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Palpek posted:I once found a Viper school steel sword at a random blacksmith. At first I thought that I must have sold it to him by accident way earlier but it turns out I had my crafted Viper school sword safe in my stash. From the lore point of view it was weird that some random villager had a rare items like that but on the other hand I guess he could have found it somewhere and simply had it in his inventory for sale. I found a named Witcher gear sword in a random chest late in my game. It way out-leveled me so I never got to use it, but I guess stuff like that is just scattered about the randomized loot tables that vendors use too.
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The Sharmat posted:Tracking spells to find Ciri, specifically. She stopped doing them because the Wild Hunt was somehow tracking her tracking. Yeah, still though, you'd think someone with that amount of heat would stop all together. It's like someone who is hacking getting heat from the NSA or something and then be like, "I'm not gonna hack websites or databases, I'm just gonna hack other people's computers or download torrents." type of thing. Either or, Geralt is a great sarcastic prick sometimes and it's fun to play with that. It's getting to the point where I am giddy with excitement to go home and play again. Haven't been like that for a while with any game I've been into. Besides Destiny, but that was months ago. Gold, I'm assuming, gets easier to get. Along with Emerald dust, and stuff. I'm largely into fun fun weapons, so I like to experiemt, but is there any weapon archtype I should be aware of that just suck over and over again? Example, I like the sword so far (only level 4) because sometimes when you decapitate someone they fly away with their head. Do you do like a Manny Ramirez swing with a staff? Armor type, doesn't matter light vs heavy right? Just go for stats? DLC Coming? Worth it? Mounted combat, does this ever become a thing? Because I try to do it sometimes and I just get thrown from Roach. Also played Ciri for the first time and holy poo poo is she fun.
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Aug 3, 2015 16:19
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Yennefer is very impatient on a good day, and she's pretty desperate to find Ciri. So teleports everywhere. gently caress wasting two weeks getting to Skellige.
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Twobirds posted:I found a named Witcher gear sword in a random chest late in my game. It way out-leveled me so I never got to use it, but I guess stuff like that is just scattered about the randomized loot tables that vendors use too. Is it Teigr? Also, spelling that out I just realized its an anagram of Tiger and I guess if you say it it still sounds like Tiger 
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pik_d posted:Is it Teigr? Also, spelling that out I just realized its an anagram of Tiger and I guess if you say it it still sounds like Tiger Hey did you catch the Schrodinger joke too? 
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Nobody Interesting posted:Hey did you catch the Schrodinger joke too? Well that one was spelled correctly, so yes.
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I think it was!Soulex posted:Mounted combat, does this ever become a thing? Because I try to do it sometimes and I just get thrown from Roach. Keep an eye on Roach's fear level, monsters will set it off quicker than humans. You can calm him with Axii, which is the only Sign you can cast while mounted. You do a ton more damage while mounted but you do need to line up your shots and maintain a good speed. I found it really fun as a change of pace.
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Just bought the game through GMG being lured in by the sweet discount, key turns out to be invalid and now I'm stuck waiting on their slow support. Just a heads up to anyone on the fence. Edit: Well, support came through with a working key rather fast so no harm no foul I guess. Illuminated Rodent fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 16:57
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I finally finished this last night. excellent, great and awesome. I loved every minute of it. This game and bloodborne have skyrocketed to the top of my list of All Time Great RPGs and theyre different enough that i cant really say one is better than the other imo. Good loving games this year  do we know when the ng+ patch is gonna hit?
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poopzilla posted:I finally finished this last night. excellent, great and awesome. I loved every minute of it. This game and bloodborne have skyrocketed to the top of my list of All Time Great RPGs and theyre different enough that i cant really say one is better than the other imo. Good loving games this year 1.08 has to hit first (it apparently lays some groundwork to enable it) and then we might see it in a week or two later, maybe. Given that we got patchnotes for 1.08 late last week, we will hopefully see it this week. NG+ could be any time after that.
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Aug 3, 2015 17:45
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I took a screenshot: Skellige can look real nice.
