804040 No.4164[Last 50 Posts]
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/33354-Interviews-and-Articles-2015/page143?p=1570621http://www.gamestar.de/spiele/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/news/the_witcher_3,49062,3083995.htmlSince /v/ overreacts and looks for every excuse to shit on something, looks like they were wrong again.
Who else is looking forward to the game? This is good news, but I'm more interested in the combat being improved, atmosphere being like witcher 1 (reportedly).
804040 No.4171
Look to here
>>3870>>3888Essentially what has been going on. Micro$ is getting jewed by CDPR, CDPR is just not allowed to say that the PC version is good and has to show everything on Xbone.
35f103 No.4172
I still need to finish Witcher 1/2. I finished the awful tutorials and quit the games. I don't doubt that it's probably a great game with rich story, but that was enough to put me off and make me play something that was actually catching my attention. Call me a casual, but the game failed to hook me in the first sequence of the game.
804040 No.4173
>>4172W1 is a game you really have to appreciate the atmosphere and get immersed in to enjoy. I personally loved act 2 because I felt like I was a real detective. But above all, it's godly in act 4.
f33d5d No.4174
No wonder, that's why I always hold my judgment until release on the graphic market.
>>4172it's a pretty story heavy RPG in the classic sense, so it's not probably for everyone.
a3d881 No.4207
Personally, this is the one game I've been looking forward to since last year. The only issue I remember reading is the vast overall to the alchemy system that, while a bit tedious in the first two iterations of the series, gave it flavor compared to other RPGs. I hope they don't completely remove it or gimp it because it really doesn't feel like the Witcher without mutagens and potions.
af2fe4 No.4210
>mfw I defended CDPR for months on /v/ in spite of autistic shitposting>mfw I was right>mfw like always it was publisher bullshit at worst>>4164I'm really looking forward to it, I'm playing through 1 and 2 right now in anticipation. I can't wait.
e66aa5 No.4595
>>4164I'm reading the books in anticipation, I marginally preferred Witcher 1 owing to the immersion and slower burning progression. The books are mostly good for the politics/character relationships which shine in 1; in 2 you can miss a lot without knowing at least a vague military history of the continent. At first I thought the amnesia was a cheap narrative device but on the flipside it does a decent job of explaining how the new-to-the-universe player can be so deaf and blind to the politics of the world until it is often too late. I imagine it will be the same for 3.
89d1f6 No.4598
>>4595>reading the books in anticipationWhat are you thoughts about them so far? I was enjoying them until about the fourth book, where I was getting tired of how much of a special snowflake Ciri is. Haven't been able to pick it back up for a while.
70ef68 No.4600
>>4164We should also look extensively for every excuse to shit on something
It's called analysing.
Unless you actually meant just denigrating something for a bad choice of color or something so small and harmless for the gameplay
e66aa5 No.4615
>>4595I'm up to
Djikstra visiting Kovir in The Tower of the Swallow (Can't tell you pages, I'm having to read it in French of all things, get it together Gollancz), so far I enjoy it but I can see where you get the special snowflake vibe from about Ciri. I am really enjoying having the extra level of background on Silé and Philippa at the minute.
e66aa5 No.4643
>>4615Also, a quick extra thought: Ciri being a special snowflake can somewhat be excused because her abilities/status is effectively a MacGuffin to drive a lot of the other, more interesting plot strands, like
Cahir's relation to Nilfgaard and Geralt and touches on other interesting points relevant to the games like
whether the witchers can make more witchers. Moreover, given that her early childhood has parallels with
Alvin's abilities my curiosity is aroused as to whether he has Elder Blood or not and whether he is the Grandmaster who travelled back in time - if so, was it really such a good idea to give his soul to the Wild Hunt? 12869a No.5710
>>4164I'm excited. I played witcher1/2 after I saw the gameplay footage on youtube, and they are now up there as some of my favorite games I've ever played.
51bdc9 No.5720
>>4172I had the same problem. I started W1 multiple times and never made it 10 minutes past the tutorial because of how shit I thought it was.
Eventually I sat down and forced myself to hateplay it, and actually ended up having a good time. The combat is shit through the entire game, there's really no way around it (you can make it slightly less-shit with an igni build); but the story is outstanding and all of the quests are interesting and fun, even the fetch quests.
35f103 No.5825
>>5720I'm going to have to go hateplay it now.
e66aa5 No.6037
4ed212 No.6572
Just saw some new details.
>No Man's Land features 25 smaller towns, some of which are the size of Flotsam from The Witcher 2.
>The game features two really big cities: Novigrad and Oxenfurt, both very lively.
