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Palpek posted:I must say the feeling of despair I get when the screen freezes is beyond any tragic quest outcome in the game. Have you contacted customer support?
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Yennifer just drew a humorous moustache on a portrait of some jerk and she was in a pun contest with Geralt earlier she is the greatest.
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Pwnstar posted:Yennifer just drew a humorous moustache on a portrait of some jerk and she was in a pun contest with Geralt earlier she is the greatest. 
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Just finished the game after 107 hours playtime. Really spectacular experience all around. I think the game did a really great job exploring a character relationship you don't really see in games: the relationship between a hero and their adult child. The facial animation system totally killed it on that front as well. Really pulled at the heart strings. Game ran super smooth, but did run into a few bugs (all quest related) after 1.07. Namely that a few completed quests never got "marked" as completed (The Nobleman Statuette, the other statuette one, and Novigrad, Closed City). When going into the final bit of the game, it also failed me on 'A Matter of State' even though the quest was already completed long before. Lastly, the quest 'A Long Time Ago Far, Far Away' is borked. When you go to the quest marker in Velen where you are supposed to find the second ship, there is nothing except endlessly spawning drowners. If you let them idle for a bit and shoot a crossbow bolt at them underwater, a swarm of like, eight of them comes at you at once. And they never stop. Great if you want to see how many floating drowner corpses you can have on screen. I do have a question for those who finished the game and W2. Is there any mention of Saskia in the game, outside of the gwent card? I sided with Roche in my main W2 game. Just wondering if she showed up at all if you did the other path.
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I think I somehow missed the pun contest with Yen. I don't remember anything like that 
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pik_d posted:I think I somehow missed the pun contest with Yen. I don't remember anything like that Did you do the werewolf quest (Morkvarg, specifically) before Last Wish?
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pik_d posted:I think I somehow missed the pun contest with Yen. I don't remember anything like that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5mFT3yCzo
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The Witchar: Wicked Hunt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aOp1p7e0d4 In a related video, "20 awesome details in the Witcher 3" I learned two new things. a) you can deflect arrows with a well-timed Aard sign b) Birna actually gets chained to a rock and dies. You can find her later in the game. mcbexx fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 16:15
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Lava Lamp Goddess posted:I do have a question for those who finished the game and W2. Is there any mention of Saskia in the game, outside of the gwent card? I sided with Roche in my main W2 game. Just wondering if she showed up at all if you did the other path. Yes, though it doesn't appear to reflect your Witcher 2 choices. The save I imported, I sided with Iorveth, freed Saskia and the free state of Vergen was a thing (also spared Letho and killed Sile). When you first arrive in Skellege for the final act, you can go into the ship's cabin and talk to Phillipa. You can ask about Saskia then. Phillipa just says she lost control of her and doesn't know where she is (I freed her  )
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Jul 24, 2015 16:27
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JetsGuy posted:Is that the superior cavalry saddle that's that rocking black one? It is the Superior Cavalry Saddle. Identical to Zerrikanian except it's blue and some other colors, has more ornate stitching and also has additional ornamentation on the backrest or whatever. Zerrikanian looks way more boring but, you know, stamina.
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Spite posted:That's a good way to put it. But she's definitely grown more of a backbone by the time the games roll around. She would probably have gone against assassinating the king she was advising even if Geralt wasn't around. She's portrayed as much less "Please let me stay in the cool girls club, I'll do whatever" in the games, imo. Spite posted:Do they ever explain what happened after W2 when Triss and Geralt went separate ways? There are a bunch of references to it, but I was never totally clear on what happened - other than Geralt telling her "I'm gone." It's implied he called her on the whole "lying about your amnesia" thing.
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Jul 24, 2015 17:28
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Snuffman posted:Yes, though it doesn't appear to reflect your Witcher 2 choices. The save I imported, I sided with Iorveth, freed Saskia and the free state of Vergen was a thing (also spared Letho and killed Sile). That dialogue only happens if you freed Saskia and is totally consistent with Saskia's curse being lifted. Philippa wasn't there for that. There's no mention of Saskia whatsoever if you didn't free her from Philippa's curse.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Have you contacted customer support? 
