The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[cmdrdredd]

At Level 24, no issues. Some side quests only give a tiny amount of XP. Clearing out Skellige contracts except the really high levelled one and maybe some question marks than returning to the main quest. I have to say the beginning of finding is rather bland as main quests go; even finding Dandelion is rather meh. I was expecting more. No I and II had tightly focussed plots this is all over the place. And where is Nilfgaard? Camping in the bottom of the map? Won't they attack/skirmish?

Yeah dandelion was the most boring quest line in the game for me. I like novigrad but that line of quests didn't interest me. I did however like interacting with the 4 crime organizations.

 

[sze5003]

Yay patch is out I'll resume today after work.

 

[Mem]

Yay patch is out I'll resume today after work.

Hehe took me ten minutes to find another minor bug,but there is a way around it,anyway game is very still stable .

 

[Gryz]

Edit: I couldn't resist, and installed the patch. It works with SweetFX. No problems.

 

[Merad]

Hehe took me ten minutes to find another minor bug,but there is a way around it,anyway game is very still stable .

It has been incredibly unpredictable for me. Last night was the first chance I got to play since the weekend, and at that point I had at least 20 hours of playtime since I'd crashed. I started it up last night, crashed within 2 minutes of loading. Started it again, same thing. Then the third time was fine and played almost two hours with no issues.

Edit: Anyone have a source for patch notes yet? Everything I'm finding is the "patch notes preview" from earlier in the week.

 

[Merad]

Found the patch notes on reddit:


Fixes a possible exploit by preventing certain drowners from respawning infinitely.
Improves the distribution of experience points gained by completing quests with recommended levels lower than the player character level.
Merchants now offer more weapon types.
Rebalances the prices of maps that can be purchased from merchants.
Clarifies a number of crafting diagrams.
Fixes an exploit whereby players could buy sea shells and sell the pearls inside them at a higher price.
Increases the variety of loot dropped throughout the game.
Increases the variety of items available in shops.
Shops now only offer weapons with levels matching or exceeding the player character level.
Slightly reduces the amount of coin dropped from chests and monsters.
Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.
Fixes an issue where runestones could not be upgraded to greater runestones.
Reduces the spawn time of selected groups of NPCs.
Geralt no longer interacts with candles placed near chests and other openable objects.
Improves the smoothness of camera movement.
Fixes a number of issues related to horseback riding.
Fixes an issue where the player could not deflect arrows/bolts at longer distances.
Introduces a number of fixes in in-game communities.
Introduces a number of fixes related to combat.
Vitality begins to drop if Toxicity exceeds 80%, as originally intended.
Fixes an issue where Geralt was sometimes unable to mount Roach.
Improves Geralt's movement, especially when he swims.
Fixes an issue whereby Geralt could be attached to a sinking boat while aiming his crossbow.
Fixes a number of issues related to Vitality regeneration.
Fixes an issue whereby certain actions could be randomly blocked during gameplay.
Fixes a rare issue whereby Geralt could not mount Roach after fast travelling between points.
Fixes a number of minor tooltip and wording bugs.
Adds a series of color-blind friendly features. Improves visibility of tracks, marks, footprints and scent clues. Color-blind friendly features can be enabled in the Options\Gamplay submenu.
Introduces a number of additional fixes to alt + tabbing.
Fixes an issue where The Witcher 3 process did not close properly if the user did not have XAUDIO installed.
Introduces a number of general stability and performance improvements.
Fixes an issue where in certain situations the game could crash while a save was being loaded.
Adds some missing translations in localized versions.
Ciri can no longer unlock fast travel points.
Improves the behavior of sails when viewed from longer distances.
Improves performance in selected scenes and cutscenes.
Fixes an issue where clouds and fog could flicker on some hardware configurations.
Fixes an issue where Geralt could pass through walls in the fish market in Novigrad.
Removes repeated sound cues on entry into GUI panels a second time.
Adds a collision near Kaer Gelen that could cause the player to be blocked inside the building.
Improves the scale of selected elements of the GUI and HUD.
Introduces a number of bug fixes and user experience improvements in the GUI panels.
Introduces a number of small changes in the UI for gwent.
Improves the alignment of the HUD for the 21:9, 4:3 and 5:4 screen ratios.
Disables "Input device changed" messages and adds options to disable on-screen combat feedback and floating tags above NPCs.
Adds an information prompt and Journal entries related to new DLC packages.
Fixes an issue where some formulae were not displayed in the Alchemy panel when the player possessed level 1 of said formulae.
Introduces a number of fixes in key bindings.
Introduces new filters for the Alchemy and Crafting panels.
Fixes a number of minor issues where music tracks were not triggered in their designated locations.
Fixes an issue where some players could not interact with an object during the Pyres of Novigrad quest.
Fixes an issue where some players could not make Geralt run after the Wandering in the Dark quest.
Fixes an issue where players could not talk to Octo after the Lord of Undvik quest.
Reduces the number of Wild Hunt minions spawned during the Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog quest.
Fixes an issue where Keira could sometimes fall beneath the terrain during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
Fixes an issue where certain actions were blocked during the Blindingly Obvious quest.
Fixes an issue where the player could not activate a portal during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
Fixes an issue where the player could get trapped in the ruins of Tuirseach Castle.
Geralt can now always play gwent with Madame Serenity.
Fixes an issue where Vernon Roche would not appear at the Hanged Man's Tree during the Eye for an Eye quest.
Fixes an issue where the player could not talk or otherwise interact with certain NPCs.
Fixes an issue where the sirens in the Lord of Undvik quest could be invincible.
Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions after the Carnal Sins quest.
Fixes an issue where some players experienced an infinite loading screen during the King's Gambit quest.
Fixes an issue where the player could experience a progression break after choosing a certain dialogue option when talking to Dijkstra in the Count Reuven's Treasure quest.
Fixes an issue where Simun did not spawn properly during the Unpaid Debt quest.
Fixes an issue in the Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk quest where the katakan was not hostile after being lured.
Fixes an issue in the Contract: Shrieker quest where the shrieker was not hostile in certain situations.
Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions in the Master of the Arena quest.
Fixes an issue where wolves were not visible in the Contract: Mysterious Tracks quest.
Fixes an issue where the player could not fast travel under certain rare circumstances.
Fixes an issue where the player could not interact with Hattori during the Swords and Dumplings quest.
The player can no longer take on the Apiarian Phantom contract multiple times.
Fixes an issue where some players could not progress during the Broken Flowers quest.
Fixes an issue whereby the "Novigrad, Closed City" entry might have remained in the Journal indefinitely.
Fixes an issue in the Return to Crookback Bog quest where monsters were spawned inside a building.
Players can no longer prematurely obtain a key from a halfling, thus blocking the Contract: The Apiarian Phantom quest.
Fixes an issue in the Greedy God quest where the player could kill a monster twice.
Adds fail-safes for players being unable to obtain gwent cards after Dijkstra or Lambert can no longer be found in the game.
Fixes an issue whereby Triss could get stuck on a set of stairs after a scene during the Now or Never quest.
Fixes an issue where Ermion could not leave Lugos' area during the Sunstone quest.