>passages with Ciri are like a linear action-adventure, not like a RPG, plays differently and more action-fueled than Geralt's passages (no inventory, no skill tree, depending on the scene Ciri has certain skills)
>Ciri sequences will be (in total) 5-10h
>Many small details such as Roach stopping to eat apples from a basket
>All equipped items are visible in-game on Geralt
>best items in game must be crafted
>mutagens can be very powerful, like 40% damage enhancer for signs
>fist fighting is without QTEs now, it's just like normal fighting with hard and fast strikes and such
>there are horseraces similar to RDR, biggest focus on stamina management during races, you can even buy better saddles for horseraces
>Geralts beard will grow. You have to go to a barber after a few days
>The HUD is fully customizable. Icons and quest markers on the map can also be deactivated. Audiovisual hints (e.g. people screaming for help) will be present if you wish to do so.
>Fluid gameplay on 1080p with everything on maximum +nvidia hairworks on GTX 980
>game loading time is extremely short on the high-end PC
>Ultra settings are impressive, especially the rich vegetation and character models; there can be scenes where difference between high and ultra won't be that noticeable; lighting is impressive: for instance evening light falling on vast flower fields of a parfum-maker
>there was indeed no slider or adjustment option for the draw distance/LOD
>They encountered very few bugs, no crashes of freezes.
863b71 No.6581
>>4598> I was getting tired of how much of a special snowflake Ciri isWith the revelations of 5th book, you dodged a bullet here
35f103 No.7637
Well I just beat Witcher 1/2 after I was told to get past the slow start. And shit it kind of payed off. I got sucked into the story now.
>>6572This sounds pretty promising. I'm going to wait for reception on the game but I think I'll get it when it's around 30$ like I did for the first two games.
e83ed7 No.7651
>>5720I started up W1 again and got the farthest I've gotten so far and really enjoyed it. I to act 2 and did everything I could do in the city and then moved on to the swamp.
And then I kept dying to the plants.
Difficulty doesn't bother me as long as I know it's my fault and I need to fix my shit. I couldn't really figure out what to do with these echinops though (I think that's what they're called) to get by them and it got frustrating and I had to take a break. I might come back to it later and just move on to W2 in preparation for 3 right now.
I will say though my favorite part of the game is just the feeling of actually being a monster hunter. They do a really good job of it. I love how crucial alchemy feels, love the idea of the bounty board, love having to read up on monsters to get shit, etc., and I hope there's more of it in 2 and 3.
effcb2 No.7673
>>7651Are you sure it's an echinops? In the swamp there's a bounty monster plant that looks the same as the others but is way stronger, but if you kill it you can turn its head or vine or w/e into the royal huntsman for xp and orens.
b39212 No.7708
>>7651>And then I kept dying to the plants.Ever tried running away from something? Especially from something stationary that keeps killing you if you stay close.
e66aa5 No.7752
>>7651If it's the boss level one that chases you through the swamp, most of the time I agree with
>>7673 that you should run. However, your best bet after you've levelled a bit in that zone is to use a torch as your weapon (it's weak to fire) and spam igni whenever you can with Blizzard up.
e83ed7 No.7759
>>7673>>7708>>7752I don't know, it's red and larger than the ones in act 1 and it always pops up just wherever. I'll be fighting some drowners and move around and one pops up and if I don't move it'll kill me in a few hits. Also kind of had a stupid range so most of time it would fuck my ass until I got a ways away if I remember right. Haven't played since the weekend. Having to escort the guy you meet right off the boat was a pain in the ass due to it.
If it's the boss thing then I just need to watch what I'm doing I guess until I can defeat it.
e66aa5 No.7786
>>7759Yeah, confirmed for the boss level one with that description. See if you can find a place where it often spawns, save nearby, take blizzard and something that buffs igni, and attack it with a torch and igni spam. Reload when you die until you kill it, GG NO RE.
89d1f6 No.7804
>>7759Yeah I remember that one. I went into Witcher mostly blind and that thing halted my progress for a day. Just chug as many potions as you can and go wild on his monkey ass with igni and whatever you have.
b39212 No.7854
>>7804The ancient strategy of running away really seems to be lost on you people.
89d1f6 No.7910
>>7854That thing would kill me before I could ever run away so I faced it head on and beat it to death with my dick
4ed212 No.9496
86a96a No.9872
I don't read German and don't allow cookies so I can't see the forum thread, anyone mind telling me what it says?
I'll give direct you to these two excellent mods in return:
>http://www.moddb.com/mods/full-combat-rebalance1FCR mod for W1, doesn't fuck around. Revamps combat and makes the game really challenging
>http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/697/Pirouette mod for W2, because rolling is ridiculous for Geralt who is described to always "dance" and whirl around in combat in the books
Speaking of the books I really need to read the 5th and 6th in preparation for W3. Are they anything like Time of Contempt? I really liked that one, hated Blood of the Elves though (nothing fucking happens).
