Gwent is not a must play, but you get a couple of fun side quests from playing it and collecting cards. Regarding movement, yea I agree it is intentional from them to keep it realistic, but I honestly feel smooth gameplay should trump realism. Also, issues with horses become apparent in races. Thankfully the races in the main racing tournament are much better.
The Witcher 3 - Discussion Thread
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Gwent is not a must play, but you get a couple of fun side quests from playing it and collecting cards. Regarding movement, yea I agree it is intentional from them to keep it realistic, but I honestly feel smooth gameplay should trump realism. Also, issues with horses become apparent in races. Thankfully the races in the main racing tournament are much better.
killmastern3
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Dont think its compulsory.. But its great fun. I love playing it. In novigrad now, getting my a** kicked at gwent by most NPC'S.
Which deck are you using? If you are using the Northern Realm deck, make sure you remove all the low pointer unit cards. North deck benefits from having minimum unit cards. Keep all the spy cards and the healer cards. Also keep some decoy cards. My strategy in novigrad was to feed spy cards in the first round and let them win. Sometimes, if the opponent has decoys, they will decoy your spy card and play it against you. That's when you decoy it again and play it back to them. Among unit cards, keep the tight bond cards. Also have a couple of commander horn cards. I used to have the Clear weather foltest, so I removed all weather cards from my deck.
goDofWar_skr
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bssunilreddy
Skilled
The Witcher 3's Expansions Will Be 'Almost As Long As The Witcher 2'
bssunilreddy
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The Witcher 3 Just Got Better In A Bunch Of Little Ways
Over the weekend, The Witcher 3 got a new patch that brought with it a bunch of changes. None of the tweaks are earth-shaking on their own, but taken together, they make the game feel noticeably more polished, user-friendly, and complete.
Since The Witcher 3 came out back in May, developer CD Projekt Red has been releasing regular free updates and downloadable content, from performance tweaks to outfits and weapons to full-blown story missions. I’ve been following along with interest, and have been impressed with what I’ve played so far.
Last weekend we didn’t get any new missions or gear, but we got something just as good—the substantial new 1.07 patch. It was about 5GB for me on PC, and brought with it a ton of small improvements, some more noticeable than others. I got home from vacation on Sunday and fired the game up to see what was different.
I’ve played more than 90 hours of The Witcher 3 on PC, in addition to the 60-ish that I played on PS4 back when I reviewed it. I’ve gotten pretty used to the game’s many little quirks, so some of the little changes feel more noticeable to me than they may to another player. I haven’t tried the patched game out on either PS4 and Xbox One—Digital Foundry reports that it actually lowers the game’s average frame-rate in some places on consoles, which is a bummer, but one to which I can’t directly attest.
First, the biggest change, which is a real megaton. Per the patch notes:
Fixes an issue where in certain circumstances gravity ceased to apply to the player’s horse.
No more flying horses! We live in an age of wonders. The other major change is that you can now turn on an alternate control setting in the game options:
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The result is that Geralt turns on a tighter radius and as a result is a lot easier to handle. For a not-very-scientific look at the differences, here’s what happens when I try to turn in a tight circle with the original control scheme while using a controller:
And here’s me turning with the new alternate control scheme:
It may not seem like a huge difference, but it’ll be immediately noticeable to anyone who’s spent a lot of time playing the game. To test it out, I spent a few hours hunting down the new Wolf School armor (Side note: Worth doing! You’ll explore some places you may have missed back at Kaer Morhen, and the armor itself is cool.) As I explored, I found myself much more able to climb twisting staircases and navigate cliffs and walkways without Geralt stumbling off edges. Combat also feels tighter, particularly if you decide to flee mid-fight or relocate to a better vantage.
As much as I may love Geralt’s horse Roach, there’s no denying that steering her can be a pain in the ass. Roach’s controls have also been improved with the new patch. It’s still not entirely smooth sailing—it’s easier to get Roach through a tightly packed corridor or across a bridge or other choke point, but still not quite easy, and the auto-navigation on trails still doesn’t work entirely correctly. I still found Roach taking forks in the direction leading away from the path on my minimap.
The inventory menu has also gotten a new Books tab, which will allow you to hoover up all the books and documents you can find without worrying about your Usable Items tab filling up with copies of My Evening With A Vampire and Witchers: Not Quite The Devils You Thought.
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It’s a big improvement, and while it doesn’t undo the general awkwardness of the game’s menus, it goes a long way toward making the most important tab (Usable Items) less crowded.
Geralt also has access to a storage Stash, which is great news for armor-hoarders like me who craft every possible set of custom Witcher gear and can’t bear to part with any of it. There aren’t that many stash locations—one for each of the game’s major locations—and they’re marked by a green chest icon on the map.
Once you’re at your stash, you can store whatever you’d like:
I stored all of the Witcher gear I don’t use, along with my precious purloined portrait of Hierarch Hemmelfart, which I’m sure you will agree deserves to be kept safe.
