3063

One thing that seems crazy is the price of some equipment. 429 coins for a glyph that improves Quen sign intensity by 2%. That’s pretty underwhelming.

3064

Anyone find a good explanation of armor vs damage resistance? I’m not sure which one is better or even how to evaluate it.

3065

I bet they have the same number of people but they show up a bit later due to streaming the loads across a slower source media.

3066

Finding that durability seems to drop very quickly in the game. Ended up making a little durability trainer to keep it at 100.

Hopefully I’ll avoid cheating further, as it usually ends up ruining the game :P, although the pursuit of RAX and whatnot (since the game is 64-bit) has some payoff, so far the game is better than the memory locations.

3067

The most plausible explanation I’ve found is that resistance is a bonus to the armour value for a specific damage type (e.g. if you have an armour value of 100 and a +10% resistance for some type of damage, then you effectively have 110 armour for that damage type).

3068

So I played 10 hours today.

Yeah this is going to be my favourite game. Of all time.

3069

I just did that earlier today and loved it too. I then trucked off to find the witch and that turned into a whole lot more than I was expecting.

3070

Some times it resets to windows borderless mode and the gamma option disappears. Put it back to full screen and that should fix it.

3071

I know right? My biggest fear is that Geralt is a better Batman in this , than the Real Batman will be in Arkham Knight a month from now. D:

3072

Interesting, thanks!

3073

If anyone else ends up with bugged Enhanced Moon Dust and Enhanced Northern Wind - delete the base versions from your inventory then both base and enhanced versions will show up on the alchemy list. If you make both at the same time you end with enhanced version but the base recipe will stay on the list. It’s a workaround if you want to eventually upgrade these two bombs to superb versions (assuming those don’t bug out too) without having to wait for a patch.

And while I’m on the subject of bugs, anyone else unable to speak to the sword maker blacksmith in Velen? He’s in one of the villages to the west I think. He just stands at the anvil and pounds it, not interactable.

3074

Kotaku calls Witcher 3, the New Crysis? (In terms of graphical quality and demands) At least there are realistic benchmarks unlike the Nvidia page.

3075

Jesus.

3076

This game is immense. I need an XP slowing mod. So much to see and do. Starting to get so many compelling quests I’m having trouble smelling the roses.

old friend

[spoiler]Ran into Letho. I might have yelled out loud. Had no idea it was coming. I’m still not sure I wanted to bring him back to life though. It ruined some of his aura.

I think it’s a different voice actor. It’s hard to tell. He doesn’t sound quite as mesmerizing.[/spoiler]
Such great characters. It’s really The Witcher 2’s characterization on an immense scale.

spoilers for a certain quest in the polygon review

Was it the Bloody Baron quest? I don’t recall any overt sympathy for him as a wife beater. Maybe I chose the wrong dialogue option? I mean, Geralt didn’t dog pile on him like a band of social justice warriors on Twitter, but the response certainly didn’t seem abhorrent. He’s a fucked up person, he knows it, and Geralt let him know it again for good measure.

FWIW I’m not completely done with the quest yet. Did I mention this game is immense?

3077

I’m pleasantly surprised with the performance in Novigrad, I expected much worse considering the scale. And the fact that it’s part of the same world as Velen is even more insane, I don’t think I’ve seen a loading screen since I came out of prologue.

3078

Heh. No, not the new Crysis. Crysis moved at 25-30 fps with a pc bought in the year’s release, Witcher 3 moves at 60 fps.

3079

Well, not at 4k ;)

Makes you wonder when 4k will become mainstream. Or will it get passed over in favor of VR headsets.

3080

So this was posted a few days ago - did any more information surface in the mean time on the total amount of points available? [spoiler=minor spoiler numbers]We know that there are 15 available from places of power and you get 1 for each level up. Last branch in each tree requires a 30 point investment but some of us has spotted schematics that require lvl 37 or even 42. I guess it’s safe to say that 45 is probably the realistic soft level cap which leaves with ~60 points total. So where did the guys on calculator get 100? Or is it just a placeholder?

3081

I hate the batman comparisons.

Fuck batman.

Also, I played 12 hours and finally just met Yen and Emhyr. It blows my mind how fucking precisely and flawlessly CD Projekt nails the look, writing and voice acting of these book characters. Sapkowski himself couldn’t write this better.

3082

And BTW, the 970 is really awesome. I overclocked it a bit too just for the fun of it, runs at 1450 on average, 7500 memory. I have foliage distance/shadows at high, hairworks off, everything else ultra (at 1080p) and it never ever drops under 60 which is glorious. I have around 50 with hairworks enabled, but…I actually prefer nonhairworks look, especially of Geralt. With it enabled, Geralt looks too Pantene’d PRO-V for my taste.
What I love the most is that I pretty much never notice any LOD issues or pop-in, it is handled very well. In TW2 the pop-in was a lot worse.

Also, zero crashes or bugs in 12 hours.