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Cobalt-60 posted:Are the Northern regions just particularly lovely, or is this whole world a crapsack world?
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Nov 8, 2020 17:41
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The Northern Kingdoms have also been going through a bit of a political upheaval in the decades prior to the games, notably with Redania and Kaedwen becoming a lot more expansionist and swallowing up small duchies and minor kingdoms to consolidate power. And then Temeria became a sudden superpower after the second Nilfgaard war while Aedirn lost influence. Nilfgaard managed to consolidate power fast to build their empire, but the North has four (or five if you count Poviss/Kovir playing everyone off each other) major powers all vying to be the super bloc in the region.
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Nov 8, 2020 18:30
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Arcsquad12 posted:Nilfgaard managed to consolidate power fast to build their empire, The flip side of Nilfgaard expanding so rapidy is that Emhyr's power is a bit shaky. The powerful nobles and guilds back in Nilfgaard aren't very happy with him. Emhyr badly needs a victory in the North and to secure Ciri as heir in order to maintain his legitimacy.
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Nov 8, 2020 19:20
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Cobalt-60 posted:On to Toussaint, which looks pretty, and promises lots of Gwent. And there's...another gold sink. And MORE armor to blow my money crafting. Is there somewhere people are getting these 20,000+ gold? Cause I loot everything in sight, and I've never gotten more than 10k at any time. Short of looting all 67 smuggler's caches in Skellige, I have no idea where to get it. Plus I like the Duchess; anyone who sentenced Dandelion to death can't be bad. (Was this a reference to previous games? Cause I'd watch that cutscene.) On the cash side, start selling stuff if you aren't already. Do you have 30+ Essence of Wraith? You need like 3, total, for all decoctions, sell the excess. Alchemy ingredients in general don't bring in a ton of cash individually, but they have no weight and it's easy to forget they're there - and when you have 30 Drowner's Tongues, there's someone willing to buy.
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Nov 9, 2020 06:26
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Shooting Blanks posted:On the cash side, start selling stuff if you aren't already. Do you have 30+ Essence of Wraith? You need like 3, total, for all decoctions, sell the excess. Alchemy ingredients in general don't bring in a ton of cash individually, but they have no weight and it's easy to forget they're there - and when you have 30 Drowner's Tongues, there's someone willing to buy. I've been selling off any ingredients past 10, in general. I've made every alchemy except the doppler and succubus decoctions, so am I safe in chucking all the others? (I still need to make master/grandmaster armors). Some of the monster parts can be dismantled for crafting parts, so I'm not sure.
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Nov 9, 2020 06:46
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Cobalt-60 posted:I've been selling off any ingredients past 10, in general. I've made every alchemy except the doppler and succubus decoctions, so am I safe in chucking all the others? (I still need to make master/grandmaster armors). Some of the monster parts can be dismantled for crafting parts, so I'm not sure. The main bottlenecks for making master/grandmaster armors, IIRC, are the various ingots/plates (dimeterium, meteor, etc.) and draconid leather/infused slyzard hide. Plus just the costs involved. I don't recall how much of each you'll need, and I don't know if you're trying to get all the sets built. The Succubus and Doppler decoctions are only possible to make if you take the "bad" path in a pair of sidequests, killing a Succubus and a Doppler under morally questionable terms. If you missed those quests, or you already did them without murdering sentient beings, then you don't need to worry about making them. You can mod in the mutagens without a problem too, but it's not a big deal - IIRC, neither one is particularly useful.
