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Mordiceius posted:In the quest "Count Reuven's Treasure," how did you all handle the situation with Triss and the witchhunters? I never even made it past the gate. I murdered all of the dudes. It was great.
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Mordiceius posted:In the quest "Count Reuven's Treasure," how did you all handle the situation with Triss and the witchhunters? That's exactly how I handled it. As soon as I got the feeling Triss was going to be tortured and might not be able to stop it, I called the whole thing off and killed them all. Like you said, incredibly satisfying. Sounds like we're in similar parts of the game, and I have yet to go to Skellege as well. Triss was my choice in the first game, you spend the whole second game with her (Shani who?), and while I was really happy to find Yen, just because of how much you'd heard about her, Triss was always my choice going in. We'll see how the Yen stuff plays out later though.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:25
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Pellisworth posted:Just do whichever quests sound interesting to you. Contracts will be worth fair chunks of XP and gold (haggle!), most secondary quests aren't worth much except the really big chains. Yeah, do this. I don't see the obsession with only doing quests that give the best rewards. Quests all have interesting dialogue/lore to them and even most of the random POIs on the map have books/notes that flesh out the world.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:27
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Sile just knows that Yennefer is in the South, and given that she spends the entire game freaking out after Letho went off the reservation and killed Foltest, it's likely she spent some time back-checking his references and those of Geralt. Merry Magpie posted:Why did the Lodge recruit an unknown witcher to assassinate a king and not dispose of him afterwards? That was probably their original plan. Letho explains that he acted like a drooling, petulant dunce within earshot of Sile long enough to sound like a good patsy, and they commissioned him to kill Demavend and rendezous later. They probably would have disposed of him then, had he not gone "sike" and kept the killing spree rolling with Foltest. Yennefer had little to nothing to do with the assassination plan, she was an unwitting information pump. The whole thing was a collaboration between Philippa and Sile to establish a mage state in the heart of the North that went completely awry because they thought Letho was a glorified Middle-Ages Mugsy instead of a cagey double agent.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:28
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Merry Magpie posted:Thank you for looking it up. Sile is a massive wildcard since it's never really explained how she knows what she knows. From memory, Letho was captured by imperial intelligence and was promised the re-establishment of the Viper School of Witchers from Vattier and Emhyr, the Viper school being the school of Letho and the other kingslayers and also being based in Nilfgaard (as such, it's unlikely that Letho was completely unknown to the Nilfgaardians). There is no evidence that Yennefer actually went out and said "yeah, recruit him!", also there is no evidence that Sile was actually working for Nilfgaard - the Lodge of Sorceresses had this plan to knock off Demavend and wanted Letho's help to do that as Letho was in the area sucking up to the Sorceresses in the hope that he might be able to convince them to help him kill ?Foltest?, Letho went ahead and killed Demavend while cultivating ties to the Scoiatael who went off and helped him kill Foltest. Basically, Letho is really good at his job and the Sorceresses with the exception of Cynthia were not working with Nilfgaard.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:30
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Pellisworth posted:Just do whichever quests sound interesting to you. Contracts will be worth fair chunks of XP and gold (haggle!), most secondary quests aren't worth much except the really big chains. Definitely not bored, but I'm at almost 80 hours into the game.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:31
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What is the "Offical" ending that will be used in feature books? Or will there be no books/only books exploring the past.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:32
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I feel this void now that I finished the game.... Maybe I'll start over on hard... 
