The Witcher 3 Pre-Expansion Thread

[GreyViper]

So question to people who are playing on PC. What gets carried over from Witcher 2 to 3rd item vise, if you import saves?

 

[Tacgnol]

So question to people who are playing on PC. What gets carried over from Witcher 2 to 3rd item vise, if you import saves?

No items from my Dark Mode save got carried over. Not sure if any items from other difficulties get ported over.

 

[muds_animal_friend]

So back to the wilderness and hunting for blacksmiths. (There may be a bug, the Serpentine Silver sword should be craftable by Amateur blacksmith but the stupid dwarf in White Orchard can't craft shit.)

The quartermaster back in the White Orchard Nilfgaard camp could have crafted that sword for you. u suzx @ hardcore rPGs lol.

 

[Cromwell]

Sitrep, 12 hours in.

Just finished the first very rough exploration of the Novigrad area, including Novigrad itself. I desperately needed a blacksmith that's gonna be skilled enough to craft me a new silver sword. Man, on the Death March difficulty you gotta constantly hunt for upgrades. Makes your life so much easier. Anyway, found a master blacksmith and he'll craft me a new sword - right after I do this side quest for him. Recommended level 24. Me, level 4. Shit.

So back to the wilderness and hunting for blacksmiths. (There may be a bug, the Serpentine Silver sword should be craftable by Amateur blacksmith but the stupid dwarf in White Orchard can't craft shit.) Finally I found one in Oxenfurt, tucked right in the corner of the town. Almost overlooked him. So now, with my new silver baby, dem higher level drowners here I come. (Five minutes later got my ass kicked to a pulp.)

Despite all the technical shit, this game is awesome and the haters can lick my bellend clean.

the dwarf is a armorer they dont craft weapons. go to the milfgaard army camp, there I have crafted the two viper weapons on leavel 2

edit: what the sheep said

 

[cvv]

So back to the wilderness and hunting for blacksmiths. (There may be a bug, the Serpentine Silver sword should be craftable by Amateur blacksmith but the stupid dwarf in White Orchard can't craft shit.)

The quartermaster back in the White Orchard Nilfgaard camp could have crafted that sword for you. u suzx @ hardcore rPGs lol.

Shiiit, forgot about that prick.

 

[Darth Slaughter]

Really, the fuck were you expecting?
What imaginary game did you have in your mind when you fired this game up?
When the media blitz started a month or two ago everyone could see what the game gonna be like.

Edit: This witcher senses thingy is very similar to Assassin's Creed Unity's investigations/murder mysteries, only Unity did it a bit better, IMO.

No way. Investigations in unity were terrible. After you find all the clues, you have clue as to whom perpetrated the crime, since they point nowhere and you could blame anyone. and in some cases, it was totally obvious that you actually didn't have to find any clues at all.

But witcher 3 has similar elements to ac series, and you go to notice board to unlock points of interest, just like eagle vision in asscreed.

About the size of the map, at least the vibe I get from the first area, is that it is very small, and I hardly had to use fast travel. It does feel like a bunch of bigger contained areas, just as previous witchers 3, the diference is that you can go back and forth through areas, to finish quests you haven't done yet. Since I did all that had to do in the first area, I see no point in coming back.

 

[Immortal]

ffs i cant take it anymore. another quest with fucking follow trails with witchers sense and before that i had to find a goat and herd him to his owner using a fucking bell/witchers sense.
fuck this shit. uninstal.exe

all those fucking paid shills claiming in reviews that every side quest is unique its not you fucktards its DAI level of shitty meaningless collectibles

oh come on.. That's not even close to true.

 

[Ulrox]

Cannot imagine how troubling it would be to play this game while colorblind and unable to see the color red.

 

[Azarkon]

White Orchard felt about as big as the DAI starting map.

Velen, however, is huge. Bigger than any DAI map.

Haven't been to the other areas yet. Still only about 40-50% done with Velen.

But I do get the people who say that 75% of the ? are just 5 wolves + chest.

Still, the 25% remaining is still > 99% of what you got in DAI.

 

[Cromwell]

Would be even better if they only marked the 25 % left the rest in but dont mark them so that you get a sense of finding lost treasure or something if you can be arsed to explore on your own.

 

[Beowulf]

You hurt your own enjoyment by not turning off PoI marks on map.

 

[bonescraper]

I just did the Botchling quest and damn, that's easily one of the most memorable quests of all time. It's just a great fucking story, disturbing, morally ambiguous and... touching. It IS emotionally engaging. Yeah, i felt bad for the baron, even though he's a wife beater and a drunkard (i guess that makes me a misogynist). I liked the game so far, but now i fucking love it.

 

[Echo Mirage]

What's in these treasure chests I keep hearing about?

Random loot, scaled weapons/armour, potions, money, crafting materials, or is it just junk to be sold?

 

[bonescraper]

What's in these treasure chests I keep hearing about?

Random loot, scaled weapons/armour, potions, money, crafting materials, or is it just junk to be sold?

Usually, hand placed schematics for really good weapons and armor and a bunch of random items.

 

[Jools]

I just wanna know this: for those of you who prefer The Witcher 1 to The Witcher 2, is The Witcher 3 any good?

So far yes. It's definitely closer to TW1 than TW2 was, especially when it comes to the locations and the pacing. I also like how the story seems less linear than TW2 and structured more like in TW1, with many leads that you can pursue which may later branch into multiple separate quest lines.

I guess one thing that it lacks is the "intimacy" of TW1, which was more or less inevitable since they went for an open world. The villages feel rather distant and you don't get very deep into their politics, often just solving a monster problem or two and then moving on, rarely even talking to anyone except quest givers and merchants. Then again, it's still quite early in the game and I haven't met many familiar characters yet.

