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Drifter posted:Is there a way to disable the paragraphs of text beneath the minimap telling you how to do your quest? There is an HUD option in the options to turn that off, I believe.
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Poetic Justice posted:There is an HUD option in the options to turn that off, I believe. Thanks. It was some 'active quest' option in the HUD options. There are so many little options I'd wished they would have had an interactive picture or something telling me what each of those things was.
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May 20, 2015 18:10
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So I started this up this morning to fiddle with the graphics and it somehow is 10 hours later, I blew off a day of uni and am still playing. I have not had this in a very long time, I'm very happy with this game. Question tho: is there a barber in novigrad?
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May 20, 2015 18:12
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I set my difficulty to the third level--blood and broken bones or something--and I think I only just gained a level. I proceeded to get loving destroyed by the griffin, getting like 3-hit while doing middling damage. I'm underleveled, right?
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May 20, 2015 18:13
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Son of Rodney posted:
Ya go north from the main square to the next bulletin board, there's a barber right across the street. It'll show up as some scissors on your minimap.
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May 20, 2015 18:15
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Solartide posted:Let's talk about Gwent. There's a legendary spy card worth zero points. That's ridiculously powerful. Add no points to your enemy's total yet draw two cards. Also, I've seen a Iorveth card that is worth ten and can't be affected by special abilities. I saw both of those in the same game. I never stood a chance with my mostly standard Northern deck. At least now I know that buying all the cards you come across is worth it. Gwent is way better than dice poker. I can't remember who it was, maybe it was the Baron - but there's a guy I played that had a deck at least 50% composed of spy cards. This basically let me win the first round and then he wiped the floor the other two.
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May 20, 2015 18:18
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About the quests sometimes not having any good ending, I know of at least one that came out feeling pretty good. Devil in the Well First you put a haunted spirit to rest and you save a little girl's life. You can even do it for free so she'll still have a dowry.
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May 20, 2015 18:20
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Welp, found a merchant out in the middle of nowhere (Straight east of Mulbrydale) that's bugged. I ask him to show me his wares and nothing happens. edit: Also the merchant in the middle of Blackbough has disappeared. Merchants don't seem to like me. ymgve fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 20, 2015 |
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May 20, 2015 18:26
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Skunny Wundy posted:this is the only game i've played all year that has shown a rabbit humping another rabbit. GOTY for sure. Going to be hard to get bored of the hysteric shrieks of the peasantry when someone sees a wolf run across a road chasing a rabbit. Best part is that if someone is actually under attack they are basically all "gently caress you. Go away." half the time afterwards if you save them. I saved some rear end in a top hat who was literally being savaged by a horde of Nekkers that decided to swarm out of the forest near a town and he just spat at me and muttered the word "Witchers." in an angry tone of voice afterwards. loving ingrates.  Edit: Also, the fact that the AI has actual behaviors like this is great. Peasants go to work in the fields. Wolves hunt prey animals at night. Nekkers set up shop in the woods and apparently slaughter the peasants if they get too close to the woods. Etc, etc. I've been making a habit of tracking the monsters using my senses to see how some of them behave. It actually can create situations where I can manipulate the surroundings to my benefit. Case in point, luring a bunch of drowners into a garrison or patrol. Archonex fucked around with this message at 18:39 on May 20, 2015 |
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May 20, 2015 18:28
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I feel like a lot of the poo poo Geralt gets is because curse breaking is around half his workload and that invariably means dragging every skeleton out his employer's closet just to find out what the local monsters deal is.
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May 20, 2015 18:35
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Holy poo poo, I just unexpectedly ran into an old acquaintance. Warning, quest/story spoilers ahead: You get to help Letho fight off his pursuers and fake his death. Afterward, you have the option of saying goodbye or telling him to go to Kaer Morhen. I wanted him to go to Kaer Morhen so there's a chance to meet him again, but I somehow can't help but think doom will follow in his wake.
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May 20, 2015 18:39
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The best way to fight mobs that outlevel you (human ones, anyway) is by cleaving through them with multiple passes on Roach. You can hold down your attack key to ready your weapon and charge at them with time slowed down. It's loving awesome.
