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Prawned posted:I loved witcher's 1 and 2 so much I am almost convinced to break my "NO-PREORDERING GAMES YOU loving FUCKHEAD" rule for this I already broke this rule  CDPR is the only company I will do this for, though. They were smart enough to push the game back twice to put more time into making sure it isnt hosed. I am upset that I do not get to devote a week in February to playing and instead have to devote a week to playing it in May instead, when it will be nice outside. But otherwise I am extremely pleased to know that CDPR cares enough to delay the game to try to deliver a good product on official release.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:But it's not bad now, by any stretch of the imagination. Which is more than you can say for virtually every other studio that's released a bad game. I find it hilarious that a conversation just started up about Civ5 in the Paradox general thread. Civ5 is loving awful and always will be. Annihilation-style Tactical combat on a Strategic map was the worst loving thing. Cities having a ranged attack was the stupidest idea I have ever seen...it is literally impossible to siege a city down (e.g. starve it out - the most common way to siege a city in history) because the city will nuke all of your units AND the city will never surrender unless assaulted! That is all I am going to say about it though because this is not a Civ5 thread and do not want to start or perpetuate a derail.
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Cities in other civ games did not have a built-in ranged attack, and got weaker the smaller the city's population, so you could weaken the city before you assaulted by sitting on its high food tiles. In Civ5 a city alone can destroy a unit in two turns and hold a ranged unit in it that does a ton of its own damage  .Dark_Swordmaster posted:Well neither Witcher titles needed patching! No pants on anyone in Flotsam was working as designed, amiright?
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OAquinas posted:It's a QTE! What is this GTA: San Andreas? Comte de Saint-Germain posted:heh heh heh  or  better here? Or perhaps  ?
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Jan 29, 2015 00:10
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:That's why I said rolling. Make it a set of 3 or 5 games that just saves over the oldest one. TW1 was SUPER crash happy for me in Act 3 and Act 5, so I literally had to save prior to every. Single. Load screen. I'm replaying Icewind Dale 2 right now and it has a quicksave option that automaically backs up the last save, thus if I autosave at 8pm then again at 8:30, I can still load the 8:00 save. Something like that for W3 would be fantastic.
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Feb 4, 2015 16:59
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OAquinas posted:It was a bit finicky/bugged if you were using the mouse to target, especially before EE. Still a bit wonky even now, but it's a lot better. If I remember correctly, you had to shoot at the dude that is standing next to Etcheverry, rather than shooting straight at him.
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Real hurthling! posted:yeah chrome keeps crashing and running my laptop fans at max power with only like 6 windows open. its a shame. My work laptop is always struggling because I have to (really prefer to) have a dozen tabs open.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Yeah I loved the first two games a lot, and this one still has me pretty skeptical how they're going to do such a huge open world in a way that's interesting, and also hold together a story roughly on the level of the first two games. It seems like it's going to be a gigantic game and they've obviously underestimated how much work it was going to be, what with the multiple delays and the talk of working hours being extremely poor for much of the development cycle. So I hope it doesn't come out half baked or a horrible buggy mess. I think the two delays are because it may have been on pace to come out a horrible half baked mess. They have been working on the game for a long time and ended up delaying it a total of what, 6 months on top of that? Based on their experiences releasing the EE versions of 1 and 2 I have a feeling, these delays were to make sure the game was good at lunch. Its done being built - there was no delay there, it could probably be released right now, but they are bugfixing and streamlining.
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I loved W2's thing in the prologue when getting interrogated by Roche. If you jump him Ves lodges a crossbow bolt in your spine and you have to start over.
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The Sharmat posted:Also if you lose the fist fight to the hangman in Flotsam, Geralt actually is shown being hanged on the scaffold (While Roche and Triss confusingly stare on passively). Good god both of these things sound hilarious. I am going to have to consult youtube when I am done work today.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:13
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:I seem to recall that a few people explain that, OK, so, there was a bomb, it made a big crater, people lived in it because... I guess a hole makes sense (holes are terrible places to live, which is why no one does, but whatever) but then they were all starving and this group of religious fanatics showed up with a bomb and offered them food in return for letting them put the bomb in the middle of town. I thought it was that the bomb dropped but didnt explode for whatever reason (but was still live) and the religious dudes set up around it. The crater isnt that large and the bomb seemed kinda large so maybe it is a small crater from a heavy object hitting the ground? Thats the best I can think of.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:According to the Fallout Wiki, you are correct: Comte de Saint-Germain posted:But it's still terrible storytelling because that still doesn't make any sense.
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Feb 19, 2015 20:07
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Oh god [timg] that poo poo and what jesus christ fanfic wtf
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midnightclimax posted:maybe that's not hair.... 
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Feb 19, 2015 23:41
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Pull up thread! Also why does no one use [timg] in this thread anymore?
