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[raphier]

Saw yesterday some streamer do a sidequest, it had it's own story, characters and cinematics. It took him an hour and a half and had three choices that lead to a character do suicide and another killed.

They use cool animation technique to explain all the choices and consequences of the choices made that led to this conclusion. It was pretty cool.

 

[Tillbo]

Has anyone tried Remote Play on this? If so how are the controls?

Looking forward to picking it up but no reviews I've read mention how it plays via RP on Vita.

 

[thatJohann]

I'm playing on PS4 and the frame rate is turning to shit about 5 hours in. Constantly on 20's it feels like. Sluggish combat in this area:

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

The beard can be shaved and it'll grow back over time. The DLC they're releasing tomorrow will give you additional options but it also disable beard growth if you choose one of the special styles.

sucks the beard feature doesn't carry over to the dlc hairstyles

 

[Davide]

Can you disable time of day in the HUD?

 

[Gurish]

Amazon are selling digital codes for the ps4 version at $54 so 10% off retail.

The same price as on PSN, Amazon digital store is pretty shitty to be honest, I expected so much more when they announced it, they probably can't break the publishers (or more specifically the retail stores) prices

 

[R_Deckard]

I think your media blackout has been a bit too strong, if you didn't know if the game was 1st or 3rd person!

I think the spoiler stuff for this game has gone to far for some!

 

[Floody]

Can you respec? Or is there unlimited skill points?

 

[MMaRsu]

Played 5 hours now and I'm incredible satisfied. Like holy shit. Can almost already tell this is going to my GOTY.

Just curious have you played dragon age inquisition and what did you think of it?

 

[M_A_C]

I'm playing on PS4 and the frame rate is turning to shit about 5 hours in. Constantly on 20's it feels like. Sluggish combat in this area:

If you do a complete reboot does it help? I remember hearsing something about memory leak.

 

[BriGuy]

If you do a complete reboot does it help? I remember hearsing something about memory leak.

Was going to mention this. You might want to restart the game.

 

[thatJohann]

If you do a complete reboot does it help? I remember hearsing something about memory leak.

Didn't help much. It's just an area full of shadows and trees and it's slowing down hard.

 

[Lionel Richie]

I hope this game doesn't burn you out with incredibly stupid sidequests and "distractions" like Dragon Age Inquisition did. All the collect this and collect that shit pissed me off.

I done I think 4-5 sidequests thus far, all are WAY better that whatever we had in DA:I.

In fact, with all due respect to Bioware, this game is much better than any Dragon Age.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I done I think 4-5 sidequests thus far, all are WAY better that whatever we had in DA:I.

In fact, with all due respect to Bioware, this game is much better than any Dragon Age.

Bioware is pretty aware of it and if not lol

 

[jeanRicK]

Didn't help much. It's just an area full of shadows and trees and it's slowing down hard.

Hmmmm ... Well, they are working on patches for stuff like this, so let's hope they optimise this soon.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

How much does a hybrid drive help with load times in this game?

 

[Gold_Loot]

If you do a complete reboot does it help? I remember hearsing something about memory leak.

I think this is the area in the gametrailers review they were mentioning had some performance issues.

 

[carlsojo]

I don't get why so many people are trying to compare this to DA:I... they're completely different games.

 

[QP3]

I don't get why so many people are trying to compare this to DA:I... they're completely different games.

I was going to ask this question. I have had my eye on TW3 for a bit, but only started reading up and following the hype these past 2 weeks. Everywhere I look, across multiple sites, comparisons are being drawn to DA:I.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

They are both fantasy WRPGs.

 

[His Majesty]

I don't get why so many people are trying to compare this to DA:I... they're completely different games.

They are both RPGs who, for the first time in their franchise, have gone open world. Witcher games have always been compared with Dragon Age. The first Witcher even ran on a BioWare engine. I don't see why they shouldn't be compared?

 

[Newman96]

Did The Witcher 2 have the same health regen system as this? I don't remember, this one you consume items and you get a certain amount of times worth of health regeneration.

 

[raphier]

Did The Witcher 2 have the same health regen system as this? I don't remember, this one you consume items and you get a certain amount of times worth of health regeneration.

yes it's always been like that

 

[Chaplain]

Didn't help much. It's just an area full of shadows and trees and it's slowing down hard.

Could you please take a short video and upload it?

 

[carlsojo]

They are both RPGs who, for the first time in their franchise, have gone open world. Witcher games have always been compared with Dragon Age. The first Witcher even ran on a BioWare engine. I don't see why they shouldn't be compared?

DA:I isn't open world and the gameplay is completely different.

 

[Newman96]

yes it's always been like that

Hmm, not a massive fan. Has left me up shit creek a couple of hours into a dungeon.

 

[Codiox]

Holy crap, no mans land is fucking huge. And the atmosphere is the best I've ever seen in a video game. You really feel you are in a European forest.

 

[i-Lo]

Didn't help much. It's just an area full of shadows and trees and it's slowing down hard.

