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Post by OneWomanArmy on Jan 13, 2017 10:45:23 GMT
Ohhh btw I hadn't noticed, the quest in my ng+ suggests level 64..... so it makes even more sense now that I couldn't defeat it with a level 48 character. Edit: Btw, thank you guys for being so friendly and helpful, it's really reassuring that I can come here and get the help I need, I sometimes suck at these games and it can be hard to find the answers online when you don't know how to search for them
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 13, 2017 10:54:34 GMT
The level recommendations in the quest log are also scaled up, that should tell you. These recommendations are usually ok. In my NG+, IIRC the listed level recommendation is 34 + (my level at the start of this NG+). You're a life saver!! I just tried it with a new game solely for the dlc, starting at level 34 and it was EASY LOL. You were right about the enemy upscaling, that's definitely the reason why I had so much trouble in my new game+ Thank you!! I can now play the dlc, FINALLY yay Thanks . I have to tell you, though, that the final boss of B&W is an overpowered cheat, and one intermediate boss isn't much better. Depending on your choices, you may not have to fight them, but for the happy ending you'll need to defeat both. Basically, both fights depend on your being able to *reliably* find the correct split-second timing, for sign attacks with the intermediate boss, for both attack and defense in one phase of the fight against the final boss. After half a dozen attempts, I ended up cheating with the final boss. It doesn't help that I get trembling fingers in my mouse hand whenever I'm in a real-time boss fight in a game if I'm not confident I can win, no idea why. Edit: I have a mod installed that lets you adjust various game parameters while playing using an added options screen. If you're on PC, you can use that, too, if you get into trouble but don't want to miss out on the story.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Jan 13, 2017 11:03:10 GMT
You're a life saver!! I just tried it with a new game solely for the dlc, starting at level 34 and it was EASY LOL. You were right about the enemy upscaling, that's definitely the reason why I had so much trouble in my new game+ Thank you!! I can now play the dlc, FINALLY yay Thanks . I have to tell you, though, that the final boss of B&W is an overpowered cheat, and one intermediate boss isn't much better. Depending on your choices, you may not have to fight them, but for the happy ending you'll need to defeat both. Basically, both fights depend on your being able to *reliably* find the correct split-second timing, for sign attacks with the intermediate boss, for both attack and defense in one phase of the fight against the final boss. After half a dozen attempts, I ended up cheating with the final boss. It doesn't help that I get trembling fingers in my mouse hand whenever I'm in a real-time boss fight in a game if I'm not confident I can win, no idea why. Yeah...the two fights in question are just...the worst. Although final boss fight, split into three distinct stages, is really only a problem in the second stage. The first and third stage aren't too much trouble (although the noise and...um...confines of the third stage had my heart pounding because I was out of everything, potions, food etc and had just gotten through the second stage on my 10th or 11th attempt. I didn't know you could avoid the earlier boss??...the flying one, right? I also get trembly mouse fingers.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Jan 13, 2017 11:04:33 GMT
Ohhh btw I hadn't noticed, the quest in my ng+ suggests level 64..... so it makes even more sense now that I couldn't defeat it with a level 48 character. Edit: Btw, thank you guys for being so friendly and helpful, it's really reassuring that I can come here and get the help I need, I sometimes suck at these games and it can be hard to find the answers online when you don't know how to search for them I'm on my third PT of TW3 and still playing (and often nearly dying) on Sword & Story - basically, Normal difficulty. I miss Dragon Age's pause button!
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Post by OneWomanArmy on Jan 13, 2017 11:09:46 GMT
You're a life saver!! I just tried it with a new game solely for the dlc, starting at level 34 and it was EASY LOL. You were right about the enemy upscaling, that's definitely the reason why I had so much trouble in my new game+ Thank you!! I can now play the dlc, FINALLY yay Thanks . I have to tell you, though, that the final boss of B&W is an overpowered cheat, and one intermediate boss isn't much better. Depending on your choices, you may not have to fight them, but for the happy ending you'll need to defeat both. Basically, both fights depend on your being able to *reliably* find the correct split-second timing, for sign attacks with the intermediate boss, for both attack and defense in one phase of the fight against the final boss. After half a dozen attempts, I ended up cheating with the final boss. It doesn't help that I get trembling fingers in my mouse hand whenever I'm in a real-time boss fight in a game if I'm not confident I can win, no idea why. Edit: I have a mod installed that lets you adjust various game parameters while playing using an added options screen. If you're on PC, you can use that, too, if you get into trouble but don't want to miss out on the story. Oh damn, I won't look forward to that then. And I'm on xbone for this one, so sadly I can't use mods It would have been nice though. They allow mods on Skyrim for the xbone, I'd wish they'd start allowing it for more games soon.
