Yeah, when the tooltip first popped up that I can only use crossbow, I was like "FUUUUUUUUUUU this will take forever!" ...then you shoot one and they die.
Ohhhh, haha. Yeah, that seems to be intentional. Underwater combat would be extremely tedious if the crossbow did its normal damage, requiring 20-odd shots to kill anything.
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Skyrim is generic good vs evil rubbish from 1995 back when Wheel of Time was in.
Yeah, when the tooltip first popped up that I can only use crossbow, I was like "FUUUUUUUUUUU this will take forever!" ...then you shoot one and they die.
The deal with Go and also Skyrim in some ways is that it is complexity through simplicity. The lack of difficulty and balancing made it so in vanilla Skyrim you could just run up to stuff and start bashing it in but with Requiem fighting requires good movement, tactical awareness, positioning, timings, and general wise decisions in order to just survive nevermind start defeating bandits and skeletons and other enemies.
Even the skeletons in the crypt in Whiterun are very hard to destroy at any low character level and it is very hard without heavy armor as just a few hits will drop you otherwise.
A lot of times I'm pressing ESC to get out the menu and it doesn't work. I have to click exit on the top right corner first. I always make sure I'm in a clear area before messing in the menus.well as if getting out of the UI menus wasn't stupidly long, I had my first death from it. My pinky toe hit a patch of gas and killed me at half health because I jumped into my inventory at the exact moment and could not regain control of geralt fast enough to move him. These patches to fix stupid ui crap like this can't come fast enough.
It just started happening. I can click continue a few times, and it goes away, or actually put a disc in (a Tchaikovsky #4 CD worked), and it goes away. I had recently used my ODD for ripping some CDs, so that may be related. I'll restart sometime this weekend, and see if I can make it go from not giving that to giving it. I do not seem to be alone in having the message, but it doesn't seem to be common.How on earth did you manage that?
Overall, I'm really impressed, so far. But, I was hoping for high graphics settings to look a bit better, in regards to plants, of which there are many.
So I take it you never actually play Skyrim that much? Ever pay attention to the Civil War questline?
You mean the civil "war" consisting of 10 soldiers that dragged the FPS to 40 or less with endless speechifying and yapping that was so clichéd it was nearly a crime?
Yes Bethesda left the questline a unfinished and mediocre mess but when you look at the overall situation there is no good or bad side to join with in the questline. Grey morality is something that the Witcher franchise focuses on so obviously Skyrim in not even going to be close in dealing with grey or ambiguous morality and related content.
The 2D trees is downright sanctimonious blasphemy of the foulest sort.
I'm still having trouble, but getting better. I wish there were more humans to go against without save-scumming, but I've gone from 2 drowners being too much, to taking on 3 without losing more than half health (no potions), at level 3. It just takes practice, to get timing of blocking, dodging, and signs right, along with selecting the right sign, without error, without looking. While it's fundamentally similar to TW2's combat, I'm liking it a lot more (and while the FOV and camera are a little small and close, am having no motion sickness, unlike many a console port, and unmodded TW2). It seems to have a lot of the tension and risk that TW1's Flash Mod offered, without the varied negatives of that beat-like system. TW2 seemed to lose that, outside of boss fights, for me.Impressive!
I'm not seeing the difficulty that others are in some places--specifically level of quest vs level of character. I'm having essentially no problem dealing with any quest that is 2 or 3 levels above me. In Orchard area, with the Viper Treasure hunt, those were recommended for level 7, I think, and I finished them at level 3. The wraith in that graveyard was no problem at level 3.
You can't? I'm pretty sure you can. I fully plan to, once I'm comfortable taking on enemies a few levels above me.I'm playing at 2nd-hardest difficulty; somewhat disappointed that I can't bump it up to the hardest setting now.
