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The most important thing to remember outside of the gameplay considerations is that characters neither resemble their novelistic counterpoints nor their subsequent appearances in the game series. Except Dandelion, man never changes.
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The above posters are incorrect, it is absolutely essential to install John Paul II Moon.
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jaete posted:Back when I played Witcher 1 I had the director's cut edition (or whatever it was called), that worked fine technically, didn't need any mods. Was years ago though. The version I have on GOG is the Enhanced Edition Directors Cut, but I downloaded the two mods I mentioned just as a precaution. I've been told before that Witcher 1 can be skipped, but I wanted to go through it to get the full experience of importing the save into Witcher 2 and then again with Witcher 3. There's also just having the satisfaction of striking it out of my backlog. I'm not ruling the idea out completely, though. Nobody Interesting posted:I mostly used texture mods. There's a bunch on Nexus by someone called Hiuuz that brings in Witcher 3-ish looks to the relevant characters. Thanks. Downloaded Faster Movement because fetching the potion materials in the prologue was a little tedious, so I think that'll help a lot. I'll give Meresey and Rise of the White Wolf a look. The UI doesn't seem too bad, but then I haven't played enough of the game to say that for sure yet. SirSamVimes posted:The Witcher is worth playing if you have a high jank tolerance imo. If combat gets frustrating, just stack sign intensity and turn everything to ash with Igni. Gaius Marius posted:The most important thing to remember outside of the gameplay considerations is that characters neither resemble their novelistic counterpoints nor their subsequent appearances in the game series. Except Dandelion, man never changes. I've not read any of the books so that won't be an issue. I really don't know all that much about the Witcher, outside of handful of things I've gleaned from various discussions. I know what a witcher is, mind you (super-strong monster hunters mutated with magic and plants), and some various bits of trivia (ex. I read somewhere that in the books, Geralt dies from getting stabbed by a farmer with a pitchfork), but for the most part, I've steered clear of anything covering the series to avoid spoilers.
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Witcher 1 is still awesome, runs great, and still holds up. Nothing better than reading all 8 books and then playing all 3 games back to back. In Polish voices.
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When you get to Witcher 2, my mod suggestions are these:quote:Yet Another Mod Compilation (Adds a wide variety of bug fixes, tweaks, and updates that enhance the game without fundamentally changing it)
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Kaal posted:When you get to Witcher 2, my mod suggestions are these: I just started getting into Witcher 2 and thank you for this.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I just started getting into Witcher 2 and thank you for this. Enjoy! It's a great game.
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So I rolled credits on Witcher 2 last night. Overall, there's a lot I liked and appreciated about the sequel but also things I disliked. Games are a land of contrasts etc, etc, etc Things I liked: - The game looks much better than Witcher 1, more detailed environments, more varied npc costuming/faces, overall a much more visually immersive feeling to the game - The monster design is a lot better, Witcher 1 reused a lot of the same few designs but with color swaps so having more varied and detailed creatures was a nice step up - Lots of story options and basically two entire campaigns to play, and some drastic changes based on your choices. More games should embrace this style of design - I like the character build system (even if the more basic and style of the first worked great) and I like how you can customize your Geralt to emphasize combat or magic or potions depending on your preference - music and sound design continue to be top notch and add so much to the atmosphere of the world, master class in how it should be done. Those monster barks add so much and are greatly appreciated from a design standpoint Things I didn't like as much: - This game was clearly designed for a console. I'm sure people can play it with keyboard controls but I'm not one of them. Thankfully I have a PC controller and once I switched over to that I had no issues managing combat - I miss the inventory system of the first game. I found that one way easier to compare equipment, manage inventory, and see what crafting pattern I had. Witcher 2 stuff is serviceable but a step backwards imo - why in the poo poo can't I tell if I've read a book or not?? Yeah okay the information isn't vital to the game but I liked reading all of the books in Witcher 1 to get a better idea of the world, cultures, history, monsters, etc. It's such a simple, small thing but why remove it? - I didn't like how deep you have to go into menus to get monster lore. Why do I have to go into the character menu, then the attributes tab, THEN go over two other tabs to see what kind of sword or poison work best? Dude is a Witcher, monsters are his whole deal, this should be like right in the menu from the start. Ya know, like it is in the first one! Next up is obviously Witcher 3. I bought a copy for switch probably 4 years ago because I had heard it was a real good port of a real good game. And at the time I didn't have a semi decent computer so I figured it would be my only real option. But now I'm probably going to go with the PC version to keep my saves rolling over and to take advantage of mods. Ain't no way I am dealing with inventory space or weight restrictions, I am a mutant vacuum who picks up everything and I can't play any other way. Overall, the series continues to be great and I now see why some people were so down on The Witcher netflix series when it started. ONE YEAR LATER fucked around with this message at 15:10 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:
Do keep in mind the show is not based on the games, but the original novels. That said, if you haven't already, do read the novels. I think they're fantastic fantasy books and it's probably my favorite fantasy series.
