ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Yeah, the fights so far have all been pretty tough.
Storywise though
I really like that they're setting up Geralt's retirement here. "Hey, we're giving you a vineyard. You're going to get it fixed up. Look at the bed! It's comfy!"
I've only just dipped my toes into the expansion, but it seems really good thus far. Love how much more colourful Toussaint is compared to Velen.
Surprised this thread isn't more active.
They really throw you back in the deep end with that fight with Golyat (the giant) to start with, I was struggling to remember the controls for throwing bombs/switching signs etc.
Everybody is too busy playing and afraid to get spoiled?
Steam/Origin: davydizzy
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Casually HardcoreOnce an Asshole. Trying to be better.Registered Userregular
Holy shit...
like....
I thought I loved this game last year. But CDprojekt manage to take everything that was wrong with this game and fix it! This game is just perfect now and I'm just going to have to spend another 200 hours into this now that the expansions are out.
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BeezelThere was no agreement little morsel..Registered Userregular
cdpr are one of the few developers that are absolutely bananas when it comes to post release support.
cdpr are one of the few developers that are absolutely bananas when it comes to post release support.
Yeah, I mean it's great that CDPR are getting a lot more support for this, but for those of us who played the previous two Witcher games on PC... this is just their thing. Both previous Witcher games had basically a GotY enhanced/expanded edition around a year later, and anyone who bought the original game got a free code for it. CDPR went 'thanks for buying our game, here's all the fixes we heard you wanted, have fun'.
This is also why GOG.com works so damn well, because they know it's CDPR's lovechild and the PC community TRUSTS them... potentially more than Steam nowadays.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
Eh, I don't know about trusting them more than Steam as a marketplace. I have nearly 300 games on Steam, and I 100% trust those games to be there in ten years because Steam isn't going anywhere.
I trust CDPR immensely as a developer, but they haven't proven I should trust them with my entire game library yet.
Eh, I don't know about trusting them more than Steam as a marketplace. I have nearly 300 games on Steam, and I 100% trust those games to be there in ten years because Steam isn't going anywhere.
I trust CDPR immensely as a developer, but they haven't proven I should trust them with my entire game library yet.
I'll give Steam the edge on popularity, but it's only due to them being a market since 2003. CDPR has steadily built confidence with gamers since their first game in 2007, but GOG didn't exist until a year later and didn't start taking off until 2009 when they got the okay from Ubisoft to start selling their old products DRM free.
I would stake a claim that most gamers would trust GOG's products more than Steam's, especially with the latest issues concerning DRM, Quality Assurance, and just flat out security.
Eh, I don't know about trusting them more than Steam as a marketplace. I have nearly 300 games on Steam, and I 100% trust those games to be there in ten years because Steam isn't going anywhere.
I trust CDPR immensely as a developer, but they haven't proven I should trust them with my entire game library yet.
The difference is GOG actually, you know, GIVES you the game files DRM free adapted to play on modern systems. Steam still requires you be connected online to validate your purchases, even if you can play in an "offline," mode, if the system ever went down, there's no redundancy.
Take Fallout: New Vegas for example. As far as I know, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that game working outside of Steam. Where as the original and GOG versions of Fallout 1 and 2 are digitally "safe" forever.
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Zxerolfor the smaller pieces, my shovel wouldn't doso i took off my boot and used my shoeRegistered Userregular
Eh, I don't know about trusting them more than Steam as a marketplace. I have nearly 300 games on Steam, and I 100% trust those games to be there in ten years because Steam isn't going anywhere.
I trust CDPR immensely as a developer, but they haven't proven I should trust them with my entire game library yet.
The difference is GOG actually, you know, GIVES you the game files DRM free adapted to play on modern systems. Steam still requires you be connected online to validate your purchases, even if you can play in an "offline," mode, if the system ever went down, there's no redundancy.
Take Fallout: New Vegas for example. As far as I know, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that game working outside of Steam. Where as the original and GOG versions of Fallout 1 and 2 are digitally "safe" forever.
I mean, it's totally possible to play NV out of Steam.