11eeff No.9873
Why does /v/ hate this game so much. Graphics downgrade is kind of shitty, otherwise I'm hype.
86a96a No.9876
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>>9873>Why does /v/ hate this game so much.Because there is a distinct group of people that are more interested in drama than video games.
Same with Phantom Pain, M&B's announcement for consoles (which I think turned out to be false but you had to be in that thread to believe all the GAMING IS NOW RUINED FOREVER moaning), Bloodborne, etc.
People that cannot distinguish constructive criticism from shitposting and try to fit in with the latter.
f7adf2 No.9884
>>9873I honestly cannot fathom in this day and age people who fuss over graphics. We can already render millions of pixels simultaneously and achieve a near movie like experience what difference does it make if they remove a few.
Maybe im one of those weirdos who values gameplay in video games and sees graphics as a tool to facilitate gameplay. Not having grafix for grafix sake
668924 No.9895
>>9884looks its not that game doesn look like polished diamond but that they were lying all those month about vision of a game thats was never going to be real and never appologized or anything to fans about it, its the ethics thing mostly,
I cancelled plans of buying new rig because Im just so sad that this happened I really trusted them and gave them benefit of doubt but then they started to excusing themselves with "Youtube compression" and then those gameplays video showed up
b39212 No.9897
>>9884>Maybe im one of those……people who don't have enough experience to know that downgrades (because of consoles) are usually the harbinger of a good developers downfall?
Ever heard of Crytek? I heard they make nice iOS games now.
>>9895>"Youtube compression" That one was always strange to me. Where do they think I've seen the first videos I'm comparing the latest trailers to?
f7adf2 No.9898
>>9895I dont wanna play the same old song and dance that has been said by other people in a more eloquent manner but the gist is this.
In this day and age one cannot trust trailers for any reason no matter who they come from. People who get hyped by them are only setting themselves up for disappointment.
I am gonna get it becuase I like the story and setting and it makes for an actual good RPG where you know actually roleplay.
I have hopes that they will improve the gameplay from the previous installments but deep down I know its gonna be bland button mash with some needlessly complicated mechanics.
f7adf2 No.9899
>>9897To be honest anon I kinda gave up gaming at this point. The chance of something decent coming out is getting slimmer every year so I pre ordered the last few games I wanted and am mostly going through my backlog.
86a96a No.9942
>>9897>…people who don't have enough experience to knowThat's a strawman if I ever saw one
>>9898>but deep down I know its gonna be bland button mashHow do you know that? Did you play a demo?
>>9899To be frank that's like giving up on reading after Twilight or 50 shades or whatever comes out. Or giving up on music because some little Canadian shit is the mainstream's flavour of the month.
Oh and you should never pre order, ever.
I'm anxious about this game, I want it to be good but I won't spare it any criticism if it won't. Which of the two will it be? Well I don't know, I haven't played it yet. But everyone else apparently has since they're passing judgement already.
a1697a No.9950
>>9872Anon, pirouettes are in FCR, aren't they?
>>9876
>People that cannot distinguish constructive criticism from shitposting and try to fit in with the latter.An excellent summary of /v/, right there.
86a96a No.9953
>>9950Yeah, but I don't like FCR2 to be honest.
The way it handles Quen is nice (since it's also channelled in the books) but I'm not keen on the perma parry which coincidentally removes your ability to riposte.
I do however recommend FCR1, from the very get go even. It's challenging and you'll probably die a lot but it really gives the combat the feeling of lethality you'd otherwise miss. Any monster can kill Geralt if you aren't careful, no more disposable trash mobs, even a shitty drowner can do you in.
b39212 No.9959
>>9942>That's a strawman if I ever saw oneShould have read the post I was quoting.
a1697a No.10081
>>9953I thought riposte was still in FCR2 but there was no prompt for it (i.e. no graphical indicator of when to parry like in vanilla) but you could do it in combat as opposed to when channeling Quen. At any rate, I don't like FCR2 because it make the game too easy once you level up a bit, it goes from being moderately harder to spamming the attack button to win.
dc34f7 No.10085
Loonixfag here, why the heck haven't they ported the first game yet.
16b38b No.10106
>>10085just WINE that shit
265622 No.10751
Anyone from France here?
http://www.witcher3-traquesauvage.com/Apparently you can win a few thing on May 19th
1st place gets a fucking 2 meter Statue
6145d9 No.10757
feelio when DX11 only
feelio when too poor to get DX11 card
79c7cf No.11010
>>10751hmmm a xbox contest, thanks cdpr
64fd48 No.11013
>>11010Thanks microsoft, probably.
