The Witcher III

[OmarBradley]

Finished Broken Flowers, and the Hattori/Novigrad swordsmith quest line, neither gave me XP for finishing.

EDIT: Wow really..... for the Hattori quest line, he makes you a sword at the very end [of a long quest line] as a reward.... it's a level 24 quest, I'm level 16 and playing on Hard Mode, the fucking sword is a Level 13 sword..... wtf?

Edited May 31, 2015 by OmarBradley

[bran]

Finished Broken Flowers, and the Hattori/Novigrad swordsmith quest line, neither gave me XP for finishing.

EDIT: Wow really..... for the Hattori quest line, he makes you a sword at the very end [of a long quest line] as a reward.... it's a level 24 quest, I'm level 16 and playing on Hard Mode, the fucking sword is a Level 13 sword..... wtf?

that sucks, how bad is the damage compared to what you have?

[bran]

it seems patch 1.05 will fix most glitched quests, i hope mine is one they fix seems a lot of people are having issues with it so i think i have a good shot at it being fixed.

[Conor]

Finished Broken Flowers, and the Hattori/Novigrad swordsmith quest line, neither gave me XP for finishing.

EDIT: Wow really..... for the Hattori quest line, he makes you a sword at the very end [of a long quest line] as a reward.... it's a level 24 quest, I'm level 16 and playing on Hard Mode, the fucking sword is a Level 13 sword..... wtf?

The sword is levelled I think, because mine is a bit better than that if I recall. The real reward is unlocking a master blacksmith, you'll need him to upgrade any of the Witcher sets past enhanced as far as I've noticed.

Edited May 31, 2015 by Conor

[bran]

still going through the main quest in novigrad still doing the contract here and there but everytime you do a mainquest it seems someone wants you to do a side quest

Edited May 31, 2015 by bran

[OmarBradley]

still going through the main quest in novigrad still doing the contract here and there but everytime you do a mainquest it seems someone wants you to do a side quest

That's fine with me. This play through my attitude is to do as much content as possible given story/personal choices.

EDIT: Finally got some cool looking armor too, Redanian Halberdier Armor or something like that.

http://s15.postimg.org/pl4fu9l4b/witcher3_2015_06_01_11_52_51_04.png

http://s15.postimg.org/h44xjcgff/witcher3_2015_06_01_11_53_28_41.png

EDIT #2: New NVIDIA driver boosts performance even more...... now getting a stead 57-60 in the world, and 47-55ish in Novigrad, all Ultra minus High Foliage Distance and High Shadow Quality .

EDIT #3:

I'm slightly outperforming [this guy's] 980 set up:

GTX 980 here, ultra settings hairworks off.

Before update: 45-50 fps ultra with hairworks on (geralt only).

After update: 50-55 fps ultra with hairworks on (geralt only).

So I got 5-10 fps more. But I'm a FPS wh*** , so I turned 8 to 4 MSAA for hairworks to have steady 60 fps.

Edited June 1, 2015 by OmarBradley

[bran]

that armor is awesome looking.

[OmarBradley]

I was really excited... I just looted a Blood Sword from a chest, and I immediately recalled the Blood Sword from W1, which was awesome, and drained black like 50% of damage done as health.... this one has good stats, better than my current Silver Sword, but it has no draining/bleeding/special effect.

Think I have a broken quest too, "Inheritance" on Skellige.

Edited June 2, 2015 by OmarBradley

[bran]

still havent explored any of skellige yet, i went there for lamberts side quest but thats it.

my dream game would be to take the witcher story telling, world and side quests and mash it together with dragons dogma monster battles.

[OmarBradley]

Just finished Rueven's Treasure, no XP, very annoying.

I went along with Triss's plan up until the torturer started saying he was going to pull her fingernails, then I killed everyone in the building. Never found Djikstra's treasure, would have been nice to, but I can on another play through.

Just starting the Whoreson Junior line now, killed everyone in his arena. I've decided to clean this city up.

Edited June 4, 2015 by OmarBradley

[ZoSoRose]

Just stumbled across Gran and the kids. Very eerie, I came across them at 5am during a storm in game, it was unsettling.

Going to find out about Johnny tomorrow.

Loving this game so far

[OmarBradley]

Just stumbled across Gran and the kids. Very eerie, I came across them at 5am during a storm in game, it was unsettling.

