How large is the area?
Gaming The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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How large is the area?
I'm currently in a mission so I'll free roam a bit later, but at the moment it seems about the size of Velen, with a lot more population.
I've been going for a run "after this quest" since about 10am. I'll now do the quest I'm on then go after lunch...
I think I'm going to have to wait until the weekend to play this as there's no way I'll be able to do a couple of hours after work without letting it turn into four or five.
Got B&W via the season pass.
Still on level 10 on my death march playthrough with HoS and B&W untouched.
Gonna be good
Still on level 10 on my death march playthrough with HoS and B&W untouched.
Gonna be good
I like how they've given 4-5 free downloadable quests that get added on to the main game. I'm sure you've all played them and I doubt they're very extensive but still a nice touch.
One of them is really funny, it's called 'Skellige's most wanted'.
Yeah, Toussaint is really quite big.
I woke up this morning with the controller to my side and Geralt halfway through a Gwent match, which I promptly got battered in.
Should've had coffee first...
Should've had coffee first...
Ohh there, almost had my first game breaking bug. Thankfully I manually save often and reloading an older save fixed it. For those curious, I believe a certain side quest, either the Knight Errant one (quest with 15 mini contracts) or the Goodness Gracious Great Balls of Granite one, starting them caused it.
Basically, I tried to start a main quest (where you meet
in the cemetery) but everytime I tried to venture forth, once I reached a certain distance the game would tell me I was leaving a quest, one which I don't even have in my journal, and the world map would automatically pop up and force to me fast travel back to Beauclair.
Basically, I tried to start a main quest (where you meet
Regis
Yikes. I'll keep my out for that - cheers @DatIrishFella. I'm literally at that spot in the main quest line too. I've spent the rest of my time so far doing the side quests, which are all just as fulfilling as I remember.
I just got past it with no problems on PC.
Wow... this map is pretty big!
Yeah, I actually think it could be the whole size of Velen, and maybe even Novigrad included.
The castle looks so fecking nice too.
The big map becomes a bollocks when you're getting all the manticore armour pieces and they are all at opposite corners. 
Took me about 4 hours to get them all because I kept running into side quests on my way between them.
Took me about 4 hours to get them all because I kept running into side quests on my way between them.
Is there any way to keep that other guy alive when you're fighting that rock thing in the arena? Every time the thing goes into the ground and spins around the other guy dies in my game...
Yeah it's doable. Keep stunning it with aard and samun bombs then smacking it around. The more it's stunned the less damage it can do to him.
Spent about 4 hours yesterday just running around playing Gwent. New decks fun though.
New decks fun though.How does the Skellige deck compare to the other four?Spent about 4 hours yesterday just running around playing Gwent.
Spent about 4 hours yesterday just running around playing Gwent.
I actually lost a game of Gwent yesterday for the first time in god knows how long.
I got a shitty deal though... zero Spy cards / Decoys and one Medic card in a Nilfgaard deal... I got screwed.
Its good, ive never finished collect em all so im probably not the best person to answer where it ranks but in terms of play style it feels about halfway between Monsters and Scocia'tel. Only thing thats annoyed be about it is the lack of spy cards, but they might exist and I just havent come across them yet.
I was thinking of taking Gwent seriously in my second playthrough but ended up wrapping up the Bloody Baron storyline in a hurry. Arghh.
Apply some...something something...oil and he's toast. I want to say necro? Seems so long ago now...
I started yesterday, I had it on the 2nd hardest (saving death march for when I finally do a 2nd playthrough).
Problem is my Geralt is level 39 and I'm absolutely butchering bosses so far, though I've only done 3, the giant and the rock thing and the naked woman. Hopefully it gets harder or else I may need to use the pre-made level 34 one.
Problem is my Geralt is level 39 and I'm absolutely butchering bosses so far, though I've only done 3, the giant and the rock thing and the naked woman. Hopefully it gets harder or else I may need to use the pre-made level 34 one.
I found her absolutely impossible to the point of giving up. I realise that she's effectively a re-skinned wraith but as soon as she gets down to half health she does this ridiculous quick attack on me that kills me from half health....
what difficulty you doing it on?
I found her absolute piss with Quen + Vampire oil. Though my weapons & armor now are really good from the previous expansion.
I don't even think she had a chance to use the attack. My attacks were taking 20% of her health off and then bleeding would take even more.
Same as you I think, but possibly Death March can't remember off the top of my head.
