Sometimes you just want to punch stuff :grin: :tongue:

Yeah, I do that with bandits sometimes :) Doesn't work so well for monsters.

Geralt isn't somebody you should mess around with.

One of the best quests in the game:



Last edited by Shmerl on 5 Aug 2021 at 12:48 am UTC

Yes! That quest is wonderful. Wish the game had more like that actually. Long and elaborate quests in large areas. Without breaking them up too much by going hither and tither (Skellige > Novigrad and suchlike).

This is -- hands down -- my favourite part of the game. Goosebumps practically all over the body again :wub:
None of the pictures I took does it justice, but here is one:



Even after all this time, playing through this part probably four or five times, I cannot experience this without getting emotional. Top notch by CDPR!

Not the foggiest idea what he says, but just for laughs really :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=644xpLIPkaw

(How do we embed videos here? The syntax looks weird and I don't see a video/YT tag)

Sorry for just posting the odd picture from my playthrough, but after struggling with this fight (using mods), this felt rather quite good :)



Only a sliver of health left too, so those last hits were proper "do or die" swings.

This is quite embarrassing, but still nice in a way... I've played the game over a 1000 hours, I'm sure of it. Already almost 200 hours in the current playthrough, and still not done with the main story. Yet... I did NOT know that this was possible :woot:



Ran over to some area I mustn't have been in before, and there was a switch. Odd, I thought, then hit it. "Hmm. Nothing seems to happen. Weird." Then I see that elevator thingy for packages comes down. I step on it, and suddenly notice a "Use" caption on screen. Hit it, and Geralt starts going up. When going down again, I noticed it wasn't possible to move at all while standing there. Cool. Absurd how I can discover new stuff in this game after 1000+ hours.

Heh, I used that elevator quite often when in Skellige.

Suppose you may have looked at this @Shmerl, but noticed there were bands of 'text' on the guardians near Avallach's hideout. Maybe the same as in some other signs and graffiti?



Implicit spoilers below, beware!!

Not perfect timing, but I still like this shot :)



Don't... Mess... With... Ciri!!





Best of luck, Ciri :heart:



I was still terribly sad to wander around Kaer Morhen afterwards. All empty... :cry:



However, I do understand why the place is falling apart. It doesn't look very sturdy... :shock:



Well then... off to the expansions!

No, I haven't tried transcribing those, but I noticed all golems have some text on them, yeah.

Quoting: PangaeaI was still terribly sad to wander around Kaer Morhen afterwards. All empty... :cry:

I think Keira alone stays, so at least you have someone to talk to there :)

To get to her you need to climb on the wall and jump down (she still should be marked with the alchemist icon). I think it's a bug and wasn't intended, but makes Kaer Morhen less deserted at least.

Last edited by Shmerl on 22 Aug 2021 at 5:17 am UTC

:wub:

Has anyone tried lighting mods? I installed Immersive Lighting from Nexus but it's made no difference as far as I can tell. I was thinking it could be something to do with shaders not recompiling? idk

I haven't tried such mods.

Nevermind, GNOME archive manager was failing to extract all the files for some reason, did it with p7zip and it's working great!

[link](https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1640990305568965019/D9FF7CCA81075509F5044AB6BD8E0E743FFA1DE2/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)

Leaving that here...

https://www.pcgamer.com/witcher-3-steam-deck-video/

It's not really surprising for us, but knowing that CDPR is in the loop too is great, imo.

Little late to the party here, but just started the game for the first time using the proton wine implementation.

Runs great, even on higher settings. Well done by the wine team and company!

Now just I gotta get used to the different control scheme after finishing Witcher 2. But sofar, I'm really enjoying it. Combat's a lot easier in TW3, in part because everything feels tighter with the combat moves. TW2 felt "mushy" with it's controls. If say the only thing I'm still trying to get a hold of are the defensive actions. Parrying and riposte are very hard, I can't seem to get the timing just right... And then take an axe to the face... Again.

I'm kinda wondering if it's my trackball, maybe a controller would be better? Any opinions on controller usage (Steam Controller)?

Can't wait to keep at it!

Last edited by denyasis on 11 Oct 2021 at 10:01 pm UTC

I didn't really have trouble playing it with keyboard and mouse, so can't comment on the controller. I got relatively good at parrying, so only someone with heavy weapons like two handed axes needed different tactics because parrying doesn't work on such heavy attacks.

In fact you can even parry some monster attacks, but it works less reliably and also some monsters are too strong to parry and evasion is a better method.

Last edited by Shmerl on 12 Oct 2021 at 3:34 am UTC

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Quoting: Shmerlheavy weapons like two handed axes needed different tactics because parrying doesn't work on such heavy attacks

That explains some of my issues. I think the rest are due to a lack of proficiency. I'll have to work on my timing.

I still might consider a controller + stream link. If only because I feel like I'm abandoning my family to go play PC in the bedroom.

Last edited by denyasis on 12 Oct 2021 at 11:44 pm UTC