Meccanical
Member
Soooo...
I totally fucked up that serial killer quest in Novigrad, I bet it was the coroner, fuck I'm stupid, I knew it was too easy. Nothing is ever that simple in this game.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT3| Metz Some Ploughing Good Ladies In the Forest
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Hah yeah. That quest is great.
Nickdogmoneycash
Member
Can someone tell me how many more hours of main story I have left?
Just did the "Ugly Baby" quest and did the ritual on the Ugliest Man in the World, found out he wasn't Ciri. Now I have to go to some Isle to rescue her.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Not to sound like an ass, but if you're playing the game properly, you honestly shouldn't die a lot even on deathmarch. Make sure you ALWAYS have quen up and look at the beast guide to learn which potions/bombs/ and oils work best for the enemy.
Also,make damn sure you upgrade Axii so that you can mind control enemies. That makes MANY encounters trivial.
Don't get me wrong, its certainly not a cakewalk, but if you take advantage of all your tools and make an effort to use dodge instead of roll as often as possible and don't get greedy trying to get too many hits you will be amazed at how rarely you will die.
Srey Plaughtered
Member
The game is incredibly fair except for a few bullshit fights which I can count with one hand imo. I found them really annoying because of the Stun+One combo kill they've got. Either that or just me sucking
which is more likely.
king picollo
Member
The cheapest enemy I have faced was a basilisk that could just sit in the air do a scream and poison me.
The poison was so strong it was dropping health faster than anything I had to recover it.
The joys of the game has been finding what spell works on what monster so far, really cool when you work it out and a tough enemy becomes easy.
The poison was so strong it was dropping health faster than anything I had to recover it.
The joys of the game has been finding what spell works on what monster so far, really cool when you work it out and a tough enemy becomes easy.
Meccanical
Member
I've found that as long as you use all the options available too you and be3 aware of your surroundings you should be fine.
In the beginning I would get surrounded or backed into a corner often, and that was no bueno.
In the beginning I would get surrounded or backed into a corner often, and that was no bueno.
Initially I find it frustrating too dealing with enemy that can poison you and I later discover the Golden Oriole potion did a good job in neutralizing the poison damage which is important when facing such monster.
Cannon Goose
Member
Fully upgraded Fast Attack tree and the Cat Gear is astonishingly overpowered. Nearly every single hit is a critical and every hit deals powerful bleed damage which ticks down over time.
NHarmonic.
Member
I love alternate Yrden <3
Well, i just killed
and unlocked the
quest. I wanted to know approx how much game is left, if anyone could tell me. 
Well, i just killed
junior
"now or never"
I finally gave Reshade a try as I'm still annoy by some of the minor aliasing even when using the default post-process AA.
Only enabled SMAA and it is a day and night difference in motion as it helps to clean up the minor aliasing although the side effect of using it means softer/rounded UI text by a bit.
Sadly enabling SMAA injector also drives up my GTX 780 usage to 90-100% at Kaer Morhen and I need to bump down the foliage to High to reduce the average usage to around 60%.
Only enabled SMAA and it is a day and night difference in motion as it helps to clean up the minor aliasing although the side effect of using it means softer/rounded UI text by a bit.
Sadly enabling SMAA injector also drives up my GTX 780 usage to 90-100% at Kaer Morhen and I need to bump down the foliage to High to reduce the average usage to around 60%.
Jay Shadow
Member
There are 55 parts of the main quest. you've done 21 of them.Well, i just killedand unlocked thejuniorquest. I wanted to know approx how much game is left, if anyone could tell me."now or never"
After a while, I've traveled back in Velen.
That place is pure autumn poetry, in the same league of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s Zone.
http://i.imgur.com/BvPqH61.jpg
That place is pure autumn poetry, in the same league of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s Zone.
http://i.imgur.com/BvPqH61.jpg
NHarmonic.
Member
Thank you very much!
I'd really just lock up in my room and play this all day but my university degree is getting really nasty, so i'd probably stop playing this until december
Srey Plaughtered
Member
Nope. Stock up as much Water as you can and treat Quen as your primary sign, you'll do fine.
You could use that one general skill which lets you recover health but I found it to be a waste of slot.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Definitely get Sun & Stars, a yellow skill that costs one point. It's the first skill you should get and it's well worth it. It regenerates health in daytime and adrenaline in nighttime.
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Deleted member 752119
Unconfirmed Member
Meditating regains health. Unless it doesn't work on all difficulties. I just leave it on default as I don't care about challenge in WRPGs and just play for the story, characters and exploring.
Use Swallow potion. if you haven't crafted it or got the ingredients for it, do so as soon as possible.
And don't worry if you run out of it, you can always replenish it while meditating as long you have alcohol items (Alcohest, Dwarven Spirit, etc...) in your inventory
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
They've already explained why they didn't do it. Article was posted a while ago. Long story short; it's to simple to be its own game.
