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Nah it was a huge mob of peasants with mages helping them.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:Nah it was a huge mob of peasants with mages helping them. Edited my post, thanks. Peasants > Witchers :P First Kaer Morhen, then Geralt gets stabbed with a pitchfork. Guess they never learn.
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Feb 9, 2017 13:35
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And then the Cat school witcher! Seems they don't.
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Feb 9, 2017 13:38
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Nickname Pending posted:Anyone have some general tips/advice for me? I've had this game for a while, but haven't gotten into it enough to get very far (I'm at the prep for the griffon). I guess I'm just finding the menu very clunky and so many items of which I don't even know what to do with most of them. Or what spells work best, and so on. I'm sure it would be a great game, just having a rough start (which I feel should be expected).
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I think Visenna was a sorceress and not a mage? Its a great that part un the books when they meet again. Also my interpretation is that the comitmen required to be an elite sorceress is the main reason that explain sorceress infertility more than biological reasons. Could you imagine Philippa having childrens? Yikes. Yen best mom.
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DoctorGonzo posted:I think Visenna was a sorceress and not a mage? Its a great that part un the books when they meet again. Also my interpretation is that the comitmen required to be an elite sorceress is the main reason that explain sorceress infertility more than biological reasons. Could you imagine Philippa having childrens? Yikes. *druid, healer and sorceress according to the wiki. Urh, semantics, you know what I mean. :P But Philippa would be a great mom. Just look how at she brought up Radovid. Committing Regicide is the best sign of maternal love. A pity all the nuance of their relationship was lost when they turned him into a lunatic who talks to chess pieces. TenaciousD fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Feb 9, 2017 15:39
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One of the best moments in the saga IMO is when Yen trains child Ciri and many years latter Ciri rejects the Lodge of Sorceress because they want to left Yen out of it.
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Palpek posted:In B&W there's still a bug (as far as I can tell) that makes prostitutes stay in the room after sex, still naked so when you hire another one the previous one is present in the background during cutscenes following Geralt around with her eyes. I managed to have 4 whores in the room this way - 1 in bed and 3 standing right next to it, staring and silently judging Geralt's every move.  I love this both because it's the kind of weird glitch that cracks me up and because it indicates the team put less effort into the prostitutes (which is good).
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Feb 9, 2017 16:49
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Spikeguy posted:Do you have any recommendations for the settings to use? I tried a few things but it ends up with a lot of dots on Geralt's face. Update: I found the settings that worked the best and my god I can't emphasize enough how much it improves the look of the game. It was beautiful before but now it's downright stunning. So just to push it again, if you have PC and can run Ultra Setting, check this stuff out. https://reshade.me/
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Feb 9, 2017 19:37
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Spikeguy posted:Update: I found the settings that worked the best and my god I can't emphasize enough how much it improves the look of the game. It was beautiful before but now it's downright stunning. No one cares about the link to reshade, share your settings and post some screenshots.
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Feb 9, 2017 21:18
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TenaciousD posted:Man, I disliked that part of the game so much. Vesemir could have taken Imlerith in his sleep. How the hell is Imlerith strong enough to pin him to a wall? He could have just casted aard. The only reason they had to kill him was to move the plot along. drat it Ciri, you should have stayed in Brokilon. What a lame death for a great character. Uhhhh no, he definitely couldn't have. Imlerith is insanely strong.
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Yeah, if people could post their ReShade settings that would be a big help  TenaciousD posted:Man, I disliked that part of the game so much. Vesemir could have taken Imlerith in his sleep. How the hell is Imlerith strong enough to pin him to a wall? He could have just casted aard. The only reason they had to kill him was to move the plot along. drat it Ciri, you should have stayed in Brokilon. What a lame death for a great character. They did need to sell the impact of the Wild Hunt though - they're talked up as a near unstoppable force but Geralt has been able to clown them at most every step, so seeing somebody so close to them actually fall at their hands does work rather well to personalize the threat beyond the (still effective) concerns for Ciri. Also, it does make the "Who taught you to fight like this?" "THE WITCHER YOU SLEW!  " moment pretty loving amazing 
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Feb 9, 2017 22:00
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Keep in mind that each region has its own lighting and colormap as a cheap way to pull off different vibes without murdering the gpu. As such you're going to need at least two reshade presets (which is why I haven't bothered) because Toissant would look completely different.
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Feb 9, 2017 22:08
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Witcher 3 looks good enough that reshade probably isn't worth the trouble if you're not already familiar with it.
