Wow, that's cool. Can you actually get Whispering Hillock before then or do you just need to know where to go?
I've had a few quests where I'm supposed to talk to someone to ask where a monster/ treasure/ etc. is but I've wondered across it on my own and the quest still progresses.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Just know that the game takes both interpretations into account.
Anyone know what the long term consequences are for the last choice in the side quest, "Following the Thread"?
It is the quest given to you by L
It is the quest given to you by L
ambert. At the end, you need to decide whether to spare Karadin or kill him. After reading the letter that he refuses to trade slaves anymore and hearing his side of the story, I thought he had changed and it wouldn't be right to kill him. This pissed off Lambert a lot though, so I'm not sure it was the right choice. Is this gonna bite me in the ass later?
I don't particularly care for your sensible reply sir, that is not what I Internet for
For a second I mixed up the fact that Pillars of Eternity has an inn based on a GAF-reference, run by Bishop, and thought it was one of the pubs in Novigrad. No Bishop inside though.
This is true in the books, but the game defines the wish as
Geralt wanting to "be with her forever", which doesn't make much sense, because it clearly didn't happen by then.
The wish wish never meant to be revealed to the audience and CD Projekt really cheapened that whole subplot with their uncharacteristically simplistic relationship writing.
The wish wish never meant to be revealed to the audience and CD Projekt really cheapened that whole subplot with their uncharacteristically simplistic relationship writing.
Incredibly frustrating. Retried that scene like 10 times trying to see if I could change it.
how's Geralt gonna get knocked on his ass by two inbred looking tavern rats?
I've read two reports, one on reddit and one posted bellow IGN's walkthrough page, both times people claimed that they stumbled upon the cave below the tree by accident and that it changed the outcome for the Barons main quest line. Dunno if true, that's why I'm asking.
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