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cram me sideways posted:I suppose it's the same mechanic in spirit, but Arkham's is more player friendly than what Witcher 3 does. Video -> HUD Options has a setting to put clues on the minimap if you want to get through those parts faster.
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Woozy posted:Video -> HUD Options has a setting to put clues on the minimap if you want to get through those parts faster. !? thankyouthankyouthankyou edit: Oh man, you just saved this game for me. I was really going to move on to something else. Thank you so much for telling me this. cram me sideways fucked around with this message at 15:01 on May 27, 2015 |
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May 27, 2015 14:57
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Sekenr posted:Well I done hosed up now. Shaved my face and now the beard isn't growing. Help? Didn't change and hair or beard styles. I also thought this but it turned out it just took 3-4 days to grow back to a trim beard. Few more days and it turned into a shaggy beard again. Just give it time.
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cram me sideways posted:or just put it on the minimap. There is an option to turn on witcher sense on the mini map, but I couldn't tell you how far it takes things. Edit: Beaten.
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May 27, 2015 14:57
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Sekenr posted:When you uncurse soldier figurine, the soldier at some point says scheiss which was subtitled as poo poo, so we can just settle on Nilfgaard = sort of Germany. I'll take this compromise. Dutch and German are somewhat connected languages. They both sound like a death rattle to the untrained ear. Some last names are definitely Dutch. haris pilton fucked around with this message at 15:51 on May 27, 2015 |
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May 27, 2015 15:04
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Well, the Skelligers seem to mix a bunch of Scandinavian and Irish names at least. I even ran into some dude with my name there.
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May 27, 2015 15:06
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If you get the "loose and short" haircut and let his beard grow in fully, Geralt starts to look like a drug-addicted albino Kenny Rogers, and that's something I can get behind. As a bonus that hairstyle doesn't have a dumb ponytail and clips through a lot fewer armor sets.
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May 27, 2015 15:08
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Eagerly awaiting the enhanced edition that fixes magical disappearing formulae and stacking quest items and bugfuck circlewalking AI. It's only so irritating (the last one) because the best fights in the game feel like the tensest Dark Souls moments, and the worst fights in the game are demigods chasing their tails or humping stalagmites in the corner or just standing stupidly in place while I cook them from five feet away with igni. Unrelated: Late-game decoction synergy: Ekhidna (spending stamina restores vitality) and Archgriffin (strong attacks spend all available stamina and deal a flat 10% max health damage after normal damage to whatever you're hitting) are two great tastes that taste great together. I've got just barely enough tox to throw Griffin (getting hit increases defense for the rest of the fight) on the stack as well, which removes any possible potion utility but is sometimes worth it. Permits facetanking of skull-level baddies on Hard difficulty without Quen.
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May 27, 2015 15:16
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Badly Jester posted:Someone's already made gwent for Tabletop Simulator. Biggest issue, of course is deckbuilding. It's obviously lacking balance. I'm imagining a deck of: 10x Decoy 5x Healer 10x Spy 7x Anything else First game: 1. Play non-spy, non-healer. 2. Decoy it. 3. Play it again. 4. Decoy it Repeat until out of decoys. assuming I get a lucky draw of 5 decoys in opening hand, 10 turns in I have 4 cards left in my hand without playing any spies. If they don't have any stall/card draw, they'd be decked and I'd win with nilfgaard 2nd and 3rd games.
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May 27, 2015 15:22
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Fat Samurai posted:Got stuck inside an empty sunken ship while looking for treasure. Not happy about that. Haha, I know exactly what you're talking about. drat that beam across the stairs. Geralt, the Butcher of Blaviken, Master of evil staircases, slayer of monsters and renown all-nighter in Novigrads whorehouses - finds his cold and watery grave in a sunken ship, barely 30 yards from the shore. Glad I made it a habit to quicksand before each and every diving adventure. Diving controls are the worst. Although I found that using the camera to fine tune the direction helps immensely. Different topic: Anyone NOT running with the 10% chance of dismemberment trophy? 50 XP per level don't compare to flying heads and bisected torso.
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mcbexx posted:Haha, I know exactly what you're talking about. drat that beam across the stairs. Geralt, the Butcher of Blaviken, Master of evil staircases, slayer of monsters and renown all-nighter in Novigrads whorehouses - finds his cold and watery grave in a sunken ship, barely 30 yards from the shore. Holy poo poo, I thought I was the only one spending 10 minutes trying to jump out of there.
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mcbexx posted:Haha, I know exactly what you're talking about. drat that beam across the stairs. Geralt, the Butcher of Blaviken, Master of evil staircases, slayer of monsters and renown all-nighter in Novigrads whorehouses - finds his cold and watery grave in a sunken ship, barely 30 yards from the shore. I too know of this ship...
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I knew something was wrong when I dived in there looking for treasure and noclipped through the cages.
