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alex314 posted:I've watched Sword of destiny trailer again, and I don't remember that scene: He's right there when you do that part of the game, though Ciri takes centre stage in the actual game with Gerry at the back.
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Swedish Horror posted:Block when an enemies name flashes in red. That will make you counterattack. Thank you.
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Jun 30, 2015 15:48
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Didn't one of the trailers also have a moment where Geralt wakes up outdoors wearing nothing but his underwear? That part wasn't in the game either (unless I missed it), and was "replaced" by the stuff that happens in Kaer Morhen. Not that I mind as that scene was amazing. Another chance to get properly wasted would have been nice though. 
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Jun 30, 2015 15:50
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Try vampire hunting in Novigrad - there's one especially finnicky vampire that only drinks the blood of people who are completely smashed. Guess what your plan is to lure it out.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:06
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I think that quest is in Oxenfurt but yeah it's pretty good
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Jun 30, 2015 16:08
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There's also a small event out somewhere north of Oxenfurt where some bards steal Geralt's clothes after getting him wrecked on vodka, but I'm not sure which of those quests that scene is from.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:11
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:There's also a small event out somewhere north of Oxenfurt where some bards steal Geralt's clothes after getting him wrecked on vodka, but I'm not sure which of those quests that scene is from. It makes you wonder, how did those bards not get alcohol poisoning, if witcher's metabolism can take stuff like decoctions and potions easily. The outcome is great though.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:24
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Xarn posted:It makes you wonder, how did those bards not get alcohol poisoning, if witcher's metabolism can take stuff like decoctions and potions easily. The outcome is great though. Musicians do drugs like goddamned champions is why, even witchers can't compare.
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Slashrat posted:counter-attacks happen automatically when you start blocking immediately after the enemy starts his/its attack animation, as opposed to just keeping the block button held down all the time. You can also hold the button down and let go for a second before the attack and geralt will parry. Keeps lunging fuckers and arrows if you have the skill from hitting you.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:42
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Arglebargle III posted:It is amazingly stupidly good. Combine with Ekhidna decoction for balls-out insane invincibility. Not sure how you're planning to use it with archgriffin because it's not a heavy attack. Try it out with Wyvern Decoction for game-breakulous damage bonuses. Can you Rend and use archgriffin at the same time?
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Jun 30, 2015 16:45
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Yeah Geralt loses his clothes relatively often in this game. That quest with the bards is hilarious though - as revenge you can strip them both - they continue to talk about art standing in their underwear and one of them reveals a combover under his hat.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:46
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Palpek posted:Yeah Geralt loses his clothes relatively often in this game. That quest with the bards is hilarious though - as revenge you can strip them both - they continue to talk about art standing in their underwear and one of them reveals a combover under his hat. A request was made to make it so that Geralt could then wear their clothes, but it was denied. Enhanced Edition, maybe.
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Jun 30, 2015 16:47
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Musicians do drugs like goddamned champions is why, even witchers can't compare. Next DLC: Musician decoction -- Unlimited toxicity
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Jun 30, 2015 17:01
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I wonder how trolls came to have a retarded toddlers comprehension of English. They certainly didn't live with humans.
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Jun 30, 2015 17:13
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:I wonder how trolls came to have a retarded toddlers comprehension of English. They certainly didn't live with humans. trollses mommy teach baby trollses talky good
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Jun 30, 2015 18:00
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soooo with the haunted house in Novigrad... I was nice to the female Godling and told her I'd tell Uncle Pennybags the house is permahaunted. IGN informs me that it's a minor ending that I'll later find out she lives happily with the woman she was tormenting in the house now. However, it seems the "better" ending would have been to force her out as she apparently finds the godling boy in the bog. Wouldn't that be a better ending? Sigh. So with the DLC, does it just auto install or something? the PS4 gives no indication of it, is the idea that I'm supposed to check their media pages to know about it? It seems a tad silly to not advertise it at all in the game.
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Jun 30, 2015 18:05
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JetsGuy posted:soooo with the haunted house in Novigrad... I think the first ending is better to be honest. The Godling you meet in the bog doesn't seem all that upset to be on his own, and later later on you see him interacting with regular people and they seem cool with him (during a close-to-endgame thing). I like the ending of the woman adopting the Godling girl instead. Although, if you get the Redania wins ending, I guess the Godling girl is hosed
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Jun 30, 2015 18:22
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JetsGuy posted:soooo with the haunted house in Novigrad... You have to purchase and download the DLC, but it's free. As for the spoiler, No, I think both endings sound pretty good, which is an absolute rarity for The Witcher, in which you are given a choice between lovely and hosed Up. Also you shouldn't really be comparing what you did versus what you could have done, just do what feels right and consider that your story.