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Post by Gileadan on Jan 13, 2017 11:17:35 GMT
Just reading this thread brings back memories of good times and the desire to get some good NG+ going! I remember taking out one huge bandit stronghold in B&W by maybe killing four bandits myself and making all the others kill each other with a fully developed Axii sign. As far as the boss fight is concerned... ...I've found that you can dodge Detlaff's bat swarm by moving away from him when he takes to the air. If you move far enough, you can run again instead of walking in combat stance, and if you keep running, the bats barely graze or completely miss you.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 13, 2017 11:44:33 GMT
Although final boss fight, split into three distinct stages, is really only a problem in the second stage. The first and third stage aren't too much trouble (although the noise and...um...confines of the third stage had my heart pounding because I was out of everything, potions, food etc and had just gotten through the second stage on my 10th or 11th attempt. I didn't know you could avoid the earlier boss??...the flying one, right? I also get trembly mouse fingers. Yep, the second phase is the problematic one, mostly for defending against the.....special ranged attack. As for the other one, yep, that's who I meant. I almost ran out of antidote potions because I couldn't reliably time my Aard attacks to ground the enemy. I haven't tried to avoid it, but I think you can avoid visiting that place algother if you make a certain choice in one of the scenes leading up to it. Also, nice to hear I'm not the only one with the finger problems.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 13, 2017 12:00:53 GMT
Thanks . I have to tell you, though, that the final boss of B&W is an overpowered cheat, and one intermediate boss isn't much better. Depending on your choices, you may not have to fight them, but for the happy ending you'll need to defeat both. Basically, both fights depend on your being able to *reliably* find the correct split-second timing, for sign attacks with the intermediate boss, for both attack and defense in one phase of the fight against the final boss. After half a dozen attempts, I ended up cheating with the final boss. It doesn't help that I get trembling fingers in my mouse hand whenever I'm in a real-time boss fight in a game if I'm not confident I can win, no idea why. Edit: I have a mod installed that lets you adjust various game parameters while playing using an added options screen. If you're on PC, you can use that, too, if you get into trouble but don't want to miss out on the story. Oh damn, I won't look forward to that then. And I'm on xbone for this one, so sadly I can't use mods It would have been nice though. They allow mods on Skyrim for the xbone, I'd wish they'd start allowing it for more games soon. Here's a slight spoiler about how to avoid fighting the the final boss: At some late point in the game, you will face the decision to go after an unknown NPC or a known one. Select the known one. If you do that, you will have the option to acquire an item from a little girl in a strange environment. If you ignore that girl, you will have the option to bow out of the fight against the final boss. Avoiding the girl will cost one important life which you may or may not want to save. You will not get the happy ending (which I find unconvincing anyway), but neither will you get the worst one. The ending you will get is one I consider appropriate.
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Post by OneWomanArmy on Jan 13, 2017 12:55:43 GMT
Oh damn, I won't look forward to that then. And I'm on xbone for this one, so sadly I can't use mods It would have been nice though. They allow mods on Skyrim for the xbone, I'd wish they'd start allowing it for more games soon. Here's a slight spoiler about how to avoid fighting the the final boss: At some late point in the game, you will face the decision to go after an unknown NPC or a known one. Select the known one. If you do that, you will have the option to acquire an item from a little girl in a strange environment. If you ignore that girl, you will have the option to bow out of the fight against the final boss. Avoiding the girl will cost one important life which you may or may not want to save. You will not get the happy ending (which I find unconvincing anyway), but neither will you get the worst one. The ending you will get is one I consider appropriate. Nice, thanks 👍
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 13, 2017 15:24:53 GMT
While dodging and attacking is sound advice, that applies to every third person melee game ever. The key with any Witcher game is to dig deep in alchemy. It's somewhat less true in TW3 given the gimped and padded out alchemy system, but it's always more satisfying to make the right choice with potions and oils than to endlessly spam dodge and attacks . Sorry? How are you assuming I was talking about spamming dodge and attack?
The poster I was replying to said something about hard boss battles. Maybe I wasn't clear.
Agree. Geralt is a mutant, potions and oils are important, looking up in the beastiary is also important to know what potions and oils to use to defeat that enemy. Part of the amazing tools in the game. The strategy you fight your opponent in the Witcher is not to mash the button but intelligently or try to anyways come up with a strategy to kill that enemy. One of the tools is dodging in combination with potions, oils, knowledge.
