Summer Haze
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Just started my first proper playthrough and I'm playing without the HUD, and what would make it perfect is if I could see custom markers when using the Witcher sense. It would make HUD-less travel so much more convenient.
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Coreda
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I believe this is possible with Friendly HUD if you're on PC, if I'm understanding you correctly.
the only thing i find disappointing in the Witcher games is that we never got to visit Nilfgaard And the city of Golden towers .
we only ever see soldiers and Vip's from Nilfgaard but we never get to see and experience what daily live looks like there for the average Joe .
everything i read about the place makes it's sound like a more advanced nation compared to the northern realms .
something like Nilgaard is in the middle of the renaissance while the northern realms are still stuck in the middle ages .
maybe i am completely wrong on that but still .. i would have loved to see whether or not Nilfgaard is truly the soulless " no fun allowed " empire the games make it sound to be .
we only ever see soldiers and Vip's from Nilfgaard but we never get to see and experience what daily live looks like there for the average Joe .
everything i read about the place makes it's sound like a more advanced nation compared to the northern realms .
something like Nilgaard is in the middle of the renaissance while the northern realms are still stuck in the middle ages .
maybe i am completely wrong on that but still .. i would have loved to see whether or not Nilfgaard is truly the soulless " no fun allowed " empire the games make it sound to be .
2 is good but if you're excited to play this there really is no reason to go back. It's not a direct continuation of the story, per se. A quick catch-up video would suffice.
CyclopsRock
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I can't really see where it'd fit into the story, to be honest.
Plus she's young - I'm sure there's plenty of time for that in future installments!
Mediking
Member
Hahah true but I just wanna see her happy and
desired/loved for who she is because she's awesome
I thought Ciri was like... 25?
Ace Harding
Member
Jesus. This is one of my biggest gaming forehead-slappers. I've been playing this for probably 20 hours, and I just learned you refill all of your potions, bombs and oils when you meditate and have alcohol in your inventory. I've been using these things very, very sparingly and probably just didn't notice when they refilled the handful of times I've meditated. I've been stopping by all of the merchants I find looking for a Swallow recipe since I knew I had it at one point and it seemingly disappeared.
This is going to change how I play so much.
So after I've crafted a potion, bomb or oil, I never have to craft it again? It always can just be refilled with alcohol?
In my defense, is this ever explained?
This is going to change how I play so much.
So after I've crafted a potion, bomb or oil, I never have to craft it again? It always can just be refilled with alcohol?
In my defense, is this ever explained?
Mediking
Member
Yeah, Meditation is BRIEFLY explained in the tutorial. The first time you go to it... a brief explanation will pop up about it. I stumbled upon it because I realized that you can skip time because of it... which leads to refilling health and other good stuff.
endlessflood
Member
Yeah
Eredin was responsible for the biggest cockblock in video game history. Fuck that guy.
She should be around 23. She was 16 at the end of the books, the first Witcher takes place five years later (1270), and TW3 starts in 1272.
NullPointer
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Never beat an Elder Scrolls game or a Fallout or any other huge RPG.
Never saw a game with maps so huge and filled to the brim with quests I wanted to partake in.
Never saw an open world this rich and so gorgeously rendered.
But somehow I finished this one. And left so much of the world unexplored all the same.
Because I actually cared about the characters, even though I usually don't.
Because I didn't know what to expect over the next rise or from the next conversation.
Because Geralt and crew had enough meat to their bones to draw me forward.
What a world. What a game.
Just a staggering effort. And while its still artistic ambition tied down by repetitive mechanics and sleight of hand, I'll always remember all the times this made me laugh, made me question my decisions, made me choose to stay aloof amidst human or bestial evil, and made me somber, or surprised or just curious or satisfied.
I would say I'm sad to see it end, but thank the Gods I still have DLC to return to at some point
What a trip.
Never saw a game with maps so huge and filled to the brim with quests I wanted to partake in.
Never saw an open world this rich and so gorgeously rendered.
But somehow I finished this one. And left so much of the world unexplored all the same.
Because I actually cared about the characters, even though I usually don't.
Because I didn't know what to expect over the next rise or from the next conversation.
Because Geralt and crew had enough meat to their bones to draw me forward.
What a world. What a game.
Just a staggering effort. And while its still artistic ambition tied down by repetitive mechanics and sleight of hand, I'll always remember all the times this made me laugh, made me question my decisions, made me choose to stay aloof amidst human or bestial evil, and made me somber, or surprised or just curious or satisfied.
I would say I'm sad to see it end, but thank the Gods I still have DLC to return to at some point
What a trip.
Summer Haze
Banned
Nevermind.
RustyNails
Member
Just finished Hearts of Stone
What a ride. The entire Von Everic timeline was unsettling af. The mansion was haunting and completely unnerving.
