The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[cmdrdredd]

I wouldn't say the game was content packed. Most of Skellige was useless smuggler's caches and the main quests were standard AAA (I was expecting more than running around for Ciri, then running around with Ciri). First 2 games were more or less ignored too. Plus as I said its hilarious that a lot of the final cutscenes were 720p pre-rendered. Everyone is still going on about how the Witcher 3 is a gold standard; I'd say it was average to above average at best. I honestly still prefer Mass Effect; medieval fantasy is getting nearly as tiring as zombies.

I disagree. There are a TON of sidequests and witcher contracts with some really great stories of their own. If all you see are smuggler caches then you missed the whole game IMO.

 

[Nhirlathothep]

is there a technical thread about this game?

i don t care about the game itself (i have to play tw2 first), and don t want spoilers, but i wanna see how it goes on your rigs.


on my laptop it was horrible, on my desktop with poor card i have 40 fps maxed out (no nvidia hair)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdURJTAEZNQ&list=PLOG6NBr3GJPw_rllQg4uIG1Jk4B3XSLSv&index=1

but i m gonna upgrade to titanx and i hope to have better results

 

[escrow4]

I disagree. There are a TON of sidequests and witcher contracts with some really great stories of their own. If all you see are smuggler caches then you missed the whole game IMO.

Contracts a couple stand out - that island for one. Plus some others. Sidequests one or two come to mind. Not exactly "tons". Other contracts all begin and end the same way. I sunk 80hrs into III it was OK. I was just expecting something way more epic.

 

[Carfax83]

Just finished the "Where the Cat and Wolf play" DLC Witcher contract. It was one of the best quests in the game, very well written..

There are lots of other quests of similar quality though, far beyond the usual Bioware style quests...

 

[zinfamous]

I wouldn't say the game was content packed. Most of Skellige was useless smuggler's caches and the main quests were standard AAA (I was expecting more than running around for Ciri, then running around with Ciri). First 2 games were more or less ignored too. Plus as I said its hilarious that a lot of the final cutscenes were 720p pre-rendered. Everyone is still going on about how the Witcher 3 is a gold standard; I'd say it was average to above average at best. I honestly still prefer Mass Effect; medieval fantasy is getting nearly as tiring as zombies.

At it's heart, the main story was a simple search, but it doesn't play out like that. You get involved in several complex plots, and rather adult (which means mature: complex; not "titties") themes and situations (The Baron string of events) and succession plots.

I think it's an effective implementation of the classic search (see: The Searchers), with compelling plotting woven into it. The Skellige succession stuff isn't as compelling as the political bollocks in Witcher 2 (basically just help this guy on quest, help that girl on quest, decide who wins), and I definitely agree that the content in Skellige is really lacking. It seems that it has twice the caches and camps than Vellen, and less than half the story/contracts/quests. Skellige is gorgeous and well designed as far as environment goes, but it feels rushed. I'm thinking one of the substantial expansions will deal with Skellige and the new Queen (or King, if you went that route)

 

[chimaxi83]

is there a technical thread about this game?

i don t care about the game itself (i have to play tw2 first), and don t want spoilers, but i wanna see how it goes on your rigs.


on my laptop it was horrible, on my desktop with poor card i have 40 fps maxed out (no nvidia hair)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdURJTAEZNQ&list=PLOG6NBr3GJPw_rllQg4uIG1Jk4B3XSLSv&index=1

but i m gonna upgrade to titanx and i hope to have better results

Yes, there is a technical thread. You're in it.

"40 fps maxed out" is pretty meaningless when you don't list any settings, and all you're doing is riding a horse on a path.

 

[alcoholbob]

Also 1.07 introduced some very annoying fps caps in certain areas on the PC version. I notice when Water is set to High or Ultra, when there are a lot of water effects going on now and you have Vsync on the FPS is capped at 40 if your actual FPS is below 60. But this behavior goes away if you set water down to medium or low, even if your actual FPS afterwards is still below 60.

So when I turn off vsync my fps will shoot up to 57-58 which is much smoother but has screen tearing. With vsync on I'm locked at 40. This wasn't the case during 1.06 and earlier. Very similar to Xbox One/PS4 1.07 capping fps to 20 in certain areas when it drops below 30 (and was actually 28-29 fps before in 1.06 in that area).

