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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:There's a priest near Mulbrydale that asks you to burn some bodies for him and he's set to auto-dismember in one hit I helped him because I didn't want ghouls eating peasants. I should see if he's still around and see if he can.. Give me a hand.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:09 |
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Oh god, there is too much poo poo to do, I entered the first open area after white orchard and it's just quests the whole way down.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:11 |
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grimcreaper posted:I helped him because I didn't want ghouls eating peasants. I should see if he's still around and see if he can.. Give me a hand. I helped him but the end of the quest turned violent for me. One of the pits had a guy still alive fighting ghouls. After I helped him he told me the priest set him up and was dealing drugs. Can't walk away from that. Witcher Code.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:11 |
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ImpAtom posted:Quen soaks hits until you reach its breaking point. Damage doesn't break through but you can absolutely soak multiple hits. Ah. On Death March with stock quen I've yet to find anything that doesn't immediately blow it up, with the exception of the mud throwing poo poo from Water Hags.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:12 |
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What's the exact experience penalty for Death March?
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:13 |
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Kobogartimer posted:For those who were wondering if the Griffin School technique skill is worth it or not, at least for me it's broken and almost doubles stamina regeneration. It beats out the 10% sign intensity and ~2.5 stamina you get from slotting a sign skill by a mile. If it's actually broken then I almost want to avoid using it to avoid the inevitable letdown when it's fixed.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:19 |
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Levantine posted:I helped him but the end of the quest turned violent for me. One of the pits had a guy still alive fighting ghouls. After I helped him he told me the priest set him up and was dealing drugs. Can't walk away from that. Witcher Code. The eternal fire seems to be one of those fantasy religions that have no beliefs beyond be a complete dick. I think that knight guy from the first game was the only dude who wasn't a crazy rear end in a top hat.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:20 |
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Ws the game balanced with the assumption that you don't do sidequests? The combat was really engaging the first couple of days, but it's got to the point after finishing up Novingrad that i outlevel everything. I just recently got to Skellige and most of the quests are 5 levels below me. It makes fighting stuff really boring because i can just mash the attack button and kill everything without having to use tactics or worry about dying.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:20 |
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Archimago posted:Ah. On Death March with stock quen I've yet to find anything that doesn't immediately blow it up, with the exception of the mud throwing poo poo from Water Hags. Quen starts to take extra hits on Death March when your Sign intensity goes up, it is pretty funny when attacking alghouls.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:21 |
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poptart_fairy posted:What's the exact experience penalty for Death March? I am currently Level 18 and it is 1500 XP to get to Level 19. I'd suspect they'd just change that as opposed to changing XP payouts for all quests, but I could be wrong. So if someone else is Level 18 and wants to compare we can check that way.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:21 |
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CJ posted:Ws the game balanced with the assumption that you don't do sidequests? The combat was really engaging the first couple of days, but it's got to the point after finishing up Novingrad that i outlevel everything. I just recently got to Skellige and most of the quests are 5 levels below me. It makes fighting stuff really boring because i can just mash the attack button and kill everything without having to use tactics or worry about dying. Combat feels trivial once you figure out how to fight regardless of level differences, IMO. At level 5 I was fighting those giant groups of pirates on the Western coast of Velen and just running train on them hard. Eight dudes? No problem, Igni for CC Axii for instant kills.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:23 |
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I'm playing this on the PS4 and I'm loving it. I think it's crazy amazing and it's eating up all of my free time. Please keep posting complaints about the game, goons. I derive great enjoyment from people who are clearly being forced to engage with something that is atrocious because it's not realistic enough/too realistic/graphically unacceptable/won't run on PC/has bad combat/changed things from previous games. The really passionate posts about inventory management or movement are my favorite. My heart goes out to you, slaves to the system, joylessly pressing buttons and feeling your blood pressure rise as Geralt fails to meet your standards. To be fair, my experience is not without hiccups. I found a page in the tutorials that's still in Polish, and I had to restart the game once because someone wouldn't talk to me. But overall it's a fantastic piece of work and a shinning gem of the genre.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:24 |
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Kobogartimer posted:For those who were wondering if the Griffin School technique skill is worth it or not, at least for me it's broken and almost doubles stamina regeneration. It beats out the 10% sign intensity and ~2.5 stamina you get from slotting a sign skill by a mile. GreenBuckanneer posted:Oh god, there is too much poo poo to do, I entered the first open area after white orchard and it's just quests the whole way down. Wanna know the best part? Pretty much all of those quests are well-written and engaging and I haven't stumbled upon anything as trite or MMO-style as "gather 5 bear asses." It's truly an achievement in writing and world-building that I can sink 40+ hours into Velen/Novigrad and virtually none of it felt grindy or repetitive.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:27 |
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either i've been playing this game far, far too much or julian assange is starting to look dangerously like geralt
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:28 |
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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm playing this on the PS4 and I'm loving it. I think it's crazy amazing and it's eating up all of my free time. It's cool to give honest criticism of things you like, and it's weird for that to upset you. I love the game but the inventory is atrocious and it'd have been nice if they had spent 10% of the time they spent making side content on a really good interface instead, or even any time at all.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:29 |
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Just discovered a kind of interesting table in the Strategy Guide that I didn't notice before: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpFXG3CqUM6S0nA5x6oR8H67TnF_NirRgj1V0FgYy_c/edit?usp=sharing Kinda cool, if gold wasn't so easy to come by after the first few hours.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:32 |
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I just got the Feline armor and holy poo poo does it look so much better than the Griffin set. I suspect I'll be respeccing at my next play session in to a more combat-focused build. Currently I run a mix of upgraded signs, 5/5 in the fast attack skill, and 1/3 in the alchemy skill that ups your toxicity (used for decotions), and rage management. I never took the Griffin school techniques as I felt like signs were already OP. At level 14 I feel like mobs around my level are pretty easy and I can just spam igni or axii with my +76% instensity from mutagens. Even red mobs that are susceptible to burning can be whittled down pretty easily. I'll be interested in trying out a combat build, what skills jive with that?
