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Scandalous posted:geralt stop putting your loving sword away god drat it and stop lighting that goddamn torch i'm trying to talk to the merchant
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Real hurthling! posted:worse is when he doesn't take it out and you start punching a monster so you hit the draw button but its on a delay so you hit it twice and he loving puts the sword away again. i think this game is great and all but hrgghhh
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Jun 21, 2015 20:23
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Geralt also seems to get very confused when both a monster and a man attack, deciding not to draw either sword. 
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Jun 21, 2015 20:30
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I'm pleasantly surprised with this game. I've never played through a witcher game, but let me tell you the environment and feel for this game is amazing. The only thing I'm having trouble with is, understanding the alchemy system..toxicity, refilling potions with alchohal, etc. Guess it's time to do some youtube research?
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Jun 21, 2015 20:31
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"thank you witcher you will always be welcome here" *quest giver immediately walks into geralt* "UGH gently caress YOU"
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Jun 21, 2015 20:31
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GrunderGretch posted:I'm pleasantly surprised with this game. I've never played through a witcher game, but let me tell you the environment and feel for this game is amazing. It's not too complex. You get a recipe from vendors or random loot drops, then you can craft the alchemy item. Once crafted it will have so many charges, meditating will refill all the charges on all your alchemy items for the cost of one hard alcohol. So you don't need to feel compelled to exhaustively loot flowers and they're pretty cheap so you never really need to farm or hoard materials for the most part. Using a potion or decoction gives you a flat amount of Toxicity which slowly decays. More Toxicity will make you look like a roided out Palpatine and if you go over the limit it'll do continuous HP damage to you. There are a couple low level Alchemy abilities that increase potion duration and increase toxicity threshhold, those are great investments which will allow you to use multiple decoctions at once for powerful combos. Those are more mid to late game though.
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Harrow posted:Okay, I experimented a bit. You can lower your stats again, bit by bit, by unequipping and reequipping Synergy over and over again. You can't drop below your "baseline," so if you just do this until your stats stop decreasing you'll have undone all the Dimeritium stat glitching. You should probably post that on the forums or something, I've seen lots of people complain about it with the only fix being "reload". Don't think I've seen anyone mention Synergy being the problem yet. And if you haven't done it already, the battle is easy with just Yrden. Just run right into the portal and cast.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:45
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Saladman posted:Is there any way to see if you've already beaten someone at cards in the console version? I figured the dialog option with the cards would change color if you've beaten them, but it's white before and white after. Maybe I'm waiting for a patch? It seems like the cards in the dialog option should become grey if you've already beaten the merchant. This is my problem as well. I cant tell which merchants ive beat already. Really annoying.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:46
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Saladman posted:Is there any way to see if you've already beaten someone at cards in the console version? I figured the dialog option with the cards would change color if you've beaten them, but it's white before and white after. Maybe I'm waiting for a patch? It seems like the cards in the dialog option should become grey if you've already beaten the merchant. Not that it's terribly helpful, but on the PC version the play option definitely grays out after you've beaten them. So hopefully something that gets patched on consoles soon
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Jun 21, 2015 20:48
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They turned grey for me once I had played them once - just make sure you beat anyone you play. e: I'm on PC, guess it's a console bug?
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Jun 21, 2015 20:48
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I played it on Xbone, they don't turn grey once you've beaten them...at least not that I could tell. I did collect all the cards even with that....but let's just say I got a lot of wire, wax, and ingots along the way.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:51
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Witchers are supposed to have unnaturally long lives, right? Just trying to figure out why some of Geralts bffs are old men.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:54
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Yup Geralt himself is nearly a century old.
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Jun 21, 2015 20:56
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ZombieLenin posted:Witchers are supposed to have unnaturally long lives, right? Just trying to figure out why some of Geralts bffs are old men. The mutations and enhancements a Witcher undergoes during their trials grants them remarkable longevity. They do age and would presumably have a definite lifespan, but in practice a Witcher lives until something kills them.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:02
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Just got to the Whispering Hillock quest, loving everything so far, but I'm puzzled as to the next choice I have to make. should I free the spirit or should I kill the spirit? which one has a better payout/outcome?
