Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. We Skyrim Now.

Minor complaints.
After playing Valhalla for so long, a number of games have really perfected the whole “whistle and your horse is right there” mechanic. It doesn’t appear the dev team did anything here because an overwhelming majority of times I call Roach, he gets stuck on absolutely everything humanly possible and I end up running to him. Logically, the mechanic is stupid anyway, it’d be nice if it worked.

Swimming seems super buggy. I’ve run into a couple places where diving won’t work and surfacing is always kind of weird and delayed.

 

Not getting your health back except with food suuuuucks

 

Yup the horse thing is annoying AF. Have the same things happen. Gets stuck behind a tree or a fence and I run to him.

 

I dropped the difficulty down so I could get health when I meditate. After I do one play-through and figure the game out I’m going to bump up the difficulty and go again.

 

I’m level 14 and this is already in consideration for my favorite game. Ever.

Best open world game I’ve played for sure.

 

welcome to the family

 

Got my 3 year old in bed by 7:15 so I could get a couple hours in tonight. Wife decided that was a great opportunity to put me on baby duty for two hours. Being an adult fucking suuuucks.

 

I just took the boat to the Skellige Isles. I'm level 19, but part of me wants to clear all of Velen/Novigrad before moving on.

 

There's going to be plenty of reason to go back and forth within the story.

 

Maybe it's bc I've taken too many breaks during my play through, but the Iron and Wine story-line does not interest me much. A ton to do, yes, but I don't care about the story.

 

gotta stack those spy cards

 

also this. not sure i ever lost a game of gwent. made up for it by being terrible at everything else in the game though

 

Finished the Bloody Baron questline yesterday.

Still just so fucking good.

Also I always try to keep as many of these sorry fuckers alive as I can, but can never manage losing less than 2 on the way to the Crone's Village.

Spoiler

 

Pro tip: Witcher gear has insanely better durability than pretty much any other items.

Your silver sword will be about the only item you have to repair on a somewhat consistent basis.

 

What do you guys do in the tree vs crones?

 

kill em

 

you gotta make a choice though

 

i cant even remember

 

free/kill the tree which has repercussions in the town vs the children

 

Think I freed the tree once and then killed it another. Don’t remember the difference though.

 

ooooohh. i killed the tree. gotta save the baron.

 

Spoiler

Baron hangs himself if you free it (but you save the kids)

 

Spoiler

Not just that, the Mother Crone kills everybody in the village of Downwarren as well.

 

Ah I remember this now

Wow don’t remember that

 

Yeah

One of the great early moments in the game to show you that consequences aren’t as simple as you think they’ll be.

 

true i forgot

 

I usually kill the tree.

 

I always free the tree, save the kids

 

fuck them kids

 

I really want to replay this one but my backlog is massive and I don’t have a ton of time to play to begin with. If I did it, it would be to get the platinum, which means death March difficulty and having to really get good at the battle mechanics again.

idk fellas

 

You’re gonna do it

 

My damn cross-save seems to be broken. Used to work between ps5 and steam, but no longer lets me load any cloud saves. It says I'm logged in, on both platforms, and gives me the cloud icon when I save. But when I immediately go to load, my save no longer has the cloud icon.

My Steam save has more progress than my PS5

well, 15 min later and my PS5 is now saving to the cloud correctly.

 

Anyone on PS5 having issues with the game crashing. I already had to delete and redownload/install is because it kept crashing.

 

My cloud saves seem to be working now, just takes longer sometimes.

Have not had any crash issues.

 

I haven't had any issues.

 

I forgot how huge this game is. Just got to triss’ house

 

happened once. i’m sorta nearing Skellige, so i dont consider it a big issue.

 

I'm nearing level 20 and just started the Dandelion quest. Traveled over to Skellige to knock out the Lambert quest but didn't do anything else there.

 

You didn’t quickly knock out the 1,072,385,071 question marks?!?!?!?

 

I did make there was an available post to fast travel to when I'm ready to go get the stuff necessary for the mastercraft quest.

 

I said earlier I didn’t really like the B&W story, but holy shit there is so much to do in the DLC.

I don’t know how many more “side quests” I have left, but I keep unlocking more treasure/Witcher contracts.

Am at the point in the story where it says some side quests will not be able to be completed if I advance, so I’ve been doing those.

 

I like to spread them out because a lot of them have good relic swords.

 

I really enjoyed that quest. The decision at the end is always interesting. I've done both but this time around I wanted that saddle so things didn't work out for Olgierd.

 

isnt Olgierd H&S?

 

Oh shit my mistake. I thought that's what Butch was talking about.

Damn I really loved the story in Blood and Wine. What is wrong with you ButchCassidy ?

 

H&S is a masterpiece too imo. whole thing is so well done nothing seems a waste of time.

 

Agreed. It's shorter but it's a really tightly woven story.

 

yes its like half of blood and wine but i dont see it as a bad thing. not saying you are either. H&S is better than most full AAA titles.

 

How do you pick which Witcher gear to use (wolf, bear, viper, etc). Feels like last time I rolled with bear gear

 

Lot of people roll with Griffin. Especially on death march because it's good for a sign build.