In another nice interface improvement, you can now “pin” crafting and alchemy formulas. The ingredients you need for pinned recipes will be highlighted in the shopkeeper menu, which makes it a lot easier to figure out what you need for the stuff you want to make.
Those are the most noticeable changes, but there are a lot of little ones, too. (Apparently, the patch changes the level requirements for some armor? Which is a head-scratcher.) As I mentioned earlier, you can see the full changelog here, but among the things I noticed: When Geralt goes into a conversation with a Quen shield active, it no longer loudly explodes off of him at the start of the conversation. (Hooray!) The mini-map seems much easier to read when you’re in small caves and dungeons, which makes it easier to tell where you are and how to leave. Your equipped armor and weapons are now highlighted in the repair menu, so you don’t wind up accidentally repairing the sword you were just going to sell anyway.
There are some new graphics options, including a bunch of new settings for the game’s notoriously performance-killing Nvidia HairWorks tech. (I still leave it off.) The patch also promises more general performance increases. As I already mentioned, I can’t directly speak to the lower performance that Digital Foundry discovered on consoles, but the game has always run very well for me on PC—I’m using a GTX 970 and have gotten solid 60fps 1080p performance at high/ultra settings with HairWorks off. After the patch, I’m still in the same high/ultra ballpark and am still getting a solid 60fps.
The 1.07 patch contains many more small tweaks, and more than a few that I’m sure I’ve missed. Overall, though: It’s yet another welcome bit of post-release support from a developer that was already doing a great job of it.
Source:Kotaku.com
Over the weekend, The Witcher 3 got a new patch that brought with it a bunch of changes. None of the tweaks are earth-shaking on their own, but taken together, they make the game feel noticeably more polished, user-friendly, and complete.
Since The Witcher 3 came out back in May, developer CD Projekt Red has been releasing regular free updates and downloadable content, from performance tweaks to outfits and weapons to full-blown story missions. I’ve been following along with interest, and have been impressed with what I’ve played so far.
Last weekend we didn’t get any new missions or gear, but we got something just as good—the substantial new 1.07 patch. It was about 5GB for me on PC, and brought with it a ton of small improvements, some more noticeable than others. I got home from vacation on Sunday and fired the game up to see what was different.
I’ve played more than 90 hours of The Witcher 3 on PC, in addition to the 60-ish that I played on PS4 back when I reviewed it. I’ve gotten pretty used to the game’s many little quirks, so some of the little changes feel more noticeable to me than they may to another player. I haven’t tried the patched game out on either PS4 and Xbox One—Digital Foundry reports that it actually lowers the game’s average frame-rate in some places on consoles, which is a bummer, but one to which I can’t directly attest.
First, the biggest change, which is a real megaton. Per the patch notes:
Fixes an issue where in certain circumstances gravity ceased to apply to the player’s horse.
No more flying horses! We live in an age of wonders. The other major change is that you can now turn on an alternate control setting in the game options:
1
The result is that Geralt turns on a tighter radius and as a result is a lot easier to handle. For a not-very-scientific look at the differences, here’s what happens when I try to turn in a tight circle with the original control scheme while using a controller:
And here’s me turning with the new alternate control scheme:
It may not seem like a huge difference, but it’ll be immediately noticeable to anyone who’s spent a lot of time playing the game. To test it out, I spent a few hours hunting down the new Wolf School armor (Side note: Worth doing! You’ll explore some places you may have missed back at Kaer Morhen, and the armor itself is cool.) As I explored, I found myself much more able to climb twisting staircases and navigate cliffs and walkways without Geralt stumbling off edges. Combat also feels tighter, particularly if you decide to flee mid-fight or relocate to a better vantage.
As much as I may love Geralt’s horse Roach, there’s no denying that steering her can be a pain in the ass. Roach’s controls have also been improved with the new patch. It’s still not entirely smooth sailing—it’s easier to get Roach through a tightly packed corridor or across a bridge or other choke point, but still not quite easy, and the auto-navigation on trails still doesn’t work entirely correctly. I still found Roach taking forks in the direction leading away from the path on my minimap.
The inventory menu has also gotten a new Books tab, which will allow you to hoover up all the books and documents you can find without worrying about your Usable Items tab filling up with copies of My Evening With A Vampire and Witchers: Not Quite The Devils You Thought.
2
It’s a big improvement, and while it doesn’t undo the general awkwardness of the game’s menus, it goes a long way toward making the most important tab (Usable Items) less crowded.
Geralt also has access to a storage Stash, which is great news for armor-hoarders like me who craft every possible set of custom Witcher gear and can’t bear to part with any of it. There aren’t that many stash locations—one for each of the game’s major locations—and they’re marked by a green chest icon on the map.
