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jerichojx posted:So this game is $57 for me now on Steam. Yes or no should I buy it? I could not really get into Witcher 2. I barely played Witcher 2 and this is my GOTY. As an aside, is there anything else worth doing in Skellige after [spoilers]finishing the main quest line and getting all the Places of Power? Also, my "track the Djinn with Yennefr" quest is hilariously bugged. She just sits there in the boat and keeps telling me to get in, and when I do, nothing happens[/spoiler]
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Out of curiosity I looked up the final boss encounter in The Witcher 1. CDPR sure have come far, haven't they?
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Jun 13, 2015 05:00
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Moridin920 posted:Plus there's a quest that has 4500 coins as a reward assuming you play it right (might be a way to get 9000 from it but not sure). About that quest Why the gently caress does Geralt just let Sasha take half if he wins the tournament? What did she even do to make giving her a share seem reasonable? She's like "hey, you and me let's steal the money if we don't win, and if you win I'll have another deal for you" and then you win and it's like "okay gimme cash thx" dorkasaurus_rex posted:She just sits there in the boat and keeps telling me to get in, and when I do, nothing happens You have to sit down on the other seat in the boat man.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:07
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Calaveron posted:Out of curiosity I looked up the final boss encounter in The Witcher 1. It's pretty much a exponential improvement with each new game. Original Witcher got me hooked on the world, even though in hindsight it had lots of annoying clunky elements and hit or miss areas.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:09
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etalian posted:It's pretty much a exponential improvement with each new game. The things that stood out to me on the short video I watched was Geralt's medallion shaking like a loving maraca in the corner of the screen, the weightless, awkward spinny attack animations, and the completely weightless feel of the combat, with tons of numbers just flying around.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:14
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BisonDollah posted:If you could go back to Day 1 and give yourself some tips what would they be? This is good advice but the sun is usually in the south, since the game takes place in late summer/early autumn way up north. North of the Pontar, use the Temple Tower in Novigrad as a landmark. South of the Pontar, use the giant oak on a hill in Crookback Hills as a landmark. On Ard Skellige, use the huge mountain range on the north end of the isle as a landmark. You can navigate pretty well just by knowing where those three things are.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:17
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The color grading in this game washes out the horizon so much that I don't think I'd want to play it like that. I love this game's use of color most of the time but at certain points during the day it just becomes a mess of crushed hues that render the skyline indistinguishable. Sundown in Velen in particular is really hard to look at because the screen just becomes this big stark blob of golden yellow and dark green, god help me if it's raining or something simultaneously.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:20
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Calaveron posted:The things that stood out to me on the short video I watched was Geralt's medallion shaking like a loving maraca in the corner of the screen, the weightless, awkward spinny attack animations, and the completely weightless feel of the combat, with tons of numbers just flying around. By the end of the game the attack animations get awesome, but it's another case of cool stuff being hidden behind ~30 levels so that most players never even see it. It's hard to call it weightless when you literally tackle a dude to the ground, whip out your dagger and stab him repeatedly in the face.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:21
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I really loved Witcher 1 back when it first came out. Act 1 was kinda terrible, granted, but the murder investigation in Act 2 was phenomenal. You could very easily accuse the wrong person, and the game was alright with that. It was also the game that finally broke my habit of hoarding consumables, and for that I'm forever grateful. I was never able to finish Witcher 2, despite its length. I'd always get really depressed midway through Act 2 and have to take a really long break. Witcher 3 though? Amazing.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:27
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It's the fact that Geralt kinda just stand there doing his moves. I don't even remember him tackling dudes in that game.
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dyzzy posted:It's the fact that Geralt kinda just stand there doing his moves. I don't even remember him tackling dudes in that game. They had 30 attack animations for Geralt and the 12 coolest ones were locked behind gold talent skills. You play through 80% of the game with 12-18 lame attack animations and many players didn't make it far enough or didn't spec into swords enough to see the good animations. Not a great design decision.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:36
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Arglebargle III posted:They had 30 attack animations for Geralt and the 12 coolest ones were locked behind gold talent skills. You play through 80% of the game with 12-18 lame attack animations and many players didn't make it far enough or didn't spec into swords enough to see the good animations. Not a great design decision. That game had some giant, convoluted-rear end talent system as I recall. Also a pretty goofy ui.  But hey, triple wielding swords! Also visible weapon oils.
