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Holy poo poo the child bootblack is a loving extortionist!
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Azazell0 posted:I accidentally stumbled upon a guy who wants to protect a silver basilisk named Iocaste. For some reason I didn't get it as a quest even though this clearly is one, and now I'm kinda unsure what to do. Can I get a quest update anywhere? Quest is to check on the encampment due to missing merchant, given from someone in town, he is an extension of the quest to go where he is. unless you stumbled upon him elsewhere?
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Jun 5, 2016 21:02
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Turds in magma posted:Has anyone experimented much with the Aard upgrade that freezes enemies? Good damage? OP as gently caress? With the Griffin 3 piece bonus plus fully upgraded AArd, Ancient Leshen Decocotion, Ekhinda Decoction, and Ekhimarra Decoction I can just mash Q and stunslock + nuke down an arbitrarily large group of enemies or lock down any boss except the final one.
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Jun 5, 2016 21:17
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:With the Griffin 3 piece bonus plus fully upgraded AArd, Ancient Leshen Decocotion, Ekhinda Decoction, and Ekhimarra Decoction I can just mash Q and stunslock + nuke down an arbitrarily large group of enemies or lock down any boss except the final one. Lol if you don't play a 3rd person action rpg on a controller.
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Jun 5, 2016 21:19
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WirelessPillow posted:Quest is to check on the encampment due to missing merchant, given from someone in town, he is an extension of the quest to go where he is. unless you stumbled upon him elsewhere? Thanks, I found it eventually. Now, the moral dilemma of the quest: to kill or not to kill? On the other hand, it would be kinda sad to kill the last surviving basilisk of a species, but on the other hand, it does attack and kill people, but then again, would it really leave them alone if they won't trespass? I don't think the Count is giving me the whole truth, either. e: ha, he was right about the fact that the merchants don't give a poo poo if they are attacked since they get compensated anyway. I guess I gotta think about this for a while e: I was pushed into making a timed decision and my gut said to spare it, dammit. TeaJay fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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Jun 5, 2016 21:34
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How hard is death march as a light armour build? Is it more frustrating than fun?
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Jun 5, 2016 21:35
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"Herbs shmerbs, but how 'bout some Gwent!" 
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Jun 5, 2016 21:38
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RatHat posted:How hard is death march as a light armour build? Is it more frustrating than fun? Make sure to be good at the game first.
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Jun 5, 2016 21:41
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hemophilia posted:Make sure to be good at the game first. In that case I'll go with the difficulty below death march. If I really want the achievement I'll just go through the story on NG+.
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Jun 5, 2016 21:49
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RatHat posted:How hard is death march as a light armour build? Is it more frustrating than fun? The difference between light and heavy armor is maybe a single hit on death march.
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Jun 5, 2016 22:01
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Azazell0 posted:Thanks, I found it eventually. I went kill the griffin. The trade guilds are intentionally throwing people's lives away sending them in the dangerous land because they will get paid if the caravan gets through or if everyone dies. It's sad to see him go, but he's being used as a murder-for-profit machine.
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Jun 5, 2016 22:19
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HoS oh my god, possessed Geralt is really just too much. I like that Vlodmir isn't even an evil guy or anything, he just wants to have a good time. Well he is a meddling rear end. I'm so glad I lost that card game though, that was good advice.
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Jun 5, 2016 22:22
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Jun 5, 2016 22:27
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This reminds me that this is already sort of a thing because Blues and Bullets exists complete with Geralt's VA voicing the MC, Eliot Ness, who's a grizzled older man who investigates gruseome murder scenes and fights monsters too.
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Jun 5, 2016 22:36
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Jun 5, 2016 22:38
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Is that Yen with red hair? This gives me confused feelings....
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Jun 5, 2016 22:52
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Is that Yen with red hair? This gives me confused feelings.... That's Triss. A Matter of Life and Death is her quest.
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Jun 5, 2016 23:14
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Shame that's not a joint
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Jun 5, 2016 23:15
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Hm, this sidequest with this Lambert fellow wants me to head off for Skellige. I only just got to Novigrad, though. Any harm in following things throwugh or should I wait 'til later?
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Jun 5, 2016 23:15
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Ciaphas posted:Hm, this sidequest with this Lambert fellow wants me to head off for Skellige. I only just got to Novigrad, though. Any harm in following things throwugh or should I wait 'til later? What level are you? Most of skellige will be outright lethal to you on Death March if you just got to Novigrad. You can ignore most of skellige to do lambert's quest, leave, and come back later if you want.
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Jun 5, 2016 23:19
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Bwahahaha. Whoever told me to get Shani drunk is evil. This game is great, it's kind of nice to see a game have rather grown-up humor and situations in a game that don't feel contrived, watered down or filtered through the lens of Japan. EDIT: Ha ha, is this a Red Dwarf reference with these auction house guards? This is wonderful. EDIT EDIT: ha ha Van Der Knoob and Long-in-Dick. tee hee. 8-Bit Scholar fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Jun 5, 2016 |
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Jun 5, 2016 23:27
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hemophilia posted:What level are you? Most of skellige will be outright lethal to you on Death March if you just got to Novigrad. 11, but I'm on whatever the default difficulty is. I've decided to get on with the main quest for the moment anyway. New question, do alternate signs still activate all the usual talent effects, like the armor shred on the first Igni talent?
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Jun 5, 2016 23:37
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Ciaphas posted:11, but I'm on whatever the default difficulty is. I've decided to get on with the main quest for the moment anyway. There is some Skellige stuff available in the later teens, but there's a fight with... level 15ish? enemies on the trip there. I would definitely not save Skellige for after Novigrad, once you get a few more levels go meet up with Yen in Skellige. I heartily recommend mixing it up and going back and forth between Velen, Novigrad, and Skellige for quests if you're getting a little bored of one zone. There's a lot of crossover of level ranges. Yes, though I don't understand the love for Melt Armor. I'm pretty sure only humanoids have armor (maybe some monsters?), so it doesn't do anything against most enemies. Get the first two tiers of Yrden talents, alt-Yrden is amazeballs and useful in almost every fight.