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I appear to have lost access to my horse in Act 3, can't whistle anymore 
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Murodese posted:I appear to have lost access to my horse in Act 3, can't whistle anymore Save and reload
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Broken Cog posted:Save and reload That worked, cheers.
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Every time I see someone complain about the combat difficulty I want to tell them not to be a dumb peasant. Witchers carry bombs, poisons, potions, and use magic for a reason. Like one of Geralt's favorite things to say is don't fight fair. Stop being a dumb peasant only swinging a sword around. [/rant]
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May 27, 2015 15:52
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cram me sideways posted:Jesus, I'm barely like five quests in and I am sick to tears of the loving "use your witcher senses to find thing" quests. I'd rather have to actually find a thing than have it placed right in front of my face, or worse, have to fetch "x quantity of y thing" over and over. The game gets into the action a lot more after the beginning bits, but if something as small as "having to look for the objective" annoys you, I don't know how you're going to get through this 200+ hour RPG, or any other for that matter.
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May 27, 2015 15:54
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I've got a pretty loving Good PC but I also like to play on my PS4. What's the shakedown on ps4 vs PC now that this has been out a bit? Also is it loving amazing?
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If you have a great PC you should definitely get it on PC because it will look nicer and you can probably snag it for $35-30. I have it on PS4 because I don't have a good PC and I'm enjoying it all the same.
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May 27, 2015 15:56
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Solartide posted:Holy poo poo, I thought I was the only one spending 10 minutes trying to jump out of there. Ha, happened to me too, only last night. I thought it was an Aard puzzle or something for a good few minutes.
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May 27, 2015 15:56
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Harlock posted:If you have a great PC you should definitely get it on PC because it will look nicer and you can probably snag it for $35-30. I'm not that big of a graphics enthusiast or whatever but are the ps4 versions and PC functionally the same outside of graphics?
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May 27, 2015 16:00
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Bob NewSCART posted:I've got a pretty loving Good PC but I also like to play on my PS4. What's the shakedown on ps4 vs PC now that this has been out a bit? If you like mods and extra eye candy get it on pc. If you're like me and want to kick back on the couch and chill get it on the ps4. Plus I hate kb/m, reminds me of an office environment. And yes, it's loving amazing.
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May 27, 2015 16:03
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Bob NewSCART posted:I'm not that big of a graphics enthusiast or whatever but are the ps4 versions and PC functionally the same outside of graphics? PS4 has FPS drops and can't run at 60 FPS.
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May 27, 2015 16:06
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Bob NewSCART posted:I've got a pretty loving Good PC but I also like to play on my PS4. What's the shakedown on ps4 vs PC now that this has been out a bit? You can't turn the motion blur off on PS4, as far as I can tell. Gave me a hella migraine so I switched to PC. It looks really good on PC and doesn't make my head hurt.
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May 27, 2015 16:07
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I had to reload after I got stuck in a waist-high, four foot by one foot pool of water, the edges of which were steep enough to prohibit jumping or climbing out. Roach watched mournfully as I struggled in vain to escape my watery grave. GOTY
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May 27, 2015 16:08
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Wasn't some free DLC released today? A quest and an alternate appearance for Yen? How is it?
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Drythe posted:Every time I see someone complain about the combat difficulty I want to tell them not to be a dumb peasant. Geralt's iffy controls and unreliable hitboxes can hurt folk a lot, as well as his annoying tendency to sheath whatever sword he's using during combat. That and enemies have a frustrating ability to suddenly stop reacting to your hits or do a lot of counter-attack damage despite there being no visual indicator of such - I've had several deaths now because even when the enemy is reeling from the first attack my second results in me taking a poo poo load of damage.  I gave up on Death March eventually because of this. Well that and the enemies just seemed to have much higher HP and damage resistance further in, rather than simply doing more. Quote-Unquote posted:I had to reload after I got stuck in a waist-high, four foot by one foot pool of water, the edges of which were steep enough to prohibit jumping or climbing out. Roach watched mournfully as I struggled in vain to escape my watery grave. I've had a bunch of fights force a reload, or require an extra round trip, because Geralt refuses to climb or jump during combat. Small rocks and fences are a Witcher's true bane.
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Drythe posted:Every time I see someone complain about the combat difficulty I want to tell them not to be a dumb peasant. At least they improved the alchemy/potion system over TW2. TW2's system was loving horrible.
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poptart_fairy posted:Geralt's iffy controls and unreliable hitboxes can hurt folk a lot, as well as his annoying tendency to sheath whatever sword he's using during combat. That and enemies have a frustrating ability to suddenly stop reacting to your hits or do a lot of counter-attack damage despite there being no visual indicator of such - I've had several deaths now because even when the enemy is reeling from the first attack my second results in me taking a poo poo load of damage. What gets me killed is that Geralt's range for combat stance is far less than enemies' aggro range. So I'll be holding L2 to parry but instead be getting Witcher Sense, sword out or no. Archers tend to fill me full of holes that way.
