The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

rootsrat

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rootsrat
As of game version 1.8.01 Witcher 3 supports mods created with the official ModKit tool. This is not the full editor RedKit 2 that we're all waiting for, but it allows for easy access to the game files and also for modifying game scripts. This means new, more advanced and complex mods are being released for Witcher 3. The mods are installed into \The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt\Mods directory now, and it need to be manually created.

This also means a major update to my Witcher 3 modding guide :)
 

Cargobane

Cargobane
Too bad I'm stuck on 1.06

I will be staying on that version until I complete the game, which will likely be many more weeks of game joy before I need to consider any DLC or NG+ w/e.
 

Enride

Enride
Finished today.

In my 32y life ive yet to experience a media anywhere close to as gripping and immersive as TW3. No book, movie, tv-show or game that ive ever played comes even close.
When it comes to singleplayer adventure/story, The Witcher 3 is the best of the best and have set a new standard for the genre. Truly the "next generation" of RPGs.

What does this mean then?
First of all, my expectations for "Cyberpunk 2077" has now skyrocketed to heights I didnt think possible. (CP2077 is the next big release from CDPR following TW3. Rumors says a futuristic RPG in an open urban world.)

Secondly, not to take things to far, but with the mark that TW3 have set on the industry Ill be keeping a lookout for the next big release in the Elder Scrolls series!
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
I totally agree. CDPR have set the bar so very very high now for me. 35 years of gaming and this really does blow everything else out of the water. Soon to be released games like fallout 4 I suspect will fall far short of the experience I've had with TW3. We'll see I guess on that.

CDProject just did exactly what they said they would. The hype and build up and delays were all justified and they just did what they said they would do. Release a truly great game.
 

Enride

Enride
Jezzah said:
I totally agree. CDPR have set the bar so very very high now for me. 35 years of gaming and this really does blow everything else out of the water. Soon to be released games like fallout 4 I suspect will fall far short of the experience I've had with TW3. We'll see I guess on that.

CDProject just did exactly what they said they would. The hype and build up and delays were all justified and they just did what they said they would do. Release a truly great game.
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Indeed, aside from the (horribly blown out of proportion) thing with the downgraded graphics, even if downgraded still is the best looking visuals weve ever had in gaming, and a surprisingly small amount of bugs and technical issues, they have managed to release a AAA game that holds the highest of quality all the way through.
Its a monumental feat and years from now, when im hopefully old and filled with even more wonderful gaming experience, I am sure I will look back and remember TW3 as one of those defining games that I rate among the most important ones.

I look on most of what is to be released the coming years and everything that is even remotely under the same genre as TW3 has just become a shallow uninterest for me.
I hope to be proven wrong, of course, but this is the impact that TW3 has had on me. And to me, that is the best proof of a great game I can think of.
 

Antmax

Antmax
After playing the old witcher games I couldn't bring myself to play the elder scroll games. I played oblivion quite a bit when it came out. Skyrim I got incredibly bored and stopped playing within a week.
I finished Witcher 3 a month ago and it did get a tad repetitive because most of the side quests ended up being similar after a while. But by the time the main quest finished I was soon itching to play some more. So I'm looking forward to the October expansion. Just got a big TV in the front room and streaming through steam to the laptop seems to work quite well too. So looking forward to that.

Not sure about cyberpunk. Not really a setting I'm into but hopefully the devs will make the future more appealing than most. I didn't mind the Deus Ex series but didn't love it.
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
Just finished the main story. Wow! What a ride. I've never played anything remotely this good in the 30 years that I've played games. Witcher 3's story is actually good enough to beat most fantasy novels I've read as well, including George R.R. Martin.

Now, let's just hope HBO sees the light...
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
Susimetsa said:
Just finished the main story. Wow! What a ride. I've never played anything remotely this good in the 30 years that I've played games. Witcher 3's story is actually good enough to beat most fantasy novels I've read as well, including George R.R. Martin.

Now, let's just hope HBO sees the light...
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There are plans of making the movie. Hollywood is on the case with Tomek Bagiński's Platige Image Studio (they did all the movies for all Witcher games and produced other amazing animated movies).

I can't recommend Witcher saga books enough. They're one of the best pieces of dark fantasy literature I've ever read.
 

Insomnia

Insomnia
Enride said:
(horribly blown out of proportion) thing with the downgraded graphics
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Disagree with you there a little. Yes it was blown up to unreasonable proportions. But remember that CDPR sold a product with false promises. People pre ordered W3 based on the so called in-game marketing videos and images.
People felt cheated. Me included.
 

Susimetsa

Susimetsa
rootsrat said:
I can't recommend Witcher saga books enough. They're one of the best pieces of dark fantasy literature I've ever read.
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I've read the two short story anthologies and the first part of the main series (had to switch between Finnish and English translations because the second anthology hasn't been translated into English (officially)) and I am loving it! :)
 

clivewil

clivewil
i'm asking this here because i haven't had any response anywhere else

in one of the early quests, i have to chase down a merchant and defeat some bandits. according to a walkthrough, i have to keep the merchant alive so i can negotiate with him at the end of the quest

no matter how i attack him, fists or swords, he dies. he won't stop fighting me while he has anything left in his health bar. if i use mind influence, that just stuns him for a few seconds and then he's back attacking me again - how do i beat him without killing him?
 

clivewil

clivewil
Jezzah said:
What's the name of the quest might trigger my memory.
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it's called 'precious cargo' and it's very early on in the game, literally in the first or second hour of playing

you meet a 'merchant' with a bow who asks you to locate a chest in his wagon that came under attack. when you get there you find the real merchant dead, full of arrows. go back to the first guy and accuse him, and he takes off on his horse.

now you can either knock him off his horse enroute, or if you're like me and haven't got a clue how to play properly yet, you can follow him to his camp and get him there. there's a few bandits around you need to kill first.

i need to know how to get the guy to submit without killing him. everything i've tried so far has ended in his death

---> btw i've already saved my game at the camp. i can't go back to the horse riding bit, and i wouldn't anyway because i was crap at it
 
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Jezzah

Jezzah
The key to that one is just to get him off the horse before he gets to the camp. Once he gets there it just turns into a standard fight. To knock him off the horse you just need to get kinda alongside hold down your attack key and time sorta slows down then let go attack key and if your range you'll swipe him and he ought to come off his horse. That should initiate a short conversation cut scene with options to choose from.

By the way that holding down of the attack button and time slowing down is VERY useful for horse riding combat against things you can barrel about on the horse hold down the button and get your attack spot on.
 

clivewil

clivewil
Jezzah said:
The key to that one is just to get him off the horse before he gets to the camp.
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possibly, but i'm already saved past that point - i'm near the camp and he's already off his horse. 'chase down the merchant' and 'defeat the bandits' - those are my tasks. the bandits are easy, stupidly so, because their health bars drop to -1 and they run when they see me, but the merchant stands there filling me with arrows until i either attack him - which instantly kills him - or i move out of range

from the walkthrough:
Chase down the merchant, then knock the merchant off his horse. If you fail to do this, you'll end up with a third objective, defeat the bandits. With the merchant off his horse you'll have several options, each with a different reward. Choose any of the four to complete the quest.
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...there's nothing there about what happens between defeating the bandits and the dialogue beginning.
 

Jezzah

Jezzah
Fair enough haven't seen that myself I got the same as you when I failed to dismount the guy so I reloaded and got him on his bum. Obviously you don't have that option so this is of little help at all.
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
Gwent Live! This game is even more entertaining when played with a live opponent. I though my wife wouldn't like it, but she actually loves it. Happy days :D

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