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grimcreaper posted:That scene made me hate yen with a god damned passion. "Its just a corpse. ANSWER!" "AAAAUUGGH... IT HURTS..." I mean... Poor kid suffered the greatest form of shame known to his people, died trying to restore his honor, and then Yen loving tortures him. She makes the hard choices.It's a bit dumb though, because it's completely random that you learn about Uma from that flashback.
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Magni posted:On the Iorveth/Save Saskia path, you get to eavesdrop on him gleefully ordering and watching as Philippas eyes are gouged out. It's a pretty loving
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grimcreaper posted:No, because you kill him in The Witcher 1. Hes a Source, just like Ciri. He can teleport between space/time etc. He teleports into the past and then becomes the Grand Master of the Order of the Flaming Rose. Then you murder him and his retarded Rose thats on fire for some reason. Mostly cause hes a dick when he grows up. I know all that. I was wondering if he's mentioned as in, wtf the Wild Hunt were looking for him, and how he might, possibly, tie into Ciri, if at all.
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poptart_fairy posted:If anyone can clarify this it'd be baller. I really want to just man up and push on with my Death March campaign but if the experience penalty is really that great then I'll probably just forfeit the trophy. I don't think slowing the level gain down is a very interesting way of increasing challenge. Its not an experience penalty so much as CDPR trying to prevent people from vastly over-leveling story quests. I noticed when i hit about lvl 16 that exp starts to dramatically drop off, UNTIL you start completeing primary missions. Those are worth a ton in and of themselves, but once you get a level over the main story stuff, it all slows to a crawl. Then, when you catch the story stuff up, your leveling takes a massive swing in the other direction. Quests start netting 600-800 or so until you caught up, then about 300-400, and then once your past the main story level it drops to 200, then 100, then about 50 per quest. its a pretty lovely gating mechanic. Monster exp also almost entirely stops accruing.
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chaosapiant posted:Man, they really nailed Geralt in this game. I can't believe it's the same voice from the first one. His comedic timing and sardonic tone are fantastic. The voice acting in general is some of the best I've heard in a game. it works really well. Almost want to try playing it in French to see if it's gotten better.
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grimcreaper posted:That scene made me hate yen with a god damned passion. "Its just a corpse. ANSWER!" "AAAAUUGGH... IT HURTS..." I mean... Poor kid suffered the greatest form of shame known to his people, died trying to restore his honor, and then Yen loving tortures him. Is it possible to clear his name, like he asks? I just want a little cutscene resolution 
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grimcreaper posted:Its not an experience penalty so much as CDPR trying to prevent people from vastly over-leveling story quests. Oh, experience gain goes up a lot for main quests if you're under their required level? gently caress me if I'm understanding that right and it is the case I've been playing this goddamn thing all wrong. Been trying to clear side content before doing the main lot!
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grimcreaper posted:That scene made me hate yen with a god damned passion. "Its just a corpse. ANSWER!" "AAAAUUGGH... IT HURTS..." I mean... Poor kid suffered the greatest form of shame known to his people, died trying to restore his honor, and then Yen loving tortures him. On the other hand... Can you come up with a reasonable alternative? The game certainly doesn't offer you one, which is obviously the point. If your objective is to find and save Ciri, basically your daughter, from the Wild Hunt and you are out of leads and you have nearby a sorceress who has a way to get you information in an albeit nasty fashion, are you going to reject it because you feel bad for a dead guy? Yen takes the "save Ciri at any cost" motive to heart, and while she can be abrasive, annoying, and needlessly secretive at times I don't fault her for being willing to do almost anything to help me save someone dear to me (and her).
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chaosapiant posted:I know all that. I was wondering if he's mentioned as in, wtf the Wild Hunt were looking for him, and how he might, possibly, tie into Ciri, if at all. Wild Hunt wants him for the same reason they want Ciri id guess. No real mention of it, but since hes a source he can cause another serious thing i wont spoil.[\spoiler] oxford_town posted:Is it possible to [spoiler]clear his name, like he asks? Kind of... as close to it as you can.
