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As someone who has never played the Witcher series before, it's quite overwhelming. I know the basic premise but the world and characters are pretty much new to me. I'm mostly just running around the starting area doing random quests at the moment, taking it all in. Combat seems like quite hectic, I can't seem to get dodges and rolls working properly, and all the merchants/smiths/etc. items are a blur - it's always the same, I have no idea what to keep and what to sell. Is it possible to gimp my character by making poor choices? Is it mandatory to upgrade my gear frequently?
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May 20, 2015 19:23
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Okay, on a related note: what's the biggest bottleneck in terms of my performance, CPU or GPU or something else? My 3 years old PC has an Intel i5 -2500 3.3ghz CPU and GeForce GTX 750. I'm playing this on high with some tweaks (similar to GTA V) but what should I update if I want the biggest boost on modern PC games? Funny enough, the both games look good to me even on med-high settings, so I can't even imagine what it'd be like on Ultra.
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May 20, 2015 22:56
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Even though I didn't play Witcher 2, I would've liked to make the storyline choices based on research. Apparently I chose the wrong option, and the game decided for me (I'm just past the shaving and I sure as hell ain't gonna start from the beginning). Anyone know what the world defaults to when this option is chosen?
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May 21, 2015 23:00
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I'm level 8 now and I still feel like I've barely scratched the surface. I'm in Velen, doing Baron's quest and that conversation with the Pellar is one of the most atmospheric I've seen. Some creepy stuff in this whole quest with the botchling and all. The soundtrack during it is really awesome, too. I'd like to find a new silver sword, though. I'm still using the viper one I crafted earlier. Got some diagrams but they're for level 12 and 13.
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May 23, 2015 18:20
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Pyromancer posted:I think Griffin set is for that level, so if you have the quest for it get on it Don't have anything like that on my quest log. I'll keep an eye out. Do you get it randomly or from some particular place? It's also funny to see your own first name in the bestiary with the suffix "the Gimp" commenting on endregas.
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May 23, 2015 18:49
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Antti posted:Merchants, especially Armorers, have letters that give you treasure hunts. I kept buying those on sight and inevitably got the Griffin hunt. I'm level 11 and the Griffin set is level 8 but it was still an upgrade for me, I use Signs a lot (Medium armor bonus talent is for Signs) and you'll be able to upgrade it later on. Okay, in case it wasn't clear to someone else besides me - apparently you can just stumble upon the right place and start the quest that way. I went to Hindhold, found the diagram for the Griffon steel sword and started the quest. Now I got the silver sword too, I fought the wyvern at the lighthouse and that was awesome, kept using Igni on it and then it fell on the tower and I just went to town on its rear end.. Currently on the quest to get the armor set too. The velen main quest with the Baron and all is SUPER long, though. I'm nearing level 10 already! Although I do check out the sidequests when I can.
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May 23, 2015 22:07
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Regarding Gwent, something that puzzled me for a while: I didn't know where the hell the cards I won go since I couldn't use any. Then I saw them in the different factions and realized I can't mix and match faction cards together. d'oh! I can only play with my standard northern reams deck so far. It's not great but I can beat a few merchants. Still yet to get any really good cards, though.
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May 24, 2015 09:37
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I just spent 2 hours running around challenging merchants and traders to Gwent just to get some cards for my deck. Finally made it somewhere in the quest and beat that kid. Would Gwent work as a real life board/card game?
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May 24, 2015 13:59
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May I just say that I just met Johnny and he's the best character so far in the game.
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May 24, 2015 16:05
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I've been running a strange hybrid Geralt so far (level 11, only now managed to finish Velen main quest and still a shitload to explore!) but all this talk about signs made me want to try a more sign-oriented build since I use the griffon armor set too. Sign intensity around 100% and lower tier skills maxed it definitely feels a lot of fun, although more challenging to use different signs in a hurry. Only thing I picked from offense tree was the very first fast attack trait so far.
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May 24, 2015 18:49
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I have to say I really, really dig these Witcher contract missions. They feel like a medieval CSI: Geralt. You can really buy he has years of experience working with this stuff and his deductions are usually believable.
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May 24, 2015 22:22
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Offkorn posted:Double-tapping a direction also short-dodges. No need to use the hotkey. This is what I use, haven't mapped dodge to another key. I'm not a very good fighter but hey it works for me. It helps that I also use double-tap to dodge in Guild Wars 2 (inb4 someone says V is the only way to dodge).
