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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    a new play through with a different style build?

    different choices.  less nice, more sarcasm lol

    i dont see Eskal, outside of Kaer Morhan.  Vernon Roche is in Velen somewhere.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i don't want the Baron to die.  is there a way to save the Baron and orphans?  choices seem limited.  or the only winning move is not to play that sidequest.

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311

    Nope, just one of the - many - cases were there is no real good choice.... saving the baron or the tree spirit (and by extension the orphans, but also releasing a devastating plague..... according to the journal...)

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    jardine said:

    fixing to start a new game from scratch, i think...

    currently most of the way through 'blood and wine' after starting the storyline with new game +, but geralt stops leveling up after he hits 100, and that takes a lot of the fun out of the play...

    j

    Never did start a game+, personally don't see the fun of that option.

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    Mistara said:

    i think the best armor mebbe only available if yoo on death march?

    Not that I noticed, only level limitations - master quality witcher gear is lvl 34.....

    Guess I'm 'lucky' with the PC version. 'Steam' already provides a screenshot capture function, and the NVIDIA GeForce Experience tool (that works with my GTX680) provides the video capture function....

    Got no clue what device will be best for youi,,,

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,588

    There is a way to get the Mother Spirit to save the orphans, and the Crones not to curse Anna, but that still lets Mother destroy the village in revenge for them keeping her prisoner.

    I raided the Emperors library after the first meeting with the Emperor, one of the books there is the myth of the Mother and her three daughters. It doesn't tell you much about the Mother apart from the fact that she had gone insane. But when you realise that the Spirit and the Crones is the same story, it seemed clear from the book that the Crones were going to be evil. That made the decision to free the Spirit a bit more obvious. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    prixat said:

    There is a way to get the Mother Spirit to save the orphans, and the Crones not to curse Anna, but that still lets Mother destroy the village in revenge for them keeping her prisoner.

    I raided the Emperors library after the first meeting with the Emperor, one of the books there is the myth of the Mother and her three daughters. It doesn't tell you much about the Mother apart from the fact that she had gone insane. But when you realise that the Spirit and the Crones is the same story, it seemed clear from the book that the Crones were going to be evil. That made the decision to free the Spirit a bit more obvious. 

     

    went back to the Vizima location, witcher senses detected a glowing brick, in courtyard plants section, opened a secret passage to  a book and a sword.  sword might a been handy 7 lvls ago.

    does reading the mother book open more dialog options?

    read a tip the sourthen most part of the map, under the bog has critters with red mutagens.  1 lesser red gave xtra attack power, can't imagine what boost a greater red gives.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,220

    Misty can your TV take screenshots? mine can, many do, you need an inbuilt PVR though in my case I just plug in a usb harddrive.

  • SotoSoto Posts: 1,440
    edited May 2017

    I bought Witcher I and II on a mega discount at Steam. So much good reviews and hype... But I was playing 1 and don`t understand why. What should I expect later to keep me interested? I know they are great games, but I`m still missing that something. :/

    I even like RPGs, the old Diablo and Warcraft games, It`s not like I don`t like the genre.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,220

    How to Record the Last 30 Seconds of Gameplay

    Your Xbox One is always recording your gameplay in the background, but it won’t actually save that gameplay video unless you tell it to. To save the last 30 seconds of gameplay, double-tap the Xbox button at the center of your controller to open the Snap menu (just as you would with a screenshot). Tap the X button on the controller to save the video.

    https://www.howtogeek.com/254580/how-to-take-screenshots-and-record-videos-on-an-xbox-one/

    more here

    you can upload to one drive to access it on your PC

     

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Hellboy said:

    I bought Witcher I and II on a mega discount at Steam. So much good reviews and hype... But I was playing 1 and don`t understand why. What should I expect later to keep me interested? I know they are great games, but I`m still missing that something. :/

    I even like RPGs, the old Diablo and Warcraft games, It`s not like I don`t like the genre.


    i become emotionally vested in the characters, especially Geralt.  

    and it needs a strategy for character growth.  makes the fights easier.

    at lvl 4 i was strolling around novingrad without a care in the world.  
    lvl 13, the ebil is coming after me.

    and i like the sound it makes when looting treasure chests.
    and gwent - card game in the game.
     

    plus breath taking game graphics. the kind that inspires renders and content creation.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    th3Digit said:

    How to Record the Last 30 Seconds of Gameplay

    Your Xbox One is always recording your gameplay in the background, but it won’t actually save that gameplay video unless you tell it to. To save the last 30 seconds of gameplay, double-tap the Xbox button at the center of your controller to open the Snap menu (just as you would with a screenshot). Tap the X button on the controller to save the video.

    https://www.howtogeek.com/254580/how-to-take-screenshots-and-record-videos-on-an-xbox-one/

    more here

    you can upload to one drive to access it on your PC

     

    TYsmiley

    i haven't seen a decent usb hdmi capture under 75us  and then there the threat of lag.