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Jun 30, 2015 18:22
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On PS4 you can just go to the game's tab in the main menu and hit down on the d-pad or analogue stick and cycle down a bit past the trophies and recent activities log. It'll show you a list with all the add-ons.
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I have a question on story progression and level. I just hit level 18 and I'm still on level 12 main quests in Novigrad since it seems like there was a lot more exploration to do in Velen. I haven't gone to Skellige yet since it's listed as level 16 and I'm just going in order. Anyway, I still have the level 11 quest Following the Thread since I'm supposed to go to Faroe to find Hammond for that other Witcher I ran into. Should I make my way over Skellige?
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Jun 30, 2015 23:06
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KingKapalone posted:I have a question on story progression and level. I just hit level 18 and I'm still on level 12 main quests in Novigrad since it seems like there was a lot more exploration to do in Velen. I haven't gone to Skellige yet since it's listed as level 16 and I'm just going in order. Anyway, I still have the level 11 quest Following the Thread since I'm supposed to go to Faroe to find Hammond for that other Witcher I ran into. Should I make my way over Skellige? Yes.
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Jun 30, 2015 23:08
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There's only one point in the game where you can lock yourself out of a bunch of quests at once and the game will pop up a giant warning telling you to manually save at that point.
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Jun 30, 2015 23:10
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Is there a guide as to where you should be going for quests that are your level? It seems like they're all over the place. A level 33 quest in one of the first villages outside the prologue, and a level 2 quest in Novigrad, where you won't go until you out level it.
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Jun 30, 2015 23:21
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Swedish Horror posted:Is there a guide as to where you should be going for quests that are your level? It seems like they're all over the place. A level 33 quest in one of the first villages outside the prologue, and a level 2 quest in Novigrad, where you won't go until you out level it. The various "In Ciri's Footsteps" main quests have the approximate level for when you should visit each area. True, there's some variation but the vast majority of the content will scale from those. Velen's sidequests will typically be high single digit/low teens stuff, Novigrad has mid-teens, Skellige has high-teens to low 20s. There will be outliers but they should largely be consistent. There are heavy-hitting monsters in each area that will be way out of place until much later when you're trying to mop up ?s to get superior formula. If you want to maximize your XP, you should barely be touching the main quests though. Pursuing them will rocket your level up and pretty soon the various witcher contracts and sidequests you've picked up along the way will be in danger of getting grey status.
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lol if you did any main quests before visiting all the notice boards in the world, including skellige
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:lol if you did any main quests before visiting all the notice boards in the world, including skellige
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KingKapalone posted:I have a question on story progression and level. I just hit level 18 and I'm still on level 12 main quests in Novigrad since it seems like there was a lot more exploration to do in Velen. I haven't gone to Skellige yet since it's listed as level 16 and I'm just going in order. Anyway, I still have the level 11 quest Following the Thread since I'm supposed to go to Faroe to find Hammond for that other Witcher I ran into. Should I make my way over Skellige? I did each area as I came to it, completing all but the very highest level quests in Velen and Novigrad before moving on. This includes the main quests. Worked fine for me and I was level 35 when I completed the game.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:lol if you did any main quests before visiting all the notice boards in the world, including skellige I didn't read a single notice board during my playthrough 
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been playing this for what feels like forever, i look up how much i've got left only to find out im still in act 1. what in the gently caress. also question about a deadly plot best bro thaler and best bro broch are planning stuff i want in on, but after finding thaler and getting him out of the rock troll cave the quest ends and nothing seems to happen... does this come up again or am i to leave them to it? because you better believe i want to help broche murder another king who has it coming.
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Vikar Jerome posted:been playing this for what feels like forever, i look up how much i've got left only to find out im still in act 1. what in the gently caress. Yeah it comes up way later. Be nice to Dijkstra up until the end though. I think you may get locked out of it if you piss him off too much
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Jul 1, 2015 01:41
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It's the other choice in endgame when you deal with Dijkstra last time in terms of main story. You'll figure out which one.