 

[escrow4]

At it's heart, the main story was a simple search, but it doesn't play out like that. You get involved in several complex plots, and rather adult (which means mature: complex; not "titties") themes and situations (The Baron string of events) and succession plots.

I think it's an effective implementation of the classic search (see: The Searchers), with compelling plotting woven into it. The Skellige succession stuff isn't as compelling as the political bollocks in Witcher 2 (basically just help this guy on quest, help that girl on quest, decide who wins), and I definitely agree that the content in Skellige is really lacking. It seems that it has twice the caches and camps than Vellen, and less than half the story/contracts/quests. Skellige is gorgeous and well designed as far as environment goes, but it feels rushed. I'm thinking one of the substantial expansions will deal with Skellige and the new Queen (or King, if you went that route)

Beyond the baron and Junior I didn't find much standing out or complex plotting. It was competent and that is it. Huge disappointment that Vizima was a palace and that is it no major city, and the threat of Nilfgaard was ignored - the end of II they invaded, they had a camp in one of the maps . . . . . . and nothing happened. Not exactly "war-torn".

 

[Chaotic0ne]

Witcher 3 was working fine yesterday, and now the game won't even boot. I tried reinstalling the game and everything and the game just will not boot no matter what I do. I've exhausted my troubleshooting options at this point.

I click on the shortcut, and it does absolutely nothing. No black screen, nothing. I tried to make a new shortcut, and even start the game from the game's folder, and nothing.

Does anyone have any idea what can happen over the process of 1 day that will cause this game, and only this game to not be able to boot? I'm not using GOG galaxy.

Here is the error log from eventviewer:

Faulting application name: witcher3.exe, version: 3.0.4.51444, time stamp: 0x555fb431
Faulting module name: witcher3.exe, version: 3.0.4.51444, time stamp: 0x555fb431
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000b25257
Faulting process id: 0xb6c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d0c8701bf30bbf
Faulting application path: C:Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64\witcher3.exe
Faulting module path: C:Games\The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\bin\x64\witcher3.exe
Report Id: 5b501587-3463-11e5-8f54-1c6f65ce1a51

I try to patch the game and I get this error:

The program patch_witcher3_1.01-1.07_2.0.0.34.tmp version 51.1052.0.0 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Action Center control panel.
Process ID ea8
Start Time: 01d0c87792fcac28
Termination Time: 0
Application Path: C:Users\*****\AppData\Local\Temp\is-MH4HH.tmp\patch_witcher3_1.01-1.07_2.0.0.34.tmp
Report Id:
Event ID 1002

I've tried reinstalling the game twice and the above errors are repeatable.

 

[Fenixgoon]

for crafting - should i dismantle everything i get from monsters or keep it in monster form? it seems like some potion recipes need monster items (nekker heart in a potion, for example) while i think some of the gear needs the dismantled version.

i have a whole shitton of crafting ingredients just eating up inventory weight and i don't know exactly what to do with all of it.

 

[Artorias]

Witcher 3 was working fine yesterday, and now the game won't even boot. I tried reinstalling the game and everything and the game just will not boot no matter what I do. I've exhausted my troubleshooting options at this point.

I click on the shortcut, and it does absolutely nothing. No black screen, nothing. I tried to make a new shortcut, and even start the game from the game's folder, and nothing.

Does anyone have any idea what can happen over the process of 1 day that will cause this game, and only this game to not be able to boot? I'm not using GOG galaxy.

Here is the error log from eventviewer:

I try to patch the game and I get this error:



I've tried reinstalling the game twice and the above errors are repeatable.

Well thats really strange, I had something similar but more severe only once.

Im not sure how but my entire Witcher 3 save folder became corrupted and my computer crashed, just straight up black screen no message.

I turn it on and runs a diskcheck which deletes the entire Witcher 3 save game directory. If not for cloud save I would have lost 80 hours. Not sure if my hard drive is going fail, first time this has ever happened.

 

[Merad]

for crafting - should i dismantle everything i get from monsters or keep it in monster form? it seems like some potion recipes need monster items (nekker heart in a potion, for example) while i think some of the gear needs the dismantled version.

i have a whole shitton of crafting ingredients just eating up inventory weight and i don't know exactly what to do with all of it.

Just keep about 10 of each item and sell the extras. No point dismantling stuff until you need it.

