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Why is there apparently a "combat mode" that Gerald engages/disengages according to completely opaque rules? Why can I not parry as soon as I take my sword out? Why do I first need to get up into people's faces before I actually start parrying and not using witcher sense? Hey Gerald, I want to deflect those arrow, you fucker. Gerald, why do you keep putting your sword away? gently caress.
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Got almost 30 hours into this game and I haven't even been to Novigrad yet, there's just so much to do and it's all just so detailed. GOTY all years. Few things though that some people may or may not have mentioned already: -would love to see a storage to hold extra items -is there any point to hold onto the million notes and journals in the usable items tab, or can I just toss them out with impunity? Kinda wish they went into a notes tab in your glossary instead of clogging the inventory -game has frozen in the middle of cutscenes about 3 times since I started playing, end up having to restart my computer. Hasn't happened often but still kinda annoying. Anyone else have a similar problem and did 1.04 fix it? -wish there was a separate option for aiming x and y axis controls. I play with the camera x axis inverted and that's fine normally but it just feels slow and awkward to aim the crossbow manually with inverted x Edit: also is there a point to Gwent or is it just a fun diversion with no real rewards (read: sweet rear end gear) that is separate from the rest of the game? Haven't played it since the tutorial of it in White Orchard. Mr. Funktastic fucked around with this message at 18:12 on May 25, 2015 |
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There's an easter egg in the graveyard where you get a monster contract for a grave hag and witcher impersonator forgot the towns name, its more northern and the site has a singular crypt with a chest at it's back inside. Angel statues appear, change orientation to face you whenever your camera goes off them. I chortled a bit.
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Manatee Cannon posted:You misunderstand my meaning. You can't fast travel from anywhere, as in you have to find the fast travel markers. If you have a lot of stuff but are out in the middle of nowhere, you just have to suck it up and head back to town or the nearest marker. This can suck a lot when you're exploring the islands in Skellige by boat. You can fast travel in the boat to ports. Badly Jester posted:loving hell, Whoreson. Did anyone not kill him? It felt wrong killing him in cold blood, but he was such a degenerate piece of poo poo, he simply had to go. After seeing him, how could you have no reason? That's not cold blood.
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That first level alchemy skill that increases max toxicity based on how many formulas you know is great. It gave me like +76 max toxicity with one point invested and now I can use decoctions without any downside.
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May 25, 2015 18:16
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 Pole-ish fantasy. Now to go back to not reading the thread 'til I finish.
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Magical Zero posted:Is anyone else really struggling with the soft target lock with mouse/keyboard? It seems like the smallest of camera movements will change the target you're attacking, even if the new target is outside your POV. And since every attack has these massively long animations I often find myself jumping in the wrong direction during combat with groups of enemies. It's ridiculously annoying. The hard target lock limits camera movement and visibility too much so I can't get comfortable with it either. Yeah, I was complaining about that earlier in the thread.
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Went looking for sidequests this morning, ended up wandering down the coast in a beautiful sunset light while it rained and soothing music played, killing "bandits" (wink) from horseback and looting the shipwrecks they had claimed, and watching drowners swim gracefully through calm seas.
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Riso posted:You can fast travel in the boat to ports. I never knew that, thanks for the heads up
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Magical Zero posted:Is anyone else really struggling with the soft target lock with mouse/keyboard? It seems like the smallest of camera movements will change the target you're attacking, even if the new target is outside your POV. And since every attack has these massively long animations I often find myself jumping in the wrong direction during combat with groups of enemies. It's ridiculously annoying. The hard target lock limits camera movement and visibility too much so I can't get comfortable with it either. It looks like it's the softest of soft locks. Like, you have to aim into the direction of the enemy with WASD on top of being locked on to it. I've thrown many a igni into the opposite direction from the enemy because I was running that way.
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I sell just about everything and it works well. I keep at least five of every crafting mat and sell the excess and all junk every chance I get. Shopkeeper has gold? Better sell stuff.
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This game is utterly amazing how it all connects together sometimes. I discovered and killed a monster on an Island/peninsula thing on Skellige without looking at any notice boards, got the mission to go turn it in to a town I haven't been to before, so I head over. I walk into the tavern and get accosted by some xenophobes, manage to turn in the contract, then all of a sudden (side quest spoilers)the xenophobes attack me, I kill them in self defense. Because of this I'm then sent to ANOTHER place I haven't been to before and put in jail, manage to speak to the Jarl who says he'll give me my freedom if I go help his son out on some sort of quest. One thing leads to another and I'm in a cave taking a shitload of hallucinogens and facing Geralt's greatest fear.