You don't want to rush up blindly to your opponent (whats fun in that?) nor do you want to stand there while he kills you (not fun). Use dodge, get out of the way, try to quickly analize your next move, attack intelligently when you can. Dodging also gives you a moment to breath add more oils and potions if need while not being attacked by the enemy.
Note: you can also dig deep into alchemy and make your combat easier even on harder modes. Sometimes less alchemy is more fun. Sometimes I will use inferior weapons & armor and not so much alchemy if I feel like prolonging a fight in W3 which is pretty fun also. The thing is, I know what I need to do in that fight. The problem is that my hand/eye-coordination and reaction speed are insufficient to do the required moves reliably enough not to get killed eventually. Well, maybe the added practice in my NG+ with a higher difficulty setting will be enough to get me through it next time, but I'm quite sure it won't be enjoyable.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 13, 2017 20:20:36 GMT
I know this isn't the topic here, but I highly recommend browsing through TW3 section of Nexus Mods, there are some *very* enjoyable and useful mods for TW3. Some visual, and many that deal with game mechanics and potential annoyances. Personally I found the mods that allowed me to activate signs through the hotbar (using number keys) rather than Q, and the mod that allowed me to activate more than just 6 skills at one time to be utterly irreplaceable. There are many other interesting mods as well. I have a few mods installed, but that "activate signs through number keys" may just be what I need for the aforementioned fights. Can you point me to it? Also, what is this about activating more than 6 skills? Isn't the maximum 16 with B&W installed? @all: I do recommend playing on PC in general. Getting a gaming PC may be a little expensive if you don't need a computer otherwise, but if you do need one otherwise, you might as well add what you'd otherwise pay for a console to turn your office PC into a gaming PC.
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Post by slimgrin on Jan 14, 2017 3:43:46 GMT
While dodging and attacking is sound advice, that applies to every third person melee game ever. The key with any Witcher game is to dig deep in alchemy. It's somewhat less true in TW3 given the gimped and padded out alchemy system, but it's always more satisfying to make the right choice with potions and oils than to endlessly spam dodge and attacks . Sorry? How are you assuming I was talking about spamming dodge and attack?
The poster I was replying to said something about hard boss battles. Maybe I wasn't clear.
Agree. Geralt is a mutant, potions and oils are important, looking up in the beastiary is also important to know what potions and oils to use to defeat that enemy. Part of the amazing tools in the game. The strategy you fight your opponent in the Witcher is not to mash the button but intelligently or try to anyways come up with a strategy to kill that enemy. One of the tools is dodging in combination with potions, oils, knowledge.
You don't want to rush up blindly to your opponent (whats fun in that?) nor do you want to stand there while he kills you (not fun). Use dodge, get out of the way, try to quickly analize your next move, attack intelligently when you can. Dodging also gives you a moment to breath add more oils and potions if need while not being attacked by the enemy.
Note: you can also dig deep into alchemy and make your combat easier even on harder modes. Sometimes less alchemy is more fun. Sometimes I will use inferior weapons & armor and not so much alchemy if I feel like prolonging a fight in W3 which is pretty fun also.
Didn't mean to single you out there, it's just that I've heard roll and fast attack advice ad nauseum for Witcher games and it's not at all the funnest way to play. I should have made a separate post on it and not quoted you. To those who use modding. Essenthy will be releasing his latest lighting mod soon:
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Post by olnorton on Jan 15, 2017 2:36:04 GMT
Has anyone here done any Witcher 3 modding? I've been trying to re-texture Triss's clothes and having all sorts of troubles. First I tried just to make the teal parts black. They were unchanged in the game and I just thought I hadn't made the mod properly. Turns out the mod was showing in game, but the changes I made where barely noticeable. ie the top still looked teal. So I redid the body_01_wa__triss_d01.tga and made all the teal parts solid dark red, and the yellow bits, darker brown. i.imgur.com/rpqNxUt.jpgIn game the brown bits showed, but the dark red still showed as mostly teal with the dark red tinges on certain angles. I lightened the Alpha channel of the body_01_wa__triss_n01.tga, only in the teal places, marked 1 to 5. i.imgur.com/BPVDfpD.jpgSo now the dark red shows up as I intended, but the blue highlights on her belt, bag, and boots have gone way over the top. i.imgur.com/LE7LZPh.jpgThe only thing I can think of is that Gimp recompiled the layers of the n.tga in a different order. Can anyone tell me what's going on? (what I did wrong?) Do I now have to try and edit just the red channel in the a.tga? Edit: I got rid of the blue, I will use it like this if I have to, but I might be able to get some of the metallic look back to the buckles if I'm lucky. i.imgur.com/bLiG2CC.jpgi.imgur.com/Zu4shPR.jpg
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Apologies if it has been posted but I was checking out Sha's vids on castles. I posted his take on Skyhold in the DA section last year.