Nightmare fuel.
Gaunter O'Dimm's theme playing throughout the expansion is pretty unsettling too.
Felt like a super boss at the end, and glad I completed the optional quests.
Also, Vlodomir's
What a ride. The entire Von Everic timeline was unsettling af. The mansion was haunting and completely unnerving.
To realize that Iris's skeleton was still lying on the bed all this time and being guarded by that Caretaker. UGH. And those talking pets!!
Gaunter O'Dimm's theme playing throughout the expansion is pretty unsettling too.
It's clear that he's demonic and makes you sign his contract with no way out to take your soul, and he appears when you're lowest in your life and need most help. Of course Geralt of fuckin Rivia defeats him!
Also, Vlodomir's
ghost inhabiting Geralt was seriously the greatest bit of Witcher 3 ever.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
The whole mansion part haunted me for quite a while. Not because it was scary but rather utterly sad.
MadYarpen
Member
I think it is quite rare for games to have so emotional stories. HoS is perfect.
Stealthcobra
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I'm not sure where I saw it but what do I unlock or how do I upgrade my character that gives the great swordplay animations and what alchemy is supposed to really be useful?
MadYarpen
Member
I guess you may be thinking about the 3rd skill in fast attack section. It is called whirl in english version I think.
HoopzBarkley
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Started to actually play through this now that I have a 1070, but had a quick question. I am starting The Crones mission,
? I have beaten this misson before on ps4 and got the "good" ending I suppose.
I have found the ancient oak and found the spirit, what happens if I have killed it right away before meeting the crones
MadYarpen
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there is no good ending in this mission as far as I know. Always someone gets fucked.
Well,arguably the alternative ending is the bad one:
his wife dies and the baron commits suicide. The good ending leaves you with a relative hopeful conclusion to that part of the story at least .
MadYarpen
Member
Right, I was thinking only about tree spirit part, i.e.
children for Crones' dinner vs entire village wiped out
My opinion:
fuck that village. I had to wrestle some between the children and the Baron's wife, but that village is enabling this nonsense of the crones.
Coreda
Member
YO. Yo, yo. yoooo.
They quietly added both the Hearts of Stone and Blood & Wine OSTs in FLAC for free to the DLC extras tab!
Decided to search again for the FLAC version online in case anything had changed (since it was only previously available separately in MP3, or losslessly with a Tidal subscription), noticed the GOG store page state HoS comes with the FLAC soundtrack as an extra, was going to email GOG to ask if it's the HoS OST and not just the main game OST, when I booted up Galaxy and it's there under the Extras.
Bless 'em.
They quietly added both the Hearts of Stone and Blood & Wine OSTs in FLAC for free to the DLC extras tab!
Decided to search again for the FLAC version online in case anything had changed (since it was only previously available separately in MP3, or losslessly with a Tidal subscription), noticed the GOG store page state HoS comes with the FLAC soundtrack as an extra, was going to email GOG to ask if it's the HoS OST and not just the main game OST, when I booted up Galaxy and it's there under the Extras.
Bless 'em.
Did this mission
the children are the only innocent one. The Baron is abusive man who drove his wife and daughter away. The wife for making the pact with the crones and the villagers from their bullshit dealing with them. And the fact the Tree spirit is the crones mom they locked away.
It's been a while, actually. Someone wrote it in this very thread, I think, that's how I found it out.
Ace Harding
Member
Yeah you can. Ignore (or even turn off) the question marks if you want. You'll get a lot of sidequests (and plenty of items) in normal due course even if you just pursue the main quest and check notice boards you come across. However, I have done lots of sidequests, and a number of them have been the highlights of my experience with game so far. So I would not recommend completely avoiding all of them.
I think the best advice is to just do what you feel like doing and not worry about which order, which areas you visit, how long you take to do something, etc. Just do what's fun and you'll be fine. The only exception to that is I wouldn't try quests with recommended levels that are significantly above yours.
NullPointer
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One tip. Save before talking to strangers or walking up into drama. Sometimes you'll end up accepting quests that may be 10+ levels too high for you, and there is no "abandon quest" option.
Pro tip: Disable points of interest on the map. Trust me, it makes the game MUCH more enjoyable.
endlessflood
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Just enjoy yourself. It's not a game that you can rush through, even if you wanted to, so don't bother trying. Just relax about it, take your time, and do whatever seems interesting to you at that moment. If things seem to become repetitive or boring, just try something else (from main missions/side missions/Witcher contracts/points of interest and exploration/Gwent).