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Nov 10, 2020 12:32
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Cobalt-60 posted:On to Toussaint, which looks pretty, and promises lots of Gwent. And there's...another gold sink. And MORE armor to blow my money crafting. Is there somewhere people are getting these 20,000+ gold? Cause I loot everything in sight, and I've never gotten more than 10k at any time. Short of looting all 67 smuggler's caches in Skellige, I have no idea where to get it. Plus I like the Duchess; anyone who sentenced Dandelion to death can't be bad. (Was this a reference to previous games? Cause I'd watch that cutscene.) There are a couple of bandit locations, including one in Toussaint, but I cannot recall the location, where a massive swarm of easily killed bandits will show up immediately with expensive weapons, in the open, to fight you. If you don't clear the entire camp, they just come back if you leave and return (camp boss must be a great recruiter). Kind of lame, but I just want back and forth to the same bandit camp and within 60 seconds of stepping into the camp and either Aard-ing them to death or doing the AoE sword-twirl, I would have more high level weapons than I could carry, which could be sold for many hundreds of gold per run. That is a ton faster than hunting down every smuggler cache and you can have a bit of fun with an otherwise tedious job by just killing the bandits in new and different and more grisly ways each time.
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Nov 10, 2020 14:56
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Pretty neat thread about Geralt in the books, spoilers for Time of Contempt, though it doesn't go to the details of what happened. The show's creator really liked the thread too: https://twitter.com/LHissrich/status/1326165093726425090
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Nov 10, 2020 16:07
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That's an interesting thread but misses one important detail when criticizing the games. There's a throwaway line in Lady of the Lake that explains that Fringilla Vigo healed what was left of Geralt's injuries while they were staying together in Toussaint, and the injury is never mentioned again after that despite some heavy combat sequences. So, Geralt would not be suffering from his knee injury anymore by the time of the games.
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Nov 10, 2020 16:30
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HelixFox posted:That's an interesting thread but misses one important detail when criticizing the games. There's a throwaway line in Lady of the Lake that explains that Fringilla Vigo healed what was left of Geralt's injuries while they were staying together in Toussaint, and the injury is never mentioned again after that despite some heavy combat sequences. So, Geralt would not be suffering from his knee injury anymore by the time of the games. Yep. I also don't recall many elbow complaints past Baptism of Fire. It was mostly the knee. And it's at minimum strongly implied he would have healed fully if he hadn't left Brokilon so soon. He was more not fully healed than disabled imo. I'm glad the reader got some kinship out of that part of the books, but it's more of a point of view than a clear fact about his character. And she kind of lost me with the "disability erasure" complaint.
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Nov 10, 2020 17:04
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Plus it's not like the shitkicking he took from Vilgefortz was the first or last time he'd been left for dead. His injuries in Time of Contempt were far more psychological because he not only got his rear end kicked but he also was left thinking Yen and Ciri were both dead or captured. Dude was an absolute emotional wreck throughout Baptism of Fire and The Tower of the Swallow. And the games do address that Geralt is getting older and isn't as fast as he used to be. He's tired, and needs a minute here or there as age starts to catch up with him. I get wanting to see yourself reflected in a character you like. I've got no problem with that if it helps somebody. The erasure comment was still weird though and it's strange to be critical of someone for a perceived insult when you haven't fully researched your argument and found that they do in fact support it in the text. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Nov 10, 2020 17:05
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I think Vesemir mentions Geralt's limp while criticizing his technique after the Griffin hunt. It's been a while since I've played it so I don't remember the exact phrasing.
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Nov 10, 2020 20:39
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Overhead vertical strike, it's the obvious choice!
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Nov 10, 2020 20:52
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Got a new 3070 after rocking a 1060 for years, and drat it feels good to be finally able to play Witcher 3 @ 4k60+fps at max settings 
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Nov 11, 2020 06:25
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Missionary Positron posted:Got a new 3070 after rocking a 1060 for years, and drat it feels good to be finally able to play Witcher 3 @ 4k60+fps at max settings so much hair 
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Nov 11, 2020 08:50
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HelixFox posted:That's an interesting thread but misses one important detail when criticizing the games. There's a throwaway line in Lady of the Lake that explains that Fringilla Vigo healed what was left of Geralt's injuries while they were staying together in Toussaint, and the injury is never mentioned again after that despite some heavy combat sequences. So, Geralt would not be suffering from his knee injury anymore by the time of the games. At least Berengar in Witcher 1 mentions it, that Geralt leaves an opening in some pirouette move because of the knee injury.
