The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Thr0tt]

I've not finished main but will pick this up to support their efforts, hopefully it will push me to complete !

[Ghastlyone]

I'm ready to play Blood and Wine tonight. I never purchased the season pass, I've always been one to pick up DLC separately.

Anyway, if any of you guys haven't played Hearts of Stone yet, you're missing out. It's worth every single penny. I think I got about 15 hours out of that one.

[daPhoenix]

I do not like the UI changes with 1.21, the old one had its fair share of issues but...

Also the limited number of abilities is still annoying.

[Brainstew]

They just had to release it the day after my 3 day weekend.

[kboye]

Heart of stone: End level, music, made me relive Hellraiser 1 soundtrack. That was some horribly shifty samples and tones, loved it Dark.

[dmanna]

They just had to release it the day after my 3 day weekend.

there is still time left in your weekend, steam is reporting it will release in 5 hours. As long as you didn't get **** faced all weekend you should have plenty of energy to play witcher 3 tonight. Depending on where you live of course.

[SD-[Inc]]

Mine is downloading now

EDIT: Ack! That was just patch 1.20 that was downloading. I have no Blood and Wine yet

[Dungeoncrawler]

primary patch notes include option to disable auto drawing and sheathing of sword and the ability to have low-level mobs scale to your level. full notes link below.

Adds new functionality to books and scrolls. When first collected, they can be read immediately using single button without need of navigating to Inventory panel. All found but not yet read books and scrolls are stored in Quest Items and Other categories. Once read, books and scrolls can be sold as their content is saved in Books section of Glossary.

FINALLY!

http://wpc.4d7d.edgecastcdn.net/004D7D/mkt/document/Changelog-1.20-ENG_l9fczl2s3h.pdf

edit - can a sweetfx preset cause a compilation error?

[t0adp1p3]

I am honestly not trolling. I bought the game on release day. Also bought the expansions. So i have a vested interest in actually wanting to like the game.

However, I just cannot get into it. With the new expansion coming out I sat down today to see if I could just get over a hump or something with the game.

So I finished the bloody baron questline today after trying to play this game off and on over the past year. I understand from other forums this is supposed to be the best quest ever. To be honest, it was a slog for me. I think if the combat was better it would have been enjoyable, but the combat is such a letdown. It felt like listen to this guy drone on, go use that witcher vision to find something, listen some more, travel some place, do some brief boring combat, travel some place listen some more, repeat...

Am i playing this game wrong? is there something to make the combat more fun? I upgraded the light and heavy strikes, and just use quen pretty much. Are there any dungeons?

Help me like this game.

[theshadowcult]

I am honestly not trolling. I bought the game on release day. Also bought the expansions. So i have a vested interest in actually wanting to like the game.

However, I just cannot get into it. With the new expansion coming out I sat down today to see if I could just get over a hump or something with the game.

So I finished the bloody baron questline today after trying to play this game off and on over the past year. I understand from other forums this is supposed to be the best quest ever. To be honest, it was a slog for me. I think if the combat was better it would have been enjoyable, but the combat is such a letdown. It felt like listen to this guy drone on, go use that witcher vision to find something, listen some more, travel some place, do some brief boring combat, travel some place listen some more, repeat...

Am i playing this game wrong? is there something to make the combat more fun? I upgraded the light and heavy strikes, and just use quen pretty much. Are there any dungeons?

Help me like this game.

No.

[Dungeoncrawler]

I am honestly not trolling. I bought the game on release day. Also bought the expansions. So i have a vested interest in actually wanting to like the game.

However, I just cannot get into it. With the new expansion coming out I sat down today to see if I could just get over a hump or something with the game.

So I finished the bloody baron questline today after trying to play this game off and on over the past year. I understand from other forums this is supposed to be the best quest ever. To be honest, it was a slog for me. I think if the combat was better it would have been enjoyable, but the combat is such a letdown. It felt like listen to this guy drone on, go use that witcher vision to find something, listen some more, travel some place, do some brief boring combat, travel some place listen some more, repeat...

Am i playing this game wrong? is there something to make the combat more fun? I upgraded the light and heavy strikes, and just use quen pretty much. Are there any dungeons?

Help me like this game.

maybe its just not your cup of tea? good news is you're saving $20 on the new dlc . btw the new dlc is downloading now. anyone remember how long it takes to finish the first one (dlc)?

