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ZombieLenin posted:So, if I just need to craft a potion once and I have it forever, why am I running around picking up every crafting material I can find? I already stopped picking up all the drat flowers in the game but I can't stop myself from looting everything off dead guys and from crates. After all, they might contain florens or orens (I have tens of thousands of crowns) or alcohol (I have about 30 alcohols)!
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Aurain posted:Cat armour tier 1 and 2 looks like poo poo, once it starts getting chainmail, it jumps to the best. I kinda liked Cat tier 1. Sleeveless Geralt is pretty badass
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The patch is taking so long because they have an intern going through the entire game removing all the candles that are near lootable containers.GrossMurpel posted:I already stopped picking up all the drat flowers in the game but I can't stop myself from looting everything off dead guys and from crates. After all, they might contain florens or orens (I have tens of thousands of crowns) or alcohol (I have about 30 alcohols)!
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Griffin armor has burlap shoulder armor held in place with shoelaces. This makes it the best. Don't forget the gloves - two pieces of thick burlap kind of sewed together there. The armour just looks good and chunky and it makes your signs intense while protecting you from being hurt, instead of making you look like and be Sonic the Hedgehog without any rings. I think that a signs and alchemy build is the most fun for me though. I respecced for fast combat and wasn't enjoying it all that much, now I just have Axii and Yrden at tier 2 and going alchemy all the rest of the way (with 3 points in defensive because every Witcher should be able to smack arrows back at people with his sword)
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Jun 4, 2015 17:03
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Man the people are so much nicer to Geralt in Skellige. I wish there was an ending where you could just say gently caress it to the continent and hang out with your viking pals. At least they'd appreciate you.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:13
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Spikeguy posted:Man the people are so much nicer to Geralt in Skellige. I wish there was an ending where you could just say gently caress it to the continent and hang out with your viking pals. At least they'd appreciate you. They are 'barely' nicer. Everywhere you walk you'll run into people who say 'Vagrant!' and as you progress in the story you'll hear a lot of 'You have no respect for our customs. Not you, and not that WITCH.' I guess it's better than the treatment you get in Novigrad or Velen though.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:22
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Ice Fist posted:They are 'barely' nicer. Everywhere you walk you'll run into people who say 'Vagrant!' and as you progress in the story you'll hear a lot of 'You have no respect for our customs. Not you, and not that WITCH.' I guess it's better than the treatment you get in Novigrad or Velen though. It's fun when a cutscene with an unnamed NPC ends where you've helped them solve a problem and they spit on you while you walk away. I've been playing a largely altruistic Geralt but I also make people pay for their lip.
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Ice Fist posted:They are 'barely' nicer. Everywhere you walk you'll run into people who say 'Vagrant!' and as you progress in the story you'll hear a lot of 'You have no respect for our customs. Not you, and not that WITCH.' I guess it's better than the treatment you get in Novigrad or Velen though. If you think about it, that WITCH did something really loving bad, and they are rather tame about it compared to the continent.
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Ice Fist posted:They are 'barely' nicer. Everywhere you walk you'll run into people who say 'Vagrant!' and as you progress in the story you'll hear a lot of 'You have no respect for our customs. Not you, and not that WITCH.' I guess it's better than the treatment you get in Novigrad or Velen though. While this is true, you still get to be friends with the (PLOT SPOILER:) King/Queen and you have a lot more influential friends than you do on the Continent.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:35
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"If I have a son, I'll be sure to name him Geralt." ...2 seconds later... "*ptoo* Mutant!"
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OAquinas posted:"If I have a son, I'll be sure to name him Geralt." "Run!" "Hide your Children" and "AAaaah!" all screamed in a panic by some lady casually washing clothes in a basin (and who continues to wash her clothes without even looking up at you) are my favorite. Couldn't they have just stuck with "I don't have time to talk to you, Witcher?" or something?
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mcbexx posted:Axii. There's a monster nest on the coast of the Pontar, south of Novigrad. It's full of Nekkars, and a single Rabid Troll that I got my troll mutagen from.
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Jun 4, 2015 17:48
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So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem
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Unfunny Poster posted:So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem
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Jun 4, 2015 17:50
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Autoban anyone linking to Polygon.
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Drifter posted:Autoban anyone linking to Polygon. agreed, polygon is tabloid rag poo poo with possibly the worst loving game opinion pieces I've ever read, bar Tim Rogers is there a place to craft swords or did I dream that I got a sword diagram? Could have sworn that's what I got from that wyvern lair for the Griffin School quest
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Jun 4, 2015 17:56
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MinibarMatchman posted:agreed, polygon is tabloid rag poo poo with possibly the worst loving game opinion pieces I've ever read, bar Tim Rogers Blacksmiths craft swords, armorers make armor. Unlike potions, you can't make them yourself.
