Ps4 -Really really hope the massive texture pop in is fixed. It was perfectly fine for a game of this size... then whatever they did in patch 1.03 made it realllly bad. Considering the framerate improvement from 1.03 was hardly noticable I don't think its even close to a worthwhile trade off.
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The Witcher 3 next patch first details - 1.05 (PC), 1.04 (console)
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TetraGenesis
Member
Where do you even check playtime? I haven't found it at all. Is that the bug? That it's just absent?
Character menu, press R2 (PS4), bottom left corner
Dictator93
Member
Agreed. I already disliked how they made the loot box and text so much larger.
But anyways, I hope the camera smoothness applies to all situations where it is problematic. There are at least 3 I know of.
Comparatively, I actually would argue it's way below par. The crashing alone is as bad as any other buggy release I've seen in the last 20 years. Obviously YMMV when it comes to stability issues, especially on different platforms, but the crashes are well documented on pretty much every page of the PC performance thread.
Even drunks swim better then Geralt.
Maintenance
Member
Finally. Now fix Sign intensity and runes.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Yeah, for an open world game of its scope, I think it's fine comparatively speaking. And I'm playing the PS4 version. The XP bug is unfortunate though.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
You press R2 on the Character screen. The bug is that it tracks playtime inaccurately in certain situations. For one, it counts suspended time on PS4 as playtime, so if you've ever suspended your PS4 with the game running, and then just started playing again afer resuming, your recorded playtime will already be completely off. This is more of a dumb oversight than a bug. A real bug, though, is that if you're playing through midnight the game will add 8 hours to your playtime (at least that's the case here where midnight is 00:00, not sure if the same is true if your midnight is 12 AM). I've seen this happen several times, and "fixed" it by reloading a save made right before midnight. The final issue I with this I know of is that being in the pause menu often makes weird things happen to the playtime counter, making it run faster than it should. I noticed these issues early on, so I've been able to keep my playtime accurate by avoiding or working around them, but if you've just been playing the game "normally" it's very likely that your recorded time is now days off.
Jawbreaker
Member
I'm still waiting for the patch where Geralt no longer controls like a sail boat.
Randomly quests don't give XP reward on completion.
Maintenance
Member
Those are obvious questions but I need to ask:
1- Are you in Velen yet? If not, White Orchard have a small amount of quests.
2- Did you check the notice boards?
hemo memo
Gold Member
"Looking" so the next one I guess.
Dictator93
Member
Are you playing at 60?
Also, this game has animation priority and momentum... it wont get too much better.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
It's bug for me, I think I know which site you are talking about.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
yo what about the bug where pushing up or down on the dpad while in the pause menu eats up all of your consumables?
Platform?
PC has been smooth sailing for me. Had 3 or 4 crashes on day but nothing game breaking since
Also, they delayed it by more than 6 months past its original release date. Imagine how bad it could have been
I hope that was a bug and not a way to improve frame rate because like you said it's a bad trade off for little gain.
laughingmood
Banned
Mine actually decreased time! Haha. I just noticed while I was playing earlier. I'm pretty sure it just set back to my actual playtime after it had glitch-added about 6 hours.
FirmBizBws
Becomes baffled, curling up into a ball when confronted with three controller options.
Mine is about 6+ hours or so more than it should be as well. Has me down for 48 hours but I feel more like I have played 30-35, i'm only lvl 15 so theres no way I can be 48 hours in
Jawbreaker
Member
Yep, and I hate the way Geralt controls. I had the same issue in The Witcher 2. The combat itself isn't great, either; it's not satisfying at all, and a lot of the time, it feels like I'm attacking a sheet of paper regardless of the weapon I'm using. I love the games, but the way Geralt controls and the combat are definitely not the reasons for it. I can tolerate the way he handles and play through the merely serviceable combat because the game's strong points are worth it.
It allows enemies to endlessly combo you to death. The solution is to not get in that situation of course, but... After 40 or 50 hours of play, I feel certain enemies (drowners and archers for sure) are much cheaper than others. What I've ended up doing is cheesing them back with the alternate forms of Axii and Yrden - very effective, but laughably cheap.
Not Witcher games...... Witcher games were some of the most broken POS on release and it took YEARS of patches to get them where they are today.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
How they can stabalize the framerate more. Also sometimes I cant talk to people.
40 hours in and I still haven't had a crash yet on PC. Although, my tower sounds like it's gonna take off for an overseas flight.
I think its time to just play on PC now.....I'll party chat via the vita (the only thing I use the damn thing for lol)
Manually saving then quitting helped that.
Dictator93
Member
I find the combat to be fantastic this time around. :/
I mapped dodge control to my mouse and I am basically dodging every .24 seconds in a fight and using it as my primary fighting movement as well (even moving forward).
Drowners are the hardest ground enemy in the game because they are relentless (they gang up, and they double lunge), but they can only jump forward. I recommend dodging to the left and right instead of backwards. BUt all enemies on death march are really hard in packs.
Can someone please explain me the XP bug on PS4? if I'm doing a quest that is bolded with grey (which means my level is too high for it) I won't get the XP? it happens to everybody or only some? thanks, i want to know if i can play
Some quests won't give you XP due to you being a high enough level. I think that's when they're grayed out. XP bug seems to lock XP away from quests randomly, even if you should earn them
I cant figure out if I have the xp bug or not. sometimes I get no xp from quests, then the next one I do. then I dont again, then a quest gies me xp during it in various steps (like the Cabaret quest gave me 50xp like 3 times during it) but then not at the end
Dunno if its because im almost 18 and these quests are between 12 and 14 (but not gray), dunno if its the bug, dunno if the quests themselves dont have xp coded into them, fuck if I know
Dunno if its because im almost 18 and these quests are between 12 and 14 (but not gray), dunno if its the bug, dunno if the quests themselves dont have xp coded into them, fuck if I know
OMG I never thought of using my vita for party chat.
Do you have to open doors on the console version? I wonder why they have you do that. Geralt just walks right on in with the PC version.
And it happens to everyone? maybe I'm lucky and it will work fine no?
Maybe to give a buffer for asset loading?, press button, game immediately starts to load assets while Geralt does a door opening animation.
AFAIK it's completely random, some quests will give you XP as they should and some will skip them. Doesn't seem to be any pattern to it at all.
I hope they also fix the infinite loading screen during the Lord of Undvik quest. They're fixing two other bugs with the quest but no mention of the loading bug. I skipped over it and completed well over a dozen quests now in hopes of it fixing itself, but still no such luck.