Quoting: PangaeaCame across another one near a key story place that you may not have reached yet (so I won't divulge much) that also looked pretty cool. Was a village of some sort I think. Several foglets were there, wildly out-levelling me.

I think I found that one too.

Spoiler, click me

Unless it's another place, I found such village and very high level foglets, on the slope of [Aard Cerbin](https://witcher.gamepedia.com/Bald_Mountain_(location)). I figured, it must be a location for some later events in the game, since getting to the top of the mountain was practically impossible because of them.

And it could be what She Who Knows (Ghost in the Tree) meant, when she said, "[there are roads to Aard Cerbin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0MTsBTkeNM&t=981)".

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A beautiful location (quite far North East East from Novigrad) - small creek with a waterfall:







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New GPU hang: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/2147

Just FYI, to work around the hang, use this patch until it lands in upstream Mesa: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/2864

Just got to Skellige. Meanwhile, latest updates to ACO finally made it slightly faster than llvm on Navi!

llvm:



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Every time this thread gets bumped I click on it and see “Józef Kucia” in the first post I get sad. :-(

Billboards for the witcher series are up everywhere here in town and I’m sure the people who made it did their best and all, but all the faces are decidedly non-Slavic and that puts me off big time. I’m sure most of the audience won’t notice or care.

Quoting: damarrinEvery time this thread gets bumped I click on it and see “Józef Kucia” in the first post I get sad. :-(

Yeah, I feel sad too. He was the first to put a lot of effort into making TW3 playable on Linux, before dxvk project was started.

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Quoting: damarrinBillboards for the witcher series are up everywhere here in town and I’m sure the people who made it did their best and all, but all the faces are decidedly non-Slavic and that puts me off big time. I’m sure most of the audience won’t notice or care.

I think The Witcher series director spoke about this very point. Essentially, there is no need to make actors look ethnically specific, if the author didn't put an emphasis on that story wise. I've read all Witcher books and I don't remember Sapkowski ever making a point about Northern Realms being Slavic per se that mattered for the story, even though he used a lot of European history for them as the basis.

Also, Sapkowski himself commented on the series, and he said he liked what he saw.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatmaybe we should open a different thread, with the exception of Tomb Raider there's not much hollywood movies about games, that also happen to have native linux versions.

The series are actually about the books, not about the games. Games are unofficial sequels to the books.

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Quoting: ShmerlThe series are actually about the books, not about the games. Games are unofficial sequels to the books.

Fans expect a certain look by now because all we had before was that very old movie/series that clearly had not enough money. That's just how it is.

What I've seen so far makes me really wary. I'm afraid they'll botch this. Books or not. I read all (and various comics).

Quoting: bekoFans expect a certain look by now because all we had before was that very old movie/series that clearly had not enough money. That's just how it is.

What I've seen so far makes me really wary. I'm afraid they'll botch this. Books or not. I read all (and various comics).

I personally don't mind if they go with their own original look. But I think they drew some inspiration from the games as well. Like that scene with the silver chain, was clearly influenced by the intro to TW1.

The only strange thing I've seen so far is Nilfgaardian armor. So let's wait and see. Hopefully they'll do a good job overall.

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Quoting: bekoFans expect a certain look by now because all we had before was that very old movie/series that clearly had not enough money.

Actually, [Michał Żebrowski](https://witcher.gamepedia.com/Micha%C5%82_%C5%BBebrowski) played quite well in [The Hexer series](https://witcher.gamepedia.com/The_Hexer_franchise). Despite low budget and messing up with the story, it has its charm.

A nice song from there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWInlU7bLZU

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I've the "movie" cut and that actor was the best thing in this xD Kinda like the movie as well but it aged really bad.

Actually the "movie" cut is taken from the series, but composed quite badly, making a very incoherent storyline. You should re-watch it in the original series form, that would make a lot more sense.

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Quoting: ShmerlActually the "movie" cut is taken from the series, but composed quite badly, making a very incoherent storyline. You should re-watch it in the original series form, that would make a lot more sense.

Hence the "movie". I can't - or was this ever released with english subtitles somewhere?

Quoting: bekoHence the "movie". I can't - or was this ever released with english subtitles somewhere?

Yes, it was released once with subtitles, but I didn't find SRT files for it except for two episodes. You can however watch it with subtitles in merged into video form here:
https://archive.org/details/TheWitcherTV/

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Exploring the mountains across Kaer Trolde (you can actually get to the peak):

On the way up:



The smaller peak:



Another peak on the way up:



The highest peak:

Well, Roach had to stay below naturally, while Geralt was climbing on foot. And getting to some peaks can be tricky as well, going directly doesn't work, you need to jump and roll to advance (otherwise you'll slide down) ;)

The only ones I found that high up across Kaer Trolde were some mountain goats and harpies.

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And you can find some "snowboarding" fun there, in half pipe style valleys, where sliding works from side to side back and forth.

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Quoting: The_Aquabatharpies really fly high I wonder if they feed on goats what the heck do those monsters eat that up high.

Indeed they do. As other monsters, they kill wild animals, you can find dead goats around the area where harpies concentrate.