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[LostMyNarbles]

Where can a fella in Velen go to get a shave?

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Oxenfurt, which is the large city near the South East corner.

 

[Primethius]

Should I start this game one difficulty up from normal, as the Gamespot review suggested, or just play normal?

I like to be challenged but not tortured. I also get bored if something is trivial.

Start with Death March. Get a few encounters in (because the first one is the hardest actually) and drop the difficulty down if needed.

I'm playing Death March and have just gotten past the prologue. It's been a good balance so far, erring on the side of being too easy sometimes.

 

[Jessie.Bristol]

Should I start this game one difficulty up from normal, as the Gamespot review suggested, or just play normal?

I like to be challenged but not tortured. I also get bored if something is trivial.

It depends, if it's like The Witcher 2 then stay at the default difficulty because the combat can be pretty unforgiving.

 

[Kaversmed]

Should I start this game one difficulty up from normal, as the Gamespot review suggested, or just play normal?

I like to be challenged but not tortured. I also get bored if something is trivial.

I'm in no way a masochist so I usually go with normal, but I'm very much liking the hard difficulty right now. So far it's not too hard.

 

[Big Green Anus]

Just read the OP regarding the save state choices for Witcher 2 and I am having some problems picking what. I just the best ending possible

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

Should I start this game one difficulty up from normal, as the Gamespot review suggested, or just play normal?

I like to be challenged but not tortured. I also get bored if something is trivial.

Will you be restarting for a completion run / only doing the story, or doing a bit of everything in one go? If the former then play it on normal, it's a reasonable challenge skipping side quests. If the latter go straight to the next difficulty, spending some time on leveling up, doing quests and getting gear will make you feel OP on normal.

 

[razgriz417]

For new page...

PS4 version: slide up or down on the touch pad to open map. Click on touchpad to return to game without having to hit circle twice. Hold the touchpad down to access inventory.

Wish i could get the touch pad to work on PC. The game just sees it as a xbone controller :/

 

[Salsa]

well I slayed the griffin and have the prompt to leave White Orchard after 6 hours of playing around

.. but I don't want to D:

 

[owlbeak]

oooooh Boy this game is great. Looks beautiful on PS4. So happy.

I'm getting a ton of Witcher 1 vibes here, which is awesome.

 

[Einchy]

Yo I just started, wow this game lol.

What difficulty are you playing on?

 

[LOLCats]

Anyone having ps4 disc issues, says disc could not be read. Keeps spinning up and down, looks totally clean...

 

[robotrock]

well I slayed the griffin and have the prompt to leave White Orchard after 6 hours of playing around

.. but I don't want to D:

Don't! Get some side quests done.

I screwed up on this decision and failed a few of my quests because of it.

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

Meditate don't regenerate your health anymore. You gain less passive stats each level up.

That's cool, sort of. The meditate one... Is that the only 'realism' sort of change? Anything like less carrying space, slower HP regen? Or is that the only one?

I've put about 6 hours in so far and it's been a bit easy, and I find myself doing too much 'following the minimap to my next' easy auto-attack encounter. So, I'm thinking about restarting on Death March with Minimap (and a bit of the HUD maybe like those button reminders) turned off. Want a bit more of a exploratory and threatening/mysterious experience.

 

[TraBuch]

So the game keeps crashing on me during my first game of gwent when I push triangle to pass.

 

[Jobbs]

Will you be restarting for a completion run / only doing the story, or doing a bit of everything in one go? If the former then play it on normal, it's a reasonable challenge skipping side quests. If the latter go straight to the next difficulty, spending some time on leveling up, doing quests and getting gear will make you feel OP on normal.

good advice. yeah, I tend to just play, doing sidequests is within my MO, and grinding (where applicable) also within my MO. I'll do deathmarch.

 

[theignoramus]

Moments of this game I legit had a lump in my throat from the story.

 

[Jolkien]

That's cool, sort of. The meditate one... Is that the only 'realism' sort of change? Anything like less carrying space, slower HP regen? Or is that the only one?

Natural HP regen is super slow (not sure if it's as slow on lower difficulty) but you can take a skill that boost your HP regen during the day and Stamina (mana, sprint, dodge ressource) at night. I highly recommend taking it as it let most of the time your health regen quite a bit if not fully between encounters.

 

[Salsa]

Don't! Get some side quests done.

I screwed up on this decision and failed a few of my quests because of it.

