The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[FreeKaner]

Some footage. Combat seems to be largely witcher 2 like, rolling around like a Goron and hitting shit with your sword before rolling away again. >.>

No one will be forcing you to keep rolling. There are other moves you can use to dodge. Have a look at someone more competent fighting a high level opponent.

Main problem I have is not the fact you have to dodge out of the way one way or another, that's completely fine in my opinion, however how swordsponge the opponents are, that's very annoying. Why can't they just make the combat more lethal in every sense with both Geralt and his opponents dying fast (unless they are some sort of giant monster), it would make things much more fun and interesting, having to dodge out of the way would make more sense too and overall the combat would fit the theme of the game rather than mismatch of this grimdark environment and arcade combat.

 

[WhiteGuts]

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[cvv]

Whoa, that's the Pontar delta? Interesting. Quite a difference from all the maps circulating on the webz so far.

 

[Beowulf]

Main problem I have is not the fact you have to dodge out of the way one way or another, that's completely fine in my opinion, however how swordsponge the opponents are, that's very annoying. Why can't they just make the combat more lethal in every sense with both Geralt and his opponents dying fast (unless they are some sort of giant monster), it would make things much more fun and interesting, having to dodge out of the way would make more sense too and overall the combat would fit the theme of the game rather than mismatch of this grimdark environment and arcade combat.

"But the players need to feel that progression", you will be able to one-slash the regular thugs on higher levels (but then again, there will be new slash-sponges) - I sincerely hope I will be proven wrong by W3.

Also, why can't anyone make a decent game, in which in the end-game phase you are not a living demi-god able to turn cities to rubble just by rising your left eyebrow (right one for conservatives), and being oh so much more powerful then 20-100 hours before, when you were struggling to hit a rat?

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Eh, i guess you're supposed to wait till you find the best mutagens (+ 5% to critical effects, + 15 vitality lol), but that pretty much means you'll benefit from their effects somwhere in the fourth act, which is bullshit. Let's be honest, character progression in Witcher games was always crap, especially in TW2.

Mutagens can be very useful if you take the talent that improves them, the one that gives 10% chance to happen during alchemy (just make a lot of bombs or something, they'll pop out) and if you stack same type ones depending on the build you're going for (power, critical effects etc.), don't mix them or you'll barely notice effects. IIRC you could almost double your damage output using just normal power mutagens (all those +% damage skills apply to them as well) depending on how many mutagen slots you have.

 

[Tytus]

I'm loving those Tirangles!

 

[Deleted member 7219]

100 hours plus 30 hours in the expansions, not bad.

 

[CyberWhale]

+

= not good

 

[Beowulf]

Not necessarily. It may as well mean that there will not be a talkative elf NPC behind every tree.

 

[CyberWhale]

Exactly. The only redeeming quality of Witcher games will be downplayed.

 

[His Majesty]

Notice the 'and counting'. That infograph was made 1.5 years ago.

 

[RK47]

I saw a bunch of Squirrels the other day.
Nasty creatures, I avoid them whenever I can.
Right.
Sod off.
Good bye.

 

[Perkel]

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

The hell?

 

[Havoc]

Triss and Yennefer.

 

[Storyfag]

Meh, it should be the other way around, since Yen is older and more experienced

 

[Tytus]

Meh, it should be the other way around, since Yen is older and more experienced

True but Yen was dead for about 5 years and Triss was playing catch up hard

 

[bozia2012]

Mutagens can be very useful if you take the talent that improves them, the one that gives 10% chance to happen during alchemy (just make a lot of bombs or something, they'll pop out) and if you stack same type ones depending on the build you're going for (power, critical effects etc.), don't mix them or you'll barely notice effects. IIRC you could almost double your damage output using just normal power mutagens (all those +% damage skills apply to them as well) depending on how many mutagen slots you have.

Pretty sure I saw some 1-hit-bosskiller vids based on mutagen builds. The damage formula uses some strange logic.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Meh, it should be the other way around, since Yen is older and more experienced

Not really. Triss is obviously summarizing the first two Witcher games for Yennefer who was out of the loop. She's also doing a pretty good job.

 

[WhiteGuts]

I wonder what that movement means. Maybe some magic spell Triss learned.

 

[Sykar]

I wonder what that movement means. Maybe some magic spell Triss learned.

It's called "Expecto Penetronus".

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Pretty sure I saw some 1-hit-bosskiller vids based on mutagen builds. The damage formula uses some strange logic.

Yeah, that's more or less the build I usually roll with (with some modifications so that it doesn't end up super overpowered). In addition to power mutagens and improving potion effects talent what really seems to let damage go out of control is +% damage when "poisoned" talents which is a somewhat lousy translation as poisoned in this case means being under the effect of any potion whatsoever (even if you're just on swallow/healing potion Geralt starts doing Hulk damage, let alone when you use damage enhancing potions). I have no idea about the exact formula but alchemy tree definitely wasn't playtested enough (I doubt they intended for you to be able to one hit bosses).

Problem with this build is that it can glitch a certain multi-stage boss fight because you can do too much damage too quickly.

 

[Storyfag]

Meh, it should be the other way around, since Yen is older and more experienced

Not really. Triss is obviously summarizing the first two Witcher games for Yennefer who was out of the loop. She's also doing a pretty good job.

Fair enough, but Yen shouldn't really be blushing. She should be more like "been there, done that".

 

[MicoSelva]

The Witcher 3 boxed version will require an internet activation (and a small file download) on install to prevent early final build leaks. Only from second printing onwards the game will actually be DRM-free.

Cancelling my pre-order.*

Spoiler

*Just kidding, I do not really care.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Fair enough, but Yen shouldn't really be blushing. She should be more like "been there, done that... on a unicorn".

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