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Last edited by Shmerl on 1 June 2020 at 10:41 pm UTC
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1. Apply vampire oil to the silver sword, naturally.
2. Drink Superior Tawny Owl. Since that part of the story always takes place at night, it should have constant effect eventually without toxicity penalty. As usual, it's great for recharging stamina to bring up Quen as soon as possible (no point using any other signs).
3. Drink Superior Full Moon (+1000 vitality for 180 seconds). This is a very useful potion for this fight, even more than Black Blood. With it being active and full vitality Geralt can survive one bat swarm hit.
4. Regardless of the above, avoid bat swarm attacks at all costs.
The best tactic, when Dettlaff starts summoning bats (you can notice that), run in the opposite direction from him, and wait facing him. When bats are all concentrated around Dettlaff, right away roll to the side. After that they will not change the direction of the attack already and will hit the spot you were at before the roll. But if you roll away too early - bats will hit the place you rolled to, and if you roll too late bats will hit before you'll have a chance to roll, so time the roll at the right moment, that's the key.
After figuring that out the fight was manageable, but they surely demonstrated quite well, why witchers should never take contracts on higher vampires. It was the hardest fight in the game, even worse than living statues in Extreme Cosplay.
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 June 2020 at 5:13 pm UTC
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Also, a fitting video for the game finale (they should have added it as an outro):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgqz8Je7P0s
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With you having a high RDNA GPU, are you playing at 1440 or 4K? I'm playing at 1080 and constantly think of how 1440 or 4K would be like with an even better monitor.
Last edited by Linuxwarper on 2 June 2020 at 11:59 am UTC
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I have 2560x1440 / 144 Hz monitor with adaptive sync. 4K is really an overkill if you also want high refresh rate / framerate for smoothness.
With RX 5700 XT, I get around 80+ fps and more in the game on max settings (hairworks disabled).
If you want a good monitor, I recommend this one.
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 June 2020 at 3:35 pm UTC
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Pushing to something above 100 fps (let alone approaching 144 fps) with 4K in TW3 needs some monstrous GPU. Current high end GPUs at least are most optimal for 2560x1440 / 144 Hz. We'll see how RDNA 2 will comapre.
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 June 2020 at 10:56 pm UTC
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I'd say going from 60 Hz to 144 Hz monitor is more impactful than simply increasing resolution. Refresh rate > resolution value wise (at least until certain degree).
I.e. I consider 2560x1440 144 Hz better for gaming than 3840×2160 60 Hz.
Good site on the related topics: https://blurbusters.com
Last edited by Shmerl on 2 June 2020 at 11:54 pm UTC