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Roman Reigns
Aug 23, 2007

Thanks for the responses about the game length, guys. Good to know I've got a ways to go.

I just did the the Skellige heir quest last night. I love the payoffs these secondary quests have. Outside viking party with music and happy people, including characters you've helped out a long the way Left with a pretty good feeling after that :3:

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Wengy
Feb 6, 2008

I was already in love with this game, but I just finished Heart of Stone and that was legitimately one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. So loving good.

Sneaky Fast
Apr 24, 2013

Is there a noticeable spoke in difficulty on hard Gwent difficulty??gwent lost some of its lustre when I won 75 straight games

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
So I was checking videos and there was one of King Bran's son becoming King of Skellige. Does this only happen if you don't complete the Cerys and Hjalmar quests before finding Ciri? I was actually quite surprised at how good a king he appears to be. Dude went all Red Wedding on the Nilfgaard delegates.

GuyUpNorth
Apr 29, 2014

Witty phrases on random basis
I turned Gwent up to hard, and two matches weren't clear stomps in Hearts of Stone - but cards over there could be tuned higher just like combat in general.

Supreme Allah
Oct 6, 2004

everybody relax, i'm here
Nap Ghost

Arcsquad12 posted:

So I was checking videos and there was one of King Bran's son becoming King of Skellige. Does this only happen if you don't complete the Cerys and Hjalmar quests before finding Ciri? I was actually quite surprised at how good a king he appears to be. Dude went all Red Wedding on the Nilfgaard delegates.

From what I gather it only happens if you don't help either. The game may consider those both to be side-quests not MQ, it's really good at blurring that line.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

I really hope Geralt gets to bang all of these babes, vampires or not, but it's fiendishly complex and you have to be completely two faced to them all.

Then at the end they all find out what he's doing and give him huge amounts of poo poo for it.

There are some Witcher Comics at my LCS, are they any good? i think one of them is the Fox Children.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010
Oh my loving god CDProjekt, please stop making me fight enemies in tiny cramped rooms. If it isn't the camera loving me over it's Geralt getting his rear end stuck on things.

Also this game never ends does it?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Red Mundus posted:

Oh my loving god CDProjekt, please stop making me fight enemies in tiny cramped rooms. If it isn't the camera loving me over it's Geralt getting his rear end stuck on things.

Also this game never ends does it?

Let me guess, you went upstairs in Whoreson junior's casino?

Accordion Man
Nov 7, 2012


Buglord

Arcsquad12 posted:

So I was checking videos and there was one of King Bran's son becoming King of Skellige. Does this only happen if you don't complete the Cerys and Hjalmar quests before finding Ciri? I was actually quite surprised at how good a king he appears to be. Dude went all Red Wedding on the Nilfgaard delegates.
Ha ha poo poo, I didn't even think that was option.

Witcher 3 confirmed for Alpha Protocol's successor.

Red Mundus
Oct 22, 2010

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Let me guess, you went upstairs in Whoreson junior's casino?

No I'm doing the quest to get 3 gwent cards for Zoltan. So far all of them take place in cramped location/indoors. Makes parrying a bitch when the camera can't sit loving still.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Red Mundus posted:

No I'm doing the quest to get 3 gwent cards for Zoltan. So far all of them take place in cramped location/indoors. Makes parrying a bitch when the camera can't sit loving still.

Ah yeah, that was a fucker too.

MikeC
Jul 19, 2004
BITCH ASS NARC

Red Mundus posted:

No I'm doing the quest to get 3 gwent cards for Zoltan. So far all of them take place in cramped location/indoors. Makes parrying a bitch when the camera can't sit loving still.

Síle de Tansarville posted:


Yrden! USE THE YRDEN!!!!

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
I'm getting flashbacks to the Kayran fight with Sile screaming to trap it with the Yrden.

"Why don't you trap it, you stuck up bitch?!"

Deakul
Apr 2, 2012

PAM PA RAM

PAM PAM PARAAAAM!

Arcsquad12 posted:

I'm getting flashbacks to the Kayran fight with Sile screaming to trap it with the Yrden.

"Why don't you trap it, you stuck up bitch?!"

Holy christ, that fight was a bitch.

