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LawfulWaffle posted:I'm playing this on the PS4 and I'm loving it. I think it's crazy amazing and it's eating up all of my free time. It's cool to give honest criticism of things you like, and it's weird for that to upset you. I love the game but the inventory is atrocious and it'd have been nice if they had spent 10% of the time they spent making side content on a really good interface instead, or even any time at all.
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Posting in the thread at all is probably a pretty good indicator that you like the game a lot, otherwise why would you bother? I certainly don't waste my time posting in threads about games I don't like, it's really easy to not play them.
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May 27, 2015 20:43
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theDOWmustflow posted:poo poo, I've run into a game breaking bug. Bug occurs during the quest to find Hjalmar. When I approach the sleeping Ice Giant, the appropriate cutscene plays and ends. When it ends, I get stuck in an infinite loading screen loop. 30 seconds into the loop the "You have died" screen abruptly appears. There is no way for me to escape the loop. In the end I decided to just leave the cave and do other quests, but everytime a cutscene for a different quest is supposed to start, the ice troll cinematic plays instead and I'm back in the loop. I found hjalmar before getting the quest for him, he invited me to come kill the giant. I decided that it was probably part of a quest and left, since it didn't give me quest markers or anything and I wanted those. I played for another 30 minutes doing whatever random stuff when all of a sudden the ice troll cinematic plays and I'm back on skellige fighting some trolls. I went ahead and reloaded that one, but it was pretty funny.
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May 27, 2015 21:30
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PRESIDENT GOKU posted:Call me a Luddite or what have you, but I'm growing bored and annoyed with these never ending Oceans 11 type quests in Novigrad. What the hell does all this have to do with witchers killing monsters? At least the Family Matters quest had one monster in it. This is all intrigue that plays like a CSI detective game. Novigrad seems like the weakest of the three areas to me, for what it's worth. Skellige is super-cool and a great change of scenery.
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May 28, 2015 01:42
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Psiharis posted:I failed a pretty random sidequest in the farmlands of Novigrad (I think it was Flown the Coop, something about a monster stealing chickens). Since I wasn't doing anything main quest related for a long time before I noticed, I suspect it was related to a nearby quest to deal with a monster on behalf of some halfling mead brewers. The same thing happen to me, halfing quest screwed that one up. I did find the children from it, and the quest moved from failed to incomplete, but I couldn't turn it in. Incomplete is better than failed for me.
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May 28, 2015 07:51
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nessin posted:I'll offer a different perspective on the combat, I actually don't see how people can stand to keep the difficult up. I started at the highest and gradually stepped down to story mode. The idea of preparing for each and every fight was great but it gets exceedingly tedious and very little changes. Wraiths for example, even the special contract/named ones, don't really have any significant difference in execution and higher difficulties didn't mean the fight was harder only that I had to spend more time being prepared for the fight. Did I have the absolute highest oil I could get at the time, or was what I had good enough? Did I have a good combination of potions and decoctions lined up, with the skill points invested in my abilities to avoid overdose? Was my gear slotted with the right rune stones and sigils for what I needed in the fight? So on and so forth. I don't really bother with stuff like oils because it's basically a mouseclick tax - the fight gets easier if you click more in menus. I just cast another igni/swing my sword more instead. Oils should really just be a passive boost - you use the appropriate oil automatically if you have it. Then the oil recipes would be like, mini-quests to improve your damage against certain monster types, much the way filling in your bestiary was in the old game. I'm on the second-hardest difficulty and the game feels like it's gotten easy - it was toughest early on but igni is really broken. I kinda want to try other signs just to see how they play - I feel pretty confident in killing anything that is igni-vulnerable no matter how level it is and I'm only level 21.