265622 No.11763
If someone haven't seen it yet, IGN released first 15 min of gameplay. For those who followed trailers and gameplays so far it isn't big on spoilers, as they skip the entire tutorial, and last 8 min it just side content.
Before anyone asks it has been played on PC, settings equivalent to consoles, on January build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI_PbjqWsg e6419f No.11852
I'm cautiously hyped right now, moving back towards more of the style of the first game would be a plus in my eyes
4ed212 No.11883
>>11763Based on their requirements I can't even play the game, so I guess I'll get it in 5 years when I upgrade.
583a05 No.11887
>>11763Not a 60fps movie, Why bother capturing on a PC.
4ed212 No.11890
fa072f No.11893
>>11890- So guys, we're not gonna make the deadline again…
- Hey… I got an idea… what if we cut these parts, and later sell them as DLC? Then we don't miss the release date AND we get more money!
-GENIUS!!
I really hope this will open eyes for more people.
36c574 No.11899
>>11890>>11893Why is it a bad thing? You were expecting them to be free like skins or armours?
9f2a11 No.11903
>>11890>expansions announcedKeyword is 'expansions', not 'DLC'. You people are idiots who don't know the difference, they just announced that these two expansions are going to be released in the far future and you need to pay for them.
fa072f No.11943
>>11903no enhanced edition this time just makes a lot more sense suddenly,
>silly idiots just pay, no free expansion this time! 11eeff No.11949
When the fuck did you guys start hating expansions in general?
Remember Undead Nightmare? The Ballad of Gay Tony? Shivering Isles? AoE2: Age of Kings? Brood War?
What is wrong with you cunts? I want expansion backs to come back and DLC to fuck off or be free. So far, this company has done it right.
298778 No.11972
>>11893>>11943The extra content from EE was negligible, would you rather have areas that are half finished or just left on the cutting room floor?
4ed212 No.11979
>>11899>>11893>>11903Don't pull this out of proportion. I'm not overreacting to it like /v/. I know full well the difference between expansions and dlc. This feels like it could be some extra content to the game like artorius was to dark souls. Seems like a lot of stuff, but mostly, my problem with it is that they are announcing it before the damn game is even out.
If they announced it months after the game released, it would be no problem, because it does seem like a reasonable amount of content. But announcing additional content BEFORE the game is already out? Seems like they are getting ahead of themselves. They should finish the game as it is before these things start being ideas.
effcb2 No.11986
>>11949I think the main problem people are having here is that they're announcing these expansions before the game is even out. If they announced it after the game came out you wouldn't be seeing this backlash.
4ed212 No.11990
>>11986That's the entire reason I have a problem with it. It shows bad form to announce plans to the public for extra paid content before the base game itself is even out.
11eeff No.12005
>>11986>>11990I really don't see why you care, but whatever. Enjoy your pointless arbitrary rules on announcements I guess
863b71 No.12227
>>11986But why would it be better if they announced it after release? They know about expansions, not informing us now would be just to not hurt your feelings.
11eeff No.12237
>>12227If they announced it after release, it also means that they can't sell them earlier. To us, it shouldn't make a difference: they're going to make and sell these expansions anyway and we can just wait until they are released to buy them. To the company, it's money they can earn earlier and invest or earn an interest on.
The only other reason people dislike this practice is they seem to think it's content that otherwise would have been in the game. But it probably isn't. The company invested X amount of dollars into the game with intent of generating Y revenue. The expansions would always be treated as a separate investment. They certainly didn't cut 15-20 hours from the game to try and screw us over or something.
5246d0 No.15937
I guess I'm looking forward to this but after last year I've been trying to keep myself from being over hyped.
http://imgur.com/a/XoEeU
So who else thinks of the graphics downgrades at least they don't seem to be watch dogs tier downgrades.
86a96a No.15943
>>15937
>Controller button prompts
Seriously we'll just have to see for ourselves on the 19th
b39212 No.15946
>>15943
That's the PC version the KB+M controls aren't ready yet (good sign of course)
86a96a No.15971
26c576 No.16004
>>15937
I seriously think Microshit or Sony have some sort of bullshit in the contract saying that all versions have to look on par with this console version otherwise fuck it you aren't getting a release.
bb655f No.16191
>>4172
took me three tries to get into witcher 1 and now i love the game.
4ed212 No.16193
>>16191
>that sword is for monsters
9e49ce No.16233
>>16193
Honestly one of the best endings to a game I have ever seen. Completely satisfying.
b59aea No.16235
>>16233
Chapter 4 was beautiful
b405e3 No.16384
Not seen this thrown around much with all the bullshit on /v/ so here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGWGc5dfbzn-uYa2cMaYaZ4F5tErXAWLc
Be prepared for an annoying german LPer (think that faggot manages to make the CDPR guy facepalm quite some times) and some tiny quest spoilers.