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Unfunny Poster posted:So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem Polygon is irritating because while I do agree with the overall point about everyone in the world being white (which really isn't a problem only with Witcher 3 as much as games as a whole.), Polygon itself is full of bad writers and badly written articles, so I really can't be assed to read the article. They're completely clickbaity. Like it's to the point where loving Kotaku can write better articles on the same subjects. There was that "preview" for Rock Band 4 on Polygon where the dude literally went to a party, didn't actually play the game, and then wrote about how he didn't play the game but the people looked like they were having a good time I guess. 
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Macaluso posted:There was that "preview" for Rock Band 4 on Polygon where the dude literally went to a party, didn't actually play the game, and then wrote about how he didn't play the game but the people looked like they were having a good time I guess. Well, I mean, to be fair, that's what a lot of previews are. You watching someone else play.
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Crappy Jack posted:Blacksmiths craft swords, armorers make armor. Unlike potions, you can't make them yourself. I honestly had no idea, I assumed all crafters were the same. I've only ever seem armorers in the game so far...I'm in Novigrad, did I miss one or do they not show up til much later? I can't remember ever seeing one.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:05
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Drifter posted:Well, I mean, to be fair, that's what a lot of previews are. You watching someone else play. It was less a preview of Rock Band 4 and more a story about how he didn't want to be there
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Bort Bortles posted:I'm not falling for clickbait. Dont click it. It is basically a (I'm guessing) American guy saying that CDPR should do X and Y with the Witcher story and setting. It's a weird piece that argues that, you can't use "it's based on mythology" or "it's based on history" as an excuse because those aren't acceptable excuses to the writer when you have monsters and such involved in the storytelling. Just like people are saying "you can't use it's historically accurate" for the recent Game of Thrones kerfuffle. He also argued that it'd be OK to do something called racebending (I genuinely didn't know this was a term), where you change a character's skin color a la Heimdal in the Thor movies or the new Human Torch in the Fantastic Torch, with Witcher characters but doing vice versa with any other mythology from around the world is "white washing." Macaluso posted:Polygon is irritating because while I do agree with the overall point about everyone in the world being white (which really isn't a problem only with Witcher 3 as much as games as a whole.), Polygon itself is full of bad writers and badly written articles, so I really can't be assed to read the article. They're completely clickbaity. Like it's to the point where loving Kotaku can write better articles on the same subjects. It certainly can be and given that I've gotten in the habit of avoiding anything written by Ben Kuchera because of the clickbait and hilariously dumb arguments he comes up with. I mean, the guy tried to argue that Game of Thrones was akin to "Free-To-Play Games" in some absurd piece he must have written in a drunken stupors. According to that Rockband 4 guy, it was him mocking himself for being old. https://twitter.com/ColinCampbellx/status/605788929032228865 Poe's Law and all that seem to have escaped him. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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NeurosisHead posted:Where does the Temerian armor show up in game? The merchant stall in White Orchard of the guy you saved in the prologue. If you have it installed; you have to check the box in Galaxy if you're using that. Run the installer otherwise (or it should be auto-added if using Steam). Blacksmiths are in Novigrad (the mastercraft one is there too) and a Journeyman-level one is in Oxenfurt. Probably one in Skellige as well; haven't been there yet. For crafting Witcher diagrams you'll need a Journeyman level dude. You can find amateur blacksmiths around villages but they're only good for basic sword diagrams. Blacksmiths have an icon that has a sword in it. Armorers have a tiny suit of armor icon.
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MinibarMatchman posted:I honestly had no idea, I assumed all crafters were the same. I've only ever seem armorers in the game so far...I'm in Novigrad, did I miss one or do they not show up til much later? I can't remember ever seeing one. There's a blacksmith in the fish market in Novigrad, and there's an armorer just to the north, in the main courtyard where that stake burning occurred. He doesn't always show up on the minimap at first, it sometimes takes him a while to load in, but he's got a little shop in one of those side alcoves.
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Unfunny Poster posted:So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem this is the most obnoxious and terrible article about a general overall opinion i agree with lmao
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Unfunny Poster posted:It is basically a (I'm guessing) American guy saying that CDPR should do X and Y with the Witcher story and setting. It's a weird piece that argues that, you can't use "it's based on mythology" or "it's based on history" as an excuse because those aren't acceptable excuses to the writer when you have monsters and such involved in the storytelling. Just like people are saying "you can't use it's historically accurate" for the recent Game of Thrones kerfuffle. He also argued that it'd be OK to do something called racebending (I genuinely didn't know this was a term), where you change a character's skin color a la Heimdal in the Thor movies or the new Human Torch in the Fantastic Torch, with Witcher characters but doing vice versa with any other mythology from around the world is "white washing." It's basically the guy complaining that it's erasing the culture of coloured people while he himself erases the cultures and mythological history of slavic nations such as Poland (which happens to be extremely pre-dominantly (90%+) populated with white skinned people, even in the year 2015). Just more pushing of what he wants to see in games while not realising that he's doing the same thing he accuses others of.