[SD-[Inc]]

For combat, maybe you need a more challenging fight? Did you try some contracts yet? These are more like Boss fights. Try Jenny o'the Woods if you are in Velen and still pretty low level. Also, make sure that you bind your dodge key to something that is easy to press. (like a mouse button). Use dodge a lot. Also, it is not supposed to be a click-fest. Up the difficulty if that's how you win every fight.

In other news: Expansion has started downloading finally...

[Dungeoncrawler]

For combat, maybe you need a more challenging fight? Did you try some contracts yet? These are more like Boss fights. Try Jenny o'the Woods if you are in Velen and still pretty low level. Also, make sure that you bind your dodge key to something that is easy to press. (like a mouse button). Use dodge a lot. Also, it is not supposed to be a click-fest. Up the difficulty if that's how you win every fight.

In other news: Expansion has started downloading finally...

or click the new scaling option to make everything more difficult .
just noticed in the gameplay options screen - turn off witcher senses "fish-eye" effect. either i missed that or it's new with today's patch? also i really like the new menu screens. one last thing - check your graphics settings. some of mine defaulted to lowest setting.

[Brainstew]

Is anyone noticing some weirdness with the shadow lod? For example in the pic below you'll see that when I'm close to the house I can't see the roof shadow, but once I'm very close it's there. Is this something that can be tweaked in the ini's, or perhaps a driver issue?

[theshadowcult]

Thats very weird, and clearly not a lod problem, given that you can see part of the shadow over the door. probably a bug.

[Dungeoncrawler]

kudo's for allowing you to preview how geralt will look in any particular piece of equipment even if you cannot yet equip it. and now its a true preview.

[Exposed]

Dammit, why did they have to completely change the UI? It's like have learn a new game UI now.

Should have been a toggle to keep the old one.

[Dungeoncrawler]

either the patch or dlc makes roach tail-less

edit - appears to only affect roach while in skellige continent.

[Higgy10]

has gog updated hearts of stone yet? Not seeing it installed

[KAC]

How is Boner and Wine expansion?

[daPhoenix]

B&W Bug (1.21)

Potion of clearance won't show up if you put it in your hand, so you can't use it. A workaround is to go to your inventory and press E while you have it selected and it'll work.

[Adanu]

Dammit, why did they have to completely change the UI? It's like have learn a new game UI now.

Should have been a toggle to keep the old one.

New game UI is loads better than the old one. The catagories alone make it *so* much better, and now I might not even have to mod it except for putting names on each.

[Exposed]

New game UI is loads better than the old one. The catagories alone make it *so* much better, and now I might not even have to mod it except for putting names on each.

I hate change, especially game UI that has been the same for over a year. I had ZERO issues with the old one.

[Meteor_of_War]

I am honestly not trolling. I bought the game on release day. Also bought the expansions. So i have a vested interest in actually wanting to like the game.

However, I just cannot get into it. With the new expansion coming out I sat down today to see if I could just get over a hump or something with the game.

So I finished the bloody baron questline today after trying to play this game off and on over the past year. I understand from other forums this is supposed to be the best quest ever. To be honest, it was a slog for me. I think if the combat was better it would have been enjoyable, but the combat is such a letdown. It felt like listen to this guy drone on, go use that witcher vision to find something, listen some more, travel some place, do some brief boring combat, travel some place listen some more, repeat...

Am i playing this game wrong? is there something to make the combat more fun? I upgraded the light and heavy strikes, and just use quen pretty much. Are there any dungeons?

Help me like this game.

How many hours in are you? I actually also had a tough time getting into the game, and put it down to play other games a couple times. But when I finally decided to force myself to play it really started to grow on me.

For me too the combat and controls were a hurdle to get over. Coming from Dark Souls it just wasn't satisfying enough. I decided to focus on enjoying the game's strengths, which is the extremely polished writing and voice acting of the quests, right down to the smallest side quests. Then when I got to Skellige my favorite area, I was hooked and by that point I had gotten used to the combat.

Along with that I let myself get sucked into role playing as Geralt the Witcher and just wandering the world in search of contracts to do, and also the Witcher gear treasure hunts. Finding all the Griffin school gear up to mastercrafted was a really immersive experience. I guess I got hooked on the game with the side stuff, and then went back to the main quest lines later. I seem to always enjoy the side questing more in these open world RPGs.