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mcbexx posted:b) Birna actually gets chained to a rock and dies. You can find her later in the game. Well That was what her punishment was said to be, but I never thought to look for her... She's here. http://imgur.com/a/gOUPh/
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I don't like how you get coins from nowhere for completing quests. You should have to get money from rewards and selling things. Talked to a guy -> quest completed -> you got money! Where did it come from? As if there isn't so much money already.
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Snak posted:I don't like how you get coins from nowhere for completing quests. You should have to get money from rewards and selling things. Talked to a guy -> quest completed -> you got money! Where did it come from? That is a bit odd. That being said, it doesn't take much to break the economy over your knee so it's not really that big a deal. If you're not rolling in crowns from pawning the stuff of your murder victims by level 10 you're still fairly cash-flush from contracts. Actually, hmm...after this B&BB run I'm going to do a "cash only" DM run where Geralt's sole source of money will be witcher contracts and found coins. Kinda curious to see how the economy is when you're not selling off the three pounds of steel people choked on. Plus I'll get to appreciate the Cat School witcher more.
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OAquinas posted:That is a bit odd. That being said, it doesn't take much to break the economy over your knee so it's not really that big a deal. If you're not rolling in crowns from pawning the stuff of your murder victims by level 10 you're still fairly cash-flush from contracts. That's pretty much what I'm doing now, and I'm still rolling in tons of cash. I think I might have sold 1 or 2 swords just to get them out of my inventory early on.
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OAquinas posted:That is a bit odd. That being said, it doesn't take much to break the economy over your knee so it's not really that big a deal. If you're not rolling in crowns from pawning the stuff of your murder victims by level 10 you're still fairly cash-flush from contracts. It's just really strange in some circumstances. Like I just had a witcher contract that I chose not to complete (told the guy to gently caress off, I let the monster live) and I still earned a hundred coins (50 for talking to the monster, and 50 for completing the quest). I think it's really jarring when an NPC is like "I'm not payen ye!" and then it pops up "you recieved 50 crowns!"
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Jul 24, 2015 20:50
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Palpek posted:In the meantime I listened to the advice given in this thread and it turned out that 1.07 changed the fullscreen setting to borderless window and when I changed it back to fullscreen the crashes stopped It appears that the game resets all user settings with each patch, so worth looking at that in the future too.
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Jul 24, 2015 20:56
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bonds0097 posted:It appears that the game resets all user settings with each patch, so worth looking at that in the future too. This annoys the poo poo out of me because I'd done all kinds of tweaks to make it run halfway decent on my toaster and now it runs worse post patch and I'll never know if it's the patch or because I didn't get the settings quite right when I redid them. If I'd known this would be the case, I'd have backed up the config file. Edit: Incidentally can someone that knows more about computers than me explain why I experience no performance difference whatsoever from having textures on low instead of high? The Sharmat fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 21:01
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The Sharmat posted:This annoys the poo poo out of me because I'd done all kinds of tweaks to make it run halfway decent on my toaster and now it runs worse post patch and I'll never know if it's the patch or because I didn't get the settings quite right when I redid them. Textures are primarily a memory thing. If you have enough memory to run it on high, you won't get too much of a performance bump by reducing it. The part that really affects performance is level of detail (LoD) and draw distance--those add surfaces and objects that have to be processed.
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The best thing I did for my performance was drastically lower the number of trees and how far away they render. I've never seen any way to lower the draw distance in general though, which is a shame because I suspect it would help a lot and honestly I don't think I should be able to see Novigrad from Crow's Perch anyway, realistically.
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The Sharmat posted:This annoys the poo poo out of me because I'd done all kinds of tweaks to make it run halfway decent on my toaster and now it runs worse post patch and I'll never know if it's the patch or because I didn't get the settings quite right when I redid them. Because displaying textures is only one of the graphical things the game is doing, and whatever part of your system is doing that is powerful enough to handle it. It could be, for example, that your computer's RAM isn't up to snuff, so the game is having trouble keeping up with streaming in all the open world content as you run around, or your processor isn't fast enough to handle all the math going on behind the scenes, but none of that stuff has anything to do with displaying the textures, high quality or not.
