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Woozy posted:Do you mean something else? Because Tawny Owl should be the very first potion you start with. Nope! Don't have it. I buy up all the recipes I see when I get to merchants, too. 
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I was battling that dude in Visima after talking to the emperor. OH well I'm almost positive you're expected to run away from that guy and come back later. Once I saw what he was pulling I bolted and came back shortly after beating the Velen gwent quest (baron et al) and he still wasn't any pushover. Beating him straight out of white orchard is technically possible if you hate yourself enough.
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:Nope! Don't have it. I buy up all the recipes I see when I get to merchants, too. Have you looked in the potion section?
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May 26, 2015 02:45
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Jack2142 posted:Guys run a Nilfgard deck it is way better than them lovely Northern Realms decks scrubs use... Ehhh, Nilfgaard/North is pretty even. The other two are fun but kind of trash because you don't have a ton of dope spies.
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May 26, 2015 02:46
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I like Northern realms, because with spies and the faction ability you can quickly find yourself with a massive card advantage. Also one of the leader cards has an ability that functions as a free warhorn for your siege engines. Nilfgaard and the North pulls away from the other sets something fierce later on when you fill your deck up with heroes, simply because they can draw literally all the cards.
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May 26, 2015 02:49
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Ehhh, Nilfgaard/North is pretty even. The other two are fun but kind of trash because you don't have a ton of dope spies. Monsters seem pretty powerful, the muster ability and is OP and their racial is solid.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Ehhh, Nilfgaard/North is pretty even. The other two are fun but kind of trash because you don't have a ton of dope spies. I like Nilfgard more because it has more healer units allowing to keep bringing back cards from previous rounds. In my deck I have 6x healer cards on top of 3x spies so its great. I just want the hero elf spy guy I NEED HIM.
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So,judging from the thread's opinions,Gwent is the new Triple Triad?
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Is Gwent in any way important to the story/side quests? Because card games is really not my thing. 
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gasman posted:Is Gwent in any way important to the story/side quests? Because card games is really not my thing. Nah, you'll run into it a couple of times, but winning is never necessary, and usually you can just skip playing it entirely with a dialogue option.
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VolticSurge posted:So,judging from the thread's opinions,Gwent is the new Triple Triad? Honestly from what I have seen it is less annoying and realistically you can build a solid deck from winning the quests which are not terribly difficult and buying cards from innkeepers etc. Also it has absolutely nothing to do with the main story, its just a side game.
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May 26, 2015 02:51
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Gwent sucks. there's literally no reason to play the game out. The computer should just say "THIS DECK IS BETTER YOU WIN/LOSE" .no point in playing each game out I agree that too many RPGs toss in these zany new card game mini games and they all blow edit: as a CCG game, literally whoever has better cards wins. You can encounter people with decks that are just unbeatable until you start to buy cards. That's not really a game. Every peasant in the Witcher Universe must be retarded to play this game. And everyone plays.
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gasman posted:Is Gwent in any way important to the story/side quests? Because card games is really not my thing. The ending is determined via a Gwent tourney where you have to beat the top players of the Wild Hunt.
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May 26, 2015 02:52
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Gwent, the true pan-dimensional scourge of man and elf.
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Broken Cog posted:Have you looked in the potion section? Woops, guess I really was thinking of something else
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FallenGod posted:The ending is determined via a Gwent tourney where you have to beat the top players of the Wild Hunt. That would be loving amazing, just as a dialogue option hidden before the very last fight where you could challenge the dude to one final game of Gwent during the middle of the entire scenario going on around you.
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This is the first weird RPG in world game thing I've ever enjoyed. Mostly because you can actually beat people with better decks if you use some solid tactics. I mean you're not going to beat the best people or even great ones with the starter deck but you can beat a surprisingly large number of the quest guys and merchants with only a few additions.Solartide posted:Monsters seem pretty powerful, the muster ability and is OP and their racial is solid. Problem is monsters get wrecked by weather cards and over emphasize melee. I mean I like the way it plays but Niflgaard/North seems much better balanced. Jack2142 posted:I like Nilfgard more because it has more healer units allowing to keep bringing back cards from previous rounds. In my deck I have 6x healer cards on top of 3x spies so its great. I just want the hero elf spy guy I NEED HIM. That makes sense. Healer cards are amazing. Hahah, every time someone plays that spy on me I get pissed I can't win him.
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May 26, 2015 02:59
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Northern realms has a non-heroic 1 strength siege spy card.
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Broken Cog posted:Northern realms has a non-heroic 1 strength siege spy card. Where do I get that?
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May 26, 2015 03:01
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Welp, I've just spent the last two hours walking around Novigrad, just taking in the sights and sounds. The devs have set the bar really high for any of their competition. Extremely well made game, you can just feel the makers poured their heart and soul into the making of it. I hope they enjoy all the plaudits and awards, as much as I'm enjoying their game.
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Relentlessboredomm posted:This is the first weird RPG in world game thing I've ever enjoyed. Mostly because you can actually beat people with better decks if you use some solid tactics. I mean you're not going to beat the best people or even great ones with the starter deck but you can beat a surprisingly large number of the quest guys and merchants with only a few additions. the problem is that you have no clue what kind of deck someone has until after the game has begun. It's like agreeing to a 10 mile race and then lining up at the starting line with your foot on the line and your opponent lines up in their car. That's not a fun mechanic. You start to get that peasants and inn folk have lovely decks and nobility have good decks. So you basically just steam roll the lovely people until you amass a deck for hte good people. Not really a lot of strategy to that
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Where do I get that? From the Innkeeper at Arinbjorn in Skellige
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Relentlessboredomm posted:Where do I get that? I don't remember exactly, but the card is Thaler. I find it funny that all the undercover members of the various spy organisations are cards in a popular card game. Real good job staying undercover there guys.
