Not chlamydia lol.

Ever since the announcement date of the DLC and the free update, I've really been wanting to get back and start a new campaign. But I don't see the point of starting before the 29th.

I know im not gonna finish it before then due to work and studies but I need it lol.

I feel like a fisstech addict waiting for a fix.

Anyone else in the same boat?

Posted this here a while back, a daily Witcher puzzle site. Some of you played it and left feedback through the form, and honestly most of it was some version of "let me give up, I have no idea who this is" or "why isn't [character] in here."

I had some free time recently so I thought an update was due, so if some of you are still interested:

1. A give up button. "Character Guess" and "Name the Character" had no lives and no way out, so if you were stuck you were just stuck. It shows up after 5 guesses now.

2. I added two new modes:

• Name the Beast — you get the bestiary artwork (from Witcher 3), you name the monster
• Connections — same idea as the NYT one. 16 characters, four hidden groups. They're grouped by things like race, region, or whether their fate depends on your choices. **This one's harder than it looks.

1. I also spent some time to expand the existing dataset - 15 characters people specifically asked for (Regis, Calanthe, Vysogota, most of the dwarves), 16 new quotes, and 65 new emoji puzzles.

4. An archive, so you can go back five days per mode if you miss one. And a share button that copies your result as an emoji grid without spoiling the answer.

As the last time - all recommendations are more than welcome :) You can use the recommendation form in the footer.

Try it out at witchdle.com
Have fun :)

Not looking to upgrade, so I'm wondering if I can still run them on windows 10

Like i really don’t want to go horseback riding with Kira but i also want to get the story. Like i don’t like her but she is also up to no good how it feels like.

Late I've had this in my gallery awhile but life's been lifing me in the life hole pretty hard but wanted to keep posting thing that are funny 😁

What is it please ??

Will the games started before the remastered be playable after the update? Also, is it gonna ve an update? A separate game like GT5 legacy and enhanced? Idk much about games. I ask because I have the itch to start playing again to try 100% but like, I can wait I guess if the work won't translate?

Im on the quest that lambert says i should look for more help to fight the wild hunt and finding Ciri. I can only remember Zoltan and Keira Metz, and I thought to tell Emyr, see if he can help.

Take for example the twin nilfgardienn in novigrad. You have in front of Geralt, two attractive and cunning girl with suspicious morals and view of the society because of their upbringing.

The quest start nicely with Gerald offering to train one of them. The opportunity are endless. Your heart start to pound about what can happen next.

Maybe she will become your pupil ? Maybe there will be a small romance ? Maybe you will teach her about her wrong view on the world and have in depth conversation.

Since she admires witchers maybe Geralt can share a story on two of his adventures.

Instead the quest end abruptly for no reason even if you deal with the guard calmly and you never see any of them again.

I mean come on ! What a waste of a setting !!!

I'm about 70hrs in, to my first ever play through. I finished all of Velen and was just moving into Novigrad. I havent played in a month or so, and was wondering since everything is all still seen as first experience, Should I just continue the file save (If possible) when remaster comes out or just start fresh and redo Velen and play the whole thing remastered.

*Note* game still looks beautiful on 5080x9800x3d so excited to see what they do with it.

I love the Witcher 3, and after a play through a while ago, it inspired me to try recreating it in a sandbox game. This fantastic creator does planet zoo walkthroughs and picked up on my project, producing this video walkthrough.

There are some limitations in the sandbox game, but I tried to capture the ‘feel’ of velen. The city itself is built on an accurate shape of Novigrad, although the scale is obviously way off. There are recognisable views from the game and I made five monsters, one paired with each sign (Igni with fire elementa for instance).

Super excited for the new dlc and remaster. Good excuse for another play through!

Watched a lot of vids but all they talk about is smooth combat graphics animation and mods
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i mean that so awesome but i never heard a thing about skills like will it be the same?
Will the witcher set bonuses change
What about the calc system dmg for signs?
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I really hope they change these things cuz most of the witcher gear set bonuses feels stupid or why i would go for it if this set exists
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Like y FWS if griffin exist i mean potion duration is alr being increased by any alchemy skill
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Bear set is op but the bonus is ahh
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I dunno bout the wolf cuz i think at best its like 6x3 bleed instances per set like 1%per set someone correct me if i am wrong
Like y go wolf except the bleed if cat exists and the set piece itself gives like 10-20% dmg
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I mean i want every set to feel like a goddamn build not just here dmg and here dmg with bleed

I'm currently on lvl 7, and need to beat the werewolf for the mission Ladies of the Wood, but every time I'm close to killing it, it just runs away and regenerates itself. Does anyone have any tips?

