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Twobirds posted:I found Cave Of Dreams I did the quest but it went into my journal as failed. I really don't know why although I did pass out at the end, was I not supposed to?
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Taear posted:I did the quest but it went into my journal as failed. I really don't know why although I did pass out at the end, was I not supposed to?
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Jul 13, 2015 14:41
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Wow, I kinda feel like I've done act 2 while doing act 1. After finding out where Ciri is, I got all the old friend quests and half of 'em were done.  I basically only have Gwent card poo poo left in side missions and hunts. Gotta eventually get all the other school diagrams even though Griffin School uber alles. Also, I though Skellige was a pain in the rear end to transverse with all the mountains... Kaer Morhen is a royal loving pain to get to some of that poo poo.Palpek posted:I like how Dijkstra calculates absolutely everything - when you turn down Triss he starts telling you in a bro-manner that you're an idiot and that you could have totally stopped her and told her how you feel. When you choose the right dialogue options after that you can get him to say that the only reason why he's concerned is that your other love interest - Yen is politically involved with the Empire and it woud be safer for Dijkstra for you to end up being with Triss as when you're Yen's boyfriend you might become Dijkstra's enemy in the long run. The same calculating mind can be revealed when you push him about why he helps the mages escape Novigrad etc. There is not a single thing this guy does out of kindness of his heart. That's what I like about him though. He's very much every politician ever. OH BUT (insert name) IS DIFFERENT AND LOVES THE PEOPLE. No, he doesn't. Everything done is very calculated and if Dijkstra can leverage the freedom of hte mages to his benefit, so much the better. Dude's a prick, but he's 100% dead on about what issues there are and what needs to be done about Radovid. I wish I had gotten him his treasure instead of just handing him the key. 
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Jul 13, 2015 15:57
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Any word if we are getting the patch today?
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Jul 13, 2015 16:37
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What potion do you get if you pick Potions during Kaer Morhen battle prep? Is it a unique one? I basically have everything Superior already so it seems like kind of a waste.
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Jul 13, 2015 16:39
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cheesetriangles posted:Any word if we are getting the patch today?
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Jul 13, 2015 17:41
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I would sincerely pay $5 for a "wolf plague" DLC where all the wolves are stricken with a horrible disease and they are wiped from existence in this game. Have the Druid sell wolf livers or whatever you need for the alchemy when it's active. They're trivial and in many cases you can just ride right past them, but I'm just getting tired of running somehwere or doing a contract or whatever and all of a sudden a pack of 20 level 10 wolves comes after me. They go down easy but Jesus Christ wolves.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:55
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JetsGuy posted:I would sincerely pay $5 for a "wolf plague" DLC where all the wolves are stricken with a horrible disease and they are wiped from existence in this game. Have the Druid sell wolf livers or whatever you need for the alchemy when it's active. They're trivial and in many cases you can just ride right past them, but I'm just getting tired of running somehwere or doing a contract or whatever and all of a sudden a pack of 20 level 10 wolves comes after me. They go down easy but Jesus Christ wolves. So send Flowerchild a Redkit, problem solved! I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry
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Jul 13, 2015 18:01
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Palpek posted:No idea and I really need it. Skellige started to freeze my PC every 10 minutes no matter what I do. I can run the game on max everything and then some but these crashing issues have really stalled me playing the game in the past few days. Of course it may as well be that the patch doesn't change anything. I'm kind of at my limit on how many random CTDs I can handle, so I'm hoping 1.07 helps with that. The changelog cites improvements to "stability" and I'm crossing my fingers that it will help alleviate my issues. 
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Jul 13, 2015 18:55
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Ravenfood posted:What potion do you get if you pick Potions during Kaer Morhen battle prep? Is it a unique one? I basically have everything Superior already so it seems like kind of a waste. Superior Swallow and Thunderbolt is what I got. Worthless as I'd already upgraded all the potions I regularly used to Superior long before I got to Kaer Morhen.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:02
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So I deleted most of my saves and disabled cloud syncing in Steam options and the game stopped crashing on Skellige  .