Going to find out about Johnny tomorrow.

Loving this game so far

Yeah the swamp was one of my favorite parts of the game so far.

[bran]

Just finished Rueven's Treasure, no XP, very annoying.

I went along with Triss's plan up until the torturer started saying he was going to pull her fingernails, then I killed everyone in the building. Never found Djikstra's treasure, would have been nice to, but I can on another play through.

Just starting the Whoreson Junior line now, killed everyone in his arena. I've decided to clean this city up.

yeah i did the black pearl side quest and got 0 xp from it. im still on level 15 halfway to 16 and i have done a ton of stuff.

[OmarBradley]

Made the Ursine Armor last night, doesn't look as good as the Halberdier Armor, but it's a solid bit better and not bad looking. The Enhanced Ursine looks like it's gonna be awesome, but I'm about 4 levels too low for it even though I have everything I need to craft it.

Character appearance spoiler:

Met Vernon last night, and Radovid. Vernon was less friendly that I thought he'd be..... almost at times seeming like he had forgotten that he and Geralt helped each other quite a bit (since I sided with him in my W2 save).

Radovid's gone mad. He was quite good in W1, I remember liking him better than Foltest, he was OK in W2 - just hated sorceresses, but he seemed sane. No idea how the transtion happened, but he's a lunatic now.

I also feel like CDPR could have done a better job of continuity between the second and third games. Some characters talk like, and some plot devices/dialogue make it seem like the events of W2 took place 10+ years ago..... when in reality it's only been ~6 months from the end of W2 to the beginning of W3. Maybe some of the outside writers they hired, or in house but newly hired, didn't have great knowledge of the first two?

[bran]

Made the Ursine Armor last night, doesn't look as good as the Halberdier Armor, but it's a solid bit better and not bad looking. The Enhanced Ursine looks like it's gonna be awesome, but I'm about 4 levels too low for it even though I have everything I need to craft it.

Character appearance spoiler:

Met Vernon last night, and Radovid. Vernon was less friendly that I thought he'd be..... almost at times seeming like he had forgotten that he and Geralt helped each other quite a bit (since I sided with him in my W2 save).

Radovid's gone mad. He was quite good in W1, I remember liking him better than Foltest, he was OK in W2 - just hated sorceresses, but he seemed sane. No idea how the transtion happened, but he's a lunatic now.

I also feel like CDPR could have done a better job of continuity between the second and third games. Some characters talk like, and some plot devices/dialogue make it seem like the events of W2 took place 10+ years ago..... when in reality it's only been ~6 months from the end of W2 to the beginning of W3. Maybe some of the outside writers they hired, or in house but newly hired, didn't have great knowledge of the first two?

it could be bigger project more people involved. it could be a way for them to try and ease people into the game since many players never played the first 2 games but i do see your point, especially with roche.

with roche i chalked it up to saving triss instead of helping him annise, but the he went with the whole "i dont trust you" shit when i fucking let him kill a king without saying a word he seemed to mellow out after i did the ves side quest with him. i felt radovid was crazy at the end of witcher 2 in a psycho type of way but now he seems loony

[OmarBradley]

it could be bigger project more people involved. it could be a way for them to try and ease people into the game since many players never played the first 2 games but i do see your point, especially with roche.

with roche i chalked it up to saving triss instead of helping him annise, but the he went with the whole "i dont trust you" shit when i fucking let him kill a king without saying a word he seemed to mellow out after i did the ves side quest with him. i felt radovid was crazy at the end of witcher 2 in a psycho type of way but now he seems loony

Good point, I did the Triss thing too.... speaking of.... where is Anais?!?! I guess he sent her off somewhere.

But yeah, the "I don't trust you" line really irked me, especially like you said, I let him kill H.

[bran]

it could be bigger project more people involved. it could be a way for them to try and ease people into the game since many players never played the first 2 games but i do see your point, especially with roche.

with roche i chalked it up to saving triss instead of helping him annise, but the he went with the whole "i dont trust you" shit when i fucking let him kill a king without saying a word he seemed to mellow out after i did the ves side quest with him. i felt radovid was crazy at the end of witcher 2 in a psycho type of way but now he seems loony

Good point, I did the Triss thing too.... speaking of.... where is Anais?!?! I guess he sent her off somewhere.