I own one game through GOG and over 200 on steam. I trust steam/valve more than pretty much anything else. If I could have gotten Witcher 3 at the price I did on steam instead of GOG I would have in a heartbeat.
I've only just dipped my toes into the expansion, but it seems really good thus far. Love how much more colourful Toussaint is compared to Velen.
Surprised this thread isn't more active.
They really throw you back in the deep end with that fight with Golyat (the giant) to start with, I was struggling to remember the controls for throwing bombs/switching signs etc.
Everybody is too busy playing and afraid to get spoiled?
Today is the first day I've had to just sit down and put some time in. Toussaint is gorgeous colourful and bright and I'm having a ball so far.
Also goddamn, Gwent is legit in Toussaint. Everyone is packing some serious decks. I got my ass kicked repeatedly by a random butcher.
Also I have lost a lot of matches to the Cerys An Craite card.
She comes in with a full set of shield maidens for forty something power total. I lost a game after passing while seventy points up to her and a Battlecry.
Is there a point of no return in this and are you warned about it?
Was eyeing trying to 100% the map as much as possible before jumping into the DLC and then the final bit of the main game.
There's a point-of-no-return-until-you-beat-the-final-quest and the game warns you about it. After you are done with the end game part you can continue playing like normal.
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Dr. ChaosPost nuclear nuisanceRegistered Userregular
Is there a point of no return in this and are you warned about it?
Was eyeing trying to 100% the map as much as possible before jumping into the DLC and then the final bit of the main game.
There's a point-of-no-return-until-you-beat-the-final-quest and the game warns you about it. After you are done with the end game part you can continue playing like normal.
Thanks.
One of the things I really appreciate about coming back to this game is just how damn well it runs.
Beautiful open world game with high settings that surprisingly don't give my PC a heart attack.
Popped back into this one and will do the expansions soon. Man, this is probably my favorite game. I didn't even know I HAD a favorite game until this one came out. The way the world just fits around you, the characters being all unique (even villager elder #27 you just took a quest from).
Honestly, such a tour de force, there's nothing I've played (and I've played them all) that is quite like it.
Yeah, between the grandmaster Griffin gear and the house upgrades, I'm not in great shape. But everything is dying so it's aok!
In other news, enemies seem a lot tougher in this expansion than before.
There is now also an option that you can tick so that enemies scale with your level. Doesn't affect quests, but if you want combat to continue to be interesting you can tick it.
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BeezelThere was no agreement little morsel..Registered Userregular
What's the best way to earn cash in the game currently. I'm in skellige this playthrough but I wanna start putting away for the grandmaster sets
My "secret" method is to clear out question marks and sell swords, armor, and other stuff.
I spent 6k and some materials I already had making the Manticore set yesterday. Getting Witcher 1 vibes. The Wolf set looks very Witcher 2 to me. Hard to choose between the two.
What's the best way to earn cash in the game currently. I'm in skellige this playthrough but I wanna start putting away for the grandmaster sets
In the short term, sell swords and high end armor. In the long term, loot every monster, realize that you've collected 500 drowner brains, and identify the herbalists who pay well for them.
Geralt's primary trade is monster-slayer, but he actually makes a lot more as wholesale monster parts distributor.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
My "secret" method is to clear out question marks and sell swords, armor, and other stuff.
I spent 6k and some materials I already had making the Manticore set yesterday. Getting Witcher 1 vibes. The Wolf set looks very Witcher 2 to me. Hard to choose between the two.
The Manticore armor looks awesome, but I don't love the bonuses. Meanwhile, the Griffon set still looks goofy, but being able to double-cast spells is amazingly powerful.
I've been playing nothing but Destiny for the last 6 months, but I finally took Witcher 3 off the backlog stack and popped it in on Monday.
Just wrapped up the white orchard section at the beginning and maaaaaaaaan.... I'm hooked.
As always I'm having trouble deciding on how to build my talents, everything seems good. Igni is fun, potions are cool and the swordplay is top notch (that said I can't hit a slow moving barn with a heavy attack).
I've been playing nothing but Destiny for the last 6 months, but I finally took Witcher 3 off the backlog stack and popped it in on Monday.
