For what it’s worth, I had a bit of a bad, gamergatish feeling about that quest.
[spoiler]I had to kill her too - we were both adamant we were in the right, and I missed the options that might have sent her to Kaer Morhen.
But when you do have to fight her, Geralt gets all “you used me, bitch !” - I’m sorry, what ? She told you there was a curse, which there was. She was gracious enough to give you the tools to break it. Then she paid you for breaking it, and then you guys fucked on top of the payment. You don’t get to bitch about any of that, Geralt, it’s your fucking job. Whether or not she had ulterior motives is utterly irrelevant to the fact that you went and removed the curse - you would have had to anyway, from the moment you learned there was one.
As for the difference between the two : from what I understand, if she’s left to her own device she goes to work on the research at the behest of Radovid, who’s a fucking omnicidal nut. I don’t think he’s got much interest in finding cures for plagues ; but more with causing them. Basically she’s angling for a career in germ warfare out of desperation.
Whereas at Kaer Morhen she’s got all of the protection with none of the strings, and would be free to actually work to cure the plague.[/spoiler]
Is there ever any use for your junk loot? I mean things like vials and rope ladders and fishing nets and so on? Are the hides particularly worthwhile or should i just unload the lot?
You can deconstruct them if you need the crafting mats…but seriously, just sell them.
You may want to shop around a bit for the items that seem valuable though - there’s a bit of difference between selling 10 gold rings for 4 crowns vs. 14 each.
I just got this on PS4 a couple days ago. Game seems good but the text is SO small I can’t even read alot of it on my 42" TV from ~6ft away. It’s really hampering my ability to enjoy the game because it is so text heavy. The inventory is so cramped with crap, as are the merchants, that the only way for me to know what I’m looking at buying is to read the description but the text is so small that it takes a while to read each entry because I’ve got to focus so much. Same goes for the button labels in the lower right corner. I can’t remember what each button does and need to look at that alot but the words are so small I can’t read them without intense focus.
I heard there is a patch in the works that will let us boost the font size. I hope it comes very soon because I can’t play the game in its current state. (I have excellent vision BTW and don’t wear or need glasses).
I don’t know if its been brought up in this thread but there is a zoom function in the PS4 that I’ve been using to help mitigate this - you need to activate it in the PS4 accessibility menus, but then you can hit the PS button and the square button to zoom in.
It’s immediate. The problem is that you can’t do anything while zoomed in - so its not terribly useful in combat to read the name of a creature. And if you’re in the inventory, you can’t back out of a description while zoomed in - you need to hit circle to back out of the zoom, do what ever you want, and then zoom back in. It is however very responsive.
When you have this enabled, hitting the PS button alone brings up the dashboard, but doing it in combo with square zooms in.
Man, I feel sorry for anybody in this world without Witcher senses. You can’t accomplish nothin’ without it.
If anybody is just starting, I would recommend that since the card game turns out not to be as complex as I assumed, you should get started on it right away because opportunities to collect unique cards get lost during the plot.
Further info now that I’m in what I believe is the “final lap” so to speak,
[spoiler]Killing Kiera in the swamp makes her unavailable to help Geralt & co. at a (much) later point in the game. It’s not a big deal per se, as you’ll have half a dozen other helpers available and most of them aren’t conditional, but it does lock you out of one achievement.
Presumably some dialogue as well, and/or some catfighting with your chosen “steady” paramour. I dunno for sure what she says/does at that point in the game, 'cuz in my world she’s been Rotfiend food.[/spoiler]
I might be the last one to know this but, on the PC version at least, there’s multiple free DLC (that I knew) but you have to “buy” them individually via Steam or GOG (that I didn’t). When they announced that they’d be free, I just assumed they’d be added via patches but you actually have to go to the appropriate store for your version and “buy” the free DLCs as they’re released. There’s currently three or four of them out: a new hair/beard style, new outfit for Yennefer, an armor set and maybe something else.
I’ve no idea how it’s handled on console versions.
It works decent for now. At least I can read the story segments and the potion ingredients. Hopefully they patch the text soon though. I’m liking the story and want to play it for longer than 30min at a time.
I like to watch Angry Joe reviews, though possibly because of a bias in which ones I choose to watch, he actually seems not angry so much as loud and happy. I suppose he probably likes about the same kinds of games I like.
All the sidequests dotting the landscape, and most are either pretty involved, drive the narrative, have an impact on the the main quest, are multi-faceted… It’s just sooo good. Never been so into the witcher world and it’s characters.
Also, the game sold 4 Million copies!!!
We don’t know the breakdown for consoles (but my guess is PS4 outsells the Xbone version 2:1) but the PC is responsible for 1.3 million of those sales or ~33%! It’s likely that PC is the lead platform in terms of profit for CDPR right now (since half of those sales where made through on GOG, and the majority are digital).
Good on CDPR. I figure with the holidays, consoles will reap in a few more million and PC will double it’s total by year’s end - which will mean CDPR should have a nice tidy sum to work with for SteamPunk!