The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

opethdisciple said:
Skellige is where this game turns from a masterpeice to just something every one should pick up and play.

There are people out there that don't realise how good it is!! :eek:

One of my mates, wont touch the game due to him not liking the first 15mins of the witcher 1. :o
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Can relate to this. The Witcher wasn't a game I liked because I got stuck either on the first or second alchemy challenge at the start. What was annoying (apart from quests/missions not being clearer) is that I failed to make the potion and had no more ingredients to proceed meaning I lacked the necessary degree in chemistry :p

This was on easy mode. Took a friend to also show me how to wield a sword and not button-bash, kinda odd cos I usually play twitch shooters and trust me I know my games and can't think of another I have struggled with. To me it wasn't explained as clearly as it is in Witcher 3, to me it is a little dumbed down.

As it all ties in savegame-wise I may go back and play them over. Anyone already done this legit (no downloaded savegames) and found it worthwhile at all to the choices you made?

The questions you get asked later on in Witcher 3 made me look up a lot of what happened in Witcher 2, therefore in order to try and play the good side was a little difficult being new and had to wiki the facts. Other than that everything you need is in game with top-class story and acting.

Here's a little screenshot near a landmark with all the changes I made. Game has all the sliders maxed and many config files tweaks along with sweetfx to reduce the over-saturation and used SMAA to fix the broken AA. VRAM up from 2544MB standard to 4191MB tweaked @1440 but totally worth it.

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Good refresh to the RPG genre to those getting bored of Skyrim like myself and graphically very nice, nearly 5 years old you know :p
 
I made a few abortive attempts at playing Witcher and Witcher 2 but couldn't get anywhere, the controls just tied my fingers in knots every time.

I got bored with Skyrim after more than 1200 hours, then played through Kingdoms of Amalur and then Dragon Age: Inquisition. Even though I had failed numerous times with the earlier games I caught a ride on the hype train and pre ordered Witcher 3 and was raring to go from as soon as it landed.

It only took me a few minutes and I was straight into it, I just swapped a couple of keys around and put dodge on my 4th mouse button and there was no looking back. I finished it after around 250 hours (I'm thorough) and am contemplating going round again. I don't know, maybe I will revisit W2 now that I'm ok with the controls, though I think W1 might be going back a bit far as it really does look dated.
 
CD32 said:
Two swords...one needs a higher level to use than the other..it also deals more damage, better attributes etc...both have same gem slots...but the apparent superior sword is around 300 in value while the inferior is around 1500..anyone know the reason why???
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I never found money to be an issue after a while. I'm level 24 currently, but even in my early-mid teens I never struggled. Contracts and selling Relic gear (to the right people) easily nets you enough cash.

As for the actual selling of gear, well...I always found it to be hit and miss tbh. I think as a general rule of thumb, blacksmiths buy swords for the best prices and armorers buy armor for the best prices. YMMV though.

I know I haven't answered your question, but I actually don't know either :p
 
Has anyone been able to fix the crossfire stuttering in the Witcher 3 at all ? I made a clean build of Win10 last night and reinstalled the game. Have tried everything I could find on the forums, changing configs, setting frame limiter via Afterburner ect. Nothing worked at all. Really quite annoyed they still haven't fixed it. I don't even think they will by the looks of it :(
 
kevy1986 said:
Has anyone been able to fix the crossfire stuttering in the Witcher 3 at all ? I made a clean build of Win10 last night and reinstalled the game. Have tried everything I could find on the forums, changing configs, setting frame limiter via Afterburner ect. Nothing worked at all. Really quite annoyed they still haven't fixed it. I don't even think they will by the looks of it :(
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Check you not got any parked CPU cores
http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility

And in your advance power options make sure the max and min processor states are set to 100%

Multi GPU in general is more sensitive to CPU resources and there availability, together with AMD drivers being more CPU heavy checking the above is really important as it is for SLI users as well.
 
KillBoY_UK said:
Check you not got any parked CPU cores
http://www.coderbag.com/programming-c/disable-cpu-core-parking-utility

And in your advance power options make sure the max and min processor states are set to 100%

Multi GPU in general is more sensitive to CPU resources and there availability, together with AMD drivers being more CPU heavy checking the above is really important as it is for SLI users as well.
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Thanks for the info, I will check this out tonight when I get. Seems it could be a good thing to keep an eye on when running anything in crossfire. Btw the comments on that link, hehe
 
Just finished this, GOTY for me, incredibly addictive from start to finish, awesome graphics and gameplay, UI was a little difficult to get used to but soon got the hang of it.

I'd like to think i had the good ending too :)
 
Good patch for me. I can actually play the game again. The previous two patches the game just crashed on startup so I parked it for a few weeks. Wasn't too grumpy as I sinked well over a 100 hours into this already and need to 'forget' before attempting it again. Works brilliantly now. Looking forward starting it again this weekend
 
FMTopfan said:
Anyone already done this legit (no downloaded savegames) and found it worthwhile at all to the choices you made?
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I've only started playing 3 this week as I deliberately made myself play through 1 and 2 first. I'm nowhere near far enough in 3 to see what effect the choices I made in 1 and 2 have had but I thought the story up until now has been great.

I really wish I'd played these games sooner!
 
opethdisciple said:
Skellige is where this game turns from a masterpeice to just something every one should pick up and play.

There are people out there that don't realise how good it is!! :eek:

One of my mates, wont touch the game due to him not liking the first 15mins of the witcher 1. :o
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Are you sure you're his mate, or are you his carer? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
 
For you guys that liked gopher's immersive hud's for Skyrim and Fallout 3/NV he has now made one for Witcher 3 as well.

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/312/?

Thought I post it incase some of you would be interested in it. Still a work in progress though, for now only does one thing, which is adding the mini map when you usinging Witcher Sense.
 
CD32 said:
Two swords...one needs a higher level to use than the other..it also deals more damage, better attributes etc...both have same gem slots...but the apparent superior sword is around 300 in value while the inferior is around 1500..anyone know the reason why???

Loved witcher 1....hated 2....3 is one of those games that come along once in a blue moon..but should have been called witcher goes to Elder Scrolls...which isn't a bad thing. Brilliant! (Just don't want to finish it yet at the same time have GTA 5 waiting to be installed!)
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I find this a lot as well. Cheaper swords with better stats.....

Also my be I'm just imagening it, but sometime I get the impression there are attributes of swords which the stats dont show... :o
 
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