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Witcher 3 gameplay from YouTubers from CDPR event
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A beautiful little hamlet. Looks cozy.
Because the person playing has it set up to do so. Theres a shit ton of hud options so you can show as much or as little of it as you please.
Turin Turambar
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I thought I would go for medium armors and play with a bit of everything (sword, magic, alchemy), but I really like their heavy armor designs mmm.... decisions...
Yeah, Apparently this is hard to grasp for some...
Anyway, I'm holding off with watching more vids for now. Showing Ciri's gameplay is a fuck up and should be labelled as spoiler. Fortunately I've not seen it and I want to be surprised as often as possible while playing.
I know all the mechanics and visuals now so only things I'm interesting at this point is some PS4 footage and good reviews.
Hell, or even just a snowy field at the foot of the mountains, gorgeous cliffs by the sea with Viking ships in the distance or a fjord with beautiful streams flowing through it. This game is just dripping with both majestic atmosphere and old world appeal that actually looks medieval, outside of the fantasy stuff.
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Always on HUD is a gross idea. I get it, there's some options. It doesn't change the bizarre truth that they spent time making a widget that says in text what weather you see with your very own eyes.
They put time into making a HUD that says too much, with an style that is lacking subtlety to avoid intrusion. Many have said so here, even in the Gopher videos, and it adds another bad layer to see images of what is either poor contextual/fading HUD elements that cause it to be on inappropriately or the baffling choice of someone to want an information overload when walking indoors.
LurkerPrime
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Inquisition had armors with hammer detail and other smithing details like various splitting marks in the metal. It's a nice change from more polished armors so I'm glad W3 has a lot of details like that.
I shouldn't be surprised, Inquisition is a very good looking game. I probably missed it because I was running it on low-medium for the most part, and no screenshots had it jump out at me.
For such a small touch, it adds a remarkable amount of character to the armour.
LurkerPrime
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Does anyone know if the Witcher's medallion plays a role in gameplay in Witcher 3? In the previous games it always signified monsters or magic, vibrating in the UI.
Not even Geralt can be the best at everything.
Not even Geralt can be the best at everything.
We need to start an upgrade fund for you or somethin'?
Summer Haze
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Dat geometry. I'm so glad environments in current-gen games are looking denser, richer, and more complex these days.
A customizable HUD is a fantastic idea though. I could not care less what they spent time making as long as I have the option to do what I want with it. If you think the weather widget is dumb you can turn it off. If you think the quest log is too large, you can make it smaller. If you want your health bar to hide unless you are in combat, you can do that too. As baffling as it may be to you, maybe there are some people who want it there? I can show you some WoW UIs where there are maybe 6 inches of the screen not buried in hud. I dont know what other people want, I do know what I want and I'm very happy that they've given me extensive options to tweak things to my own liking.
So basically you're complaining about devs time management now? Ok.
They've made customisable HUD so people who like weather widgets can keep it and people who don't can get rid of it. They've spend time to cater for wide range of gamers.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I have next to no problem with the hud and I'm usually picky about them. Seems pretty simple and basic to me, easy to turn off more intrusive and useless stuff.
I havent seen the medallion up top vibrating. However, someone did say that the medallion causes the controller to vibrate. No idea how that would be handled on KB/M.
lol, did you blur out the quest info, or did they?
LurkerPrime
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Fortunately, I'm Witcher ready now. Couldn't resist playing a new Witcher day-1 on something more than a potato this time.
The days of 640*480 Witcherin' are over.
Hold your tears; I only had to do it for one part of Witcher 2's prologue, and the pentultimate boss battle. It was glorious.
The HUD element and Geralt mentioning it was generally enough in the previous games, at least for the less common uses of its powers. Like, for finding secrets.
Maybe have medallions eyes glow bright when it's "vibrating" so KB/M peeps also get a hint? Will be little awkward if you need pad to get medallion functions.
This reminds me how tight my budget is and need keep squeezing life out from my old horse
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They did
They are learning! Soon they will take over the world!
Sorry if it has been posted, but anyone know if one can assign hot keys to the minimap in such a way that it can be toggled with a hotkey and not just with an options menu? I'd like to be able to roll most of the time with no HUD, but often in an open world game you need to see where your quests are etc.
Wonder if I can jump that fence and kill those sheep.
Yes you can, guards may get pissed off tho so better do it at middle of night.
v0mitg0d
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This is true, but only for those of us with debug units. Those without (with just regular PS4/XBOs) will have to wait until near launch.
That's just the way it goes...
So early embargo, week before release, isn't a thing after all?
Yeah. Killing them in daylight isn't creepy enough
Has the Ciri gameplay been posted yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHNOLytV6hU
Those YT comments are... well, they are something
News update from Jesse Cox:
Update on Witcher stuff..Turns out the problem with Adobe is my HDD is near death. So I've saved everything, but I need to re-install and fix crap. What this means is the big edited video will take longer to get done. BUT, the good news is, I found a clip I want to show you, that's unedited and would be a great lead in to my "preview video". I'll get that for you for Fan Friday.
Two scoops of downgrade, a dash of gamersgate, a pinch of console wars, and a little piece of incest to top it off. Delicious...
valentine71
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I will buy a PS4 for this game and Bloodborne. I am looking for some good deals but i might just stop waiting and get it for Bloodborne already. Cannot wait much longer.
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Some high res goodness:
wut is this
Belly flop had me scream out loud
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Reframe:
It looks like trees, then one big green texture, then back to maybe trees again further away. LOD/pop-in glitch? It seems to go from trees into one huge green texture.
The furthest trees look more like trees than that texture in between the higher detail ones and the furthest set.
Dynasty8
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That looks awesome.
I need to stay off the thread....all the content and potential spoilers are killing me. I can't wait.
Holy shit, you are me. I could only get the game up to 800x600 though.
jim2point0
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EvilChris (CDPR dev) tweeted it
Fore new page:
Xbone version?
PC with 360 pad.
CDPR is yet to release any console stuff since E3 2014.
Apparently weather, including strength of the wind, varies a lot throughout of the world and apparently most youtubers just got super heavy windy days in their games.
also did they only turn on the hurrican stuff for demo purposes or will wind actually be always like that?
Ah okay. Thank you for kindly answeing my question sir.