I think my main problem is I skipped Heart of Stone (bought the expansion pass yesterday) so although I'm level 34 should probably go back and do it before diving into this properly.
Got the expansion yesterday. Started well, beating the first 3 bosses relatively easy. New enemies are kind of annoying, I've just got the hang of the centipedes but the plants are still giving me bother.
Wasn't sure if it would live up to the original game but I've just completed the Smitten Knight quest which was a fantastic story that took almost a whole hour to beat and I just couldn't put the controller down.
Going to investigate this grandmaster armoury upgrade. Think the game will open up again for me once I get my feline armour up another stage.
Wasn't sure if it would live up to the original game but I've just completed the Smitten Knight quest which was a fantastic story that took almost a whole hour to beat and I just couldn't put the controller down.
Going to investigate this grandmaster armoury upgrade. Think the game will open up again for me once I get my feline armour up another stage.
I found myself holding block a lot more than I normally do when fighting vampires now, they are fairly tough, but doable. Use Black Blood, Moon Dust, Quen and I think Aard might stun her. Going straight at them trying to attacking got me smacked around the place.
I got my first good boss fight not long after what you described, and I started at level 40. It's just a side quest
cosplay, those damn elves
anyone care to refresh me on the basics of this game in preparation for B&W? it's been way too long since I played this game.
If, like me, you somehow missed vampire oil then upgrade it along with black blood. They've created some encounters where the generic Quen + fast attack build won't bail you out, so enhance any bombs you've got and prepare to use them. Don't forget your oils; lubrication makes everything easier.
Also, some decoctions will turn a tough battle into a rather easy one, but I'll let you figure that out...
I just took an absolute pasting.
A flood of enemies you have to hold off in an enclosed space. Some of which would have been contracts in the base game mixed in with ones that explode and one hit kill you. Absolutely infuriating it was. I might have to use a decoction to get through it.
Been so long since i played last, i've forgotten most of the story.
I've decided I'll try again to play through it soon, but I'll do it from a new game so I can get the whole experience again. Just hope the blurry-ness of the senses won't give me a headache this time around. :/
I've decided I'll try again to play through it soon, but I'll do it from a new game so I can get the whole experience again. Just hope the blurry-ness of the senses won't give me a headache this time around. :/
You can turn that off now on any platform.
Though they also said something about an option for neutral Gwent cards which I haven't found yet.
feck yes!!!!! That means i can actually put a ton of hours into the game!!!!!!! Always thought it was awesome, but the senses made it impossible for me to play after i got to that island.
Always manual save, after every little thing you do, keep forgetting it doesn't and having to go back to do monster nests and stuff over and over. It's stupid. It feels like if you save it'll let you win every battle, if you don't save, after an hours worth of doing crap it'll decide you decimate you with one hit so the last hour was a pointless exercise.
Senses?
I'm actually trying to take Gwent seriously on my second playthrough. It seems like a lot of fun, but what are good areas to start? Everyone seems to have a far better pack than me.
I'm actually trying to take Gwent seriously on my second playthrough. It seems like a lot of fun, but what are good areas to start? Everyone seems to have a far better pack than me.
I'm playing on deathmarch and the first few bosses have been just as easy for me too. Ekimara decoction, quen, whirl rune boosted, AND the new mutagen stuff is a bit too strong at the minute.
I think the only hard parts are lots of monsters at once so far. Those centipedes and the new exploding ones take the piss
I don't think I'm very far in on the main questline
but my general assertion so far seems to be that the overarching plot seems fairly weaker than Hearts of Stone - the quip-filled, bouncy conversations with Regis are great but the so far the story really lacks the domineering presence of somebody like Gaunter. Always hard to leave up to in that sense, really. Also, Anna is great, but she's no Yen. (Although there was never any Yen in the other expansion either, so hey.)
But... whilst the plot doesn't seem as strong as the first one, the atmosphere of Toussaint seriously blows me away. The side quests are really, really good too. The Smitten Knight, and Paperchase in particular so far.
I've just done the soiree part with Anna
But... whilst the plot doesn't seem as strong as the first one, the atmosphere of Toussaint seriously blows me away. The side quests are really, really good too. The Smitten Knight, and Paperchase in particular so far.
nearly got done by random bunch of fallen knights. I'm so out of practice with the combat, but my memory is starting to return.
try to get a few decoy cards for you deck if you haven't done so already.
start looking to build northern realms deck. switch to nilfgaard after you have collected most cards.
try to get a few decoy cards for you deck if you haven't done so already.
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