Just wrapped up the white orchard section at the beginning and maaaaaaaaan.... I'm hooked.
As always I'm having trouble deciding on how to build my talents, everything seems good. Igni is fun, potions are cool and the swordplay is top notch (that said I can't hit a slow moving barn with a heavy attack).
When you're in the mid-game, it's SUPER easy to buy a potion that lets you completely respec your skill points, multiple times even. So just go with what feels good for now and respec when you've got like 20 points.
Also, you get way more Ability Points than you do Ability Slots, so you're inevitably going to have "wasted" points. Also, don't forget to slot in a mutagen ASAP (I think it the first mutagen slot unlocks at lvl 6).
I've figured out the potion and oil system and gotten the crafting down, but other than providing a bonus what are mutagens for?
Are they just passive bonuses I slot in?
You can place a mutagen in a slot, and each mutagen slot is attached to 3 ability slots. The thing to pay attention to here is color.
Place 3 red abilities into 3 slots, then place a red mutagen into the connected mutagen slot, and the effects of the mutagen will be increased because of the red abilities. Use better mutagens to get higher bonuses. Right now I have an extra 80% attack power due to using 2 greater red mutagens and 6 red abilities.
I've figured out the potion and oil system and gotten the crafting down, but other than providing a bonus what are mutagens for?
Are they just passive bonuses I slot in?
You can place a mutagen in a slot, and each mutagen slot is attached to 3 ability slots. The thing to pay attention to here is color.
Place 3 red abilities into 3 slots, then place a red mutagen into the connected mutagen slot, and the effects of the mutagen will be increased because of the red abilities. Use better mutagens to get higher bonuses. Right now I have an extra 80% attack power due to using 2 greater red mutagens and 6 red abilities.
Wow!
I'm glad I asked, that sounds beneficial to say the least.
Red Mutagens tend to be relatively rare compared to Green and Blue though, so getting Greater Red Mutagens is a bit tough (untill Blood&Wine when you get the ability to transform mutagens). Could be bad luck on my part though.
Steam/Origin: davydizzy
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
It's not. Red mutagens were very difficult to find, especially greater ones. It was fine firfor me since I stuck with signs for most of the game, but that helped the decision.
Blood and Wine does a lot to help with the Mutagen farming.
You get a lab at your vineyard that lets you convert mutagens between colors and at the end of the expansions main story you get a thing that automatically puts a greater mutagen of a random color into your inventory based on a little internal counter that builds up as you just attack stuff.
Viskod on
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I farmed Fiends for red mutagen
Which was a little bit of a hassle but not that bad
Posts
Storywise though
I get off work early this afternoon, I have tomorrow off
I patched Witcher 3 last night
I'm going to go home and restart Witcher 3, and definitely not just sit down and play Overwatch
Everybody is too busy playing and afraid to get spoiled?
like....
I thought I loved this game last year. But CDprojekt manage to take everything that was wrong with this game and fix it! This game is just perfect now and I'm just going to have to spend another 200 hours into this now that the expansions are out.
"...only mights and maybes."
Yeah, I mean it's great that CDPR are getting a lot more support for this, but for those of us who played the previous two Witcher games on PC... this is just their thing. Both previous Witcher games had basically a GotY enhanced/expanded edition around a year later, and anyone who bought the original game got a free code for it. CDPR went 'thanks for buying our game, here's all the fixes we heard you wanted, have fun'.
This is also why GOG.com works so damn well, because they know it's CDPR's lovechild and the PC community TRUSTS them... potentially more than Steam nowadays.
I trust CDPR immensely as a developer, but they haven't proven I should trust them with my entire game library yet.
I'll give Steam the edge on popularity, but it's only due to them being a market since 2003. CDPR has steadily built confidence with gamers since their first game in 2007, but GOG didn't exist until a year later and didn't start taking off until 2009 when they got the okay from Ubisoft to start selling their old products DRM free.
I would stake a claim that most gamers would trust GOG's products more than Steam's, especially with the latest issues concerning DRM, Quality Assurance, and just flat out security.