MadYarpen
Member
Some of the best sidequests branch from the main story line, so you will surely encounter them. Just make sure you finish them.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Hello Witcher-GAF. I recently started playing this game after reading the first 6 novels (sadly the 7th book doesn't have an official translation yet). Here's my impressions so far, posted in the Steam OT:
I began to enjoy the game much more after turning off all the EZ-mode HUD options, and the combat has grown on me a little bit. I put most of my points into the sign abilities, since it makes the combat more fun when you mix up melee with spells. The alternate quen that lets you heal the damage you absorb is OP as hell btw.
And today:
Phew, ok all caught up now. I think my biggest mistake at first was that I kept trying to compare this game to Skyrim. I guess it couldn't be helped, since Skyrim was my first big open-world WRPG and this is my second. As you can see I also can't help but compare the combat to Dark Souls 3, but tbh I think FromSoft has ruined me in that regard; they are just far-and-away the best video game developer when it comes to RPG combat/hitboxes. However, CDPR has seriously impressed me. They absolutely nailed the look for most of the characters (Yennefer and Ciri in particular). The devs clearly did their homework. Just in general I get the feeling CDPR really loved creating this game. It's a thing of beauty.
As far as my game progress in concerned, I'm in Velen and have finished the main quests and main sidequests here. For the Baron questline, I chose to
I'm gonna do some of the contracts and minor sidequests before heading off to see Triss in Novigrad.
I began to enjoy the game much more after turning off all the EZ-mode HUD options, and the combat has grown on me a little bit. I put most of my points into the sign abilities, since it makes the combat more fun when you mix up melee with spells. The alternate quen that lets you heal the damage you absorb is OP as hell btw.
And today:
Phew, ok all caught up now. I think my biggest mistake at first was that I kept trying to compare this game to Skyrim. I guess it couldn't be helped, since Skyrim was my first big open-world WRPG and this is my second. As you can see I also can't help but compare the combat to Dark Souls 3, but tbh I think FromSoft has ruined me in that regard; they are just far-and-away the best video game developer when it comes to RPG combat/hitboxes. However, CDPR has seriously impressed me. They absolutely nailed the look for most of the characters (Yennefer and Ciri in particular). The devs clearly did their homework. Just in general I get the feeling CDPR really loved creating this game. It's a thing of beauty.
As far as my game progress in concerned, I'm in Velen and have finished the main quests and main sidequests here. For the Baron questline, I chose to
free the druid spirit and save the children, which sadly led to Anna's death and the Baron hanging himself. Still... I can't say it was the wrong choice, because saving children is more important. Although the druid did cause a massacre in the nearby village afterward, killing the children there... this game is harsh!
Just did this quest as well on my second playthrough. It's a hard choice innit? There is an ingame book claiming the 'druid' is the
mother of the crones, and that they tried to kill her because she was even more evil than the crones themselves
the crones
Anyway, in the end I
killed the tree spirit/druid. We never knows what she will be doing after freeing her. She starts of by killing all the inhabitants of Downwarren, but where will she end? Also, I liked the baron. He really helped Ciri getting back on her feet and seems to show genuine remorse over his fucked up past.
Perhaps I'm just rationalizing my choices though. There obviously is no good or bad choice there.
EvilKatarn
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Finally beat the main quest last week after taking my sweet ass time with the game. Bought the expansions and got through the Dead Man's Party quest last night.
Was anyone else put off by how hard the game wanted you to
Felt like there barely was an option to insist that I'm living the dream with Yennefer.
Was anyone else put off by how hard the game wanted you to
nail Shani?
This is the first game in a looooong time that I've been obsessed with, I'm really liking it.
Any advice on when the best time to sail to Skellgie? I'm currently level 13, I've been saving up money for the $1,000 crown fee to sail.
So far I've
I don't know what the best order is as far as quests go, when to do the main quests and when to do the side quests. I don't want to get ahead of myself or get behind.
Any advice on when the best time to sail to Skellgie? I'm currently level 13, I've been saving up money for the $1,000 crown fee to sail.
So far I've
killed the haunted tree and told the Bloody Baron about his wife, he wants me to meet him and kill the crones
I just met King Radovid and my next quest is to go to Whoreson's place
I don't know what the best order is as far as quests go, when to do the main quests and when to do the side quests. I don't want to get ahead of myself or get behind.
I would finish both of those questlines (Baron/Novigrad) before moving over to Skellige, it makes more sense story wise that way and that is also the intended order. Isn't lvl 16 the advised lvl for Skellige? You should be around that once done with Novigrad mainline.
Wouldn't go out of my way for side quests, mix it up with main story. You can always come back for them up.
Has 1.31 completely borked anyone else's saves? This is the first time I'm playing in a couple of months and the loading screen just hangs there when I try to continue. When I start a new game, whether vanilla, Hearts of Stone, or Blood and Wine, it seems to load albeit slowly.
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Man, Novigrad has so much content in it. It's almost overwhelming.