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Jun 21, 2015 21:04
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Carlosologist posted:Just got to the Whispering Hillock quest, loving everything so far, but I'm puzzled as to the next choice I have to make. should I free the spirit or should I kill the spirit? which one has a better payout/outcome? You should know by now there's never a happy ending in the Witcher.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:05
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Voyager I posted:The mutations and enhancements a Witcher undergoes during their trials grants them remarkable longevity. They do age and would presumably have a definite lifespan, but in practice a Witcher lives until something kills them. Vesemir is supposedly older than Kaer Mohern.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:09
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Carlosologist posted:Just got to the Whispering Hillock quest, loving everything so far, but I'm puzzled as to the next choice I have to make. should I free the spirit or should I kill the spirit? which one has a better payout/outcome? If you like the Baron, kill it.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:11
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Carlosologist posted:Just got to the Whispering Hillock quest, loving everything so far, but I'm puzzled as to the next choice I have to make. should I free the spirit or should I kill the spirit? which one has a better payout/outcome? Both options are terrible.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:14
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Scandalous posted:"thank you witcher you will always be welcome here" *quest giver immediately walks into geralt* "UGH gently caress YOU" "If I have a son, I'll name him Geralt." *bumps into Geralt* "akkkkkphhtooo...MUTANT"
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Jun 21, 2015 21:18
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Pellisworth posted:It's not too complex. You get a recipe from vendors or random loot drops, then you can craft the alchemy item. Once crafted it will have so many charges, meditating will refill all the charges on all your alchemy items for the cost of one hard alcohol. So you don't need to feel compelled to exhaustively loot flowers and they're pretty cheap so you never really need to farm or hoard materials for the most part. Okay so toxicity is just a balancing tool so that we don't break our games morrowind style.. thanks for the info. I've been to lazy to do any real research. Probably going to look into witcher builds though.
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Jun 21, 2015 21:25
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GrunderGretch posted:Okay so toxicity is just a balancing tool so that we don't break our games morrowind style.. thanks for the info. I've been to lazy to do any real research. Probably going to look into witcher builds though. Yeah Toxicity gates your potion usage, you can't spam them. Potions are short duration, fairly weak buffs. Decoctions are very long-lasting and have a bunch of unique effects, like whenever you spend Stamina it heals you, or taking damage increases your damage resistance continuously throughout a fight. Don't stress too much over gearing and ability builds. There's not much reward for trying to min-max stuff and it's easy to break the game over your knee even on the hardest difficulties. All three trees are good, though I strongly recommend picking up 3/3 Delusion in Signs for the Jedi mind control Axii dialogue options. Don't forget you need to equip abilities to use them, not just invest points. The biggest standouts in Signs are the alternate versions in the second tier, imo. The top two tiers are really bad return on investment. Alchemy you want to pick up the potion duration and +Toxicity for recipes known then whatever else you want, there's good stuff all the way through. An Alch build will let you combo 2-3 decoctions at once. The sword stuff is all good, imo the crossbow line is pretty worthless though.
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So I'm wearing the Griffin armour, but I've just done the cat armour quest for the experience. So now I've made the cat armour and it's taking up inventory space, is there a good place to store things that you might want later but can't be bothered to carry around with you?