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May 28, 2015 16:40
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Aurain posted:I have a druid trying to offer me a yellow ! quest near Gedyleith, but when I speak to him, nothing happens. Any one have a clue or is it just some weird bug? I got this same thing - my map will forever have a ! from the indecisive druid. Also it's real weird that that place has two signposts with the same name that you can't warp between - I don't get the point, they're super-close to each other. e: sorry for double-post
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May 28, 2015 16:46
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Cephalocidal posted:Lore-wise it's part of the drawn-out prep before going after a contract kill. Gameplay-wise... yeah, kinda sucks. I'd rather move in the other direction and gamify it as an active thing, but not one that goes to a menu. Long in-game animation to oil up, sort of thing you can dodge behind a rock and pull off mid-combat. Something like this would be fine, but I'd rather they get a better potion system(ie more than 2 slots, potion tab in inventory, etc) going first before they do it. Potion effects are almost universally more interesting than a percentage bonus to damage.
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May 28, 2015 16:50
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NaDy posted:Is there a way to roll back the last patch with the GOG galaxy version? I want to play tonight but I also want to get xp. You probably can't load your character if you've saved since the new patch.
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May 28, 2015 17:40
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I don't see how storage would solve the problem in the least - it's the exact same problem except now you add "what do I store" to "what do I sell" and "what do I drop". You still have to do one of those tedious things every time your inventory fills up.
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May 28, 2015 17:42
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I did the story quests in skellige in 1.04 and they gave me a ton of XP even though I outlevel them.
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May 28, 2015 17:59
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ImpAtom posted:Except that continues to ignore Anna's choices. Anna chose to leave him and she gets absolutely no say (due to her condition) over being sent back to him. That ending is the worst ending because it is taking a woman driven insane by her abusive husband's actions and giving her back to him because he promises not to beat her this time, even though she made it clear beforehand that she wants nothing to do with him and loathes him to the point she was more willing to take her daughter, make a deal with monsters and escape into the dangerous wilderness than remain with him. I think you're wrong and if you asked anna which ending she preferred, she'd disagree with you.
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May 28, 2015 19:12
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:It would be awesome if they made this clear. I think they're different - one is the point where you start taking damage and your health bar turns yellow as far as I know. I haven't explored the alchemy tree really, the potion interface is too bad for me to want to bother, and it's a tree that screams "respec into me" anyway.
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May 28, 2015 20:53
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CJ posted:So is there any point in having loot drops in this game? I literally haven't found a piece of gear that can keep up with my witcher sets in 15 levels or so. I keep getting these quests where i help a blacksmith craft a legendary sword and then when he gives it to me it's a pos. Between all the gear being vendor trash, having 20k gold or so since level 15 and the nominal amount of xp you get it doesn't make doing sidequests very rewarding. crafting/alchemy recipes are the only rewards worth thinking about I still can't find griffin treasure maps 1 and 2 - hattori had 4 and some armorer had 3, but I think I gotta google the rest.
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May 29, 2015 16:29
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CJ posted:I think the map was on one of the vendors in Crow's Perch but if not it was in Dragonslayer's Grotto NW of Downwarren. I have the base set - I'm talking about the maps for the upgrades that you generally buy from vendors. I have all four of the bear maps, all four of the cat ones, and only two of the four griffin ones, and of course griffin is the one I want to use. I can make all of the superior and mastercraft parts, but not the enhanced ones. (I did find two of the enhanced upgrades randomly - I wonder if that's prevented me from getting the maps.) TheStampede posted:So how are folks getting cards to build their Gwent decks? I see a few here and there at shops, but not nearly enough to really dive in to deck building, especially given the different deck types. I'm probably 20+ hours in and lvl 11, and haven't encountered much. Using the northern realms deck and building it up a card at a time. You get one card from each merchant, nicer cards from the gwent quests, and can buy cards at every inn. Play every merchant you find, and don't leave until you win - that lets you see that "play cards" is greyed out so you don't repeat a merchant. (I would buy an inn's cards as soon as you get there as long as it doesn't put you in the poorhouse - it saves tracking them down later, especially in a game where inns aren't all shown on the map for some reason.) Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 29, 2015 |
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May 29, 2015 16:41
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Bort Bortles posted:So I think I found 6 or 7 places of power in White Orchard and so far have only found three in Velen/Novigrad. Am I just bad or is the density much lower outside of White Orchard? They are higher density in white orchard for sure, I think quests take you pretty close to many of them in velen. I haven't explored THAT many ?s in velen but I have a number of places of power. (I was kind of guessing there were 5 in each region but I don't know.)
