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Fat Samurai posted:I don't want to fall prey to cliches, but I'm going to guess that (Crones of Crookback Bog spoilers) freeing the spiky spirit who is cursing the nearby village and wants blood and bones to become one with a demonic mare and ride forever free is a bad idea. There's no great choice there. Either way people will suffer, you just choose who. Free him and he'll save the orphans but kill the nearby villagers, and there will be a domino effect that leads to the death of the Baron and his wife. Kill him and the villagers and Baron live, although not in the happiest circumstances, but the orphans will be eaten by the witches.
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Unfunny Poster posted:Every bit of dialogue that involves the trolls throughout the game is the best comedy writing. also Bart the Troll is amazingly adorable Wasn't it that the trolls were saying that they are the monsters and witchers kill monsters, then the other troll was mad or upset at being called a monster or realizing it? quote:there's a skill that will make you invincible during dodge animations I'm pretty sure this skill just doesn't work. I have 5/5 (so 100% less damage) and still get wrecked in the middle / start / end of my dodge & roll animations.
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Psiharis posted:I failed a pretty random sidequest in the farmlands of Novigrad (I think it was Flown the Coop, something about a monster stealing chickens). Since I wasn't doing anything main quest related for a long time before I noticed, I suspect it was related to a nearby quest to deal with a monster on behalf of some halfling mead brewers. The same thing happen to me, halfing quest screwed that one up. I did find the children from it, and the quest moved from failed to incomplete, but I couldn't turn it in. Incomplete is better than failed for me.
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Vehementi posted:Wasn't it that the trolls were saying that they are the monsters and witchers kill monsters, then the other troll was mad or upset at being called a monster or realizing it? Yeah, something like that. It was part of the Lambert mission at Kaer Morhen. It was just a nice moment that gave me this feeling of "man, even these trolls have a bit of a personality to them" Mekchu fucked around with this message at 08:04 on May 28, 2015 |
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Regarding that mob boss: I let Junior live. As I saw it, his wonderful lifestyle choices were enabled by him being a mob boss, by stripping him of his power he lost all of it and the other mob bosses probably wouldn't let him live anyway. Turns out ENDING SPOILERS I was mostly right - Ciri goes to visit him to "thank" him for his help and he's a shell of a man, broken and without any semblance of his former self. As Ciri says herself, this is betterENDING SPOILERS.
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May 28, 2015 08:05
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Incomplete is better than failed for me. I guess I can see where you're coming from but for me, if the quest is going to be impossible to complete, I appreciate being told up front so I can get on with my life. Impossible quests that eat up space and demand attention in the active part of my quest log drive me BATSHIT INSANE. Don't make me scroll past it 35,000 times if there's nothing I can do about it now.
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May 28, 2015 08:27
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Anyone else's Gangs of Novigrad quest progress just....stop? One of the steps failed (the casino, all the dwarves died), and I can't really do anything with it. There's no objective, no absolute fail state, nothing. Just a thing in my quest log now that will never go away.
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May 28, 2015 08:28
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Vehementi posted:I'm pretty sure this skill just doesn't work. I have 5/5 (so 100% less damage) and still get wrecked in the middle / start / end of my dodge & roll animations. It seems to only work for forward rolls at the moment. So you can get a bit of use out of it rolling towards large/elementa type enemies, but it's still not worth the points overall
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Schlesische posted:Looks like the Redanian Halbardier armour, you can buy/find the diagram for it later on but I can't for the life of me remember where or from whom. I've found that armor schematic in Novigrad in a (very minor quest spoiler) quest where Geralt says he smells dead human, you follow the smell to a corpse, find a key, follow to some Cleaver men hideout. It was in one of the chests, I think the one with the key . I'm not sure the schematic is tied to that quest, it may simply drop once you're in a level range.
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May 28, 2015 08:39
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Orv posted:Nearly all of my favorite dialogue scenes in 3 are ones where entire back and forths are just expressions, even if it's somewhere where another game would just have a quick throwaway line, and it's a quirk of an eyebrow answered by a shrug or something. They're almost all really well done. This small sequence with the Crones of Crookback Bog is my favorite. Just the big ones line and Geralt's face https://youtu.be/bViDE8JwN2w?t=5m58s
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May 28, 2015 08:41
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I can't find this info anywhere, googling and running around the city, but what the hell happened to Priscilla? I found Dandelion back at his pub, but she's nowhere to be seen and he doesn't mention anything. Did he seriously ditch her in the hospital? That's seriously messed up if that's how her story ended.