But yeah, the "I don't trust you" line really irked me, especially like you said, I let him kill H.

good question i have heard or seen nothing of her. yeah i let him kill him as well so you would think that would have proven my loyalty to him and we know geralt is fiercely loyal to his friends almost to a fault which made that line even more weird.

Edited June 4, 2015 by bran

[bran]

new patch out, in the patch notes it says it should have fixed my bug quest which im going to check out in about 10 minutes.

Patch 1.05 has just gone LIVE for PC and should be available for download everywhere now. Please find the complete list of changes below:

Fixes a possible exploit by preventing certain drowners from respawning infinitely.

Improves the distribution of experience points gained by completing quests with recommended levels lower than the player character level.

Merchants now offer more weapon types.

Rebalances the prices of maps that can be purchased from merchants.

Clarifies a number of crafting diagrams.

Fixes an exploit whereby players could buy sea shells and sell the pearls inside them at a higher price.

Increases the variety of loot dropped throughout the game.

Increases the variety of items available in shops.

Shops now only offer weapons with levels matching or exceeding the player character level.

Slightly reduces the amount of coin dropped from chests and monsters.

Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.

Fixes an issue where runestones could not be upgraded to greater runestones.

Reduces the spawn time of selected groups of NPCs.

Geralt no longer interacts with candles placed near chests and other openable objects.

Improves the smoothness of camera movement.

Fixes a number of issues related to horseback riding.

Fixes an issue where the player could not deflect arrows/bolts at longer distances.

Introduces a number of fixes in in-game communities.

Introduces a number of fixes related to combat.

Vitality begins to drop if Toxicity exceeds 80%, as originally intended.

Fixes an issue where Geralt was sometimes unable to mount Roach.

Improves Geralt's movement, especially when he swims.

Fixes an issue whereby Geralt could be attached to a sinking boat while aiming his crossbow.

Fixes a number of issues related to Vitality regeneration.

Fixes an issue whereby certain actions could be randomly blocked during gameplay.

Fixes a rare issue whereby Geralt could not mount Roach after fast travelling between points.

Fixes a number of minor tooltip and wording bugs.

Adds a series of color-blind friendly features. Improves visibility of tracks, marks, footprints and scent clues. Color-blind friendly features can be enabled in the Options\Gamplay submenu.

Introduces a number of additional fixes to alt + tabbing.

Fixes an issue where The Witcher 3 process did not close properly if the user did not have XAUDIO installed.

Introduces a number of general stability and performance improvements.

Fixes an issue where in certain situations the game could crash while a save was being loaded.

Adds some missing translations in localized versions.

Ciri can no longer unlock fast travel points.

Improves the behavior of sails when viewed from longer distances.

Improves performance in selected scenes and cutscenes.

Fixes an issue where clouds and fog could flicker on some hardware configurations.

Fixes an issue where Geralt could pass through walls in the fish market in Novigrad.

Removes repeated sound cues on entry into GUI panels a second time.

Adds a collision near Kaer Gelen that could cause the player to be blocked inside the building.

Improves the scale of selected elements of the GUI and HUD.

Introduces a number of bug fixes and user experience improvements in the GUI panels.

Introduces a number of small changes in the UI for gwent.

Improves the alignment of the HUD for the 21:9, 4:3 and 5:4 screen ratios.

Disables "Input device changed" messages and adds options to disable on-screen combat feedback and floating tags above NPCs.

Adds an information prompt and Journal entries related to new DLC packages.

Fixes an issue where some formulae were not displayed in the Alchemy panel when the player possessed level 1 of said formulae.

Introduces a number of fixes in key bindings.

Introduces new filters for the Alchemy and Crafting panels.

Fixes a number of minor issues where music tracks were not triggered in their designated locations.

Fixes an issue where some players could not interact with an object during the Pyres of Novigrad quest.

Fixes an issue where some players could not make Geralt run after the Wandering in the Dark quest.

Fixes an issue where players could not talk to Octo after the Lord of Undvik quest.

Reduces the number of Wild Hunt minions spawned during the Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog quest.

Fixes an issue where Keira could sometimes fall beneath the terrain during the Wandering in the Dark quest.

Fixes an issue where certain actions were blocked during the Blindingly Obvious quest.