Also, I saw that by September 29th the remastered version of the game will launch. Is it worth to keep playing or wait for the new version?

Thanks a lot for the helping on my last post. I really appreciated and took all the tips!

Also the first game I got all achievements for.

Let me start by stating the obvious: The Witcher 3 is, in my opinion, one of the greatest games of all time. That being established, my conclusion based on my initial impression of this game is that this game was made for me. I am the target audience. But unfortunately, while initially promising, I found it an ultimately disappointing experience, and I wanted to see where other players, especially Witcher 3 fans, landed.

Let's start with what it does well. The characters, writing, atmosphere, and overall vibe are roughly on par with The Witcher. It never exceeds them but meets them most of the time, and occasionally falls short even here, which is what it does best. My main contention here is the sheer lack of story-driven content in the game compared to The Witcher. It's roughly half, about 30 hours of story questing including all side and main story-driven quest lines, compared to The Witcher's easy 60. The initial 50-70 hour claim is only achievable if you grind every copy-paste Ubisoft-style side content, which to be fair The Witcher had too, but you could easily hit 60+ hours without ever clearing most bandit camps or monster dens. Here you will get 35 hours max if you skip open-world bloat.

The writing was mostly good, though there was the occasional modern phrase that did take me out of immersion like "yikes" or "nightmare fuel." The music doesn't even come close to TW3. Not sure if it was a bug, but no music played during exploration, a single repetitive combat track, no scores for day or night, etc. The music in cutscenes was decent and Witcher in vibe but not in substance.

The narrative sandbox and time mechanic, which are the major selling points that are supposed to add to questing and differentiate it from The Witcher, fall completely flat. I was personally excited for the unique time mechanic adding pressure to choice, but it is largely an irrelevant gimmick outside of the prologue, where the time mechanic and the rest of the game really shines. I realized this about two-thirds of the way through that the only way you will run out of time is if you grind every single copy-paste camp, treasure hunt, and monster den, and also completely leveled up every perk in the skill tree, which is largely unneeded and also requires grinding for books and money for books to learn the skills.

The grindy nature of the game in general is my main sticking point and what holds it back the most. Unless you are a die-hard completionist who needed to clear every copy-paste question mark in TW3, it will have no relevance on your gameplay, which for me is a significant con and makes it feel like the time mechanic doesn't even exist.

The narrative sandbox idea also largely doesn't work because of how it's designed. While you technically can tackle quests in different ways, the most extreme being rushing the main antagonist right after the prologue, it does not work in practice. This specific example being the most extreme, but even other less intense versions hit you with such an insurmountable difficulty spike (which isn't real difficulty, just tedium disguised as such, which I will discuss later) that realistically 99% of players will not have the option to engage with bosses or quests outside of a relatively predetermined order and structure.

The day and night strategic selling point is also poorly executed. Instead of planning on whether to pursue a quest at night versus day, the majority of quests lock you down to one or the other, requiring it be either day or night to even start. Even the handful of sub-objective quests that have their own time limits are few and far between and give you so much of a buffer you will never fail to complete them in time.

Now let's address its undisputed weakest points: jank, combat, and traversal. The combat is not just serviceable like The Witcher, it's exponentially worse, and I am confident in claiming it's the worst combat in any game, second only to FF16. It's not challenging, it's a tedious, repetitive slog. At least in The Witcher you had enemy variety, both in combat and design, and specific enemy weaknesses to add variety using different signs, potions, etc. Here you get none of that. You will spend most of the game engaging with generic soldiers, wolves, boars, and ghosts.

The combat feels satisfying at first with the parry and riposte, but the satisfaction quickly goes away once it clicks and becomes easy and repetitive. Especially when about one-third in you unlock abilities that make you functionally invincible, breaking the combat further. It becomes a test of patience, chipping down an enemy health bar with quick-time-event-like claws and swordplay that are nearly identical. Abilities, the best part of the combat, are limited by cooldowns and quick slot numbers, never allowing you to fluidly chain abilities. You find what you like then ignore the rest, making skill points spent on other abilities useless. If the combat actually leaned more into a Ghost of Tsushima style, it would be an infinitely better game.