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May 29, 2015 16:53
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Magni posted:Haha, I just found the best mini side-quest roaming the Novigrad sewers. haha yeah this one is funny - there's so much hidden poo poo in novigrad that I feel like you'd just never find it all. It's one thing in velen to find a town-looking place that has a sidequest in it, it's another to wander around novigrad endlessly until you come across whatever random thing. Wandering around the sewers looking for walls to aard definitely qualifies.
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May 29, 2015 17:07
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The game has way more XP than you need anyway you end up way outlevelling the main quest if you do all the sidequests, losing a few days worth of quest XP is not the end of the world.Levantine posted:Where can I get some more Gwent cards? I'm having trouble beating the Baron with my deck. It could just be i"m getting bad pulls and he's getting good ones, but I have too many lower value cards (4-5). I'm also getting stomped by random vendors and it's disheartening. Buy them at inns, play the random vendors until you beat them. Exploring and finding towns is pretty fun, you may as well go to every locale and check out their inns/vendors, regardless of where you are in the game.
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May 29, 2015 17:13
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poptart_fairy posted:It is a pain in the arse if you were unaware of the bug though. I don't really see it - I feel way overlevelled already and the way things are going, I'm pretty sure I could beat the game without gaining any more XP (I'm level 21). I'm sure it's worse if you trigger it at level 9 or something, I was pretty eager to complete early quests asap. After a point, levels seem to stop mattering, I certainly don't care about level guidelines being much higher than me any more. It would be a bummer to not be able to use the best tier witcher armor. It's definitely not consistent and I do gain some XP - not sure when I actually triggered it. I know main quests aren't affected, or weren't for me as of then, and I'm sure I did grey quests ages ago.
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May 29, 2015 17:21
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finally(big map spoiler): http://witcher3map.com/v Aurain posted:Well, you need XP because red diamond enemies take little to no damage regardless of your spec/gear set up. Once you're in level range, you can wreck them with the exact same set up, but if they have a red diamond, no can do. You certainly can if they're igni vulnerable, but fair point, it depends on your spec and earth elementals, etc are still gonna be hard.
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May 29, 2015 17:24
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Schurik posted:At 18, should I finish up all the quests below me and then head to Skellige? Or just do it now? I don't like fast travelling so... There are more side quests below you just waiting to be had in skellige, you better get over there !!
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May 29, 2015 17:27
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poptart_fairy posted:Alright thanks guys, guess I'm just over-thinking the humans a bit too much. Yeah it's certainly not the game's strongest aspect - it does the job about 10x better than any elder scrolls game ever did, but that's like saying it smells 10x better than fresh turds.
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May 29, 2015 18:30
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Manatee Cannon posted:drat you, albedo. albedo is one you gotta make in the alchemy components lab, unless you're talking about the recipe. It may be possible for the component recipes to disappear like the others, that would really suck too. White gull disappears aka you don't get superior potions.
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May 29, 2015 21:29
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I need it for the superior ursine silver sword but I just cannot find any for the life of me. Tried the alchemists I know of, including the master alchemist, and there's nothing to be found. Irritating.
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SpunkyRedKnight posted:I've run into a problem where I had recipes for upgraded versions of some bombs (moon dust, dancing star) before I got the regular recipe, and when I got the regular version I apparently forgot the recipe for the upgraded ones. I'm not sure if I have to buy them again from a merchant because I haven't seen anyone selling those since. recipes sometimes disappear, I don't think it's related to what order you got things in, it's a coincidence. I have the same bug, enhanced northern wind isn't in my list despite having it in my inventory, can't make enhanced white rafford's decoction after finally getting the nekker hearts, a couple others are missing.
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Jun 1, 2015 16:55
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igni sets shield guys on fire and they drop their shield
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Levantine posted:I've used both normal and alt Igni against shield guys and it doesn't phase them at all. I dunno, I alt-igni them and they become on fire quickly, haven't noticed if it requires the start of an attack to actually trigger.