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chaosapiant posted:Do keep in mind the show is not based on the games, but the original novels. That said, if you haven't already, do read the novels. I think they're fantastic fantasy books and it's probably my favorite fantasy series. if it was based off the games it would be more accurate
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chaosapiant posted:Do keep in mind the show is not based on the games, but the original novels. That said, if you haven't already, do read the novels. I think they're fantastic fantasy books and it's probably my favorite fantasy series. I do plan on getting to the books.... eventually. I realized pretty quickly after starting Witcher 1 that the game(s) were sequels to the books, but it's kinda funny cause knowing the show beforehand I recognized some of the allusions to the books even without reading them.
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chaosapiant posted:Do keep in mind the show is not based on the games, but the original novels. Barely lol
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It started out flawed but really fun and then nosedived into stupidity when they killed eskel for no reason.
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the show is so needlessly grim and joyless. the cast is solid but it's just so unpleasant.
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punishedkissinger posted:the show is so needlessly grim and joyless. the cast is solid but it's just so unpleasant. Sure, but the showrunners and writing staff are all hacks who wanted to force in quippy Whedon dialogue and killed a major character because they want to shock the audience. Allegedly made fun of Henry Cavill to his face for arguing with them about being true to the books and bragged they never read any of them. The Blood Origin miniseries was just extremely embarrassing all around, and if that was their level of making something fun it's a good thing they weren't allowed to do the same for the main show.
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hello witcher thread, this weekend I completed the base Witcher 3 game (and HoS prior) and I know I'm like a decade late to the party but boy what a game Just starting Blood and Wine and drat it kicks off with a bang, though I really do wish the spruce up your villa mechanic had been applied to Kaer Mohren instead; it was pretty depressing to get the bittersweet empress ending and launch back to an empty castle
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Dijkstracula posted:hello witcher thread, this weekend I completed the base Witcher 3 game (and HoS prior) and I know I'm like a decade late to the party but boy what a game So yet another person willing to kill a progressive politician all because you wanted to save members of an anti-elf pogromist death squad. Sigi deserved a better friend.
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Dijkstra owns but my Geralt dances with the ones what brought em 
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Felt the desire to play again, start fresh with some QOL mods.
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Here's an orchestra doing music from the Ladies of the Woods quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMxXp_foNwM drat good score, drat good quest.
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Okay, I'm very rusty at modding the game since the next generation update released. For a baseline I want to install (in descending order of importance: Bugfixes Quality of Life (auto apply oils, no durability, cheao dyes everywhere) Customizable HUD No Levels Mod LOD mods Texture mods I thought I'd had everything set up properly to run the nextgen DX12 version but not only have my mod menus not shown up, I've also got greyed out options in my DX12 graphics settings. Is there a proper modding guide for the DX12 edition of the game?
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Don't know about the issues themselves but you don't need auto-apply oils anymore. It's part of the base game now iirc.
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People who don't manually apply their oils don't have the strength of character to be a Witcher.
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SirSamVimes posted:People who don't manually apply their oils don't have the strength of character to be a Witcher. ''A Witcher can forget to eat, to drink, to breathe, even, but a Witcher never, ever forgets to care for his blade. ''
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I managed to get everything to work again. Had to reinstall the Mod Manager and redirect it to handle the DX12 exe instead. Had a very funny moment during the fistfight in front of the White Orchard tavern. I beat the first guy and then the moment the second and third guys attack Roach kicked one in the face, panicked and ran over the other guy, and that counted as a win.
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Sorry for the triple posting but a tech question. I have an RTX 4080 card that can run the nextgen update handily. Would I be better off using DLSS Quality or TAAU for my anti-aliasing options? Is it the general rule that the TAA will look better than the DLSS because it's not rendering at a lower resolution and then I upscaling? Or will the TAA still have ghosting issues
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I have the same video card. I use DLAA and crank everything to the max (on a 1440p screen) and just turn off hairworks. Gsync also helps. With those settings I get 60-100 fps depending on the area.
