Are you running an ATI or NVidia card? I haven never seen any physics glitches, prior to the expansion nor in the 3 or 4 hours I’ve put in so far post-expansion…? Though I only just updated my NVidia driver at lunch today (to the version from 9 days ago).
I have 970 with 355.82 driver, which is an older one I guess, but I don’t want to mess with it now since the game is stable. I doubt these physics glitches are driver related.
Have you ever adjusted your FOV? For me that glitch happened when I got into a combat with four enemies in an area where the combat wanted to zoom in and there were restricting structures around that would have otherwise compromised it.
robc04
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I was having crashes since the expansion, but I was using the NVidia driver from when Witcher 3 was released. I updated it and didn’t crash since.
I did have some ragdoll death hesitations even after the driver update.
I finished the main story DLC and was quite happy with how things wrapped up. Still the quest wasn’t one of my favorites, but it is quite involved.
robc04
5547
I only remember seeing Telefrog say he started a New Game+. Anyone else?
I want to play some more in the near future, but I’m so out of sorts with it since I hadn’t played it in a while before I completed the DLC. I’m not sure what I should do next:
- Finish up the quest in my log, most of them lower level.
- Start a New Game+
- Start a new game and focus on different skills. This time I was mainly fast attack, power attack, and Quen - with some others thrown in here and there.
Any suggestions?
I’ll definitely get the next DLC too.
I’ll only play New Game+ after the second expansion is out, and maybe even an enhanced edition. At least that’s the plan ;)
I tried immersivecam mod, but deleted it and played without it, that should not have any effect. Did not modify fov.
I am using one mod, that hides minimap and quest info when not using witcher senses. Such awesome little mod.
robc04
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There are a lot of little things they could have done to improve the user friendliness of the game - showing how many of something you already have when shopping so you don’t need to locate it in your inventory, either having an entry in the journal for plants that says what location you found it near or have a filter on the map to let you see where you’ve harvested something so it is easier to go find more, being able to pin more than 1 recipe, etc. There are so many different plants it’s hard to identify the less common ones by sight.
I’m not so sure the content would hold up so well for subsequent playthroughs since the main draw for me was the writing. The combat is good, but not great, so I’m not sure if fighting these creatures again, even utilizing different skills would keep it interesting. Makes me kinda sad because I’d like to capture some of that magic again. There are a few quests it might be fun to take a different path.
I’ve been going around doing some side quests and treasure hunts since I completed the DLC story. I never did the advanced alchemy quest before so I hadn’t upgraded a lot of my potions. I also just got the top tier of my witcher gear. I’ll probably complete the DLC side quests and then maybe put it away.
The wedding was amazing. After 230 hours of playing they still find a way to surprise me and make me laugh like crazy.
Btw I was reading really good review of Age of Decadence by Tom, and the last part really surprised me:
“If I want detailed tactical combat, I’ll go back to Pillars of Eternity. If I want visual spectacle, I’ll go back to The Witcher 3. It’s worth noting I didn’t finish the storyline in either of those games. But I sure as hell did in Age of Decadence.”
I get that it was to make a point of AoD having really good writing, but damn, to reduce Witcher 3 to “visual spectacle” when it is so much more than that, and one of the best written games ever in its own right ? Not fair man. It surprised me considering that Tom loved Witcher 2, if I remember correctly. Witcher 3 has less emphasis on politics, but isn’t written any worse, on the contrary.
JMR
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Got this up and running and while it looks good in the immediate vicinity it falls apart when you’re in a place like Skellige where the tallest peaks grant you a clear view of the horizon. With this mod running the distant fogging is removed which reveals land masses that were obviously not designed or optimized to be viewed from a great distance. It’s kind of jarring actually and for now I have deactivated the mod. Now is that how the mod normally behaves or is there a setting I need to tweak in order to rein in the draw max draw distance?
I vastly prefer vanilla look to all these lightning mods. It is lot more consistent and still looks stunning to me.
Patch 1.11 is live.
https://crmprod.zones.com/CRM/main.aspx#406291866
Fixes issue occasionally preventing players from completing quest titled Skellige’s Most
Wanted.
Among other things.
I’m level 25, and I reached a point in the story last night where the game warned to make a manual save slot before I went any further. And the message I got was kind of confusing. I think they said that any sidequests that I hadn’t done that required level 22 or above couldn’t be done anymore? That’s a bizarre way of doing things if I read that correctly.
Nevertheless, I’m so excited about the turn of events in the game, these days I’m even taking the risk and playing the game in front of my wife. Luckily she’s usually busy in the kitchen or daydreaming, and doesn’t look up, so I’m fine. It’s just that I’ve reached that point in a story where it’s hard to tear yourself away.
Yep, I agree. Most of the lighting mods seem to take away some of the Witcher 1 vibe that the game has.
If you are going to a certain Isle then you still have some ways to go. Just save, go there, see if any quests failed, if they did, reload and do them before going there.
Good to know, since I didn’t have any quests fail on me.
I finished the Isle last night, and kept playing through the battle after that too. It certainly did not turn out to be the final battle I thought it would be.
What I’m loving more than anything right now is
post-Isle of Mist spoilers
how much time Geralt and Ciri get to spend together. After spending literally months and months looking for Ciri, and getting to know her whenever the game switched controls and let me play through parts of her story, I never actually imagined that after their reunion, I would actually get to witness them getting reacquainted like this. It’s a brilliant piece of pacing for the story telling. Making the game feel like it was hurtling towards a conclusion, and then to pull back, slow it down, and just reward the player by actually letting the two playable characters engage with each other. Brilliant.
Oh yes. I love the whole game but the part when I have found her is most likely my favourite.
This post is more about NVIDIA driver upgrade woes than the game, but the latter drove the former since Hearts of Stone’s installation saw the game start locking up every 5-15 minutes. My drivers were from around May, and the last few updates wouldn’t install normally, requiring me to hit Device Manager and click through the folders the installer had extracted. And this no longer worked, it would come back saying I already had the latest drivers installed. So I tried uninstalling, doing a clean wipe via the installer, and nothing worked. Well, the drivers would uninstall, but then wouldn’t let me install the latest drivers. Googled around and someone suggested letting Windows Update do its thing, so I gave it a try. And it worked, though the driver build was a month behind, but after that I was able to run the latest installer.
And that fixed the lockups, so I finished HoS today. A lot of people seem to really like the wedding, but I couldn’t stand Geralt’s voice during that scene. Just sounded too much like a sex offender, creeped me out the entire time. So I’ll have to give the Everec estate the nod as my favorite section of the expansion, though it felt a bit too long toward the end. Sad quest, though not nearly as moving as the Bloody Baron story.
Hearing the GiantBomb crew complain about the Witcher 3 really drove home at last how far removed they feel from gaming, to me. They literally took turns talking about about how they couldn’t get into this (while throwing about some incorrect assumptions to boot) and then proceeded to be blown away by how awesome Destiny was, and at least one of them loved Destiny because they would “watch TV while they were playing it”. So the less you have to pay attention to a game while you play it… the better? Jeebus.
