The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

After 3 years of postponing it I am finally playing Dragon Age Inquisition. It is funny how CDP is now three for three when it comes to Witcher V Dragon Age. Origins were almost as good as the Witcher 1 (and I can understand people who prefer it over Witcher for various reasons), but then both TW2 and TW3 trounce Bioware's competition.

Particularly the sidequest design is just unbeliveably poor in Inquisition compared to TW3. It is pure fetchquest MMO-like fluff. Now, I still enjoy the game because I like the beautiful maps and quite enjoy the story and dialogue. But still...the difference is just so massive. I know Inquisition won lot of GOTY awards in 2014 (its biggest competition was Shadow of Mordor and Mario Kart), I wonder how many it would get if it came out three months later (against TW3, MGS5 and Fallout 4).

But it is not a bad game. And I hope Bioware will have learnt from it and make DA4's sidequest vastly better.
 
TheSwede said:
Just finished W2 doing Roche path and saving the daughter, also let the rude King live this time and so did Letho, but not the Sorcerers. Was planning doing Scoia'tael and Iorveth's path but think that be for another time. Going to replay W3 now and was wondering if you guys got any mod recommendations ?? I know a couple straight off that I be using. No more rolling down the stairs, that was something that irked me a little first time around. :p Also wghost81 Friendly Hud mod. But anything else I be open for suggestions ?? Ohh and I be using the recommended Witcher 3 Mod Manager for the mods too.
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I used this + its submods
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/689

And then
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1458
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1302
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/1021

And if you want different graphics vibe, then either
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/657
or
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/2358
 
Disco_P said:
I never modded for my first play through and for my second I have no desire to start modding it. It just doesn't need them like skyrim does
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The mods are not necessary, but they sure improve the experience even further. For example I really dislike how far the default camera is from Geralt, so with immersive cam I customize it exactly to my own preference. Immersive motion improves controls with gamepads, textures improve graphics etc.
 
Wucked said:
I loved playing this game, only completed the vanilla quest line once but really enjoyed all of it. I bought the expansions but cannot summon the will to do them as there seems to be a lot of grinding for gold involved to change your abilities. It’s a shame really, I just wanted some more good story lines to explore.
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Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine have some of the best stories and quests in the gaming industry, period

You do not have to grind for anything whatsoever, the new skills and whatnot are optional and not necessary
 
heartburnron said:
I have a confession to make. I played the main campaign, then Hearts of Stone and then decided to have a break before starting Blood and Wine but... that was over a year ago and I just don't feel the compulsion to go back and play it. Does anybody want to talk me in to it? Do we get more Triss and/or Jennifer action?
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I mean it is amazingly atmospheric new location with beautiful soundtrack and brilliant sidequests, that serves as proper ending of the saga.
There might be something related to Geralt's loved ones but I think you should not want to spoil it for yourself. Whether it is there depends on what you did in the main game though.
 
bakes0310 said:
Been playing the last few days still enjoying the game and I'm still on on novigrad moping up question marks, think I've done the majority of side quests. I am level 19 and can kill stuff quite easily in their early 20s. I am wearing enhanced Griffen gear which seems pretty good. I can leave for skellige but I'm trying to 100% the maps as when I finish this game I won't come back to it as my game time is limited and I won't ever get to play other games. Probably won't finish this game till Christmas.
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Exactly as said by Pighardia you should go to Skellige asap.
 
bakes0310 said:
Finally reached where I lost my previous 70 hour save and managed to get their in 46 hours on the hardest difficulty, must have sucked before. Very fun still and enjoying the story. Trying to complete all the side quests and ignore the question marks as I'm over levelled by quite a bit and the question marks end up being a bit duff anyway.
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Just disable them in the menu and enjoy quests and natural exploration.
 
So, Yennefer is going to be played by an indian high school student

I sure hope she is a brilliant actress and Lauren Hissrich made this decision for a very good reason, because for now, I can't see it.

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What happened with fakhrou? This is the first time I have ever seen someone permabanned here. In a decade that I've been here!

As for Yennefer casting, I am not a huge fan of Eva Green, but I would like someone who looks more mature than Anya.

I just watched Godless and thought Michelle Dockery could be pretty great Yennefer.
 
Can anyone who has TW3 installed and has nVidia card with latest drivers test if DSR is working for you? The game crashes when I increase resolution from native 1080p to 1440 or 4K....I would like to know if it is on my end or if nVidia drivers are at fault.
 
Radox-0 said:
416.34 is the latest driver out, Unless there is a newer one which I am not seeing?

With that said I tried Witcher 3 using a month old driver first and downloaded the new driver in the background, partly based on your post and needed an update and both the older one and the new one worked fine.
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yeah there is 416.64 which I am using that crashes the game with DSR
https://wccftech.com/new-nvidia-gef...er-world-shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-far-cry-5/

"Fixes Witcher 3" but...not quite
 
Radox-0 said:
That is weird. Playing okay with 416.34, it does not crash at all like your seeing with DSR enabled and set. Not seeing the flickering Nvidia is alluding too, but only played for 5 mins or so to check it was not crashing so not sure if flickering may happen outside that window.
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What is weird is that .34 version actually did BSOD, and I have it confirmed from several other people, and yet for you it works.
And on reddit someone confirmed that .64 version also crashes DSR for him same way as for me, although now without BSOD.

Well, hopefully whatever nVidia is messing up will get fixed in the next version...I got RTX 2080 to downsample from 4K and it doesn't work, fail :D
 
Radox-0 said:
That is odd! Is it Turing related? Not sure what GPU's the other's you refer to have. Using Pascal here not Turing. But yeah, hopefully they do remedy it for those who have issues!
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Funnily enough that turing RTX 2080 died on me today. Just straight up dead while the PC was on, in windows, no apps running, it lost signal and it's dead. I plugged in the old 1070 and all works again.

Not that this has anything to do with DSR not working, but I found it funny. GPU for 850 bucks and it dies 4 days after installing it.

MrRockliffe said:
I'm massively tempted to pick this up while it's on sale!
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This is a no-brainer, what the hell are you waiting for.
 
Radox-0 said:
Damm, that really does suck. It seems 2080Ti's have been having issues with FE PCB (or maby people better reporting) so not sure if same applies with 2080. Either way hope you get it sorted as that sucks.
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Yeah it is annoying as hell, but I am glad RDR2 is out and I did not sell that 1070 yet :) Hopefully RMA will go well.
 
When Witcher 3 came out, I had Radeon 280X, and for 60fps, I had to turn everything to low.
So I went and ordered GTX970, which let me play in 1080p with most stuff at ultra and some at high at stable 60fps.
When Blood and Wine came out and I wanted to a full replay in 1440p DSR, I went and gotten 1070 for it.
And now finally with RTX2080Ti, I can enjoy 4K DSRed. And even on 1080p plasma, the difference between 1080p/1440p/4K via DSR is clearly visible, particularly in temporal stability and foliage rendering.
 
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