The Witcher 3

thomas anderson.

I play on easier difficulties as I never have the time to "git gud" enough for the more difficult settings.

I want a hassle free experience so I can enjoy the story mode more and not be stressed out spending all evening trying to kill a griffin.

Thecageyone

thomas anderson. wrote: »

I play on easier difficulties as I never have the time to "git gud" enough for the more difficult settings.

I want a hassle free experience so I can enjoy the story mode more and not be stressed out spending all evening trying to kill a griffin.

I forget what it's called, but the one up from story only is where I've been at and earlier on even at that when you're facing a gang of bandits it can be tricky. I'm finding it is getting easier now as I'm levelling [heading for 12 now] but I still die in 2 hits from one of those Earth elementals [have only come across the one but had to leg it] - also Trololol was able to off me quick when I got too close.

I believe the only real difference between that mode and the next up is on 'hard' your HP doesn't replenish with meditation.

I don't want it to be a chore either

Markitron

Thecageyone wrote: »

I forget what it's called, but the one up from story only is where I've been at and earlier on even at that when you're facing a gang of bandits it can be tricky. I'm finding it is getting easier now as I'm levelling [heading for 12 now] but I still die in 2 hits from one of those Earth elementals [have only come across the one but had to leg it] - also Trololol was able to off me quick when I got too close.

I believe the only real difference between that mode and the next up is on 'hard' your HP doesn't replenish with meditation.

I don't want it to be a chore either

TW3 has a wonky difficulty curve nomatter which difficulty level you play at. I have finished it on standard and death march. At the start, you can die very easily if you don't pay attention, at the end you are an unstoppable god-man. The only actual difficult fights are the ones against enemies that are a few levels higher than you, where basically if you chip away at them and keep your shield up, you win after about 5-10 mins.

Temptamperu

Damn, my playstation wont read my physical copy. Guess i'll buy it again since its on sale.

dreamers75

Temptamperu wrote: »

Damn, my playstation wont read my physical copy. Guess i'll buy it again since its on sale.

Put it in the freezer with the read side facing up for about an hour.

Install it to your HD (if thats a thing)

thomas anderson.

Got hearts of stone. Turns out there's a bug in one of the quests, where you are supposed to get a diagram. It's meant to be in a chest but never spawns.

Only way to get it is to start the dlc with the pre made character.

Bummer

dreamers75

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Got hearts of stone. Turns out there's a bug in one of the quests, where you are supposed to get a diagram. It's meant to be in a chest but never spawns.

Only way to get it is to start the dlc with the pre made character.

Bummer

Enter dev mode, spawn it exit dev mode.

Ignore if on console

RedRochey

thomas anderson. wrote: »

Got hearts of stone. Turns out there's a bug in one of the quests, where you are supposed to get a diagram. It's meant to be in a chest but never spawns.

Only way to get it is to start the dlc with the pre made character.

Bummer

Same thing happened me, one of the wolf amour pieces is it, up in a tower? Drove me mad trying to fix it

Doctor Nick

Roughly at what point in the game do you get to mess around with alchemy. Brewing potions, making oils and bombs etc? Also, when can I start upgrading my armour?

I bought this again last week as it was €15 for GOTY edition. Third time buying. I got to Velen and the Crones mission. I get absolutely slaughtered in combat though. I only had the starting armour and think I got a slightly more powerful sword. Couldn't find any ingredients for oils etc. Had one or two potions only.

Ended up starting from scratch again with the goal of fully exploring white orchard in the hope of getting better gear. Is that possible so early or should I just have kept going? I really want to experience this game but finding the beginning a bit of a slog to get through.

Robert ninja

If you're playing on normal difficulty you can actually brute force your way through the entire game with quick attack build. You don't need to touch alchemy. If you're dying use green mutagens, cast quen and try to learn the dodges better. If you're on PC try change your settings so you get a better FPS for timing. Heavy attack is completely unnecessary for unmodded game.

Temptamperu

Doctor Nick wrote: »

Ended up starting from scratch again with the goal of fully exploring white orchard in the hope of getting better gear. Is that possible so early or should I just have kept going? I really want to experience this game but finding the beginning a bit of a slog to get through.

Theres Witcher Gear in White Orchard

Doctor Nick

Thanks to both of you for the replies. I'll do a lot more exploring before moving on to Velen this time. Have been going to the question marks on the map.

Thecageyone

Doctor Nick wrote: »

Thanks to both of you for the replies. I'll do a lot more exploring before moving on to Velen this time. Have been going to the question marks on the map.