Try rebuilding the database in Safe mode and ensure you have sufficient free space on the HDD as well.

I wonder if the patch coming on the 19th will address these issues.

 

[Courage]

Holy crap, no mans land is fucking huge. And the atmosphere is the best I've ever seen in a video game. You really feel you are in a European forest.

The ambient music in the swamps is amazing.

 

[Mindman]

Try rebuilding the database in Safe mode and ensure you have sufficient free space on the HDD as well.

I wonder if the patch coming on the 19th will address these issues.

There is going to be a day one patch #2?

 

[hemo memo]

PS Share

 

[DNAbro]

PS Share

game looks fantastic

 

[Karish]

I'm playing on PS4 and the frame rate is turning to shit about 5 hours in. Constantly on 20's it feels like. Sluggish combat in this area:

Yup

 

[ironcreed]

PS Share

Simply gorgeous.

 

[Elandyll]

They are both RPGs who, for the first time in their franchise, have gone open world. Witcher games have always been compared with Dragon Age. The first Witcher even ran on a BioWare engine. I don't see why they shouldn't be compared?

Because one (DA) is open to full character creation with various backgrounds, and multiple secondary characters in your party with vastly different stories, and the other has 1 main character and is a one man group?

I mean, from a branching story perspective alone the two games have vastly different scopes.

I have loved DAI,and I'm sure I'm going to love W3, but they are quite different games indeed even if in the same (broad) genra.

 

[PhazonBlazer]

PS Share

Mother of god...

 

[M.W.]

My god it looks good on console. Where's the OT?

 

[KCroxtonJr]

DA:I isn't open world and the gameplay is completely different.

Dragon Age Inquisition is just as open world as The Witcher 3 is. Just sayin'.

These PS Share screenshots are so nice, less than 24 hours left! I just want to sleep the time away lol.

 

[M.W.]

Dragon Age Inquisition is just as open world as The Witcher 3 is. Just sayin'.

These PS Share screenshots are so nice, less than 24 hours left! I just want to sleep the time away lol.

Dragon Age is no where near as open. WTF.

 

[KCroxtonJr]

Dragon Age is no where near as open. WTF.

I never said the scope is the same. They both are not one single open world, so where is the difference?

 

[Sai]

Dragon Age Inquisition is just as open world as The Witcher 3 is. Just sayin'.

Lol...

[EDIT] - Okay, your follow-up post clarifies things a bit. Yes, Wild Hunt doesn't have a single, seamless world to traverse either, but those segmented areas are incomparably larger, and more "free" than Inquisition's.

 

[M.W.]

I never said the scope is the same. They both are not one single open world, so where is the difference?

The Witcher is gigantic. The "open world" is much more sprawling and...open? In DA it always felt like there were walls that surrounded each area you were in.

 

[KCroxtonJr]

The Witcher is gigantic. The "open world" is much more sprawling and...open? In DA it always felt like there were walls that surrounded each area you were in.

Again, that is scope. Technically you are walled off in The Witcher As well. You can freely roam around each area and do what you want in Dragon Age, just in a smaller scope.

 

[ScepticMatt]

Did The Witcher 2 have the same health regen system as this? I don't remember, this one you consume items and you get a certain amount of times worth of health regeneration.

With the exception of white raffard decoction. In Witcher 1 it instantly restores most hp (but has very high toxicity)

 

[Lemondish]

The Witcher is gigantic. The "open world" is much more sprawling and...open? In DA it always felt like there were walls that surrounded each area you were in.

Walls surround each area in W3 too, so I'm not sure what you're arguing.

Are we really getting into a discussion about which is 'more open world'? Seems like a pretty binary description. It either is, or isn't. Both are.

 

[LapinAgile]

Walls surround each area in W3 too, so I'm not sure what you're arguing.

Are we really getting into a discussion about which is 'more open world'? Seems like a pretty binary description. It either is, or isn't. Both are.

People may have grown weary of corridor rpgs. They need to be open and the grass needs to be appropriately rendered for a proper rpg these days.

 

[SpokkX]

I'm playing on PS4 and the frame rate is turning to shit about 5 hours in. Constantly on 20's it feels like. Sluggish combat in this area:

Yeah saw videos of this area. Really bad fps

Would love to see the same area ob xbone...

 

[Samurai Penguin]

I'm playing on PS4 and the frame rate is turning to shit about 5 hours in. Constantly on 20's it feels like. Sluggish combat in this area:

Is the day 1 patch meant to fix this, or has the patch already been released/installed, and the frame rate here is still shit?

 

[thatJohann]

Is the day 1 patch meant to fix this, or has the patch already been released/installed, and the frame rate here is still shit?

there's patch 1.01 installed, i am hoping we get 1.02 this Tuesday on day 1 with more optimizations.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Indeed this is importable because people on CDP asked for it and it is not available to console gamers. I suspect there will be more stuff imported from saves that is not included in the import dialogue.

Is there a way to get rid of the tattoo in Witcher 3? I forgot to do it in the save I would import and not sure I want to play through 100+ hours of W3 with it.