There's a patch that went into cert last week. Should be getting it any day now.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt |OT| Gwent Player, Monster Slayer, EVEN RACISM
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There's a patch that went into cert last week. Should be getting it any day now.
Alriiiiiiight, this Craven dude quest is killing me.
how do I explore this darn herborium! there's a door that's locked, there's another door that's locked, i don't know how to get to the other side, there's water everywhere, i think i followed the foot prints in circles now
1.0.3 was sent up for certification last week which takes about 7 days typically. They should have news this week about the patch.
He should be right by the entrance to the village of White Orchard, just kinda standing there.
VE3TRO
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Yea I got its health down to about 50% but left because it took ages.
Philtastic
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You blame it on hit boxes. My point is that the problem isn't the hit boxes but you playing poorly (unless you're indoors then I agree that we're all screwed). Don't get surrounded such that you can get interrupted by multiple enemies all hitting you at the same time and don't attack, even if you've just dodged one enemy, if you see another one charging in from behind him. If you find yourself chain dodging since they all attack one after another, then make your own opening with a sign or bomb. Heck, crossbow one to stagger him then dodge/strike the other guy.
For dodging/rolling, you need to dodge/roll away or past attacks. There are no invincibility frames so you actually have to travel in a direction that the attack won't hit you. This means that if the attack is coming in from your right, you might get hit if you dodge to your right. If an attack has long reach, you won't dodge it by moving directly away either since it will still get you. Similarly, you can roll under some attacks that are tall such as some of the griffin's swings. The hitboxes are (so far) amazing in this regard since it's actually tracking where the attack travels and Geralt's body.
Quen is in no way necessary for Death March. It only absorbs one hit so you'll still die if you're not dodging everything else. Sometimes the best defence is a good offence so I'm preferring to start with Quen out of combat (and then stamina regens almost instantly to be ready for another sign) and then mostly not using it for the rest of the fight since I'd rather make openings by interrupting opponents with Igni and Aard. The opening Quen allows me to be a bit more aggressive on the initial offence since I can absorb that one hit which might equal one extra swing I can get in and possibly killing one small, fast enemy which will help in the remainder of the fight.
Alright, so it sounds like you just don't like that more methodical approach to combat and/or taking risks to get extra attacks in. Great that you're enjoying the story and world, though!
I asked earlier but got no reply, is there a quest as fantastic as the gathering feathers quest for dude in the hut in Witcher 2?
I got to that one, was thinking "oh great, here come the boring fetch quest, quests" and there was an actual reason for it that made me lol.
If nothing tops that here, w2 > w3
I got to that one, was thinking "oh great, here come the boring fetch quest, quests" and there was an actual reason for it that made me lol.
If nothing tops that here, w2 > w3
I ran into one southeast of the Nilfgaard camp in Velen. He was level 12 and a pushover. Easy to dodge and easy to set on fire.
By a happy accident he was also
guarding the mastercraft ursine armour
D
Deleted member 471617
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Does anyone know the order in which the side quests should be done in White Orchard so none are missed?
Intheflorsh
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Yeah, nearly all of them are better.
I don't think there is a particular order.
Majukun
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so..decided to simulate a world state...put all the choices i made in the witcher 2 (360 version,so no save file for me),but still the story didn't go as it went in my save file
it's kinda disappointing..I remade the same choice exactly for that reason..otherwise i might have choosen some different world state
no witch hunt starts in my ending,but it's in full swing in the game,and triss too talks about the slaughter of mages at loc muinne...that it didn't happen at the end of my game...
it's kinda disappointing..I remade the same choice exactly for that reason..otherwise i might have choosen some different world state
Yeah, upgraded regular Axii, as I recently found out, is a pretty marvelous "combo extender" for single tough fights
Hit an enemy who is quick to retaliate twice, cast Axii, and even if they're in middle of an attack, upgraded Axii interrupts it, then flank them while they're stunned and give them a few heavy strikes in the rear.
indigo-cyclops
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Still thinking back to that fucking Gargoyle I found during a mission. He was nuts. Wonder if I should go back in there and take it down!
