The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[dreamwalker]

I was pretty pleased with my ending.


I retired in peace with Yennefer
Helped Ciri become a future Empress
Had that bastard Radovid killed off
Helped restore Temeria

Yeah that's a sweet one, I think I didn't do some quests to get that one.

I'm really glad though that I didn't get the one where ciri dies - that would have made me quite upset after so many hours

[Arioch]

Sometimes there are no "good" endings and that's part of the charm of the Witcher games.

[Meteor_of_War]

Are the saves held on Steam? If I delete the game will the saves still be there?

Your saves are stored locally here:

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\The Witcher 3\gamesaves

[MNB4800]

Sometimes there are no "good" endings and that's part of the charm of the Witcher games.

Yep, almost each ending is perfectly done, interesting and outright awesome!

[dreamwalker]

Bought the season pass. First time I've ever done that for any video game

[GanjaStar]

Bought the season pass. First time I've ever done that for any video game

no shame in that. this is one of the few games where the consumer is not duped by the content within the season pass.

no skins, challenge packs, big head mode, and other crap pretty much all other publishers stuff into these.

[Arioch]

Bought the season pass and Collector's Edition as soon as they were available. Well worth the extra money.

[nutcrackr]

The $10 HoS expansion has more content then the entire Batman Arkham Knight season pass

[Arioch]

Think the 2nd one is bigger and has a new area to explore

[MNB4800]

Think the 2nd one is bigger and has a new area to explore

Yes, second expansion pack (I love it that they call it that! Feels more value than just DLC) will have 20 hours of content.

[GanjaStar]

I was pretty pleased with my ending.


I retired in peace with Yennefer
Helped Ciri become a future Empress
Had that bastard Radovid killed off
Helped restore Temeria

That's the exact ending I got as well.

The emptiness is real.




203 hours later and it's over. need a break from witcher 3 related stuff, and then onto the expansion.

Bioware and Bethesda have a lot of catching up to do.

The game was a masterpiece in pretty much every category. And the game treats you as an adult, which is a breath of fresh air in games.

Can't see anything toppling witcher 3 anytime soon, and certainly nothing this year.

[MNB4800]

That's the exact ending I got as well.

The emptiness is real.




203 hours later and it's over. need a break from witcher 3 related stuff, and then onto the expansion.

Bioware and Bethesda have a lot of catching up to do.

The game was a masterpiece in pretty much every category. And the game treats you as an adult, which is a breath of fresh air in games.

Can't see anything toppling witcher 3 anytime soon, and certainly nothing this year.

I believe I am halfway through the expansion. Everything about it is done brilliantly! It doesn't feel second rate like most expansions/DLC.

[Meteor_of_War]

Logged into the Galaxy client to update the game so I can continue playing and holy hell I was greeted with a 17GB update.

Didn't realize it had such a large update since last I played.

[GanjaStar]

Logged into the Galaxy client to update the game so I can continue playing and holy hell I was greeted with a 17GB update.

Didn't realize it had such a large update since last I played.

gog has an inferior patching system atm. that patch was around 7gb on steam.

[Meteor_of_War]

Just had quite a scare, and not sure exactly what happened.

Was playing the game, everything was running fine. Just got to the dock in Skellige to meet up with Yenn at King bran's funeral and the game went all glitchy. NPCs started floating in the air their bodies all deformed, and the game froze. Had to manually kill the Witcher 3 process in task manager.

When I started it back up I noticed framerate was awful, and my GPU was running at only 620Mhz, the fans weren't spinning, and the GPU temp was 91C. I tried restarting the game but could not get the video card to function as it should. Rebooting got it back to normal.

So as far as I can tell, the game glitched out so bad my GPU would not ramp up to load speed for some reason, which also would not engage my 980Ti's fans even after restarting the game. I'm really glad the framerate tanked so badly because who knows how long it would have took playing Witcher 3 to kill the GPU if I hadn't noticed the fan wasn't spinning. The damn thing is so quiet I can hardly hear it as is.

But damn what an immersion breaker, I can't even play for a few seconds now without checking the Afterburner OSD to make sure its working OK.

[Meteor_of_War]

Blah, sadly I am starting to lose my patience with this game. It just keeps crashing to desktop now. I've been trying to play for only about 10 minutes and has crashed 3 times. No error message, just closes goes to desktop.

[Meteor_of_War]

Tried setting power management in Nvidia Cp to prefer maximum performance and the crashing seems to have stopped. Just played a solid hour no crash.

Not sure why all of a sudden this is happening. Played a couple hours last night before that freeze, and I didn't change a damn thing. Maybe its just this area of the game?