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May 20, 2015 18:43
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Who Dat posted:Oh Prima released an interactive map app for iOS and Android (tablets only I think) It looks nice as you can track and check off completion of objectives and such, get info on areas etc. don't think it has a bestiary though, which would be infinitely more helpful. If you're just looking for the super-basic information for all the question marks on the maps, this one is under four dollars, by virtue of being a website that is free. http://www.ign.com/maps/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/velen-novigrad
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May 20, 2015 18:44
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What's wrong with my computer's that's causing some cutscenes (two so far) to chew down to 20fps for their duration, meanwhile every other cutscene runs at 60fps? And I mean hard locked to 20 fps, it didn't even move below or above (I have the shadowplay fps overlay on always)
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May 20, 2015 18:49
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zen death robot posted:Not really, I beat the Griffin at level two at the same difficulty setting with a half-broken silver sword (didn't pay attention to my durability, oops). Patience pays off when fighting large enemies. Maybe I used the wrong sword or something. I actually have no idea how to control which sword is being drawn.
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May 20, 2015 18:51
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What's the best way to bring up to my wife that I want my own lubberkin?
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May 20, 2015 18:52
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So when I'm fighting wraiths, apparently I can easily sidestep the sword swings, but their lantern swings are sidesteppable? This game's combat is so loving weird. Finnicky. ilifinicus posted:What's wrong with my computer's that's causing some cutscenes (two so far) to chew down to 20fps for their duration, meanwhile every other cutscene runs at 60fps? And I mean hard locked to 20 fps, it didn't even move below or above (I have the shadowplay fps overlay on always) It could be cinematic depth of field, if there's an option like that. Try turning that off.
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May 20, 2015 18:53
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Comrade Flynn posted:What's the best way to bring up to my wife that I want my own lubberkin? Define it carefully so she doesn't slap you. Drifter posted:So when I'm fighting wraiths, apparently I can easily sidestep the sword swings, but their lantern swings are sidesteppable? You have two dodges. One is a sidestep and the other is a dodge roll. The latter is what you need for bigger heavier swings.
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May 20, 2015 18:54
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ilifinicus posted:What's wrong with my computer's that's causing some cutscenes (two so far) to chew down to 20fps for their duration, meanwhile every other cutscene runs at 60fps? And I mean hard locked to 20 fps, it didn't even move below or above (I have the shadowplay fps overlay on always) Go to bin/config/base and find visuals.cfg. Set cutscene framerate higher and turn off oversampling.
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May 20, 2015 18:54
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So in bit of beautiful design, earth elementals take about four times the damage from strong attacks that they do from fast. They still have around 20,000 HP though. At least Souls will be a piece of cake after that hour of dodging.
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May 20, 2015 18:54
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ilifinicus posted:What's wrong with my computer's that's causing some cutscenes (two so far) to chew down to 20fps for their duration, meanwhile every other cutscene runs at 60fps? And I mean hard locked to 20 fps, it didn't even move below or above (I have the shadowplay fps overlay on always) This is just a guess but there is (at the least) a cutscene specific depth of field option, that's what I would try first. efb 2x 
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May 20, 2015 18:55
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ImpAtom posted:You have two dodges. One is a sidestep and the other is a dodge roll. The latter is what you need for bigger heavier swings. Is a ghost swinging a lantern its version of a heavy swing? wut. Thank you. That'll be quit helpful in general in the future if that's how the dodge mechanism works.
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May 20, 2015 18:56
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Archimago posted:The best way to fight mobs that outlevel you (human ones, anyway) is by cleaving through them with multiple passes on Roach. You can hold down your attack key to ready your weapon and charge at them with time slowed down. It's loving awesome. Horse combat is so satisfying; charging in for one slash then wheeling around and charging back through... it's helped me a lot with whittling down a few higher level mobs.
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May 20, 2015 18:56
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Drifter posted:Is a ghost swinging a lantern its version of a heavy swing? wut. "Heavy Swing" might be an inaccurate way to describe it but at least as far as I am (which is admittedly not super-far!) anything that has a wide arc or a 'heavy' feel needs to be rolled, anything that is a quicker slash can be sidestepped. I don't know how that scales to the late game.
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May 20, 2015 18:57
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I tried to turn off the UberSampling and increased 30fps cap limit to "cinematic cutscenes", let's see if it fixes anything once I encounter another one.