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pik_d posted:Yeah it comes up way later. Be nice to Dijkstra up until the end though. I think you may get locked out of it if you piss him off too much yeah You have to be on his side to get a shot at assassinating both him and king radivod
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The fall damage in this game lol... I thought Geralt was a superhuman mutant badass not some chump who loses 1/4 of his health hopping down from a head-height ledge.
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etalian posted:yeah You have to be on his side to get a shot at assassinating both him and king radivod
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Buck Turgidson posted:The fall damage in this game lol... I thought Geralt was a superhuman mutant badass not some chump who loses 1/4 of his health hopping down from a head-height ledge. Hold jump while falling.
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GrossMurpel posted:The problem with monsters is that card advantage is everything in Gwent and you can't change that without making all the factions pretty much the same, as you said for the Scoia'tael. Well, monsters do have "card advantage" in that they get tons of free cards out of their decks. They just get no interactive cards as part of their card advantage, ever. They also have very little synergy - like the reusable card advantage of decoying a medic three times in one turn. And the fact that you delay your turn by decoying and redeploying your medic means you get the final say in weather effects too. Your opponent will most likely run out if cards before you're finished playing all of yours. That's why I actually really like the starter NK leader. On demand fog is pretty nice to set up a winning board. Plus, you only ever need one fog in your deck and if you have it in your opener it's an instant redraw. The fact that you don't re-shuffle and get a new hand each round is kind of the culprit. In most cases, a spy has basically no downside. You are probably going to forfeit the first round anyway, so the fact that your spies give your opponent more power is irrelevant. Technically speaking spies SHOULD be basically 0 card advantage. You're using a card (-1) to draw 2 cards (+2) and giving your opponent a dude on the board (-1). You're gambling that the two cards you draw are better than the freebie that you just gave your opponent. Strictly speaking you could argue that both the -1's are the same effect, so it's still +1, but I'd argue that the guy you give your opponent is worth at least half a card. But when your plan for the first round is to make your opponent spend a couple cards on the first round while you just sandbag, and the AI never reacts properly to this, the spies suddenly go from what they probably should have been to what they are in reality - a way to make your opponent waste turns spending cards he could hold until the later rounds while you load up your hand to utterly destroy him the next two. And if they don't spend turns? Hell I've had the AI pass the first round in me after they saw me just slapping down spies, thinking to hold cards because hey isn't that the smart thing to do? Well, then I got to use a weather effect and 1 card to win the round and STILL have +2 cards on them. The downside to monster's card advantage is that it's utterly predictable and can be played around. There is no avoiding that downside. Monster's average card power isn't that high and the synergies are also very low. That's why it gets the "vomit cards" ability on everything. It's the only way for mediocre cards to keep up. Your good cards in an NK or Nilf deck are going to have higher average power and/or some sort of synergy with the rest of the cards in your deck. The same hand for the entire game poo poo really annoys me because it fucks with the game mechanics hard. I can see what they were going for, but it's completely busted by that one design choice.
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I've found myself unable to travel to the continent now. I did the an Craite quests and Yen's and now when I try to leave the island I crash to desktop during loading. I previously got around this when it happened after Following the Thread by completing a random side quest and then fast travelling to Novigrad, but this time it's not working. I've done several quests in Skellige. Am I stuck until the next patch playing cards with islanders?
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EcoBlue posted:I've found myself unable to travel to the continent now. I did the an Craite quests and Yen's and now when I try to leave the island I crash to desktop during loading. I previously got around this when it happened after Following the Thread by completing a random side quest and then fast travelling to Novigrad, but this time it's not working. I've done several quests in Skellige. Does it crash before dandelion starts talking? May be a corrupt video file or something.
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I think the main problem with the ai is just their priority, not enough medics/decoys/spies in their starting hand.
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Melted_Igloo posted:I think the main problem with the ai is just their priority, not enough medics/decoys/spies in their starting hand. Even with absolutely nut hands they can still be easily outplayed because they don't react well to the strategy of planning to lose. Closest I ever got to losing was a Nilf deck that had 3 spies, 2 medics, scorch, scorch dragon, decoys, etc. - just a loving loaded hand while I still had at most 2 spies and 1 medic. We went back and forth. He played like 6 spies on me in total the first round before I passed. That was my only saving grace really. I was able to win round 1 off the back of the spies, medic'd them back to regain the upper hand in cards for game 3, which I won cleanly. And the planning to lose strategy only exists because you retain the same hand of cards from round to round. Otherwise it would make 0 sense to give up a round.
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