What level is your character at? I was getting whooped at start too, I went ahead to try the 'Family matters' quest [Bloody Baron main quest] but was only level 3 ... I gave up in end and went back to an earlier save. Then I got stuck on 'A walk in the dark' [quest with Kiera] so I left both at points just before the harder sections and went on to do a bunch of side quests to level up. You can start missions like this early but where you're offered the option to come back later [usually a choice to say 'not quite ready yet' before you get locked into a section you have to complete once started]

I went back to do the same missions, on the same normal difficulty at level 7 and coasted through them. I didn't do very much by way of alchemy, just created simple potions to help with HP during fights, also collected a tonne of food [mostly stocked up on bread earlier on] and when i got level points I put them into quic combat and quen mostly. I'm level 12 atm, and finding combat is getting a little too easy so I will be upping it to hard.

Doctor Nick

Thecageyone wrote: »

What level is your character at? I was getting whooped at start too, I went ahead to try the 'Family matters' quest [Bloody Baron main quest] but was only level 3 ... I gave up in end and went back to an earlier save. Then I got stuck on 'A walk in the dark' [quest with Kiera] so I left both at points just before the harder sections and went on to do a bunch of side quests to level up. You can start missions like this early but where you're offered the option to come back later [usually a choice to say 'not quite ready yet' before you get locked into a section you have to complete once started]

I went back to do the same missions, on the same normal difficulty at level 7 and coasted through them. I didn't do very much by way of alchemy, just created simple potions to help with HP during fights, also collected a tonne of food [mostly stocked up on bread earlier on] and when i got level points I put them into quic combat and quen mostly. I'm level 12 atm, and finding combat is getting a little too easy so I will be upping it to hard.

I was level 5 on the first save. On the new game I started I'm only level 2 but am taking my time now. Haven't even fought the Griffin yet on new save. I'm taking it slow, exploring and trying to go to the '?' around White Orchard. That was probably my main problem, trying to just do main story quests when I should be trying to figure out the basics

Thecageyone

Doctor Nick wrote: »

I was level 5 on the first save. On the new game I started I'm only level 2 but am taking my time now. Haven't even fought the Griffin yet on new save. I'm taking it slow, exploring and trying to go to the '?' around White Orchard. That was probably my main problem, trying to just do main story quests when I should be trying to figure out the basics

Definitely not a game to rush through, take time and enjoy I have clocked over 30hrs now and nowhere near 1/4 way through if I'm to do all I reckon

Skerries

I put 230 hours into it including the dlc's but that was going to every ? except the water based ones

johnny_ultimate

I started playing this on launch day, dropping in and out occasionally, but am now - 40 something hours in - fully on-board and eager to put in a few hours a day.

In other words, I’ve discovered Gwent. Ahem.

Markitron

Doctor Nick wrote: »

I was level 5 on the first save. On the new game I started I'm only level 2 but am taking my time now. Haven't even fought the Griffin yet on new save. I'm taking it slow, exploring and trying to go to the '?' around White Orchard. That was probably my main problem, trying to just do main story quests when I should be trying to figure out the basics

White Orchard is a great place to do every ?, as there are so many places of power, but you would drive yourself mad doing them in the open world proper.

thomas anderson.

Not sure about Hearts of Stone DLC. Did the whole wedding thing and felt it dragged a bit.

Found the game to be way more buggy since installing it as well.

I also may have been drinking at the time.

Ave Sodalis

Skerries wrote: »

I put 230 hours into it including the dlc's but that was going to every ? except the water based ones

I have 88 hours going into the B&W DLC and I have a few ? to get yet. I couldn't really get into Gwent though so I've lost hours there. There's a good chance I'll just canter around the place, finding all the markers and taking pretty screenshot after though

Mr. CooL ICE

Stick with it. The "painting" bit is a pretty damn cool sequence. But HoS as a whole is more story and less gameplay focused than the vanilla game. In a way, it's more like a really long side quest than an expansion

BaW, to me, is just more W3 but in a fresh, new world.

Thecageyone

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I started playing this on launch day, dropping in and out occasionally, but am now - 40 something hours in - fully on-board and eager to put in a few hours a day.

In other words, I’ve discovered Gwent. Ahem.

