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hey cdpr guy, did you do the panther POI in B&W?
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Feb 14, 2017 22:33
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:hey cdpr guy, did you do the panther POI in B&W? Panther POI?
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Feb 14, 2017 22:35
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Skwirl posted:Witcher 2 is 3 bucks, season pass for 3 is 15 as part of a huge rear end sale at GOG.com Before I get my hopes up, is this something I can redeem on Steam? Or will I need a new, non-Steam Witcher 3 to use this?
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Feb 14, 2017 22:51
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twistedmentat posted:Why couldn't the game have Roach always be a sassy, talking horse? or maybe Geralt just needs to trip balls the whole time. The thing that gets me about that quest: Is just as it ends, and the shrooms are waning, there's a shot where Geralt looks incredibly sad. He hangs his head, climbs on Roach and rides off. It's probably the most honest sorrow that he could have felt. He names every horse Roach, and he went through a lot of them throughout his life. Naming each horse Roach isn't because he's lazy, but it's more about pretending that he's a constant, long lived companion. Roach doesn't complain, doesn't demand, and is just as stoic as Geralt himself. Being able to understand and talk to Roach is a dream come true to a lonely man. Like a child being able to talk to their favourite teddy bear. Then it gets taken away. Great quest Comte. Hope stuff like that is in Cyperpunk. :P I think old man Geralt gets a lot more of those shrooms, and instead of talking philosophy with Zoltan, he does it with Roach. Bust Rodd posted:Before I get my hopes up, is this something I can redeem on Steam? Or will I need a new, non-Steam Witcher 3 to use this? GOG is completely separate. Won't work with the Steam version. TenaciousD fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 00:11
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Bust Rodd posted:Before I get my hopes up, is this something I can redeem on Steam? Or will I need a new, non-Steam Witcher 3 to use this? No idea, all Gog stuff is DRM free but I don't know if they plug into steam games. ----------------
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Feb 15, 2017 00:17
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I finished the main game today after ~120 hours. I have 1 contract unsolved (the missing miners) cause I can't decide whether to kill the troll and get his liver for alchemy or spare him. I think I got a good ending, but it doesn't feel happy. Lesser evil indeed. Now I am so looking forward to HoS and B&W and am reading the books again, it is nice to fill in gaps that way. This is hands down the best RPG I have ever played.
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Feb 15, 2017 00:36
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What is going on in the south east of valen? The game hasn't even sent me anywhere near it yet and I've played for a billion hours.
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Feb 15, 2017 00:51
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Skwirl posted:No idea, all Gog stuff is DRM free but I don't know if they plug into steam games. Paul Zuvella posted:What is going on in the south east of valen? The game hasn't even sent me anywhere near it yet and I've played for a billion hours.
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Feb 15, 2017 01:01
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Paul Zuvella posted:What is going on in the south east of valen? The game hasn't even sent me anywhere near it yet and I've played for a billion hours. Maybe a treasure hunt or two will send you nearby, but that area is pretty much optional. I think some cut content must have been there - though it has some interesting quests, as well.
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Feb 15, 2017 01:07
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The CDPR guy who posts here on more than one occasion has vented about a whole quest line involving the nilfgaardian camp/area being cut down to a couple quests down there
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Feb 15, 2017 01:10
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The mother looking for her soldier son who stopped sending letters was a shockingly emotional quest for me, just really felt for that lady. That one's in SE Velen.
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Feb 15, 2017 01:31
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Paul Zuvella posted:What is going on in the south east of valen? The game hasn't even sent me anywhere near it yet and I've played for a billion hours. There's a big Nilfgaardian army camp down there. But you can't go inside and there's maybe one or two quests related to it, but nothing too interesting.