441e03 No.16473
>>16384
Is this the actual real game? Where is the downgrade /v/spergs yell about?
86a96a No.16478
>>16473
I'd say the lighting is really off
Makes all the grass and foliage look so.. flat
46c15c No.16739
So any other censored versions confirmed besides the middle east?
475549 No.16807
Does anyone have a copy of the leaked design documents that were making the rounds? Monsieur Startpage only give the "MASSIVE SPOILERS LEAKED ZOMG" clickbait articles about it and I want to see what /v/ was sperging over for myself.
c11c60 No.16887
game unlocks in 6 hours and 50 minutes
get hype
9cb59b No.16910
Having just finished a Witcher 2 playthrough to have a fresh save to bring in, this blows W2 out of the water visually. I was pretty nervous about the downgrade stuff the last few days, but crisis averted there. Now lets just hope the game itself is good too.
fabb2f No.16921
>>16910
To think, a year ago and two years ago, I was looking forward to this game as the end all of RPG's. I was marking the date and planning on playing it for hours consecutively from the moment it came out.
Well, how is it?
9cb59b No.16922
>>16921
Pretty great so far. I've been playing for about 5 hours now, done a few side quests and explored a bit. Everything gameplay wise is a huge step up above Witcher 2, especially combat wise. The dialog is also much better than the previous games; nothing but good writing so far, much better voice acting than they have had in the past, and the facial animations are surprisingly nice.
984953 No.16924
Having fun playing on ultra low textures.
9cb59b No.16925
>>16924
That honestly doesn't even look that bad
984953 No.16926
>>16925
Actually, the face texture on Geralt was the only bad looking thing in that scene, it re-render his face after they cut his beard. It's just fun to post it out of context. But jokes aside, the game looks so damn good, dem trees in the wind, mmmm muh dick.
9cb59b No.16930
>>16926
The wind stuff does look and sound really nice
c1f1e5 No.16942
>>16925
Nothing in the game looks bad. I don't get why /v/ is so insistent the game looks awful. Either they just mad at CDPR for whatever reason, so they deny reality in order to shit on them, or we're swimming in anti-CDPR shills.
9cb59b No.16943
>>16942
8/v/ has gone to complete shit over the past few months, you get nothing but senseless outrage and shitposting there now. I mean there was legitimate cause for concern with some of the leaked screenshots and video that were popping up, but to keep being so enraged now that the game is out and looking great? Guess they would rather disregard reality to keep the hateboners fueled.
Really sad it had to degrade into complete garbage so fast, things were so great for the first few months but now it is a good deal worse than 4/v/ ever was.
c1f1e5 No.16946
>>16943
It's been like that with every major release so far, there's always some thing, no matter how minor, that makes the game "shit" and warrants their eternal hate.
7ca1f1 No.16947
>>16942
>or we're swimming in anti-CDPR shills.
I frankly would not discount that possibility. There's been a lot of anti-GOG threads lately too, and it's always the same lazy disingenuous arguments.
fabb2f No.16948
Someone post more about the game
9cb59b No.16949
>>16948
What do you want to know?
338d77 No.16950
>>16948
Leveling up in this game is bullshit
fabb2f No.16951
>>16949
Is the combat truly as rigid as it looked in a gameplay trailer? The animations looked like they were made of wood fuck mocap.
>>16950
How? If it's like the first game I wouldn't have any problems
9cb59b No.16952
>>16951
It doesn't feel rigid at all, its especially fluid compared to Witcher 2's combat. The animations are also great, and there is a lot of variety so you aren't seeing the same attacks and dodges constantly.
As for the leveling system, too early for me to say for sure really. I like the concept they were going for, but I'm still not far in enough to really say if it works well or not. I'm only level 9.
fb74b0 No.16955
I got the game on PS4, and in truth, it looks pretty nice. The combat is fluid and works pretty well with the PlayStation controller.
But fuck the leveling up system. They fucked up on that.
468ce0 No.16956
I just got into an argument with someone over TW3 going open world. I consider it a good direction while he seemed to think it would mean less "handcrafted" content.
Thoughts?
9cb59b No.16957
>>16956
Don't really think this is something you can objectively say is a good or bad move. I would have been fine with either approach as long as it was well executed and I'm loving the environments in W3 so far, but not everybody enjoys both. Some hate big open world levels and prefer hand crafted small environments, others are the exact opposite and hate anything even remotely linear.
However the way I see it, the environments in the Witcher games were always kind of trying to be big and open worlds even when they really weren't. So to me Witcher 3 feels like what they wanted to do all along, but couldn't on Bioware's shitty engine with the first game or the earlier version of their own engine with the second.
fabb2f No.16958
>>16957
The biggest problem however, that needs to be addressed.
