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GrossMurpel posted:Are you saying Yennefer pretended to work with the Lodge and then relayed their plans to Emhyr? No, I am just saying that Emhyr's plan cannot work without Yennefer's assistance. She was Demavend's royal advisor prior to her "death." She would know the king's habits, his guards, and the castle's layout. Her knowledge would be invaluable for regicide.
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Merry Magpie posted:No, I am just saying that Emhyr's plan cannot work without Yennefer's assistance. I thought your problem was how Emhyr knew about the Lodge wanting Demavend dead. Didn't his court mages extract those memories after she got caught?
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david... posted:Once the oils become permanent and the potions last ridiculous amounts of time it's not much of a hassle. Which skill makes the oil permanent?
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GrossMurpel posted:I thought your problem was how Emhyr knew about the Lodge wanting Demavend dead. I already mentioned that. Merry Magpie posted:Returning to your original claim, the entire story falls apart if Yennefer does not actively cooperate with Nilfgaard's plan.
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Spikeguy posted:Which skill makes the oil permanent? It's the third rank of a skill on the fourth row, first one gives you 33% more charges and the last one gives you infinite charges.
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Snuffman posted:Also, what drops red mutagen? I'm swimming (from drowners, get it? Red mutagens seem very rare in the early game. I've gotten them from Alghouls early on, but not much else. They get a lot more common later. Drowners seem to start dropping them when they're close to level 20. Decoctions are like all alchemy stuff in that whenever you meditate, you consume one unit of hard alcohol to replenish them. You don't need to go hunt down another special mutagen, once you have the recipe, you have the item forever. The drawback of decoctions is they effectively lock you out of potions unless you take acquired tolerance.
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What the hell happened to Geralt's voice in the Echoes of the Past quest? I just talked to Yen after she used the stolen mask, and Geralt's lines sound like they were recorded by someone else. Really weird.
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Best part of the game has got to be the drunken capers with your witcher friends. "Summon the bitches!"
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Well, after 103 hours played i completed near enough every quest and finished the game, only complaint i have is that it wasn't long enough  That and shoot the horse.
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How come Lambert and Eskel don't have white hair but Vesemir and Geralt do? Eskel is around the same doddery age as Geralt it says in the dialogue.
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I found Odrin and his new business venture in Novigrad, game owns.
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Dongattack posted:Well, after 103 hours played i completed near enough every quest and finished the game, only complaint i have is that it wasn't long enough 100 hours is pretty long to me, but I expected the game to cover more of the northern kingdoms and nilfgaard. Like more than just a slice of Temeria and Redania, and Skelige.
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turtlecrunch posted:How come Lambert and Eskel don't have white hair but Vesemir and Geralt do? Eskel is around the same doddery age as Geralt it says in the dialogue. I believe Geralt has white hair because of the witcher mutations, which doesn't affect everyone equally. and I think Vesemir is just old.
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Ludwig van Halen posted:I believe Geralt has white hair because of the witcher mutations, which doesn't affect everyone equally. Yeah, I didn't notice Vesemir as having white hair so much as Old-man grey hair.
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turtlecrunch posted:How come Lambert and Eskel don't have white hair but Vesemir and Geralt do? Eskel is around the same doddery age as Geralt it says in the dialogue. Geralt's white hair is a unique side-effect of his mutations. As a child he proved to be highly resistant against the dangers of the mutations, so they just hit him with some additional extra-hard rare mutagens that weren't generally used for most witchers, one of which caused the hair colour. Vesemir is just plain old as balls.
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Vahalla posted:Regarding Triss: Shameless self quote as I'm super curious if I missed anything along the way or if I'm just too used to bioware games at this point 
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Man, doing the Bloody Baron's questline at last (way over-leveled for it) and his voice actor absolutely nailed the role. He's such a vile man and I can never overlook what he's done, but the sheer grief and anger he displays about himself is touching in a really uncomfortable way. I chose to turn his miscarried daughter into a beneveolent spirit, and the way the Baron utterly loses it and breaks down crying when naming her was heart wrenching. More like this please.
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Vahalla posted:Shameless self quote as I'm super curious if I missed anything along the way or if I'm just too used to bioware games at this point Yeah that's it, I was pursuing my previous games romance with her and that's all I saw.
