The Witcher 3 Official thread

Oh, stop QQing already. If you're pissy because people discuss a variety of topics in a metathread, go to reddit where people discuss them in separate threads.

Wow. Is it a heavy flow this month, or are you really that butthurt over the controls?
 
Haven't looked into the PC Controls, but with XB1 controller it feels pretty natural to me. I am even finding myself way too proficient with mounted-combat (something i didn't think i'd do that much). Especially once you realize you can cast Axii on your horse while galop+swinging with your sword straight through a bunch of mobs.
 
Haven't looked into the PC Controls, but with XB1 controller it feels pretty natural to me. I am even finding myself way too proficient with mounted-combat (something i didn't think i'd do that much). Especially once you realize you can cast Axii on your horse while galop+swinging with your sword straight through a bunch of mobs.

Mounted combat does truckloads of damage, you can easily do enemies much higher levels than you by racing past them and swinging your sword.
 
Haven't looked into the PC Controls, but with XB1 controller it feels pretty natural to me. I am even finding myself way too proficient with mounted-combat (something i didn't think i'd do that much). Especially once you realize you can cast Axii on your horse while galop+swinging with your sword straight through a bunch of mobs.

Once they fix the horseback stuttering mounted combat should be easier on PC. At the moment it's easier for me to get off and just kill everyone.
 
Anyway, so QQ's QQing aside, some more thoughts on the game.

Overall, I think it misses the plot a bit with this big giant open-world thing it's got going. Yes, it's impressive and there's lots to do, but nowhere in this big world really stands out to me. It's dotted with dozens of little non-descript towns that all look the exact same and the countryside is pretty bland too. Nowhere stands out like the locations in the previous games, like Flotsam or the swamp outside Vizima or hell, even Vizima. Overall the world-building in this game is just completely bland and generic. Novigrad doesn't even come close to Vizima from Witcher 1. Compare the Velen swamp to the swamp in Witcher 1.

I guess it is to be expected that in a game of this size and scope the locations won't be quite as detailed or memorable as a more linear game, but it is a little sad that Witcher 3 lost so much in terms of its art direction. The art direction in the previous two games was one of their stronger points.
 
Considering how you often have to trek back and forth just to Geralt in the right 'position' to loot something on the ground, I think the controls are very clunky and imprecise.

You must be all thumbs :p:D
 
PC Patch 1.0.4 is out,

  • Rebinding any key is now available after switching Unlock Bindings option in Options \ Key bindings submenu.
  • Corrects an issue in the dialog system that might rarely cause dialog looping in scenes.
  • Fixes an issue with incorrect behavior of Wild Hunt warriors after they were under the influence of Axii sign.
  • Corrects a bug causing spontaneous combustion of gas clouds.
  • 1280 x 720 resolution is now properly displaying as valid resolution option.
  • Fixes boat stuttering in cutscenes.
  • Texture rendering quality for high / ultra presets improved.
  • Further improvements in NVIDIA Hairworks performance.
  • A few additional Gwent cards are now available in the Prologue area.
  • Fixes an issue where users with usernames using non-latin characters were unable to import saves from Witcher
  • Overall stability and performance improvements.
  • Fixes related to alt + tabbing and minimizing game window.
  • Game icon updated.
  • Enlarges the size of the loot pop-up window in the UI.
  • Fixes an issue where, in certain circumstances, the comparison window could be displayed outside of game borders in the UI.
  • Upgrading set items no longer destroys sockets.
  • Small UI tweaks for Gwent.
  • Corrects some missing translations in localized versions.
 
Cool. 1.03 already did wonders for the performance. Between 1.04 and hopefully the upcoming AMD driver I should be able to push all my settings up to High.

Have you tried turning down the difficulty, or maybe just take a bit of a break?

Lol.

Let the QQ flow.
 
Cool. 1.03 already did wonders for the performance. Between 1.04 and hopefully the upcoming AMD driver I should be able to push all my settings up to High.

Lol.

Let the QQ flow.

Haha jesus christ, your autism is starting to show.
 
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