DOES IT SUFFER FROM SKYRIM COMPLEX?
Is the "open world" actually full of creative, exciting things to do and see, or is it just a bland miles of fucking nothing/copypasted assets?
9cb59b No.16959
>>16958
So far no, everywhere I go feels very distinct.
338d77 No.16960
>>16951
Most quest don't pay enough XP, neither does killing monsters.
9cb59b No.16961
>>16960
I'm starting to feel this way as well actually, at this point I'm several levels behind most of the available content.
338d77 No.16962
>>16961
Found a wild Wyvern In the Northern part of Velen
Managed to kill will being level 6, expecting lots of xp for it, does even move the bar.
Can't remember the exact level but it was higher than 15.
9cb59b No.16963
>>16962
Wonder if there is an XP bug or something, or if CDPR is actually this evil.
c11c60 No.16965
I'm trying to parry like how it was in TW2 and I keep getting stunned.
35118b No.16969
>Witcher 3 comes out
>Retarded threads against it on /v/ dry up
I wish the owner was more attentive to that stuff, he's gonna kill vydia conversation with that shit.
Anyone can someone fill me in on how the game is? It looks good but I've never played a witcher title.
9cb59b No.16974
>>16969
>It looks good but I've never played a witcher title.
Should probably do that first to see if you even like the universe and characters. Or at least get a feel for the stories on youtube or something. The game is pretty great for me so far, but it is a direct followup to the events of Witcher 2. Witcher 1 though is kind of its own self contained thing, you don't miss anything for the other games by skipping it.
01a2f3 No.16995
What is up with blocking being worthless on most enemies? I wouldn't mind it if it didn't also mean that I couldn't counterattack.
c11c60 No.17000
>>16969
Mark seems to very laissez faire with moderation, apparently according to mark and others on /v/ - disagreeing with /pol/ shitposters is denying free speech. /v/ has become far worse than it ever has on half chan at this point.
I wish this board was more active.
>>16995
Some times it works but timing parrying in TW3 is very tricky. In the quest Family Matters I keep getting rekt by hordes of wraiths. They keep teleporting in back of me.
e3c806 No.17001
>>17000
>/pol/ shitposters
Those are just shitposters in general and the brunt of shitposters randomly complain about /pol/ even if it wasn't part of the topic - they're the ones who bring it into the thread. You can't have a topic tangentially related to /pol/ without someone complaining about /pol/ thanks to those posters. Same goes for people who randomly tie GG into a topic, derail the thread, and then blame it on GG while spewing go back to your containment board.
>>16958
>SKYRIM COMPLEX
The only way you can compare it to skyrim is that item drops gradually level with you. I'm still anxious about having a moment later where I'll find a sword better in stats than my own but hypothetically something I was supposed to find at a lower level.
9cb59b No.17002
>>17001
Are you sure there is gear level scaling? I found a level 7 crossbow when I was level 4, and I'm finding crafting diagrams for gear up to level 20.
e3c806 No.17003
>>17002
Craft items and uniques are the exception to the loot scale.
c11c60 No.17004
>>17001
from what I've seen the majority of posts in witcher threads are
>hurr oy vey good goy buying witcher 3 downgrade edition
e3c806 No.17005
>>17004
It doesn't help that the developers own admission that the downgrade exists just came out recently. It especially doesn't help that even in their own words, they're admitting the downgrade exists while deflecting from the real reasons why they did it. It's insulting to say the least.
For what the game's worth, I can still understand why there's some genuine /v/irgins who are bitter. Amidst the thread of chucklefucks who just want another trainwreck to watch, there's some people who feel really burned by it. Witcher 3 is just too unique a specimen of a game that transcends typical consolization.
Even though I'm downloading it at the moment, I've already lowered my expectations from the days where I was happily expecting another game to push my desktop specs to the limit. Since I recently finished my TW2 playthough I'm more or less situated how TW3 will look.
I can only hope that CDPR reassess what they did and don't repeat this for Cyberpunk 2077 and at least announce from the get-go that it will be on the same level as TW3 for PC users. That way there's less collateral involved. At the same time it will mean yet again another game that won't attempt to reward high-end PC users and then misconstrue their resentment as damage control.
fabb2f No.17006
>>17005
I enjoyed the witcher 1 and 2 for what they were worth. I even bought w2 retail and respected that it came with a proper manual and in game map alongside the game itself and the soundtrack. Retail goodies like that are few and far in between, and it was genuinely DRM free, as in install from disc, and directly run game after.