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Broken Cog posted:Did the new DLC quest, it's kinda disappointing. Very short, and the voice work feels off. I suspect the DLC is stuff that was under par or simply not finished before retail, rather than content they decided to make after the game was done. Good PR but I do think the effort they've put in is a bit overblown. 
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8-bit Miniboss posted:Anyone else's Gangs of Novigrad quest progress just....stop? One of the steps failed (the casino, all the dwarves died), and I can't really do anything with it. There's no objective, no absolute fail state, nothing. Just a thing in my quest log now that will never go away. Had this issue....turns out a thug had not been killed in the arena....telekinetic blast discovered he was hiding in one of the walls....
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I urge anyone to read those boards you usually check for witcher contracts only, I've found this gem in Oxenfurt:
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poptart_fairy posted:I suspect the DLC is stuff that was under par or simply not finished before retail, rather than content they decided to make after the game was done. Good PR but I do think the effort they've put in is a bit overblown. I mean that tends to be almost all DLC, but at least CDPR isn't charging for it.
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May 28, 2015 09:11
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Free DLC is a free publicity in all those dozens of thousands of blogs that c/p press releases. It's also a jab at the rest of industry that charges money for them.
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May 28, 2015 09:13
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AngrySquid posted:Had this issue....turns out a thug had not been killed in the arena....telekinetic blast discovered he was hiding in one of the walls.... Well that's the thing, all the other objectives in that quest up to that point are completed, Arena included. So I don't know what the gently caress.
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Vehementi posted:I'm pretty sure this skill just doesn't work. I have 5/5 (so 100% less damage) and still get wrecked in the middle / start / end of my dodge & roll animations. Yeah, I was also wondering about this, because I definitely take plenty of damage while dodging. It's a shame because there are some fights in which it would be incredibly helpful I was just attacked by three flatulant trolls who farted throughout the whole fight. It was pretty tough to still attack while dodging all three of them. Except for the dodge ability screwing me over, it was a hectic, fun and hilarious fight.
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Question for a very late game main quest: let's say I don't complete the Now or Never quest for Triss because I'm a terrible human being, would that mean the option to have Zoltan bring some alcohol to get the guards drunk while attempting to free Margarita with Yennefer would become available? The dialogue certainly seem to hint at that.
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Heithinn Grasida posted:Yeah, I was also wondering about this, because I definitely take plenty of damage while dodging. It's a shame because there are some fights in which it would be incredibly helpful I was just attacked by three flatulant trolls who farted throughout the whole fight. It was pretty tough to still attack while dodging all three of them. Except for the dodge ability screwing me over, it was a hectic, fun and hilarious fight. I'm sure even regular dodge without that skill has some invulnerability frames, plenty of times I dodged/rolled straight through the attack and got the message about being hit for 0 damage.
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May 28, 2015 10:00
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I love the writing in this game, the dialogue and the plots. Particularly the bulletin board postings. They did a good job at portraying middle aged culture in a more realistic way than your typical campy D&D poo poo that you usually get in video game RPG's.
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Broose posted:Pro tips for new people and kelptos: Also, buy the +70 saddlebag from the girl from skellige that work with the blacksmith in Crows Perch. It costs somewhere around 300 coin.
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I stopped killing wolves and bears. They don't drop anything useful, I have plenty of cash so I don't need to sell their hides anyway and the XP for monster kills is laughable. I just can't stand listening to their whimpering yelps and roars anymore. The agonizing screams of burning humans, on the other hand...
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If anyone is interested what the new yen clothes look like (slight spoilers): http://i.imgur.com/c9tcLd6.jpg also, me landing in a bush ruined what was a pretty serious scene  Lord Lambeth fucked around with this message at 18:14 on May 28, 2015 |
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Pigbottom posted:Also, buy the +70 saddlebag from the girl from skellige that work with the blacksmith in Crows Perch. It costs somewhere around 300 coin. To add to that, a little later on you can also buy saddlebags with a whopping +100 carry weight. They're available from a trader in the Novigrad slums, in that one closed-off alley that you unlock while looking for Triss. They cost around 1000 crowns, though.