I kinda did them all

sure im missing a few tho





and yeah, i'd start on broken bones difficulty. I regret going down a notch since I missed the cheevo, but who cares about those, still gonna turn it back up I believe

 

[Blizzard]

Are healing food items all the same effect, just different duration? If two different types of food have the same duration, it's always best to just buy the cheap one? The tooltips say nothing about how MUCH vitality is restored.

I might enjoy it more if I didn't have to worry about cost to repair weapons, armor, things breaking (do they break when they reach 0% or stop doing damage?) etc.

Is there any sort of stash / base you can put stuff in, or do you have to make Skyrim-style loot runs back to town to sell new junk loot because it's too heavy or you don't have enough room?

I couldn't find any information on this in the last 15 or so pages. Is there any sort of stash, or do you have to do loot runs to sell junk? I'm guessing my inventory will fill up pretty quick.

Also, do weapons stop doing damage, or break completely, once they reach 0% quality?

 

[Baldwin_the_First]

boy this mission where Geralt has to stay in a tiny circle to protect someone and if he steps out of the circle it hurts sure is fun

Whose bright idea was it to make this kind of mission in a game where the main character starts flipping the fuck out every time you touch an attack button?

I'm currently doing it and had to take a minute and go smoke a bowl before continuing it. I'm freaking loving it!! Geralt makes a lot less pirouettes if you do heavy strikes by the way.

 

[hemo memo]

I can't do quests because all of my weapons are broken and I'm too poor to repair them. What do I do

Steal things from random houses and sell the stuff. Or play gwent.

 

[flipswitch]

Don't! Get some side quests done.

I screwed up on this decision and failed a few of my quests because of it.

Once you leave white orchard can you return back to it?

 

[XenodudeX]

Is there anyway to make the text more readable aside from sitting closer to the screen? It's really sucks that I have to squint to read the damn text.

 

[JoRo]

So the game keeps crashing on me during my first game of gwent when I push triangle to pass.

Same thing happened to me! It just crashed when I tried to pass. I'm really tired now and don't feel like starting the game up again...

 

[KyanMehwulfe]

Natural HP regen is super slow (not sure if it's as slow on lower difficulty) but you can take a skill that boost your HP regen during the day and Stamina (mana, sprint, dodge ressource) at night. I highly recommend taking it as it let most of the time your health regen quite a bit if not fully between encounters.

Yeah that was actually the first ability I took even on my current playthrough on medium difficulty because I felt using meditate all the time was kinda cheesy

 

[robotrock]

Anyone know where this fancy bank in Novigrad is?

Once you leave white orchard can you return back to it?

Yup! But some quests will expire after that decision and you'll fail them.

 

[FreddieQuell]

Wish i could get the touch pad to work on PC. The game just sees it as a xbone controller :/

You could use DS4windows and assign swipes on the touchpad to certain keys to get the same effect.

Are healing food items all the same effect, just different duration? If two different types of food have the same duration, it's always best to just buy the cheap one? The tooltips say nothing about how MUCH vitality is restored.

I'm not 100% on this but I'm pretty sure that different foods give you a different rate of healing during the same duration. Like water for example seems super slow.


I've got a question myself, do the decoctions (The potions that use mutagens) replenish when you meditate as well?

 

[Van]

I know there is a answer in pages past, but I never played the witcher 2, and I'm at the part when the dude asks questions, help pls

 

[Revengineer]

I think I need to finagle a way to connect my stupid huge desktop to my plasma all the way across the bedroom...

Mayhaps I will just move it. Anyone have a guaranteed-to-work USB<->Bluetooth adapter compatible with PS4 controllers? I am Googling but finding mixed results.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

Once you leave white orchard can you return back to it?

Certain quests have to be done before certain points in the story are passed. No idea how important they are though.

 

[Nick_C]

Got the game on my lunch break and was wondering why the hell the case felt so heavy. I figured it must be the folded map because I figured the soundtrack was digital. Just opened it finally and wow! Thank you note right from the start, and a PHYSICAL soundtrack inside? That's some Atlus level shit right there. Haven't even installed yet and already impressed lol

My girlfriend just handed me my copy as an early birthday present along with the steel book case. I was wondering why there were 2 slots for discs and then I opened up the game case. CDPR sure knows how to take care of their audience. It's mind blowing that WB let them get away with packing so much in each physical copy, along with the free DLC.

 

[theignoramus]

This game is going to need a story thread .

 

[Jolkien]

Check out

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Oxenfurt, which is the large city near the South East corner.

