The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[OverclockN']

Set physics to low in game. The default setting will choke even a 1080. I don't even know where physics is even applied in Black Flag. Game will run silky smooth after making this adjustment with zero visual impact.

I think there was a setting for physics particles or something. I turned it off and it made only a difference of 3-5fps. I'll try it again and check for other physics options. Thanks.

[OverclockN']

Really enjoying this game, and yeah...there is some serious attention to detail. Only nitpick I can find so far is the weather. It always seems to be windy as hell and raining. Combat is a lot more fun than I remember.

I think there was a setting for physics particles or something. I turned it off and it made only a difference of 3-5fps. I'll try it again and check for other physics options. Thanks.

Just reporting back briefly on this...but turning PhysX completely OFF doesn't make much difference. It only changes the framerate as I mentioned before, about 3-5fps. Turning off AA made a big impact, but the shimmering textures, textures overall, and the details in the distance are pretty annoying. But...game is far smoother and higher framerate at 48-60fps. Anyway, I'll get back to it after Witcher 3. Maybe the new cards will be out by then.

[RSViper]

Still one of my favorite games ever, and I'm not typically an RPG fan. I love the characters, stories, and world as a whole.

I just got the Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone DLC during the winter sale and started playing again with my previous level 38 character. The Blood and Wine new region is really a nice change of pace. I find there are long sequences on the main quest in that DLC that is more dialogue, but the stories really do keep you engaged. It's not difficult, but I like it more for the stories and interactions that the combat (which isn't bad, but I do resort to using the roll move a lot.)

[Danny Nissan]

Just reporting back briefly on this...but turning PhysX completely OFF doesn't make much difference. It only changes the framerate as I mentioned before, about 3-5fps. Turning off AA made a big impact, but the shimmering textures, textures overall, and the details in the distance are pretty annoying. But...game is far smoother and higher framerate at 48-60fps. Anyway, I'll get back to it after Witcher 3. Maybe the new cards will be out by then.

4k DSR and MSAA/TXAA is very demanding Tried with only FXAA?

[OverclockN']

4k DSR and MSAA/TXAA is very demanding Tried with only FXAA?

Don't like how it looks, and it's not nearly as effective or clean looking as MSAA/TXAA.

[Arioch]

Still one of my favorite games ever, and I'm not typically an RPG fan. I love the characters, stories, and world as a whole.

I just got the Blood and Wine and Hearts of Stone DLC during the winter sale and started playing again with my previous level 38 character. The Blood and Wine new region is really a nice change of pace. I find there are long sequences on the main quest in that DLC that is more dialogue, but the stories really do keep you engaged. It's not difficult, but I like it more for the stories and interactions that the combat (which isn't bad, but I do resort to using the roll move a lot.)

Walking from the outskirts of Beauclair up to the top of the castle is pretty cool. The amount of detail in the city is pretty amazing.

[Dungeoncrawler]

i sometimes start the game just to look at the vista i last saved at

[Megaman]

Just reached Skellige and the beach area there just looks divine.

[Brainstew]

i sometimes start the game just to look at the vista i last saved at

This game actually makes me scared to see how sexy Cyberpunk will be.

I just hope they learned this lesson this time and don't release promotional material of the game running with graphics that they can't make work in the launch version of the game.

[kboye]

Haha that's not gonna change They'll show off the game running at its very current best like everyone else has been doing for decades. It's good marketing. Anyone else besides marketing might do it differently, I know I would. Be humble etc. But marketing? Nope Game continues development, then tweaking starts, and it will change. Luckily the consoles are quite powerfull again.

[OverclockN']

Enjoying the hell out of this game. I'm probably 20-25hrs into it. Just kind of having fun running around playing Gwent in between the quests. That card game is pretty fun.

[Dungeoncrawler]

Enjoying the hell out of this game. I'm probably 20-25hrs into it. Just kind of having fun running around playing Gwent in between the quests. That card game is pretty fun.

i never really pursued the card game enough to become proficient. at the beginning i didn't realize there are some people you can only play when you first meet them. however i really dug the game and still play it sometimes. have yet to complete the campaign. did finish one of the dlc though.

[OverclockN']

Enjoying the hell out of this game, but sometimes the decision making process and the consequences are just frustrating as hell.

You do "what you think is right", and it bites you in the ass. I wanted to ditch Triss for her being a pain in the ass.

I really dislike this decision stuff in a lot of games, as it seems developers think the only way to show you've made an impactful decision is by having very negative emotional reactions or consequences within the game no matter what you do. You choose to save A, but B dies. You choose to save B, but A dies. You save both A and B, but everyone is pissed at you anyway because it affected them in some goofy way.

[John C Flett]

The Witcher games have always worked on a "no good deed goes unpunished" approach. There are certainly better and worse outcomes though.

I much prefer it to the approach of too many RPGs where no matter how dumb you are things always work out well.

[theshadowcult]

if you went around saving people, you did it wrong, geralt is supposed to be neautral, he's supposed to stay out of peoples affairs unless he gets paid to slay a monster. It's not a normal rpg. You CAN play anyway you want, but unlike normal rpgs where the correct path is the goode one, here its the neautral one.

[Crawdaddy79]

Yeah it's not black or white... It's more of a gray or slightly lighter gray with black specks.

^^^Me in 2009 describing the choice factors in Witcher 1.

