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I bought this on sale a while back, finally got some time to play it. So far I'm having a grand old time procrastinating from the main quest and making bandit torsos disappear with Grapeshot bombs. I blundered onto a shack with a gnome/halfling who sells dope rear end formulas, and now I have all kinds of oils and bombs. Also, I legit love playing Fantasy Monster CSI in this lovely swamp hellhole. The best. A couple questions, though: 1. How is New Game+? I noticed that you keep your stats, equipment, money, and learned formulae, but enemies start at lvl 30. How does that work out, given that you will have your dope-rear end endgame gear and skills? If it's not too bad I might use New Game+ as my 'collect all Gwent cards and be an rear end in a top hat' run. 2. Skill selection has always been kind of a crapshoot in Witcher games. I know that you can get a respec potion for 1k, but I was wondering if there are any 'dead end' skills/trees that are garbage and should be avoided. 3. What's the deal with weapon stats and special effects? The stuff that I loot seems really random (once I looted a sword that was lower level than my current, but it had almost double special effect %s), but the crafted stuff is always consistent. Is that intended?
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Mar 28, 2016 18:57
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Start fights on your terms. Lure away dudes one at a time, chuck bombs from a distance to soften them up, then blast them with signs when they close in. Also, remember there are two dodges you can use. The short hop you do when you press 'jump', and the long roll when you press 'run/sprint'. The short hop is clutch for faking out enemies, then punishing them when they miss. Just don't get greedy when you counterattack. The roll is good when you need to get the gently caress out. Two rolls is a decent distance for chucking bombs again. Finally, glance at the mini-map every now and then to make sure sneaky fuckers aren't looping back around to gang up on you.
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Mar 29, 2016 03:00
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Palpek posted:It starts pretty much as if you were fighting endgame monsters and then takes off from there. To compensate all gear that you find is also better than your endgame gear in the regular game (including higher levels of Witcher gear). The downside is that all the skills that aren't percentage based but set number based become useless fast so it might turn out that you'll have to heavily modify your build and gameplay style. Signs seem to be pretty beast if you go all in, though. Quen and Yrden in particular. Palpek posted:Avoid most golden skills (except for the witcher school skills for the chosen set, the adrenaline ones if you do an adrenaline build and the weight one if you're a hoarder) and the crossbow tree (it's crap).
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Mar 30, 2016 04:07
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Supreme Allah posted:E - except, they somehow made Ciri super responsive & fun to control. Like a bayonetta-light. So it can't be the engine. Fun control & combat is demonstrably possible. Geralt on the other hand feels like too much work was put into his movement, which again sounds loony, but that's what it feels like to me. He takes so many goddamn frames to do anything, and it feels like there's 3-4 movement states just for poo poo like moving from deep to shallow water. They put IK(?) on his legs so they could match perfectly with the ground. His movement is so over-engineered that it collapses under its own weight. Thankfully he moves better in combat once you get the hang of jump-dodge vs. roll dodge.
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Apr 12, 2016 07:48
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OK, it's looking like I'm hurtling toward endgame here. I'm in Skellige now, prepping for some serious poo poo. Some questions: 1. If I want to fill out my alchemy recipes, my only option is to keep looting chests and crossing my fingers, right? I've cleaned out the halfling near Oxenfurt and the druid in Skellige. Every time I loot a fancy chest (metal/silver, box-shaped), the only diagrams I seem to get are for armor. I've uncovered all of Velen/Novigrad's '?' points already, so I guess I need to clean out Skellige now? 2. What monster oil are these Wild Hunt jagoffs vulnerable to? Are they Relicts? Elementas like the hounds? Also, speaking of Wild Hunt jagoffs... Man, how satisfying was it to see Imerleth getting the ol' Crispy Helmet?
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Apr 19, 2016 08:54
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Welp, I read a tip somewhere suggesting I go back to a location I had already cleaned out (Drahim Castle) to get superior diagrams. I was skeptical, but I figured this series is janky enough that it might work... Lo and behold, I looted Superior Hanged Man's Venom and Superior Northern Wind from some loving barrels. What in the ever-loving gently caress?  Now I'm morbidly curious about the loot generation in this game. Is the RedKit for W3 out yet? I want to look under the hood and see what kind of crawling nightmare they stitched together deep in the game's guts.Great game, been having fun since the start and probably will until the end, but god drat, there is some jank going on here. But I've been in since W1, so I knew what I was getting myself into. Supreme Allah posted:I took a still to commemorate that sequence. Low res but I DONT SEE ANYONE ELSE TRYING
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Apr 20, 2016 05:38
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Zorodius posted:at least the superior potion properties are fun, meaning completely broken Or Superior Black Blood. Yeah vampire guy, you're gonna take damage just standing next to me. Get rekt. Or Superior White Raffard's, a.k.a. Ding Ding Round 2 Motherfucker
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Apr 21, 2016 02:33
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Quote-Unquote posted:I like jumping from incredibly high places and drinking a superior white raffard's just before I hit the ground, since it makes you invincible for a few seconds.  I've clearly been Doing It Wrong. Also, speaking of fake death glitches...I ran into a guarded treasure with a basilisk or some dragon-like thing on the coastline, so I prep as usual and roll up on it. It immediately tries to take off, so I blast it with Aard before it can get away. It falls into the water and immediately dies! Boom, straight to ragdoll on impact. But it isn't really dead? It's flopping around all ragdoll like, but I can still hear the screeching basilisk noises. I meditate a little to see what would happen, but it's still floating in the water, screeching away like it wants to start poo poo. I ended up reloading in the end and killed it normally.