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Feb 15, 2017 01:45
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i'm balls deep in this game at this point so i started wiki-ing some stuff and it sounds like a lot of the super expensive end game stuff is basically only attainable with money/time if you loop around in ng+? As someone who was just planning to do everything on a single save and not touch ng+ will i be missing out? considering how disgustingly clogged with sidequests my journal is with only having completed searching for ciri in velen and skellige i can't possibly imagine stomaching starting all over in ng+ unless i brute force the main storyline asap. also i have been playing a ton of gwent and hear tell i lose all the cards i've been meticulously collecting which sounds horrible
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Feb 15, 2017 02:07
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I didn't really wiki it at all but the only things I can think of that you'd need NG+ for is Blood & Wine content- there's a quest where you get new mutation powers and four more perk slots, which you can only unlock one or two of in a single playthrough. You also get a sword which does extra damage the more enemies you kill, which can get very powerful in NG+ but you don't need it. The game didn't launch with NG+ so nothing in the base game is likely to require it.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:30
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Nah, you'll easily be able to pay for everything in one playthrough. The only real issue will be if you try and make every single piece of the highest tier armour and weapons, and even then it's just a bit grindy to get the cash. Totally doable.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:31
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Cowcaster posted:i'm balls deep in this game at this point so i started wiki-ing some stuff and it sounds like a lot of the super expensive end game stuff is basically only attainable with money/time if you loop around in ng+? As someone who was just planning to do everything on a single save and not touch ng+ will i be missing out? considering how disgustingly clogged with sidequests my journal is with only having completed searching for ciri in velen and skellige i can't possibly imagine stomaching starting all over in ng+ unless i brute force the main storyline asap. You might miss some items, but it's just slightly different armor and if you can beat the game without it, there's no reason to care.Blood and wine should throw you enough money to make every single Witcher armor and give you stands to display them all.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:44
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Yeah, with the expansions added you should have more than enough money for everything without doing New Game+, even with the monkey sink rune-merchant added in Heart of Stone.
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Feb 15, 2017 02:57
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Hopper posted:I finished the main game today after ~120 hours. I have 1 contract unsolved (the missing miners) cause I can't decide whether to kill the troll and get his liver for alchemy or spare him. I think I got a good ending, but it doesn't feel happy. Lesser evil indeed. HoS is an extremely well-done and tight storyline. I'd argue it's the best piece of Witcher content CDPR has done. IMPORTANT When you get to the wedding in HoS, the very first thing you should do is lose the Gwent game to the halflings. Lose it. Trust me. B&W is basically an epilogue to the whole Witcher series, do it last. Edit: also they obviously spent a lot more effort making boss fights harder in the expansions. It's still not too bad even on the highest difficulties, but you'll notice a difficulty spike. I agree, it's definitely the best RPG I've played and I started with stuff like Baldur's Gate 1 way back in the 90s. The environments, animations, voice-acting, writing, and music are all great and are fantastic at delivering real emotion to players. I think the combat is decent and the inventory/crafting system a bit of a mess but those aren't the focus of the game anyway. Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 03:10
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twistedmentat posted:Why couldn't the game have Roach always be a sassy, talking horse? or maybe Geralt just needs to trip balls the whole time. I mean, my versionmore or less pops some home-cooked drugs like four times a combat
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Feb 15, 2017 03:27
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Pellisworth posted:HoS is an extremely well-done and tight storyline. I'd argue it's the best piece of Witcher content CDPR has done. Super agree with both of these.
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Feb 15, 2017 03:28
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TenaciousD posted:The thing that gets me about that quest: Yea that quest was great, and I never, ever thought of that but yea, that makes perfect sense. It's like when Geralt started the Tourney I had him pledge to his lady "that I will not name", because he cannot truely choose. And I didn't realize Witcher from GoG was through its own storefront not steam, which made me sad. Same thing happened when I bought GTA5 at Xmas from GMG. Bicyclops posted:I mean, my versionmore or less pops some home-cooked drugs like four times a combat I banged all the hookers, and some would snort something out of a vial, I assume that was supposed to be fistech? Wow, I was not expecting that blatant a reference to game of thrones in B&W. Oh what trophies can I put in Geralt's bedroom? I have tons of monster heads but it says I don't have any matching items. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 04:56
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wait, so is it kosher to completely abstain from the dlc missions until the main story is completed? i'm level 15ish on death march and i've already managed to punch above my weight class doing a level 24 side mission through liberal use of quen and igni and was considering trying the dlc stuff early because i don't want to "miss it" by hauling through the main quest.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:07
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Absolutely. You can do HoS before you finish, and it will have slightly different dialogue in some areas, but yeah waiting until you've finished the main quest works completely.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:10
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There's a race in HoS that you can win an amazing saddle which will make it possible to just blaze through every regular race. I wish I could remember where it is, but the race itself isn't that hard even with saddles you can get in the base game.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:13
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twistedmentat posted:Wow, I was not expecting that blatant a reference to game of thrones in B&W. Oh what trophies can I put in Geralt's bedroom? I have tons of monster heads but it says I don't have any matching items. There's 3 specific trophies you get from side quests. Fighting tournament, Gwent tournament, and horse racing, I think.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:16
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So I did the Baron's Questline again only this time I freed She Who Knows and saw Anna die. I was always afraid to do it this way because I liked the other ending, but wow, that one might just be better.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:16
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Arcsquad12 posted:So I did the Baron's Questline again only this time I freed She Who Knows and saw Anna die. That's part of the reason I started wiki crawling because i wasn't quite sure if i had hosed up or not, and i'm still not sure if i hosed up or not feels good man
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Feb 15, 2017 05:18
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i think it might've worked a little better narratively if you at least saw the stupid little shits you bothered to save at least once after you let the spirit free. the fact they vanish from the narrative regardless one way or the other makes the outcome feel more "bad" when the rear end in a top hat wifebeater hangs himself.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:25
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Cowcaster posted:i think it might've worked a little better narratively if you at least saw the stupid little shits you bothered to save at least once after you let the spirit free. the fact they vanish from the narrative regardless one way or the other makes the outcome feel more "bad" when the rear end in a top hat wifebeater hangs himself. I did a sequence break once where you free the tree spirit before meeting the Crones, and you can meet the children at the orphanage in Novigrad while you're searching for Dandelion. Did you ever check there after freeing the spirit?
