It’s crazy how a Polish company creates more natural and entertaining writing than most North American (ahem) developers. Either these themes are universal or they all speak perfect English or they have a genius translator.
Can’t design combat for shit though. :)
I’ll try that if I get one more crash. They don’t strike me as driver issues (one was an endless loading screen) though they certainly could be. It’s been a while since I’ve had to worry about it. I’m also mildly overclocking my CPU. It was stable throughout Far Cry 4 but you never know.
I had no crashes so far, but I only ever update drivers if I run into issues, so mine are considerably older. I did have chuggy video segments, but those are clearly caused by background loading, so I doubt drivers would change anything for me at all.
Teiman
2685
puts on literal hat
So how good actual Hunting simulator is this game?
Timex
2686
Regarding the notices on the boards…
So you can take them with you. Does doing so actually have any effect? Meaning, so you need to actually take them to start up any associated quests? Does taking them perhaps cause things to happen in the world?
For instance, there was one about how the Nilfgaardians were going to be handing out food to the poor… But I was thinking, “Well, if I take this down, then folks won’t know about it, and won’t get food maybe?”
The fact that so much stuff you do has apparent impacts on the world has me questioning the normal notion of, “Grab everything on the board, always”.
I still steal everything inside of every house I go into though. :)
Notices respawn. Probably a Nilfgaardian tirelessly replacing them when that vandal destroys them.
Timex
2688
Well, then the other question remains… is there any reason to take them?
I believe you have to take the ones that are linked to a quest in order to activate the quest. The ones that are just for flavor don’t even appear in your inventory if you take them, and will be reposted if you check the board later.
Timex
2691
Ok then. I wasn’t sure if I needed to take the ones for quests or not.
I didn’t realize that taking the other ones didn’t put them into your inventory.
Oh, and huge sloppy wet kisses to the CDPR person that pushed for Geralt automatically pulling out the right sword in combat!
Great question. I just got the crossbow so I’m going to try that when I get home. It depends on how interesting the aiming is and whether you can get a one-hit kill. Might need better bolts.
The animals themselves are pretty stupid. I charged into a group of deer and slaughtered them with my sword. I’m barbaric. Later a male deer with huge antlers evaded me for about 5 minutes before I gave up. I even tried to Aard him.
There is a pack of a larger creature in the wild (kind of a nice little surprise) that I didn’t have the heart to cut down.
Reemul
2694
I must be a dick then…I thought each one would be a quest but they arent, be nice if you could just take the relevant quest ones.
One annoying thing is the constant shouting out of Freak as you walk by. I mean really like anyone would be saying that stuff to him face to face or while he is in ear shot.
I’m a dick too. I take all the notices. Sometimes I can’t tell which are quests and which are just for flavor.
Do you actually have to take the notices to activate the quest, or is reading the notice enough?
Timex
2696
Yeah, although I’ve found this to be kind of wonky at times…
For instance, I encountered some bandits, and was at the edge of their camp. Geralt apparently didn’t really recognize “Hey, it’s time to start fighting.” and so he didn’t pull out any weapon, despite the fact that the bandits were actually shooting arrows at me and hitting me.
Since my sword was away, I couldn’t parry the arrows… I pull out my sword manually, and back up a bit. Geralt then PUTS THE DAMN SWORD AWAY just in time for me to get hit by another arrow.
It was kind of annoying.
As an addendum to Timex’s tale, I once was fighting a wraith with my silver sword when a pack of wild dogs joined the fight. That was super confusing, trying to avoid the dogs to finish the wraith since my silver sword (despite being a heavy shaft of sharpened material) wasn’t hardly hurting the dogs. I had no choice but to put away … my silver sword away in favor of the steel sword to finish the job, kinda a fiasco.
Interesting. I haven’t had a mixed force (steel and silver) combat yet. I was wondering how the game would handle that.
I’m guessing the smiley was to indicate this was teh funny?
Thus far, I think TW3 fits a desperately-needed niche in the glut of Assassin’s Creed/Batman/Shadows of Mordor -style combat systems abound. Mainly, that Geralt is actually in some kind of danger from a group of standard enemies. Enemies telegraph the right amount so that you can’t just pick up the game and instantly counter everyone. As such, positioning and the use of traps, magic, etc matter. But you can still wade into groups sometimes and succeed, particularly if you’re overpowered for that enemy.
When outnumbered, use horse combat to even the odds! Also its awesome that horse combat does not work on guys with shields! :D
That low-level stuff in your inventory that says “Witcher” in the name like “Witcher’s Silver Sword” or whatever? Don’t trash it when you find better items.
Apparently, some later high-end items come up that require the low-level Witcher equipment as crafting components.
Timex
2702
Well shit, I already sold my original witcher sword I think. Maybe even broke it down.