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chaosapiant posted:I have the same video card. I use DLAA and crank everything to the max (on a 1440p screen) and just turn off hairworks. Gsync also helps. With those settings I get 60-100 fps depending on the area. I'm not seeing a DLAA option on my AA list. I've got FXAA, TAAU, DLSS, and XESS options. DLAA runs at native resolution and applies the deep learning algorithm to clean out jaggies just without the superscaling of DLSS, right?
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Arc Hammer posted:I'm not seeing a DLAA option on my AA list. I've got FXAA, TAAU, DLSS, and XESS options. DLAA is a form of DLSS that, if I’m remembering correctly, upscales the image instead of down scaling it, while applying the same AA and sharpness filters. I think DLAA is in the DLSS options, not under AA. I’m in a cruise so I can’t check if im mistaken.
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IIRC, DLAA is just DLSS with the render scale at 100%, so it doesn't downscale before applying deep learning tech. Honestly, if you have some performance to spare, i'd use nvidia's DSR + DL. DSR is dynamic super resolution, where you can render the image in, let's say, 4K before downsampling it to 1080p on your monitor. Sort of like the old SSAA methods of old. Gets rid of jaggies very well, is prohibitively expensive. But that's where the DL part (like in DLSS) comes in. The uprezzed render is upscaled with the DLSS tech before being downsampled to your output resolution, getting you (as nVidia claims) DSR 4x quality (3840*2160) visually while only having to actually render DSR-DL 2.25x (2880*1620) on your 1080p monitor. Basically DLSS but applied in the opposite way. You can enable it in the nVidia control panel 3D settings under DSR factors, where you have to tick the resolutions you want to enable. You should only enable the DL options (1.78x and 2.25x), and after that they will show up as rendering resolutions in-game. So you select 2880*1620 (for DSR-DL x2.25) in-game on your 1080p monitor and enjoy 4K quality downsampled to your output. I use it a lot in low-impact games like Deep Rock Galactic or older less demanding games, where all built-in aliasing options just don't perform well. It looks really good.
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So I actually do have DLDSR enabled and I've been rendering at 1440p. So to do like you suggest, my best bet might be to render at 4K and just turn off the other AA options in the menu? EDIT: Noooope, even DLDSR-ing to 4K you need to put on an anti aliasing method because my god it's rough without one. Putting it to 4K and DLSS Quality looks quite nice though. gently caress this game is beautiful. Nothing else looks quite like it, and I adore Geralt's various looks of exasperation, amusement and general grumpiness. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZgJCl62sA I'm sorry, I missed this announcement. Doug is back to voice Geralt! And it's an adaptation of A Little Sacrifice! Nightmare of the Wolf was decent but it felt more like a Castlevania spinoff than a Witcher story, this has my attention.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ZgJCl62sA Nightmare looked like the animation studio was told to watch Castlevania and make more of the same. This also looks like more of the same, visually anyway. With the exception of Doug Cockle being involved. That part is pretty cool.
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Redkit is being released this year, much more powerful modding tools which would allow for new lands, quests etc. I wonder if any modders will have the steam to make anything big on a game this old. After having seen streams of Manor Lords, I'd almost prefer someone makes a Witcher mod for that instead.
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Your Brain on Hugs posted:Redkit is being released this year, much more powerful modding tools which would allow for new lands, quests etc. I wonder if any modders will have the steam to make anything big on a game this old. After having seen streams of Manor Lords, I'd almost prefer someone makes a Witcher mod for that instead. if it can make it easier to mod W3 im excited. I absolutely hate trying to mod W3 and dealing with that loving program that shows the problems as coding conflicts is literally black magic to me. my adventure in W3 modding was just picking things that looked cool and then having to get rid of them since i had no capacity to manage any conflicts.
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Cool, I hope someone makes a good troll related quest filled with political intrigue. Like the trolls are trying to rig the stock market and Geralt is caught in the middle.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:Cool, I hope someone makes a good troll related quest filled with political intrigue. Like the trolls are trying to rig the stock market and Geralt is caught in the middle. trying to imagine what a stock market for Velen of all loving places would look like, and I gotta say I am coming up blank
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