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Nov 11, 2020 16:09
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Are there multiple english translations of the books, and if so which one should be read?
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Nov 13, 2020 04:55
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there are a couple fan translations out there but the best is probably the official books they sell on amazon with the embarrassing video game art covers. the fan translations are good, really good even, but a lot of them went from polish to french to english so there's a double language gulf there finished the main story quest, got the best(?) ending, ciri does her thing and then goes off to be a freelance witcher; emhyr took advantage of me helping assassinate radovid and killing djikstra... apologies to the free north but i wasn't going to let him gun down my boys roche and ves right in front of me. i knew it was a trap as soon as djikstra told us to meet at a location he'd secured but i guess you don't get an option to suggest to your friends that you should just ditch him and meet up in velen Fur20 fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Nov 13, 2020 |
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Nov 13, 2020 05:01
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White Coke posted:Are there multiple english translations of the books, and if so which one should be read? Two people did the English translations. Danusia Stok did The Last Wish, Blood of Elves and Time of Contempt. David French did the rest. Stok is definitely the weaker of the two translators where its apparent that it is originally in another language. French is overall fine.
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Nov 13, 2020 05:12
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the david french translations are sublime
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Nov 13, 2020 06:54
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The White Dragon posted:there are a couple fan translations out there but the best is probably the official books they sell on amazon with the embarrassing video game art covers. It's exactly as I feared.
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Nov 14, 2020 01:06
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Has anyone had their installation of W3 randomly roll itself back to a different patch? I’ve been replaying it over the past couple of months on patch 1.32 with a few mods, and today a bunch of mods stopped working. I removed them, fired up the game and it’s somehow de-patched itself back to v1.11 - which is Real loving Weird since I last played the game yesterday. GOG Galaxy thinks I’m on v1.32, and when I verify the installation it just hangs at 3%, trying to download a 2.9 GB patch. Any ideas? I’m using the GOG version, but not GOTY, and I have no dlc installed.
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Nov 14, 2020 12:03
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You can download the 1.31 to 1.32 patch on the GOG site, that might work? 
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Nov 14, 2020 13:51
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White Coke posted:It's exactly as I feared. Meanwhile the Spanish covers are spectacular.
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Nov 14, 2020 15:50
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:You can download the 1.31 to 1.32 patch on the GOG site, that might work? Yeah, that was the thing - the game thought it was on v1.11 and apparently couldn't be convinced otherwise! I just ended up completely uninstalling and redownloading the whole game and it seems to work fine now. I originally installed the game on this machine about a year ago by just copying the game folder from another computer (limited internet suuuucks), so I suspect that's probably what caused the issue. Oh well, at least it's working now.
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Nov 15, 2020 00:45
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Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through?
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Nov 15, 2020 15:55
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meefistopheles posted:Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through? Fall damage can be irritating, though I totally abuse no fall damage to yeet geralt off things and save time so ymmv. In general, the vanilla game is already so good mods are not required. There are weird things like any game, and mods that address the most common are out there. So play for a while and then look into mods. Also we follow along with like every new player now so feel free to keep posting.
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Nov 15, 2020 16:29
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Which means keep the spoilers down for the moment to not ruin anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0BjNRxxqc Lol.
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Nov 15, 2020 16:36
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If you’re done with the books, sounds like you’re ready to start with the Witcher 1! 😃
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Nov 15, 2020 16:39
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meefistopheles posted:Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through? Agree with Woodrow. Play unmodded until you think the things those mods address really matter to you. If you have auto-apply oils, you may never engage with that system or look at the Beastiary. And you'll never notice that you usually don't need oils. My first playthrough, most of the time I forgot I could add an oil for a buff and only used one if I died a couple of times and remembered they are there.