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Post by dragontartare on Jan 16, 2017 3:13:41 GMT
olnorton I have no advice for you, as I don't have the patience to learn that stuff, but I think it's looking great. You should link it here if you ever offer the mod for download. A question for anyone: I am on a NG+ and just started the Novigrad questline today. Geralt had been wearing some armor that he got in Blood and Wine (yes, underleveled by this point, but I liked it), but after the game unequipped everything so that he could spar with Rosa var Attre, I could no longer re-equip the armor, because the required level had gone up. Now, I figure that when I next play B&W and I get the same armor again, it would obviously be a higher level. But was this imported version supposed to change like that, or is this a glitch?
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Post by olnorton on Jan 16, 2017 8:45:38 GMT
olnorton I have no advice for you, as I don't have the patience to learn that stuff, but I think it's looking great. You should link it here if you ever offer the mod for download. Why, Thankyou. It's more or less usable now, the trouble with this stuff is you never know when to stop. I'm thinking I might tone down the baubles on the sleeves, maybe make them red so their not so in your face. I can't be bothered jumping through the hoops to post it on Nexus, (just to have some kid tell me she had a green top in the books.) But If you want it in it's current state, it's here www.dropbox.com/s/uyn4lrq3ke33x0x/TrissClothes.7z?dl=0Pics as it is now: i.imgur.com/hUveeLy.jpg i.imgur.com/CQiUytS.jpgAnd on your problem... I have no advice for you either, I've never played NG+.
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Post by dragontartare on Jan 16, 2017 19:37:31 GMT
olnorton I have no advice for you, as I don't have the patience to learn that stuff, but I think it's looking great. You should link it here if you ever offer the mod for download. Why, Thankyou. It's more or less usable now, the trouble with this stuff is you never know when to stop. I'm thinking I might tone down the baubles on the sleeves, maybe make them red so their not so in your face. I can't be bothered jumping through the hoops to post it on Nexus, (just to have some kid tell me she had a green top in the books.) But If you want it in it's current state, it's here www.dropbox.com/s/uyn4lrq3ke33x0x/TrissClothes.7z?dl=0Pics as it is now: i.imgur.com/hUveeLy.jpg i.imgur.com/CQiUytS.jpgAnd on your problem... I have no advice for you either, I've never played NG+. The studs on the sleeves look good as they are, though gold might look even better with the red fabric. I'll install this and take a closer look next time I play
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 18, 2017 8:58:51 GMT
olnorton I have no advice for you, as I don't have the patience to learn that stuff, but I think it's looking great. You should link it here if you ever offer the mod for download. A question for anyone: I am on a NG+ and just started the Novigrad questline today. Geralt had been wearing some armor that he got in Blood and Wine (yes, underleveled by this point, but I liked it), but after the game unequipped everything so that he could spar with Rosa var Attre, I could no longer re-equip the armor, because the required level had gone up. Now, I figure that when I next play B&W and I get the same armor again, it would obviously be a higher level. But was this imported version supposed to change like that, or is this a glitch? That is probably a glitch. I continued to use the Grandmaster Griffin gear from the previous playthrough for a considerable time in my NG+ because I liked the specials, and its level remained at...40 or so I think it was. I don't recall if I had already switched to new gear when I played the quest with Rosa van Attre, but I took it off and put it on again at least once before that. The NG+ version of that gear will probably be level 40+whatever level you were when you started your NG+.