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My 2nd playthrough has revealed all sorts of things I missed originally. Some highlights include: Talking to a guy with an exclamation point above his head who gave me a contract to find his brother. The quest was red skull for me at the time so I said gently caress it and kept exploring. Not minutes later I stumble upon a pair of wyvern nests. I killed both of them and then BOOM cutscene where a gigantic royal wyvern appears out of nowhere. I fight and kill it and suddenly I find that the red skull quest I had literally just picked up completed. Stumbling onto quests in different ways is one of the most endearing things about this game. Finally having the balls to listen quietly as Triss is tortured in the next room. It's pretty agonizing and the staring contest between Geralt and Menge while the screaming goes on is downright amazing. I still hosed up on purpose by asking about the treasure because I wanted to be on Sigi's good side this game. The old lady with the missing chickens: stolen by kids who put wolf paws on their feet to disguise their tracks. The entire quest was very  especially if you go back later and hear the old lady talking to the kids.Finally not locking myself out of asking Triss about the Nobleman figurine and also about Phillipa's cracked gem Not loving up the carnal sins quest. The part where Geralt goes "I'm pretty good with a sword" and the Vampire's voice starts to get very demonic as he transforms and says "Pretty good just might not cut it" was very  Interactions with Letho, in any way shape or form, are all awesome. As far as the overall experience goes between my first playthrough and this one, I have to say the quality of life patches are all marvelous. Movement controls have improved substantially, controlling Roche is better although there are still some bridges that give me trouble, the inventory is better (but still sucks overall): filtering is cool, but overall I still dread going into inventory. Being able to pin alchemy recipes is super helpful, but I hate it that every time you move between the alchemy menu and the shop menu it totally resets the alchemy menu so if you're trying to check your potions you have to re-collapse all the other open tabs and then scroll down to the potion you're working on. But I have to say my biggest gripe overall is weapons. I can't stand it that I kill a level 23 Royal Wryven and get a level 14 sword that is already obsolete. This happens all the loving time. Using the witcher gear swords is cool and all, but it'd be nice if the "legendary swords" you get as rewards have levels appropriate with the enemies that you defeat to get them. I don't care about armor as much, because I think the Witcher gear all looks better in almost every case with a couple exceptions, but finding cool weapon #56 that has lower numbers and a lower level requirement that isn't differentiated at all from weapon #42 is so 
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One thing I'll never tire of is the mental imagery that comes from mixing up Roach and Roche.
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Palpek posted:I took a screenshot: This game is goddamn gorgeous. And I'm on ps4 and don't have ultra hd mega graphic porn.
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Palpek posted:I took a screenshot: How'd you make your language runes?
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It sucks that screenshots taken on the PS4 come out looking like garbage, even though the game itself still looks extremely pretty.
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Do you get to use the Magic Lamp out in the wild anywhere (like, ghosts present in the open world), or just in a couple of quests?
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Crows Turn Off posted:Do you get to use the Magic Lamp out in the wild anywhere (like, ghosts present in the open world), or just in a couple of quests? There's a couple locations I used it but one of them is in south Velen and was bugged for me last I tried where the scene would keep repeating and the quest wouldn't advance. Another one is in Velen a bit west of Crow's Perch. Look for the lamp markers on the map.
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Crows Turn Off posted:Do you get to use the Magic Lamp out in the wild anywhere (like, ghosts present in the open world), or just in a couple of quests? In addition to the Velen location there's a quest in Kaer Morhen that uses the lamp. There aren't more than a handful of quests that use it and it's pretty obvious when you need to pull it out. I would not be surprised if there are some secrets or easter eggs involving using the lamp in unmarked locations.
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I love some of these obscure-rear end references http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/0870334336 Fishstick fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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I'd love to see another game where you play as Ciri but I have no idea how they'd do it and make it challenging at all. If she gets her magic back she'd be the single most powerful person in the world by far. Even without the magic, she wouldn't have to hold her reality warping powers back without the hunt tracking her.