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Oh well I don't wanna gently caress with Toussaint since that is gloriously pretty already vv
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Spoilers obviously, not going to tag the whole post.SirSamVimes posted:Uhhhh no, he definitely couldn't have. Imlerith is insanely strong. Vesemir owns Imlerith. He parries his blows and shoves him to the ground. He could have killed him right then with a stab to the face, but runs after Eredin. Vesemir then slashes him, but gets blindsided by Imlerith as he pushes Ciri away. In a 1:1 fight, Vesemir would take Imlerith. Pretty sure that Vesemir could even take Geralt. He is the swordmaster for a reason. Jerusalem posted:They did need to sell the impact of the Wild Hunt though - they're talked up as a near unstoppable force but Geralt has been able to clown them at most every step, so seeing somebody so close to them actually fall at their hands does work rather well to personalize the threat beyond the (still effective) concerns for Ciri. Also, it does make the "Who taught you to fight like this?" "THE WITCHER YOU SLEW! I'm aware of why they did it. Having your main character fail gives them humanity. It's like all those old Jackie Chan movies. Would his character in those be half as interesting if he wasn't getting hurt himself all the time? It doesn't mean that it was handled as well as it could have been though. Killing Vesemir, in that way, was the easy way out. You could replace Vesemir with any of the other characters that have a strong relationship with Ciri, and the scene would play out almost identically. If the game had had some actual Wild Hunt content, it could have been handled differently. I'm not against Vesemir dying, someone probably had to. I'm against the way it was handled. As it stands though, and if I eliminate all my book knowledge, the Hunt, compared to Jacques or Letho, are incredibly one-sided. The game never presents them as a serious threat, even at KM, things were going well until the Deus Ex Machina, that is the White Frost. Speaking of Imlerith, I feel like he actually has a greater screen presence than Eredin, which is just wrong. TenaciousD fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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It was probably explained somewhere but I was never sure what the wild hunt even wanted with Ciri. They can already cross dimensions just fine, just as well as her in fact since she can't escape them. I guess more dimension-jumping power is always better than less. Eredin has less dialogue in the actual game than he did in the trailer I watched, and his dialogue in the trailer was better. wtf
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2house2fly posted:It was probably explained somewhere but I was never sure what the wild hunt even wanted with Ciri. They can already cross dimensions just fine, just as well as her in fact since she can't escape them. I guess more dimension-jumping power is always better than less. Ciri can end the White Frost, and their world is about to be hosed up by the White Frost, basically.
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2house2fly posted:It was probably explained somewhere but I was never sure what the wild hunt even wanted with Ciri. They can already cross dimensions just fine, just as well as her in fact since she can't escape them. I guess more dimension-jumping power is always better than less. Stop the White Frost in their world. dammit beaten!
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Crappy Jack posted:Ciri can end the White Frost, and their world is about to be hosed up by the White Frost, basically. That and she's basically the Kwisatz Haderach and the Wild Hunt elves want to breed her bloodline into theirs
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TenaciousD posted:Speaking of Imlerith, I feel like he actually has a greater screen presence than Eredin, which is just wrong. For sure, though that bizarrely seems a rather common thing in a lot of media where the bad guy's number 2 tends to be more interesting and come across as deadlier than the supposed top bad guy.
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I think Ciri's power would allow them to bring everyone from their world across instead of just the limited amounts of warriors that they were able to bring across during the game.
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I think Vesemir's big story moment is handled spectacularly well and is completely believable ("He'd never lose to that guy because he's too cool" is a silly complaint TBH) but on the whole, I do admit that I never completely got a sense of what the Wild Hunt were all about, really. There's an elven politics of another world thing happening and they seem to be trying to avert their world's apocalypse and also extend their world-hopping abilities, but what do they even do with the world-hopping? Why is their whole aesthetic spooky skull armor with growling undead voices? Geralt traveled with them, sort of, but there's very little you can learn about that, besides that it made him lose his memory; there's nothing indicating what his relationship was with the Hunt while he was riding with them. In the end, it doesn't super matter, I guess. The story is about Geralt letting Ciri grow up and make her own decisions, so a vaguely generic Winterskull Elfdrama Apocalypse Army is all you need as the Big Bad. I think ideally I either wanted more of an explanation or less of an explanation for them. If they're just some indiscernible threat wearing death masks and heralding the end of all realities, it's somehow less confusing than a bunch of otherworldly espionage somehow connected with Geralt's past. The White Frost, the Crones, and a lot of other things in the game are very effective that way; they feel like some ancient/Faerie horror that Geralt only understands some of the rules for, whereas the Hunt, once their masks come off, feel like a bunch of hedonistic goths with decent combat and magic skills.
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Also the Crones being (kinda) subservient to the Hunt (or at least Imlerith) feels a little odd, because the Crones DO feel like that otherworldly and monstrous threat that the Hunt are supposed to be. I love the game a lot and especially the ending, but the Hunt are a little underwhelming unfortunately.