Hopefully there will be places in the game where they only help so much. TW1 and TW2 had areas where you had to decide which creatures you really wanted active oils and potions for, like crypts with physical vampires, psychic vampires, and necrophages all together.Oils really do trivialize some of the content
My Xeon E3 barely gets warm, isn't using tons of CPU, and all slowdowns are at 95-100% GPU, usually with lots of plants to draw on the screen. They definitely have taken their time optimizing data structures and calls, instead of assuming the big bad PC CPUs would just take it in stride, so there's no bolt-on physics stutter, jerkiness at combat start, or any other such crap. Your 6300 is getting long in the tooth, but at most, a little OCing should max this game out, with it.I got the 6300 some time go, before we knew the specs of the new consoles. It was back when amd still had plans to out out a new more powerful FX series so I went with the cheap 6300 and waited for the new chip. Now buying a 8350 would be silly because it isn't that much more game performance and the money is better saved and spent on doing a swapout to intel. ^^
It's almost like 2D fighting games, in that you have to have some tactical sense, defensive moves can be used as part of an offensive set of moves, timing means a lot, where a mere 200-300ms (close to the limits of us normal mortals, and far too quick to think about things) can be night and day. Just the same, you don't have time to reconsider your choices in the moment, but still have to be able to change what you're doing without hesitating. In a crowd, risking finishers can be dangerous, too. It's manageable, and when I screw up, I can see how I did it right at that point, but it's not very forgiving.Can you tell me more?
I agree. Hopefully an Enhanced Edition will fix those for the PC, or modders will find a way (TW2 got its share of such mods). I can't say everything else is perfect, but aside from doing that in 2015, the rest of the positives have far outweighed negatives (often with little things, like all cut scenes being skippable; no loot animations; and v-sync playing silky smooth when at <60FPS, which in many games requires config file editing, 3rd-party hacks, and much trial and error).The 2D trees is downright unsanctimonious blasphemy of the foulest sort.
For anything far way, that's fine. But they should have nearby LOD variants that are very high detail, so that when we set our sliders to ultra, it really looks it. Then, those far away ones should have a shader or two on them to blend in better, so their flatness is not so apparent. When right up to a bush to harvest from it, the berries or flowers shouldn't look like a bad watercolor, when the we can see the individual rings in the main character's mail.As much as you think our video cards are bad ass today.. they still can't render a complete 3d forest for miles out. All games do it, and all games will continue to do it for the near future. In fact until the day our video cards have a budget that can render individual leaves, you will never see the removal of tree's being reduced to 2d panels in the distance.
And even then... unless rendering 3d suddenly allows for unlimited resources, no one is going to sacrifice GPU budget on rendering far off trees when that same performance can be used to render even more detail close up.
The CIvil War just fell flat. It had so much potential for being a big world-changing event, but it amounts to nothing in the end, regardless of your chosen side. It doesn't help that while the Jarls have their own hint of personality, there is really nothing about any one of them that, when replaced by an invading army, changes the city they control, much less those citizens' response to the dragon born.
Important!
I know I've said it before, but applications/programs on your PC that use hardware acceleration can cause problems with the Witcher 3, by causing the driver to stop responding which the results in the game crashing.
I've had this happen to me with two programs. First was the Spartan browser, and now just a few hours ago, I found out that OpenOffice can cause issues as well because it uses some sort of hardware acceleration as well.
I played for about 8 hours yesterday with zero crashes. This morning, I installed OpenOffice 4.1.1 as I needed to view some powerpoint slides. Later, I started up the Witcher 3 and after playing for about 5 minutes, the game crashed with the same "Driver stopped responding error."
After some troubleshooting, I ended up uninstalling OpenOffice and the issue was resolved. So if you're having stability issues, make sure to check that nothing that uses hardware acceleration is running in the background.
I know I've said it before, but applications/programs on your PC that use hardware acceleration can cause problems with the Witcher 3, by causing the driver to stop responding which the results in the game crashing.
It really has nothing to do with background programs. I have Firefox open all the time (uses hardware acceleration) and usually I can play for at least 2-3 hours with no crash, but a couple of times I have crashes within 5 minutes.
Are you guys talking about the nvlddmkm "stopped responding" crash?
I'm using an old pre-witcher driver, and I got that crash a lot. I decided to live with it for the time being because nvidia seem to have made a balls of the new drivers. However, I now think that having GPU-Z running might be a contributor. I often had GPU-Z running to log GPU stats, but it seems like when I don't have it running, the game doesn't crash.