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I was reading that people said you should never drop Witcher gear because of upgrades. Is there any reason to be dragging around my starting swords at level 10? Anything I need to keep?
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When do the choices you made in Witcher 2 start to affect how 3 plays out? Just gotten to Novingrad after finishing up the first main part of Velen and haven't really seen any reflection in those choices yet. Just wondering since I imported a save and wanted to make sure it worked ok.
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Harlock posted:I was reading that people said you should never drop Witcher gear because of upgrades. Is there any reason to be dragging around my starting swords at level 10? Anything I need to keep? Your starter gear won't matter but the Griffon/Cat/Bear gear you get from later treasure hunts you'll want to hold onto in the long run.
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theblackw0lf posted:When do the choices you made in Witcher 2 start to affect how 3 plays out? Just gotten to Novingrad after finishing up the first main part of Velen and haven't really seen any reflection in those choices yet. They don't, mostly. A couple of the choices impact the end game of 3, in who you can call to assist you with the final battle stuff. Othewise they're just side quest material. Quoting myself because I'm right. Orv posted:Nothing you did (or chose, more specifically) has any overall impact on the narrative of Wild Hunt. Loc Muinne is a disaster even if you prevent the massacres, Radovid slips further into madness because, well, he doesn't really have a choice in the matter, and the Emhyr's plot to drive the North to the brink of civil war and ruin either goes off scott free and Temeria is defenseless, or goes off with a few hitches and Temeria is intact but still massively weakened. Aedern is almost a non-factor by W2 anyway, and Kaedwen has no army to speak of by the end of W2 regardless of your choices. Orv fucked around with this message at 03:13 on May 26, 2015 |
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theblackw0lf posted:When do the choices you made in Witcher 2 start to affect how 3 plays out? Just gotten to Novingrad after finishing up the first main part of Velen and haven't really seen any reflection in those choices yet. All over the place already have you been doing sidequests lots of W2 people show up there unexpectedly. Most major choices don't matter too much as time has passed and one man can only influence the world so much.
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Orv posted:They don't, mostly. A couple of the choices impact the end game of 3, in who you can call to assist you with the final battle stuff. Othewise they're just side quest material. Would any of those side quests be showing up yet? Also would it affect how dialog plays out between characters met so far?
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theblackw0lf posted:Would any of those side quests be showing up yet? Also would it affect how dialog plays out between characters met so far? You can hit at least one of them before reaching Novigrad in Lindenvale (where apparently literally everything happens). Most of the others branch off Novigrad quests. Dialogue on characters that more or less didn't exist in W2 or didn't count as a major choice is relatively unchanged.
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Madcosby posted:the problem is that you have no clue what kind of deck someone has until after the game has begun. It's like agreeing to a 10 mile race and then lining up at the starting line with your foot on the line and your opponent lines up in their car. I mean, its never that hard to just forfeit the match if you're wildly outclassed. I get that people don't enjoy it and that's cool but I find myself spending more time with it than anticipated. The Crooked Warden posted:From the Innkeeper at Arinbjorn in Skellige Thanks
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Madcosby posted:Gwent sucks. there's literally no reason to play the game out. The computer should just say "THIS DECK IS BETTER YOU WIN/LOSE" .no point in playing each game out It's a money/time sink.  Harlock posted:I was reading that people said you should never drop Witcher gear because of upgrades. Is there any reason to be dragging around my starting swords at level 10? Anything I need to keep? You can always just reforge the original. I don't understand how people are bumping up against the 130 lb carry weight. I'm carrying a library and a fully stocked workshop and an alchemy lab and I'm at 36 pounds. Deconstruct your junk, junk is really heavy and the crafting materials you deconstruct from it are really light.
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Madcosby posted:Gwent sucks. there's literally no reason to play the game out. The computer should just say "THIS DECK IS BETTER YOU WIN/LOSE" .no point in playing each game out I dunno, I just played against a guy and it took me three tries to beat him even though he had a much better deck than me
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Whistling Wendy noooo, why you gotta play me like that.  I loving love how there are mini-scenes for talking to quest-involved NPCs though, instead of them turning into lumps of coal the second their spelled-out target in your quest log is addressed. The world feels so loving alive I can't stand it. Psiharis fucked around with this message at 03:31 on May 26, 2015 |
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I have a crash issue where my display driver keeps crapping out when I go talk to the witch that was supposidly fighting with Ciri
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I'm about 25 hours in and just got to Novigrad. Enjoying the pens and vagina graffiti on the wall next to Triss's house.
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Gwent is stupid. So was Blitzball. All little minigames within games are stupid. I mean, just look what this crossdressing elf-dandy has to say and tell me you care more about your dumb not-Magic The Gathering game. 
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Arglebargle III posted:I don't understand how people are bumping up against the 130 lb carry weight. I'm carrying a library and a fully stocked workshop and an alchemy lab and I'm at 36 pounds. Deconstruct your junk, junk is really heavy and the crafting materials you deconstruct from it are really light. Better yet, just sell junk to the nearest inn. Especially pelts. Novigrad will give you the most coin for stuff, but it also the most expensive. Buy stuff out in the boondocks if you must. Also if you are even just a mild kelpto, where you just loot points of interest and hidden chests in places like crows perch you'll have more than enough crafting components for anything you want. Junk is rarely ever worth the effort to dismantle. Maybe stuff like rings with jewels and silver stuff.
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Since we were just talking about his card Thaler's little mission is loving great. Cursing trolls are a god drat delight
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Arglebargle III posted:It's a money/time sink. Also, the weight counter on the dismantle screen doesn't update. So even though you're dismantling your junk and it looks like nothing's happening, wait until you go back to the inventory screen and suddenly are on 25/90 instead of 90/90.
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