Once you’re at your stash, you can store whatever you’d like:
I stored all of the Witcher gear I don’t use, along with my precious purloined portrait of Hierarch Hemmelfart, which I’m sure you will agree deserves to be kept safe.
In another nice interface improvement, you can now “pin” crafting and alchemy formulas. The ingredients you need for pinned recipes will be highlighted in the shopkeeper menu, which makes it a lot easier to figure out what you need for the stuff you want to make.
Those are the most noticeable changes, but there are a lot of little ones, too. (Apparently, the patch changes the level requirements for some armor? Which is a head-scratcher.) As I mentioned earlier, you can see the full changelog here, but among the things I noticed: When Geralt goes into a conversation with a Quen shield active, it no longer loudly explodes off of him at the start of the conversation. (Hooray!) The mini-map seems much easier to read when you’re in small caves and dungeons, which makes it easier to tell where you are and how to leave. Your equipped armor and weapons are now highlighted in the repair menu, so you don’t wind up accidentally repairing the sword you were just going to sell anyway.
There are some new graphics options, including a bunch of new settings for the game’s notoriously performance-killing Nvidia HairWorks tech. (I still leave it off.) The patch also promises more general performance increases. As I already mentioned, I can’t directly speak to the lower performance that Digital Foundry discovered on consoles, but the game has always run very well for me on PC—I’m using a GTX 970 and have gotten solid 60fps 1080p performance at high/ultra settings with HairWorks off. After the patch, I’m still in the same high/ultra ballpark and am still getting a solid 60fps.
The 1.07 patch contains many more small tweaks, and more than a few that I’m sure I’ve missed. Overall, though: It’s yet another welcome bit of post-release support from a developer that was already doing a great job of it.
Source:Kotaku.com
Jasku
Skilled
Thanks
I enabled the 'auto update' and voila it downloaded a 7.5 gigs patch, haven't yet played it though. What % completion are you guys at, havent played it for over am month.
This patch has introduced some massive quest related bugs. I'm really starting to get pissed off now. The overall improvements and additions are very nice, but the bugs are almost destroying the flow. I cannot believe after hours I spent collecting all the Gwent cards and finally finished my High Stakes quest (post updating to 1.07), the quest didn't register as complete. Went off to CDPR boards only to find out this patch has bugged the 'Collect 'em All' quest. There are threads filled with endless quests related issues posted 1.07 that I could find out there. I ran into one last night with the 'Black Pearl' quest, but thankfully got around it with some luck.
Anyhoo, got the entire week off now starting next week, so it's going to be Witcher week for me.
Anyhoo, got the entire week off now starting next week, so it's going to be Witcher week for me.
Apart from the STASH and improved inventory. Overall I am walking away with a negative impression on this patch. It reset all my control tweaks, again. =|
Did not like the new movement at all. Robotic and rigid, the original has a semblance of real-life movement, inertia, a staggered stop and yes wider turning circles.
Bug-fixes are welcome although my Gwent progress is borked. I am going to wait till DLC #16 before restarting the game. Will play on the #B-Roche story arc.
Did you win against Count Tyblat in the Passiflora?
And are these bugs independent of starting a fresh game or only with past version saves?
Patch size is ~2.2GB, uncompressed space it takes up is 7GB+.
CD PROJEKT is rolling all concurrent patches into one so that any given time you do not have download multiple patches once you uninstall the game.
Yep, beat that chump easily. I crossed checked the card list 3 times on Gwentcards checklist and they all add up. I even got the Zoltan card and the infamous bugged claywitch merchant one too. But the quest still doesn't register as complete. Here's the thread at CDPR forum: http://forums.cdprojektred.com/thre...ll-Quest-not-completing?p=1858958#post1858958
I reckon it's a bug which was introduced with the latest patch. Most of the people prior to this had no issues with their achievement registering prior to 1.07. I should have played the High Stakes even before patching the game, but decided to hold it off for some reason. Oh well, no biggie. At least I'm certain I have everything and when it does get patched, the quest can hopefully register as complete.
bssunilreddy
Skilled
I will again download the full game along with the DLC's when all 16 will be released and when patch 1.08 is released which corrects all bugs that arose out of patch 1.07.So am just waiting & itching to play...
Jasku
Skilled
Did you complete all the side mission in White Orchard? Also, once you get to Velen try completing all the missions there as well.
Jc36
Adept
Hmm, most of them I guess. What level did you guys were when you left White Orchard? The story quest in Velen shows suggested level 7. I discovered a walled off bandit camp and everything there was level 9-10. Took a mission for the counterfeit pass and the monsters are level 9. Velen is the place to go after White Orchard right?
Jasku
Skilled
Yes, make sure you get to the notice boards accept all missions and you will the '?' on your map, explore em and you xp up, having said that, you can beat enemies with a couple level up by using everything at your disposal. Yes, Velen is the place to go after White Orchard. I dont recall what level I was, it been over a month since I played.