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Jun 1, 2015 18:34
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Begemot posted:Alt-igni will make them drop their shield after a couple seconds. The only problem is that sometimes they just attack you while you're sitting there shooting fire at them. yeah - that's the nature of alt-igni
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Bort Bortles posted:Okay so I just have to ask to because I am paranoid. I am level 14 or so, I am running around Novigrad doing mainquest stuff there because I had read that you could get some great Gwent cards from Zoltan eventually. I wanted to do that before heading to Skillige. However, there are a lot of successive quests trying to free Dandelion. I just met Roche and am about to go kill Whoreson Junior. I forgot to meet up with Cleaver for the "Gangs of Novigrad" quest because I didnt see it in the dozen+ sidequests I have, and now that I talked to Radovid and got Whoreson's location, the quest to meet up with Cleaver failed. If I continue to do this mainquest stuff before heading to Skellige is there anything else major I am going to gently caress up? I know you can go to Skellige at any time but now I keep getting this "well I shouldnt leave this quest to save Dendelion dangling because I know that once I get to Skellige I'll be there for a while" feeling. Treat "going to skellige" and "doing skellige story stuff" as separate - you can do one without the other. Jeffrey of YOSPOS fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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GrossMurpel posted:It's fine if enemies aren't in charge range of you. No drowner will ever manage to get through the entire length of your fire stream without getting set on fire. Yeah but if there are two drowners, sometimes one makes it if they aren't perfectly lined up. It's pretty rare but it happens.
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Wiseblood posted:Do oils expire on their own at all without attacking anything? I'm wondering if there's a reason I shouldn't just have hanged man's venom on my steel sword at all times. because the game wants to place an interface screw in between you and some percentage damage bonus
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Jun 1, 2015 19:21
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PhyrexianLibrarian posted:I hate to be that guy, but how bad is the jump from BBB difficulty to Death March? As much as I love this game there is no way in hell I'm going through a map this size twice, and if I'm gonna restart to get all the trophies I figure I'd better do it now. *doesn't like repeating long, tedious tasks* *wants to get all the trophies* why don't you just like, let it be dude
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Jun 1, 2015 20:03
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Fixed issue where some players where experiencing infinite loading screen during King's Gambit quest. thank god - I wonder if they've acknowledged the alchemy formula bug
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Bort Bortles posted:It came out a week ago. No.
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Jun 1, 2015 22:11
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really wish I weren't stuck on king's gambit until the patch... I could go do other stuff but I'm pretty burned out of (easy) witcher contracts and want to continue on to quests that matter
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Jun 1, 2015 23:45
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Bugblatter posted:You can advance the storyline up until you need to go to the isle of mist without any consequence, and if you pass that point the only penalty is missing one part of Brother in Arms: Skellige. King's Gambit itself is still available afterward. hmm okay, I think I'll do that, I guess I was worried about that  big cut off
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A chest would make it even worse because now you also have to tediously think about "what should I put in the chest?", in addition to the already existing and tedious questions, "what should I drop?" and "what should I sell?". Selling items should just be removed entirely, then there's no reason to pick up junk, and there should be a potion and bomb tab, and no weight limit. That would probably be enough. (I'd go further and remove looting random crap everywhere but they aren't gonna do that.)
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Scandalous posted:Is there any reason I'm having such a hard time activating the Alternate Sign mode of Axii? Holding down the trigger seems to result in a normal cast more often than not. keep holding it after you get the normal cast
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if you destroy the logic circuit you can wear both the underwear and the non-underwear
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pick something and do it based on what you think the consequences might be ps no reason not to go to skellige ASAP, it has lots of side quests and stuff for you to do, so if you're the sort of guy who puts off the story to do side quests, you may as well head there
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moot the hopple posted:So hey, don't go into the sunken ship next to the one in the Queen Zuleyka quest. Even though you can easily jump into the hold, the ramp leading back up to the deck is blocked off by debris and is partly submerged, which disables hurdling or jumping over it because being knee deep in water counts as swimming. Hope you didn't save down there like me! You can jump out, at least if its the same ship that I got stuck in. Feel free not to break yourself trying but I was able to get out by going to the side of the ramp closer to ship wall, and jumping around there.
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