Anyways try to stick with it, its truly an incredible game.

[Adanu]

I hate change, especially game UI that has been the same for over a year. I had ZERO issues with the old one.

Old one was ridiculously chaotic and you couldn't find a thing without having to mouse over it all. It was especially bad for alchemy. There were mods out there that would put names of the icons which helped, but those are broke now.

[Meteor_of_War]

I'm looking forward to see what UI changes they made. I never could really get used to the old one. Way too messy.

[Higgy10]

my gog version hasn't installed it yet, am I missing something lol?

[OlderBudweiser]

I don't have seem to have the ability to start a load game?? My first screen is the heart of stone blue-ish screen, with the 3 choices( only heart, "old" save, or fresh start). So i push E for OK, then i have the same screen for blood and wine, again with the 3 choices. So i press E again, so the main screen appears, where only new game, options and DLC appear??????

[t0adp1p3]

How many hours in are you? I actually also had a tough time getting into the game, and put it down to play other games a couple times. But when I finally decided to force myself to play it really started to grow on me.

For me too the combat and controls were a hurdle to get over. Coming from Dark Souls it just wasn't satisfying enough. I decided to focus on enjoying the game's strengths, which is the extremely polished writing and voice acting of the quests, right down to the smallest side quests. Then when I got to Skellige my favorite area, I was hooked and by that point I had gotten used to the combat.

Along with that I let myself get sucked into role playing as Geralt the Witcher and just wandering the world in search of contracts to do, and also the Witcher gear treasure hunts. Finding all the Griffin school gear up to mastercrafted was a really immersive experience. I guess I got hooked on the game with the side stuff, and then went back to the main quest lines later. I seem to always enjoy the side questing more in these open world RPGs.

Anyways try to stick with it, its truly an incredible game.

Thanks man, that sounds exactly like my situation. Ill take your advice. I want to like this game and get my monies worth.

[Higgy10]

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/882/?

man this mod looks quite ambitious, anyone tried it out?

[Brainstew]

Personally I love the new UI.

[Eisberg]

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/882/?

man this mod looks quite ambitious, anyone tried it out?

Considering it hasn't been updated since November 2015 and there have been other patches for the game since then, that mod isn't going to work anymore and the mod developers aren't working on it anymore.

[Meteor_of_War]

Personally I love the new UI.

I just checked it out myself and wow! They have really overhauled the look of the whole UI. It looks much, much cleaner and better laid out. I'd say its still a "busy" menu system overall but its a huge improvement aesthetically.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Personally I love the new UI.

this.

[daPhoenix]

Blood & Wine makes DLCs for other games look like something a bunch of kids came up and implemented with during their lunch break.

It's.. pretty amazingly good.

[OlderBudweiser]

I don't have seem to have the ability to start a load game?? My first screen is the heart of stone blue-ish screen, with the 3 choices( only heart, "old" save, or fresh start). So i push E for OK, then i have the same screen for blood and wine, again with the 3 choices. So i press E again, so the main screen appears, where only new game, options and DLC appear??????

Anyone please? I want to start a saved game, because i didn't play hearts of stone yet ( wanted both expansions to start playing again). But i really hate to start all over again...

[Higgy10]

Considering it hasn't been updated since November 2015 and there have been other patches for the game since then, that mod isn't going to work anymore and the mod developers aren't working on it anymore.

ya its to bad, im sure someone else will copy and/or improve it. Theres already a few decent overhaul mods available.

Speaking of mods, any good recommendations?

Right now im using..
Increased LOD
Next Gen stones and misc
witcher 3 HD reworked
Galloping in cities
increased creature loot
enhanced monster trophies
High quality faces
all quest objectives on map
instant sign casting

Trying to get crossbow damage boost mod and no level on armor restrictions working, seem to be having some script conflicts

[OlderBudweiser]

****, it seems my saved games map is completely erased... That's why i couldn't choose a save game option

[logical]

Blood & Wine makes DLCs for other games look like something a bunch of kids came up and implemented with during their lunch break.

It's.. pretty amazingly good.

I would hope so they have been working on it forever.

[yoz]

Blood & Wine makes DLCs for other games look like something a bunch of kids came up and implemented with during their lunch break.

It's.. pretty amazingly good.

Not just DLC, the whole game. I mean going back to a Bethesda game after this, ugh.