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Question about gwent with old friends in Novigrad: Took a side quest where you meet Lambert. It seems that you can only play gwent with him after you go to Skellige, finish the part of his quest there, then go back to Nowhere Inn in Novigrad to meet him and play?
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May 30, 2015 21:17
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm trying to reach a Point of Interest in the southern part of the Velen map. Is south-southwest of a giant tree that's sitting on the top of a mountain. The three seems important because, you know, big, so I'm thinking that the POI is locked up behind Plot. Is there any way to reach it that I'm missing, or should I ignore it for now? It's a place of power, you'll get there eventually. Just ignore it for now.
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May 30, 2015 21:19
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Is there any way to join the official Shady Individual Guild? I want one of those sweet ponchos. Just got to Skellige, and I was expecting something akin to W2's third act regarding size. I was... wrong.
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May 30, 2015 21:21
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I think I hit a glitch during the quest to elect the new Skellige King my game fails to load after I chase down the steward and get him to accuse Birna
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May 30, 2015 21:25
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Do monsters out in the open that aren't, say, tied to a point of interest respawn at all? I'm not looking to grind since I know they give piss poor experience but just so I know to expect them. I'm guessing if they do at all, its because you have traveled between regions.
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May 30, 2015 21:31
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Tech question - anyone know what this game is doing differently than other open world games with regard to pop-in? In other large-world games I always notice the pop-in, but in Witcher I'm not seeing it at all unless I really look for it. (Well, except for the glitches where NPCs appear right next to you.) Also, Geralt's combat animations are awesome. I'll often throw a couple of unnecessary heavy attacks just to watch him move 
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May 30, 2015 21:33
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Oh and holy crap, that whole area north of the blockaded bridge is part of Velen too?! When I got the transit pass I assumed that crossing that bridge would take me to Novigrad. I'm never going to clear these question marks...
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May 30, 2015 21:34
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BAILOUT MCQUACK! posted:Do monsters out in the open that aren't, say, tied to a point of interest respawn at all? I'm not looking to grind since I know they give piss poor experience but just so I know to expect them. I'm guessing if they do at all, its because you have traveled between regions. Meditating in their little combat zone might give you a nasty surprise. Drowners and wolves at least come back if you meditate sometimes. Certainly happened to me more than once.
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May 30, 2015 21:35
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Blaisedell posted:What a brilliant game. Perhaps the first RPG where it's actually worth watching the facial animation during conversation and not just looking at the subtitles. This is the first game I turned off the subtitles because I want to resist the urge to skim the text and skip parts of the conversations. So much better. Unrelated: I just finished the Swords and Dumpling questline. It would be so much better if Geralt got the reward, looks at it quizzingly and drops it at Hattori's feet in disgust. Dude, I came back from Skellige with a sword from some random pirate that is better than your lovely "sword to slay gods". Get back to the loving anvil and try again, asshat. For fucks sake, it's a level 24 quest I did at level 20 and a level 19 random corpse loot is better than the relic level reward.
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May 30, 2015 21:37
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Han Nehi posted:Oh and holy crap, that whole area north of the blockaded bridge is part of Velen too?! When I got the transit pass I assumed that crossing that bridge would take me to Novigrad. I'm never going to clear these question marks... It is Novigrad, they're just on the same map bro
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May 30, 2015 21:38
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Schurik posted:Is there any way to join the official Shady Individual Guild? I want one of those sweet ponchos. If you're heading to Skellige for the first time, you're still in the first act
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May 30, 2015 21:39
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Han Nehi posted:Oh and holy crap, that whole area north of the blockaded bridge is part of Velen too?! When I got the transit pass I assumed that crossing that bridge would take me to Novigrad. I'm never going to clear these question marks... Velen and Novigrad are one area traversed without loading, despite being split on world map
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May 30, 2015 21:39
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Han Nehi posted:Tech question - anyone know what this game is doing differently than other open world games with regard to pop-in? In other large-world games I always notice the pop-in, but in Witcher I'm not seeing it at all unless I really look for it. (Well, except for the glitches where NPCs appear right next to you.) I don't know if it's some kind of technical wizardry, but I feel like the world is just so dense with stuff that a lot of pop-in is just hidden behind trees/houses/hills/etc. In something like Skyrim you're constantly running across giant valleys and plains where you can see for miles. In W3 it's pretty rare that you're just out in the open and can see stuff like low-detail trees/houses in the background. At least that's the feeling I get after noticing the same thing the other day.
