I did that one last night and the dude could kill me in 2 hits. I used Quen and Moon Dust bombs which I think are what it recommends. I think I just happened to have armor and weapon boost from a blacksmith. I used Wyvern Decoction and since I was being extra cautious and not getting hit the damage piled on from the decoction. Just be sure to always have Quen up before attacking.
Around that same area I ran into a strange fight against level 5 bandits. I was level 10 at that point and I started the fight by reflecting arrows back at the archer. Usually they take 1 or 2 arrows and die, but I reflected 5 arrows at this guy before he dropped. All his buddies had souped up health as well, it was weird.
You often don’t want to be locked on in Dark Souls though (especially in some boss fights), because it restricts your movement and walking backwards is slower than forwards. In many third person combat games it is beneficial to have the camera focused in one place while still having the freedom to run in any other direction independently. I think if the character always backstepped when pressing back in those games it would bug the crap out of me.
Of course this doesn’t apply to all third person games.
Torture Triss? Oh, no, I don’t think so. Bloodbath ensued, but wiping out a building full of religious zealots is so enjoyable.
Bateau
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It seems like there are elite versions of some mobs, I first noticed it with various mobs that jump out from the destroyed monster nests and take a bit longer to kill.
After two nights where the temperature never dipped below 84 degrees inside the house, and below 86 in the office with my computer, I am pleased to report that it is currently a balmy 72 degrees thoughout the house.
I can finally play The Witcher 3 again.
John, we haven’t been doing random out-of-context spoilers of shared experiences that we’ll all have on the main quest. It’s a long game so most of us haven’t made it that far. It doesn’t really add to the discussion at this point.
It is, because they could have added backstepping and sidestepping as keybinds for mouse + KB controls and it would eliminate like 75% of the problem. They didn’t because controllers. If you are using mouse and keyboard you literally do not need at ALL a control to spin you 180 degrees or 90 degrees to either side. Those could be completely replaced by backing up and sidestepping.
So about that camp in the southeast of Velen…
I’m sad to report you can’t walk through the tent city. I was all pumped to go down there and point out how you can literally walk through an area like the one that was only visible in the background in TW2’s prologue with their stupid Neverwinter Night box levels. Not quite, though the map is still impressive. :)
This is what I see when I check the DLC page:
My point is you don’t need it with controllers either.
Edit: Or more precisely, Geralt’s movement is just as bad with a controller. I’m using one on my PC.
Bateau
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Steam client doesn’t show any dlc installed for the game but I still got Missing Miners contract so I guess they changed it to be included with the patch.
Timex
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This game continues a seemingly endless series of impressive moments which are awesome.
I’m hitting that point where I’ve spent too much time on the main quest lately. I think I shall go back to the countryside. Or is it time to check out Skellige?
Why can I suddenly not use GeForce Experience to apply optimal settings?
BTW, I didn’t know the double-tap thing worked for dodging–that’s awesome, and about 10,000X easier than pressing left alt with your thumb or whatever.
The thing that really impresses me about Witcher 3 is what a great job they do keeping a consistent tone throughout, so that it all feels like some deranged fairy tale straight from the middle ages.
But still, the occasional flashes of metahumor crack me up.
Peasant during the end of quest cut scene: “If the monster had just killed him, everything would have been fine. But now we’ve got what you might call a moral dilemma.”
Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Bioware.
olaf
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DAI crafting was the absolute worst. Just dogshit from top to bottom. I would argue that crafting in Witcher 3 is fine, even good. It generally makes items that are a little better than what you loot and the system is very clean to see what you can make and what you cant and why. What sucks is the inventory. Especially if you are using alchemy. Two potion quickslots, anything else you have to hit start, move to inventory, hit inventory, move to the usable items tab. Scroll down to the potions/decoctions ‘area’…then hunt for what you want to use. Ugh.
I believe they refresh every time you level.
There is an underwater chest in the White Orchard area that on the edge of the map. You can get it but you really have to work for it. I agree with you, don’t put shit near the rubber band invisible end of the world boundaries.
I used to see a listing of what DLC there was and whether or not I had purchased and/or installed it. Now the DLC ‘tab’ takes me to the store. Where I can see what I own but not whether or not it is installed. I can tell that the DLC released today got installed though from in-game where Yennefer’s alternate look was enabled.
Yeah, the inventory does suck. As usual, i blame consoles.
There needs to be one tab for alchemy consumables, one for food/water/etc consumables and one for everything else.
Books/letters need their own tab and if they relate to a quest AT ALL, they need to go in to the quest section. I’m scared to just mass sell my books/letters because i’ve seen some that started quests and i worry i missed reading one.
Alchemy consumables should have an in-combat menu. You can drink them from inventory so there is no reason not to do this other than forcing us to go through the inventory system and find the right potion.
robc04
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Yeah, I wish books had their own tab too. I won’t be able to keep track of what I read if I sell them.
I replayed the Swamp Monster contract a couple more times and won. I had to make sure I was very careful about getting hit. Lots of dodging, rolling and putting up the shield. I’m using the upgraded version that heals when it gets hit. Love it. Definitely my most used sign.
This is definitely one of my more liked games in a while. I’m not disappointed with it at all, even with the movement, inventory management that could be improved. None of these things is severely hampering my enjoyment, but improving them could make the game even better.
First off, books are going to get their own category, and filtering items will become available. Source: CZ head translator’s twitter.
In coming patch.
Second, thanks guys for the DLC confirmation. So I suppose they changed something there so it does not appear among DLCs anymore.
Headed up toward Novigrad seeing as I was already 1 level above the suggest quest there. Its really a nice change of pace, I don’t think I have seen 25% of the content of this game yet, its like its never ending. :D
New location, new outfit!
