5523

As far as getting in the boat when Yennefer is driving: There should be a tutorial for this moment, since it comes up later as well. The bow end of the boat has an Interact point; interact with it, and you can go sailing with Yennifer.

5524

I beat the first boss…

[spoiler]

It’s funny because I wasn’t using Igni (fire) because the medic girl mentioned they threw a torch at him and he didn’t care. Then Geralt said something like, “he musn’t be afraid of fire…”. So, I didn’t bother using the sign. So I finally circled until I felt I had an opening, hit with fire, then back up. I’d come closer and repeat. My sword didn’t seem to do much of anything. I tried attacking from the side where the ‘bubbles’ would emerge. The wizard and his gang weren’t too bad after that. [/spoiler]

5525

I defeated the first DLC boss stupid easy (Blood and Broken Bones). I think I burned him down in 10 seconds or so. I found the next boss a bit tougher.

5526

And it seems some nVidia cards are crashing right before… uh… a certain scene with Shani. Sigh. Not sure if I skip it or just wait until CDPR fixes it…

EDIT: Ok, there’s a workaround - if you set graphics and postprocessing to Low, the crash doesn’t happen. Got past the part, took graphics to where they were before, all is well. Onward!

5527

Witchering (aka gwenting)

5528

And finished. 19 hours for a “completionist” run, with all the quests I’ve seen done, the two new armor sets forged and the runecrafter upgraded to the max.

Drop maybe one hour because I was afk a few minutes and also I wasted a bit of time doing non-expansion content like finishing the two potions that I never could complete before, and some extra PoI not related to the expansion cleared because I needed the money for runecrafter; so 18 hours, really.

A very good expansion. Some very cool locations in the reworked NE area, with nice looking villages, a lake, scary graveyards and ruins, mansions, etc.

story

[spoiler] The wedding was a riot, the auction and successive heist was cool, and the final trial did the typical haunted house/ghost story in flashbacks used in other parts of the game but this time I think it was the best in execution.
The plot has an interesting twist, as what you learn in the game about his love story at first is that he wanted a woman but her parents promised her to a foreign prince, that’s why he cursed him into a toad. But the implication of how it’s told the story is that he didn’t seem to have gotten the woman, and in present times he is alone, so you think that’s what happened. But he got what he wanted, he married to her, actually, it’s just that things turned sour, and not because of their fathers who opposed at first, but because the side effect of his “heart of stone”, until the end, when is her the one who wants to nullify the marriage. But he kills her father and imprison her in the mansion, making her even more unhappy, until he leaves her, but it doesn’t matter anymore, she dies full of sadness and suffering.

So in the end, it was the typical Faustian story, nothing greatly original, but well told, with a backdrop of love, tragedy and how everything can turn into ashes, so careful what you wish for. The man of mirrors is adequately creepy, witih a menace of power in him. Great scene when he stops time, for example. And so cruel, when he imprisons the occult professor in that way and makes him dream a fictional daughter.
[/spoiler]

5529

Not bad for a $9 DLC. The next one, now delayed to Q2 2016, will probably be a beast.

5530

Looks like CDPR is opening a North American office in Southern California. That’s new!

5531

Beach party DLC confirmed.

Cheer up, Redanians. It’s sunny and 70!

5532

New office is in Venice Beach, so yeah. Surf’s up, Geralt!

5533

Seriously though, I know it’s tedious that we as a society must judge and criticize everything, but darn if I didn’t wonder whether this was just some sort of prestige thing. Not exactly cheap real estate and cost of living.

5534

Cheated in the main game by exploiting one of the early money glitches?

The Taxman will come after you in Hearts of Stone.

5535

To me it makes sense. With the growth of GOG and their signature franchise, and the hoped-for growth they want for the Galaxy platform probably a smart idea to make some steps to run a bit with the big dogs.

Pics of the office make it look like a fully-functioning studio. And they’re hiring!

5536

LMAO, this is pure gold.

5537

Amazing.

5538

Iris’ greatest fear has now become my greatest fear. Damn I’m having a hard time with it. I’ve been sticking to the main DLC quest from the start. I wonder if I should have upgraded my equipment along the way. Playing on 2nd hardest.

While the DLC is pretty much the same good quality as the vanilla game,
I’m not liking it as much because

I don’t want to do quests for any of these asses. I’m always needing to do something for someone I don’t want to help.

5539

So I finally started playing. I have had two weird glitches so far. One is hilarious so I had to record it:

(ministry of silly walks!)

The other is that when fighting those Order of the Flaming Rose soldiers, sometimes their ragdoll does not activate and they stay suspended in the air at the moment of their death. It is somewhat unsettling.

Anyone else saw these ?

Other than this, the expansion seems awesome so far, but I am in the beginning, did not even go to sewers yet. Just doing a sidequest at the moment.

5540

I had that exact same thing happen to me in the regular game for a brief bit.

It was related to altered FOV from vanilla. Had the same effect on dead NPC bandits I was fighting at the time.

5541

I didn’t have a problem with ragdolls, but I also had once the glitch shown in the video (and after one minute, it CTD me).

5542

Hmm I had no CTDs for 4 hours I played today. But these physics glitches have been amusing.