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The experience from side quests really doesn't matter and main quests give a metric fuckton of exp no matter what level you are.
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SirSamVimes posted:The experience from side quests really doesn't matter and main quests give a metric fuckton of exp no matter what level you are.  I am surprised no one has created an optimized way of doing the main quests to max XP gain.
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Dec 5, 2016 21:16
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SirSamVimes posted:The experience from side quests really doesn't matter and main quests give a metric fuckton of exp no matter what level you are. Yeah but a little pop up saying "1xp gained" is still a slap in the face
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Dec 5, 2016 21:23
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Unless you are overlevelled Trying to min-max XP is pointless you're going to end up at level 32-33 at the end of the base game no matter what. Ignore the quest level and XP imo, do quests that seem fun and skip the ones that don't.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:03
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Pellisworth posted:Trying to min-max XP is pointless you're going to end up at level 32-33 at the end of the base game no matter what. I also appreciate that people are still spoilering things.
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Dec 5, 2016 22:14
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Pellisworth posted:Ignore the quest level and XP imo, do quests that seem fun and skip the ones that don't. Don't do this. A lot of good quests, and one of the best, is hidden behind seeming mundanity. Just do all the quests, there aren't really any boring ones.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:31
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Don't do this. A lot of good quests, and one of the best, is hidden behind seeming mundanity. Just do all the quests, there aren't really any boring ones. This is the truth. I almost skipped Wild At Heart because the notice just said "find my missing wife" and I thought it would be boring. I'm so glad I didn't skip it.
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Dec 5, 2016 23:36
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Even just the main quest is pretty long, and I can see someone getting burned out on the game trying to get through all the Content. "Skip quests that don't sound interesting" is fine advice imo Other fine advice: those question marks in the Skellige sea aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone.
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Dec 6, 2016 02:08
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2house2fly posted:Even the main quest is pretty long, and I can see someone getting burned out on the game trying to get through all the Content. "Skip quests that don't sound interesting" is fine advice imo 2house2fly posted:Other fine advice: those question marks in the Skellige sea aren't hurting anyone. Leave them alone.
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Dec 6, 2016 02:09
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Spikeguy posted:The only reason I didn't gently caress with O'Dimm was because I didn't want him to get obsessed with Geralt. He seems like the kind of dude that would dedicate a lot of time to your downfall. He didn't seem to do it with the other guy who beat him in past. I feel like if you win fair and square, he's not allowed to keep after you.
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Dec 6, 2016 04:27
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One issue the game as an open world game has is that sidequesting at all feels completely at odds with the tone of the main questline. The story of trying to find Ciri and defeat the Wild Hunt is really really urgent and it feels kind of weird to take a break from that to help a troll paint a picture (as good as that and most of the sidequests are) or play cards. It's what stopped me from mostly avoiding sidequests until the last minute. I don't think there's any real good way of fixing that though
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Dec 6, 2016 05:54
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Macaluso posted:One issue the game as an open world game has is that sidequesting at all feels completely at odds with the tone of the main questline. The story of trying to find Ciri and defeat the Wild Hunt is really really urgent and it feels kind of weird to take a break from that to help a troll paint a picture (as good as that and most of the sidequests are) or play cards. It's what stopped me from mostly avoiding sidequests until the last minute. I don't think there's any real good way of fixing that though This is why I liked Witcher 1 & 2 so much. The Chapters / areas allowed for much tighter storytelling, and still had a decent amount of sidequests. To me, open world games dont feel like they have more freedom, they're just spread more thin
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Dec 6, 2016 06:06
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Thankfully most of the main quest isn't driven by time demanding objectives, but by geralt's investigations. He's not the best tracker in the world because he's fast but because he's thorough.
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Dec 6, 2016 08:55
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The whole game is framed as dandelion telling tales about his old buddy geralt's adventures if you put stock in how the journal is written. Just imagine he took a break from the major story to tease the crowd!
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Dec 6, 2016 14:57
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If that's the case, Dandelion took way too many loving notes on Geralt's Gwent matches.
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Macaluso posted:One issue the game as an open world game has is that sidequesting at all feels completely at odds with the tone of the main questline. The story of trying to find Ciri and defeat the Wild Hunt is really really urgent and it feels kind of weird to take a break from that to help a troll paint a picture (as good as that and most of the sidequests are) or play cards. It's what stopped me from mostly avoiding sidequests until the last minute. I don't think there's any real good way of fixing that though Yeah, this is a valid criticism. They do end up addressing it midway through the game though. Avallach essentially gives you free reign to do whatever you want as long as Ciri is on the Isle of Mists. The game also demonstrates Ciri is capable of handling herself, so that somewhat reduces the urgency as well. The overall suspicion is she is in hiding, not that she has been captured, since if that was the case they would not be able to do much about it. Without revealing too many of the details, I'm not entirely sure how you avoid that, unless you quite literally put the game on rails up until certain story points.