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Avalanche posted:Have faith. Yeah I saw that linked in posted earlier, but it looks like he updated it. Right now it says 'The Bloody Baron' ONLY the part with the objective to find the Bloody Baron and get into his village. The rest of this quest was designed by Paweł Sasko https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dennis-zoetebier/5/12a/859?trk=biz_employee_pub somethingawful bf fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Hallowed posted:So I'm wearing the Griffin armour, but I've just done the cat armour quest for the experience. So now I've made the cat armour and it's taking up inventory space, is there a good place to store things that you might want later but can't be bothered to carry around with you? Just chuck it on the ground near a signpost you frequent. No one touches a Witcher's gear, even if it's just lying there. E: vvvv don't listen to this guy, a Witcher's home is wherever his pile of surplus crap is. Saint Isaias Boner fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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Hallowed posted:So I'm wearing the Griffin armour, but I've just done the cat armour quest for the experience. So now I've made the cat armour and it's taking up inventory space, is there a good place to store things that you might want later but can't be bothered to carry around with you? People suggest modding the weight you can carry, but I want somewhere to stash my trophies and cool armor and weapons rather than selling them or tossing them on the ground (you can just drop things and they usually do not disappear). I have no idea how CDPR let W3 release without some sort of storage (even if Roach's saddlebags were like mobile treasure chest rather than giving you extra carry weight via the saddlebag equipment). Especially after they had to add something into Witcher 2 post-release.
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Storage makes the game worse by adding another round of annoyance to "what should I sell" and "what should I drop" - now you also gotta think "what should I store". Game would be better if you couldn't sell anything but removing the weight cap would be nice too.
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Jun 21, 2015 22:23
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ZombieLenin posted:Witchers are supposed to have unnaturally long lives, right? Just trying to figure out why some of Geralts bffs are old men. Yeah, Geralt's supposed to be near a century old, Yennefer is several centuries old. Triss is about the same age as Geralt, I think. Dandelion, being the only regular human in his crew, is in his 50s during the events of this game, should be.
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Hallowed posted:So I'm wearing the Griffin armour, but I've just done the cat armour quest for the experience. So now I've made the cat armour and it's taking up inventory space, is there a good place to store things that you might want later but can't be bothered to carry around with you? I sold mine to the master armor smith in Crow's Perch. Vendors don't seem to turn over their inventories of stuff like that. I can't swear they never will but it was still there a hundred hours after I sold it.
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My buddy at work who got this game at my behest just met the Crones . Leading up to that,he was all  ,believing that me and my other friends were exaggerating. When I asked him about his thoughts he just looked at me with a look of horror on his face. "This is the first time a game made me feel genuinely like an rear end in a top hat."So, how most of my friends reacted to that,basically.
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Zakmonster posted:Yeah, Geralt's supposed to be near a century old, Yennefer is several centuries old. Triss is about the same age as Geralt, I think. The wiki claims that Yennefer was born in 1173, which would make her 99 or so during W3.
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VolticSurge posted:My buddy at work who got this game at my behest just met the Crones . Leading up to that,he was all speaking of which, is there a way to kill the 3rd one in the ciri fight?
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Real hurthling! posted:speaking of which, is there a way to kill the 3rd one in the ciri fight? No. She only dies if you get the bad ending.
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What are Dimeritium bombs for? The bestiary recommends using them against Golems etc, but they don't seem to actually do anything.
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RentACop posted:I wish they hadn't made your allies useless in combat almost all the time. Stand around the whole fight and then swing once for 11 damage. My immersion Useless? They're of negative use, if you like to freeze or stun anyone. Even alt-axii suffers from AI that was clearly built with the PC in mind--one point is sufficient for pulling aggro and *maybe* getting your target killed, because the odds it actually attacks anyone are remote
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Jun 21, 2015 23:06
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basically blew off triss and yen in the hopes I could end up with best waifu, priscilla
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The Lone Badger posted:What are Dimeritium bombs for? The bestiary recommends using them against Golems etc, but they don't seem to actually do anything. they're used for limiting magic use and loving with magic beings and theres a mission where you have to use them to close portals.
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Skellgians sure know how to throw a party. When you celebrate with Scottish Vikings you bearly get out alive.
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Sauer posted:Skellgians sure know how to throw a party. When you celebrate with Scottish Vikings you bearly get out alive. This is even more  when later on you learn that the berserkers are created using druid blood magic, sacrificing one of those crazy Vildkaarls to transform a bear into the shape of a human and not vice versa.
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