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Aurain posted:It's basically the guy complaining that it's erasing the culture of coloured people while he himself erases the cultures and mythological history of slavic nations such as Poland (which happens to be extremely pre-dominantly (90%+) populated with white skinned people, even in the year 2015). Just more pushing of what he wants to see in games while not realising that he's doing the same thing he accuses others of. Well, they're white so they already get plenty of games about them anyway. In seriousness though, this is a response from a game dev http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1smgq9a quote:“We should raise concerns about race, but it needs to be consistent.”
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Magical Zero posted:Looking over the rewards.xml, I'm starting to wonder if there even is an XP bug. Basically, it seems like every quest has two levels - a suggested level that appears in the journal, and a 'hidden' level that you can see in the reward file. These levels do not appear to be identical, so it's possible for a quest to be, for example, suggested level 10 but actually real level 8. Since we know that quests that are 6 levels below your own do not yield experience, I think this is where the perception of a bug is coming from. A level 15 player would think, based on his journal, that the suggested level 10 quest should give him experience, but in reality the quest is actually marked as level 8 in the rewards.xml. So no experience. This also explains why it's been impossible to pinpoint where exactly this xp bug actually appears - different players are doing various quests at different levels. You are just wrong, and you would know if you read anything about the bug. Myself, and many others, are not getting XP from any quests at all, of any type or level. LvL 15, doing level 15 story quest, nothing, level 20 contract, nothing, level 20 story, nothing, and so on.. Only quests that drop XP for me now is 10xp from horse races and other miniquests that don't have a recommended level. I know some people insist XP comes back when you get to Skellige and such, and for some people it does, but people are also reporting doing every single quest on Skellige with no XP, so it is different from person to person, but the bug sure as hell isn't imaginary, and I don't understand why so many people have the need to argue that it is (both here and on other forums). mcbexx posted:Again: Get a loan from Vivaldi, pay it back immediately and report back if this unfumbled the XP glitch. Tried this, but the option to pay back the loan simply doesn't appear 
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Greenplastic posted:Tried this, but the option to pay back the loan simply doesn't appear A likely story, time for Vivaldi's collectors to bust some witcher kneecaps 
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No Mods No Masters posted:A likely story, time for Vivaldi's collectors to bust some witcher kneecaps I would love it if this actually happened if you don't pay back in time!
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Do conversation CTDs pick up a lot in Novigrad or something? I hadn't had any for ~20 hrs of playing and all of a sudden I'm getting them every few conversations. e: It might also be 1.04 related since I hadn't played too much since that patch. Ravenfood fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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I don't understand why people worry about color or human racism in fantasy/sci-fi games where there are entire other sapient species / aliens. Dwarves, Halflings and Elves are already stand ins for repressed minorities and the Witcher games do a great job highlighting how stupid it is to target your neighbors just because they are "different" when the world is full of poo poo that is far worse.
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Battle of Kaer Morhen: Holy poo poo  Not the fights itself, jacked up Geralt at level 24 kills pretty much everything in two strikes and a sign - but the lead up, execution and cutscenes...  I was gripping my controller so hard at the end, barely noticing it might break any second. Not to mention the aftermath. I can't remember any game pulling off this level off immersion and character building. This game will leave such a huge void once I'm done, it's not even funny.
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Aurain posted:It's just a medium/dark blue striped jacket though? oh ok it looked way worse in the promo materials
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Jack2142 posted:I don't understand why people worry about color or human racism in fantasy/sci-fi games where there are entire other sapient species / aliens. Dwarves, Halflings and Elves are already stand ins for repressed minorities and the Witcher games do a great job highlighting how stupid it is to target your neighbors just because they are "different" when the world is full of poo poo that is far worse. Because at that point you are saying other colored people aren't exactly human, and using stand-ins instead of actual colored people. It's a small thing, but I can see people wanting more representatively ethnically diverse or gendered actual humans given substantial parts in their entertainment. It's really a double-edged sword, because on one hand in mass media the creators tend to be a one-sided old boys' club (in essence) and change and more appropriate representation would be welcome to help remove stereotypes and positively impact and reflect culture, but on the other hand the people crying for it tend to be really loving retarded. Drifter fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Unfunny Poster posted:So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem
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OAquinas posted:Blacksmiths have an icon that has a sword in it. Armorers have a tiny suit of armor icon. The sword icon is actually for whetstones, blacksmiths have a hammer+anvil icon. Sometimes the two go hand in hand but not always.
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Unfunny Poster posted:So Polygon posted this opinion piece about the lack of people's of color in Witcher 3 - http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8719389/colorblind-on-witcher-3-rust-and-gamings-race-problem This is a legitimate issue in the games industry as a whole, especially in the US where the non-white population makes up about 23% of the country yet is woefully underrepresented in media. In poland ~98% of the population is white european. Not really the best game to use to illustrate that issue.
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