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Autonomous Monster posted:No, you can absolutely use oils in combat. I've done it mid-swing before. I don't think you're supposed to be able to. You can do it if you drag them to your sword with a mouse, but if you try to activate them from the inventory (as you'd need to do with a controller) then you get a message about not being able to do that in combat. Plus, it totally negates the purpose of the extra oil charge alchemy talent.
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Mordiceius posted:Are treasure hunt quests supposed to give experience? I finished the cat quest and didn't get any xp. Was curious if I'm affected by the bug or not. Was doing the Gwent quest and getting 25 xp here or there. I guess my main problem is being unsure when I should and shouldn't be getting xp. I definitely didn't get any XP from doing the Cat School Gear quest yesterday. I vaguely remember getting XP from the Griffin School Gear quest, but I could be misremembering. Point is, I'm in the same boat as you in that I'm not sure if I'm affected by the XP bug or not.
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May 30, 2015 04:21
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Oh man the scene if you tell Yennefer you no longer love her is incredibly awkward.
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May 30, 2015 04:28
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Feenix posted:Well, to be fair, I am adoring the game, my post that set this (age-old, I'm sure) debate alight again this afternoon was merely a statement of "AGGGHHH loving gently caress THIS JANKY COMBAT I KEEP DYING!" The camera controls are indeed janky, but you can work around it by using lock-on a bit more. Especially against very mobile enemies. You have to lock on when you plan to move in a second and don't want to accidentally attack a different thing. I don't understand how people are unhappy with movement within combat though, you can walk, dodge, run, and roll really easily with the controls. Roll is really useful for not getting surrounded. If you're getting surrounded, roll out.
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I came across a guard in Novigrad that did the "Maybe, Maybe Not, Maybe gently caress You" line from The Departed 
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Arglebargle III posted:
My gripe is the follow up swings with swords you end up going too far many times. Or just not enough. I was stuck in some bubble fight, and swear to god I wanted to murder whoever made these controls because if I did more than a single swing, the game would put me in a two long step animation, or a side step pierce and I would end up right outside the bubble. You had no real way of controlling what the game does with you. In that same sequence later on it kept rolling me into the bubble when I didn't want to be there and I was aiming at something entirely else. What should have been a cool sequences of battles was just frustration because the game just does what it does when fighting. Not what you want to do.
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Philthy posted:My gripe is the follow up swings with swords you end up going too far many times. Or just not enough. I was stuck in some bubble fight, and swear to god I wanted to murder whoever made these controls because if I did more than a single swing, the game would put me in a two long step animation, or a side step pierce and I would end up right outside the bubble. You had no real way of controlling what the game does with you. In that same sequence later on it kept rolling me into the bubble when I didn't want to be there and I was aiming at something entirely else. What should have been a cool sequences of battles was just frustration because the game just does what it does when fighting. Not what you want to do. This. When the games combat works it works really really well and you feel awesome. When it does, you feel like you're just pushing buttons and the game is doing what it feels like. That and some sponge-y enemies does not make a pretty combination. Overall the combat is amazing, but it could do with some tweaking.
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The attack animations depend on how far you are from an enemy. Geralt will always try to select an animation that closes the distance and connects with the enemy. If you make a mistake, dodge will cancel out of any and all attack animations. Not saying it's perfect, but understanding an imperfect system will help you get past being frustrated and get back to having fun.
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Finished the game, huge ending spoilers ahead. Got the Ciri stops the White Frost and comes back to train as a Witcher with Geralt ending. Temaria restored as a vassal state, Geralt retired happily with Yen, Emhyr thinks Ciri's dead and goes back to Nilfgaard, Ciri became a famous witcher, and Cerys led Skellige to prosperity. Normally I'd be a bit miffed with all of my choices turning out pretty positive, but to see a setting so filled with horrible things happening and being used to the bleakness of everything, having as close to an actual happy ending as I think I could get was incredibly satisfying. Game of the year by far and probably one of the best RPGs ever made.
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Real end game spoilers. Did anyone else just stop and look around during the Conjunction of Spheres bit? Had to stop to look at the planet in the sky just wondering how terrifying that would be. They also didn't really say how hosed Undvik would be during the credits did they? Ice giants, forktails and arachas absolutely everywhere. I really loved the sci-fi theme underlying the fantasy setting. I'd love to play a CDPR game set around or soon after the Conjunction of Spheres just for the whole clashing of worlds. or I guess any CDPR game at this point honestly, they have probably ruined me for other RPGs
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Ra-amun posted:Real end game spoilers. The whole spheres thing is such a great way to connect any game they make.
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May 30, 2015 05:44
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Is there a writeup of the XP bug? I didn't get any for finishing The Crones of Crookback Bog, but I'm level 13 and the quest was level 6, and I've heard XP for the story missions is dynamic.