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Jun 2, 2015 02:32
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Letho is a giant loving musclebeast with no neck and talks like a bumpkin, everyone assumed he was a complete idiot and he played along.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:33
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Schlesische posted:Sile is a massive wildcard since it's never really explained how she knows what she knows. It's both frustrating and kind of brilliant when you realize that the second game's battle was lost before you even begin. The moment Letho killed Demavend in the opening cutscene, Emhyr had won. All that you can do is maybe trip up a couple of his victory laps.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:33
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Fist fights against non humans are so much easier than ones against humans, wow
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Jun 2, 2015 02:37
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I don't really want to look it up for fear of seeing spoilers, just curious if Letho is easily missable, or part of the main quests and I'll definitely see him. Also, if you killed him in 2, does he just not show up? Makes me worried he's very minor and easily missable, but I want to catch up with the big guy.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:37
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Flumpus posted:I don't really want to look it up for fear of seeing spoilers, just curious if Letho is easily missable, or part of the main quests and I'll definitely see him. Also, if you killed him in 2, does he just not show up? Makes me worried he's very minor and easily missable, but I want to catch up with the big guy. He's a secondary quest, fairly early in the game. No idea if that quest is different if he's alive or not or if that quest is even attainable with him dead.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:40
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Flumpus posted:That's exactly how I handled it. As soon as I got the feeling Triss was going to be tortured and might not be able to stop it, I called the whole thing off and killed them all. Like you said, incredibly satisfying. Yeah as soon as it was clear she was going to get tortured I murdered everyone in there and then we burned the drat place down 
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Jun 2, 2015 02:40
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8-bit Miniboss posted:I feel this void now that I finished the game.... I haven't beat it yet, but I really wish I'd gone with B&B over Normal. I mean, at first I got WRECKED, but at this point I know how the game works and it's just too easy.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:41
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Arrgytehpirate posted:Also, drunk Geralt voice is pretty great whoever wrote that part has been drunk a time or two
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Jun 2, 2015 02:41
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Verranicus posted:Yeah, do this. I don't see the obsession with only doing quests that give the best rewards. Quests all have interesting dialogue/lore to them and even most of the random POIs on the map have books/notes that flesh out the world. I'm constantly amazed at how they managed to make books in this game the exact right length and the perfectly engaging level of content to be worth reading. Compare to something like any Elder Scrolls game where I don't think I've ever bothered reading a book that wasn't part of a quest because a) the fonts were terrible b) the content was dry as a very dry desert and c) they were waaaaaaaaaay too long.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:47
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Are there any tips for haggling for more pay for a contract? I can't wrap my mind around how it works. What are the determining factors? How much can you often get away with? The times I did it they usually just got annoyed by my 5 crown mark-up so I just don't bother anymore. loving cheapskates. Yeah, go kill this motherfucking giant griffon for 134 crowns. How dare you want 140!
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Jun 2, 2015 02:48
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Pwnstar posted:Letho is a giant loving musclebeast with no neck and talks like a bumpkin, everyone assumed he was a complete idiot and he played along. He is a complete meatheaded idiot that gets played by every other person he runs across. And he'd be dead twice over if not for Geralt.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:49
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I'm getting one hell of a sense of deja vu with Johnny the mute Godling, was there a quest like that in TW2? Edit: Or was there an early gameplay video of this? pik_d fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Jun 2, 2015 02:50
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Sankis posted:They wouldn't need to texture nipples, pubic hair, and a tatoo that isn't visible in her normal clothes if that were the case. Judging by Witcher 1, the development team is probably still just full of creeps. For whatever reason one of Ciri's segments has a bathhouse scene (like father like daughter...), and it shows a close-up of her tattoo there, as well as one of the scars on her stomach. She was also going to bonk a guy at the end but gets cockblocked by the Wild Hunt, maybe there was a version where she didn't earlier in development. Or more likely she just uses the same basic female texture as the rest of them with her extra features masked on and the tint changed to match her skin color.
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Jimbot posted:Are there any tips for haggling for more pay for a contract? I can't wrap my mind around how it works. What are the determining factors? How much can you often get away with? The times I did it they usually just got annoyed by my 5 crown mark-up so I just don't bother anymore. People in positions of power tend to have more wiggle room in haggling. Villages are little bit more ornery about it. Edit: What I've done generally if it's someone that looks like they have a lot of money, I go deep into the bonus and judging by their annoyance bar edge it off. Poorer people I start in the middle. 8-bit Miniboss fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Broken Cog posted:He is a complete meatheaded idiot that gets played by every other person he runs across. And he'd be dead twice over if not for Geralt. Letho's an excellent manipulator. That just doesn't matter much when you're working for God-King Caesarpoleon.
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Jimbot posted:Are there any tips for haggling for more pay for a contract? I can't wrap my mind around how it works. What are the determining factors? How much can you often get away with? The times I did it they usually just got annoyed by my 5 crown mark-up so I just don't bother anymore. f5 if on PC. But really - I just go half way, see how they react, and adjust down accordingly.
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pik_d posted:I'm getting one hell of a sense of deja vu with Johnny the mute Godling, was there a quest like that in TW2? He was in one of the previews.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:56
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Where is a barber? I still haven't run into one.
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Flumpus posted:I don't really want to look it up for fear of seeing spoilers, just curious if Letho is easily missable, or part of the main quests and I'll definitely see him. Also, if you killed him in 2, does he just not show up? Makes me worried he's very minor and easily missable, but I want to catch up with the big guy. The quest is called The Fall of the House of Reardon, you find it in Lindenvale.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:58
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NESguerilla posted:Where is a barber? I still haven't run into one. theres one scissors icon in oxenfurt and multiple in novograd and skellege. idk how to lay it out better than that. the one in oenfurt is nearish the swordsmith
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Jun 2, 2015 03:00
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Agahnim posted:The quest is called The Fall of the House of Reardon, you find it in Lindenvale. Uh, ok, so... I think I've already done this, but didn't see him. So I looked it up... I hope he's still there if I go back now.
