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Poetic Justice posted:You can apparently switch signs with the right and left D-pad if you are in combat and holding down block. I've seen that tip on the loading screen. I've never tried it, mostly because I never find myself holding down block. For some people that might be handy. if I remember I'll test it out and see if it seems nicer than the radial menu. The radial menu slows down time (almost to a stop), so it doesn't screw you over on fights, but it interrupts the flow.
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Snak posted:I've seen that tip on the loading screen. I've never tried it, mostly because I never find myself holding down block. For some people that might be handy. if I remember I'll test it out and see if it seems nicer than the radial menu. The radial menu slows down time (almost to a stop), so it doesn't screw you over on fights, but it interrupts the flow. Yeah I've never used it either, I don't like the fact that I would have to either take my thumb off the camera or not be able to move. Radial menu works good, imo.
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420 Gank Mid posted:Lambert doesn't take it well when you don't like his ideas. gently caress, I've got to try this.
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Just finished it. Clocked in around 105 hours, did 99% of the side quests and cleared most ? off the map. Personally, I think I got the best ending: Ciri becomes a Witcher, Geralt lives happily ever after with Yen.  Nilfgaard takes over, but Temeria reforms.Man, what a rollercoaster ride. The story missions from Isle of Mists onwards were amazing. It's been a while since I got so invested in a video game as I did for this. Now the wait until the DLC...
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I think the best ending combo for the main characters and the world in general is actually Witcher Ciri, Geralt and Yen retiring, and Dijkstra taking over Redania, but I can't justify Geralt leaving Roche, Ves, and Thaler to die to myself from a roleplaying standpoint. Geralt just wouldn't do that, I don't think
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Poetic Justice posted:Yeah I've never used it either, I don't like the fact that I would have to either take my thumb off the camera or not be able to move. Radial menu works good, imo. Yeah, the radial menu is pretty well implemented in this game. The actual layout of it and how it interacts with your inventory is kind of lame. The fact that you can't put more items on it because it is two bombs and two pocket items is stupid. Also, you should probably have your whole d-pad as hot keys. Geralt draws and sheaths his sword automatically 99% of the time, even when it's the wrong thing to do (sometimes when you try to draw your sword manually, he has already started drawing automatically and this causes you to re-sheath it.) They could have just made it only automatic and given us two more hot keys. Even with the current implementation, we should be able to put food or potions in our pocket slots so that we can select them from the radial menu. Snak fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 00:07
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I love the environments in this game Ard Skellig, near Rogne  Velen  e: I wish this game had a Shadow of Mordor style photo mode. Swedish Horror fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 00:21
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Somewhere, somehow, some dumb oval office broke the loving LEFT MOUSE BUTTON! Jesus gently caress.
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Jul 21, 2015 00:48
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So what's the deal on Chernobog Runestones... they still don't show any damage increase.
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Is it possible to play Gwent with everyone in the game and not get all the cards cause you get hosed by the random rewards?
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cams posted:Is it possible to play Gwent with everyone in the game and not get all the cards cause you get hosed by the random rewards?
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I just did the "Here Comes the Groom" (Skellige) Contract at level 20... God this game makes you feel like a badass Witcher. The special Siren appeared and I swooped towards me to I hit it with Igni and then executed it. Just the whole "oh I guess there's a really old monster here that people used to worship. Okay it's dead." feel is so cool. I my jump my difficulty up to Death March before I even finish this playthrough. I do a ridiculous amount of damage. edit: V that's what I'm saying, BnBB is downright easy if I attempt things near my level. Snak fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Jul 21, 2015 02:26
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DM is hardest near the beginning, honestly.
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I sort of miss how in the early game below level 8 or so I was constantly broke. I think if I do a 3rd playthrough, I'm going to force myself to not loot anything at all and force myself to purchase all my alchemy ingredients and stuff. Maybe I'll loot just the alcohols required for refills during meditation and the tiny amounts of coins laying around. This DM playthrough I haven't sold anything I've looted, and I still have like 1.5k at level 11. It also might make it harder since I will have to be choosier about what potions/oils/bombs I craft, which would be good because after level 8 even Death March gets pretty easy.