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Jun 5, 2016 23:43
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How's enemy upscaling? Should I turn it on from the beginning or only do it when I've overleveled?
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Jun 5, 2016 23:45
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Oh, I always figured all enemies had intrinsic armor or defense values, not just the actual armor.
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Jun 5, 2016 23:46
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I figured melt armour would work on monsters w damage resistance to lower it but maybe not
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Jun 5, 2016 23:46
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When I take melt armor, it's with the assumption that armor is like a built in stat of all monsters and humans and not just humans and creatures that are literally armored. If that's wrong, I'm not sure it's a talent worth taking.
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Jun 5, 2016 23:47
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hemophilia posted:When I take melt armor, it's with the assumption that armor is like a built in stat of all monsters and humans and not just humans and creatures that are literally armored. If that's wrong, I'm not sure it's a talent worth taking. I've been thinking of it as New Vegas style damage threshold but now I'm unsure. Probably going to use that mod to add more skill slots though, only having 12 is getting insanely annoying. I know bnw gives you more but since like level 30 I've just been putting points into whatever because I'm never going to slot them. Daft design
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Jun 5, 2016 23:57
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I did some quick googling and I didn't find anything conclusive, but it's been discussed before and it's mostly humans and humanoids actually wearing armor who have significant (or any?) armor stat to melt. Maybe also golems but I think I tested that and didn't notice a difference. Melt Armor isn't effective against most monsters, but then again Igni in general is awesome against those same unarmored monsters. It's not bad, but it's not as good as you might think at a glance.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:04
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I tried installing the debug console mod a Goon suggested a ways back,but it doesn't work. Whenever I try to start the game up,I get this: Script Compailation Error posted:Error [content0]game\gameplay\focus\focus.ws(202): Function 'LogWithName' does not take 1 param(s) I'm asking the thread for advice because God Knows how useless the  is.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:19
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I imagine that mod is broken like most were by 1.21 and the blood & wine release.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:22
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Moose-Alini posted:I went kill the griffin. The trade guilds are intentionally throwing people's lives away sending them in the dangerous land because they will get paid if the caravan gets through or if everyone dies. It's sad to see him go, but he's being used as a murder-for-profit machine. I went save the griffin, under the condition the owner makes sure to do better then 'signs', he posts guards up and blocks the entrances, the guards say the road is closed due to griffin danger and will not let merchants through. works out either way really.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:23
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8-Bit Scholar posted:Bwahahaha. Whoever told me to get Shani drunk is evil.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:29
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I could still do without the awkward animated sex scenes generally. I brought Shani flowers because I still love her from TW1 so I just got the strange mannequins flopping against each other
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Jun 6, 2016 00:35
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I got her some booze but my brain clicked when there was the timed "let her drink or no?" dialogue and i stole that bottle and swigged it myself.
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Jun 6, 2016 00:41
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:I could still do without the awkward animated sex scenes generally. I brought Shani flowers because I still love her from TW1 so I just got the strange mannequins flopping against each other While the actual physicality of the act is pretty clunky to see still, this game's sex scenes--romance scenes is really a better term--are all pretty well-written and genuinely sweet at times. They all tend to occur at a point where it feels natural to teh characters--Geralt and Yen's even serves to actually advance their characters, particularly Yen, as you see another side of her, the one that likely won Geralt's heart in the first place. They're all different from each other too, and feel believable, even the "flings" like Keira, and maybe even moreso. Basically, the game is written about adults and for adults and it shows. I'd describe them as more "erotic" than "titillating" which is precisely how they felt in, say, Mass Effect. EDIT: Just makes me think of those horrifyingly awkward scenes in Dragon Age Inquisition with the giant bull man. It's like a conversation about sex written by somebody who has never had sex. 8-Bit Scholar fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 00:52
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Witcher 3 does really a good job of not making romance just a reward for the player that you just pump approval points into.
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Jun 6, 2016 01:01
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In fairness to Mass Effect and Dragon Age, they are published and basically in all but name developed by people who are first and foremost interested in making games that parents will not throw a shitfit over. Mass Effect and dragon age style romance is a symptom of design by committee type process that tends to sterilize violence and sex as much as possible so the end product is something parents aren't completely uncomfortable buying for their older kids. complex and nuanced sexuality doesn't make it past that kind of stuff. I also think Bioware writers are hacks, but that's personal taste more than anything.
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Jun 6, 2016 01:06
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WirelessPillow posted:I went save the griffin, under the condition the owner makes sure to do better then 'signs', he posts guards up and blocks the entrances, the guards say the road is closed due to griffin danger and will not let merchants through. works out either way really. Oh drat didn't know that was an option. I shoulda done that. Felt bad for the guy.
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hemophilia posted:In fairness to Mass Effect and Dragon Age, they are published and basically in all but name developed by people who are first and foremost interested in making games that parents will not throw a shitfit over. Mass Effect and dragon age style romance is a symptom of design by committee type process that tends to sterilize violence and sex as much as possible so the end product is something parents aren't completely uncomfortable buying for their older kids. complex and nuanced sexuality doesn't make it past that kind of stuff. I dunno, one of the writers went on record saying he thought Twilight was amazing and wanted to emulate that, and a lot of the later Mass Effect and Dragon Age games felt...for lack of a better word, they felt like they were pandering to a certain audience. Like, a teenage audience, basically. As I said, they handle sex with kid gloves, but not really in a sterile way, more like in a unrealistic or maybe even shallow way.
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