Exactly this. The combat is also an improvement over TW2, although not by much: it's still very "conservative", aka it really promotes a "hit, dodge/roll back, wait for opening, rinse and repeat" approach. Combat AI for enemies is even worse than NPC's AI, btw. I just faced a group of 6 bandits, they spread out in a fan and just stood there, taunting me, but not moving from the spot. I spammed Igni until they were all dead, and still nobody moved from their spot A similar case happened a couple of hours before, with a lvl9 bandit (I was lvl3) allowing me to Xbow kill him (took me 25 bolts or so) from a safe distance which he refused to cover, but totally could have.

 

[Carrion]

I just did the Botchling quest and damn, that's easily one of the most memorable quests of all time. It's just a great fucking story, disturbing, morally ambiguous and... touching. It IS emotionally engaging. Yeah, i felt bad for the baron, even though he's a wife beater and a drunkard. I liked the game so far, but now i fucking love it.

What the fuck are you saying, you misogynistic bastard?

Yeah, it's a cool quest and a great example on how to create a morally ambiguous situation that will almost certainly get some kind of a reaction out of the player as well. Of course it's already been proven to be too much for some of the SJW gaming media who'd prefer these things to be completely black and white. Making the baron seem likeable is a feat in itself considering how many shitty character traits he actually has, and that he's a traitor and a lapdog for Nilfgaard.

From your esteemed opinions Komrades and Trannies I take its of Witcher series?

Of course it's decline, just like everything else.

It's got some dubious design decisions, mainly in the mechanics (alchemy is again kind of shit, character development makes zero sense although it could offer some interesting aspects on higher levels, level requirements in items, combat system still has weird shit going on, the open world and the story-based approach of the game sometimes clash), but based on the first few hours it retains pretty much everything that was good about the first two games and even greatly improves some of those aspects, especially compared to TW2.

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As far as the witcher senses thing goes, I really like the investigation aspect or at least the idea of it, and it definitely should be something you do regularly as a witcher. I just think it's something that's really hard to properly pull off in a game with a third-person camera, so it ends up being mostly just fluff. The game does spice things up a bit occasionally (you may follow tracks that suddenly end, so you'll have to look around a bit to find them again etc.), but it just feels like Geralt is doing his own thing without you having much say in it, just following the red marks on the screen and hitting "E" when the game tells you to. In a first-person game you might be able to pull the whole thing off without button prompts or object highlighting, at least in most cases, which could result in some great detective quests, but it's hard to do it properly if the player can't really even examine things closely by himself. I don't really hate the mechanic that much as you often find interesting stuff and it leads to a pretty nice pacing, but it just seems a bit overused considering that it isn't exactly very exciting gameplay.

 

[Ulminati]

You're also not allowed to skip a step. For instance, during one investigation, my mate ran off and found the place the monster was supposed ot be. Dead body of th emissing person outside the cave and all. but wasn't allowed to enter until he went back and followed the footprints there.

 

[Dreaad]

 

[Atchodas]

You're also not allowed to skip a step. For instance, during one investigation, my mate ran off and found the place the monster was supposed ot be. Dead body of th emissing person outside the cave and all. but wasn't allowed to enter until he went back and followed the footprints there.

If true , then and there is nothing to talk about

 

[Ulminati]

I'm being pretty god damn vague. That could describe dozens of quests in this game.

 

[Azarkon]

I just did the Botchling quest and damn, that's easily one of the most memorable quests of all time. It's just a great fucking story, disturbing, morally ambiguous and... touching. It IS emotionally engaging. Yeah, i felt bad for the baron, even though he's a wife beater and a drunkard (i guess that makes me a misogynist). I liked the game so far, but now i fucking love it.

What was morally ambiguous about it?

Spoiler

Baron is a douche and threw his miscarried kid in a ditch, causing it to become a vengeful botchling.

You have two choices:

1. Kill the botchling
2. Redeem the botchling

This is a pretty black & white situation. You have to do extra work for going the 'moral' route but it's pretty obvious what the moral route is.

Don't get me wrong, there are morally ambiguous quests in Witcher 3. For example:

Spoiler

That one quest in White Orchard where you have to choose between telling a guy to basically leave his battlefield buddy to die vs. taking him in and risk having his entire family killed.

But the botchling quest wasn't one of them.

 

[Markman]

RK47 Where are teh videos, lah?
Checked your channel like 4 times today with no new content. Fuck China, get with the witchering.

 

[SymbolicFrank]

Doing pirouettes in battle is like taunting your enemies: Hit me in my back!

That's why nobody does that for real. It would kill them, fast.

 

[SophosTheWise]

Do any people actually enjoy games anymore? Just all the nitpicking of every game, it's like don't you remember Mario and shit. How have people had fun with all old games but now people don't seem to like playing games.

It is because we enjoy games that we have such a reaction. This is not a bad game, just a painfully mediocre one. CDPR made a safe, by the numbers RPG. something i didn't really expect. The best comparison is definitely Dragon age inquisition.

No it's not. Almost every game gets a poor reception here and people here got so cynical over the years that they forgot how to enjoy games. In every new game thead there's haters, 80% "meh it's mediocre" or "okay for what it is" and like 2 people enjoying it. Everyone here just loves to bushwhack every game because they feel betrayed and are bitter.

 

[Lhynn]

No it's not. Almost every game gets a poor reception here and people here got so cynical over the years that they forgot how to enjoy games. In every new game thead there's haters, 80% "meh it's mediocre" or "okay for what it is" and like 2 people enjoying it. Everyone here just loves to bushwhack every game because they feel betrayed and are bitter.

You are full of shit.