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Poetic Justice posted:I sort of miss how in the early game below level 8 or so I was constantly broke. I think if I do a 3rd playthrough, I'm going to force myself to not loot anything at all and force myself to purchase all my alchemy ingredients and stuff. Maybe I'll loot just the alcohols required for refills during meditation and the tiny amounts of coins laying around. This DM playthrough I haven't sold anything I've looted, and I still have like 1.5k at level 11. It also might make it harder since I will have to be choosier about what potions/oils/bombs I craft, which would be good because after level 8 even Death March gets pretty easy. I've been constantly broke, but that's only because I've been so overburdened. On my next playthrough I will be swimming in money.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:DM is hardest near the beginning, honestly. It really does frontload the difficulty in the first few hours. Once you find relic swords with status effects (or abuse the monster nest bug for upgrades) the game begins to ease off. I was doing level 12-15 quests at level 6 because I explored, found and made superior beast oil, hanged man's venom, devil's puffball and dancing star early on and visited alchemists to fill in the rest. Not sure how long until I finish my DM no quen playthrough I've messed around a dozen or so hours since getting to Kaer Morhen. My habit of picking a random direction to explore until I've exhausted quests and activities in the area sure doesn't help! I have to do a shirtless playthrough on normal using clubs or axes and quen next time. A crazed axeman that bursts into taverns to play cards. 
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So what is the deal with relic swords? I have never found one that was better than my current Witcher sword. Are the runestone sockets supposed to make up for it? Because now that I'm level 20, my witcher swords have 2 sockets and better damage. I have been selling barrels of relics, because they are all garbage.
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Relic swords are relics because they're old and lovely and no one wanted them. They just dumped them in random tombs and poo poo and the monsters were stuck with them.
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Shame on you if you sold the Emmentaler though.
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Is "The Black Pearl" bugged with the newest update? I've tried 3 times now and the quest giver keeps dying to drowners before I can even get out of the water.
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Snak posted:So what is the deal with relic swords? I have never found one that was better than my current Witcher sword. Are the runestone sockets supposed to make up for it? Because now that I'm level 20, my witcher swords have 2 sockets and better damage. I have been selling barrels of relics, because they are all garbage. They tend to inflict status effects or boost specific sign intensity by a fair bit. The ones with inherent burning, stun or freeze are great to stack procs with runes and cut through contract monsters handily. I haven't used a witcher sword since White Orchard because they have dull bonuses. A relic sword with a native 12% chance to stun on the other hand will be used for a long time. The same goes for a sword that boosted igni by 20% with a 5% chance to stagger.  GreenBuckanneer posted:They should have made greens much harder to get. Like, put the entire set behind a big bad boss that a witcher died trying to fight, and you have to beat that boss to get that set instead of loving off all over the world for a glove upgrade in the isles but the sword upgrade is in Velen. gently caress that poo poo. Finding one recipe to find the next one is on another map or 3000 steps is so drat bleh 
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Yeah for the most part dont bother with relics once you've got your witcher greens. Grey < Blue < Yellow < Brown < Green Relics sometimes have better stats than your Greens, but have worse substats usually. Not that it matters as you get closer to 40 anyways. They should have made greens much harder to get. Like, put the entire set behind a big bad boss that a witcher died trying to fight, and you have to beat that boss to get that set instead of loving off all over the world for a glove upgrade in the isles but the sword upgrade is in Velen. gently caress that poo poo.
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Delacroix posted:They tend to inflict status effects or boost specific sign intensity by a fair bit. The ones with inherent burning, stun or freeze are great to stack procs with runes and cut through contract monsters handily. I haven't used a witcher sword since White Orchard because they have dull bonuses. A relic sword with a native 12% chance to stun on the other hand will be used for a long time. The same goes for a sword that boosted igni by 20% with a 5% chance to stagger. I am a basically pure whirl dps build. The only status effect I care about proccing from my sword is stun.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:Shame on you if you sold the Emmentaler though. I'm kinda mad Geralt never actually tells Vesemir about that time in the deadly maze of the cheesemancer. He'd probably be glad of the break from the Zeugl story.
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Snak posted:I am a basically pure whirl dps build. The only status effect I care about proccing from my sword is stun. That's one reason to care about dps on your swords. I spam the hell out of bombs and dots so it's not a priority for me. I've invested in the sword tree for Undying and the dodge invincibility so I have to ask, does Whirl become free to use if you max it out? That would be pretty awesome to build around if it did.
