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hemophilia posted:The least fun AI were monster decks. Those were always pure luck wins for me, and I'm guessing in the balance those are the hard counter to temeria or something, and I imagine it's a broken rear end deck if you assemble enough good monster cards. I have been trying to play some of the low level games and I've found the same thing. The issue with monster decks is that you can make strategic decision on the number of card in the other guy's hand for every other deck but that doesn't normally hold true for monsters. He can have two cards in his hands and then boom, out comes Mr. Vampire and his six friends, bringing his strength from 24 to 88.
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Prokhor posted:When you say you'll beat him at his own game he asks if you want to play a game of gwent and I shrieked in horror oh god please anything but that I like to think O'Dimm went "haha, just kidding" because as soon as he suggested Gwent my Geralt was all 
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So I finally got this game and can run things on medium-low @ 25~ FPS, something I'm not excited about, especially since how gorgeous the game is supposed to look.. What upgrades must I do (hopefully just a GPU upg) to be able to do high (not necessarily ultra), 1920x1080, 60 fps. What I have: i5-2500K @ 4.2 ghz 8GB Ram. GeForce 760 GTX <--most obvious bottleneck. Is upgrading to the GTX 970 my only option and will that guarantee 60 FPS by itself? I know the i5 is also a slight bottleneck in Witcher 3 and I'd be willing to upgrade but only if necessary. Thank you friends. edit: I'll make sure to read these two links in the meantime http://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-graphics-options-performance-and-settings/ http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide edit2: Yeah, from reading the first link, I think I got my answer. As long as I optimize and tweak the settings, 60 FPS should be do-able with it. Any cheaper options though? Pr0phecy fucked around with this message at 19:30 on May 21, 2016 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Here's something that is puzzling me. A lot of the game characters and book characters say that witchers are emotionless, but we know from Geralt that is patently untrue. Now the question is to what extent are the emotions of witchers altered? Geralt experiences things on a higher level due to his extra experimentation, but "Standard" witchers like eskel and lambert obviously have Strong emotions and ties to each other. Even the cat school Witcher had some emotion to him. But then you have witchers like serrit and auckes who envy geralt's capacity for feeling and I question to how much normal witchers actually feel and how much is conjecture from the book monstrum. It was probably part of the propaganda created by mages to rile up peasants and use them to take Kaer Morhen and slaughter most of the Wolf School witchers.
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I have a 750, a i5 3750k, which is an older, shittier cpu. I have an SSD which is a bit of a cheat that helps. I also use MSI Afterburner for overclock tweaking and I do overclock the CPU a bit, but that's a dangerous road. My bios makes it easy and plays it safe most of the time but it was very scary a couple of times when poo poo starts acting weird, the IRQ got hosed up and weird stuff started happening, and i was clearly cooking the loving thing. I owuldn't play with your CPU very much, but do consider GPU overclocking, and get something that displays gpu temperature in-game. MSI has removed it by default for some reason from afterburner, but that's since I played witcher 3. When Blood and Wine comes out i'll need it. Basically I played a game where I would tab into the inventory screen when my GPU got to a certain temperature range every half hour or so. This is a crazy rear end workaround but it let me play in 1080p on medium with a locked 30 framerate. Don't gently caress with your cpu, unless you want to. It's on you if you cook your computer, but you can play with a GPU much more safely. Nvidia will kill an application that starts cooking the gpu.
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Pr0phecy posted:So I finally got this game and can run things on medium-low @ 25~ FPS, something I'm not excited about, especially since how gorgeous the game is supposed to look.. Huh. I have a worse CPU (i5-4570 @ 3.2 ghz), 8GB of RAM and a GTX 760 as well and I'm at fine 60 FPS at high settings. The only thing I have below High are the NVIDIA Hairworks Preset and the Foliage Visibilty Range.
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Wait was the Monstrum a mage plot? I thought it was just some bigot.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Finally got through the Barghest boss fight. Geralt fought a noble and cinematic battle, kiting a pack of dogs around in circles long enough for the Swallow to regenerate his health so that he could stop and take a few swings at them and repeat. Eventually the hellbeast succumbed to a thousand nicks and scrapes, at which point Geralt killed half of the village he'd just spent the last three hours assisting. Great that you decided to stay with it! I think Vizima is worth experiencing for any RPG player, it's got the atmosphere nailed. And you'll get to explore even more of it if you manage to power through the swamp later on. So try and stick with it. 
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Rygar201 posted:Wait was the Monstrum a mage plot? I thought it was just some bigot. I remember somewhere it being mentioned the mob couldn't have taken the fortress without the aid of mages? And they're pretty unlikely to be unknowing participants in a mob, so they more than likely had a hand in the propaganda too.
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I really can't get over how much I hate the systems in Witcher 1. I put up with it when it was a new game I had just dropped $50 on, but Getting to Vizima is impossible for me in 2016. I know there's a good game in there, but the voice acting is loving bad and the gameplay is not fun to me. It's incredible that I know there is a good game in there, because I played it, but i cannot put up with the lovely prologue and act 1 nearly enough to get there.