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May 30, 2015 21:40
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So I just [RANDOM SIDE QUEST] called out a charlatan in the middle of a show, for an audience of about 15 soldiers, for showing off a wyvern in a cage instead of a basilisk, like he said it was. Immediately after I did, the cage fell apart, so me and about 15 soldiers loudly fought this mini-dragon to the death while the charlatan ran off. So after we all killed the thing and realized it was dead, all 15 the soldiers immediately turned and calmly started walking away, every one of them whistling that nervous, random-note "nope, sure isn't anything fishy going on here" whistle. GOTY GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 21:49 on May 30, 2015 |
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May 30, 2015 21:45
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Haven't had time for the game most of this week. Is the XP bug worth blowing off my weekend play time and waiting for the patch?
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May 30, 2015 21:49
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Hey fellow Gwent nerds. I found an awesome list of all the cards and where to get them. http://www.gosunoob.com/witcher-3/witcher-3-gwent-cards-list/ Also, holy CHRIST this game is long. A character in Novigrad sums it up pretty well. Priscilla: You mean you have to find Dudu to find Dandelion to find Ciri? That is a lot of searching.
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May 30, 2015 21:51
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Spoilers for Get Junior: Holy poo poo, is that random Gustav guy you fight in the arena a secret Witcher? I spared him and he repayed the favour by somehow instakilling the bear from 50% life, then chewing his way through Whoreson's guards by one shotting them in turn
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May 30, 2015 22:07
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Just want to pop in and say this game is amazing. I forgot how to witcher at first and kept dying, but I got a handle on things once I hit Velen. Really excited to see how Cyberpunk 2077 turns out. Here's hoping its some weird Witcher/STALKER mix that is awesome.
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May 30, 2015 22:08
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I left the game running last night, and when I got up this morning I was seeing graphical checkerboarding flickering in it. Restarting the game cleared it up for a bit, but then it came back. I tried disabling the GPU overclock (which I've been running for ages), and that didn't help; GPU temps are around 72C, so nothing there I'm worried about. I'm running 2 970s in SLI, pretty high settings, but none of that changed overnight. It doesn't always appear everywhere in the picture. In a cutscene with the baron there wasn't any happening on his metal collar or part of his...vest? that looked metallic either. Anyone have ideas on how I might remedy this? It's not unplayable, but it's really unpleasant.
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May 30, 2015 22:10
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Broose posted:Meditating in their little combat zone might give you a nasty surprise. Drowners and wolves at least come back if you meditate sometimes. Certainly happened to me more than once. The worst nasty surprise is dying to some wraiths, reloading your quicksave and the wraith who you killed before saving somehow having respawned.
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May 30, 2015 22:33
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Any news on the XP bug?
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May 30, 2015 22:33
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I finished the game today. Man the writing is good, like if this doesn't get more praise for the character & story development at all I don't know what a good game story is then. The end bit where I have to go find the last Crone and kill her, then Geralt ransacks the hut to find Vessemir's medallion and hugs it as the hut gets surrounded by drowners, ghouls, etc. is pretty heartbreaking. Am I right in assuming there's alternate endings? Even if not for that last segment but the outcome of Ciri & such?
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May 30, 2015 22:34
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It's a known bug that all the attack power runes are +0 attack power, right? DPS doesn't change, so it doesn't look like it's just not reporting the right number in the description...
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May 30, 2015 22:34
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So is this the first Witcher game for anyone? I wanna hear your impressions. 
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May 30, 2015 22:36
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Okay, Skelligers are awesome. Crach an Craite's reaction to you telling him that you're looking for Hammond is gold. He just laughs because Hammond's a pain in his rear end and he knows that him and Geralt meeting will most likely end with Hammond dead. Magni fucked around with this message at 22:57 on May 30, 2015 |
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May 30, 2015 22:37
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Megazver posted:So is this the first Witcher game for anyone? I wanna hear your impressions. I played like the first 5 hours of Witcher 2 a few years ago and put it down and never played it again so I guess this is my first full Witcher game. If the writing in 1 & 2 is half as good as 3 I'll probably go back and play those. It's also given me an incentive to get a hold of the English version of the books to see more of what the hell is going on with the world.
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May 30, 2015 22:38
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i really need a few gwent decks irl stat
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May 30, 2015 22:42
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Blue Raider posted:i really need a few gwent decks irl stat I bet someone is selling the xbone collector edition cards on ebay. Unfunny Poster posted:I played like the first 5 hours of Witcher 2 a few years ago and put it down and never played it again so I guess this is my first full Witcher game. If the writing in 1 & 2 is half as good as 3 I'll probably go back and play those. It's also given me an incentive to get a hold of the English version of the books to see more of what the hell is going on with the world.