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Jul 13, 2015 19:03
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I would like to know why we're only allowed 10 saves on PS4... Yeah, that PS interface is annoying and lovely but only 10 slots, I routinely save... Like after an hour of gameplay, I've overwritten them all lol.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:21
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Taear posted:I did the quest but it went into my journal as failed. I really don't know why although I did pass out at the end, was I not supposed to? I don't remember passing out. Mine is still listed as completed and I'm done with the Act 1 stuff in Skellige. Did you finish Phantom of Edelburg? It ends up related to Cave of Dreams. It looks like a lot of folks have it listed as failed despite completing it.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:35
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Twobirds posted:I don't remember passing out. Mine is still listed as completed and I'm done with the Act 1 stuff in Skellige. Did you finish Phantom of Edelburg? It ends up related to Cave of Dreams. I don't know, I can't remember which quest that is.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:40
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Twobirds posted:I don't remember passing out. Mine is still listed as completed and I'm done with the Act 1 stuff in Skellige. Did you finish Phantom of Edelburg? It ends up related to Cave of Dreams. For some reason, although I did the quest, when Blueboy dies to the Bezerkers it moved to FAILED for me. I reloaded and for whatever reason when I did that part again it didn't. It was weird.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:42
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Don't worry about it. I had that bug too and there are no consequences other than having a quest in the failed part of your quest log.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:50
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JetsGuy posted:For some reason, although I did the quest, when Blueboy dies to the Bezerkers it moved to FAILED for me. I reloaded and for whatever reason when I did that part again it didn't. It was weird. Late in the game I had one of Triss' statue quests move from Complete back to Active for me. I've beaten the game and it's still active.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:51
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pik_d posted:Late in the game I had one of Triss' statue quests move from Complete back to Active for me. I've beaten the game and it's still active. I have a second one I got after I helped her escape Novigrad, and I hope she shows up in Kaer Morhen because it's my only hope to talk to her about it. Sindai posted:Don't worry about it. I had that bug too and there are no consequences other than having a quest in the failed part of your quest log. Yeah I have two "failed" quests, one of which is the famous "Gangs of Novigrad" and the other I don't remember off the top of my head.
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Jul 13, 2015 19:58
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pik_d posted:Late in the game I had one of Triss' statue quests move from Complete back to Active for me. I've beaten the game and it's still active. It might have been due to getting a duplicate statue from the merchant. I was able to buy a second one from him (collect 'em all!) and then go through the whole decompression process with Triss, only instead of a guy appearing it went "stand back..." "..." --> Geralt and Triss standing around (with control returned, thankfully).
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Jul 13, 2015 20:40
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So I just found out that when you reach the worlds end and the map pops up that you can use it to fast travel. I'm 100 hours in
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Jul 13, 2015 21:35
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Wait you mean if you try to ride off the edge of the map? In that case I finished the game without learning that so good job. Would have been really useful when I, like so many others, tried to reach that giant tree in southeast Velen.
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Jul 13, 2015 21:39
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Sindai posted:Wait you mean if you try to ride off the edge of the map? In that case I finished the game without learning that so good job. Yeah i was getting one of the schematics in Kaer that was in nowhere and no way to get back. It popped up and I clicked the post and voila. And you can't get up to that tree? I was hoping you could
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Jul 13, 2015 22:03
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Captain Duvel posted:Yeah i was getting one of the schematics in Kaer that was in nowhere and no way to get back. It popped up and I clicked the post and voila. You can, just not from the more likely angles that you'll approach it from. It's also late-game quest related.
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Jul 13, 2015 22:17
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Taear posted:I don't know, I can't remember which quest that is. That's the one involving the lighthouse on peninsula that points north, west of Kaer Trolde. I spelled it wrong, it's Eldburg.
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Jul 13, 2015 23:01
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Twobirds posted:That's the one involving the lighthouse on peninsula that points north, west of Kaer Trolde. I spelled it wrong, it's Eldburg. Quest owns. Anyone doing that one - make sure you search the whole thing before you go back to talk to the dude.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:08
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JetsGuy posted:Quest owns. Anyone doing that one - make sure you search the whole thing before you go back to talk to the dude. When is that ever not what you should do in these games?
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Jul 14, 2015 00:29
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pik_d posted:When is that ever not what you should do in these games? The first thing you search puts your waypoint back on the guy--look around more so you get the full story
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King Bahamut posted:The first thing you search puts your waypoint back on the guy--look around more so you get the full story ???? I'm saying that you should always search everything in these games. Leave no cabinet closed, no chest unopened, no weird root planted.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:41
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I didn't, and was swayed by Geralt's repeated comments to the effect of, "who gives a poo poo, we need to get rid of the monster" and didn't reload.
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Jul 14, 2015 00:47
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Twobirds posted:I didn't, and was swayed by Geralt's repeated comments to the effect of, "who gives a poo poo, we need to get rid of the monster" and didn't reload.
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Ravenfood posted:Finding out what caused the curse is, like, the number one rule of making sure the curse doesn't come back. This game has a recurring theme of "When someone tells you that something is a simple, black and white matter, they are full of poo poo".
