The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

GeezerButler · 20 May 2015 at 20:41

Just installing now - missed delivery of my collectors edition yesterday

Bigger box than I expected - heavy too:

Art Book:

Game, Steelbook and Medallion:

Medallion is nice and solid at 94g....not sure I'll be wearing it outside the house though....

And the man himself - Swiss Army for scale:

This really is a quality item. Really nicely detailed and painted:

Sorry for the photo-dump, but just impressed with the product. Really nicely presented. Expensive, but actually think it is pretty decent value if you're a fan.

Just hope the game runs OK...... :eek:

regulus · 20 May 2015 at 20:47

Looks great. Shame they don't sell it in NZ. Damn 3rd world country!! :mad:

drs101 · 20 May 2015 at 20:48

Thats a nice box of stuff

divinebeetle · 20 May 2015 at 20:49

Craterloads said:
Ive got shadows on medium / hair works off and everything else ultra / 1080p using latest drivers.

Does shadows make a big difference in picture quality? (I started with these settings so haven't seen difference it would make on ultra)

Might just lock it to 30 and see how it feels, playing on TV and 30fps doesn't usually bother me on consoles but on PC it sometimes feels a bit sluggish

Locked mine to 30 in game as I'm playing in 1440p on a single 970 with most settings maxed.

Played most of the afternoon before work and seems smooth enough. Shall mess further tommorow

regulus · 20 May 2015 at 20:52

Want to try the SweetFX mod but the link posted here seems dead. Any other links with instructions?

Pighardia · 20 May 2015 at 20:53

I just realised they use that really good mechanic that I first saw in Red Dead Redemption, where you can simply hold down the run button and your horse will follow the path it is on.

TonyTurbo78 · 20 May 2015 at 21:03

Craterloads said:
Are you applying it using in game settings?

yes

benjii · 20 May 2015 at 21:03

GeezerButler said:
Sorry for the photo-dump, but just impressed with the product. Really nicely presented. Expensive, but actually think it is pretty decent value if you're a fan.

Just hope the game runs OK......

You should never apologise for posting photos of collectors editions. That all looks awesome!

Chisharpe · 20 May 2015 at 21:04

Sorry to anyone Iv been giving advice on Gtx 780. Just only realised today how heavily overclocked my card is compared to standard ones.

trickycurve · 20 May 2015 at 21:04

Foliage visibility is just a view distance thing right? I set it to High and didn't really notice much difference at a glance of far away landscapes so I just rolled with it. Does anyone have any decent comparison shots? Having it on Ultra murdered my frame rate and I don't think there's any other setting that will net a similar gain by cranking it down one notch. People are saying shadows on High gives about 5fps but foliage visibility gave me 20% more performance.

ElliorR · 20 May 2015 at 21:15

I must be missing something obvious but I just can't see what I'm doing wrong here. I made 2 Samum bombs to destroy monster nests and used them both. Now I want to make some more but it keeps saying "you already have this item" even though I used them both. In my inventory the graphic for the bombs is still in the Bomb equip slot saying 0/2 indicating to me that I have none but they are associated with that slot should I make some more. HELP, what am I doing wrong?

Gregster6 · 20 May 2015 at 21:16

I was getting loads of menu crashes today...very annoying

Tried a suggested fix...switch off the "limit to 60fps" switch

Not one menu crash since

Gregster6 · 20 May 2015 at 21:16

ElliorR said:
I must be missing something obvious but I just can't see what I'm doing wrong here. I made 2 Samum bombs to destroy monster nests and used them both. Now I want to make some more but it keeps saying "you already have this item" even though I used them both. In my inventory the graphic for the bombs is still in the Bomb equip slot saying 0/2 indicating to me that I have none but they are associated with that slot should I make some more. HELP, what am I doing wrong?

Meditate and they will replenish

Born_2_Kill_83 · 20 May 2015 at 21:19

TonyTurbo78 said:
i find definitely applying vsync to this game, makes the experience a whole lot smooth for me. I dont generally like it, but for this title it's definitely better.

I thought vsync off made things smoother??

ElliorR · 20 May 2015 at 21:20

I knew it'd be simple, like me, cheers Gregster.

chroniclard · 20 May 2015 at 21:33

How can you uninstall sweetfx, not sure it adds that much imo.?

LateX'Dog · 20 May 2015 at 21:36

Wonder if they had to down scale the paint work on the model. Too much fidelity!

chroniclard · 20 May 2015 at 21:37

and whats meditating supposed to do, does nothing for me.......or appears to....

ah right, I have it on "blood and broken bones" so it doesnt heal...

ValiantUK91 · 20 May 2015 at 21:40

benjii said:
You should never apologise for posting photos of collectors editions. That all looks awesome!

They should apologise because now im jealous

Just got through the first part and got to the second location....my god its its HUGE first things first I need some better armour but im only lvl four and most enemies are lvl 8-9 apart from the wild dogs

Witcher1979 · 20 May 2015 at 21:42

chroniclard said:
and whats meditating supposed to do, does nothing for me.......or appears to....

ah right, I have it on "blood and broken bones" so it doesnt heal...

If on easy it heals you, if on a different setting you can change the time of day, which is handy if some missions are day/night only.