Just got to Skellige and started sailing around, seeing all the cool landmarks. Gonna try not to use fast travel at all. Haven't felt sense of adventure like this before in a game. Amazing.
Darryl M R
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How is this even possible. The more sidequests I do the more that pops up on my map with the yellow exclamation point. . is there an end to this madness in Velen?
Lifejumper
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Is anyone else also playing with poi off?
Radovid/Oxenfurt/lvl15ish spoilers
Did anyone else get completely fucked by
Did anyone else get completely fucked by
the witch hunters during the hunt for Phillipa quest? When I got back to Radovid, they had taken the credit for everything and Radovid basically called me a jealous bitch for trying to tell the truth and tossed me out. It was super jarring and actually really awesome because I feel like that never happens in games.
I am. Not using fast travel either. I think it adds a lot.
Well, when I accepted the griffin contract, I jumped into the water looking for treasure and found some buckthorne.. but that immediately failed the quest
Of course, first thing I did after the general video optional. It's fun to explore the world myself and be surprised by poi's. There is even a sense of accomplishment when you mark sonething on the map thst looks like it could be interesting snd it indeeed is.
Did it fail the quest or the part of the quest where you learn where to find buckthorn?
littlemagician
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Mine was level 21, fire did some damage but he took forever to take down.
Philtastic
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If you died and load most recent save, there's no recap. If you manually load a save, it is loading and you can skip the rest of the dialogue once it loads with X on controller. Just wail away on X.
Ghostmaster
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The only time it's great is when you're doing the Witches quest and he keeps repeating Crookback Bog and pronouncing it in a very weird way.
I like that there is a decoction that incentivises that. Forget which it was, maybe Nightwraith, but your max HP increases by 50 every time you kill an enemy, but the buff goes away if you fast travel or meditate.
Once I got from like 5k health to 7.8k
indigo-cyclops
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Just commented on this to myself earlier today. When entering Velen I get the same one from like 20 playtime hours ago. Really annoying hearing the same damn narration!
TheSpoiler
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Fuck gargolyes. OH LOOK I CAN BUTTSLAM YOU AND STUN YOU FROM MILES AWAY I'LL JUST SPAM THAT HURR DURRRR
I dunno. The payoff for the witcher 2 one was fantastic.
Just played a couple rounds of gwent. Loving it. Finally left White Orchard after 16 hours there. Decided it was time to go after I swam through a lake as fast as I could to dodge some drowners trying to find out was sunk under the lake.
Did the Wild At Heart quest. What happens if
you agree to stop the search? I let the werewolf tear her ass apart. Heartless girl getting her sister killed in her pursuit of some cock.
bananafactory
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littlemagician
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Sirens are even worse, but then again I have still not ran into any gargoyles.
MarcoZombieCannon
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That and the stomp that can stun you as well. They're annoying as fuck to fight.
Wednesday. Heard they'll coming weekly.
Damn, was hoping it would be tonight / tomorrow. Thanks!
m_shortpants
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Ahhhh...should I
free the ghost in the tree? Don't believe a fucking word it's saying...
nope. die, reload save = recap
it oddly depends on the situation but it still tends to happen mid quest
Weird. When I die, as long as I pick load most recent save I never get a recap.
Darryl M R
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Is my map bugged? I do two or three easy sidequests: fist fighting, helping a mother find her son, races, etc. and more quest markers pop up on my map. I thought I was almost done but now I have even more and more points of interest. . I'm starting to think I should just go through the main story. I won't be able to finish this game anytime soon if I try to do every sidequest but there are great ones like the one that had me reunite with
Letho
Read a book named "She who knows", should help you decide.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Hmm, I only get a recap when I fast travel or manually load a save.
Spaced Harrier
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You know what I don't like about this game.
The camera's too zoomed out.
Needs to be closer to geralt.
The camera's too zoomed out.
Needs to be closer to geralt.
It was really zoomed in for Witcher 2...I think this is the better choice. The fov could be improved though.
No, why? I hate having tbe camera close to the character, I want to see stuff.
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