 

[Mem]

Well patch broke a Gwent quest ,can't play with marquis serenity for her card,finding more bugs as I go along.

Ironic since the patch is supposed to fixed that.

 

[RockinZ28]

Edit: I couldn't resist, and installed the patch. It works with SweetFX. No problems.

Was SweetFX broken for you with the DLC release earlier this week?

Ever since then it hasn't worked for me, but I didn't look into it to figure out how to get it working again.

Just got home and haven't dled the patch.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well patch broke a Gwent quest ,can't play with marquis serenity for her card,finding more bugs as I go along.

Ironic since the patch is supposed to fixed that.

I couldn't play against her after I finished the game and was trying to learn to play. I dunno if it was supposed to do that for me or not.

 

[PlanetJosh]

You can now go around in first person but it's only in free camera mode. So it's not for gameplay. You can fly around with WASD as controls once you activate it. And Geralt will remain on the ground or wherever you begin to fly away from him. The mod, which is primarily a console command enabler, is at Nexus:

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/28/?

And the free cam in first person is just one of its options.

It works ok for me but be warned the NPCs may be frozen which looks creepy. But at least it's first person (in free cam) while we wait for someone to make a FPV for gameplay.

 

[Gryz]

Was SweetFX broken for you with the DLC release earlier this week?

Ever since then it hasn't worked for me, but I didn't look into it to figure out how to get it working again.

I read that the 2 most recent DLCs broke SweetFX. So I didn't download them. No problem, as I wasn't planning to walk around looking like a Nazi. And I don't care for crossbows. (Playing ranged in a game with melee combat is for pftrs).

I was informed today that that problem can be solved by removing not dxgi.dll but by deleting/renaming/moving the new d3d11.dll file. I haven't tried it yet.

 

[JeffMD]

You can now go around in first person but it's only in free camera mode.

#1 current crop of mods got broken in 1.05, really sucks cause the author of the debug window mod is out for 3 weeks. I have hopes however since such a mod should be very easy to do.