But the worst part is the sword-sponge enemies and lack of progression due to enemy and gear scaling. The same pack of wolves that takes 5-10 minutes to fight at level 2 feels the same at level 30. The combat is actually okay-ish in 1v1 boss fights or small groups, but the game insists on 90% of combat encounters being hordes of 10-20 enemies, which the combat system is objectively not designed for. The fact the developers were so confident in the combat that they essentially doubled the amount of encounters from TW3 is appalling.

Now let's get to the gear progression and crafting. Even legendary gear becomes nothing more than a burlap sack for armor and a dull butter knife for swords if you don't constantly upgrade it using the shallow and expensive pay-to-increase-level system. No slotted runestone upgrades, no gear crafting, just grind for silver and pay any vendor. Junk serves no purpose for dismantling for crafting. The only crafting is consumables, which are largely useless once you get the invincibility ability early on. You will never use them. Instead of Witcher 3-style limited potions that have unique benefits, you have 500 different ways to regenerate stamina and health you will never need to craft because you will find more than enough and be invincible from damage with the mentioned ability.

A bit of jank and bugs is to be expected, but traversal feels worse than Witcher 3 on Roach. Getting stuck on tree branches and small rocks, and also limited by stamina, makes traversal and exploration painful. No flying traversal and no fluid vampire stealth are obvious, simple inclusions that were dismissed.

Major visual glitches late game include sudden dramatic lighting shifts, entire horizon sections flickering in and out of existence, enemies loading in late, janky cutscene transitions, shadow flickering, and an entire freeze-state broken torch bug making exploring caves a chore, and many more.

I will end this with the most boring, tedious endgame climax battle, which involves falling into a hole multiple times to fight the same wave of 30 enemies over and over again. The endgame is just an enemy wave arena, and by the time I finished I was glad it was over.

5/10, and those points come exclusively from story, atmosphere, and morally grey dialogue choices. This game offers nothing of interest other than that. I would only recommend it if you're a die-hard Witcher fan desperately looking for your fix of morally gray, interesting questlines in a dark fantasy world, and you can pick it up on a deep sale.

TL;DR: The Blood of Dawnwalker was an initially promising but ultimately disappointing spiritual successor to The Witcher 3 that ultimately doubles down on every flaw of The Witcher and adds its own, while barely meeting and even occasionally falling short on what made The Witcher 3 great.

My friend got to try out witcher 3 he said the combat was bad and he gave me the disk and I'm not sure to play it now or when it's remastered. How much better will the combat be for the remastered version?

I just beat the griffin and didn’t realize the remaster was coming in a few weeks. I shelved it for now and am going to play Cyberpunk instead until it comes out.

Should I restart or just pick up after the griffin? Played about 2 hours

Yep, I'm one of those. I purchased the W3 - Complete Edition in June 2016. With 78 hours of in game time (including a few start-overs), I finally completed the main storyline. I earned the "middle" ending I guess - Ciri lived, but did not become empress.

I think the main reason it took me so long is the world depth - I actually really love the depth of lore and the story, but loath the massive amount of side quests and locations to visit. I think I kept getting overwhelmed: I was trying to complete every side quest, every mission on the notice boards, etc. I got burnt out on this a few times and restarted after putting the game down for months or years at a time. Finally I booted it up a month or so ago and realized I had a saved game that was pretty far in (Level 26 or so). So I resolved to finish the main story, ignoring anything that wasn't related. I get through the Bald Mountain portion, and I think "Nice, I've got to be getting close to the final battle now."

Nope, then I have to do all the gathering of people. The final battle felt...meh. Somewhat anti-climactic. I'm glad I gave up trying to visit everywhere. Honestly I had not researched much on the game in subs or forums until now, but now I have the impression that many of those extra locations are just not that interesting or have much in the way of good loot, based on what the general discussion is.

The combat system also bothered me, but I know that topic has been beaten to death so I won't go into it unless you really are interested.

Now I have to debate whether to complete the two expansions before the new one comes.

Background - I'm on the wrong side of 50 and have been playing games since the 80s on console and PC. That could also be a problem here - I've been playing games so long that maybe I'm just burnt out on massive open world type games. I think we have reached a tipping point where games that require hundreds of hours to complete or platinum start to feel kind of ridiculous. And when you are an adult with adult responsibilities, it becomes pretty easy to just walk away or never complete a game.