 

[Skel]

for crafting - should i dismantle everything i get from monsters or keep it in monster form? it seems like some potion recipes need monster items (nekker heart in a potion, for example) while i think some of the gear needs the dismantled version.

i have a whole shitton of crafting ingredients just eating up inventory weight and i don't know exactly what to do with all of it.

I thought they released a patch that removed crafting stuff from eating inventory weight... at least I remember them releasing something along those lines. On the Xbox, I believe the patch removed something from the weight. It did fix the inventory so it read better in terms of what I needed to save vs what I was done with.

 

[BxgJ]

Just finished the "Where the Cat and Wolf play" DLC Witcher contract. It was one of the best quests in the game, very well written..

There are lots of other quests of similar quality though, far beyond the usual Bioware style quests...

One of the best quests. The guy even noticed the 'conflict' between my medallion and my gear.

edit- long time lurker btw. Hope to be active now.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Just finished the "Where the Cat and Wolf play" DLC Witcher contract. It was one of the best quests in the game, very well written..

There are lots of other quests of similar quality though, far beyond the usual Bioware style quests...

Just finished it but a question

Spoiler

is it possible to let the witcher go on his way and save the girl at the same time? Also what is the old woman's reaction when you tell her it was the monster or simply bandits instead of telling her the truth that a witcher killed everyone?

 

[chimaxi83]

Just finished it but a question

Spoiler

is it possible to let the witcher go on his way and save the girl at the same time? Also what is the old woman's reaction when you tell her it was the monster or simply bandits instead of telling her the truth that a witcher killed everyone?

Well

Spoiler

that's exactly what I did, let Gaetan go, went back for the girl, and took her to her aunties. As far as letting him go, I responded along the lines of it was wrong what you did, but part of me understands, and I'm not the one to judge you. Gaetan is surprised and gives you directions to his mini cache. Decent sword for the level I guess, Teigr. My Geralt normally takes the moral high road and would have destroyed the witcher, but I believed his story about the greedy villagers. Cheap bastards lol.

I told the old lady that it was the contract monster that killed them all, and gave her some money to help with the kid. She doesn't really respond because right away Geralt asks if she'll look after the girl.

One of the best quests. The guy even noticed the 'conflict' between my medallion and my gear.

edit- long time lurker btw. Hope to be active now.

Haha yeah that was a nice touch. I didn't catch what he meant at first.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well

Spoiler

that's exactly what I did, let Gaetan go, went back for the girl, and took her to her aunties. As far as letting him go, I responded along the lines of it was wrong what you did, but part of me understands, and I'm not the one to judge you. Gaetan is surprised and gives you directions to his mini cache. Decent sword for the level I guess, Teigr. My Geralt normally takes the moral high road and would have destroyed the witcher, but I believed his story about the greedy villagers. Cheap bastards lol.

I told the old lady that it was the contract monster that killed them all, and gave her some money to help with the kid. She doesn't really respond because right away Geralt asks if she'll look after the girl.

Spoiler

I killed the guy and didn't let him take his swallow (which I hear will make you blind for the beginning of the fight). The response was "no way, you seem to like uneven odds." and when I returned with the girl I told the woman it was a witcher and she said "it's true what they say, you're all monsters and killers etc" Then Geralt said "not all, and that witcher paid the ultimate price...doesn't matter now" and then I gave her some money.

I'm always curious to see what the other responses and outcomes are though.

 

[artemicion]

Beyond the baron and Junior I didn't find much standing out or complex plotting. It was competent and that is it. Huge disappointment that Vizima was a palace and that is it no major city, and the threat of Nilfgaard was ignored - the end of II they invaded, they had a camp in one of the maps . . . . . . and nothing happened. Not exactly "war-torn".

Haven't finished the game yet, but I'm starting to feel the same way. The Baron questline was quite good but the game has kind of slid downwards from there. Not to say it's a bad game, but it seemed to have peaked near the beginning and has slid downward from there.

And sorry (re: someone else's point about the sex in the game), some of the nudity/sexuality is rather stupid/silly. Triss running around in Jennifer Lopez's Grammy dress is 100% catering toward my old-perverted-man tastes. People need to stop defending the nudity/sexuality in the game as some profound form of mature artistic expression. It's not The Birth of Venus. It's just bewbs.