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Post by AnDromedary on Jan 18, 2017 17:48:37 GMT
Hmmmm, I just started a new NG+ playthrough with the best witcher gear from the one before and I had no trouble, just got "disrobed" automatically when going to Vizima and getting shaved. Might really depend on the gear and the situation. Anyway, just got to Velen on my Deathmarch NG+ playthrough (first time with DLCs, haven't played them before, should be interesting). The game so far is actually not as difficult as I would have imagined. This may be because my gear is extremely good this early in the game (it's the best gear from the previous completionist playthrough after all) but still, I haven't encountered a situation where I even needed to use potions yet. Wonder if it will get harder over time as I have to adjust my gear to the higher levels. One thing I noticed, compared to my first playthough from 2015: Turning off the question mark icons on the map makes the game sooooo much better. You actually get to explore the world and randomly find stuff along the way. It gives the game a whole new feel. In any case, this is still one hell of a brilliant game and probably still the best one out there, even one and a half years later.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 19, 2017 6:20:38 GMT
One thing I noticed, compared to my first playthough from 2015: Turning off the question mark icons on the map makes the game sooooo much better. You actually get to explore the world and randomly find stuff along the way. It gives the game a whole new feel. You do realize the markers don't appear at random, right? You get them by walking by within a certain distance, indicating that Geralt may sense something, or by reading the non-quest-related notes on the billboards, indicating that Geralt has heard of a rumor that there may be something interesting left at certain places. I very much prefer it that way. Random exploration of wilderness (as opposed to cities) gets old rather fast, and this way the places become part of the world's stories. Indeed. The expansions add a lot of stuff, but the base game remains unsurpassed, and I'm not seeing anything that could surpass TW3 any time soon.
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Post by dragontartare on Jan 19, 2017 6:25:32 GMT
Does anyone know of a slow leveling mod that can be used on existing saves? The only one I found is only for new games. Geralt is leveling way too fast, and while I suppose I could turn up the difficulty, I honestly would prefer to avoid dying as much as possible since the loading screens are so long. I'm hoping to level more slowly so I can do some of the side quests I didn't do the first time around, and not end up so over-leveled for the main quest.
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Post by AnDromedary on Jan 19, 2017 18:44:54 GMT
One thing I noticed, compared to my first playthough from 2015: Turning off the question mark icons on the map makes the game sooooo much better. You actually get to explore the world and randomly find stuff along the way. It gives the game a whole new feel. You do realize the markers don't appear at random, right? You get them by walking by within a certain distance, indicating that Geralt may sense something, or by reading the non-quest-related notes on the billboards, indicating that Geralt has heard of a rumor that there may be something interesting left at certain places. I very much prefer it that way. Random exploration of wilderness (as opposed to cities) gets old rather fast, and this way the places become part of the world's stories. What? When you get hints or contracts on the billboards or through other means (journals, letters, etc.), you usually also get a quest with a real quest marker. But how are the white question marks related to anything on the billboards? Sure, they show up after you read a billboard of that area but why would some random stuff like a place of power somewhere in the middle of a forest or a lost treasure in a river be advertised on a billboard? Note, I am not talking about quest markers, I am talking about the white question mark icons that show stuff like those small random bandit camps, monster dens, places of power smugglers caches and such. Of course I leave the quest makers on but I much prefer not to have those random little points of interest on the map. I prefer to stumble across a treasure while actually exploring the environment. And once you turn them off, you actually realize that CDPR positioned most of the "more important" ones (which might start a quest for witcher gear an such) very carefully at or near landmarks that should draw your attention, such as crumbling towers or near major roads. So while I might miss some of the smaller (and fairly irelevant) stuff like the smuggler's caches in the middle of the ocean in Skellge, I am not too worried that I'll miss out on anything really interesting.
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Post by flyingsquirrel on Jan 23, 2017 1:28:34 GMT
I just started TW3 for the second time (played and finished it once when it first came out). Did anyone else, in the tavern in White Orchard at the beginning, run into a cat that hisses every time Geralt walks by? I was especially amused when I was standing outside the tavern, and the door swung open just for the cat to come outside, stand near the door, and hiss. I meditated for a bit, and when I exited the meditation screen, a different-looking cat was there that also seemed to be hissing at Geralt.
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Post by Serza on Jan 23, 2017 14:56:38 GMT
Yeah. Witchers can feel power of some sort, and have this in common with cats.
Cats don't really like that.
That's why I couldn't be a witcher. I like cats. Going a few centuries without one liking me wouldn't be very desirable.
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Post by Ieldra on Jan 23, 2017 17:02:25 GMT
Yeah. Witchers can feel power of some sort, and have this in common with cats. Cats don't really like that. That's why I couldn't be a witcher. I like cats. Going a few centuries without one liking me wouldn't be very desirable. I've seen a few curious cats in Novigrad who didn't show any aversion to Geralt, so I don't buy that explanation. More odd is that some cat is often around, suspiciously often. I like them, but I've wondered why they're there in those scenes. Does anyone know?
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