This game is overwhelmingly deep and I am finding it tough. All for the best in the long run and I can't wait to play it for a prolonged time instead of stop starts. You can tell it is a fantastic game already though.
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Gaming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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All this wait and my disc 3 is corrupted 
. Can some kind soul please upload wild-hunt-5.bin somewhere please?
. Can some kind soul please upload wild-hunt-5.bin somewhere please?I cant even kill a group of drowners FFS. Woe is me.
I had the same issue with the Witcher 2. I played it for about 2 hours and gave up, didn't touch it for a few months then I gave it a go again. Played it on easy and just tackled the main story, got the hang of things and then I started doing the side-quests.
Performance seems fine on PS4 to me and I'm usually quite picky when it comes to framerate, a few janky bits in certain cutscenes and some judder now and again but nothing hugely noticeable. In some of the busy towns I've noticed some pop-in of scenery and npc's but nothng major.
I played through one of the first major storyline quests and it was a ton of fun, then it spits you back into the huge map and your like "feck me, this game is mentally big". Right stingy with the old crown's though, I can barely afford to eat let alone upgrade.
I played through one of the first major storyline quests and it was a ton of fun, then it spits you back into the huge map and your like "feck me, this game is mentally big". Right stingy with the old crown's though, I can barely afford to eat let alone upgrade.
Think you sometimes just have to see for yourself. I don't know many games of this size that run as well tbh. It looks good and the framerate for me has been consistent. Should be nothing that ruins the experience on either console.
Bought saddlebags for me horse, I just go around killing bandits, robbing their shit swords and selling them. Still have fcuk all money though.
What difficulty are you on? I'm playing on the one below hardest and the drowners (ones similar level to me that I've come across) are pretty easy, but I am used to the Witcher combat. Just know that you can't simply mash the attack button. The key is patience really. There's a number of different basic strategies you can use but they all require patience. A super safe method is to keep the Quen sign up, keep parrying rather than trying to counter and risking mistiming it. Then when they come in for an attack either dodge or roll out of the way then rush in for some attacks and back out again. Rinse and repeat. If you can do that and move wisely to avoid being caught in the middle of a group then you should be fine for the most part. I've never been great at video games really so if I can do it you can too with practice.
Edit: Oh and also make sure you are using the right sword for the enemy you are facing! For example use the silver sword on the drowners.
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Still right at the start, after a few hours, helped that bloke find his brother, then looted a tonne of corpses at the battle site.
I have 39 useless axes.
I have 39 useless axes.
I'm considering being a hermit this weekend just to play this.
Just had an hour on it on my PC. Which I'm now discovering is not too good anymore
Put it on low and it runs very smooth but I'm noticing a tiny bit of jerkiness on medium or above.
Got a 2500k and a 560TI which I think are pretty outdated now but have no idea as I switched to Mac years ago!
Found the controls a bit clunky to begin with but got used it a little, not sure if I'll continue yet, we shall see!
Put it on low and it runs very smooth but I'm noticing a tiny bit of jerkiness on medium or above.
Got a 2500k and a 560TI which I think are pretty outdated now but have no idea as I switched to Mac years ago!
Found the controls a bit clunky to begin with but got used it a little, not sure if I'll continue yet, we shall see!
Witcher Contracts pay pretty well in the early levels. Think I killed the Gravedigger one in Rivendale and got like 200 coins for it. Similar sort of money for the Shrieker.
The card game is a bit weird.
Me either! On 2nd hardest difficulty. My first Griffin fight was brutal...
If hermit means taking day off then I'm also thinking the same.
I rarely notice bad framrate. But it's very very noticeable. From the first cut scene to the the training it's really awful
Dragon Age Inquisition is similar in scope and was released with zero technical problems if i remember correctly. Yeah but it should have been fixed before release in my opinion. Having a framerate jump between 25-40 must be pretty annoying for some people (xbone).
Anyway on the brightside some guy at CD project as acknowledged the framerate and stuttering issues on twitter so hopefully it will be fixed.
Other than lost saves and people's characters switching gender randomly...Dragon Age Inquisition is similar in scope and was released with zero technical problems if i remember correctly. Yeah but it should have been fixed before release in my opinion. Having a framerate jump between 25-40 must be pretty annoying for some people (xbone).
