While all of this sounds amazing and right up my alley, I have to ask: Did they add more new facial models, or am I going to keep seeing that one Nilfgaardian attendant everywhere like I did in Velen? This is pretty much my one outstanding nitpick from the base game.
The screenshots give me Assassin's Creed vibes
That first screenshot looks so good!
Are there any new runes and glyphs in this expansion? Like how HoS added Glyphs of Mending, etc?
Can you go to those craggy, pincer-looking rocks in the distance?
If there are, I haven't found them.
Thanks. Another question about the mutation system if you've fully explored it -
1. Do you get a certain bonus if you unlock all the 4 slots and fill them up? Like it might power that mutation to give 20% higher effect or something?
2. Can you slot Yellow abilities in those new slots?
I don't want to spoil story and stuff by reading reviews, but what is the consensus about the size/scope of this DLC?
Isvoice acting as good as one of the reviews mentions?Regis'
The map is about half the size of the Velen + Novigrad combo from the main game. It's huge and littered with quests and content.
A few minutes with him and he's easily one of my favourite voice actors across the entire Witcher 3 game. You get some serious bro time.
I don't want to spoil story and stuff by reading reviews, but what is the consensus about the size/scope of this DLC?
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No idea. I literally only just unlocked this (was its own little adventure!). CDPR said this stuff was geared to very late game play and replays and I can see why. You don't just need mutagens, you need experience points too. And since I'm sitting at level 41 with one spare experience point, I cant start fucking around with it until I hit another level or respec.
Man it looks incredible.
So it's looking like ~15 hours for the main story of the DLC? Good enough for me, I'm just about the slowest Witcher on the planet so I'm sure this is gonna be like a 60 hour affair in my case.
Same here.
Usually i like to walk a lot in this game taking in all the atmosphere and exploring as much as possible.
Maybe I'm not understanding the complete context of VanOrd's comments about fourth wall breaking but I thought the Witcher did take place in "our" universe in the sense that the Conjunction of Spheres likely had humans coming from our Earth. Haven't there been other modern day references in the series as well?
What is classified as a lot of 'content' in this dlc? hopefully its not just a lot of blowing up monster nests and finding chests with armor you don't care about.
The map is about half the size of the Velen + Novigrad combo from the main game. It's huge and littered with quests and content.
Yeah, it's a good line. The Citadel expansion is still one of my favorite sendoffs to a franchise ever.That RPS quote is beautiful, it'll be tough to say goodbye to Geralt. I'm not even sure I'd want another Witcher game without him.
I plan to savour every last second of this expansion.
The only thing i'm worried about, is how it's gonna break all my mods.
I need to bite the bullet and just update tho.
Same here.
Usually i like to walk a lot in this game taking in all the atmosphere and exploring as much as possible.
Me 3. Walk pretty much all the time, with a close up camera and the HUD turned off. Bliss really.
He did 2 last freelance reviews for Gamespot. He got hired by Larian and is moving to Belgium to work on Divinity: Original Sin 2.VanOrd is back at gamespot? His review in progress: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-blood-and-wine-review-in-p/1100-6440145/
Have they said anything about how big the download will be? I'm running out of room on my PS4.
Combat systems.
Is there any Witcher mods that are really essential?
Shiiieeet, thought I was safe having read only the official english translations. My bad.It doesn't take place in our universe, but the series (books and games) have always had a fair amount of real world references.The plague that hits Vizima in The Witcher 1 was brought to the world by Ciri who came back from Black Death-infected medieval Europe and in the last book Ciri goes to live with King Arthur and his knights.
Is there any Witcher mods that are really essential?
Given that Hearts of Stone had a solid 15-20 hours of great story-quest related content, I wouldn't be too worried here.
I mean, the main game wasn't exactly plagued with a dearth of meaningful content, even if there were monster nests and chests.
True but this is a new map and 'points of interests' is mentioned as a bulletpoint. Was just hoping they were more meaningful this time.
I don't usually care/complain about scores but this one seems funny. It has as much content as a full game and one of the only two bad things they can say about it is that they want more? And that gets it an 8/10?