What about a MP within the Witcher game? did they mentioned something about it?
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
Don't think so, but it's probably the same reason: it's too simple and too unbalanced. It would just be about getting the right cards and there's one build in the game that's objectively better than all else, so as it is right now it wouldn't work. I agree that Gwent is really fun, but it simply wouldn't work right now in MP.
Srey Plaughtered
Member
MP won't work in the state it is in but that's something that can be fixed. I found Gwent to be a lot more fun than Hearthstone. It's basically a treasure waiting to be opened. An AI+MP crossplay Gwent game between all the relevant platforms will be amazing.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
?
That's what I just said, and it's why they didn't just do it. Of course it can be fixed, but it requires a lot of work and a lot of changing of the game mechanics.
Srey Plaughtered
Member
I meant fixing Gwent for a standalone app. It definitely won't work for the main game.
ComputerBlue
Member
I'm level 6, doing a level 6 quest for the Baron where
he's carrying the fetus so we can try to turn it into a grumpkin
Sure, I know how to kill them, I use quen before it starts and every other chance I get, I know I need to trap them and what potion works. But when there is 2-3 of them and my magic takes long to replenish and I can only trap one while the other teleports and shows up out of nowhere right behind me and mauls me within a few hits (not to mention the barrels and fences and other random garbage in the court yard getting in the way making dodging difficult) then I'm going to die and get frustrated that I have to sit through another fucking minute long loading screen, only to have to go through the dialogue on top of it.
I appreciate the help but this isn't about "playing properly" because I'll get better eventually as I'm still early...this is about loading times.
backflip10019
Member
Are you dodging/rolling effectively out of the way before attacks? You can cheese battles a lot of the time by rolling/dodging away and letting your stamina replenish in the meantime.
Not really a spoiler but I enjoy Geralt delivery of: "Lambert, Lambert - What a prick."
People need to see it in action when they reach Kaer Morhen.
Second this although I suggest to practice dodging instead of rolling to preserve stamina. If you have invested 2 points in Axii, I find the battle to be quite easy as you cast on one of the wraiths and slowly take out the others.
Just don't bother parry as it just leave you vulnerable and do try to be in open space while striking with one heavy attack at a time.
People need to see it in action when they reach Kaer Morhen.
Second this although I suggest to practice dodging instead of rolling to preserve stamina. If you have invested 2 points in Axii, I find the battle to be quite easy as you cast on one of the wraiths and slowly take out the others.
Just don't bother parry as it just leave you vulnerable and do try to be in open space while striking with one heavy attack at a time.
Just recently found out that Lambert's voice actor was that one guy from Halo: Nightfall. Think I liked his original voice actor from the first Witcher more. He voiced other characters in Witcher 2, wonder why they couldn't get him back for 3? :/
I thought Eskel's was different too, but it seems to be the same guy.
I thought Eskel's was different too, but it seems to be the same guy.
I find all three of the Wolf school witchers are such memorable characters. I loved how Lambert and Eskel always makes fun of Geralt about his predilection of sorceresses.
LonelyGreyWolf
Banned
The biggest question is: which of the following lines is better?
"Lambert, Lambert; what a prick."
"Lambert... you're a genius."
Geralt and Lamberts interaction is pretty great.
"Lambert, Lambert; what a prick."
"Lambert... you're a genius."
Geralt and Lamberts interaction is pretty great.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Oh, you're at that part. Yeah that part is pretty tough.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
It's been a while since I had found anything too tough on Deathmarch difficulty, but the entire game makes up for it during that Imerlith fight. Man that was tough. Took me four tries. I kept getting owned during that final teleportation phase. I was always out of position and would accidently evade into him and take major damage.
Luckily that part is passed. On my normal playthrough I found that fight harder than the Eredin. Hopefully that will still manifest itself for my Deathmarch run.
Luckily that part is passed. On my normal playthrough I found that fight harder than the Eredin. Hopefully that will still manifest itself for my Deathmarch run.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Why is that called cheesing? That's just plain good strategy and how the fighting was supposed to be done.
Haha, yeah. I had some troubles with him too. If i made a mistake in dodging direction, he basically took two swings, hits Geralt for two criticals, effectively 1/8 health left. There's white raffard's of course, but another set of that mistake means death for me since toxicity is already at maximum.
Srey Plaughtered
Member
Same here. Found that fight more difficult than any other. Took me a while to understand where to roll when he teleports but after that I was good. Took a lot more than 4 tries though lol and I was Blood and broken bones. Death march would be terrifying.
backflip10019
Member
I mean it's not technically. Once you get dodging and rolling down, you can kind of take any encounter pretty easily (at least as far as I've gotten).