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Spite posted:I'd love to see another game where you play as Ciri but I have no idea how they'd do it and make it challenging at all. If she gets her magic back she'd be the single most powerful person in the world by far. Even without the magic, she wouldn't have to hold her reality warping powers back without the hunt tracking her. It could take place before the events of W3. You would have to "discover" the location that you needed to warp to next for the story. If your health is reduced to zero, you automatically warp to a random location instead of dying. There's lots of neat things they could do with it if they wanted.
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It takes only the tiniest bit of creativity to make it feasible. It's not like dealing with potentially overpowered protagonists is something video games haven't been handling for twenty years. No prequels please, though. Besides, if it's a sequel they can bullshit something about dealing with the White Frost damaging her abilities so you have to slowly get them back over time. Instant power progression justification.
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Finished it, got the Empress Ciri ending. That was a bummer! I am bummed! Knew I shouldn't have taken her back to her jackass dad. Wild Hunt sits so high on my GOTY list that it needs a loving oxygen tank. Entire genres ought to be embarrassed at the amount of care put into this thing.
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Found a level 48 arch griffin hunting down these damned Skellige ?s. Probably the hardest monster fight I've had. Took four tries. The thing can take 80% of your life with one hit and you're almost always stunned for hit two.
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The Valgard fists of fury fight is just...infuriating.
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NESguerilla posted:The Valgard fists of fury fight is just...infuriating. Treat it like boxing, stick and move! Stick and move!
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I keep getting stuck on the boundaries of the arena so I'll be winning and get stuck on a chair or something else out of view. 90 percent of why I hate this quest line is the stupid arena design.
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Oxxidation posted:Finished it, got the Empress Ciri ending. That was a bummer! I am bummed! Knew I shouldn't have taken her back to her jackass dad. It's also avoids the grim dark trap by having a good sense of humor like in the drunk witchers night out scene.
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The Sharmat posted:No prequels please, though. Besides, if it's a sequel they can bullshit something about dealing with the White Frost damaging her abilities so you have to slowly get them back over time. Instant power progression justification. That makes sense, it could also lead to other skill trees. For example path of the Witcher (melee,traps), Mage (signs and other tricks) or Rift Walker (all those time/space related things).
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I miss the heliotrope bullet time bubble from TW2. If a Ciri game would let me do that again, bring on the Ciri game.
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Another postcard from the game:
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So, Carnal Sins question that I'm sure has been asked and answered a million times already: The mortician starts talking about how I almost caught him in the act with Patricia Vegelbud, but that was based on a clue that he gave me himself. Why did he tell me who his next victim would be and then...what, do the bat thing and fly there ahead of me? Is it the same reason he leaves the notes at all (i.e. he's just being a dick)?
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Scuzzywuffit posted:So, Carnal Sins question that I'm sure has been asked and answered a million times already:
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Carnal Sins It's pretty hosed up to do that quest then read Baptism of Fire and realize that the vampire isn't even really dead at the end of it. In a decade or three he'll have regenerated and gone back to being a serial killer. Geralt just doesn't have the means to kill him permanently.
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The Sharmat posted:Carnal Sins It's pretty hosed up to do that quest then read Baptism of Fire and realize that the vampire isn't even really dead at the end of it. In a decade or three he'll have regenerated and gone back to being a serial killer. Geralt just doesn't have the means to kill him permanently. I screwed up Carnal Sins by taking the now obvious bait that was Nathaniel. I knew it seemed too obvious but A) I underestimated the game and B) was wary of stalling and possibly getting the prostitute killed, so I attacked first. On the plus side, after all that build up Natahaniel got put down in three strikes, the last of which was the 'take out the knees - decapitation'. OUt of all possible finishers, I felt like making a priest kneel for his sins was the most apt way that could have played out, so I barely even care I hosed it up now
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The Sharmat posted:Carnal Sins It's pretty hosed up to do that quest then read Baptism of Fire and realize that the vampire isn't even really dead at the end of it. In a decade or three he'll have regenerated and gone back to being a serial killer. Geralt just doesn't have the means to kill him permanently. I would have thought if anyone could permanently kill a katakan it would be a Witcher.
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