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May 30, 2015 22:43
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Unfunny Poster posted:I played like the first 5 hours of Witcher 2 a few years ago and put it down and never played it again so I guess this is my first full Witcher game. If the writing in 1 & 2 is half as good as 3 I'll probably go back and play those. It's also given me an incentive to get a hold of the English version of the books to see more of what the hell is going on with the world. Pretty much this exact reaction! Razakai posted:Spoilers for Get Junior: Wait what? I just carved my way through the whole place. In fact, I did that for all the places. Novigrad has been VERY bloody for me.
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May 30, 2015 22:43
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Lord Lambeth posted:I bet someone is selling the xbone collector edition cards on ebay. poo poo man, theyre like 100 bucks. i like the game quite a bit but thats just egregious
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May 30, 2015 22:47
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Megazver posted:So is this the first Witcher game for anyone? I wanna hear your impressions. I am in the same boat as Unfunny Poster, I played The Witcher 2 for like a third of the game and then stopped because playing it was a chore and I made the mistake of not doing so on easy. I tried playing the first but didn't get very far so I just watched a Let's Play of it for the story. So technically 3 is the first one I've actually stuck with, I bought it because I like the story and figure the series deserves another chance and so far I have not been let down. I have a few remaining quabbles with the gameplay and it's not perfect or anything, but pretty much all of my complaints from 2 have been resolved so I'm liking it so far.
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May 30, 2015 22:48
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So with the ruler of Novigrad choice, what do you guys think is more canon? Djikstra or Roche?
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May 30, 2015 22:50
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Flumpus posted:It's a known bug that all the attack power runes are +0 attack power, right? DPS doesn't change, so it doesn't look like it's just not reporting the right number in the description... Yeah seems that way. Apparently in some guides those runes are actually listed as reflecting damage, so maybe they changed it at the last minute and it broke or something.
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May 30, 2015 22:50
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Unfunny Poster posted:I finished the game today. Man the writing is good, like if this doesn't get more praise for the character & story development at all I don't know what a good game story is then. Yes. You should've been a better father to Ciri.
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May 30, 2015 22:53
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mcbexx posted:This is the first game I turned off the subtitles because I want to resist the urge to skim the text and skip parts of the conversations. I pretty much did that. Had him disassemble it in front of me and shoved Witcher diagrams in his face. "NO YOU ELVEN RETARD. THIS IS A GOOD SWORD. THIS PIECE OF poo poo YOU MADE IS NOT." Verranicus posted:So with the ruler of Novigrad choice, what do you guys think is more canon? Djikstra or Roche? Ciri. Roche winds up in Temeria.
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May 30, 2015 23:01
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Started second run at B&BB. Is it viable with the same fast attacks Cat build I did normal, or do I have to change to signs/bombs/alchemy abuse?
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May 30, 2015 23:07
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What's the deal with the secondary use of signs? I keep hearing about it but I did all the tutorials and it was never mentioned as far as I know?
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May 30, 2015 23:08
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Infinite Monkeys posted:What's the deal with the secondary use of signs? I keep hearing about it but I did all the tutorials and it was never mentioned as far as I know? They're mid-level Sign abilities you can spec into. Haven't used the Aard one, but for the other alternates: Igni alt is a flamethrower you can aim and continuously deal damage for a couple seconds Quen alt is the bubble like shield you see Vesemir use in the tutorial, it will block damage and heal you while draining stamina Yrden alt is basically a lightning turret trap that is particularly useful against fliers but a good source of fire-and-forget damage Axii alt charms instead of stuns They're all good and cool and fun. It's pretty hard to put together a truly bad build for Geralt.
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May 30, 2015 23:14
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Manatee Cannon posted:It's there to cover the load time. If you're on PC, I'm sure you could skip it if you load quicker than it takes for the narration to complete. No, it's not. The cutscenes are gone once you're in the post-game. It's either there to meet a Sony or Microsoft technical cert requirement or it's there for some other nebulous purpose. I'd lean towards the first.
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May 30, 2015 23:16
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GuyUpNorth posted:Started second run at B&BB. Is it viable with the same fast attacks Cat build I did normal, or do I have to change to signs/bombs/alchemy abuse? You'll be fine. Take 5/5 in the fast attack damage talent, cat school style, and 5/5 in the poison oil talent in alchemy and then you can get whatever else you want.
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