Anyway on the brightside some guy at CD project as acknowledged the framerate and stuttering issues on twitter so hopefully it will be fixed.
Clearly I don't remember correctly! Anyway I don't think that was due to the size of the game world or game engine...was just one of those bugs.
Beat up a Lv.6 Bear.
What builds are we all going for? The skill point system is a bit naff but it'll do. I'm going to specialise in fast combat - the bombs/oils/signs seem to be okay alongside hitting really hard, so it seems decent.
Both versions are a little jumpy in cutscenes but PS4 tends to hover around or just under 30fps and Xbox just over even in combat scenes. Think the complaints are quite petty tbh. Of course in an ideal world it would be a locked 60fps but the consoles aren't powerful enough. Not sure what people are expecting?
I've gone for fast attack and Igni.
Surely not just me who found the framrate so bad. (I'm on ps4)
It's something that has never ruined a game for me previously but in the half hour I spent with this I found it very hard to enjoy
Maybe my disc is faulty?
It's something that has never ruined a game for me previously but in the half hour I spent with this I found it very hard to enjoy
Maybe my disc is faulty?
Igni worth upgrading? It's the sign I use most but it seems to be doing a fairly small amount now (currently level 13).
Have you downloaded the patch?
I'm only level 7 so it's hard to say. Im just upgrading it after fast attack as I use it a lot. It's nice to use in a combo.
Urgh, Gwent is really addictive once you wrap your head around it. Rivals FF8's card game.
Getting in that range with no freezes since unless I'm surrounded by trees blowing in the wind, then I'm in the 40's (mix of high/ultra). Not sure which setting did the trick. Still some screen tearing though. Going to mess around with Vsync.
Saw where you can uncap the cutscenes FPS in a config file, so I might experiment with that later...
Playing some Witcher 2 tonight...need to finish it before I get Witcher 3. Man it's a lot rougher than I remember. Some of the quest lines are just frustrating...go kill 3 necker nests or go destroy to 2 spider queens -_-.
I plan on understanding the full Witcher 1+2 story before I get Witcher 3. Feel like its one of those series where you will enjoy it a lot more if you know the story/lore and characters. A bit like Dragon Age I guess.
I plan on understanding the full Witcher 1+2 story before I get Witcher 3. Feel like its one of those series where you will enjoy it a lot more if you know the story/lore and characters. A bit like Dragon Age I guess.
Anyone?All this wait and my disc 3 is corrupted
It means not leaving the house... will be difficult, especially on a bank holiday weekend
Just restarted it on hardest difficulty. I feel dirty if I don't complete a game on the hardest mode.
Just reading the griffin entry and I don't know if my English is shit but I can't quite make sense of it. "where folk with the means to higher a witcher dwell". Does that make sense to anyone?
Should be 'hire' i guess.
PC users, found a really a neat trick to boost FPS here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...ia_usersraise_your_fps_and_save_cpu_usage_by/
You can skip the first witcher to be honest. Story wasn't particularly epic and the events of it aren't really all that important for The Witcher 3. Its still a decent game in its own right, but the clunky combay is seriously dated. Just watch a retrospective story recap on YouTube and you'll honestly be good to go.
The Witcher 2 though is pretty solid stuff, I'll recommend playing it and the Witcher 3 back to back.
It has some framerate issues, reinstall won't do much. It takes time to get used to it but it is still very well made and I expect that they'll iron out most of deficiences with the next patch.
There's just so much to do in this game. I'm still in White Orchard, killed the griffin and I should be able to move onto the next part of the world but I intend to do some side quests first. I've found the arsonist already, some of these side questes are really excellent.
It could have been better technically I feel. The world is absolutely massive (am I right in saying that while I'm still in White Orchard I have basically seen about 5% of the entire world by now?) and full of people, animals, monsters so it was never going to look like games with much smaller area but I don't like how the character moves, riding a horse is obviously a bit off and framerate takes dips. Once they solve it (and they definitely will) it's going to get even better. Huge game with fantastic world.
Thank you, cnuts of Redcafe.
I am downloading the game as we speak on my pc, thanks to all the mouthwatering shite you've been spewing on this page.
Will join this conversation once it downloads and i play a bit.
Taraaaaaa
I am downloading the game as we speak on my pc, thanks to all the mouthwatering shite you've been spewing on this page.
Will join this conversation once it downloads and i play a bit.
Taraaaaaa