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Yeah I'm building a whole new computer because mine is dying (the HD is like 10+ years old and the rest of the equipment outside of the graphics card is 6+ years old  ). I'm debating how much I am going to sink into a graphics card.
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Drifter posted:FIgure what resolution you want to run games at. If it's less than 1900 by Y, spend less than $275, unless you REALLY want those max shadows and Occlusion. Good to know, thanks. I've been reading up in the part picking thread trying to figure out what I want to do 
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neonbregna posted:What is the goon approved card for getting free witches? I just read the Part Picking Thread in Serious Hardware / Software Crap and bought a 970. It only has 3.5gb of RAM rather than the advertised 4 but overall is a in a much better place on the cost/benefit ratio compared to the 980 (the 980 is wildly more expensive for a very small boost in power).
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Harrow posted:Cool, then it definitely sounds like a good time to buy. I'll jump on it closer to the release date. The guys in the Part Picking thread were really helpful when I was asking questions.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:I like my Geralt with stubble, not a beard, so I visit the barber in Oxenfurt every few in-game days for a shave. It's pretty great. That is petty neat. Theres not GTA type crap with courriers running up to you with letters from your cousin or anything though, is there?
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Oh my god I am so glad I am currently building a new computer with a GTX 970 
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:also: Is...is that possible?!?
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:I've been playing for weeks and I'm like 1/4 the way through. I have skipped a good amount of side quests, so yeah I believe it.  We still have to wait another month and a half though
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Apr 1, 2015 16:10
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Finish Pillars and Bloodborne so you have nothing to distract you. I didnt buy either of those because I just spent all of my money on a new computer so I could run W3 on good settings I am plenty distracted by EU4 and a backlog of other older games that I bought on steamsale but didnt/couldnt play before because of the computer, though, so I'll be okay  I was pleasantly surprised at how good the Tomb Raider reboot is, and I only spent $5 on it!
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:Was that silly estimated time to completion image in RPS' article today official? Because that's a wonderful chart. Got a link to the article?
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Drifter posted:I've been playing Witcher 2 since a few days ago and it still feels like there's lots to do, and it's really really nice. gently caress teh Wraiths, but other than that, it's great. This is hilarious.
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Rime posted:
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Rime posted:
Ah, thank you. I see the Pontar and Vizima so now I get it. The new one is just zoomed it with a lot more detail.
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iCe-CuBe. posted:release your game before you announce expansions
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iCe-CuBe. posted:release your game before you announce expansions.
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Drifter posted:He's not saying before you MAKE expansions, but before you RELEASE the main game. He repeated himself so I repeated myself  . I'm saying that the game got delayed not because the game was not developed, but because it is so long/big/deep/whatever that the QA/bug fixing process needed more time; the people who designed the quests were probably sitting on their hands, so CDPR had them work on something. There is nothing wrong with having your paid employees do their jobs. If the game had been released on time this wouldnt even be a question.edit: I understand people are frustrated the game is not out yet and was delayed twice, which does suck, but I am sick and tired of games being shittastic on release and am happy that CDPR did the right thing and delayed twice. If they have DLC in mind that their level builders are working on and they want to tell us about them, that doesnt make a drat difference. I'm happy to see they are working on additional content for the game....I got a new computer in large part to play W3, so if there is going to be extra content for it that excites me. edit2: \/\/\/\/\/ Thank you Icy Fisty 
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Subjunctive posted:You don't think they're fixing bugs in quests and environments, tweaking dialogue, and so forth? That sounds like exactly the stuff you want to be doing at the end, rather than core engine fixes. (Or whatever "do bug fixing" means, I'm not actually sure how you mean that to be different from "do programming".) NaDy posted:I'm assuming they've just kept a few devs working any bugs raised by QA, with the rest of the team working on the expansions.
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Manatee Cannon posted:If it's done ahead of schedule, does that mean the release date will be moved up? I'm guessing the answer is no, but I can dream.
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Subjunctive posted:Gold usually means that phase has completed. I'm sure some are working on day-0 patch stuff, but I suspect/hope it's not that many.
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Mr E posted:I'm kind of glad this game isn't coming out till next month, this month's been great for games which means I've had less time to play them all.
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Wow, time to clean off the SSD I guess. Dark_Swordmaster posted:Fuckin' weirdo.
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Drifter posted:"So tell me, Witcher....did you gently caress her?" But yeah I have seen in more than one place that there will be a part at the beginning of the game where you describe what happened in the past with someone; your answers to their questions/stories you tell determine your backstory.
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GrossMurpel posted:I'm wondering how newcomers to the series handle that. "Did you side with the Scoia'tael?" "wat"
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Jimbot posted:I hope the skill tree is vastly more impressive than it was in 2. I'm playing through The Witcher now (planning on doing 2 right after) and it's just nuts how much more impressive the skills are. When I see them and remember a similar skill was like +5% of something it was just boring, it was hard to really care about leveling the skill in that game. In the first game I look forward to leveling up because all those upgrades are worthwhile.
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