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Dec 6, 2016 15:10
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If you just follow the main quest objectives you can find yourself needing money to upgrade your equipment and stuff, which can justify taking on some contracts at least. I don't know how they'd expand your feeling of freedom to side-quest in such a story-focused game while keeping the story itself exciting, and tbh the solution might be "don't make a story-focused open world game"
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I went into Witcher 3 cold, having not read any of the books or played either of the first two games, and made most of my in-game choices based on what felt right. Now I'm reading the books and am almost finished with Time of Contempt and already it feels like all of my choices were "correct". Usually on second playthroughs I'll pick the opposite of most choices just to see what happens differently, but the more I read the more I just want to make all the same decisions and enjoy them more with the added context. My major ending choices were Yennefer relationship, Witcher Ciri & dead Dijkstra for those wondering.
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HoS end choice: Geralt can live for a long time, so it's possible O'Dimm is banished only for 36 years or similar number. Regular dude in not-medieval Europe is statistically not likely to be around. Also monster slayer for hire with blond hair is easy to locate when he's back.
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Dec 6, 2016 18:08
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Witchers are basically immune to old age, right? They only ever die in combat and I heard one of the books says Vesemir is as old as Kaer Morhen.
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^^ I don't think that's mean literally. But yeah Witchers age really slowly.WoodrowSkillson posted:Yeah, this is a valid criticism. They do end up addressing it midway through the game though. Avallach essentially gives you free reign to do whatever you want as long as Ciri is on the Isle of Mists. The game also demonstrates Ciri is capable of handling herself, so that somewhat reduces the urgency as well. The overall suspicion is she is in hiding, not that she has been captured, since if that was the case they would not be able to do much about it. Without revealing too many of the details, I'm not entirely sure how you avoid that, unless you quite literally put the game on rails up until certain story points. ??? Doesn't he literally tell you to hurry? And the Hunt shows up on the Isle while you're still there, though I guess they might have only found out where she is when she woke up?
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2house2fly posted:Witchers are basically immune to old age, right? They only ever die in combat and I heard one of the books says Vesemir is as old as Kaer Morhen. I'm not quite clear on whether it's that they never die of old age because the mutations mean they can't, or if it's just because on a long enough timeline every witcher gets killed horribly and nobody's been able to test whether they ever just die on their own eventually.
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I really like how Geralt's plan for the botchling is basically "I dunno I heard about this thing one time maybe that will work" e: like he's just a dude who has heard some stuff and is basically superman and people just pay him to shovel their poo poo, this game owns.
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Paul Zuvella posted:I really like how Geralt's plan for the botchling is basically "I dunno I heard about this thing one time maybe that will work" Basically every winter the witchers all get together to talk about all the weird stuff they did that year and they write it all down and memorize the relevant facts from each others' experiences. They live in an insane folk tale world where every monster has its own bonkers rules for how you have to deal with them, and witchers are the only ones who actually learn all this nonsense. There's a reason people hire Geralt, and it's because he's spent sixty years doing nothing but practicing chemistry and memorizing errata about how some other witcher once dealt with an obscure edge case like the physical manifestation of an angry witch-mediated abuse abortion. Another thing I love about the game is how Geralt is really really good at his job but just completely hopeless at anything else. The Redanian Birdo scene or the Doppler's Salvation are great, especially after tripe like Skyrim where everyone falls over backwards to tell the player how wonderful they are at everything they do.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:If that's the case, Dandelion took way too many loving notes on Geralt's Gwent matches. Dandelion: But before I tell you more of how Geralt found himself trapped in a Succubus lair.... would anybody like to hear about some Gwent? Crowd quietly nods their heads in approval
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doppler's salvation is the best
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Ainsley McTree posted:I'm not quite clear on whether it's that they never die of old age because the mutations mean they can't, or if it's just because on a long enough timeline every witcher gets killed horribly and nobody's been able to test whether they ever just die on their own eventually. I believe that if you allow the two doctors in Flotsam to take a study sample from Geralt in Witcher 2, you can find some of their experiment notes near Oxenfurt Academy in 3. They basically were studying the viability of Witchers passing on their genetic traits, so they tried to concoct a serum that would make Geralt fertile again, and then bet on how many prostitutes Geralt would bang and see if any white haired children popped up. It'd be interesting to study Witcher genes without the need for the monster slaying profession.