On a related note, I can't decide if it's hilarious or appalling that the devs supposedly captured 16 hours of mo-cap sex--that yielded less than a dozen short scenes in game, most of which use the same recycled animations. I'm almost certain that a bunch of horny liars at CDPR tricked a bunch of models into having 16 hours of sex in mo-cap suits under the pretext of using the recordings in-game. "CDPR Now Hiring: Models to Act out Sex Scenes for use in Tasteful, Mature, Artistic, Avant-Garde Video Game. We're Totally Not Saving The Footage On Flash Drives Hidden In Our Sock Drawer." Suuuuuuure.

 

[Dahak]

New DLC release that I noticed in the GOG client, New Finishers

 

[frozentundra123456]

I feel about this game the same way I did about DA:I, it certainly is a good game, no real flaws, but it just seems like something is missing. Just keep waiting for special something to really grab me, but it somehow never quite happens. Maybe it is just me, or I was expecting too much.

 

[escrow4]

I feel about this game the same way I did about DA:I, it certainly is a good game, no real flaws, but it just seems like something is missing. Just keep waiting for special something to really grab me, but it somehow never quite happens. Maybe it is just me, or I was expecting too much.

This. Inquisition had the war table which was a cop out as opposed to slapping a real RTS mini game thing and Witcher III had a war-torn background that went nowhere and the plot itself was bland. There was (and is) so so much to do with the world and the devs just ignored it and focused on GET CIRI NOW.

 

[Merad]

I feel about this game the same way I did about DA:I, it certainly is a good game, no real flaws, but it just seems like something is missing. Just keep waiting for special something to really grab me, but it somehow never quite happens. Maybe it is just me, or I was expecting too much.

I'm not sure we played the same two games.

I think it took me almost 60 hours to finish DA:I. By probably 40 hours in I was starting to get sick of the game, and began ignoring almost everything except the main quest. There were at least two whole zones that I never touched, and in a third all I did was one treasure hunting quest series that I googled a guide for instead of trying solve the riddles myself.

OTOH I finished TW3 in 135 hours, and I enjoyed the whole experience (except some frustrating moments late in the main quest). Around 70 hours in I was sure I was about to go to Skellige and the game would be over before too long. Instead, I was at somewhere around 90-100 hours before I even got to Skellige and the game kept me engaged for 40 hours after that. A couple of weeks ago I started a new game, going at a slower pace (only about 10 hours played so far) and I'm still totally engaged and enjoying the game. Never before have I played a single player game so much as soon as it was released, and never have I started replaying a long RPG so soon after completing the game the first time.

 

[Fenixgoon]

I'm not sure we played the same two games.

I think it took me almost 60 hours to finish DA:I. By probably 40 hours in I was starting to get sick of the game, and began ignoring almost everything except the main quest. There were at least two whole zones that I never touched, and in a third all I did was one treasure hunting quest series that I googled a guide for instead of trying solve the riddles myself.

OTOH I finished TW3 in 135 hours, and I enjoyed the whole experience (except some frustrating moments late in the main quest). Around 70 hours in I was sure I was about to go to Skellige and the game would be over before too long. Instead, I was at somewhere around 90-100 hours before I even got to Skellige and the game kept me engaged for 40 hours after that. A couple of weeks ago I started a new game, going at a slower pace (only about 10 hours played so far) and I'm still totally engaged and enjoying the game. Never before have I played a single player game so much as soon as it was released, and never have I started replaying a long RPG so soon after completing the game the first time.

i'm 70 hours in and level 13(?) and still doing quests in novigrad and whatnot

 

[escrow4]

i'm 70 hours in and level 13(?) and still doing quests in novigrad and whatnot

Difficulty? I played on maximum easy being super lazy. :awe:

 

[MeldarthX]

I put in about 100 hours into DA:I could do more but .....still recording Witcher 3 - I'm level 17 think 55ish hours into; just about fnished with Novigrad.

I like both of the games - there were cop outs in both; as someone pointed out; war table for DA:I *though I did like it* and war torn background. I can understand for both.

Decisions in the game do effect things more so in DA:I than in W3 - but war is the story persay in DA:I where in W3; its last story on Geralt; his personal travels to find his daughter Ciri *whatever is said he raised her*

Both are well worth playing; keeping open mind and not comparing them.