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Nov 15, 2020 16:49
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meefistopheles posted:Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through? Honestly, playing Vanilla works great. Unless you're playing on a rather hard difficulty, oils are basically optional, so not having them auto-applied doesn't matter. If there's a particular boss fight, it makes sense to apply the oil, but it's not like you need that small boost every time you're set upon by a random pack of monsters/animals/men. I can see some stuff with inventory sorting being useful? A lot of the stuff listed in the 2nd post of this thread will make an already easy game a cakewalk. Stuff like being able to jump better or lessened fall damge (I could see playing 1ith 50% or something. Zero fall damage means cartoonishly cartwheeling off of mountains and cliffs. Go hog wild with aesthetic mods if you like them and they don't break the game.
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Nov 15, 2020 16:51
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Yeah, a LOT of the mods are from the perspective of someone who has already played the game. On repeat playthroughs, there is far less enjoyment in engaging with the whole mechanic of finding the ingredients for potions and such, or taking the long way around to get somewhere in order to actually experience the game world and explore new places. So it makes sense for us to be able to just jump off cliffs and have oils on the sword all the time, give every merchant cash, etc. One thing I am conflicted on is removing item durability. I hate it in games on principle, but it does exist as a control on how much cash Geralt has and what things you can just buy vs doing quests to get them, like new swords.
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Nov 15, 2020 17:15
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Weapon and armour durability blows. No redeeming qualities at all. Get rid of it. You will never notice the -10 damage or whatever practically, you'll just get bothered by the paper doll on your screen.
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Nov 15, 2020 17:23
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Three only two mods I install nowadays are No Fall Damage (Novigrad becomes a whole different playground with it) and the one that adds multiple quest markers to the map. But even then those are totally quality of life choices and the game is beyond playable completely mod-free.
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Nov 15, 2020 17:31
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meefistopheles posted:Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through? You picked a good game for the winter months (assuming you're in the Northern Hemisphere), it's very long and very good. I did a spoiler-free newbie tips post a couple years ago that is stickied in the second post, it might be helpful. You don't need any mods, it's fine without any but there are some bits that players find annoying (fall damage, weapon durability, carry weight, only the active quest objective is displayed in minimap, etc) you may want to mod. The first zone (White Orchard) is a big tutorial that will show you all the game mechanics and is about 3-5 hours long. I'd recommend playing through White Orchard, then decide which quality of life mods you want. There's nothing broken with the game you need to mod to fix and the graphics are still gorgeous even five and a half years after release. The HD textures mod is decent though. We recommend not using the fast travel anywhere mod (see thread title). It's dangerous for two reasons. One, it encourages you to ignore the scenery and environmental stuff. There are so many tiny details and little events you'll miss if you just fast travel everywhere. Two, you can break quests badly if you fast travel at the wrong time. and  your reactions to the game. especially coming off reading the books you're in for a treat!
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Nov 15, 2020 17:38
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meefistopheles posted:Just about to finish the books and then finally jump into this for the first time. Is the list of recommended mods on the op still accurate? I don't really care about visuals, so I'll probably go with the oils one and the map markers. Anything else good for a first play through? Get rid of durability, fall damage, and the weight limit. Other than that do w/e sounds nice. Except the fast travel anywhere mod. Don't use that. Another must have if you like dyes is a mod that makes them cheaper and common. Otherwise you'll barely get to customize your Geralt.
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itry posted:Another must have if you like dyes is a mod that makes them cheaper and common. Otherwise you'll barely get to customize your Geralt.  playing dressup with Geralt is the best minigame
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Nov 15, 2020 17:40
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There's also a mod that prioritizes using common alcohol to recharge your potions so you don't accidentally lose a White Gull because you took a nap.
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And Tyler Too! posted:There's also a mod that prioritizes using common alcohol to recharge your potions so you don't accidentally lose a White Gull because you took a nap. If you take that, make sure to follow the directions; you need to hit F7 to cycle to the alcohol you want to use or you won't use any.
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Excellent, thanks for all the advice everyone. I'll just skip modding until after white orchard is done I guess. I thought about starting with witcher 1 but frankly reading all the books seems like enough background. I'll definitely post as I go.
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