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May 22, 2015 16:50
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Verranicus posted:I've seen a lot of people bitching about how "the game plays itself for you" in regards to the holding shift to have Roach follow roads thing, but I know if that weren't a feature I'd just be fast traveling everywhere anyway and I'm sure that's the case for others. I love being able to let Roach take control so I can enjoy the atmosphere of the game between destinations when I just want to get from point A to point B. That's a pretty ludicrous complaint. It's a horse, not a car. It makes 100% sense that it has enough brainpower to follow a road without your constant input. Red Dead Redemption, which I think it's safe to say is the best horse game ever, had the same thing and it wasn't decried then.
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May 22, 2015 16:52
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So what should I be doing / focusing on if I'm having a difficult time with enemy groups, specifically ghouls and nekkers on death march? I've learned that locking on can be a huge mistake. Are people finding beefing up fast attack is really important? Is Axii super effective like it is on backstabbing humans? What's kinds of tactics are people employing to make things a bit less frustrating?
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May 22, 2015 16:55
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Verranicus posted:I've seen a lot of people bitching about how "the game plays itself for you" in regards to the holding shift to have Roach follow roads thing, but I know if that weren't a feature I'd just be fast traveling everywhere anyway and I'm sure that's the case for others. I love being able to let Roach take control so I can enjoy the atmosphere of the game between destinations when I just want to get from point A to point B. this is one of the best goddamn features in the game, whoever complains about a thing that makes navigation less a stress on your thumbstick and lets you take in the sights more on your journey is a shitfuck
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May 22, 2015 16:58
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Verranicus posted:I've seen a lot of people bitching about how "the game plays itself for you" in regards to the holding shift to have Roach follow roads thing, but I know if that weren't a feature I'd just be fast traveling everywhere anyway and I'm sure that's the case for others. I love being able to let Roach take control so I can enjoy the atmosphere of the game between destinations when I just want to get from point A to point B. I feel like this feature was made for me because I get super annoyed how I have to drive everywhere in GTA games. I mean I could always get a taxi but that feels a bit more out of my way than whistling for my horse.
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May 22, 2015 17:00
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Seriously the auto pilot is great. I still use fast travel a lot because I don't need the game to become a thousand hours long but for exploring or traveling short distances the auto pilot is invaluable. Your horse doesn't even lose stamina when you're sprinting when you do it.
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May 22, 2015 17:00
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Who Dat posted:So what should I be doing / focusing on if I'm having a difficult time with enemy groups, specifically ghouls and nekkers on death march? I've learned that locking on can be a huge mistake. Are people finding beefing up fast attack is really important? Is Axii super effective like it is on backstabbing humans? Big groups of monsters are probably the most volatile encounter type in general, so don't feel too bad. I would say the best signs for that kind of thing are igni and aard, since they at least give you some crowd control potential. Much like witcher 2, geralt easily 1v1s most run of the mill things, he's really most in danger when outnumbered. One thing that helped me with nekkers was practicing dodging against a single nekker for a minute or two just to get a feel for what dodges work best on their attacks. They have a lunging counter-attack which often punishes a straight backwards dodge and it helps a lot to get out of the habit of doing that against them. No Mods No Masters fucked around with this message at 17:06 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 17:02
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HyperPuma posted:Anyone else playing this on pc with a ds4? I saw in another thread that someone had bound swipe up to open the map (m) and swipe down for inventory(i), but when I set that up in ds4windows and tried it in the game it doesn't do anything. I also tried to bind it to clicking in the touchpad but that also didn't work. I did this with macros using InputMapper. However I found swiping to still be a bit too touchy (it would back in-and-out of the menu several times in the course of one swipe) so I settled on mapping inventory/map to touchpad click/PS button respectively. You need to uncheck "trackpad as mouse" and be sure to check the "use scancode" box when assigning the hotkey. also, assign the "wait for release" function to the macro. FuriousGeorge fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 17:03
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Who Dat posted:So what should I be doing / focusing on if I'm having a difficult time with enemy groups, specifically ghouls and nekkers on death march? I've learned that locking on can be a huge mistake. Are people finding beefing up fast attack is really important? Is Axii super effective like it is on backstabbing humans? I'm focusing on Signs so I basically hang back, dodge them whenever they charge at me and wait for my Igni to recharge.
