I’m at that part. The fight before I had the same reaction as Geralt in the game but that turned out to be a very easy cakewalk. Then now this fight and well yea. Almost had him the first time but I failed and failed a couple of more times afterwards. I’ll get back to it though.
My advice for fistfights is counterattacks. Or staying back a bit and when you see them about really to launch their punch you go in first with yours and hit them a couple of times and back off and repeat.
Also everytime I feel I’m close to the end of the game I get hit with 3 more quests. I am seriously questioning if this game actually does ever end. I was at some earlier part about 10 hours or so ago and some told me you’re close, only 6-7 hours more and well that was clearly wrong.
olaf
4924
Definitely the hardest fights in the game are the ones where you are dumped into combat from a cutscene inside of room. Whether fists or swords, its a tough spot because of the camera. I try and dodge/roll into a corner ASAP to get my bearings. Quen and Parry are your friend. Also the combat tree talent that is not too far down where, for I think just 3 points, you take no damage when dodging is very helpful in general but especially in close quarters.
Just finished this up. I would highly recommend not giving up on the fisticuffs or turning down the difficulty just to get the end of the quests.
Champion of Champions
Got to the arena to fight Olaf and thought something might be amiss. There is too much room here. For me, the fight was one of the funniest moments of the game. A lesser development team would have left it there but when CDPR doubled down with the “Troll Errant” it was glorious.
… “but I can see him. It’s there, behind the rock, see?”
Genius, lol.
One of the CDPR folks tweeted earlier that patch 1.07 should be out by the end of today or over the weekend. They want all three platforms to go live simultaneously, so I imagine we’re waiting on Sony, MS, or both to wave it through.
Benhur
4928
Thanks for the update; I was wondering what was going on with this patch.
It’s out on XB1(7.2gb) and PS4 (7.4gb), just waiting for PC version to get released.
ARogan
4930
That is a massive patch!
The only fist fight I had issues with was in Novigrad hiring some body guards. The penalty for failing that is pretty small but it became personal after a while. It took me maybe 3 tries.
So I’ve been playing it on PS4. Working on skellige and finished the first “interesting” scene with Yen. I’ve got the first upgraded cat set and thinking about maybe switching to wolf.
So I just bought it again on pc. At this point I guess I’m just throwing money at cd projekt red. I guess I wanted something to push my rig. I seem to get around a solid 45fps on ultra without hairworks on at 1080p on my r9 290x. It’s really pretty but really not that much improved over the ps4. The load times though are SO MUCH SHORTER on pc, and I haven’t even moved it over to the SSD.
Early reports on the alternate movement style for Geralt seem very positive. Someone on the official forums said that Geralt now handles like a sports car, rather than a tank.
Here’s a gif of the alternative movement, it looks pretty good!
Is the patch out on GoG yet?
Cormac
4934
Where’s the bloody patch!!
Console’s have it and we gotta wait?? Pc games are obviously being neglected and we are d0med!
PC downgrade confirmed!
18 days since I last played Witcher 3, still waiting for 1.07.
Dammit. I’ve been playing AC4 while waiting for 1.07 to start playing W3. I’m almost to where I was on the 360 (saves don’t transfer), and the patch drops, of course.
Also, I booted up W3 to download the patch, and it appears to have already been installed. A 7gb auto download? When did that happen?
Benhur
4937
Looks like the patch is on gog… but downloading is slow.
5.1 GB downloading now for me on Steam.
robc04
4939
Yeah, wish I bought it on Steam. Well, I can’t complain since I got it with my video card. Can’t connect with Gog Galaxy now so I’m annoyed.
Benhur
4940
try downloading from the gog website insstead of gog galaxy.
rei
4941
GOG Galaxy is completely broken. Cut me off mid-download and parts of its interface just spin.
Yeah is there anyway to patch this without Galaxy if you’re running the game through Galaxy?