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    Hellboy said:

    I bought Witcher I and II on a mega discount at Steam. So much good reviews and hype... But I was playing 1 and don`t understand why. What should I expect later to keep me interested? I know they are great games, but I`m still missing that something. :/

    I even like RPGs, the old Diablo and Warcraft games, It`s not like I don`t like the genre.

    Got all 3 witcher games for PC....

    Only played a short while in the 1st;  the playercontrol options are not too my liking, difficult, for me, to control....

    Witcher 2 has a far better controls, very playable. Good story line and graphics.

    Witcher 3, including all DLC's has an enormous main story line and quite a few secundary story lines, excellent graphics, similar controls as in W2, but, for me, even a little better to control. And loads of decision moments that may have an impact later in the game (some very small, others major). For me personally, a game with a lot of immersion, truly a RPG.  Just the mechanics for some gameplay features (alchemy, witcher mutations) have been simplified. Personally I would prefer the W2 mechanics...

    An interesting option is the possibility to load data from a savegame from W1 into W2, or W2 into W3, that changes some settings for the main storyline. In W3, you can also 'emulate' a W2 save to get the settings to you liking (or if you don't have the earlier game(s).

    (Mind you, no game is perfect, there's always room for improvement.)

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    1 of my favorite things, clearing an abandoned of monsters or bandits, the people come back to the village.  Geralt looks on as the people come back.  and rescuing persons in distress.  kinda like a superhero game.smiley

    doing jenny contract next, 

    would be nice to have 2 more red mutagens before starting the bandit coastline.
    cannabalism about. eek

     

     

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  • TraceSLTraceSL Posts: 528
    edited May 2017

    The Witcher is being made into a TV show by Netflix

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/the-witcher-is-being-made-into-a-tv-show-by-netflix/ar-BBBeApW?OCID=ansmsnnews11

    Netflix is developing and producing a TV show based on The Witcher. The franchise started life as a series of fantasy novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, before being turned into a number of critically acclaimed video games. Now it’s coming to the small screen, although there are no details on when the show might arrive.

    In a press release Sapkowski said he would be serving as a creative consultant on the upcoming series. “I’m thrilled that Netflix will be doing an adaptation of my stories, staying true to the source material and the themes that I have spent over thirty years writing,” said Sapkowski. “I’m excited about our efforts together, as well as the team assembled to shepherd these

    The show’s executive producers will be Sean Daniel and Jason Brown (Daniel has worked on The Mummy and The Expanse; Brown on just the latter) and key members from Polish visual effects studio Platige Image will also be involved. Platige Image created the CGI intros for Witcher, although the press release doesn’t state whether or not the Netflix show will itself be CG.

    Platige Image’s Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko said in a press release: “There is a moral and intellectual depth in these books which goes beyond genre. It is a story about today and today’s challenges, hidden under a fantasy cover. It is a story about us, about the monster and hero inside of all our hearts.”

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  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311

    Interesting......

    There has already been a TV - serie (and movie) ......

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCqqhiBn-OnYtvyKrX6u_hKipjFtxE-B4

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    pam pam parram smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ended up doing the botchling quest
    didna want to do it,
    went to Crow's Perch for the Velen fistfight quest, the barn was on fire
    took 3 tries to do the barn part, wanted to save the horses, kept running out of breat in the smoke
    turned out standing near the barndoors let geralt take a fresh breath,
    after 2nd try, figured out to unlock the horse stalls before actually opening the door
    coming out of the barn cut to scene with drunk baron.  >.<  cut immediately to the botchling convo.
    chose the Lubberkin option.

    wasn't really in the mood to follow the Lubberkin, it's hovering like a casper the ghost near the fasttrack sign.

    detoured to do the shreiker contract.  cockatrice is a draconid?

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    glaseye said:

    Interesting......

    There has already been a TV - serie (and movie) ......

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCqqhiBn-OnYtvyKrX6u_hKipjFtxE-B4

    I saw it. Y'all are lucky you didn't. It's one giant facepalm, although the ballads Jaskier (you call him Dandelion in English, right?) sings are very nice.

     

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    glaseye said:
    Only played a short while in the 1st;  the playercontrol options are not too my liking, difficult, for me, to control....

    Witcher 2 has a far better controls, very playable. Good story line and graphics.

    I keep seeing assessments like that and it makes me nervous. See, I'm a book fan. I only started playing the first Witcher game a couple of years ago at best (stop laughing now, I am a very slow gamer because I have to work and do other things). And it has _perfect_ controls IMO. I have the whole series, but if the controls in TWII and TWIII are _that_ different, man ain't I in for a tough fight, huh? What are they like? Like Oblivion?