That's in Novigrad, not Velen. I'm not sure if there's a barber in Velen.

 

[drotahorror]

How do you craft glyphs and runes? It seems like there would be a way to, since a lot of armor/weapons have sockets for them. I'm level 4 and have only ever found one glyph after several hours of play.

 

[Chiggs]

Yay for cut scenes that can't be skipped. Yay for AAA games that hang on the loading screen, forcing me to watch these cut scenes over and over again.

 

[Reckless Onion]

Do contracts disappear after certain quests? I watched the polygon video about a woodland beast contract but i can't seem to find it anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=624BgHRCKf0&hd=1

 

[Hyrule Warrior]

Can someone talk me out of doing this? >_<

I'm up to the point in Witcher 3 where I've met up with

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Vennifer

, and because I keep meeting these characters who talk like they know each other, it makes me want to go back and just play Witcher 1 and 2 already. I'm one of those people who just has such a hard time playing a story driven sequel to a game when I don't have the whole back story experience first hand.

 

[Akiyama_AE]

It's something that should've been clarified in hints.

Once you turn in a contract to the quest giver, you can keep the monster trophy for a stats bonus, or just sell it a merchant.

Damn I had high hopes for rewards lol

 

[RoKKeR]

Is there a Blacksmith in White Orchard? I'm not finding one.

 

[Jolkien]

Can someone talk me out of doing this? >_<

I'm up to the point in Witcher 3 where I've met up with

Spoiler

Vennifer

, and because I keep meeting these characters who talk like they know each other, it makes me want to go back and just play Witcher 1 and 2 already. I'm one of those people who just has such a hard time playing a story driven sequel to a game when I don't have the whole back story experience first hand.

If there's no game coming it shortly that you must play is not a bad thing. Witcher 1 and 2 are two very good game, especially story. Witcher 1 is old just remember, combat is completely different from the other two games.

 

[bbd23]

combat music is so gooood

 

[Rhaknar]

Can someone talk me out of doing this? >_<

I'm up to the point in Witcher 3 where I've met up with

Spoiler

Vennifer

, and because I keep meeting these characters who talk like they know each other, it makes me want to go back and just play Witcher 1 and 2 already. I'm one of those people who just has such a hard time playing a story driven sequel to a game when I don't have the whole back story experience first hand.

It seems most of the stuff in Witcher 3 wasn't in the previous games. Yennifer for example, a huge part of W3, wasn't in the previous games. Or the old man. Or Ciri. Just play the game and catch up with videos tbh

 

[MAX PAYMENT]

I haven't even left white orchard yet. Blown away.

The first contract was amazing. Loved the Batman investigation.

I had my doubts buf, as always, gaf blows the issues out of proportion. Every complaint I've read about I would file under nitpicking after I experienced them first hand.

 

[Jolkien]

Is there a Blacksmith in White Orchard? I'm not finding one.

There's 2. I'll spoiler them just in case.

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One in the Nilfgaardian camp wich is a weaponsmith, and the Dwarf in the main city near the western edge, he is an armorsmith. He also gives you a quest.

 

[FreddieQuell]

Is there a Blacksmith in White Orchard? I'm not finding one.

There's one in the village where you go to the inn/bar, and a better one at the top of the map,

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with the Nilfgardians

 

[dedhead54]

I'm stuck in a cave with enemies I cannot kill, and I cannot figure out how to get back out. I am becoming very frustrated after having had nothing but fun with the game all day.

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

this game is harder than bloodborne tbh

 

[RoKKeR]

There's 2. I'll spoiler them just in case.

Spoiler

One in the Nilfgaardian camp wich is a weaponsmith, and the Dwarf in the main city near the western edge, he is an armorsmith. He also gives you a quest.

Ok thanks, know where I need to go.

 

[UpDownLeftRight]

I'm stuck in a cave with enemies I cannot kill, and I cannot figure out how to get back out. I am becoming very frustrated after having had nothing but fun with the game all day.

You can always revert to a previous save (it keeps a few) and perhaps save the mission for a bit later down the line.

 

[Hyrule Warrior]

It seems most of the stuff in Witcher 3 wasn't in the previous games. Yennifer for example, a huge part of W3, wasn't in the previous games. Or the old man. Or Ciri. Just play the game and catch up with videos tbh

Really? Neither Yen or Ciri are in the previous? they were the ones I was most interested in learning about, but if the previous games have nothing, that's kinda deters me.