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Lord Lambeth posted:Haircuts cost 10 crowns anyway, why bother tracking that guy down When you free him you get it for free. I´m not 100% sure but I think the name of the vilage is claywitch south of crows perch.
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grimcreaper posted:Its not an experience penalty so much as CDPR trying to prevent people from vastly over-leveling story quests. fuuuuuuck me
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grimcreaper posted:Wild Hunt wants him for the same reason they want Ciri id guess. No real mention of it, but since hes a source he can cause another serious thing i wont spoil.[\spoiler] Bookstore in Novigrad there is a letter from him referencing much of this.
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May 27, 2015 23:17
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poptart_fairy posted:Oh, experience gain goes up a lot for main quests if you're under their required level? Pretty much. seems like side quests are designed for 2 things: side story, and to catch you up to main quests. You can out level the main story stuff if you really push the side quests, but, if your level is just 1 over the primary story quest level, even doing quests that are like 15 levels over you net you next to no exp at all. If you do that same level difference side quest when under the primary story quest, you gain a TON of exp for completing the high level side quest.
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oxford_town posted:Is it possible to clear his name, like he asks? Kind of.
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Question about the haunted lighthouse quest in Skellig: I killed the Penitent but never found out why the lighthouse and keeper were cursed. Are you supposed to be able to discover the reason why if you explored the lighthouse more thoroughly before going back for the keeper?
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Just finished clearing all the water-based question marks in Skellege (only two of which had anything worth picking up; the Spoils of War one on the western-most island, and the Hidden Treasure one on the southernmost island in the bay area you start out in), and ran across a nice touch: One of the side quests you can do may result in someone getting sentenced to death by being chained to a rock in the sea and pecked to death by birds. They actually show up dead and chained to a large rock afterward, near the treasure mentioned above, and Geralt comments on it being a horrific death. theDOWmustflow posted:Question about the haunted lighthouse quest in Skellig: I killed the Penitent but never found out why the lighthouse and keeper were cursed. Are you supposed to be able to discover the reason why if you explored the lighthouse more thoroughly before going back for the keeper? Didn't you have to pick up his journal to get that far? If you read it, it tells you why.
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theDOWmustflow posted:Question about the haunted lighthouse quest in Skellig: I killed the Penitent but never found out why the lighthouse and keeper were cursed. Are you supposed to be able to discover the reason why if you explored the lighthouse more thoroughly before going back for the keeper? Yeah, it was because the keeper was taking bribes from pirates to turn off the lights so ships ran aground.
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Offkorn posted:Just finished clearing all the water-based question marks in Skellege (only two of which had anything worth picking up; the Spoils of War one on the western-most island, and the Hidden Treasure one on the southernmost island in the bay area you start out in), and ran across a nice touch: Is this Bran's wife?
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Kurtofan posted:Is this Bran's wife? i hope so. she deserved far worse than that.
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grimcreaper posted:Pretty much. seems like side quests are designed for 2 things: side story, and to catch you up to main quests. OK neat, thanks. Looks like I'll focus on the main quest to get my level up a bit and then start tackling side stuff then. It seems a level difference between you and the enemy makes a massive difference on Death March, but doesn't appear to be anywhere near as bad one level lower.
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This game loving owns. I've been in Novigrad for so long that all of the quests to the south feel like they're from a different game to me; I swore for a second that the Bloody Baron quest was from another game.
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Kurtofan posted:Is this Bran's wife? Speaking of this quest (Skellige side quest spoilers): Did anyone do Hjalmar's quest and run off, swords drawn, ready to cut the heads off suspects? I did Cerys (because it seemed way more logical and levelheaded) and at the end when she's crowned queen you see Hjalmar looking like he got the crap beat out of him. I'm wondering what happened there?
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Kurtofan posted:Is this Bran's wife? Yeah. grimcreaper posted:Monster exp also almost entirely stops accruing. This part does not seem to be true. Despite out-leveling the main quest by 6 levels, I still get XP from one-shotting sirens/drowners (which are lower level than me) with the crossbow and got a nice chunk from killing a Venomous Arachnas (which was higher level). Rather, monster XP accrual appears to depend on your level relative to theirs.