Those retail reasons may be the only reason I might buy w3 in the future, but for the present, I'm really disappointed in what the completed product is versus what they kept promising the past years. And, even with the downgrade, I'm not even sure if I can even run the game on my GT545. So yeah.
c11c60 No.17007
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>>17005
The graphics are still very good, but it just doesn't have the sexy particle effects that previous trailers had.
Even the graphics downgrade, its still one hell of a game. Honestly this is the first game since the Orange Box where I'm at the edge of my seat on what happens next, and I'm really excited to see returning characters from previous games and how they affect TW3 storyline.
I upgraded for this game, and I can't max it out. I'm even above the recommended specs. A fucking i7 5820k, 16 gb ddr4 2666mhz ram and gtx 780 3gb SC… and I can only run it on high. Good luck maxing it out.
26c576 No.17008
>>17005
Pretty much how I feel. I mean sure the game isn't bad but it's the first time CDPR looked like guys who downgraded it to either A: Sell us the game on 2013 graphics and keep the pre-order money or B: Downgrade the game due to consoles. After all, every trailer for Witcher has had the Xbox logo plastered on it, and I don't think they used the Xbone versions in the trailers either. It really wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft said 'We will give you money for the game, BUT the Xbone version has to look on par with all other versions.' Knowing Microsoft something like that really would not be surprising.
9cb59b No.17011
>>17007
Make sure you aren't using the latest nvidia drivers right now, they messed up the performance of everything that isn't Maxwell in Witcher 3.
c3ca3f No.17030
>>17001
Just don't sperg out. Ignore offtopic posts. It's just that we are incapable of this.
984953 No.17031
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Oh…
Now I'll never get his unique Gwent card.
fa53c0 No.17040
>>17031
Who is dis?
So since the gamevis out can we talk about the itself? It impossible to do that on /v/ becuase threads get shitposted to death
984953 No.17064
>>17040
It's the Bloody Baron. He hangs himself after his wife die's at the end of the Velen quest line. As well, his daughter practically disowns him, so he feels he has nothing left to live for.
What's even sadder is that if you loot him, you find his daughter's doll -that was given as an apology to her earlier in the questline- lying on the ground below his corpse.
01a2f3 No.17085
I think I've got a broken quest. "An eye for an eye" won't progress. I'm supposed to meet a character next to "Hanged Man's Tree", but nothing happens when I approach the quest marker. Anyone else experience this?
3096a7 No.17095
>>17085
Try meditating nearby. Some quests also have time locks, usually in the form of "sunset" or "night fall", aka 10/11 at night.
01a2f3 No.17106
>>17095
The quest doesn't mention any specific time, and I've meditated for well over 24 hours on the quest marker. There's definitely something wrong with this quest.
3096a7 No.17111
984953 No.17121
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c1f1e5 No.17148
>>17003
I just dismantle all regular loot into crafting materials or sell it. I only keep unique stuff and whatever I craft myself.
1d889e No.17156
Apparently there's a save bug corrupting save data on all platforms. Seemingly at random. So good luck with that.
abff2f No.17159
338d77 No.17171
Beat the game last night, so
what happened to the fucking dragon? That shit seemed pretty important in the second game, and what happens to the Sorceresses at the end, how did the Lodge get so fucked up if they had the dragon under their control, why wasn't there an option to get Yen killed, and doesn't the purpose of Ciri faking her death only to become one of the worlds best Witchers sort of ruin her chances of staying hidden from her father?
c11c60 No.17328
I know /v/ shitposts this scene to hell, so far downwarren looks the same to me. particularly the water during rain.
game still looks beautiful even with downgrade. and the bloody baron quest was absolutely fantastic, it had the darkness and eerieness of the first game.
fabb2f No.17330
>>17328
I will admit that pretty much every picture of the game has looked washed out and worse than TW2 to me before, but this one actually looks very good, almost like pre downgrade.
c11c60 No.17338
>>17330
The game has a case of open world-itis, which is to say that parts of the world look beautiful and others look like 2006.
fabb2f No.17342
>>17338
That looks like the game I expected from the initial promises. What the fuck.
c11c60 No.17346
>>17342
they possessively made changes to lighting, its less dynamic. The scene where they introduced the hunt in Velen looked like ass, but Skellige and Novigrad looks great.
fabb2f No.17347
>>17346
so how is the combat then? I've seen some videos that suggest the targeting is bad and ai isn't good either
c11c60 No.17348
>>17347
the combat is probably the most challenging its ever been in a Witcher game. Even with FCR mods of the past two games.
the ai bugs out on occasion, but drowners can catch patterns that player is doing. if you try stand there and spam you will get killed quickly. You gotta evade and dodge, you can't parry monsters that don't have swords. I've had drowners evade when I was spaming strong style and then they tried to surround me.