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Vahalla posted:Shameless self quote as I'm super curious if I missed anything along the way or if I'm just too used to bioware games at this point Just some awkward tension between Triss/Yen and Geralt/Yen.
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muscles like this? posted:I don't use bombs much because I find them a little too awkward to use in the middle of combat. Dodge or roll back, tap RB.
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I almost gave up on the Witcher because I have a relatively old machine, but holy poo poo, last nvidia drivers gave me about 8-9 more fps. I have an i5 2500k and a gtx 670 and now I can run everything at high plus HBAO. On average, 47 fps indoor and 38 outdoors. On a side note, what's the deal with the subtle facial expressions/winks/gestures in dialogues? Conversations have never looked so realistic in a videogame. Even the stupidest peasant seems convincing. Kawabata fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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A lot of the Yennefer conspiracy theory relies on vagueness as to when Emhyr had his agent installed in the Lodge, and presumes he would not have done so if he weren't aware of their conspiracy. Which presumes a lot. The US doesn't need to hear about some other country's clever scheme to begin engaging in espionage, we spy on everybody just in case, regardless of our relationship with them. And I'm willing to bet Emhyr var Emreis is the kind of guy who'd rather be safe than sorry. If there's evidence pointing to the existence of a nascent cabal of politically-motivated sorceresses in the north he's going to pursue it. Yennefer obviously knew of the lodge being an unwilling participant (and a "member" under duress) for their early activities, and this knowledge could be siphoned out of her post-revival. In the event that Sile found and contacted Yen while she was in Nilfgaard, even if she'd successfully recruited her in the Lodge's schemes (which strikes me as unlikely, but that wouldn't stop her from sending overtures of reconciliation since, like Philippa, Sile's not half as clever as she thinks she is), by the time of the siphoning the damage would already have been done. And the source of Sile's knowledge of Yennefer's whereabouts was left vague so even a direct contact scenario is presumption and inference rather than fact. It might've been an interesting angle if the writers wanted to pursue it but they obviously didn't, as shown by the fact that they explicitly wrote in-game text torpedoing any suspicions on her with regards to the conspiracy. So you can have some fun with thought exercises and workshop a believable Yennefer fanfic as much as you like, but you really shouldn't get too attached to your theory. Or take it personally when people are disinclined to believe it.
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GrossMurpel posted:I thought your problem was how Emhyr knew about the Lodge wanting Demavend dead. Merry Magpie posted:No, I am just saying that Emhyr's plan cannot work without Yennefer's assistance. Are you guys completely forgetting that Philippa's apprentice/lover, Cynthia, was a Nilfgaardian spy? The empire also has lots of ways to acquire the knowledge it needed to carry out the assassinations. Slashrat fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Slashrat posted:Are you guys completely forgetting that Philippa's apprentice/lover, Cynthia, was a Nilfgaardian spy? Sure spell it out for him why don'tcha. Yes, the theory basically relies on a lack of information as to when Cynthia infiltrated the lodge and how Emhyr knew of the lodge to have it infiltrated in the first place. And then getting increasingly elaborate in order to support the theory in the face of contradictory evidence.
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I wonder if the Crusader Kings series includes BDSM as a covert operation tactic.
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The KGB trained their agents to be prepared for any eventuality out in the field.
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Riso posted:May I introduce you to my good friend, the Cockatrice decoction? Dr. Abysmal posted:Same thing for crafting and alchemy, where you have to scroll through giant lists instead of just selecting tabs for the appropriate category. Notes and books should be added to the glossary once you read them. I love this game to death (best RPG I have ever played) but good god the missions you get where you need to "read the note/letter/book you found" is really really obtuse to me. These books/notes/letters should be saved to a glossary so you can discard the poo poo from your overburdened inventory. What about the notes on the plague from the rattower? Can I toss 'em or could I give them back to Keira later? There should be a chest you can store stuff you do not want to carry around. Yeah I really like how the game abstracts Geralt using saddlebags, but I have 150 Dwarven Spirit, 150 Alcholest, 200 Waters (that all weigh next to nothing) and innumerable crafting/alchemy components/ingredients, a Nilfgaardian Doublet, and a billion mutagens that I do not want to carry around on me - I should be able to drop them in a loving chest. And yes I know I can drop them on the ground and come back later but that just seems blech to me. edit: also, when shopping, if you mouse over an item you already own, it should light up in your own inventory so you can see how many you have. I like to stay topped up on the rare alchemical ingredients and crafting materials but it is such a headache to search through all of my crafting poo poo to find if what I think I may be low on is actually low, especially because all alchemy and crafting stuff goes in the same tab. Sorry for the rant. I really love the game but the inventory is driving me nuts. AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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A chest would make it even worse because now you also have to tediously think about "what should I put in the chest?", in addition to the already existing and tedious questions, "what should I drop?" and "what should I sell?". Selling items should just be removed entirely, then there's no reason to pick up junk, and there should be a potion and bomb tab, and no weight limit. That would probably be enough. (I'd go further and remove looting random crap everywhere but they aren't gonna do that.)
