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I used more the temporal menu with Control. Time slow down and everything, so you don't have problems choosing the correct sign.
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May 2, 2015 20:42
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I hotkeyed all the five signs to the extra buttons on my mouse, combat got way more enjoyable after that.
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May 2, 2015 20:51
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GrossMurpel posted:I don't get it. - left click while standing near him - repeat until he's dead ... I got a GTX 960 just when the free Witcher 3 codes ran out. Apparently that's a thing again now - anyone I can contact to beg for one, to make up for my bad timing? Edit - The shop where I got it were like "contact the game company / the people who made the card, we don't care" Xander77 fucked around with this message at 21:58 on May 2, 2015 |
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May 2, 2015 21:39
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Xander77 posted:He's talking about the endgame, at which point it's: Contact your retailer maybe?
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May 2, 2015 21:42
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Xander77 posted:He's talking about the endgame, at which point it's: Nope, Letho parries anything but the first two hits after you Aard him.
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May 2, 2015 22:12
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Lycus posted:*Geralt stabs Trollslayer with a silver sword* He's right, because if you stab him, you are a monster. I'm underwhelmed by the skill system, it appears to be mostly percentage damage increases or range increases.  Even WOW stopped doing that.
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Yaos posted:
Not really. Now they just have percentage boosts for everything under the sun, instead of just damage. That said, there's not a lot of ways to do meaningful skill systems that aren't complete and total changes to basic gameplay.
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May 2, 2015 22:37
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Yaos posted:He's right, because if you stab him, you are a monster. The second upgrade for block/parry lets you send arrows back at who shot them.
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May 2, 2015 22:37
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Though they really just threw in arrow redirection as a Witcher 1 reference.
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May 2, 2015 22:42
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Man, It kinda sucks not to have a "gently caress them all option" in witcher 1 and 2. I can sympathize with the squirrels, but not the way they do things. The orders are god damned KKK covers and everyone is a racist aside from a handful. Everyone needs to chill the gently caress out. Preferably by lack of functioning metabolism.
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Broose posted:Man, It kinda sucks not to have a "gently caress them all option" in witcher 1 and 2. I can sympathize with the squirrels, but not the way they do things. The orders are god damned KKK covers and everyone is a racist aside from a handful. Everyone needs to chill the gently caress out. Preferably by lack of functioning metabolism. There's the neutral route in 1. Siding with Roche, then helping Triss is effectively the neutral route in 2. You broadly stay out of the politicking that way. You might not get to kill everyone, but you're not actively helping either side.
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May 3, 2015 00:02
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The whole series is a commentary on the impossibility of neutrality, so there's that.
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May 3, 2015 00:31
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Lycus posted:Though they really just threw in arrow redirection as a Witcher 1 reference. Where does it show up in Witcher 1? This never made sense to me as an ability, especially when almost every possible cutscene death for Geralt in TW2 (so, deaths that CDPR thought would look believable) is him eating a load of arrows. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:The whole series is a commentary on the impossibility of neutrality, so there's that. "If I die, tell Ciri 'hello.'"
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May 3, 2015 00:33
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Blocking a single arrow can be done relatively (relative to a decade of sword training) easily, compared to most of the TW2 death scenes which are almost 300-esque.
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Cheston posted:Where does it show up in Witcher 1? This never made sense to me as an ability, especially when almost every possible cutscene death for Geralt in TW2 (so, deaths that CDPR thought would look believable) is him eating a load of arrows. In the prologue when the professor kills Leo, then again (maybe) when the witcher kills the professor. Its not actually an ability I dont think
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dud root posted:In the prologue when the professor kills Leo, then again (maybe) when the witcher kills the professor. Its not actually an ability I dont think It's a Dexterity/Agility skill in Witcher 1. And of course, a cutscene ability in an ironic echo to when the professor killed Leo.
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I'd like to thank my gaming hard drive for dying now and not closer to the 19th. At least I have time to get a new one before the crazy happens. I also scheduled my tonsillectomy for two days after the game comes out. Three weeks to enjoy The Witcher 3 while high on pain medicine!
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Lava Lamp Goddess posted:I also scheduled my tonsillectomy for two days after the game comes out. Three weeks to enjoy The Witcher 3 while high on pain medicine! Alchemy build, then?
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:The whole series is a commentary on the impossibility of neutrality, so there's that. And is my single favorite thing about the series. I love that the new one seems to have more of those ambiguous quests where you can't tell if you're hurting or helping even after it ends.
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I'm sure that the sort of people who look up online FAQs to learn what choices to make to get a game's mega-happy ending don't like it, but screw 'em, I love it.
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I can see Geralt being used like a tool, but he apparently doesn't, or doesn't care. Who is the worst? Nilfguardians? Temarians? That other big empire I have just forgotten the name of? I'd rather see them all burn before I do their dirty work.