[GanjaStar]

well witcher 3 is very sensitive to OC's and will expose unstable OC's, both cpu and gpu, so that's always a possibility.

Did you check the event log?

I personally had 0 crashes in that game, with either 1.08, 1.10 or 1.11 patches.

[dreamwalker]

I also had pretty much 0 crashes or issues, so it definitely does sound like an OC issue.

[Meteor_of_War]

My GPU is at stock, and my CPU is only running at 4.3GHz right now. Also I have played over 40 hours of this game with no crashing, until now. Also just played through Arkham Knight without a single problem so there's that.

Since the game seems stable now after setting to prefer maximum performance what does that tell me? Is that a system issue, driver issue, or game issue? I am definitely playing on updated drivers since the last time I played which was months ago.

As for event viewer, looks like there are critical errors listed for each crash:

"Session ReadyBoot stopped due to the following error: 0xC0000188"

Looked it up and people suggest to raise the ReadyBoot.etl filesize from 20mb to 128 mb. I have no clue what that's all about so I don't want to touch it.

[MNB4800]

Finished Hearts of Stone and OH MY GOD! It was epic and emotional! Loved every bit about it!

With all of that said, this game will shatter all game records as one of the BEST games of ALL TIME throughout different categories. Nothing can hold a candle to it!

Lots of full games can't even beat this trailer (one of the best trailers ever, minus the graphical downgrade):

https://youtu.be/TZ_G6XiHoUA

[Meteor_of_War]

I'm just wondering if I will ever start to like this game. I've started and stopped playing several times over 40 hours since release and just cannot get into the story or gameplay. It's just not my thing I think.

Compounding the problem is the assinine amount of content and distractions in the game. This most recent go at it I've resolved to try just sticking to the main quest line hoping for some decent pacing to keep me engaged but I still find myself wanting to play something else, or falling asleep.

[GanjaStar]

With all of that said, this game will shatter all game records as one of the BEST games of ALL TIME throughout different categories. Nothing can hold a candle to it!

Yep. it's incredible what they've accomplished. It's basically a new level for the gaming industry. And at what time. While everyone else is busy selling skin dlc's and map packs, they deliver adult oriented, high production value content at amazing prices. If we had 5 studios like this in the industry, it would be gaming heaven.

Through my playthrough I took some shots of the NPC convos's, and it's truly awesome how much better they are than pretty much anything bethesda or bioware put in their games.

Single, isolated sentences, and yet still better than the competition. The whole convos themselves are just on another level for the genre.

http://imgur.com/a/H88Po

[yoz]

Crap like Fallout 4 still sells like hotcakes though.

[Meteor_of_War]

I agree the game is better than anything else in the genre, I just don't really care much for it. It almost feels like reading a highly recommended book that I just feel is incredibly dull.

Also, the amount of question marks littering the maps is ridiculous. You guys actually explore all of them, or just stick to major quests and contracts? I can't see myself ever doing even remotely close to everything in this game. I will probably rip through the main story then that will be it. It's just way too bloated with content for me.

[dreamwalker]

I beat the game and haven't gotten through most of the question marks to be honest. In fact I barely did any witcher contracts too.

[Eisberg]

I agree the game is better than anything else in the genre, I just don't really care much for it. It almost feels like reading a highly recommended book that I just feel is incredibly dull.

Also, the amount of question marks littering the maps is ridiculous. You guys actually explore all of them, or just stick to major quests and contracts? I can't see myself ever doing even remotely close to everything in this game. I will probably rip through the main story then that will be it. It's just way too bloated with content for me.

I turned the question marks off, so I end up only doing those if I have happen to run close by.

[Meteor_of_War]

I beat the game and haven't gotten through most of the question marks to be honest. In fact I barely did any witcher contracts too.

I turned the question marks off, so I end up only doing those if I have happen to run close by.

Think its going to be the same way for me.

The way I see it, the devs never really intended for any one player to do everything. They just wanted to put so much into the world to make it seem as close to a living breathing world as possible.

I am simply going to stick to the main adventure and whatever side stuff I come across, maybe I'll do it and maybe I wont. Not going to try to clear out areas of the map just for completionist sake though, no damn way that even makes sense in this game.

Overall though the setting, story, and characters just don't really do it for me in the Witcher games. I guess I prefer RPGs were you craft your own character. Also, I strongly feel if the combat was better I'd be more into it. As it stands after giving it plenty chances after this many months I am confident to say the combat in this game is badly flawed. I spam attack most enemies with my swords and win the fight easily.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Blah, sadly I am starting to lose my patience with this game. It just keeps crashing to desktop now. I've been trying to play for only about 10 minutes and has crashed 3 times. No error message, just closes goes to desktop.