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Solartide posted:Holy poo poo, I thought I was the only one spending 10 minutes trying to jump out of there. There's another spot like this I got stuck in, smoking ruins next to Crow's Nest. You can mantle up onto the wall and then jump in, and there's no way to get back out. Not sure where I stand on it, really - limited use of invisible walls is nice, though it's really jarring and obvious when you actually hit one. On the other hand movement is twitchy as gently caress and bad feeling around steep terrain, like roughly half of Skellige. Walls are steep enough that I start to slide, but not so steep that I can't accelaroll sideways and back up. And holes in the floor with ladders are bullshit, as is targeting the trap doors that cover them. Also my horse gets stuck in the trees a lot. But it's an open world, so... I dunno.
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While climbing a mountain in Ard Skellige Geralt noticed some sirens flying around in the distance, drew his sword, and refused to jump anymore, stranding me on a tiny ledge unable to actually engage the sirens and with no way to get down without dying. I reloaded and dashed ahead a bit, slipped into a tiny crevice, and was forced to sit in that crevice for 15 minutes luring the sirens into swooping at me so I could trap them in there with Geralt and kill them then pull the rest with the crossbow until I was at last allowed to leave combat and climb the 4 foot ledge next to me. GOTY until MGS5 comes out.
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I really loving hate Skellige. Whoever thought up all the sirens and boats having hp so they leave you stranded in the middle of loving nowhere is an rear end in a top hat. Also why even put all these smuggler caches out here? Tiresome. Also even ignoring boats and middle of nowhere shitholes, the terrain is such where Roach becomes almost useless since he gets caught on everything and can't run up slopes like Geralt can.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I had to reload after I got stuck in a waist-high, four foot by one foot pool of water, the edges of which were steep enough to prohibit jumping or climbing out. Roach watched mournfully as I struggled in vain to escape my watery grave. Swamp hole. I somehow managed to get Roach stuck in it instead of me. Artex. 
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I wasn't actually being sarcastic when I said GOTY, this game is loving brilliant and despite some annoying things (stairwells, holes in the ground, poo poo targeting when trying to loot containers, drat near impossible targeting for opening trapdoors or going down ladders) it still blows every single other open world RPG I've ever played out of the water. Edit: Did the latest patch fix Gwent on PS4? I've yet to be able to play it; it crashes the game when I try to hit 'pass'. Still GOTY.
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Bob NewSCART posted:I'm not that big of a graphics enthusiast or whatever but are the ps4 versions and PC functionally the same outside of graphics? I think so. PS4 gets patches late (US still doesn't have 1.03 I think [PC is on 1.04]), and the load times rival launch-day Bloodborne so don't die or reload a lot. PC gets mods. PS4 also has an issue where it is very hard to read text unless you sit really close to the TV or turn on the PS4's zoom function, but they said they are looking into it.
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cram me sideways posted:Jesus, I'm barely like five quests in and I am sick to tears of the loving "use your witcher senses to find thing" quests. I bet over 50% of your playtime is spent walking circles looking for glowing poo poo to click so you can move on to the next leg of a quest. It's horrible. It's a really bad hidden object game. I wanted to keep going this morning but lo and loving behold I had to stomp around a camp looking for clues AGAIN and I just loving despaired and turned it off. There's an option in the UI that will display clues on the minimap, makes the investigations pretty trivial.
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Holy poo poo. Later game spoilers: I just had a drinking party with my witcher buddies. I laughed pretty much the entire time. "WITCHERS ARE INVADING" 
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^^^ It seems he spilled some wine here and then crawled through it. Eskel! EEESKKEEEELLLLLLpoptart_fairy posted:I've had a bunch of fights force a reload, or require an extra round trip, because Geralt refuses to climb or jump during combat. Small rocks and fences are a Witcher's true bane. Peasants. I have mastered the game so well that yesterday I had roach jump over not one but two branches, preventing my travel time from being like tripled. I know well the little knee high pond & boat everyone's getting stuck in... quote:sorceresses I was really hoping that quest would go the way of the new Mad Max movie and they'd realize they have a room full of 30 mages and a badass witcher and that they could cut their way through the city like butter and eradicate all the witch hunters or whoever the gently caress. Radovid himself is hanging out on a boat with two guards but I can't go and execute him for his crimes? Vehementi fucked around with this message at 16:40 on May 27, 2015 |
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Levantine posted:What gets me killed is that Geralt's range for combat stance is far less than enemies' aggro range. So I'll be holding L2 to parry but instead be getting Witcher Sense, sword out or no. Archers tend to fill me full of holes that way. Ayup. I unequipped the arrow parry ability because of that - can't parry it if the drat things are hitting when you're considered out of combat. 
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