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Broose posted:I can see Geralt being used like a tool, but he apparently doesn't, or doesn't care. I don't know, man. That's a lot of XP you'd be giving up.
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May 3, 2015 08:45
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Whoever the rebel faction is, I only probably join them first. I've been a sucker for the Scoia'tael before now.
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Broose posted:I can see Geralt being used like a tool, but he apparently doesn't, or doesn't care. Everybody is the worst and he just rolls with it Lycus posted:Whoever the rebel faction is, I only probably join them first. I've been a sucker for the Scoia'tael before now. I've been playing as the books Geralt and with that approach scoiatael isn't an option because he thinks they are scum Sekenr fucked around with this message at 08:51 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 08:48
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I played and completed both witcher games last month. I had picked them up during the last steam sale and finally ran out of other games to play. I actually kinda like the first game even though normal difficulty was easy (swallow all day erreday). The second game took me forever to get used to the controls, but I don't think I've ever seen such wonderful looking armor in any other game. If it weren't for the weird controls, I think I would've died a lot less. I had no idea you could pull a neutral path with Roche. I feel kinda robbed now. I suppose it's the developer's fault for not putting a neutral option within Iorveth's path. But Roche did abuse my negotiations to launch a sneak attack, so gently caress him.
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Roche's Path being more neutral is an opinion. Really, the closest thing to a neutral option is saving Triss in Act 3 of either path.
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In the game they say if you wanna save Triss go with the Squirrels, if you want to catch the Kingslayer then go with Roche. So Iorveth's path is probably closer to neutral.
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It really depends on motivation. At the time of At the Crossroads, both paths have neutral-ish and non-neutral ways of looking at them.
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Yeah, you could argue it either way. To me it always seemed clear that going and freeing a load of political prisoners is much more of an ideological action than going and murdering a corrupt official who the game has given you plenty of personal reasons to dislike. Assuming you define a neutral Geralt as one who doesn't act based on political ideology.
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I felt no real care or dislike for the kingslayer, the only "bad" thing he does is abduct Triss and that's only after Geralt screws up his plans leaving him no other option. And the only reason you are going after him to begin with is that Roche blackmails you into it. I always ditch him the first chance I get.
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More games need the ability to drink booze with the bad guy and talk about olde times.
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Yeah, it is 100% awesome that the game anticipates you getting to the end and realizing you'd much rather just be best buds with the primary antagonist, because gently caress it he's a chill dude who has no beef with you and you didn't care much about the guys he killed anyway.
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Letho is a cool dude and hopefully I get to do a quest with him in the Wild Hunt. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKTfyo4VRk  OXENFRUIT Meta-Mollusk fucked around with this message at 11:52 on May 3, 2015 |
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Drifter posted:I don't know, man. That's a lot of XP you'd be giving up. "This choice will bring the long-prophesied ice age about, resulting in millions of deaths and the destruction of pretty much all civilization on this continent...but I do get 1.5x the XP for that, so "
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Slashrat posted:Yeah, it is 100% awesome that the game anticipates you getting to the end and realizing you'd much rather just be best buds with the primary antagonist, because gently caress it he's a chill dude who has no beef with you and you didn't care much about the guys he killed anyway. A chill dude who framed you and stole your girl. Also, it kinda looked like Foltest was going to become Geralt's bro. That's why I really killed him. We could've had Geralt and Foltest's Excellent Adventures.
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Freakazoid_ posted:A chill dude who framed you and stole your girl. Also, it kinda looked like Foltest was going to become Geralt's bro. Whether to kill Letho or not is a pretty good choice. There's no right option and everyone has their own reasons for killing or sparing him. Meta-Mollusk posted:Letho is a cool dude and hopefully I get to do a quest with him in the Wild Hunt. Have they said anything about encountering stuff while sailing? Because it looks like it takes a loooooooooooong time over empty water.
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Freakazoid_ posted:A chill dude who framed you and stole your girl. Also, it kinda looked like Foltest was going to become Geralt's bro. Yeah, if you put aside the whole sister-loving thing, Foltest was a cool king. I can understand wanting to avenge him. I can't wait to relive my Windwaker memories in that boat. It's difficult to say how much content will be in Oxenfurt, given it's the location of the first expansion. I'm pretty sure they've said Shani won't be there are launch for example (so really, what's even the point?!). But seriously, it could well be that Oxenfurt will just be a bit of shell till the first expansion releases, we'll see. CottonWolf fucked around with this message at 12:33 on May 3, 2015 |
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GrossMurpel posted:Have they said anything about encountering stuff while sailing? Because it looks like it takes a loooooooooooong time over empty water. Watch AngryJoe's video to see what happens sauer kraut fucked around with this message at 12:25 on May 3, 2015 |
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