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Lpzie posted:This game loving owns. yes. graphics good combat good gwent good story good choices good igni good. i feel like im constantly underleveled though, seems every quest i get is several levels above me, and leveling seems to take a while. how to level
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grimcreaper posted:Pretty much. seems like side quests are designed for 2 things: side story, and to catch you up to main quests.
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my new dog posted:yes. graphics good combat good gwent good story good choices good igni good. i feel like im constantly underleveled though, seems every quest i get is several levels above me, and leveling seems to take a while. Do some of the main quest, this involves a fair bit of running around in Velen but if you want a break from Peasant Misery Simulator and exploration, I think you can do most of the main quests in Novigrad at like level 8-10ish. There's not a lot of combat in Novigrad missions, it's tons of (generally awesome) dialogue and witcher sleuthing.
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Broken Cog posted:So, have anyone actually met Maid Bilberry? How dare you even mention her name you spit laden troll. I shall have to defend her honor and teach ruffians like yourself not to name drop with such disregard. Just did the crones and Irmalef(sp). I waited after the cutscene looked around and found an acorn on his body, then went down the mountain and gave to the villagers and told them they were on their own. I have no doubt this minor act is a story point for them that causes them from losing hope and dying to instead raising a great tree...one soaked in the blood of dead children and 2 old crones, which then starts dropping even fouler acorns across the world like some sort of lovecraftian demigod. This game owns. Everything about the siege of Kaer Moran was pulled off perfectly. PaybackJack fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 27, 2015 |
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Broken Cog posted:So, have anyone actually met Maid Bilberry? Uhh... maybe... Last night I went to a bunch of notice boards I hadn't been to yet... On one of them, somewhere around Novigrad, I found an obituary for "our Bilberry." Only four years old too... which makes that one guy's devotion, if this is the same Bilberry, all the more psychopathic.
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jaete posted:So the new DLC is out: "Contract - Missing miners". Anyone check this one out yet? Where do you get it, which level etc? I got it from a notice board in Skellige. I wanna say Bandelar. It's a 30+ quest if I recall correctly.
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Really hoping one of these massive siquest DLCs feature Iorveth. He's the one I most wanted to see at KM.
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Broken Cog posted:So, have anyone actually met Maid Bilberry? Chances are not even that nutter ever has. Or ever will now 
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Sweet, I dropped most of my documents/contracts/books and when I went back into my inventory stuff was all nice and sorted, with oils/bombs/potions sitting at the top. So do that if your usable item list is a huge loving mess.
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Offkorn posted:Didn't you have to pick up his journal to get that far? If you read it, it tells you why. No I didn't see any such journal. Where's the journal located? I was given the quest, saw the crazy curse sign on the lighthouse, went back to the keeper, and then escorted him to light the fire. I figured something was off because every so often Geralt would mention that Penitents only emerge when a great evil has been committed and the lighthouse keeper would get all shifty eyed and mumble that he don't know nuthin bout nuthin.
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theDOWmustflow posted:No I didn't see any such journal. Where's the journal located? I was given the quest, saw the crazy curse sign on the lighthouse, went back to the keeper, and then escorted him to light the fire. I figured something was off because every so often Geralt would mention that Penitents only emerge when a great evil has been committed and the lighthouse keeper would get all shifty eyed and mumble that he don't know nuthin bout nuthin. It's in the lighthouse on one of the upper levels.
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Woozy posted:Really hoping one of these massive siquest DLCs feature Iorveth. He's the one I most wanted to see at KM. Iorveth and the events of his path get next to no mention, it's kinda of annoying because Vergan side chapter 2 was my favorite part of that game. At least he got to be a Gwent card. Speaking of things not in the game, is there actually any quests that let you poke around in Oxenfurt university? Caidin fucked around with this message at 00:12 on May 28, 2015 |
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Did the new DLC quest, it's kinda disappointing. Very short, and the voice work feels off. But hey, it's free.
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