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May 25, 2015 10:07
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Jack2142 posted:Guys once you get to Novigrad the game changes tone dramatically from feudal misery simulator to heist/holocaust movie. I can't wait to see what Skellige is going to be because Velen & Novigrad are like two seperate games it seems. No kidding. After scouring the countryside in Velen for ages (level 12) and STILL having like half ?'s unexplored, I rolled into Novigrad and the first cutscene showed me that poo poo just got real in here. It's a totally different atmosphere.
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May 25, 2015 11:26
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Right now I'm working on a quest to bring paint for a troll named Trolololo. And yes, he sings. I'm having a wonderful time. Level 13 and barely even done the first steps of Novigrad main quest.
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May 25, 2015 23:39
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theDOWmustflow posted:It seems to be bugged for some PC users at the moment (like me), if you have both Delusion and Puppet slotted. There was a fix that worked at least for me earlier in this thread but it's about 20 pages back or so by now. Hopefully someone can find it.
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May 25, 2015 23:44
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Meta-Mollusk posted:That skill is also super useful while fighting groups with archers in them. And flying things. And wraiths. And pretty much everything else too. I'm basically running a full signs build (only other skill is 5/5 on the first fast attack skill) and I can attest to this. I had a bit of trouble getting the Yrden turret down the right time - when I placed it too early, enemies ran away and when I placed it too late, they mobbed me while I cast it. Then I just learned that using Quen beforehand lets you place Yrden without interruptions, if you're having trouble.
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May 26, 2015 13:13
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Any tips where I can regularly unload my surplus of swords and other gear? As in, merchants who have enough gold to buy what I can sell?
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May 26, 2015 16:16
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"Did I scare you?" Yes, you did. drat it!
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May 26, 2015 21:27
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Failboattootoot posted:I'm only in Act 1 (although I am 88 hours into Act 1) but until something terrible happens I will be siding with Nilfgaard because general Voorhis' goony mannerisms have won me over. He's a kind of guy I can't figure out. Will he end up as an enemy or an ally? No idea. I do know he's one suave and slimy motherf*cker and I enjoy interactions with him.
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May 27, 2015 14:07
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ButteCysts posted:I have had HUGE success using a full griffin/sign build. Currently using enhanced griffin gear (im only level 17) with increased sign intensity runes and glyphs whenever possible. I'm level 14 and can't wait to get the enhanced set at 15. Also using a sign-heavy build, but one thing: are you slotting the Griffin school techniques skill? Someone argued earlier that it gets worse the higher your level is since the % of it won't scale and it's always 20% increase. Can you get by without slotting it and using that precious slot for another sign?
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May 27, 2015 18:43
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Who sells the griffin upgrade maps? I have been to every shop and only found one of them. I have a feeling it might be a trapped person but I haven't any idea which. Honestly, I cheated and looked online where I had to go to start the questline. The game tells me the places from there on out.
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May 27, 2015 19:15
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Pellisworth posted:Yeah it might be granting +20% stamina regen per each armor item instead of +5% (20% total). Anyone care to test this? If it's true I might have to do what someone else said and un-slot it now so I won't be disappointed after it gets fixed (if this is indeed the case).
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May 27, 2015 20:36
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted: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. But, but, but, how will others know you hate them then???+
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May 27, 2015 20:47
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drat, I've been doing sidequests a lot today and didn't even notice they're not giving me any exp. Mostly just stuff a few levels below mine. Can this sort of thing be fixed retroactively or should I just stop doing sidequests until they fix it?
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May 28, 2015 18:39
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The worst thing about the Bloody baron questline is how apparently the lovely sergeant takes over afterwards no matter what you do and sends his men to rape. murder and pillage the countryside. There's no winners here.
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May 28, 2015 18:54
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Ra-amun posted:
What, you mean to tell me there's something more to that quest than handing the key to him without knowing what it unlocks? I ALWAYS loot every office I'm in but you're saying I missed something that would've told me where Menge had stashed Djkstra's treasure? Man, this sucks.
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May 28, 2015 22:02
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Vanderdeath posted:Is the quest bug thing a big enough deal to not play the game until it's fixed? I'm definitely not feeling as enthusiastic playing right now since I could be crippling myself. A lot of my quests are "green" so if I can't get any exp from those I surely won't try to tackle them now. I may try to do some exploring question marks and/or scavenger hunts. So far I'm not sure if the bug affects "red" quests and main quests too.
