Literally Esoteric posted:

I love how he never bears a grudge. Of course he'll do whatever horrid thing he thinks is most to his advantage at any given moment, and then expect you to get over it, but he'll sit down and have a beer with whoever tried to kill him a moment ago.
It's like he has a sociopath switch he can just turn on and off when he wants.

The Sharmat posted:

I constantly have on two decoctions that last an hour and a half. I can easily chug two regular potions on top of that. Every potion I consume instantly restores about 1/3rd of my max health.

Alchemy is OP as hell.

Slugnoid posted:

Pellisworth posted:

Oh I think I see what you're asking. Each "tier" of bonuses doesn't replace the one before, so you need to equip each ability separately. There's no harm in using multiple abilities that modify one attack or Sign, do whatever.

Palpek posted:

The game is on sale as a part of Steam's Halloween sale.

Real hurthling! posted:

yeah same experience. cdpr went overboard on how complicated their gear system is. if you need to gather supplies just make the supplies you need the limiter on using the item. instead you've also got level req's, you've got to know a high enough level smith to make the item not be crap, etc. shits crazy in need of streamlining.

Pellisworth posted:

on how W3 is the best noir detective video game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIKbTiuJ9A

WrightOfWay posted:

The skills that are related to a certain percentage of toxicity don't count decoctions. They run off of standard potion toxicity.

Manatee Cannon posted:

so yes, the exploration is better than in the witcher. for starters, there's a point to doing any. in the witcher, you kinda just hop from quest point to quest point because looking into places has no real value outside of finding witcher schematics (which are actually quests anyway). that's the difference: in fallout, you see a place and you go look into it because that's what you do. each place is a unique dungeon unto itself with something to find. and it's fun; there's always some little story behind every random dungeon and there's usually something interesting to look into. that's not really the case with the witcher, where you only really explore when a quest asks you to. ... you didn't find some weird, random thing that was just there for the sake of being there.

Pellisworth posted:

time for NG+ Death March minimal UI settings

Palpek posted:

What about the sex scene in the expansion where the main romanceable person in the expansion - Shani starts vomiting during. Now that had to put a damper on people enjoying it too much.

T.G. Xarbala posted:

Yeah, Geralt resembles the typical gruff hero type enough that there were a few early criticisms of the character that jumped the gun based on first impressions, but he's got a lot more personality than even he's comfortable admitting.

Fuzz posted:

My Mod List:

• Auto Apply Oils (Mandatory)
  
• Better Trophies (QoL because default ones are boring as poo poo)
  
• Cheaper Respec Potions (just because... allows me to tool around and change things up pretty easily to keep things fresh on my now 120+ hour first playthrough)
  
• Colored Map Markers (compatibility version)
  
• Dyes Everywhere and Dyeable Starting Armor (because gently caress waiting for endgame DLC for that poo poo)
  
• Friendly UI (because I like seeing the HUD I need when I need it, not all the time. More immersive)
  
• HD Reworked Project (improved textures are mainly noticeable in Novigrad and Skellige)
  
• Improved Sign Effects (because having a huge shockwave Aard that flattens dudes is )
  
• Jump in Shallow Water (Mandatory)
  
• Map Quest Objectives (Full version, works great with Colored markers to make the map less poo poo)
  
• New Griffin Armor (Because I'm a fat shamer and don't like Geralt)
  
• No Dirty Lens Effect (purely a cosmetic choice)
  
• No Fall Damage (Mandatory... pretend mutagens make them fall like cats along with the eyes)
  
• Perks Always Active (Gameplay choice because Passives are totally a losing proposition otherwise, plus at a certain point you have too many skillpoints)
  
• Refill Alcohol (because I actually ran out of Alcohest from resting when I had 300+ Dwarven Spirits, and then I needed to make White Gull )
  
• Scabbards on NPCs (Because it makes NPCs look loving AWESOME and maintains my immersion)
  
• Turbo Lighting Mod (Because I like flashy lighting)
  
• Weathers Enhanced (Because holy poo poo looking out over Velen when it's foggy is BEAUTIFUL)
  
• More Accurate Witcher Faces (Only used the eyes, because I like the specular shiny thing and in a lot of cutscenes it makes Geralt look even more badass)
  

So yeah, there's a handful of Gameplay tweaks but it's 90% QoL and cosmetic stuff. poo poo still breaks and I still have encumbrance, I don't mind those things because they're barely an annoyance. Abilities all work as normal, there's just a point to leveling over 35 since I literally maxed out all the main skills I use for all 12 slots and then some, so further skills were literally pointless... now I actually use the crossbow and bombs here and there even when I'm not running an Alchemy spec.

I'd include links, but looking back it's a ton of mods. You can use Script Merger to get all of these to play nicely, the only errors it will show are just some text type ones that don't actually cause issues ingame at all and the game still compiles just fine... they're all background errors from Enhanced Weather and Turbo Lighting, but they still play nice together and work just fine.

Node posted:

The only one I consider absolutely must have is Auto-Apply Oils. The first post in this thread has a decent list, but you don't really need any of them. Auto-Apply Oils will save you a ridiculous amount of tedious time and button presses.