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May 20, 2015 18:58
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Is there a way to help figure out where the plants you need to make items grow? I want to make oil before I fight some buff rear end monster but I need X plant and I have no idea where to get it.
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May 20, 2015 19:00
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Solartide posted:Let's talk about Gwent. A 1 power spy is much better than the 5 power one you can buy from the innkeeper at the start of the game.
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May 20, 2015 19:00
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Has anyone found a good way to handle item durability? Seems like weapons in particular wear down pretty quickly and repairing your gear at a blacksmith is very expensive so far.
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MinibarMatchman posted:I set my difficulty to the third level--blood and broken bones or something--and I think I only just gained a level. I proceeded to get loving destroyed by the griffin, getting like 3-hit while doing middling damage. I'm underleveled, right? There is a recommended level listed in the journal for some (major?) quests. It's level 3 for the griffin. You can still beat it before that, of course. And for the record, I found it pretty drat challenging even at level 3.
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May 20, 2015 19:01
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Is there some guide around that explains the backgrounds for the witcher 2 choices you can make? I've played both witcher 1 & 2 only to the half point and completely forgot every character and story elements, idk who letho, roche and what have you are.
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May 20, 2015 19:01
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So my inventory is fast getting clogged with random notes and such like the burned papers and soggy papers and notice board notes. Can I safely toss them or are they used for stuff later?
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May 20, 2015 19:02
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Magical Zero posted:Has anyone found a good way to handle item durability? Seems like weapons in particular wear down pretty quickly and repairing your gear at a blacksmith is very expensive so far. It's a pain in the rear end, and I'm not liking it one bit.
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Magical Zero posted:Has anyone found a good way to handle item durability? Seems like weapons in particular wear down pretty quickly and repairing your gear at a blacksmith is very expensive so far. The cost gets less onerous as the game goes on because as far as I can tell it doesn't scale. An item always seems to cost the missing durability percentage in coins to repair (ie an item with 50% durability always costs 50 to repair), and that's just a much larger amount of your cash at the start of the game. I thought the durability was pretty bonkers as well until I realized that. Now I'm pushing level 8 with over 1000 in the bank and it's manageable.
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MinibarMatchman posted:Maybe I used the wrong sword or something. I actually have no idea how to control which sword is being drawn. If you're on PC, 1 to draw steel sword, 2 to draw silver sword. My rule of thumb is that if it exists IRL, steel sword.
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MinibarMatchman posted:Maybe I used the wrong sword or something. I actually have no idea how to control which sword is being drawn. I beat the griffin on DEATH level first by cheating (I crossbowed him over a river and he fell in and drowned, but I couldn't collect the trophy that way), then I did it using crossbow/IGNI and staying the hell away from him. I would crossbow so he would crash, then immediately IGNI and back-roll out of there. Dodge until IGNI rebooted, fire again. if he took off, crossbow him back down to Earth. Rinse, repeat. It worked, but barely (I used all my swallow potions), and had a sliver of health left (dodging doesn't always work, camera makes it sloppy during that fight too). I would also run around vesimir hoping that old bastard got in a swing or two (he does zero damage, but he pulls its attention). I was level 3 as well, plus I didn't make the Viper gear yet, either.
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Son of Rodney posted:Is there some guide around that explains the backgrounds for the witcher 2 choices you can make? Here's an okay video that somewhat explains each import decision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_INEnvuPnk
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May 20, 2015 19:06
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No Mods No Masters posted:The cost gets less onerous as the game goes on because as far as I can tell it doesn't scale. An item always seems to cost the missing durability percentage in coins to repair (ie an item with 50% durability always costs 50 to repair), and that's just a much larger amount of your cash at the start of the game. I thought the durability was pretty bonkers as well until I realized that. Now I'm pushing level 8 with over 1000 in the bank and it's manageable.
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Awesome, thanks!
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Verranicus posted:So my inventory is fast getting clogged with random notes and such like the burned papers and soggy papers and notice board notes. Can I safely toss them or are they used for stuff later? Anything not in the quest tab can be tossed without losing/failing quests.
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Orv posted:Anything not in the quest tab can be tossed without losing/failing quests. Anyone decon Yennefer's note?
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