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Mzbundifund posted:Basically every winter the witchers all get together to talk about all the weird stuff they did that year and they write it all down and memorize the relevant facts from each others' experiences. They live in an insane folk tale world where every monster has its own bonkers rules for how you have to deal with them, and witchers are the only ones who actually learn all this nonsense. There's a reason people hire Geralt, and it's because he's spent sixty years doing nothing but practicing chemistry and memorizing errata about how some other witcher once dealt with an obscure edge case like the physical manifestation of an angry witch-mediated abuse abortion. There really should have been witcher sub-orders of librarians that they put the weak kids in that could keep going as the fighter schools die out. They could modernise by renting themselves out to local militias as consultants. All that knowledge really needs to be kept.
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MikeJF posted:There really should have been witcher sub-orders of librarians that they put the weak kids in that could keep going as the fighter schools die out. Honestly I could actually really easily see that happening in the Witcherverse, if the schools weren't mostly wiped out. Mzbundifund posted:Another thing I love about the game is how Geralt is really really good at his job but just completely hopeless at anything else. The Redanian Birdo scene or the Doppler's Salvation are great, especially after tripe like Skyrim where everyone falls over backwards to tell the player how wonderful they are at everything they do. Thats one thing I think works about this game so well, its a role playing game you are playing Geralt of Rivia. Not insert blank wish fulfillment NPC everyone worships.
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What does Redanian Birdo mean?
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2house2fly posted:What does Redanian Birdo mean? The quest where geralt helps a troll soldier get an insignia.
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2house2fly posted:What does Redanian Birdo mean?
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I didn't want to murder you, lady I hosed. I just wanted those papers 
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Paul Zuvella posted:I didn't want to murder you, lady I hosed. I just wanted those papers why does everyone do this lol
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WoodrowSkillson posted:why does everyone do this lol "gimme those papers" didn't seem like a thing that would end with me literally murdering her
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Paul Zuvella posted:I didn't want to murder you, lady I hosed. I just wanted those papers
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redbackground posted:lol, like if you don't successfully send Kiera off to Kaer Morhen, you have made some terrible Geralt-life decisions. I'm basically playing Geralt as some kind of monster killing autist/sevant. So yeah, I'm probably making a ton of "wrong" choices
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For people who feel bad about the crones questline, I just found out that there is an ingame book that says that the spirit in the whispering hillock is the crones' mother. She went too crazy even for them. So if you freed her, she's probably out there killing plenty of people right now.
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Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:For people who feel bad about the crones questline, I just found out that there is an ingame book that says that the spirit in the whispering hillock is the crones' mother. She went too crazy even for them. So if you freed her, she's probably out there killing plenty of people right now. well, that's exactly what happens once you transfer her consciousness into that horse. (I love that that is a thing that can happen.) It rockets towards that one town she was pissed at and slaughters everyone and it is super gross. redbackground fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Finally upgraded my video card and can now run this thing maxed out on my 5+ year old rig. Started last night, imported my Roche save (long live the tatt) where Henselt is dead, I'm assuming that will have a lot of bearing on the story. I'm using a DS4 via DS4Windows and it works perfectly except for a couple issues that are only with this game: - D-Pad always toggles by two steps in every direction, not one. - The X (Xbox A button) confirmation on a lot of things (board postings, gwent cards) also double clicks and often selects multiple things (whenever I toggle signs/bombs in the quick menu Geralt always rolls on exit, which can be problematic). - Holding Circle (B equivalent) while on horseback doesn't seem to want to let me dismount, I have to hit E on the keyboard. I'm unsure of what settings I'd have to gently caress with in DS4Win to fix all of these, but I'm also thinking maybe it's a framerate issue... I have max FPS set to 60 and everything on ultra but I'm still swinging 90+ fps and getting lots of tearing on my trusty old 60Hz monitor (yes, I know. That's the next step) to the point where I actually had to turn on V-Sync because Adaptive wasn't cutting it, but with V-Sync on it's still having the issues which leads me to believe it's a polling rate issue or something with the controller emulation. Anyone have experience with this and have a suggestion? And no, going out and buying a bone/360 controller isn't an ideal suggestion since I hate both controllers and already have a 360 pad that I'm specifically not using (because it's terrible). Fuzz fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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