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Jun 2, 2015 03:01
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NESguerilla posted:Where is a barber? I still haven't run into one. There's one in oxenfurt, and a couple in novigrad, and one that you can rescue from bandits who shows up in one of the smaller towns a ways south of oxenfurt, I forget which one.
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beat the game a few hours ago. tough, tough ending. tied up everything nicely and left room for minor further adventures. especially impressed with the way they handled ciri it was a tight ending a la harry potter
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Crigit posted:There's one in oxenfurt, and a couple in novigrad, and one that you can rescue from bandits who shows up in one of the smaller towns a ways south of oxenfurt, I forget which one. Do those guys actually show up? I saved a couple people and everyone but the barbers show up in towns for me.
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Flumpus posted:Uh, ok, so... I think I've already done this, but didn't see him. So I looked it up... I hope he's still there if I go back now. The quest is still there if Letho is dead, but there are monsters to kill instead. Maybe there was a bug with the save transfer?
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Jun 2, 2015 03:08
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ShadowMar posted:Do those guys actually show up? I saved a couple people and everyone but the barbers show up in towns for me. I originally entered Novigrad via a gate in the east of the city and there was a barber a little way to the north of it. He was drunk, but he gave me a decent shave. edit: from this map website which is useful as hell but spoilery  Also since I was clean shaven, the beard's not growing in. Someone remind me how I reset that? Or do I need to install some dlc for it?
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Jun 2, 2015 03:09
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Agahnim posted:The quest is still there if Letho is dead, but there are monsters to kill instead. Maybe there was a bug with the save transfer? Hm... I lost my save, so imported one that claimed Letho was still alive, but now I'm questioning that. I'll be disappointed if that's the case, but I suppose I'll end up playing this again at some point if he's gone.
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ShadowMar posted:Do those guys actually show up? I saved a couple people and everyone but the barbers show up in towns for me. He did for me. I'm pretty sure it's one of the towns by the water. I want to say Oreton, but that might not be right. All the barbers I've seen so far have schedules that close up shop at night, so you might have just gone by when they weren't open.
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Memento posted:I originally entered Novigrad via a gate in the east of the city and there was a barber a little way to the north of it. He was drunk, but he gave me a decent shave. When you clean shave it takes several days for it to grow. The only time the beard doesn't grow is if you select a dlc beard, then you just select the clean shave to reset.
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Oxxidation posted:Sile just knows that Yennefer is in the South, and given that she spends the entire game freaking out after Letho went off the reservation and killed Foltest, it's likely she spent some time back-checking his references and those of Geralt. Sile: "You waited long enough...Should you survive, go south, to Nilfgaard, where you'll find Yennefer of Vengerberg. Farewell, witcher." Sile specifically refers to Nilfgaard. More importantly, Sile only reveals this information if you save her life. Sile must have had a reason for concealing Yennefer's location from Triss. The simplest explanation is Yennefer asked Sile not to reveal her location during their communication. Sile: "After assassinating Demavend, Letho used our gold and magical support to find and meet Iorveth. The elf was to help him hide until the matter blew over. Or so I thought. The Lodge did not condemn Foltest to die." After the assassination of Demavend, the Lodge explicitly helped Letho contact Iorveth rather than simply murder him. If Letho was truly an unknown, it would have been safer to kill him. The Lodge must have had a reason for taking the risk and allowing Letho to live. Yennefer's involvement in the Lodge conspiracy on behalf of Nilfgaard. Summary: Yennefer conspired with Nilfgaard to co-opt the Lodge's plan to assassinate Demavend. Letho was a pawn who followed Nilfgaard's plan.
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You never actually have to find Letho in that quest, even if you do have him alive. You can totally ignore the barn he's hiding in from what I remember, it's a separate thing from the quest.turtlecrunch posted:She was also going to bonk a guy at the end but gets cockblocked by the Wild Hunt, maybe there was a version where she didn't earlier in development. Uh, what? That's not at all how that went down for me and it didn't seem even a little bit like it could have gone that way. edit: Sunstone spoilers: Phillipa: We're not a pack of wolves that you can drive away from her with a sword Geralt: Sure you are, and yes I can if the need arises 
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Manatee Cannon posted:You never actually have to find Letho in that quest, even if you do have him alive. You can totally ignore the barn he's hiding in from what I remember, it's a separate thing from the quest. I just went back and the ladder is missing. So either it goes away when you turn in the quest, or he's not alive in the save I imported (should have been though). So you encounter him later as well?
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