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Arcsquad12 posted:

I'm getting flashbacks to the Kayran fight with Sile screaming to trap it with the Yrden.

"Why don't you trap it, you stuck up bitch?!"

I remember the first time after finally beating it and then thinking the quicktime events were just a cutscene and having to restart the fight. :negative:

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

twistedmentat posted:

There are some Witcher Comics at my LCS, are they any good? i think one of them is the Fox Children.

Yes, they're very good.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
Oh my god CDPR give us a release date for B&W already God

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.
Where's Princess in that lineup? :ohdear:

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006

OAquinas posted:

Where's Princess in that lineup? :ohdear:

Not with the bear, duh.

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

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BUY IT.
adding another Gwent faction doesn't really make sense because they're already spread thin and it takes forever to get a playable Monsters/Scoiatel deck as is :witch:

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
Maybe they'll just give it to you.

Lord Cyrahzax
Oct 11, 2012

Megazver posted:

Maybe they'll just give it to you.

Sorry, I need to earn my Gwent deck. :colbert: Hopefully there will be some kind of Grand Tournament where they make you shake things up though.

Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

How exactly does attack power affect combat DPS? Is it just a straight percentage increase? Or something else?

e: I've been essentially winging it and muddling through so far and I'm trying to get a better sense of whether to go for Ursine or Fleine gear; I have mostly Combat skills at this point, but I have the General adrenaline skills and Cat School Techniques (I'll need to redo my skills when I have a better sense of what in the hell I am doing).

Red Dad Redemption fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Apr 26, 2016

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Megazver posted:

Maybe they'll just give it to you.

A true Skellige deck can only be earned by taking it from the cold hands of its former owner :black101:

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
I am okay with it being a Scavenger Hunt quest.

Supreme Allah
Oct 6, 2004

everybody relax, i'm here
Nap Ghost

Radovid was very handsome I must say.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

#teamyennifer

Servetus
Apr 1, 2010
Why the heck is Roach on team Yennifer?

WhiskeyWhiskers
Oct 14, 2013


"هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

Servetus posted:

Why the heck is Roach on team Yennifer?

For the sweet unicorn sex.

OAquinas
Jan 27, 2008

Biden has sat immobile on the Iron Throne of America. He is the Master of Malarkey by the will of the gods, and master of a million votes by the might of his inexhaustible calamari.

Servetus posted:

Why the heck is Roach on team Yennifer?

Roach knows who's best for his bro Geralt.


...and the stuffed unicorn, yes.

Comte de Saint-Germain
Mar 26, 2001

Snouk but and snouk ben,
I find the smell of an earthly man,
Be he living, or be he dead,
His heart this night shall kitchen my bread.

OAquinas posted:

Roach knows who's best for his her bro Geralt.


...and the stuffed unicorn, yes.

fixed

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



So did the first expansion turn out to be any good? do I miss much if i start playing it in the post game storywise, does it have any bearing on the ending?

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

tithin posted:

So did the first expansion turn out to be any good?

Yes

Megazver
Jan 13, 2006
It's good. There are a few small bits of content to see if you play it before you finish the game (dialogue with an old paramour of Vesemir's, a few lines of dialogue with your ladies about your current predicament if you bother to travel all the way to the other side of the map to discuss it with them, asking a guy about Ciri in one of the endings if you haven't found her yet) but you can look all of these up on Youtube. It's meant to be played post-game, mostly.

Palpek
Dec 27, 2008


Do you feel it, Zach?
My coffee warned me about it.


The quests are meant to be played post-game but the expansion also adds locations to the existing world that you can explore without it, new gear, runes and other stuf that you get in the main game too so if you already know you're going to play it I would suggest getting it while you're still in the main game.

tithin
Nov 14, 2003


[Grandmaster Tactician]



Yeah, I'm in the post game, but wasn't sure what impact it had on the overall story, if it was a postgame thing or not. This has nothing to do with the Ciri story, right?

SirSamVimes
Jul 21, 2008

~* Challenge *~


Absolutely nothing.

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Pingcode
Feb 25, 2011
Though there are some (minor) things that characters in the main story will comment on that you'll miss out on by doing it in the postgame. Nothing big, though, basically the same as the 'ask a mage about X' stuff that provides some minor exposition.

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