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Bort Bortles posted:Meh, only helps a little. And how does it work anyway? Once I consume it everything goes up by one use until the decoction wears off? If you sort your inventory once, it will put the newest stuff you acquired in the first few slots.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:A chest would make it even worse because now you also have to tediously think about "what should I put in the chest?", in addition to the already existing and tedious questions, "what should I drop?" and "what should I sell?". Selling items should just be removed entirely, then there's no reason to pick up junk, and there should be a potion and bomb tab, and no weight limit. That would probably be enough. (I'd go further and remove looting random crap everywhere but they aren't gonna do that.) GrossMurpel posted:If you sort your inventory once, it will put the newest stuff you acquired in the first few slots.
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Here's hoping CDPR become the new kings of open world games and we get more stuff like this as opposed to reskins of Skyrim once every 6 months. EDIT: If nothing else I'd like a storage chest just to put all of my Witcher gear in so I don't accidentally sell it before I can upgrade it down the road. Verranicus fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Slashrat posted:Are you guys completely forgetting that Philippa's apprentice/lover, Cynthia, was a Nilfgaardian spy? The empire also has lots of ways to acquire the knowledge it needed to carry out the assassinations. That's why I had no problem with Emhyr knowing about the Lodge's assassination plot. Nilfgaard's entire plan is built upon co-opting the Lodge's assassination plot. Without Yennefer's involvement, Nilfgaard would have no way of ensuring the Lodge contracted a random Nilfgaardian witcher to commit regicide.
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GrossMurpel posted:If you sort your inventory once, it will put the newest stuff you acquired in the first few slots. True, but it doesn't really help with clutter. Or the fact that most notes would be better off archived as database entries rather than taking up valuable space in the inventory. Basically, I completely agree with Bort Bortles. Even about the chest thing. And I'd love it if someone were to make an inventory management mod that was basically just those suggestions.
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Merry Magpie posted:the entire story falls apart if Yennefer does not actively cooperate with Nilfgaard's plan. What? No. Yennefer was irrelevant. Philippa was blabbing all her plans directly to Nilfgaardian intelligence.
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, I've had the exact same issue. Supposedly quicksaving and reloading in place can fix it, but I just started going to the weaponsmith in Novigrad (directly south from the armorer on Hierarch Square) instead to save me that hassle. Yeah, been doing the same, dude has maps for some witcher gear I want. Rather annoying.
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Bort Bortles posted:I would be ok with this. I completely agree with the inventory being way too cluttered, I just thought that'd help you in the "read the note you just found" quests since new ones will appear first and be marked with an asterisk 
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Arglebargle III posted:What? No. Yennefer was irrelevant. Philippa was blabbing all her plans directly to Nilfgaardian intelligence. With the occasional safe word thrown in.
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Merry Magpie posted:That's why I had no problem with Emhyr knowing about the Lodge's assassination plot. From what I remember of Letho explaining it, it was pure chance that Sile hired Letho and his pals. They'd gone in planning to just kill the kings and scapegoat the lodge. Actually getting the lodge to unwittingly help them do it was a bonus.
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Slashrat posted:From what I remember of Letho explaining it, it was pure chance that Sile hired Letho and his pals. They'd gone in planning to just kill the kings and scapegoat the lodge. Actually getting the lodge to unwittingly help them do it was a bonus. Letho was deliberately trying to set himself up as a hitman/patsy for the Lodge, but he was expecting Sile to point him toward some minor magistrate or something. Instead she set up a hit on one of the North's four major monarchs. It was like Christmas came early.
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