3903

Favorite game moment so far:

I pass a bandit camp on my way to a village that just happens to be very close to said camp. I attract the bandits’ attention and they start chasing me. I reach the village and find my quest contact immediately. I initiate my conversation with the NPC. During our conversation, I keep hearing dull “thwack” sounds. Then I notice that I’m being shot by arrows…and they are appearing on my chest for a few seconds before disappearing. Thankfully, during the course of the conversation, they must have grown tired of shooting me as they were gone by the time the cut scenes ended. But it was hilarious to watch my body being shot repeatedly by arrows while I’m nonchalantly discussing politics with a village elder.

3904

I had a somewhat similar thing happen, with the doctor in the Cabaret quest.

At some point, either he got shot, or he was shooting his crossbow, and then for the remainder of the quest in all of the conversations he had an arrow sticking through his hand.

3905

Exactly the same, he was doing an autopsy with an arrow stuck in his hand. He must have fumbled that crossbow pretty bad.

3906

Yeah, I don’t know how the rest of the decks play because I never needed to switch to them, but you can definitely use that combo to win at everything in the long run. Siege Foltest gives you a solid 3rd row which few of the other decks have, and also allows you to dump things like the Rain card because you will almost always want it clear there. If you’ve got a few spies, a few decoys to pick up spies the opponent lays down, a few ice cards to freeze the melee row to negate the power you give the opponent with spies, and a few hero cards to ignore weather you should be good against most everything. The main exception to that is the monster deck which can bring in reinforcements and suddenly blow you out of the water, so it’s good to be able to decoy and concede a round against them.

I’ve seen Gwent compared positively to Hearthstone and I can’t say I agree: it’s a pretty gamey RPGish system where a 15 hero card is definitively better than a 8 hero card and there’s no tradeoff in playing it. If you progress your deck enough, and use a few simple strategies (get out your spies early so you have a numerical card advantage, and ditch/freeze if you need to), there’s not much challenge other than mitigating some bad luck of the draw.

3907

I tried playing monster and scoiatel decks a few times but the lack of spy cards is a real deal breaker.

3908

I also prefer playing with the subtitles off. Hopefully whatever the elf said wasn’t that important, because I didn’t bother replaying that section with the subtitles on.

I did end up turning the subtitles on for the Hags, because I really couldn’t tell what they were saying at all. Although in that case it was fine with the subtitles on.

3909

I’m so close to beating the game… and the patch still isn’t out, damn. I just completed all the treasure hunt quests. With the griffin armor I have +198% sign intensity, lol.

3910

I’ve never played Hearthstone but you’d think they could rebalance if they spun it off.

Maybe not. Maybe there are inherent issues.

3911

Only 198%? Did you forget to slot mutagems? ;) I have 266% with the sword out, and that’s at lvl 25 and superior version of the set, not mastercrafted.

3912

Well, I didn’t go full mage. Just half the skill trees.

3913

So, this is the best written game ever made, isn’t it ? Maybe tied with Planescape Torment.

(some sidequest spoils from Dandelion/Triss)

spoil

I mean, first there is the hilarious rescue of Dandelion through theater play and more shenanigans, then helping him get money by pretending to be a bandit (which had me rolling, “oh no, not Carmine Avenger!”), then the gut punch with Priscilla getting attacked in such vicious way (and I love her character), then incredibly well written serial killer investigation with absolutely amazing climax (I had no idea it would be higher vampire…it blew my mind, with memories of Regis still being fresh, how they played on that), then I saved mages with Triss, after which there was that glorious beautiful rant by Dijsktra on Radovid the Witless…

I have one question though…can I complete (maybe later in the game) Soldier’s Statuette quest,
spoil

if Triss went to Kovir

? I am going to be with Yennefer, so it would be wrong to ask her to stay…

3914

I have one question though…can I complete (maybe later in the game) Soldier’s Statuette quest,

I don’t think you can complete any of those quests (or even really get them) beyond that point in the game.

Once you complete now or never, all those statuette quest items seem to become useless. And it doesn’t even matter how you choose to complete that quest.

3915

I could complete the soldier’s statue quest in Act 3, even if I missed my chance in Act 1. Also, maybe Yen can do the job instead of Triss in that Act.

In any case, it’s a 20 seconds long “quest”, consisting of watching a brief dialog.

3916

Have anyone found the vampire from the trailer? the “Fuck off” vampire. I read something about
location

being in Novigrad sewers

, but I never happen to find it nor have a quest there.

3917

So what difficulty are you guys playing on? I haven’t dived into this yet for a variety of reasons, but this article is tempting me: http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/3/8712405/witcher-3-difficulty

3918

I’m on the level directly below the hardest. Blood and Bones?

3919

I’m playing on hardest, and the game is too easy in the last third.

3920

+1, not much more to say.

3921

Good, thx.

3922

2nd hardest. If I replay I will go hardest.