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hemophilia posted:I really can't get over how much I hate the systems in Witcher 1. I put up with it when it was a new game I had just dropped $50 on, but Getting to Vizima is impossible for me in 2016. I know there's a good game in there, but the voice acting is loving bad and the gameplay is not fun to me. Some reddit guy's chapter 2 save. https://mega.nz/#!EYEU1arB!4dkAALHY8QY9Poy9Dx_KEWk-FwQoMi2AHODVvfhee8g
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Rygar201 posted:Seriously, it's not like Olgierd is riding down the high road, minding his business and gets attacked by some beasty. The guy sold his soul and his brother's life for riches. Geralt doesn't owe him poo poo.
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The game often falls flat when you do the least witcher-like things you can. Usually this is hard to do in a way thats unpleasant but yes, not taking on a malevolent demon who gamed you into a contract is the least witchery thing you could do and saying gently caress off heres a sword is the proper way of doing that.
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Olgierd is a massive piece of poo poo, especially as you learn fully what he's done to his wife and his brother for his own selfish gain, but there isn't any way Geralt wouldn't take an opportunity to outwit an evil being. It's a "I'm not doing this for you" moment for me.
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Accounting for his heart of stone that left him emotionless and kept going 
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Speaking of massive pieces of poo poo, as I'm continuing to play this game, I feel like the Witcher series would be an instant 11/10 must play if every dialogue came with an option to hit whoever you're speaking to at that moment. Like, "1. Ask about the monster problem", "2. Ask to trade", "3. Hit NPC in FACE".
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What game WOULDN'T become an instant 11/10 if they had that feature?
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I feel similarly, except I wish there was way more axii stuff and you could do things like choose different axii commands like you could incite a riot with a violent command or you could make drunkards hit on barmaids and everything in between
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It's cheapest just buying the season pass if I want both dlcs, right? I'm on ps4.
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I want to know why I cannot store books in the Stash chests.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I want to know why I cannot store books in the Stash chests. They don't weigh anything anymore do they?
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:They don't weigh anything anymore do they? They still do, and it racks up rather quickly.
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Franz von Dada posted:What game WOULDN'T become an instant 11/10 if they had that feature? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvGUsEbIWQ
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Pr0phecy posted:So I finally got this game and can run things on medium-low @ 25~ FPS, something I'm not excited about, especially since how gorgeous the game is supposed to look.. You might want to hold off on the GTX 970 since the GTX 1070 will be out very soon. Other than that I have a very simillar setup with i5-2500 (not K so no overclock), 8GB RAM and a GTX 970. I run everything on max expect for, motion blur, DoF and hairworks and I get between 45-60 fps.
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I have almost the same setup as well, bit with a 970. I5 2500k at 4.5 16gb ram 970 Runs basically everything maxed except hairworks poo poo at 60fps. The i5 is a beastly little processor.
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Yeah the CPU hasn't been a bottleneck for a very long time these days.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Yeah the CPU hasn't been a bottleneck for a very long time these days. Unless you play Total War games, hah.
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I forgot how much I hate fighting Drowners in the early game. These things are so annoying.
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Harrow posted:I forgot how much I hate fighting Drowners in the early game. These things are so annoying. It does make one wonder just how many "evil people" have drowned in the Witcher's world, because every body of water deeper than three feet coughs up a never-ending bounty of the things.
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Oxxidation posted:It does make one wonder just how many "evil people" have drowned in the Witcher's world, because every body of water deeper than three feet coughs up a never-ending bounty of the things. Having played Witcher 3 I don't see an issue with the infinite piles of evil people.
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So, speaking of early game. I'm using the Temerian Armor right now. When should I look at ditching it for something else? The next set I have my eyes on is the Wolf set but that's not until level 14 and that seems like a mighty long time to hang onto a level 4 armor set.
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Harrow posted:So, speaking of early game. I'm using the Temerian Armor right now. When should I look at ditching it for something else? The next set I have my eyes on is the Wolf set but that's not until level 14 and that seems like a mighty long time to hang onto a level 4 armor set. The Wolf Set is good but yes, it's very much mid- to lategame armor. Just keep snatching up the Witcher sets whenever you can find them. I think the lowest-level one is Griffon.
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Oxxidation posted:The Wolf Set is good but yes, it's very much mid- to lategame armor. Just keep snatching up the Witcher sets whenever you can find them. I think the lowest-level one is Griffon. The Griffin sets also looks dumb as hell
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Harrow posted:So, speaking of early game. I'm using the Temerian Armor right now. When should I look at ditching it for something else? The next set I have my eyes on is the Wolf set but that's not until level 14 and that seems like a mighty long time to hang onto a level 4 armor set.
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Yeah, I don't really like how the Griffin set looks, which is kind of a shame. The first Witcher set that I could get that I also would want to use is the Feline one, which isn't available for a good, long while. I guess I'll just have to clownsuit it up until then.
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The griffin set looks dumb because of the cloth colored breastplate. I'm hoping the armour dyes in blood and wine let me make it a proper silver plate
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So I bought a season pass of this a year ago and then let it sit in my backlog forever. I bounced off both 1 and 2 early (my save for 1 is in Chapter 2 somewhere, my save for 2 is just before the Kayran) and, while my first toe dips in 3 are really promising (particularly the combat mechanic improvements), from what I'm reading the DLC next week will patch/update enough to be worth holding off until it drops? If so I guess it would be a good time to pick up 2 again and try to get through it before jumping into 3 with the DLC release - are there any Goon-recommended mods or other stuff to improve the Assassins of Kings experience? Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 17:20 on May 22, 2016 |
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