I’d like that mod for Geralt’s sword during combat and for my own sword during erotic cutscenes!*
Just for you, Paul, I crafted some better-looking armor to go with Carabella…
I went with wavy, white stiching on mocha brown felt and used red lacing to tie it together. Bows of red ribbon accent my shoulders to let evil know I am not to be trifled with.
Thanks for the difficulty-level tip, triggsy! I jacked it up to Death March last night, something I never would have thought to do if it weren’t for your suggestion. Felt better immediately. At level 4 I had been easily tackling large groups of level 9 bandits which didn’t feel right. I guess coming off 60 hours in Dark Souls 3 would make any game seem like Spyro the Dragon.
This difficulty bump offsets some of my guilt for using Gourmet, a skill which might be overpowered. Eating one measly loaf of bread will keep replenishing my vitality for 20 minutes so in combat, if I take a hit, I can just roll around while my health goes back up.
I was glued to the screen until 3:30am last night. I tracked down Kiera in her hut then went adventuring with her mole down into some caves to track an elf who was tracking Ciri. We fought a Golem and a Wild Hunt dude without much trouble. I made it through that whole area only dying once when I got swarmed by some wraiths. Actually, the teleporting level 4 foglets gave me the most trouble. I hit level 6 when we were done but now Kiera wants help finding a magic lamp.
I already did this quest on the PS4 but this time through I found a secret area and a new, silver relic sword. So it’s goodbye Carabella, hello Maugrim! Pretty soon I’ll get past the content I saw on PS4 so it’ll be all brand new. I’m scared to encounter that Music Video Bilge Hag that Scott just posted.
This is a good computer game.
*I’m 100% certain nobody’s ever thought of a sword-oiling joke for this game before. I’m 1st!
Would pay for rrmorton game diaries.
Heidi Klum frowns. (Secretly, she feels both excited and threatened.)
Hmm, I can’t recall ever having seen the Carabella, though I finished Swamp Thing and checked two different places it’s purported to be. Could be I sold it…
I see what you mean about Kiera’s outfit now, trig. I thought it fit better but it’s actually quite gapey leading to beaucoup unnecessary areola.
Wait, one’s silver and the other is steel so I get to keep both Carabella AND Maugrim!
FOR THE KINGDOM!
I’m right behind Mort right now. Just finished up the caves. Surprising how much fun it is even though I’ve done all of this before. Upping the difficulty certainly makes it more interesting. I think I might try cranking it all the way up, but with the load times on the ps4 dying is annoying. The only saving grace is I have the ps4 setup on my PC monitor. I have two screens so I can browse while I wait.
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Currently, the middle of the page is whiter than the immediate surroundings, which is a very light grey. The avatars and blue dividers bump right up against the left side of this inner white panel. Adding just a touch of separation seems like it would be a ‘cleaner’ look.
Boy, people weren’t lying about the difficulty of Hearts of Stone. Or maybe it’s just that I turned level scaling on. First boss is totally giving me the business.
It’s crazy how elitist people can be when it comes to difficulty. I’m looking up what others thought of the fight on the Steam forums and whenever someone mentions that TW3 on etc difficulty is as hard as Dark Souls, people jump all over the person saying stuff like “funniest thing I’ve read all day,” as if Dark Souls is the pinnacle of difficulty.
I love both games/series (Witcher 3 being the best RPG I’ve ever played), and I see nothing wrong with comparing the two’s difficulty.
I don’t think there is anything harder in TW3 than Orstein and Smough were (when I was fighting them solo, it took me 40 minutes), but there are couple fights in HoS in particular that were harder for me than many of the Souls bosses (Frog Prince, Olgierd’s Nightmare).
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Apples and oranges, TW3’s combat system isn’t nearly as deliberate as the one in Souls games.
Difficulty is a tricky, personal thing. Especially keeping it going over the course of over a hundred hours of gaming so you keep getting a satisfying sense of leveling progress as you go. Right now I’m liking the max difficulty setting but if I suddenly hit a wall with a boss fight, I’ll be irked. Lots of times I move on to other games in that situation rather than lower the setting and admit defeat.
I think I’d like some realism mods like I used for Oblivion/Skyrim. Making time to rest and eat properly goes a long way towards building a sense of story around quest events. At least Geralt is superhuman so the fiction allows some degree of ignoring those mortal needs but I like having to account for hunger, thirst, and sleep. Without those things, day goes into night into day again and it doesn’t mean anything except for noticing the pretty sunlight when it arrives.
I also find myself wishing the world was more interactive… just a few small animation things would go a long way, like letting me sit on a bench or chair or wash my face in a barrel or something. Last night I was investigating the rooms of the Bloody Baron’s wife and daughter and I would have loved to be able to sit down in their chairs or on their beds to look around. I’d like to be able to “park” Geralt like this when I go to the bathroom or get a drink in real life. The world building is GORGEOUS and frustratingly untouchable.
Last night I found Kiera her lamp, met up with the Bloody Baron, did three quick horse races, beat a few merchants at gwent, and went back to Kiera for some sweet loving only to find she had another task for me… she wants me to go back out to Fyke Island which I’ve already explored. So high maintenance.
Today we’re having friends over for a bbq. Would it be rude to play The Witcher 3 the whole time they’re here? It’s all I want in life.
Oct, how much of the game have you played through before?
Yep.
That first boss (and there are a couple of others in the story line as well) are bigger ass kickers than anything I encountered in the Wild Hunt main quest line. I was so unprepared for him, in fact, that I had to reload an earlier save, and go back and build up my oils and then also gain a couple levels to build up a sign I didn’t use much. I also re-honed my combat skills and what I guess I’d call “combat patience”. 1-3 hits then gtf outta there, Geralt!
Playing on easier difficulties made me feel like I had zero chance against that boss. You at least sound like you’re at least making progress, so you probably have more skills or played on tougher difficulty than I!
But yeah, that was why I originally threw out that whole “Play a little tougher difficulty than you’re used to”, because all through HoS I was having to really prepare for fights and get set for them, and honestly it felt like it made the game even more enjoyable, like I’d missed a whole bunch of stuff I shouldn’t have before.
My memory sucks, but I had mostly completed the area we are in now and was about to move on to the next. Probably another good 10-15 hours to get there. Which is insane. I refuse to play anything else until this game makes my eyes bleed. Sadly no more until tomorrow.
Loving the new city in B&W. What a beautiful place, and what talented artists and designers.
It’s a real piece of amazing work, right?
Whole countryside is kind of awesome in Toussaint.
Oh my god, I want to lick the new grass. The vegetation looks great now, and it’s so dense. Add the new colorful houses and the new lightning and it’s so pretty!
I usually have this instinct in first person games as well. I want to be able to interact with things. Funny enough, that instinct goes away when I’m a floating camera instead. So I didn’t really have the desire to see Geralt sit in a chair, or lie in a bed, or sit on the throne or any of those things you mention, because I’m a floating camera looking at Geralt’s actions.
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Oh man am I SOL with the Gwent collection if I didn’t get the card from the inn in White Orchard at the start of the game? The Gwent collection book is telling me I have one left and it’s in White Orchard :(
Believe it was patched in 1.04 that the merchant in White Orchard (the dude with the pudding bowl haircut you and Vesemir stumble onto in the game’s opening and save from the griffin) has all the Gwent tavern cards for sale. Check with him, he should have them.