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There were also a couple of plot threads that also never got resolved, like what the Hunt was doing with the people they abducted in TW2. It must have been something more than just slave labour. Or what Geralt actually did when he was a Red Rider. I have a feeling that Eredin was meant to jog his memory, but we never ended up getting a scene like that. In the game he gives up trying to remember. I would have liked to see them do a lot more with Eredin. The guy has a personally, I mean, he killed his King by giving him aphrodisiacs that were too strong. A "normal" person would just poison him, but no, Eredin gives him a boner and a heart attack. He also looked drat intimidating in the W2 flashbacks. If the Hunt's magic in TW3 is from harnessing the White Frost, err... why can't they just harness it and remove it from their planet. I never understood the difference. 2house2fly posted:Eredin has less dialogue in the actual game than he did in the trailer I watched, and his dialogue in the trailer was better. wtf Eredin actually has more dialogue in TW1 than TW3, and his TW3 trailer dialogue is almost as long as the 12 one-liners he pops in the final game. Not to mention the fact that they got Steven Hartley to voice him. He's a legend. That couldn't have been cheap for what ended up being a cameo role. TenaciousD fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Jerusalem posted:Also the Crones being (kinda) subservient to the Hunt (or at least Imlerith) feels a little odd, because the Crones DO feel like that otherworldly and monstrous threat that the Hunt are supposed to be. Yeah, the Crones are amazing that way. You can't quite divine their motivation except that it is something way beyond Geralt's quest and they are at least temporarily at odds with his goals, plus his decisions when he interacts with them affect his world in huge, tangible ways. I don't mind that they're connected with the Wild Hunt, but there is a sort of implication that they're subservient, which is a little deflating.
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TenaciousD posted:There were also a couple of plot threads that also never got resolved, like what the Hunt was doing with the people they abducted in TW2. It must have been something more than just slave labour. Or what Geralt actually did when he was a Red Rider. I have a feeling that Eredin was meant to jog his memory, but we never ended up getting a scene like that. In the game he gives up trying to remember. You can ask yen what happened and she said they were held hostage so ciri would come after them.
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I really should go back to Witcher 2, I had no idea it was tied closely to Witcher 3. So I found all the Master Crafted armor recipies, and was able to make the Ursine set, which makes Geralt look like a Viking with all the furs and stuff, but dammit, i'm going to have to go back to the main game and find the recipes for the last tier Wolven, Griffin and Feline. Is it weird I played through this game doing all the ? first, then the treasure hunts, then the contracts, then the side quests, then the main quests? I found doing the main quests in a row really helped the narrative.
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Drifter posted:Witcher 3 looks good enough that reshade probably isn't worth the trouble if you're not already familiar with it.
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Is it worth messing with reshade even if your gpu isn't great? I have a 1050gtx, I haven't installed Witcher 3 yet, I think the most up to date graphics game I've played so far has been Shadow of Mordor. I played at medium and it never dipped below 70, which it was locked at from vsync, so probably could have bumped up more details even.
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Reshade will shave off 5-8 fps from the performance so it's advisable mainly for people who can already run the game on ultra and want to push it more.
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Yeah, I have a 1070 and I'm hitting a constant 60 most of the time on the highest possible settings at 1080p (since I'm playing in my living room instead of at my desk). I can stand to squeeze a little more out, though I have zero loving idea what any of the shaders -really- do baring the really obviously named ones, and the individual settings themselves are especially obscure when they aren't made static (and therefore pointless). Is there like a guide that explains exactly what the gently caress the things do (or at least it'd be good to know why things even get a box when you can't change it) Of course, that's all academic since my witcher installation doesn't run at all when I installed reshade over it, but it looks wonderful as is 
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So I don't remember that werewolf in the early game having such ridiculous regen - I've finished the game on Death March without issue and this guy just beat the poo poo out of me. Guess I better go actually develop some bombs and potions instead of just slack-assing my way into the cave with a lovely sword. 
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Crappy Jack posted:Ciri can end the White Frost, and their world is about to be hosed up by the White Frost, basically. Then they should have just asked nicely, then let her go on about it. 
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Fuzz posted:Keep in mind that each region has its own lighting and colormap as a cheap way to pull off different vibes without murdering the gpu. As such you're going to need at least two reshade presets (which is why I haven't bothered) because Toissant would look completely different. I just want a mod or something that would make Velen less gloomy and rainy (I know, it's on purpose) for second playthrough. Is there one like that?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Of course, that's all academic since my witcher installation doesn't run at all when I installed reshade over it, but it looks wonderful as is I installed Reshade and Witcher crashed when I tried to launch it. You basically just need to delete the Reshade files in the Witcher folder to get it working again.
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Jerusalem posted:So I don't remember that werewolf in the early game having such ridiculous regen - I've finished the game on Death March without issue and this guy just beat the poo poo out of me. Guess I better go actually develop some bombs and potions instead of just slack-assing my way into the cave with a lovely sword. Quest one owned me on medium before I went fully prepared. I was around advised quest level too.
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I'm doing the painted house in HoS, and sure Olgierd is ~an uncultured boor~ and ~not refined~ but goddamn is he hot as gently caress!  That family should be drat grateful he'd be sharing his genes with Iris to make new super-hot von Everecs. 
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I'm doing the painted house in HoS, and sure Olgierd is ~an uncultured boor~ and ~not refined~ but goddamn is he hot as gently caress! 
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