The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Robbo-92** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:26 pm

Some oil for your blade maybe?

Oh and don’t forget to start a fight with a pirouette

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Choclet-Milk** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:32 pm

I don't remember all that well, but I think that fight is a bit early in the game to have the spectre oil.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Robbo-92** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:37 pm

I might be remembering wrongly then, sure I remember it being part of the quest page as an optional objective? It’s been a while since I played this last.

Just downloading this on my Series X anyway :toot:

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Choclet-Milk** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:40 pm

Apparently we're both wrong, you have the recipe from the beginning and just need the ingredients to craft it.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 8:52 pm

Digital Foundry not impressed with the PC performance, even including the hot fix:

Probably going to give this a miss for a while

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **DarkRula** » Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:19 pm

Nope. She can still regen her health in seconds even with little of it left. It's a side quest, so I'll just leave it for now until I'm powered up a bit more.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Preezy** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:17 am

Right, I've started this again on PS5 so let's see how far I get before the burnout kicks in. I think my trouble on my last two playthroughs is that I've spent too much time in White Orchard instead of progressing the main quest. Maybe I'll try a bit differently this time.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Knoyleo** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:34 am

Just seen the Whoreson Jr quest line through to the end, and that was truly horrible.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Photek** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:35 am

30 sweet Knoggy days wrote:Just seen the Whoreson Jr quest line through to the end, and that was truly horrible.

It's proper grim alright.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Photek** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 10:38 am

Hot-Choclety-Milk wrote:
Photek wrote:Human to Human combat is great because you can tell when they will strike so can dodge/block at right time, a lot of monsters have tells also but I have a major problem with ghosts/aspirations as they don't really have any 'tell' of note and disappear and reappear behind you, really strawberry floating annoying.

There's a ghost early on for one of the side quests (nelly in the woods I think?) and it's a total ball ache. I use Quen constantly, then if I get brave ill burn em with Piro but the combat can be annoying.

DarkRula wrote:Yup. Encountered that side quest last night. Wouldn't be too bad if her health didn't regen in literal seconds during the phase where she brings out some minions. I'll give it another try sometime.

Generally you'll want to use Yrden for ghosts. It's the purple one that puts a big circle on the ground, anything that steps into it is slowed and forced into corporeal form so you can damage them.

Also, the roll is gooseberry fool. Always dodge, don't bother rolling. Disclaimer: Correct at time of my last play-through. May have changed with this update.

Ghosts move so erratically (including disappearing when you hit them) that the Yrden circle doesn't seem to do much, you need the ghost to actively move into it and I tried it several times with the ghost dancing around it that I gave up.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Peter Crisp** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:03 am

Being the good guy in this is disasterous on the finances.
I'm level 7 and I'm still skinter than most of the peasants.
I can't even sell the swords and stuff I loot as the prices I get are so piss poor.

I put my first 3 upgrade points into the mind influencing skill thinking it would help me get better selling prices but it didn't :fp:

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Lastly, I'm a tad annoyed that it disables the ability to enter combat when I enter the castle of that fat lord who you have a fistfight with.

Great game so far but is it me or does it use a very similar sound effect for leveling up as the assassins creed series?

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:08 am

Just loot everything in sight and sell it all for whatever you can get, it all adds up!

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Knoyleo** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:13 am

Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Just loot everything in sight and sell it all for whatever you can get, it all adds up!

Also, the merchants at the start of the game are poor as gooseberry fool, so you end up not being able to sell any more to them very quickly.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Knoyleo** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:24 am

Photek wrote:
30 sweet Knoggy days wrote:Just seen the Whoreson Jr quest line through to the end, and that was truly horrible.

It's proper grim alright.

I think it might have been a bit too much for me. I had to stop playing straight after.

The way this game depicts women is just so bad. For every strong female character in there, (who must always be sexy, please ignore the way the game retcons Triss' disfiguring scar from the books that leads her to always cover up up to her neck, also Ciri fights in swamps wearing high heels,) there's a hundred NPC strumpets, every poor townswoman has a cleavage you could rest your tea on, and while I get the world of the Witcher is supposed to be a gritty one, there have to be other ways to convey this than constantly parading dead and/or sexually assaulted female bodies in front of you.

I get that I'm probably expecting far too much from a game series that had you picking up collectible trading cards from every peasant villager and countess you managed to bed in the first instalment, but this is just getting worse.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Preezy** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:00 pm

Preezy wrote:Right, I've started this again on PS5 so let's see how far I get before the burnout kicks in. I think my trouble on my last two playthroughs is that I've spent too much time in White Orchard instead of progressing the main quest. Maybe I'll try a bit differently this time.

And having just finished White Orchard, I realise that I actually meant I normally spend far too long in Velen :lol:

30 sweet Knoggy days wrote:For every strong female character in there, (who must always be sexy, please ignore the way the game retcons Triss' disfiguring scar from the books that leads her to always cover up up to her neck, also Ciri fights in swamps wearing high heels,)

Don't forget Triss' alternative costume, which has a plunging neckline right down to her navel, and still ignores her scar!

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 1:46 pm

30 sweet Knoggy days wrote:
Jenu-All I Want For Christmas wrote:Just loot everything in sight and sell it all for whatever you can get, it all adds up!

Also, the merchants at the start of the game are poor as gooseberry fool, so you end up not being able to sell any more to them very quickly.

I just collected everything up to my carry limit then shoved off to Novigrad to ditch it - across the various merchants there you should be able to offload everything easily enough.

It's easy enough to up your carry limit as well which means you can do even bigger loot trips!

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Robbo-92** » Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:04 pm

Hot-Choclety-Milk wrote:
30 sweet Knoggy days wrote:For every strong female character in there, (who must always be sexy, please ignore the way the game retcons Triss' disfiguring scar from the books that leads her to always cover up up to her neck, also Ciri fights in swamps wearing high heels,)

Don't forget Triss' alternative costume, which has a plunging neckline right down to her navel, and still ignores her scar!

Now in 4K

I never used the alternative outfit, after a google I was like “nope” :lol:

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Knoyleo** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 10:27 am

Another PC hotfix is out:

https://www.thewitcher.com/en/news/4723 ... -available

DECEMBER 22ND, 2022
We’ve released another hotfix for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on PC. On top of further overall stability improvements it also introduces a number of fixes, including:

fixes to photo mode,
fixes to the Arabic language in the game,
fix to the bug with toxicity stuck at max level,
Steam Deck improvements,
and more.
The game version won’t change.

Nice and vague.

PostRe: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt by **Jenuall** » Fri Dec 23, 2022 11:27 am

Has stability been the problem? I thought performance was the main issue?

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