The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

I need to play this again. In my first game I used a lot of Quen, which I think is kinda easy mode.It might be fun to try another build.

I like the way you think.

I need to play the DLC again one day anyway. So if I play this game again, say in 2020, from the beginning, I’d also like to try a build where I didn’t use Quen. I was so reliant on it, it would feel like a completely different game if I didn’t use it.

Wait, just to be sure we’re talking about the same thing, Quen is the shield/free hit, right?

Yeah. It is a set amount of damage absorption. It also can be upgraded to stun enemies when it pops, and has an active mode that can regen your health when hit. A sign heavy build can make Geralt never need to eat again.

Neither is grandmaster, grandmaster actually adds a fur that I am not a big fan of. These are afaik level 3 and level 2, respectively.

Woah! Without Quen, I’ll have to eat food? I didn’t think about that. Maybe this ‘other build’ isn’t so hot @robc04. We’ll have to learn how to eat food!

What can I say, my Geralt is an ascetic ;)

But other than boss fights I’ve not used any food items in about 20 hours. The shield regen means that I can regain health without them. Which would have been nice in White Orchard when Geralt was killing monsters just to get a loaf of bread!

I’m real good at that in real life. I had Quen fully upgraded and relied on it a lot. I agree that the game would feel pretty different without using it.

Finally figured out why Geralt ended up alone; blew off a very early “loyalty” mission from Yen, like 20 levels ago. I can’t remember if i deliberately ignored her or just forgot to do it.

I ran on the higher difficulty levels which prevented healing while meditating. My thing was using Sun and Stars special perk for a constant heal trickle until I needed to free up the slot in the middle-late game, the dedoction that heals you every time you cast a sign, and the glitchkill-everything with fully upgraded Axii. By far the most compatible for my playstyle (i.e. Lazy melee). Even the last boss fights of the game were trivial with Axii spam.

The Last Wish on Skellige?

Yep, it wasn’t that I did it and choose poorly, I must have just forgot about it entirely, never even started the quest. It is just possible I blew her off at that point - tbh it was over a year ago when I was that quest triggered and I don’t remember - but I do vaguely remember being peeved at her bossy, oh you stupid man, style. Maybe I should just own it!

You dun fucked up, that was a beautiful quest.

Much sadness your Geralt ended up alone @Enidigm

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Thanks, I figured it out! :p

Oh man, the Caretaker fight is sooooooo bad lol. Worst hitboxes this side of Pontar.

I’ve never seen a sadder attempt at aping Dark Souls and failing so spectacularly at it.

Finished HoS last night, it is really good (wedding quest was superb). Very very story heavy, I was frequently locked up in conversations for 10 minutes or more. Luckily Witcher 3 is one of the precious few games that’s worth playing for the story, and the same holds true for its expansions. And it was so great to see Shani again, I love what they did with her character.

On to B&W now, as soon as I find a mod that removes the piss filter. Why developer do this in games is beyond me.

supposed to fit the warm sun bleached climate, but personally I also do not like it, removed it with piss remover

https://sfx.thelazy.net/games/preset/5685/

Thanks Paul. That particular preset is just download and then drop the files in the game/bin/x64 folder? Usually I had to overwrite sweetfx configs but this one looks like it’s bundled.

Also, any way to avoid the aliasing on text with Reshade?

Afaik it is drop in drop out and I do not remember any aliasing tbh.

btw here are the comparison shots I did when I played, you can show them to the dumbdumbs on neogaf

http://abload.de/img/oflup6.png

http://abload.de/img/dznuui.png

http://abload.de/img/axqud5.png

http://abload.de/img/b86u0m.png

http://abload.de/img/yncu3z.png

http://abload.de/img/zaiuey.png

I love these two

http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_25_25aumu.png

http://abload.de/img/witcher3_2016_08_25_26quah.png

I also think without the yellow filter game looks much better. Thank goodness for PC.

Brother from another mother. I thought I was taking crazy pills when I read some of the replies on GAF. Your screens look fantastic.

As for aliasing, it’s only on the text. Not very noticable, but also not subtle enough to ignore. I’ll try to make some comparison screens.