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May 29, 2015 07:27
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dud root posted:I read an official from Gog or a dev confirmed the XP bug if the quest is 6 levels lower? Is that still the case? Is it safe to continue on with quests close to my own level? Quests that are 6 levels or more below your level (marked grey) aren't supposed to give you any exp. The bug is that even quests marked green or red aren't giving any.
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May 29, 2015 11:03
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Suppose the bug is simply a matter of doing a "grey" quest for the very first time and then locking every quest from there on to zero exp. You wouldn't get that in the very beginning since it takes 6 levels difference for a quest to grey out.
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May 29, 2015 12:49
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Yeah, as said before, "grey" quests aren't even meant to give you any exp. But I don't get any from a couple green ones I accidentally finished (I thought one quest would continue but it ended and started a new one!) and now I'm afraid to try to advance the main plot. I think someone said main quests are immune to the bug? Or I could just reload and do the whole quest again when it's fixed, but man what a hassle. Probably the wisest thing is just to go exploring the countryside, play Gwent and continue with quests when it's cleared.
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May 29, 2015 19:21
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All right, good to know. I won't be doing those for the time being either to be safe.
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May 29, 2015 19:25
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Update on my part: I just accidently stumbled upon a witcher contract (level 23 - I'm 16) while roaming the countryside. I took down a royal wyvern, burninated the f*k out of him but it's great that you can do the quest this way too. I DID get exp from this quest, it was "red" for me. I did not have it before. Funny thing about this quest was that the quest giver wanted proof and Geralt said to wait for those two guys in the cave to return. Meanwhile Roach is hanging back there with THE HUGE WYVERN HEAD HANGING FROM THE SADDLE. Why don't you show that to the village elder or whatever?
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May 29, 2015 20:16
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Harrow posted:There are at least a few references in The Witcher 3's dialog alone to real-world fairy tales like Cinderella (referenced as a fairy tale, not a real thing). I'm inclined to believe this theory, myself. Wasn't the whole Cinderella quote about how Geralt told how the story is nothing like the reality, where a monster ate the princess and only thing left was one shoe
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May 29, 2015 20:50
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Psiharis posted:I found the drunken barber in Novigrad (by the Oxenfurt gate, near the Nowhere Inn) and he and Geralt got into an argy-bargy about not getting the look Geralt wanted... except it was (trimmed beard). Funny thing about this barber is how the NPC's start commenting your haircut after you leave. They say stuff like "Have you looked at your hair lately?" I had to go to a proper barber after that.
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May 29, 2015 20:51
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I tried all the other beard options and they all came out normal too.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:What's the consensus on stealing? I saw a message warning about there being consequences for stealing but I don't know what constitutes stealing or not and how to avoid being caught - or what happens if I am. From an RPG standpoint, I only steal from rich people, never from peasants who chip in their last gold to pay Geralt to get rid of their local monster. Of course we have to define terms here, I consider it "stealing" if I roam around in their house uninvited and take everything from chests and cupboards, someone else might call it "looting"...
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May 30, 2015 13:46
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I want to know something about the quest Phantom of Eldberg. Do we ever get to find out what events lead to the appearance of the Penitent? Or did I miss something? I went the quest a bit rear end backwards, first stumbling across the lighthouse keeper and only later going to collect my reward. And apparently cashing my reward was just the beginning of a new questline... Jorund, nooooo! Of all the souls I encountered, his was the most... northern.
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May 31, 2015 22:17
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I do hope the exp bug fix is in there too.
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May 31, 2015 22:25
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Broken Cog posted:You can find a letter inside the lighthouse that mentions how the keeper was taking bribes from pirates for letting ships run aground. Oh man, and I can't go back anymore. I don't know why I didn't even go inside. I just left the moment the game told me to go back and talk to the guy..
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May 31, 2015 22:57
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Is there really no way to take in-game screenshots? Even PrintScreen and copy/paste at Photoshop won't work for some reason. I was exploring out on Skellige with the sun setting down on me (had to let it) and the sea was dark but calm and it was just gorgeous even on my med-high settings. And now it's lost forever.
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Schlesische posted:
Ah, thanks for the tip!
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