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May 22, 2015 17:05
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Who Dat posted:So what should I be doing / focusing on if I'm having a difficult time with enemy groups, specifically ghouls and nekkers on death march? I've learned that locking on can be a huge mistake. Are people finding beefing up fast attack is really important? Is Axii super effective like it is on backstabbing humans? Craft some bombs. They refill automatically without any resource cost on meditation so there's no reason to hoard the things.
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May 22, 2015 17:07
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Who Dat posted:So what should I be doing / focusing on if I'm having a difficult time with enemy groups, specifically ghouls and nekkers on death march? I've learned that locking on can be a huge mistake. Are people finding beefing up fast attack is really important? Is Axii super effective like it is on backstabbing humans? Yrden is a huge help against any kind of swarm, especially nekkers. It slows down their jump attacks just enough that you can easily get out of the way, or even interrupt them by doing damage before they hit you. It lasts quite a long time with both of the initial points invested (20 seconds?), so for very little investment, you can strike a solid balance between it and any other signs you want to use. Just keep the circle's location in mind when you're dodging attacks, and try to keep it between you and the bulk of the enemies- they won't usually stay in the circle itself for very long, but that doesn't matter nearly as much as the fact that they have to pass through it.
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May 22, 2015 17:23
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I've been finding upgraded bomb schematics but I can't use any of them because I never have the base bomb. The only ones I can make are the default two and an ice bomb I bought from Keira. Where the hell are these things?
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May 22, 2015 17:35
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Dr. Abysmal posted:I've been finding upgraded bomb schematics but I can't use any of them because I never have the base bomb. The only ones I can make are the default two and an ice bomb I bought from Keira. Where the hell are these things? Check every alchemy and herbalist vendor you meet for schematics. I think I bought all of my missing schematics from Keira Metz.
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May 22, 2015 17:37
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Anyone know where I can find the map that starts the quest for the "Enhanced" version of the Feline set? I have the quest for the base set and the supreme one, but this one eludes me.
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May 22, 2015 17:40
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So how did you guys handle Keira? I sent her to Kaer Morhen and took the notes.
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May 22, 2015 17:42
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Apparition posted:So what are the best ways to make money? I feel like I'm always strapped for cash. Apparently killing the unending stream of respawning cows in the first village (right across from the bowlcut vendor you saved in your first griffin encounter) is a reliable source for infinite wealth, unless that was removed in 1.03. Literal cash cows.
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May 22, 2015 17:43
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Ice Fist posted:Check every alchemy and herbalist vendor you meet for schematics. I think I bought all of my missing schematics from Keira Metz. I killed her so.. help what do I do now
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May 22, 2015 17:44
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Verranicus posted:I've seen a lot of people bitching about how "the game plays itself for you" in regards to the holding shift to have Roach follow roads thing, but I know if that weren't a feature I'd just be fast traveling everywhere anyway and I'm sure that's the case for others. I love being able to let Roach take control so I can enjoy the atmosphere of the game between destinations when I just want to get from point A to point B. I don't understand how any human being can even say that. Auto-Roach is amazing. Riding the horse is a lot of fun and never feels like a burden until he gets stuck on a bucket in some poo poo hauling peasant village (that I inevitably refuse to charge for killing the local monster because I'm the worst witcher. Not that it matters, I'm loaded just from exploring everything.) I just found the ruins of some elven temple and the map indicates a couple of points of interest, including a place of power, but they seem to be underground. I notice some black rocks covering what seems to be the entrance to a cave or tunnel. Will I find a way to get in there later?
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May 22, 2015 17:44
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Heithinn Grasida posted:I don't understand how any human being can even say that. Auto-Roach is amazing. Riding the horse is a lot of fun and never feels like a burden until he gets stuck on a bucket in some poo poo hauling peasant village (that I inevitably refuse to charge for killing the local monster because I'm the worst witcher. Not that it matters, I'm loaded just from exploring everything.) You go in there for the main quest, don't sweat it.
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May 22, 2015 17:46
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Verranicus posted:So how did you guys handle Keira? I sent her to Kaer Morhen and took the notes. I did the same - I wanna get the band all together in one place to sweep the nation with groovy synth-tunes. What did you do with the ghost in the tower? I brought her bones out, does that have negative consequences on the area? Am I going to kill the ghost later?