The difference is GOG actually, you know, GIVES you the game files DRM free adapted to play on modern systems. Steam still requires you be connected online to validate your purchases, even if you can play in an "offline," mode, if the system ever went down, there's no redundancy.
Take Fallout: New Vegas for example. As far as I know, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get that game working outside of Steam. Where as the original and GOG versions of Fallout 1 and 2 are digitally "safe" forever.
I mean, it's totally possible to play NV out of Steam.
It just requires some nefariousness.
Today is the first day I've had to just sit down and put some time in. Toussaint is gorgeous colourful and bright and I'm having a ball so far.
Also goddamn, Gwent is legit in Toussaint. Everyone is packing some serious decks. I got my ass kicked repeatedly by a random butcher.
This was the first game I played there.
She comes in with a full set of shield maidens for forty something power total. I lost a game after passing while seventy points up to her and a Battlecry.
Is there a point of no return in this and are you warned about it?
Was eyeing trying to 100% the map as much as possible before jumping into the DLC and then the final bit of the main game.
There's a point-of-no-return-until-you-beat-the-final-quest and the game warns you about it. After you are done with the end game part you can continue playing like normal.
One of the things I really appreciate about coming back to this game is just how damn well it runs.
Beautiful open world game with high settings that surprisingly don't give my PC a heart attack.
In other news, enemies seem a lot tougher in this expansion than before.
I've been spending a lot of time around post apocalytic landscapes.
They updated the renderer in the game, which makes pretty much everything pop a little bit more.
Honestly, such a tour de force, there's nothing I've played (and I've played them all) that is quite like it.
There is now also an option that you can tick so that enemies scale with your level. Doesn't affect quests, but if you want combat to continue to be interesting you can tick it.
"...only mights and maybes."
I spent 6k and some materials I already had making the Manticore set yesterday. Getting Witcher 1 vibes. The Wolf set looks very Witcher 2 to me. Hard to choose between the two.
In the short term, sell swords and high end armor. In the long term, loot every monster, realize that you've collected 500 drowner brains, and identify the herbalists who pay well for them.
Geralt's primary trade is monster-slayer, but he actually makes a lot more as wholesale monster parts distributor.
The Manticore armor looks awesome, but I don't love the bonuses. Meanwhile, the Griffon set still looks goofy, but being able to double-cast spells is amazingly powerful.
I wish I could mix the two together.
Bah. Frickin ungrateful Temeria hillbillies.
I met (spoilers for ~2 hours into the Blood and Wine story)
and it was basically like "Hello Geralt, my old friend who can obviously trust me because he's my old friend"
"Hello to you too, old friend! I never thought I'd see you again!"
and I was like... Book character? *google* Book character.
Just wrapped up the white orchard section at the beginning and maaaaaaaaan.... I'm hooked.
As always I'm having trouble deciding on how to build my talents, everything seems good. Igni is fun, potions are cool and the swordplay is top notch (that said I can't hit a slow moving barn with a heavy attack).
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
When you're in the mid-game, it's SUPER easy to buy a potion that lets you completely respec your skill points, multiple times even. So just go with what feels good for now and respec when you've got like 20 points.
I've figured out the potion and oil system and gotten the crafting down, but other than providing a bonus what are mutagens for?
Are they just passive bonuses I slot in?
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
You can place a mutagen in a slot, and each mutagen slot is attached to 3 ability slots. The thing to pay attention to here is color.
Place 3 red abilities into 3 slots, then place a red mutagen into the connected mutagen slot, and the effects of the mutagen will be increased because of the red abilities. Use better mutagens to get higher bonuses. Right now I have an extra 80% attack power due to using 2 greater red mutagens and 6 red abilities.
Wow!
I'm glad I asked, that sounds beneficial to say the least.
Gamertag - Khraul
PSN - Razide6
You get a lab at your vineyard that lets you convert mutagens between colors and at the end of the expansions main story you get a thing that automatically puts a greater mutagen of a random color into your inventory based on a little internal counter that builds up as you just attack stuff.
Which was a little bit of a hassle but not that bad