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Feb 15, 2017 05:31
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Arcsquad12 posted:I did a sequence break once where you free the tree spirit before meeting the Crones, and you can meet the children at the orphanage in Novigrad while you're searching for Dandelion. Did you ever check there after freeing the spirit? I did not! I did not even know that was a place, but also I haven't searched for Dandelion yet (tried to sequence break by doing Skellige first). Please disregard my previous post.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:33
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Cowcaster posted:i think it might've worked a little better narratively if you at least saw the stupid little shits you bothered to save at least once after you let the spirit free. the fact they vanish from the narrative regardless one way or the other makes the outcome feel more "bad" when the rear end in a top hat wifebeater hangs himself. Children's fate If you release the spirit it keeps its word and the children are saved. They end up in a school in Novigrad. You end up going there for the main quest Broken Flowers. The children play outside and are named but I think they must have had their memory wiped because they don't recognise Geralt. There's also a note on Marabelles? desk saying that the children suddenly appeared on her doorstep and were fast asleep and that she assumes they came from Velen.
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Feb 15, 2017 05:36
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Helith posted:Children's fate If you release the spirit it keeps its word and the children are saved. They end up in a school in Novigrad. You end up going there for the main quest Broken Flowers. The children play outside and are named but I think they must have had their memory wiped because they don't recognise Geralt. There's also a note on Marabelles? desk saying that the children suddenly appeared on her doorstep and were fast asleep and that she assumes they came from Velen. Question about the crones If you release the spirit does it help to kill all three crones, because one getting away pissed me off
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Feb 15, 2017 05:42
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Skwirl posted:Question about the crones If you release the spirit does it help to kill all three crones, because one getting away pissed me off Nah I think the only way to kill the final crone is to do the bad dad ending
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Feb 15, 2017 05:45
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i like how there's a book that better clears up the relationship between the spirit and the crones that likely no one will ever read, and better when you ask the crones to uphold their end of the bargain they say something along the lines of "a word given must be upheld", which the spirit echoes verbatim when you ask it to uphold its end of the bargain with saving the children
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Feb 15, 2017 05:49
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of course it's possible that's just a sloppy writer repeating themself but nice if it was intentional
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Feb 15, 2017 05:51
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Arcsquad12 posted:I did a sequence break once where you free the tree spirit before meeting the Crones, and you can meet the children at the orphanage in Novigrad while you're searching for Dandelion. Did you ever check there after freeing the spirit?
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Feb 15, 2017 05:53
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Ravenfood posted:I thought those kids were only there if you didn't sequence break making their fate a lot more ambiguous if you do things out of order. They were there when I saw it. Maybe it glitched out? Also, who designed the Aketon armours, and what were they thinking? Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Feb 15, 2017 06:00
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Cowcaster posted:wait, so is it kosher to completely abstain from the dlc missions until the main story is completed? i'm level 15ish on death march and i've already managed to punch above my weight class doing a level 24 side mission through liberal use of quen and igni and was considering trying the dlc stuff early because i don't want to "miss it" by hauling through the main quest. The game expects you to do the DLCs after completing the main quest, though there's no real reason not to just do them as soon as you're high enough level.
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Feb 15, 2017 06:05
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I think HOS works right when you hit lvl 30, even though you've not beaten the game at that time. B&W is definitely an post-game mod.
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Hobo Clown posted:There's 3 specific trophies you get from side quests. Fighting tournament, Gwent tournament, and horse racing, I think. Ah okay. Also, the tool type says I need to complete a quest to open up the mutation research, but I don't see one in my side quests and i can only dissemble mutagens, so I clearly haven't done it already. And I figured out why I failed to complete the Yenn romance quest, I apparently didn't visit her.
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