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May 22, 2015 17:46
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Pigbottom posted:Seriously, I can´t understand how anyone would ever think its ok to make the player re-watch all the cut-scenes everytime you die on a mission and have to reload. They seemed to care so much about the players time with the potion refill and making npcs run with you on follow missions, but then they go and drop the ball so bad with this kind of bullshit. /ragefit It only shows the cutscenes if I manually load a save (which is still a bit annoying). If I "Load most recent save" after dying I don't get the little narration. Lord Lambeth posted:also I noticed that installing that beard dlc disables the ~dynamic beard growth~ feature. Which is dumb, I wanted the most ridiculous mutton chops ever. What? Do you mean if you choose one of the DLC beards? Because my default beard definitely still grows. HyperPuma posted:So I got this to work by forcing map and inventory to be bound to left and right click. For some reason the game allows the ds4 touchpad to be used for mouse clicks but not keys. I also set the touchpad click to cycle through my signs You are a saint. I was hoping to get this to work. I am looking at the input.settings file and right/left click are bound to a lot of different things. What exactly did you change? Just add a line for Inventory and Map?
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May 22, 2015 17:48
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lonter posted:I killed her so.. help what do I do now My friend ended up doing that as well, and I don't understand why. How did you end up killing her? Everything was resolved calmly and civil when I did that quest. Broken Cog fucked around with this message at 17:54 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 17:50
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I played the baron. And the innkeeper the baron mentioned. I'm beginning to think that goons just suck at card games in general, nevermind Gwent. Ok, the baron beat me the first time, but I won the second game. And the innkeeper and I drew 3 times before I took the fourth. Neither of them were totally OP. Sure, they had some impressive hero cards, but you can outplay them.
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May 22, 2015 17:52
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I know these have been found elsewhere, but if anyone needed +70 weight saddlebags, one of the weaponsmiths in Novigrad sells them. They're maybe halfway from the city walls to the main square.Mr E posted:I also enjoyed the non-pistol combat that wasn't SMGs I highly recommend Shotguns+Unarmed to anyone who hasn't played Alpha Protocol. And to everyone who has.
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May 22, 2015 17:53
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Broken Cog posted:My friend ended up doing that as well, and I don't understand why. How did you end up killing her? Everything was resolved calmly and civil wen I did that quest. I told her to give up the notes or I wasn't leaving and then it triggered a fight with her.
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May 22, 2015 17:53
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Solartide posted:I played the baron. And the innkeeper the baron mentioned. Give me the baron's deck against your starting deck and I'll win every time - it shits all over it. That took me a ton of tries. Somehow I beat the nilfgaard guy with multiple heroes in 2 tries though, so I dunno, I think the Baron's gameplan is more solid/consistent.
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May 22, 2015 17:55
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Solartide posted:I played the baron. And the innkeeper the baron mentioned. Later on you'll run into NPCs with decks that are basically straight hero cards. By then you'll have a similar deck but it's really god drat boring. You can't interact with them in any way so it's barely even a game.
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May 22, 2015 17:56
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Dr. Abysmal posted:I've been finding upgraded bomb schematics but I can't use any of them because I never have the base bomb. The only ones I can make are the default two and an ice bomb I bought from Keira. Where the hell are these things? Found all the missing basic bomb/potion schematics that I needed here, which is in the far eastern part of the Velen/Novigrad map.
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May 22, 2015 17:59
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Broken Cog posted:Anyone know where I can find the map that starts the quest for the "Enhanced" version of the Feline set? I have the quest for the base set and the supreme one, but this one eludes me. I found a book which starts a quest for a feline set in a shipwreck right on the western edge of the map, south of Novigrad.. Can't say now which one it was though , I didn't even realise there was more than one tbh. I doubt it's base though, given the recommended level, so where do you start the base one?
