If I was only going to play it once, there is no way I’d miss out on a quest titled The Last Wish. Just saying…
When I spoiled the romances, I think I saw The Last Wish was related to them. You might be locked out.
I could be wrong. Time to read up on a wiki page.
Bateau
3985
You’re right.
Regarding 2nd playthrough - there are rumors about NG+ dlc going around at the moment.
IIRC, it’s the name of the first collection of Witcher short stories, as well as the name of one of the stories therein (featuring a couple of our main protagonists). Sight unseen, I’d anticipate that a quest with that name is significant.
Huh? If I were only going to play the game once I would want to do that quest, simply because the name intrigues me. I don’t understand how “You can do both” pertains to that. Either I do the quest or I don’t, and “I don’t” ain’t gonna happen. :)
JeffL
3989
On the racial thing: C’mon, in the second book, in the very beginning, there is an entire discussion/argument about races, mixed races, and even a point where one race gets in a human’s face (who is clearly all about racial purity) and tells him, hey, face the facts, there’s some of my race in your background, anyone who claims racial purity is naive to think their ancestors never played around with the other races. Racism is rampant in this world, and overtly addressed.
Above it seems some people were being confused, as if the two missions were a pair, where doing one means the other fails. It isn’t the case, you can do both.
Ah, OK, got it. Confusion level… receding… :)
JeffL
3992
Still low level, still haven’t quite figured out what to do with all the stuff I have in inventory, need to stop and read my big fancy hardback strategy guide.
But now I know what people are talking about with Geralt’s movement. What a PAIN! I was simply trying to loot a chest that was in shallow water, and I had to turn around and move away and turn back and walk close then missed it, repeat, over and over and over. I was trying to light a torch on the wall in a dark room, two of them, no problem, the other I walked slowly up to it, nothing, backed away, moved back, oops, missed it, and after a few minutes just said screw it, not worth the effort. How can a game this advanced have movement controls like a game from the 90s???
robc04
3994
Man, after not having any crashes for the first 50 hours or more, I sometimes get multiple in an hour. Then I may be good for another 10 hours. They seem to be NVidea driver crashes.
56 hours in, skipped tons of sidequests in Velen and not really exploring a whole lot yet either. At around 46 hours in I finally went to Novigrad. This game is amazing, massive, and probably my favorite game ever. I HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN TO SKELLIGE YET. Simply amazing. This may be the first game that has made me emotional since PS:T.
I’ve had a two CTD in the last 6 hours played. I had some early on in the inventory, but between the patches and setting framelimit to unlimited those have stopped. But yeah, the CTD’s suck :(
olaf
3996
They all get lumped into the same place, unfortunately. Not cool.
Same here.
robc04
3997
Hmm, I saw some posts that say the NVidea driver crashes may be related to having Chrome opened. If you’re using Chrome, try closing it while playing W3.
Let me wrap up a few quests in Novigrad before going to Skellige.
Oh, here’s one more.
Now two more.
And here’s a yellow quest marker or three.
Yennefer’s long since shacked up with a captain of the guard by now, I’m sure.
Wow, the main story quests in Skellige take like 5 hours to do, now I am underleveled for the next area!
Time for sidequests! So I decided to hunt down all the level 1 Bear armor, since I think it looks the best. :)
A Cthulhu reference and GoT reference all of 5’ from each other, and I can’t even screenshot it because they broke the fuckin’ Steam Overlay. ><
The Internet now believes the XP “bug” is actually mislabelled quest levels. We already know that any quest 6+ levels below you will not provide any experience to prevent overlevelling. The theory is that these quests are internally marked at a lower level than they appear in the quest log. So if you’re level 14 and don’t get any experience from a quest that’s level 10, it might be because the hidden internal level of the quest was set to level 7. (Side note: I’m almost positive the quest to go to Skellige “jumped” from level 14 to level 16 at one point.)
The question becomes, will they “fix” this by simply labelling the quests properly with the lower levels? If so, you might not be missing anything if you proceed now. That’s why you can still complete the game within the window CDPR expected. On the other hand, they might have decided that would seem stupid and chose to rebalance everything, which is why it’s taking so long.
An earnest, personal defense of the diversity of The Witcher 3. The first social commentary on the Internet in years that’s not a polemic! A touch too long.