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May 30, 2015 05:45
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Keira in the fight with the wild hunt soldier is worse than loving useless. Her attacks do no damage and just push him around when I'm trying to hit him and shove him against the walls where it's riskier to hit him.
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May 30, 2015 05:47
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Arglebargle III posted:The camera controls are indeed janky, but you can work around it by using lock-on a bit more. Especially against very mobile enemies. You have to lock on when you plan to move in a second and don't want to accidentally attack a different thing. The lock on tends to wander, which can get frustrating. I've definitely had some frustrating fights due to getting stuck on stuff/lock on woes/etc. Also random times where he puts his sword away?? That being said I find it pretty engaging when it's working right.
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May 30, 2015 05:52
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I made a save just before entering the point of no return where you go to the island to get Ciri. It warned me that some quests may become unavailable. Can anyone tell me what exactly I've been locked out of doing? So far every side-quest and witcher contract I had is still active, I just want to know if there's anything I'd be missing if I didn't revert to an older save.
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May 30, 2015 05:55
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rabidsquid posted:The crypt door opens up after that and you have to finish fighting [the wraith in White Orchard] in the crypt
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May 30, 2015 05:56
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Helith posted:The fix for missing bomb recipes is to drop and destroy the base bombs that you have (just for the affected bomb, not all of them). The higher recipes then show up.
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May 30, 2015 06:13
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Riding by Nilf guardsman. Dude farts and laughs at it... They're just like us. Its almost like they're people.
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Hommando posted:I made a save just before entering the point of no return where you go to the island to get Ciri. It warned me that some quests may become unavailable. Can anyone tell me what exactly I've been locked out of doing? So far every side-quest and witcher contract I had is still active, I just want to know if there's anything I'd be missing if I didn't revert to an older save. I believe it's relationship quests and "gather the allies" related quests
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May 30, 2015 06:23
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I find the excessively epic and redundant quest completion sound effects really funny. Especially when it's just some quest where you talk to someone and they are just going off in succession. (talk to the farmer) talk to the farmer: objective updated *Hagh!!!!!* talk to the farmer: quest complete *HAUGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!* experience gained : 2 *whoosh* crowns gained: 20 It triggers some primal part of me that always thinks I won a cool prize and nothing really happens.
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Just finished. Clocked in at 93 hours and level 35. Here's what I finished with (ending spoilers): - Ciri a witcher - Radovid dead (gently caress that guy - tried to kill me even before he realized I was trying to get him killed - don't feel the least bit upset at that prick's death), Temeria reborn - Emhyr cleaning loving house at home - Geralt alone on the path because he tried to play two sorceresses at the same time - Cerys queen of a prosperous Skellige Story wise I'm upset about a few things: First I am pissed that Iorveth and Saskia didn't have a place in this game and were casually thrown aside with a "Aeidirn was conquered" bit. Iorveth's path in W2 is entirely loving pointless. As amazing as this game is that irks the poo poo out of me. Second, the scene towards the end where it looks like Ciri - weak and struggling is about to get jumped by like three Wild Hunt guys and a long boat that is on fire ploughs into them was loving awesome. The threesome scene is amazing and although I am upset that I didn't do this right by my book (shoulda gone with Triss) it was worth it in the end. Overall up there with my favorite games of all time.
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I am really annoyed by the flavor UI noises in this game so that's one of the few times they're enjoyable for me too.
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This game has more than a few Tarantino references in it. There was the Zed's Dead one and then in the baron's castle you overhear two guards in the basement, one asks to bring out the gimp and the other says the gimp is sleeping. One quest also has a Django Unchained reference.
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Dapper Dan posted:This game has more than a few Tarantino references in it. There was the Zed's Dead one and then in the baron's castle you overhear two guards in the basement, one asks to bring out the gimp and the other says the gimp is sleeping. One quest also has a Django Unchained reference. The master swordsmith in the game is named Hattori and takes you upstairs to where he keeps his keepsakes of his former life.
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May 30, 2015 06:42
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Man, gwent is a huge pain in the rear end when your opponent plays 3 goddamn hero cards in a single round. Is there any real counter to this or just find more cards?
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BitterAvatar posted:Man, gwent is a huge pain in the rear end when your opponent plays 3 goddamn hero cards in a single round. Is there any real counter to this or just find more cards? Bait out hero cards and then use the decoys you should have in your deck to pull back all your cards. Really - legendary cards aren't as good as they sound. What you should really fear is the guy with four spy cards and three decoys. Those matches can really suck.
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I started playing gwent and it was funny to hear Zoltan poo poo talking my crappy card collection after I had just finished running up the score and crushed him 146-0 in the decisive round of our game.
