What’s the deal with secondary weapons? Do they go in the steel slot? Are they ever useful?
The southeast part of the map looks great so far. I can’t wait to explore that.
Yes, you equip them in place of a steel sword. I think they are mostly intended as junk to sell or disassemble, but they can be used as weapons if you don’t have anything better. At the moment I’m using a battle axe because it deals more damage than any of the swords at my disposal.
You need to be in Full Screen mode to adjust gamma.
Quoted for truth. As I said before, the game is great, but for fans of the books, it’s mind-blown-great.
Yeah, what’s up with that? In the one abandoned house in the White Orchard area, with the quest that starts out with you talking to an old lady, there’s a shelf that lights up to your witcher senses, but there’s a candle on the table, so you just end up lighting and extinguishing it. Is there a way to get whatever’s there on the shelf?
There always is, you just have to struggle with it.
So I’ve spent the last month playing GTA V on my PC, and then Wolfenstein: Old Blood in the past week or so. Both of those games look amazing and run unbelievably well on my machine. Why, then, does Witcher 3 look like junk compared to those games yet still runs like such crap? Figured I’d give it a try because I’ve never played any of the Witcher games before, but it all feels very B level to me. Not saying there isn’t a decent game here somewhere, but neither the graphics nor the gameplay has impressed me at all so far. What am I missing? :(
Played those same games. Witcher 3 looks as good as both.
I dunno. Seems as if you’re predisposed not to like it much, so I’m guessing it’s not your thing.
Yeah, I think TW3 looks better than GTA V, especially with regards to the characters. Haven’t played Wolfenstein so I can’t comment on that game.
I was just commenting that I thought Witcher 3 looked better than GTA V. I guess YMMV.
eh.
It is what it is. There are some issues that should and hopefully will be addressed with the game. The original comments were so hyperbolic and reductive, though, that I’m disinclined to spend the time.
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Gamma is only available in full screen mode- not borderless window
Taste, sense, and possibly a soul? :)
“Where did you get your training, school of the snail?”
I don’t think Witcher 3 is a huge leap in terms of graphics. Oh it certainly looks good and it look better than GTA 5 or Wolfenstein, but both of those games are squarely last generation in my opinion.
Witcher 3 is no Crysis. I don’t load it up, get stuck on medium settings because of my 3+ year old computer and think about how far the game can still be pushed with better hardware. Yes, i’m not at 100%, but i’m probably at 90% or something. Crysis was different. It was just… well, a huge leap at the time.
I’m enjoying the game, a lot. I was really worried when the witcher jumped on the open world bandwagon, but they seem to have done it pretty well. Often times open world games have a problem with making their wide open worlds have interesting stuff in them and not repetitive, but witcher 3 seems to do it pretty well. Although i imagine this might change later on if enemy variety doesn’t improve past the first area.
There seem to be some balance issues with the skill system though. Many skills seem broken level useless just from reading them. Maybe that is different in practice, but i don’t see how that is possible. This is made even worse by the limited number of active skill slots which just magnifies the skill balance problems.
Maybe I should clarify. Maybe Witcher 3 would look better than GTA V if I were able to turn the graphics up beyond medium-low. But at fairly low settings it struggles to pull 30fps at times. Meanwhile GTA V has everything 75%+ of the way up and I pull 60+fps at most times. So, is the optimization just not as good with Witcher?
Core i5 4670 @ 3.4ghz
8GB RAM
Geforce GTX 660
Not a top of the line system, but certainly no slouch. I’ve never run into any other game that taxed it like this. What the actual fuck? :P
Well, you’re exactly at the minimum specs on the GPU, and barely over on RAM (minimum is 6gb). The other thing I’ve noticed is that Witcher 3 wants every little bit of RAM you can feed it. I’ve got 16gb in my system and if I accidentally leave a Chrome or Firefox window open while playing, I’ll get a crash. Only time it happens. I assume it’s RAM ish.
And so I think what you’re seeing is CDP’s desire to make this game as “open” and non-load screeny as possible. It will eat every bit of system RAM it can get to, and it will use every bit of GPU power it can get.
These characters are impossibly good.
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