That's the odd part for me, well not so much odd - I can't get with Gwent in TW3, as I play the standalone version regular, and it has evolved so much since it's basic beginnings - I should give it another go, make it a side, side mission to make a half decent deck in game

2Mad2BeMad

Got it at launch,
put in about 10 hours on the first island.
Got to the 2nd island and I think I got really overwhelmed so quick that I gave up.
That was years ago.
I'm abit more mature now :P Gonna have to try it again see what all the fuss is about

johnny_ultimate

Thecageyone wrote: »

That's the odd part for me, well not so much odd - I can't get with Gwent in TW3, as I play the standalone version regular, and it has evolved so much since it's basic beginnings - I should give it another go, make it a side, side mission to make a half decent deck in game

Funny enough I gave the standalone game a go today and for me (based on an admittedly very short go) it loses that basic, primal simplicity of the mini-game. As someone online pointed out, in The Witcher 3 Gwent is primarily a collection game (building your deck and getting the overpowered cards is the real pleasure), whereas in the standalone it’s a very competitive, highly balanced experience. I’m not big into competitive games, so I think that’s where the W3 version hits a sweet spot - a sense of constant progression where you’re playing for the cool rewards as much as the win.

I’ve only put two or three hours into the W3 version but have almost all the really strong cards at this stage. Just following the ‘Old Friends’ and ‘Big City Players’ quests got my a big chunk of the way to an excellent Northern Realms deck. Haven’t really experimented with the other factions as I’m still building up decks there.

johnny_ultimate

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

Got it at launch,
put in about 10 hours on the first island.
Got to the 2nd island and I think I got really overwhelmed so quick that I gave up.
That was years ago.
I'm abit more mature now :P Gonna have to try it again see what all the fuss is about

I was the same, probably reached a bit where I was just flooded with icons and quests. What got me back in was following along with the main story and then picking and choosing the side quests. You could lose hours chasing up all question marks, but frankly that kinda stuff bores me in open world games. Thankfully the quest content - including lots of the side ones - is of uniquely high quality for a game of its ilk. Honestly this’d be a fairly ordinary game if there wasn’t an extra layer (or five) of polish on top of everything. But that polish is there, and it’s what makes it

Thecageyone

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Funny enough I gave the standalone game a go today and for me (based on an admittedly very short go) it loses that basic, primal simplicity of the mini-game. As someone online pointed out, in The Witcher 3 Gwent is primarily a collection game (building your deck and getting the overpower cards is the real pleasure), whereas in the standalone it’s a very competitive, highly balanced experience. I’m not big into competitive games, so I think that’s where the W3 version hits a sweet spot - a sense of constant progression where you’re playing for the cool rewards as much as the win.

I’ve only put two or three hours into the W3 version but have almost all the really strong cards at this stage. Just following the ‘Old Friends’ and ‘Big City Players’ quests got my a big chunk of the way to an excellent Northern Realms deck. Haven’t really experimented with the other factions as I’m still building up decks there.

I would say it's both for me as I have played the standalone version since Beta, so it's been both collecting along the way and competing I guess. It is a very generous game though I will say, for beginners - you get tonnes of free kegs [similar to packs in HS] and starter decks to jump right in without spending a cent. I imagine it's a bit overwhelming for anyone jumping in now as there's way more going on than older patches

I've played it through all it's patch phases and updates - I don't think the current state is my favorite gameplay-wise, [also by far not the worst, there has been terrible meta periods like gold immunity, Monster Nekker spamming and that time when every other deck had Geralt's 3 main Witcher pals plus alt versions of all 3] but then nostalgia kicks into play when I think back on earlier stages of the game. But it's definitely at it's best ever looking now and possibly most balanced. Even starter decks in the right hands can win or lose by just a few points against tier 1 meta decks, it really is more about experience play rather than p2w crafting the best decks from the off

dr.kenneth noisewater

Flying along, level 21 and still havent gone to Skeillige. Really got into Gwent at last over the past couple days so thats all I've done today with a couple of Witcher contracts. Couldn't figure Gwent out in my original play through but glad I got into it this time

Temptamperu

On my third Playthrough. But for the first time ive hunted down real witcher gear, Griffon Style sadly I upgraded and now ive to wait till lvl 18 to wear it

Taylor365

Might start a new play-through when the 4k monitor arrives :pac:

Mr. CooL ICE

Temptamperu wrote: »

On my third Playthrough. But for the first time ive hunted down real witcher gear, Griffon Style sadly I upgraded and now ive to wait till lvl 18 to wear it

I always went for them as I levelled up. Thought getting the plans was great for a little adventure and revealing map locations. Unfortunately, I used the wrong type of armor for both of my playthroughs because I'm a moron, e.g. Gryphon for fast strikes and Cat for Yrden/Quen