This is what makes their games stand out from the others. Few other games have made me reload an older save to replay a quest in attempt to get a different outcome, no matter how inconsequential to the main plot/game path.

They put significant effort into all possible paths, so it's actually worth replaying a quest even if the first outcome is the desired one.

[Arioch]

The Bloody Baron Questline was like that. I remember I had to make a tough choice.

I helped the Tree Spirit to save the children, but the Baron's wife died and he hung himself. I felt better about that decision when I saw the sign at Novigrad that said the children were recently accepted into the orphanage there, so the Tree Spirit kept it's promise.

[KAC]

I actually like the choices in Witcher games. Unlike other games where choices simply are an illusion. I am talking about you Tt.

[Silent-Runner]

i also loved the REAL choices because they actually had an impact on the story. Sadly most games only give the Illusion, as KAC said. Hell, i even played numerous times through DA because i wanted to see all the char-stories and different endings.

If a game actually manages to make you think about decisions, then it's a good game.

[twonha]

The Bloody Baron Questline was like that. I remember I had to make a tough choice.

I helped the Tree Spirit to save the children, but the Baron's wife died and he hung himself. I felt better about that decision when I saw the sign at Novigrad that said the children were recently accepted into the orphanage there, so the Tree Spirit kept it's promise.

Wow.

I chose to slay the tree because it was just so much easier to do. I felt bad when I found out the tree was really a good spirit. But knowing the baron and wife would've died makes me feel a little better. Then again, the children. F this game.

[Megaman]

Good thing I put this on hold for a bit while I smash Sniper Elite 4. HD reworked project has been updated to version 5.0.

[OverclockN']

Good thing I put this on hold for a bit while I smash Sniper Elite 4. HD reworked project has been updated to version 5.0.

Did they come up with a different weather system too?

It's still the one thing in this game that drives me nuts. It's always freakin raining. I'm about to enable the console thing and just do the stoprain command every time it rains.

[Megaman]

Did they come up with a different weather system too?

Realistic weather and enhanced weather are two mods that can be used, yes.

[Meteor_of_War]

It's still the one thing in this game that drives me nuts. It's always freakin raining.

If rain in games aggravates you don't ever play Breath of the Wild.

[OverclockN']

If rain in games aggravates you don't ever play Breath of the Wild.

I don't mind rain at all. I mind it raining nonstop, all the time. The game is beautiful, and I want to see it every now and then.

[Meteor_of_War]

I don't mind rain at all. I mind it raining nonstop, all the time. The game is beautiful, and I want to see it every now and then.

Going from memory, I think it rains just as much if not more in BotW.

Also, it especially is the suck when trying to climb mountains.

[OverclockN']

Going from memory, I think it rains just as much if not more in BotW.

Also, it especially is the suck when trying to climb mountains.

It's annoying. Rain should be a very occasional thing, to shake things up a bit or when the atmosphere is needed for a particular mission or story sequence. I feel developers are leaning on it too hard to show off what their game engines can do, rather than let it just be occassionaly thing that adds to the whole package.

[Meteor_of_War]

It's annoying. Rain should be a very occasional thing, to shake things up a bit or when the atmosphere is needed for a particular mission or story sequence. I feel developers are leaning on it too hard to show off what their game engines can do, rather than let it just be occassionaly thing that adds to the whole package.

Yep pretty much.

[theshadowcult]

Odd. Maybe it is random, but it definitely was dry or clear the majority of the time, then maybe cloudy or raining the other small percentage.

[OverclockN']

Odd. Maybe it is random, but it definitely was dry or clear the majority of the time, then maybe cloudy or raining the other small percentage.

I wish that were the case.

[Meteor_of_War]

Might depend on what area you're in as well.

[theshadowcult]

True, i know it rained a lot more on skelige then it did anywhere else. There is no rain in the expansion either, sunny the whole time i think.

[OverclockN']

True, i know it rained a lot more on skelige then it did anywhere else. There is no rain in the expansion either, sunny the whole time i think.

I haven't even made it to Skellige yet. It's even worse there!?

[Lazy8s]

I haven't even made it to Skellige yet. It's even worse there!?

It's been a while...but I don't remember anything but rain in Skellige ...

[OverclockN']

It's been a while...but I don't remember anything but rain in Skellige ...

Yep, I'm definitely turning it off via the console panel.

[Lazy8s]

Yep, I'm definitely turning it off via the console panel.

I'll remember that next time through. I ought to have a gaming rig again soon, so all 3 Witchers are due for a run through.



yeah that's about another year of my life gone

[Meteor_of_War]

Yeah Skellige was a stormy ass place. But it fit the atmosphere perfectly.

[theshadowcult]

Yeah Skellige was a stormy ass place. But it fit the atmosphere perfectly.

Those storms!

[BababooeyHTJ]

I actually bought this game when it was released and put it off for far too long for some reason. Just got to skeli and am really enjoying it. To be honest I regret not playing through the first two again beforehand. I don't remember a lot of what happened in the first two at this point. Moreso with the first game.

Really wish that I could pull off 4k. Been using the TV and gamepad. The game is a looker for sure.

[Megaman]

I just arrived at the Isle of the Mist destination and was notified that if I proceed, some side quests will become unavailable.

I'm looking to knock off as many side quests as possible. Shall I proceed or turn back here? Are they permanently lost after this point?