FO4 hasn't crashed on me yet.

[Meteor_of_War]

I was able to stop the crashing by setting to prefer maximum performance mode in nvidia cp. Haven't had a crash in over three hours of playing.

Was just doing a quest with Yenn in that garden on Skellige where she makes that corpse talk and you control Ciri again. Was weird, while exploring the garden looking for Craven I stumbled upon another quest with a werewolf but thought it was part of the quest I was doing. I was so confused because Geralt was talking to it like he already knew about him.

This sort of thing has happened a few times now and it's frustrating because it is kind of immersion breaking. I guess it's just a drawback of open world games though. Just makes me wonder if they couldn't have handled that better.

[dreamwalker]

Pretty sure I know the garden you're talking about, and that's the werewolf you're supposed to talk to

[nutcrackr]

This sort of thing has happened a few times now and it's frustrating because it is kind of immersion breaking. I guess it's just a drawback of open world games though. Just makes me wonder if they couldn't have handled that better.

That quest was not the clearest, but the werewolf is part of that quest line so Geralt does know about him.

[Meteor_of_War]

Ok after thinking about it yes I see how the quests are related. Totally confused me while I was doing it though.

Just seemed weird, after doing the main quest with Yenn I went back to take care of the werewolf since I figured out what to do without talking to anyone about the curse or the contract. Then went back to collect my fee and they were talking like it was discussed before but it never was. Honestly it was just a mess chronologically. Ah well, whatever.

[theshadowcult]

I was able to stop the crashing by setting to prefer maximum performance mode in nvidia cp. Haven't had a crash in over three hours of playing.

I have actually had this in a few games. All new ones, like witcher or mad max. Setting to max performance fixed the crashes in every case. There is a clear bug there somewhere.

[Meteor_of_War]

So reading about that secondary "In Wolf's Clothing" quest this morning, I'm seeing I missed out on being able to choose alternate ways of completing the quest.

Apparently I needed to explore a nearby under water cave to obtain a key leading to a journal with information pertaining to lifting the curse. I never got any dialogue clues hinting a way to resolve the quest differently, and just ended it by feeding him his own flesh.

[GanjaStar]

yep, there are some quests like that. That's why I disabled the HUD portions that hinder exploration and installed a compass mod for orientation.

When you aren't being told exactly what to do and where, the game becomes a lot more rewarding.

[Meteor_of_War]

Personally I would have preferred the game give me clues to the alternative methods, before showing me a clear one way to finish the quest. Maybe if I had received the contract beforehand the giver would have gave some dialogue hinting to this, but I never did so I didn't know.

I stumbled upon the monster on my own during the "Echoes of the Past" main story quest and completed it almost immediately. When faced with what to do (feed him his own flesh) I didn't see any other way to end it, so I just did.

[GanjaStar]

I don't recall exactly what it was, but at some point it became clear to me there were alternate solutions.

But I'm pretty sure that you are correct, there is no direct hint that it can be done. you must poke around. And when you have on screen goals and a minimap with a gps tracker, it's understandable that you wouldn't even consider there's an alt way.

[Meteor_of_War]

If there was any clue I totally missed it, but I don't think so as I remember it pretty well.

The main quest had me tracking Craven's blood trail through the garden. Eventually I started coming across paw prints from a werewolf. I then came across a small building with fresh body parts. The werewolf then confronted me and I fought it. After the fight it talked about a curse of never ending hunger and not being able to die. I then had the option to feed it or kill it.

Feeding it food did nothing so I chose the "kill" option and received werewolf flesh as a quest item. After this the contract appeared in my quests list. The quest marker led me to a nearby cave where I then knew what to do, fight it again and then feed him his own flesh. After this the quest marker sent me back to the temple to receive my fee.

At no point was I shown any alternative way to complete it, with an amulet or whatever. I don't mean to keep harping on about it but it just makes me wonder how many times this has happened in my playthrough. I can remember several times I came across a monster and killed it, then found out later it was part of a contract and I may have missed out on more backstory from the contract giver.

I generally avoid seeking out the notice boards posted around in the game though, so that may be why this happens. I just hope I am not missing out on better rewards.

[Meteor_of_War]

Hmm, well actually I guess the clues were in the environment. There were several locked doors that said "key required" and there was an underwater cave that I completely missed which is probably were the key was. So I'm guessing if I just explored a bit more off the path I would have found the clues I needed.

Blah ahh well no matter. If anything its cool that there is alternatives should the player explore and find them.