#2 I worked with free camera a but, used it in my time lapse videos. What I found was

a) Level of detail for trees is based around the camera, but building would be a low detail and even buggy. I could move away for miles and the trees would always appear appropriately but as soon as i approached a building it would disappear from its foundations.

b) NPCs, or namely the AI that drives NPCs are based around geralt only. Both line of sight and distance from geralt would determine if they appear or not.

I tell ya though... the clouds are most interesting. They are an ever evolving ever reforming 3d model, not a big one but enough shape to accurately reflect the sun/moon. Someone spent a ton of time on these. They are not bitmaps.

 

[Merad]

But at least it's first person (in free cam) while we wait for someone to make a FPV for gameplay.

Much as I love first person I just don't see it working in this game. Combat would be a total mess IMO.

 

[futurefields]

Says improved camera smoothness and game performance on the new patch have you guys experienced this???

 

[Carfax83]

Says improved camera smoothness and game performance on the new patch have you guys experienced this???

Yes, game definitely feels smoother in many respects. It's harder for me to estimate how much though, as I never had any issues with smoothness and performance before the patch.. Plus I play at 60 FPS locked Vsync.

 

[JeffMD]

Says improved camera smoothness and game performance on the new patch have you guys experienced this???

Probably just more changes to the .ini for default profiles.

 

[Subyman]

Some spoilers in those patch notes. Game did seem smoother although the fps seemed unchanged.

 

[Anomaly1964]

GMG has Witcher III on sale for 35.99

 

[JeffMD]

GMG are the ones who are getting their cheap codes from an undisclosed third party, and then their download servers totally collapsed on release day.

 

[sze5003]

What drivers are people with amd cards running? I noticed after the patch the game camera is better but it seems performance is worse for me than before the patch. Maybe it's just me since I haven't played in some time.

 

[Mem]

What drivers are people with amd cards running? I noticed after the patch the game camera is better but it seems performance is worse for me than before the patch. Maybe it's just me since I haven't played in some time.

Still using 14.12s here ,very stable game however still a few bugs need to be squashed via game patches down the road.

 

[Carfax83]

I really hate the mutagen system in this game. Since I have been playing (level 14 now), I have yet to find a SINGLE red mutagen!

I have found plenty of named red mutagens, but I can't use those to make greater red mutagens. Only lesser red mutagens can make greater ones.

I even looked at this red mutagen farming guide and followed everything exactly. I killed the fiend three times, and those Endregas three times as well, but all I got were either named mutagens or less blue and green ones.

This has to be a bug of some sort!

 

[RockinZ28]

I really hate the mutagen system in this game. Since I have been playing (level 14 now), I have yet to find a SINGLE red mutagen!

I have found plenty of named red mutagens, but I can't use those to make greater red mutagens. Only lesser red mutagens can make greater ones.

I even looked at this red mutagen farming guide and followed everything exactly. I killed the fiend three times, and those Endregas three times as well, but all I got were either named mutagens or less blue and green ones.

This has to be a bug of some sort!

They do seem to be much rarer than the green/blue, but I've got a few. Enough to make one greater red mutagen at least. But yea I think you should be able to craft a higher grade mutagen from all the useless named mutagens.

Another thing I noticed just now. Went to craft some mutagen upgrades, and now it says I already have that item if I try to create another blue mutagen from lesser mutagens for instance. Basically if you have one mutagen, you can't craft another. So guess I'd have to drop it, craft another, then pick the original back up. Must be a bug introduced in 1.05. ..

 

[Merad]

Another thing I noticed just now. Went to craft some mutagen upgrades, and now it says I already have that item if I try to create another blue mutagen from lesser mutagens for instance. Basically if you have one mutagen, you can't craft another. So guess I'd have to drop it, craft another, then pick the original back up. Must be a bug introduced in 1.05. ..

That was broken as well as crafting for some of the non-refillable potion items.

 

[Mem]

I had out of combat bug where you are still in combat even after killing the monster for the quest,in my case was a leshan and I could not loot his body or anything(was still in combat mode with no mobs around) ,I had to reload a previous save and kill him again.


Horse AI with Roach could be better,had him get stuck at fence or trees when you whistle for him to come,still got the card bug with Marquis Serenity so how can that be fixed in patch 1.05 when its still bugged out?

Also sometimes Geralt won't get his weapon out,just stands there with his fists up against monsters,even hitting "2" key for silver sword does not help in that situation.

I had a nasty quest bug with

Spoiler

rescuing dandelion ,the hidden trap door to rescue him would not open with key,I had to reload that about five times and eventually it let me select the hidden door for opening,

Stability still excellent, solid for me as usual.

These bugs need to be fixed soon as possible.