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May 22, 2015 17:59
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Junkenstein posted:I found a book which starts a quest for a feline set in a shipwreck right on the western edge of the map, south of Novigrad.. Can't say now which one it was though , I didn't even realise there was more than one tbh. I doubt it's base though, given the recommended level, so where do you start the base one? There are three quests per set. Part 1 for the base, part 2 for the enhanced version, and part 3 for the supreme version. I'm not entirely sure what triggers them, but I think it might be books that you can find in chests or from random merchants. The diagram locations seem static though, so if anyone has the quest, they can share the locations. I've had a friend of mine help me find some pieces I've been looking for. You can find these quests under "Treasure hunts" in the journal.
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May 22, 2015 18:03
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I let her keep the notes in the Witcher stronghold because I didn't see any reason to fight her on it. Also when it came to the bones, I picked bringing the guy to the tower because don't trust ghosts. I wanted to see what happened if I took the bones out though, and when you read the character journal it's pretty loving bad. You are directly responsible for releasing a plague that wipes out a city.
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May 22, 2015 18:07
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What are the best skills, anything I should focus on learning?
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May 22, 2015 18:08
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Spikeguy posted:I let her keep the notes in the Witcher stronghold because I didn't see any reason to fight her on it. Also when it came to the bones, I picked bringing the guy to the tower because don't trust ghosts. I wanted to see what happened if I took the bones out though, and when you read the character journal it's pretty loving bad. You are directly responsible for releasing a plague that wipes out a city. I think it's pretty funny that the game even lets you pick that option, it's such a ludicrously bad idea. Even witchers have off days I guess 
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May 22, 2015 18:09
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Spikeguy posted:I let her keep the notes in the Witcher stronghold because I didn't see any reason to fight her on it. Also when it came to the bones, I picked bringing the guy to the tower because don't trust ghosts. I wanted to see what happened if I took the bones out though, and when you read the character journal it's pretty loving bad. You are directly responsible for releasing a plague that wipes out a city. Yeah, I didn't trust the ghost either, and as the situation stood the plague was at the very least contained to the island. Bringing a plague wraith to the mainland sounded like a really, REALLY bad idea.
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May 22, 2015 18:09
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I got into an argument with a bunch of Nietszchean students who were vandalizing shrines and told them to stop. They picked a fight and apparently Geralt beat them all to death with his bare hands. I'm somewhat surprised unarmed combat tends to end up with the other people dieing if it's not a scripted deal.
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May 22, 2015 18:15
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Broken Cog posted:Yeah, I didn't trust the ghost either, and as the situation stood the plague was at the very least contained to the island. Bringing a plague wraith to the mainland sounded like a really, REALLY bad idea. I didn't know it was a plague wraith, though I guess I could have figured it out based on the wizard working on disease stuff. I had explored the tower already so I think I missed a bunch of exposition with Keira on that. Hopefully plaguing the city doesn't happen in-game, I feel guilty.
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May 22, 2015 18:15
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Archimago posted:It only shows the cutscenes if I manually load a save (which is still a bit annoying). If I "Load most recent save" after dying I don't get the little narration. my save must be bugged then. My most recent save just puts me back right before the cutscenes where they meet the bochling , so every time I die I have to punch space a dozen times and also make the choice again, than I have to follow him all over again depending on my choice.
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May 22, 2015 18:16
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Phoix posted:I told her to give up the notes or I wasn't leaving and then it triggered a fight with her. Haven't seen how it plays out yet, but yeah, same. I wasn't about to let Radovid get his hands on that plague research, even if he wasn't backed into a corner and already provably willing to do some pretty intense poo poo. I also wasn't willing to point the most self-centered and amoral sorceress I've met (and that's saying a lot) in the direction of home. I didn't even feel bad about killing her.
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May 22, 2015 18:17
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Cheston posted:I know these have been found elsewhere, but if anyone needed +70 weight saddlebags, one of the weaponsmiths in Novigrad sells them. They're maybe halfway from the city walls to the main square. The girl from skellige that works with the balcksmith at crows perch has them for sale.
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May 22, 2015 18:18
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I didn't know it was a plague wraith, though I guess I could have figured it out based on the wizard working on disease stuff. I had explored the tower already so I think I missed a bunch of exposition with Keira on that. Hopefully plaguing the city doesn't happen in-game, I feel guilty. Look at this monster. If you don't see it, I guess it's ok in your book. I bet you didn't even help that troll with his painting!
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May 22, 2015 18:19
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