Fixes an issue where the player could not activate a portal during the Wandering in the Dark quest.

Fixes an issue where the player could get trapped in the ruins of Tuirseach Castle.

Geralt can now always play gwent with Madame Serenity.

Fixes an issue where Vernon Roche would not appear at the Hanged Man's Tree during the Eye for an Eye quest.

Fixes an issue where the player could not talk or otherwise interact with certain NPCs.

Fixes an issue where the sirens in the Lord of Undvik quest could be invincible.

Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions after the Carnal Sins quest.

Fixes an issue where some players experienced an infinite loading screen during the King's Gambit quest.

Fixes an issue where the player could experience a progression break after choosing a certain dialogue option when talking to Dijkstra in the Count Reuven's * Treasure quest.

Fixes an issue where Simun did not spawn properly during the Unpaid Debt quest.

Fixes an issue in the Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk quest where the katakan was not hostile after being lured.

Fixes an issue in the Contract: Shrieker quest where the shrieker was not hostile in certain situations.

Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions in the Master of the Arena quest.

Fixes an issue where wolves were not visible in the Contract: Mysterious Tracks quest.

Fixes an issue where the player could not fast travel under certain rare circumstances.

Fixes an issue where the player could not interact with Hattori during the Swords and Dumplings quest.

The player can no longer take on the Apiarian Phantom contract multiple times.

Fixes an issue where some players could not progress during the Broken Flowers quest.

Fixes an issue whereby the "Novigrad, Closed City" entry might have remained in the Journal indefinitely.

Fixes an issue in the Return to Crookback Bog quest where monsters were spawned inside a building.

Players can no longer prematurely obtain a key from a halfling, thus blocking the Contract: The Apiarian Phantom quest.

Fixes an issue in the Greedy God quest where the player could kill a monster twice.

Adds fail-safes for players being unable to obtain gwent cards after Dijkstra or Lambert can no longer be found in the game.

Fixes an issue whereby Triss could get stuck on a set of stairs after a scene during the Now or Never quest.

Fixes an issue where Ermion could not leave Lugos' area during the Sunstone quest.

edit: yes! it fixed my broken quest, it basically just reset the quest from the beginning.

Edited June 5, 2015 by bran

[OmarBradley]

Interesting, seems like some good stuff in there.

What is:

Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.

And how do you upgrade Runestones, do you have to have a diagram?

Also, my only broken (incompletable) quest so far is Inheritance.

I guess they aren't giving us the XP we didn't get for quests that didn't give XP that were supposed to?

EDIT:

Figured out what Bovine Defense Force Initiative is: http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-3-addresses-money-exploit-by-trying-to-kill-1709341894?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

Edited June 5, 2015 by OmarBradley

[bran]

Interesting, seems like some good stuff in there.

What is:

Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.

And how do you upgrade Runestones, do you have to have a diagram?

Also, my only broken (incompletable) quest so far is Inheritance.

I guess they aren't giving us the XP we didn't get for quests that didn't give XP that were supposed to?

EDIT:

Figured out what Bovine Defense Force Initiative is: http://kotaku.com/the-witcher-3-addresses-money-exploit-by-trying-to-kill-1709341894?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

oh man that is hilarious. i love when developers do creative stuff/hilarious stuff like that when it comes to fixing problems. its up there with max payne 3 and not banning players with cheats or hackers. they just stuck all the hackers and cheats into basically one server

[OmarBradley]

Kind of annoying.... I got the quest The Soldier Statuette while doing Zoltan's cards quest.... but I had already started Triss's personal quest, so the dialogue option to ask her about the statuette never appeared

and now she's gone off to Kovir..... though it didn't auto-fail the quest. Still, even if I can ask her later, it's level 14 and I'm 18 now, I'm doubting I'll see her again so soon.

Also, I didn't ask her to stay. Think I'm going to go Yen this play through. While it's tempting since we've known Triss since W1, seems like Geralt had a nice family dynamic with Yennefer and Ciri. Also, did Triss know this? If I remember correctly (may not....), at the start of W1 she comes on to you pretty strong, even insinuated that you and her had a past relationship - no mention of Yennefer.

And that brings me to another point, I (and I'm assuming many other people) did a lot of side stuff before diving into the main story. As a result, I was pretty decently leveled above pretty much all of the main story Novigrad quests, so I barely got XP for completing them.