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Perestroika posted:To add to that, a little later on you can also buy saddlebags with a whopping +100 carry weight. They're available from a trader in the Novigrad slums, in that one closed-off alley that you unlock while looking for Triss. They cost around 1000 crowns, though. It's available as soon as you get there. No reason to ever bother with a +70 one, really.
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Ledenko posted:Regarding that mob boss: I let Junior live. As I saw it, his wonderful lifestyle choices were enabled by him being a mob boss, by stripping him of his power he lost all of it and the other mob bosses probably wouldn't let him live anyway. Turns out ENDING SPOILERS I was mostly right - Ciri goes to visit him to "thank" him for his help and he's a shell of a man, broken and without any semblance of his former self. As Ciri says herself, this is betterENDING SPOILERS. I still like the other ending more, when you visit him with him being dead, dudu took over his identity and crime empire and turned it into as massively profitable and prosperous and also completely legal and above ground trading business, since dudu needed a new 'main' identity that wouldn't be at risk of being outed as a doppler with his new scar as a giveaway. His gang members are totally OK going legal, since they get twice as much pay as they did before with the new massive profits. So he took Junior's terrible life and death and turned it into something positive
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Wolpertinger posted:I still like the other ending more, when you visit him with him being dead, dudu took over his identity and crime empire and turned it into as massively profitable and prosperous and also completely legal and above ground trading business, since dudu needed a new 'main' identity that wouldn't be at risk of being outed as a doppler with his new scar as a giveaway. His gang members are totally OK going legal, since they get twice as much pay as they did before with the new massive profits. So he took Junior's terrible life and death and turned it into something positive It's weird he's not shanked by one of many people he hosed over.
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alex314 posted:I urge anyone to read those boards you usually check for witcher contracts only, I've found this gem in Oxenfurt: 200 years later someone's going to write Lives of Famous Witchers
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Arglebargle III posted:200 years later someone's going to write Lives of Famous Witches FTFY e: I could also see Dandelion doing Suetonius' level work, I think he did already. He wrote some scathing political satire in W2 too. alex314 fucked around with this message at 11:47 on May 28, 2015 |
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Lord Lambeth posted:If anyone is interested what the new yen clothes look like: Thanks for the unmarked spoilers.
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alex314 posted:It's weird he's not shanked by one of many people he hosed over. You know, you're right about that. I guess you can just assume he was just really diplomatic and completely surrendered his criminal empire to the other crime lords no strings attached.
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Wolpertinger posted:I still like the other ending more, when you visit him with him being dead, dudu took over his identity and crime empire and turned it into as massively profitable and prosperous and also completely legal and above ground trading business, since dudu needed a new 'main' identity that wouldn't be at risk of being outed as a doppler with his new scar as a giveaway. His gang members are totally OK going legal, since they get twice as much pay as they did before with the new massive profits. So he took Junior's terrible life and death and turned it into something positive Kinda feel sorry for Dudu still - a doppler doesn't just assume the looks but also facets of the being he doubles for, so he'd get cravings to torture women and the like 
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Ledenko posted:Kinda feel sorry for Dudu still - a doppler doesn't just assume the looks but also facets of the being he doubles for, so he'd get cravings to torture women and the like I've completely forgot about it! Game even reminds you at least twice about that doppler mechanic.. Maybe the influence fades over time? It's mentioned that the (light book/beginning of Novigrad spoiler) Doppler that was a head of temple guard was pretty chill dude and helpful toward magic users and nonhumans. It's safe to assume that the dude he replaced wouldn't end up in the post if he possesed those qualities.
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Holy poo poo the baron is amazing. This game goes so far and beyond its fiddly bits that it is crazy, it's the only game I've ever seen confront the realities of marriage and truly made me sympathize with an NPC.
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I know now why almost everyone hates witchers in this game. I'd be hella mad too if someone barged into my house and stole all my poo poo from under my nose.
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Also, someone rides into town, "solves" a "dispute" by slaughtering half a dozen villagers and rides off into the sunset. Basically in wartime anyone with a sword and horse is gonna make people really nervous.
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haris pilton posted:I know now why almost everyone hates witchers in this game. "I'm mad with hunger" - peasant who I just stole two pieces of silver ore from
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