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Jun 13, 2015 05:48
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Arglebargle III posted:They had 30 attack animations for Geralt and the 12 coolest ones were locked behind gold talent skills. You play through 80% of the game with 12-18 lame attack animations and many players didn't make it far enough or didn't spec into swords enough to see the good animations. Not a great design decision. Wow. I had no idea, I'm not even sure I got to that point?
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Jun 13, 2015 05:53
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Selane posted:That game had some giant, convoluted-rear end talent system as I recall. Also a pretty goofy ui. And that little wolf medallion just shaking its little heart out. Look at Geralt's Fabio-rear end hair
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Arglebargle III posted:They had 30 attack animations for Geralt and the 12 coolest ones were locked behind gold talent skills. You play through 80% of the game with 12-18 lame attack animations and many players didn't make it far enough or didn't spec into swords enough to see the good animations. Not a great design decision. Most players who beat the game never saw them either, because there wasn't much point to leveling swordsmanship when you could just fire off Igni and one-shot a dozen men.
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Yup. Though swords eventually caught up in the trivializing human opponents department.
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Can anyone confirm or deny that balisse fruit is bugged and no longer drops from plants or appears in herbalist shops? I haven't seen any since 1.04 dropped I think.
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Arglebargle III posted:About that quest Why the gently caress does Geralt just let Sasha take half if he wins the tournament? What did she even do to make giving her a share seem reasonable? She's like "hey, you and me let's steal the money if we don't win, and if you win I'll have another deal for you" and then you win and it's like "okay gimme cash thx" I don't know at the end when she said alright give me the half I fairly earned I was thinking 'bitch what did you do exactly other than hang around?'
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Arglebargle III posted:Can anyone confirm or deny that balisse fruit is bugged and no longer drops from plants or appears in herbalist shops? I haven't seen any since 1.04 dropped I think. There's a bunch of it in White Orchard, I just restarted on Death March.
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Selane posted:That game had some giant, convoluted-rear end talent system as I recall. Also a pretty goofy ui. I would have preferred to use witcher 1 UI and inventory system over what we have in Witcher 3. I'm serious.
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Selane posted:That game had some giant, convoluted-rear end talent system as I recall. Also a pretty goofy ui. i cant believe the same company made witchers 2 and 3. that pic is some seriously low rent poo poo
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Jun 13, 2015 06:35
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All that bullshit for Dijkstra and he gives me 90 lousy crowns? There should have been an option to Aard his rear end into the canal and toss a grapeshot after him... guess I did find out what happen to Geralt's boyfriend though.
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Arglebargle III posted:Can anyone confirm or deny that balisse fruit is bugged and no longer drops from plants or appears in herbalist shops? I haven't seen any since 1.04 dropped I think. I had a hard time finding it too.. It does not grow at all in Velen. Supposedly you can find it in open, treeless areas around Novigraad, or in Skellige. Its a low shrub with purple flowers Though the only luck I had was in White Orchard, a bunch grows around the herbalist hut, mostly on the opposite side of the road from the hut. Plus the herbalist sells more on 1.04 Willfrey fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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Jun 13, 2015 06:44
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Willfrey posted:I had a hard time finding it too.. It does not grow at all in Velen. Supposedly you can find it in open, treeless areas around Novigraad, or in Skellige. Its a low shrub with purple flowers iirc, that fruit can be found at the entrance to the White Orchard village outside the tavern just to the left in the garden area where the women are washing clothes. There are multiples of it there so pick away. While you're getting this plant, go swimming in the river looking for more buckthron. Not only does it smell loving awful and attrack Griffons from miles away, it's also used in several high end potion recipies. Go grab some of that too so you don't need to later (nobody sells Buckthorn, not even the master alchemist in Skellige - probably because it smells like poo poo or something who knows).