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I just want to say that they need to make a new game where all of the characters are trolls. The are the best characters.
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I want an expansion or game where you play as Ciri. I really enjoy the teleport dodge/omni-slash she has. Also, she's very attractive and I wouldn't mind running around as her for hours, trying on all sorts of new
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El Jebus posted:I just want to say that they need to make a new game where all of the characters are trolls. The are the best characters. Somewhere there's a world of trolls and it'll be up to Thaler to give them the gift of human speech.
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I'm supposed to kill this werewolf in a cave, but it's literally impossible. I'm on the second hardest difficulty, and once I get him to 1/3 health he starts regenerating faster than I can deal damage. It's not that the fight's too hard or anything, it's that even if I were to be swinging at him constantly without pause I still wouldn't be able to outdamage his health, and as it is I need to dodge as well. I've tried every sign, none of them are enough to kill the loving thing. Am I just too low levelled or what? I'm level 4.
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slev posted:Oh man the scene if you tell Yennefer you no longer love her is incredibly awkward. Yup, literally just did this. Honestly I feel bad about hitting her with that right after she said she still loved geralt but frankly I don't see her appeal. She's kind of a poo poo.
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Infinite Monkeys posted:I'm supposed to kill this werewolf in a cave, but it's literally impossible. I'm on the second hardest difficulty, and once I get him to 1/3 health he starts regenerating faster than I can deal damage. It's not that the fight's too hard or anything, it's that even if I were to be swinging at him constantly without pause I still wouldn't be able to outdamage his health, and as it is I need to dodge as well. I've tried every sign, none of them are enough to kill the loving thing. Am I just too low levelled or what? I'm level 4. There's no trick to other than making sure you're using thunderbolt and some oil if you've got it. If not I guess you could either waste a bunch of time leveling up and buying more equipment or just turn down the difficulty for the fight. We won't tell anyone.
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Ice Fist posted:The master swordsmith in the game is named Hattori and takes you upstairs to where he keeps his keepsakes of his former life. He also says he'll craft you a blade to slay God himself or something, Hattori in the movie had some similar line.
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PantsBandit posted:There's no trick to other than making sure you're using thunderbolt and some oil if you've got it. If not I guess you could either waste a bunch of time leveling up and buying more equipment or just turn down the difficulty for the fight. We won't tell anyone. 
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PantsBandit posted:Yup, literally just did this. Honestly I feel bad about hitting her with that right after she said she still loved geralt but frankly I don't see her appeal. She's kind of a poo poo. Necromancy. Not even once.
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skooma512 posted:Keira in the fight with the wild hunt soldier is worse than loving useless. Her attacks do no damage and just push him around when I'm trying to hit him and shove him against the walls where it's riskier to hit him. Haha, yeah. She was a complete liability when I did that fight - kept breaking my crowd control as I wound up an attack, getting me axed in the face as a result.
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Cheston posted:Is there a writeup of the XP bug? I didn't get any for finishing The Crones of Crookback Bog, but I'm level 13 and the quest was level 6, and I've heard XP for the story missions is dynamic. There doesn't seem to a full explanation of the bug. It doesn't affect everyone and it doesn't affect all quests, even for the people it does hit. I've started getting xp from quests again after not getting it for a long time. The developer who wrote about it in the CD Projekt Red forums said that it isn't actually that big a deal, you won't miss out on any content because it will, at worst, only screw you out of a certain specific amount of XP, not enough to prevent you from reaching high levels by the end of the game. I think in your case, you wouldn't get XP anyway from that quest because you outlevel it by more than 6 six levels, so the intended design is that you don't receive experience. Apparently they're working on a way to retroactively give the XP people have missed, but it's not a guarantee. All in all, the bug sounds a lot worse than it is. I was worried I would miss out on getting to try the high level equipment and abilities, but it seems like it should be fine.
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Infinite Monkeys posted:Welp, it's pretty disappointing that there are points in the game which are straight up gear checks that you can't do if your gear and level isn't good enough. I mean, I've done every side mission up until this point so it's not like I've been skipping a load of content, and yet when I try to do this mission as soon as I find it, it isn't possible Moon Dust prevents the healing if i remember correctly, I believe demetrium bomb or whatever would also work. Fire also tends to negate the healing factor.
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AndrewP posted:The lock on tends to wander, which can get frustrating. I've definitely had some frustrating fights due to getting stuck on stuff/lock on woes/etc. Also random times where he puts his sword away?? I mean use the hard lock-on, tap right stick on a controller or Z on keyboard. The soft lock wandering is why you sometimes need to use lock-on against groups. Arglebargle III fucked around with this message at 07:42 on May 30, 2015 |
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