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The Sharmat posted:The best thing I did for my performance was drastically lower the number of trees and how far away they render. Why don't you think you should be able to see Novigrad from Crow's perch? I mean, it depends on how much you want to factor in the warped sense of scale. Crow's perch is elevated, so you would easily be able to see rooftops 30-40 miles away. Now, if Novigrad is "really" supposed to be hundreds of miles from Crows Perch, I get what you're saying.
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I think Novigrad is supposed to be closer to 100 miles or more from Crow's Perch but the maps didn't even exist before the games so scale is hard to judge.
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yeah, but if you think about it, most of Great Britain is only about a hundred miles across. Poland is only ~400 miles across. The scale is very hard to judge, because they use so many visual tricks to make the world seem bigger in the game. edit: V Which is why I think it's totally plausible that you would be able to see the rooftops of novigrad from a large portion of Velen. Velen's basically a swampy ditch with some farmland on it. There isn't even a proper lord there, much less more than one, so it makes sense that this isn't a very large portion of land. Snak fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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The Northern Kingdoms are actually supposed to be kind of a lovely backwater at the end of the world, really. Nilfgaard is like 4 or 5 times the size of all the Northern Realms combined. Edit: That said I still think Novigrad is further away than that. Velen is an entire province and the southern part of it (which you don't get to see in game) actually has a pretty major city in Gors Velen. Though that city's prosperity was based almost entirely around having a huge population of artisans serving the mages at Thanedd and the sorceresses and trainees at Aretuza. The Sharmat fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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My favorite minor character in this game is hands down Roche and it's just another great reason to play W2.
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JetsGuy posted:My favorite minor character in this game is hands down Roche and it's just another great reason to play W2.
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The Sharmat posted:The Northern Kingdoms are actually supposed to be kind of a lovely backwater at the end of the world, really. Nilfgaard is like 4 or 5 times the size of all the Northern Realms combined. Okay but to be fair we're talking about the distance between Crow's Perch and Novigrad. I didn't know that there was more Velen and another big city south of the game area.
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JetsGuy posted:My favorite minor character in this game is hands down Roche and it's just another great reason to play W2. I feel like Roche is kind of overrated but I would never describe him as "a minor character".
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At least they fixed the input bug in W2. Ugh. It only took them forever.
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The Sharmat posted:I feel like Roche is kind of overrated but I would never describe him as "a minor character". He's definitely a major character in W2, but so far I wouldn't call him a major character in W3. Yes he's an "important" and well developed character, but it's seems easy to avoid him all together if that's what you want to do.
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Well if you mean just in the context of TW3, no, he's not hugely important. I'd still call him a secondary character or something rather than a minor one. His role isn't just a cameo or a one-off.
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Yeah, when I think minor character, I think Trollolo, who helped guard boats. He's the best minor character.
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Snak posted:Yeah, when I think minor character, I think Trollolo, who helped guard boats. He's the best minor character. No, he guarded boats guarding boats. it's an important distinction---he's management!
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OAquinas posted:No, he guarded boats guarding boats. it's an important distinction---he's management! That's why I said helped. He made the fence. He's an engineer, a real problem solver. He also appropriated rations for himself. That's implementing a cost-saving measure. This guy is going places. Trolls are the best characters.
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Jul 24, 2015 22:46
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There's no better soldier in the Redanian army.
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I dare any Redanian soldier to paint a better emblem. The best part is already had the paint, so it wasn't even a fetch quest for me. edit: God I hope they patch Skellige's Most Wanted soon.
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The Sharmat posted:Well if you mean just in the context of TW3, no, he's not hugely important. I'd still call him a secondary character or something rather than a minor one. His role isn't just a cameo or a one-off. Fair enough, secondary character then. Still, I have to consider buying W2 now... Bort Bortles posted:After playing Wild Hunt I could never go back to Witcher 2 because the combat is just miles better in 3. though poo poo like this gives me pause. If it's going to be frustrating, I dunno... Snak posted:I dare any Redanian soldier to paint a better emblem. Yeah I think the Pellar had it? I remember seeing it in his stock nad it said "needed for a quest" so I was like "eh, gently caress it, I'll buy it now".
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