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Moridin920 posted:I don't know at the end when she said alright give me the half I fairly earned I was thinking 'bitch what did you do exactly other than hang around?' She sleeps with you, least I figured that's what the "other deal" was.
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Jun 13, 2015 07:19
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Broose posted:I would have preferred to use witcher 1 UI and inventory system over what we have in Witcher 3. I'm serious. This. Hopefully there will be some good UI and inventory mods at some point.
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Jun 13, 2015 07:23
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Holy poo poo did I just see Hjalmar jump through one of wild hunt portals and come back out another?
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Avalerion posted:She sleeps with you, least I figured that's what the "other deal" was. That's not really all too much of a deal either though considering the game posits it as her being the more interested party in that outcome.
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Blue Raider posted:i cant believe the same company made witchers 2 and 3. that pic is some seriously low rent poo poo It's a modified version of Neverwinter Nights. I think even at the time the graphics were a little janky but it's a huge game, fully voice acted and with the best sound track of the Witcher series.
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sauer kraut posted:Oh Dijkstra, that was a tough decision with a time limit There's a painfully obvious "good" choice there, but it was a tough one because Dijkstra is just such a far more interesting character than the alternatives. They mostly glower and curse, he shows up quoting Macbeth. And a very apropos quotation considering both what's just happened and what happens just afterwards.
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Question about the new Gwent cards. Do these new ones replace the old versions or are they a separate set?
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Lareine posted:Question about the new Gwent cards. Do these new ones replace the old versions or are they a separate set?
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:I have so much crap in there and Im not sure what I can ditch and not now. I empty out my notes and books at the bookseller in Novigrad once in a while. I read through everything in case it has bestiary updates or somesuch, then I usually sell everything except Yens letter (Geralt so sentimental), the mysterious letter received in a bookstore, and a diary by Aeramas detailing a psychedelic trip caused by smelling a particularly pungent cheese (too funny to sell). KPC_Mammon posted:If playing Gwent is greyed out, instead of white, you've already beaten that character and gained their card. I think it only means you've played them, not that you've won.
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Jun 13, 2015 12:12
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Good ol' Roach working out
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Another tip for people beginning the game that I haven't seen mentioned - you can easily kill whole groups of enemies that outlevel you if you do it from horseback. Remember that when you hold the left mouse button during a fight while sitting on a horse - action will go into slow-motion and Geralt will hold the sword up ready to swing and it's really easy to hit people this way. I'm bolding that as I only discovered it by accident. As a bonus you will decapitate everybody and it's pretty sweet. It's harder with monsters as your horse gets spooked but now with the free DLC there are some good relatively cheap sets you can buy even in prologue that make the horse brave enough for this tactic to be feasible. It's so easy to clear bandit/deserter camps or monster nests this way even being 10 levels behind your enemies that it's not even funny as you almost don't get hit.
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Greenplastic posted:Good ol' Roach working out  It's a strong horse.
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There's also a decoction that gives you 50% mounted combat bonus and makes your horse immune to fear.
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Selane posted:That game had some giant, convoluted-rear end talent system as I recall. Also a pretty goofy ui. Maybe it was posted before, but if you want to learn more about Witcher development history pre-Witcher 2 and even Witcher 1 guy who is ex-CDPR employee did some amazing vidoes. He presents old demos (actually plays them) and makes comments about how it was like developing first Witcher and what problems CDPR had during this process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMmFiQp3Q_4 - first ever demo of Witcher on different engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBWlnL6Tr6k - second demo, this time using engine that was used in final game. What is interesting is that CDPR first demos contain character creation and Geralt being NPC.
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ive been trying to clear up my sidequests and ones been sitting there since lvl 9 apparently. im supposed to collect a reward from the king of beggars for freeing rico but the dotted line only leads me to a dead end with the yellow marker just out of reach. what
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How the gently caress are you supposed to beat the 2nd (bald) Vildkaarl? The first one I can easily get down with parries and sidestepping his right hook. But as soon as you start fighting the second one the collision detection turns to a ploughing turdpile and I get hit by invisible fists and Geralt is glued to the floor (seriously, I try sidestepping, the animation plays but Geralt is stuck on the spot and then I get hosed to kingdom come).
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