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pik_d posted:???? I'm saying that you should always search everything in these games. Leave no cabinet closed, no chest unopened, no weird root planted. Sure but more than one person in this very thread have said they ran right back. In fact Geralt himself says, "better go back" when u inspect the exterior marker
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Snak posted:This game has a recurring theme of "When someone tells you that something is a simple, black and white matter, they are full of poo poo". I kinda wish with the leshen in Skellige I listened to the elder and tried to appease it. Then again I wouldn't have gotten to kill the leshen. Those dwarfs who kill the elders while ur gone are poo poo and I wish I could have killed them.
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Yeah I mean, the elders were wrong, it was bad to leave the dangerous monster out there to murder people because...tradition, but that doesn't mean they deserved to die.
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Ravenfood posted:Finding out what caused the curse is, like, the number one rule of making sure the curse doesn't come back. I usually do, it didn't seem like a big deal in this case. I'll be impressed if I visit the Isles again and have to do the same thing.
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Weeeelp. Done and done. Level 35, 150 hours played (jesus.) I can't believe I've been playing this game on and off for 1 1/2 months. Can't think of the last single player game that I played for that long that remained consistently interesting and compelling the whole way through. Did almost everything, skipped most of the "?" in the water in Skellege cause gently caress. that. poo poo. Went totally spoiler-free the whole way through and I'm pretty happy with my ending: Ciri survived, Geralt got her a pretty new Witcher sword and her and Geralt went off to hunt monsters together. Now, Ciri is the ashen-haired witcher-ess  Geralt ended up with Yenn and happy. Nilfguard conquered the North, Emperor did his thing and Temeria is a free nation again. Don't think it could have played out better, really. Now, I totally want a Witcher 3 where I get to play as Ciri. Act 3 did feel a little odd, like I said before, but I think a big part of its oddness is I went off and did a lot of the "character" quests in Act 1, so when the time came to round up a posse for Kaer Morhen everyone was all "ok. I'll help" so Act 2 was super short, so Act 3 felt out of place cause it was longer. Definitely the oddest story beat was Ciri telling you about the feast out of nowhere, that hadn't been foreshadowed or hinted at and suddenly you're hunting the Wild Hunt's General at a backwoods-party. Other than that, Act 3 felt like a nice build up to the finale. Not sure what Enhanced Edition tweaks they could do to the story, there's no clear dropping of the story-ball or rushed parts like there were in Witcher 2. All in all 10/10, RPG of the year for me. Bring on the story DLC!
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Snuffman posted:
Ciri has a history with the Wild Hunt elves, Eredin and Imlerith, so it's not that weird that she would know where they celebrate on certain holidays Even death metal trans-dimensional space-elves party sometimes.
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The Ladies also draw heavily from Baba Yaga stories which occasionally include some male henchmen who enjoy being wined 'n dined, apparently. It's probably one of those things that's not so much out of nowhere for Slavic audiences, just doesn't translate so well. I'm still trying to work out what exactly was going on there with regards to (Bald Mountain) the young people who go up the mountain, then get new names/identities and leave the village. You see the cauldron of blood and one of the Ladies cradling a severed head, so I take it they don't survive? Are they just illusions that go briefly back to the village? Why would the ladies bother fooling people who are already willing to feed them children? Or are they resurrected in some way? Used as vessels for evil spirits? Wild Hunt witness protection program? Confusing. Maybe there's a book that explains it, I'm on console so I rarely read those. e: in thinking about it, that might just be another Baba Yaga thing where anyone can ask her/them favors, but only those blessed or pure of heart get their wish, and everybody else gets eaten. So the ones who survive probably mostly have wishes relating to getting the gently caress out of Velen, and the villagers passively write off the not-so-pure casualties the way they do everything else. Psiharis fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jul 14, 2015 |
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The party was also mentioned back in Witcher 2. It was where Geralt, Letho and his mates killed a bunch of the Wild Hunt, found out they weren't wraiths but space elves and where Geralt joined them to save Yen.
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See, now I'm gonna have to replay TW2 yet again because I sure don't remember that, and I'm sure there's a ton of other foreshadowing that didn't make much of an impression at the time. So Alchemy build is pretty great. I'm most of the way through my Death March playthrough and can stack three decoctions plus pop the usual Swallow/Tawny Owl in combat without losing any health to toxicity, and I've only put points into four talents (Heightened Tolerance, Refreshment, Acquired Tolerance, Tissue Transmutation). For a boss fight build I can't really see a point in going deeper in the tree. Having a lot of fun facetanking, most of the time I skip Quen and just whack 'em with a strong attack if I need health. Decoctions that regen health on damage also count damage from status effects (poison, bleed, fire) 
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