So I am like Level 30 and about to start in the next section of the main quest
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I'm doing an Alchemy build and I've pretty much used whatever skill points I want to use. Got all the Gwent cards (non-DLC) and all Alchemy formulae are complete.
Other than mutagens with the DLC and some other weapons, is there anything worth discovering?
just defended Kaer Morhen
I'm doing an Alchemy build and I've pretty much used whatever skill points I want to use. Got all the Gwent cards (non-DLC) and all Alchemy formulae are complete.
Other than mutagens with the DLC and some other weapons, is there anything worth discovering?
I think I'm really close to being done with Novigrad... there's so much there. I did most of the sidequests that I deem important; Triss, Dandelion, Zoltan, the only one I have left that I 100% want to do is the
one. Unlike with Velen, I've really had enough of Novigrad and don't plan to stick around to finish all the contracts and some of the other sidequests. In particular I'm really sick of the Novigrad music, it plays the same jingle for every quest it feels like. I hope Skellige doesn't have that dumb music.
I'm level 19 right now. Anyone able to give me a ballpark percentage of how far I am through the base games story?
Radovid assasination
I'm level 19 right now. Anyone able to give me a ballpark percentage of how far I am through the base games story?
55% id say if you haven't touched skellige at all
Head of Vengarl
Banned
Man this game's quests are so good. The voice acting might be the best I've seen in any video game. Dijkstra's voice actor in particular; he absolutely knocked it out of the park, especially with that speech about how King Radovid was fucking up all the hard work he and King Vizimir had put in to make Redania a powerful kingdom.
I'm so glad I read the books (save the untranslated last one) before playing. Some of the dialogue is way more enjoyable when you know the backstory. Like at Lady Vedelbug's party where you see Dijkstra and he tells Geralt seeing him at parties makes his leg ache in Time of Contempt Geralt broke Dijkstra's leg during a conflict that occurred after they attended a party. Got a chuckle out of me. But it also makes some of the deaths way more sad, like right when you enter Novigrad and that
is being burnt at the stake; he was a good guy from Sword of Destiny.
Also, I unlocked the alternate Quen shield and it's ridiculously OP. You pretty much will never die if you have decent stamina regen, which I do because most of my ability points are in the blue tree + I have that ability where every piece of medium armor gives me +5% stamina regen.
I'm so glad I read the books (save the untranslated last one) before playing. Some of the dialogue is way more enjoyable when you know the backstory. Like at Lady Vedelbug's party where you see Dijkstra and he tells Geralt seeing him at parties makes his leg ache in Time of Contempt Geralt broke Dijkstra's leg during a conflict that occurred after they attended a party. Got a chuckle out of me. But it also makes some of the deaths way more sad, like right when you enter Novigrad and that
doppler
Also, I unlocked the alternate Quen shield and it's ridiculously OP. You pretty much will never die if you have decent stamina regen, which I do because most of my ability points are in the blue tree + I have that ability where every piece of medium armor gives me +5% stamina regen.
MadYarpen
Member
you will love skellige. dont wait, you can always come back to novigrad anyway.
Man I'm really loving this game. Just got it a 3 weeks ago and I'm already at almost 70 hours which is more than I've played any game in years. I'm basically living an alternate life in this world.
Any more DLC expansions after the two? I haven't started either yet, I'm only on Act 1 of the main game. I'm already fearing beating it.
Also, I really screwed up and told Triss that I love her, and banged her in the lighthouse.. But if prefer Yen. Any way to salvage the romance with Yen? I haven't done her final romance mission yet.
Edit: Also, how long can I put off doing "The Last Wish" quest? I need some time (lol) to decide what I'm gonna do. I've read on some websites that you have to do it immediately afterward "Nameless" or else you miss your shot with Yen. I'm not going to progress the main quests, just plan on going back to Velen/Novigrad and finishing some side quests, but I don't want to fail the mission for making Yen wait too long or something. A few of the online guides mention a sense or urgency with "The Last Wish."
which is more than I've played any game in years. I'm basically living an alternate life in this world. Any more DLC expansions after the two? I haven't started either yet, I'm only on Act 1 of the main game. I'm already fearing beating it.
Also, I really screwed up and told Triss that I love her, and banged her in the lighthouse.. But if prefer Yen. Any way to salvage the romance with Yen? I haven't done her final romance mission yet.
Edit: Also, how long can I put off doing "The Last Wish" quest? I need some time (lol) to decide what I'm gonna do. I've read on some websites that you have to do it immediately afterward "Nameless" or else you miss your shot with Yen. I'm not going to progress the main quests, just plan on going back to Velen/Novigrad and finishing some side quests, but I don't want to fail the mission for making Yen wait too long or something. A few of the online guides mention a sense or urgency with "The Last Wish."