The targeting system has gotten me killed, but nothing mods wont fix. the combat just needs a few tweaks and it will be a good combat system.
a64555 No.17357
>>17348
Drowners, strangely, are the most intelligent and challenging trash opponents.
>>17347
The combat is actually a big improvement over W2 once you get used to it. Parries, rolls and dodges all have different uses in different situations. All of the signs are useful. The only thing that kind of sucks is strong attacks, I guess, since you can easily upgrade fast attacks to do almost as much damage.
The most important thing is to wear only light armor. Medium and heavy armor slows you down just enough that you can't stun lock certain trash opponents with fast attacks.
a64555 No.17358
+The graphics are great, it's still better than Skyrim, Dragon Age, Ass Creed, and all the other open world AAA trash. I can't run the game on high graphics anyway so I don't really give a damn about a downgrade.
+The quests are great. The witcher contracts all feel like what the Witcher games always should have been about. Gathering clues about the monster, learning its weaknesses, preparing for a difficult fight, and then walking away with a trophy and taking a big cash reward. These are the best quests, with the best writing, of any CRPG, ever. Yes, better even than Planescape and VTMB.
-If there's one issue I have with the main quests it's the bullshit that there's no right choice. Not even that it's a difficult choice, just that you get cunt-punted no matter which you make, with totally unforeseeable indirect consequences. Consequences such as the baron and his wife dying because you released the tree spirit
-I want to keep Geralt clean shaven, but apparently the only way to shave is to go to a barber in Oxenfurt.
-The crossbow is gay. It's only useful if you exploit enemy AI when they get stuck like a faggot. Igni does 10x more damage, and you know igni doesn't do much damage to begin with.
-My biggest complaint: everything related to itemization and the UI is trash. EVERYTHING. Crafting shouldn't have been in the game if they're going to do it like this. Everywhere you go there are glowing sacks to pick garbage out of. You take the garbage to a blacksmith and you can pay him to turn it into crafting components. You buy or find diagrams to build things, but they're level gated, and you can get level 28 item diagrams at level 1, and the level 1 diagrams don't disappear, so your crafting menu will be full of stuff you either can't wear or don't want to because it sucks now. Letters and books don't have their own inventory menu but are split between your potion/bomb window (??????) and quest item window. I have about 50 books and letters cluttering my potion screen. Everywhere you go you will find swords and armor. They have randomized stats like a Diablo game. Since there are orange Relic swords and armors laying in every hidden chest you'll rarely have reason to pick up a plain, blue or yellow item. They sell for less than 10 coins anyway most of the time. You can only equip 2 potions and 2 bombs at a time. Oils only last for 20 hits and then you need to reapply them, which is retarded because oil supplies are unlimited, so it's just another step of tedium of reopening your inventory every 20 hits to reapply. There is apparently a retard at CDProjekt who thinks weapon and armor degradation are fun so enjoy blowing 50+ coins to repair your silver sword at the blacksmith after every quest.
If any enhanced edition comes out it needs to fix itemization and UI. Then this will be the greatest RPG of all time. With UI and itemization broken as it is it's 8/10 at best.
c11c60 No.17363
>>17358
I can only manage on high settings with AO set to SSAO, to get a consistent framerate.
I just upgraded my cpu and ram, when I maxed it out I'm getting a a framerate goes from 35-44 in Novigrad but on Skellige it goes to 22-28.
so annoying that I upgraded for this game and I can't do it what I want it to do, even with overclocking cpu and gpu. a 4.2ghz haswell-e should be able to tame this game.
c11c60 No.17366
3096a7 No.17372
>>17358
Don't understood the complaint that choices are morally gray. Do you really need the affirmation that your choice was "the right one" (or even that there are right choices)? Just seems patronizing to me.
Obviously a personal preference, but as such I prefer moral complexity over moral binarism in my vidyer gayms.
Also, provided the crossbow has enough power, it can stagger enemies. Very useful.
c11c60 No.17374
>>17372
crossbow is especially useful with enemies using ranged weapons. Especially if you don't level up some of those parrying abilities.
dd2e79 No.17382
>>17374
No it isn't. Are you playing on easy? They do about 100x more damage than you do at range. The way to beat ranged characters is to dodge their shots while approaching and then slice them up while they're switching weapons.
It is satisfying as heck to dodge out of the way of an arrow and have it hit the guy behind you.
c11c60 No.17398
>>17382
I meant that you can keep ranged enemies off-balance, it just staggers them.
I was playing on the 3rd difficulty setting but then I was getting annihilated by drowners, so for the most part I'm playing on second easiest difficulty. I'm loving the dodge ability, its made the combat so much more fun.
game is a bit of a grind than past witcher games, but that's made it more challenging.