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
In my first playthrough I did a shit ton of rolling and found that it often left me more wide open for attack.
However, I try an use dodging almost exclusively. However, in the Imerilth fight. Dodging didn't create near enough distance to avoid the hits.
The key I discovered that fight was once he goes into his second phase and does the crazy combo that the key was after you roll away from his attack was to be still briefly so that he would appear behind you and you could roll away more efficiently. Once I did that I didn't take much damage on the four attempt when I finally beat him.
Still I'd say that part was the hardest on deathmarch. Followed by the part with the botchling. The latter only being bad because the checkpoints were so poorly placed.
ComputerBlue
Member
Yes, as mentioned in my post. But there are a lot of things in the way in the courtyard that make it difficult so often times I get trapped because a Wraith will spawn behind me, then imminently in front of me and there will be a fence to the right and a barrel to the left and then it all goes to hell, lol.
Yeah, I've loaded up an older save and decided to do other things for now until I level up a bit, it was too frustrating. I do agree on your opinion on rolling vs. dodging though. I roll to escape when I need to but dodge is a far better battle tactic I think.
Hero Prinny
Member
took me 80 hours but i finally beat the game! really satisfied with the ending i got.
ending spoilers:
, honestly completely satisfied with my ending
ending spoilers:
ciri faked her death and became a witcher, geralt settled down and lived with Triss, the black ones dipped and left everyone alone, as far as I can tell the sorceresses are left b
Coreda
Member
Found some new rooftop pathways in Novigrad by brute force. Surprisingly climbable for the most part, only the occasional area is non-solid. Made it to the roofs around Hierarch Square, and almost to the balcony above the Vivaldi bank. I can't be the only one who wonders what it's like in such normally unreachable places.
http://webm.land/media/9y4c.webm
(Framerate a bit janky in the recording)
Also continuedfashion equip experiments. Currently with the swashbuckling blend on the far right.
http://webm.land/media/9y4c.webm
(Framerate a bit janky in the recording)
Also continued
I just started the game, finally, after a long time of thinking about it. I picked death march, despite having never played the game or know how to play it at all, on the advice of others who say the game tends to get too easy after the early portion.
Initial thoughts are that the game is better than I'd anticipated in most ways -- The overall presentation, story, acting, it's all very engrossing, and I don't mind the "heavy" character controls. Combat is obviously challenging, as I've died a lot, (on death march, as I said) but I like it and I think trying to device strategies using the various tools available will be fun. I get the feeling on lower difficulties the game would tend to be a mash attack type ordeal to get through most fights.
The sticking point is framerate on PS4. It's an unstable 30, at least, that's how it seems. 30 sometimes, clearly under 30 other times, and with noticeable hiccups and stutters. It definitely detracts from the experience, especially during combant.
I find myself wondering if I should just get it on PC. I have an R9 290 and a core i7 4790k.
Initial thoughts are that the game is better than I'd anticipated in most ways -- The overall presentation, story, acting, it's all very engrossing, and I don't mind the "heavy" character controls. Combat is obviously challenging, as I've died a lot, (on death march, as I said) but I like it and I think trying to device strategies using the various tools available will be fun. I get the feeling on lower difficulties the game would tend to be a mash attack type ordeal to get through most fights.
The sticking point is framerate on PS4. It's an unstable 30, at least, that's how it seems. 30 sometimes, clearly under 30 other times, and with noticeable hiccups and stutters. It definitely detracts from the experience, especially during combant.
I find myself wondering if I should just get it on PC. I have an R9 290 and a core i7 4790k.
veloxStrix
Banned
Playing as Ciri on Death March is one of the single most unrewarding experiences I've ever had in gaming.
I have a question. I'm working on the Get Junior mission in Novigrad. I guess I will put the particulars in spoilers.
Thanks. I never play RPGs and am a little overwhelmed by all the options and quests at times. Not sure which path to take sometimes I guess!
I started by following the lead with the arena and kept following it. I then met with the dude at the chess club. Now he told me where the hideout where Whoreson is. But now the other objectives are redded out (like finding his casino and hideout I guess, the latter I suppose I am doing in a roundabout way?). Am I missing out on a lot by having not done them? I suppose I could reload a save and do them before heading to the chess club, but am wondering if it is worth it?
Thanks. I never play RPGs and am a little overwhelmed by all the options and quests at times. Not sure which path to take sometimes I guess!
I visited the two locations you mentioned and you don't miss out on a whole lot iirc. You visit the locations, kill some dudes and find out Whoreson isn't there.
Denton
Member
With that kind of hardware it is puzzling why you didn't get PC version in the first place. It should give you smooth 60 at nice details, high ultra mix.
Srey Plaughtered
Member
Not much but you do unlock a quest, namely
Honor among thieves if you had visited the Casino.