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Post-Game, I just found two Wild Hunt Ghosts guarding a locked treasure chest in the cavern where you get the Sunstone. They have an "E" for Talk over their head, but I can't actually talk to them. I can't attack them either. I have a feeling one of them has the key to the locked chest, but I guess I can't do anything about it. 
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Poolparty posted:Is "The Black Pearl" bugged with the newest update? I've tried 3 times now and the quest giver keeps dying to drowners before I can even get out of the water. I had this happen too. If you aim yourself at him and keep the sign selection open his health bar won't pop up and he won't die. It's slow as hell but I got it to work. Knocked the drowners down with Aard as soon as I was in range. Edit: and now the end of Skellige's Most Wanted is bugged. At least I had a save right before the last step. Lex Averial fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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Delacroix posted:That's one reason to care about dps on your swords. I spam the hell out of bombs and dots so it's not a priority for me. Honestly, I think I only have one point in it so far. I'll put more in eventually, but it works just fine as it is. I'm putting points in the one that gives all my oils chances to poison right now.
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Man if you've not tried Alt Yerden give it a shot. Its animation interrupting hits are a godsend, as well zapping flying enemies out of the air. Also nails the boss wraiths when they go into regen mode (provided they are close to the trap) and makes them much more managable.
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I'm level 7 and just spoke to Anna Strenger. I'm in Vellen. My weapons and armor presently aren't that great... (Definitely the weapons are not.) What could I / should I go in search of that I can use now/soon that is awesome?
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Feenix posted:I'm level 7 and just spoke to Anna Strenger. I'm in Vellen. My weapons and armor presently aren't that great... (Definitely the weapons are not.)
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Who all can you bring to the Battle of Kaer Morhen? I'm assuming the witchers plus Yen and Triss are mandatory. Past that I got Hjalmar (Cerys was queen), Ermion, Ves and Roche, Letho, Keira, and Zoltan. Dijkstra gave me gold and Crach gave me a sword. Is that everybody or should I have side-quested more?
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Feenix posted:I'm level 7 and just spoke to Anna Strenger. I'm in Vellen. My weapons and armor presently aren't that great... (Definitely the weapons are not.) loot is randomly picked. hard to point you in any direction. The ? marks on the map you want are bandit camps, guarded treasures, and hidden stashes as they more frequently yield gear or crafting recipes. Really the advice I would give you is don't worry too much about your gear early on. around lvl 10 you can wear cool looking nilfgarrd armor (free dlc) bought at the Crow's Nest quartermaster, I actually wore this rather than the better assassins stuff because it didn't make me look like a tard. Around level 12ish I would try to find and craft Griffin witcher gear as it is far better than regular stuff. Though going after witcher gear shoehorns you into only really using witcher gear. Right now I am doing a playthrough purposefully NOT getting witcher gear to see the other armor sets Willfrey fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Jul 21, 2015 |
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1stGear posted:Who all can you bring to the Battle of Kaer Morhen? I'm assuming the witchers plus Yen and Triss are mandatory. Past that I got Hjalmar (Cerys was queen), Ermion, Ves and Roche, Letho, Keira, and Zoltan. Dijkstra gave me gold and Crach gave me a sword. It' almost everybody. Hjalmar can bring his buddy Forlan and Vigi the Loon with him if you saved them on his sidequest. Still hoping against hope that Iorveth gets added and recruitable at some point. Him, Roche , and Letho being in the same room would be hilarious.
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Thanks for the advice on weapons and such. I guess I just feel like my swords usually just feel like I'm barely scratching anything that isn't many levels below me.
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The Sharmat posted:It' almost everybody. Hjalmar can bring his buddy Forlan and Vigi the Loon with him if you saved them on his sidequest. Yeah, I had those two also, just forgot about them. Thanks!
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The Sharmat posted:It' almost everybody. Hjalmar can bring his buddy Forlan and Vigi the Loon with him if you saved them on his sidequest. Snak posted:I am a basically pure whirl dps build. The only status effect I care about proccing from my sword is stun.
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The Sharmat posted:It' almost everybody. Hjalmar can bring his buddy Forlan and Vigi the Loon with him if you saved them on his sidequest. Clearly we need a drunk Letho/Roche/Iorveth scene then. Make it happen Comte.
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Iorveth being cut from this game is a crime all around.
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