[OmarBradley]

Just realized something, potential spoiler:

Zoltan's new owl...... wonder why it has no eyes....

I should have realized it the second the Witch Hunter captain told me about "the owl" outside of the hiding spot. Hour or so later, after talking with Dandelion at the Chameleon for a quest I spotted the owl in the background, had a "eureka!" moment.

[bran]

Kind of annoying.... I got the quest The Soldier Statuette while doing Zoltan's cards quest.... but I had already started Triss's personal quest, so the dialogue option to ask her about the statuette never appeared

and now she's gone off to Kovir..... though it didn't auto-fail the quest. Still, even if I can ask her later, it's level 14 and I'm 18 now, I'm doubting I'll see her again so soon.

Also, I didn't ask her to stay. Think I'm going to go Yen this play through. While it's tempting since we've known Triss since W1, seems like Geralt had a nice family dynamic with Yennefer and Ciri. Also, did Triss know this? If I remember correctly (may not....), at the start of W1 she comes on to you pretty strong, even insinuated that you and her had a past relationship - no mention of Yennefer.

And that brings me to another point, I (and I'm assuming many other people) did a lot of side stuff before diving into the main story. As a result, I was pretty decently leveled above pretty much all of the main story Novigrad quests, so I barely got XP for completing them.

book spoiler:

in the book triss comes to kaer morhen and runs into ciri, triss and ciri become somewhat close triss teachers her how to be a young lady and how to stand up for herself etc. triss knows ciri has crazy powers but she knows she cant help her, it is triss who tells geralt to take ciri to yennefer. triss and geralt had a one night stand kind of thing where its basically triss used magic to seduce him and get him into bed. geralt and yennefer had a kind of turbulent relationship, but triss was still jealous of yennefer who is her best friend in the books. geralt tells triss he loves her as a friend and nothing romantically can happen between them. so in the games it almost feels as if triss takes advantage of geralts amnesia, and when he gets it back he kind of remembered his feelings for yennefer. its a weird dynamic

part of me wants to go the yennefer route and go with something close to the books but triss has been there since game 1 it would be kind of odd for me to not close the trilogy with her

[Conor]

I sexed them all, whoops.

[OmarBradley]

Kind of annoying.... I got the quest The Soldier Statuette while doing Zoltan's cards quest.... but I had already started Triss's personal quest, so the dialogue option to ask her about the statuette never appeared

and now she's gone off to Kovir..... though it didn't auto-fail the quest. Still, even if I can ask her later, it's level 14 and I'm 18 now, I'm doubting I'll see her again so soon.

Also, I didn't ask her to stay. Think I'm going to go Yen this play through. While it's tempting since we've known Triss since W1, seems like Geralt had a nice family dynamic with Yennefer and Ciri. Also, did Triss know this? If I remember correctly (may not....), at the start of W1 she comes on to you pretty strong, even insinuated that you and her had a past relationship - no mention of Yennefer.

And that brings me to another point, I (and I'm assuming many other people) did a lot of side stuff before diving into the main story. As a result, I was pretty decently leveled above pretty much all of the main story Novigrad quests, so I barely got XP for completing them.

book spoiler:

in the book triss comes to kaer morhen and runs into ciri, triss and ciri become somewhat close triss teachers her how to be a young lady and how to stand up for herself etc. triss knows ciri has crazy powers but she knows she cant help her, it is triss who tells geralt to take ciri to yennefer. triss and geralt had a one night stand kind of thing where its basically triss used magic to seduce him and get him into bed. geralt and yennefer had a kind of turbulent relationship, but triss was still jealous of yennefer who is her best friend in the books. geralt tells triss he loves her as a friend and nothing romantically can happen between them. so in the games it almost feels as if triss takes advantage of geralts amnesia, and when he gets it back he kind of remembered his feelings for yennefer. its a weird dynamic

part of me wants to go the yennefer route and go with something close to the books but triss has been there since game 1 it would be kind of odd for me to not close the trilogy with her

I chose Shani in the first game, literally for the sole reason that at the start of Chapter III you wake up in Triss's room and she's communicating with Phillipa (I think?) while she thinks you're sleeping, and it seemed really nefarious and shady to me at the time.