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Apr 21, 2016 09:51
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Gonna guess that each of these ladies except the one with actual wrinkles is a vampire. Geralt will tear up all that rear end regardless.
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Apr 22, 2016 15:43
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Roman Reigns posted:I bought this game at release last year and neglected to play it up until a couple of weeks ago. Goddamn did I wish I started earlier Once you finish the set of 3 plot quests, you will start preparing for a big event. Starting this event will lock you into a series of plot quests for a while, but the game will tell you when you are about to do so and give you a chance to save your game. After you finish that series of plot quests, you can wander freely and do sidequests again. After that point you have... I wanna say 2 sets of 3 plot quests before endgame?
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Apr 24, 2016 06:33
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There's so much to gush about this but I'm going to wait until I at least complete the main quest first.
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Pellisworth posted:The gear from quest rewards is pretty bad and it's a running joke about Geralt receiving ancient family heirloom swords as rewards then promptly selling them. The Witcher gear sets are very good and rank up so you can improve them as you level. And it was in fact garbage. I smashed it to pieces for the ore and gems at the Kaer Trolde forge. So basically it didn't even make it past the castle gates. Wicked sorry about your heirloom, Crach.
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May 10, 2016 06:28
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captain innocuous posted:Think about what characters are telling you and go with your gut. Don't treat the game like other rpgs where everything is spelled out for you. It has glowing forensics bullshit like CSI. It has regular hosed up crimes that combo into even more hosed up crimes like Law and Order: SVU. Every other motherfucker is scheming and plotting like The Wire. It has... something from Homicide, I don't know what, but I'm sure it does.
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May 10, 2016 09:15
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Accordion Man posted:Somebody didn't play the mission where Geralt's best buddy Detective Munch drops by.
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May 11, 2016 03:28
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necrobobsledder posted:Why would it have almost no life left? Do enemies take fall damage like Geralt?
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May 13, 2016 02:56
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I AM BRAWW posted:Love Geralt's comments and self-awareness in completely stupid situations lol. But hell if he doesn't save the goat named Princess by ringing it's drat bell all the way back to the Seer's shack, who will? Also, I think you can cast Axii on animals to make them follow you around? There's a step in a quest in Skellige that involves herding around a goat, and when I got tired of its poo poo AI I blasted it with Axii. Smooth sailing after that. I didn't think to try that with Princess.
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May 13, 2016 07:28
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necrobobsledder posted:I was worried playing Witcher 2 the first time starting out that it was going to turn into an MA version of Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
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May 17, 2016 06:26
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I AM BRAWW posted:Ahh that must be why, I've been ignoring barkeeps. Thanks. Superior oils and bombs are starting to get demanding, and while I'm way overleveled I'm still anal about having every alchemy item at my disposal. Man, they were really pushing for Crow's Keep to be your makeshift HQ. Too bad the quick travel sign is far away enough from all the useful stuff to make it annoying.
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May 17, 2016 19:12
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Playing the Witcher 1? Cons: - Combat is braindead unless you turn off the timing icons to make it harder. - Quest scripting is pretty janky in places. - Will be difficult coming back to this UI if you played W2 or W3. - Shani's piece-of-poo poo grandma. - Dandelion's singing, a.k.a. aural sodomy. - Old Geralt model looks like a perpetually bored dirtbag. Pros: - Will show you a real man's balls. - Ah fooked a she-elf once! - Thaler. - Kalkstein. - Old Geralt model looks like a perpetually bored dirtbag. Tupperwarez fucked around with this message at 09:18 on May 18, 2016 |
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May 18, 2016 09:14
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I got a question about the GOTY Edition that's on Steam: I have the base game with no expansions, and the latest patch seems to update the base game with the applicable GOTY Edition changes. If I just buy the expansions, then I would basically have the equivalent of the GOTY Edition, right?
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Sep 15, 2016 04:12
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Contra Duck posted:Hey it's the guy I found the black pearl for! Good to see ya man, did the missus like your present? On the bright side, in any other game this would be a super-tragic maudlin sidequest. In the Witcher universe, you're just thankful that the guy's wife didn't turn into a murder ghost or that the pearl wasn't cursed by a sea hag.
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Sep 20, 2016 05:34
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Jerusalem posted:When does Cyberpunk come out.....?
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Sep 21, 2016 02:32
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SirSamVimes posted:AAAAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
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Sep 23, 2016 10:05
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Was feeling nostalgic and reinstalled Witcher 1. Still in Chapter 1, but I wanted to know if the Vizima Confidential quest in Chapter 2 is still a total clusterfuck of interlinked quest triggers. I remember just kind of automatically declaring suspects innocent while doing side quests related to them, and then solving everything at once after finding out the truth about Raymond. It felt like I was just randomly blundering through the investigation rather than doing detective work. Is there a 'correct' order that I'm supposed to do it in? Or am I supposed to only choose the 'You're under suspicion' dialogue with each suspect after their 'suspect quest' entry says I have enough info to clear their name?
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