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May 25, 2015 18:49
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Yeah maybe Geralt should look into finally canceling his David Hayter's Metal Gear Solid School of Voice Acting membership.
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I really wish Geralt didn't have such weird collision detection, especially around his feet/legs. It's always really annoying when you bust down a door but get stuck because there's like, a wooden plank on the floor.
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Baron Bifford posted:I have found out how to do this. Go to C:\User\You\Documents\The Witcher 3\ and edit the input.settings file. Find IK_Space=(Action=CbtRoll) and change it to IK_Space=(Action=Dodge), then find IK_Alt=(Action=Dodge) and change that to IK_Alt=(Action=CbtRoll). A couple of warnings: 1) Make a backup of the original file before you start messing with it in case things go wrong. 2) Make a different backup of your changed file...supposedly the new patch can screw things up? (I haven't verified this personally.) 3) If you don't use find/replace while messing with input.settings, you may not get everything; keys can be bound in multiple places.
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Broose posted:There's an easter egg in the graveyard where you get a monster contract for a grave hag and witcher impersonator forgot the towns name, its more northern and the site has a singular crypt with a chest at it's back inside. Angel statues appear, change orientation to face you whenever your camera goes off them. I chortled a bit. Which town is this? I did the first quest you mentioned, but haven't seen the second one at all.
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May 25, 2015 18:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT3BbmGf9Ag Guess what weapon I just got.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:
Skellige gambeson bro-five.  Just crafted that thing in bloody baron's place.
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Turned the difficulty down to medium. I don't mind a hard game, but repeated dying + 60 second load times is getting reeeaally tiresome.
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May 25, 2015 19:00
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I'm starting to believe this game is never going to end, I'm still getting new quests after doing those two missions that felt like an ending, so much content
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So, I've been playing the hell out of this game so far and loving it -- especially the Baron quest-line. Then I got to Novigrad and started doing the main quests there. Now I'm bored as hell. It's just a long series of "go here" quests followed by long scenes of dialogue. And compared to the Baron quests, it's all just really boring, monotonous stuff. It's just "Get quest, go to marker, hit 'next' to plough through bad dialogue, get quest' over and over. It's kind of picked up a bit with some big fights (which, to be honest, I think I get myself into because I'm not bothering to try to work out the less brutish way to solve problems), but there's no exploring, no monsters, no adventure. I was really excited to play last night, and I spent the whole evening just trying to get past this part. I'm getting kind of worried that I've just burnt myself out on the game. I've done so many of the quests outside the main story line that I'm way over-levelled for the main quest-line. Do I get to get back to adventuring soon? Because I don't know if I can deal with another evening of Novigrad politics....
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May 25, 2015 19:10
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So that's where Vivaldi's bank was. I'd never looked very hard for it but it'd be nice to trade these useless coins in for real money.
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Really bummed (save import)Letho didn't show up during that one side quest. I chose the save just before the final confrontation with him in Witcher 2 since after that the game just ends. Oh well, I'll figure out something on my second playthrough.
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This game just drains hours away. It's a little frightening. I don't think there's too much in Novigrad that gets failed if you bumrush a few main plot quests. You can go right to Skellige if Novigrad/Velen are starting to feel stale. After a little change of scenery I was ready to go back and mop up some of the overwhelming mass of city quests.
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Bort Bortles posted:I have been trying to do it before I move on to Novigrad now that I finished the Bloody Baron/Crones storyline. The thing is, I usually get my rear end kicked or barely win a game and earn a lovely card. I have no heroes, a catapult worth 8 points, two other siege engines worth six, one Dun Banner Medic, two Crinfried(spelling?) Reavers, two Blue Stripes Commandos, a bunch of 5 power Ranged types, two decoys, a Dethmold, and a bunch of poo poo. If you have two commander's horns and a clear weather (that's probably default) in the deck you should be pretty powerful. Spies are some of the best cards too since you can use them on the round you're planning to flop and load your deck with cards. If the enemy plays a spy on you remember to decoy it or take it with Dun Banner and use it on them. Gwent is mostly about never missing a strategic advantage because if you do something pointless even once it could cost you.