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:32 |
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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm playing this on the PS4 and I'm loving it. I think it's crazy amazing and it's eating up all of my free time. You realize that nearly all of the complaints were only written because we really like this game a lot and would love to see its flaws improved upon right? That is how things get better in this weird world that we live in.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:34 |
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Xavier434 posted:You realize that nearly all of the complaints were only written because we really like this game a lot and would love to see its flaws improved upon right? That is how things get better in this weird world that we live in. Also the only people who are taking a break from playing this awesome game to post are the ones who are frustrated with the UI or combat or whatever, mostly.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:36 |
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah it might be granting +20% stamina regen per each armor item instead of +5% (20% total). Anyone care to test this? If it's true I might have to do what someone else said and un-slot it now so I won't be disappointed after it gets fixed (if this is indeed the case).
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Pellisworth posted:Also the only people who are taking a break from playing this awesome game to post are the ones who are frustrated with the UI or combat or whatever, mostly. Or in my case, being forced to work for a living.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:37 |
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Anti-Hero posted:I just got the Feline armor and holy poo poo does it look so much better than the Griffin set. I suspect I'll be respeccing at my next play session in to a more combat-focused build. Currently I run a mix of upgraded signs, 5/5 in the fast attack skill, and 1/3 in the alchemy skill that ups your toxicity (used for decotions), and rage management. I never took the Griffin school techniques as I felt like signs were already OP. At level 14 I feel like mobs around my level are pretty easy and I can just spam igni or axii with my +76% instensity from mutagens. Even red mobs that are susceptible to burning can be whittled down pretty easily. Upgraded Griffin Armor looks dope. It's black and gold. Then the Superior goes back to the lame turquiose color scheme for some reason. I'm hoping the mastercraft stuff looks good, though that feels a million miles away even as I near the end game with a ton of quests done.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:37 |
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Xavier434 posted:Or in my case, being forced to work for a living. Yeah, work breakin' here, hence why I've just been responding to a couple questions and lurking the thread. You don't see a lot of posts extolling this game's virtues at length because we're all still voraciously spending time playing it.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:41 |
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Posting in the thread at all is probably a pretty good indicator that you like the game a lot, otherwise why would you bother? I certainly don't waste my time posting in threads about games I don't like, it's really easy to not play them.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:43 |
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Posting in the thread at all is probably a pretty good indicator that you like the game a lot, otherwise why would you bother? I certainly don't waste my time posting in threads about games I don't like, it's really easy to not play them. But, but, but, how will others know you hate them then???+
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:47 |
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One thing that's weird with these games, Witchers are supposed to be emotionless, right? They look full of emotions to me.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:48 |
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Kurtofan posted:One thing that's weird with these games, Witchers are supposed to be emotionless, right? They look full of emotions to me. I think that's mostly a myth propagated by peasantfolk.
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah, work breakin' here, hence why I've just been responding to a couple questions and lurking the thread. You don't see a lot of posts extolling this game's virtues at length because we're all still voraciously spending time playing it.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:51 |
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Spoiler ending story question, is there a way to kill the third crone?
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:54 |
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Kurtofan posted:Spoiler ending story question, is there a way to kill the third crone? Yeah, if you get the worst ending possible.
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:57 |
Dear god this game. I just did the keira side-quest where you go into that tower and talk to the ghost. I appearantly missed one ghost so I trusted her and took her bones back to the shore. Now the fishermans dead and I appearantly caused a plague of something, while smuggly going "not the first curse I lifted" before boning keira. I even thought "hey, it's the witcher, I wonder if the ghost is just lying... nah I'll show some trust this once"
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:58 |
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Just got a loading screen that said "Eavesdropping on conversations might lead to new quests" Anyone found anything like that?Kurtofan posted:Spoiler ending story question, is there a way to kill the third crone?
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:58 |
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For those who have finished the game, does Alvin ever get mentioned again, or brought up at all?
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# ? May 27, 2015 20:59 |
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I started playing and got like the first 10 quests and got overwhelmed and quit playing because extreme panic set in... it never gets better does it
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:00 |
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Kurtofan posted:One thing that's weird with these games, Witchers are supposed to be emotionless, right? They look full of emotions to me. I think it's one of the more common side-effects of the mutagens, but it's not a rule.
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:03 |
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chaosapiant posted:For those who have finished the game, does Alvin ever get mentioned again, or brought up at all? Not that I saw.
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:04 |
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There's a guy imprisoned somewhere in early Velen, when you free him he says to come back to $village_name for a free shave and haircut. Where's this village though?
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:04 |
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Meowbot posted:I started playing and got like the first 10 quests and got overwhelmed and quit playing because extreme panic set in... it never gets better does it Just pick one of the side quests, set it to track, and don't worry about the others?
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:05 |
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chaosapiant posted:For those who have finished the game, does Alvin ever get mentioned again, or brought up at all? Visit the bookstore on Hierarch Square in Novigrad.
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# ? May 27, 2015 21:14 |
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poo poo, I've run into a game breaking bug. Bug occurs during the quest to find Hjalmar. When I approach the sleeping Ice Giant, the appropriate cutscene plays and ends. When it ends, I get stuck in an infinite loading screen loop. 30 seconds into the loop the "You have died" screen abruptly appears. There is no way for me to escape the loop. In the end I decided to just leave the cave and do other quests, but everytime a cutscene for a different quest is supposed to start, the ice troll cinematic plays instead and I'm back in the loop. Shiiiiiet. Has anyone else run into this? I'm playing on PC.
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