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So how do you know what act your in? Does something pop up telling you?
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JasonV posted:So, I've been playing the hell out of this game so far and loving it -- especially the Baron quest-line. Then I got to Novigrad and started doing the main quests there. I do think that Novigrad was kind of a change of pace - the story revolves more around intrigue and "human monsters" once you're there. I still found it enjoyable (I like the "heist" storyline, for example) but appreciation for the writing is entirely a taste thing. I would say that if you haven't, break up some of that part by doing a few of the contracts that you pick up in the area, head back out into Velen and do POI's, and do some of the treasure hunts for witcher gear. There really is a variety of types of content you can take on, and I think that the experience is enriched by moving between activities instead of grinding through one type at a time. For example, I decided to take a break from the city today to go on a treasure hunt for the upgraded Griffin School patterns and had a blast - took me all over the Velen map. On top of that, know that the game switches back to a more Velen/White Orchard-like vibe once you head over to Skellige. Well, that vibe mashed with Skyrim's aesthetic and a shitload of Irish/Scottish accents.
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JasonV posted:So, I've been playing the hell out of this game so far and loving it -- especially the Baron quest-line. Then I got to Novigrad and started doing the main quests there. You can always head to Skellige, nothing but adventure there.
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GhostDog posted:Why is there apparently a "combat mode" that Gerald engages/disengages according to completely opaque rules? Why can I not parry as soon as I take my sword out? Why do I first need to get up into people's faces before I actually start parrying and not using witcher sense? Hey Gerald, I want to deflect those arrow, you fucker. Gerald, why do you keep putting your sword away? gently caress. Spiky Ooze posted:If you have two commander's horns and a clear weather (that's probably default) in the deck you should be pretty powerful. Spies are some of the best cards too since you can use them on the round you're planning to flop and load your deck with cards. If the enemy plays a spy on you remember to decoy it or take it with Dun Banner and use it on them. Gwent is mostly about never missing a strategic advantage because if you do something pointless even once it could cost you. edit2: I swear I've spent more time in this game looking at a loading screen than I have playing simply because fighting drowners and rotfiends is such a loving pain and because any fight where the enemies have archers I have to reload a dozen times because I lose half my health before the fight starts. AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 19:33 on May 25, 2015 |
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Baron Bifford posted:I have found out how to do this. Go to C:\User\You\Documents\The Witcher 3\ and edit the input.settings file. Find IK_Space=(Action=CbtRoll) and change it to IK_Space=(Action=Dodge), then find IK_Alt=(Action=Dodge) and change that to IK_Alt=(Action=CbtRoll). 
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VanillaGorilla posted:On top of that, know that the game switches back to a more Velen/White Orchard-like vibe once you head over to Skellige. Well, that vibe mashed with Skyrim's aesthetic and a shitload of Irish/Scottish accents. I like that the devs decided to use the Norse-Gaelic backdrop which I didn't even know was a thing until I played Crusader Kings 2. Many of the locations are named after British Isles islands, like Skellig itself. E: oops Faroe is scandinavian theDOWmustflow fucked around with this message at 19:51 on May 25, 2015 |
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Failing the Baron's objective in Gwent is not a problem. Sooner or later the quest updates and tells you where to get his card and a note telling you where the next opponents are. Play some lovely no-name merchants in west bumblefuck parts of Velen and get slightly better cards, play rural innkeeps, skip oxenfurt until you've at least finished the Velen gwent quest which gives you a useful hero among other things. It goes from hopeless to easy very fast.
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theDOWmustflow posted:I like that the devs decided to use the Norse-Gaelic backdrop which I didn't even know was a thing until I played Crusader Kings 2. Many of the locations are named after British Isles islands, like Faroe and Skellig itself. It's Norse names, there's a few locations that are directly named after Norwegian places, like Larvik, Fyresdal and Lofoten.
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So griffin gear quest, how am I supposed to get it with the wyvern breathing down my neck
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By killing the wyvern? I mean you can try cheesing the hell out of his aggro range or movement pattern I guess, but 'how do I get past this monster in my way?' seems like a bizarre question to ask.
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JasonV posted:So, I've been playing the hell out of this game so far and loving it -- especially the Baron quest-line. Then I got to Novigrad and started doing the main quests there. Things get extremely and immediately awesome the second you wrap up the main quest in Novigrad.
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