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    Hellboy said:

    I bought Witcher I and II on a mega discount at Steam. So much good reviews and hype... But I was playing 1 and don`t understand why. What should I expect later to keep me interested? I know they are great games, but I`m still missing that something. :/

    I even like RPGs, the old Diablo and Warcraft games, It`s not like I don`t like the genre.

    Well, unfortunately Diablo is not an RPG the same way The Witcher series is. Diablo is a pure ActionRPG. TW is more "oldschool".

    Are you into classic CRPGs, like early TES (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind), Betrayal at Krondor, Ultima IV-VII, Planescape:Torment etc? These are story-driven games. TW is a series in this tradition.

    Although as I have already said, the first Witcher game has excellent combat. Have you've ever played the underappreciated Heretic II action title by Raven Software (1998, third-person)? IMO it feels very close, albeit TW is easier. You can also use the "tactical pause" in TW - and sometimes you plain _need_ it.

    Story-wise, I'd say it's still best to experience the game if you know the books. Most of the characters are old friends. You care for them (or dislike them) automatically. And it's also interesting to compare the book!Geralt and the game!Geralt personalities - they are quite different in certain aspects, let alone looks.

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311

    I keep seeing assessments like that and it makes me nervous.

    Nothing to be nervous about cheeky, I haven't read the books, as such I do like the games as they are.....

    As for controls, each their preference (and obviously I just gave my personal feel....). When I started with The Witcher games, my only "background" in fantasy/rpg was Skyrim. More used to simulator games in origin....(not the arcade type). As such, the contols for TW1 felt (and steel feels) wrong to me....

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    game geralt has a lot of boo-boos

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    Mistara said:

      cockatrice is a draconid?

     

    In the witcher 3, yep it is...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    glaseye said:
    Mistara said:

      cockatrice is a draconid?

     

    In the witcher 3, yep it is...

     

    ty smiley

    didn't survive trying to go to skellige.  they were too tough.  

    the black pearl quest says lvl 13.  thought i could make it there

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    glaseye said:

    I keep seeing assessments like that and it makes me nervous.

    Nothing to be nervous about cheeky, I haven't read the books, as such I do like the games as they are.....

    As for controls, each their preference (and obviously I just gave my personal feel....). When I started with The Witcher games, my only "background" in fantasy/rpg was Skyrim. More used to simulator games in origin....(not the arcade type). As such, the contols for TW1 felt (and steel feels) wrong to me....

    I only meant that if the controls in TW2 onwards are much different from the original Witcher game (and if there are no "oldschool combat" kinda mods), it may mean I won't be enjoying combat as much in later instalments. 

    Are there any alternative ways of grinding levels in TW2 onwards outside of fighting monsters?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    quests can't all be happy endings i guess.

    paniking in fights >.< dont have enough time to aim b&b's.
    some of them don't give me time to make the alt Yrden traps.

    cant remember if i read the tree spirit book and sold it.

    is it possible for everyone to survive the Kaer Morhen fight against the wild hunt?

    did an oopsie.
    saw turned cart just south of crow's perch with nekkers around it.
    used igni on the barrels, blew those nekkars away.  found ashes in the cart and next to it.
    turns out there was a guy there hauling plague corpses.  he was ko'd in the blast, turns out geralt was supposed to interact with the guy.

    there's this guy wandering around challenging geralt to duels to impress his maid.
    used axii on him.  got 35 xp points for picking the axii option.

    the botchling quest with the barn and everything, gave me 2 xp. 2?!

    500xp away from lvl14.  lvl15 unlocks the next slot.

     

  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    edited May 2017
    Mistara said:
    is it possible for everyone to survive the Kaer Morhen fight against the wild hunt?

    No, one dead is inevitable, others are possible, depending on the crew you've assembled..... (and, well, of course loads of Wild Hunt warriors will not survive.....)

    Post edited by glaseye on
  • glaseyeglaseye Posts: 1,311
    edited May 2017

    I only meant that if the controls in TW2 onwards are much different from the original Witcher game (and if there are no "oldschool combat" kinda mods), it may mean I won't be enjoying combat as much in later instalments. 

    Are there any alternative ways of grinding levels in TW2 onwards outside of fighting monsters?

    Ahh, I see, well, never looked for 'TW1' style combat mods, but I can't recall having seen them in my search for other mods.. In one of the updates for TW3, an alternative combat option was introduced, but I never tried, so I don't know what differs in there.....

    Also didn't really pay any attention to what events raised levels in TW2; just did (side-)quests and levels increased.....

    Post edited by glaseye on
  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    glaseye said:

    I only meant that if the controls in TW2 onwards are much different from the original Witcher game (and if there are no "oldschool combat" kinda mods), it may mean I won't be enjoying combat as much in later instalments. 

    Are there any alternative ways of grinding levels in TW2 onwards outside of fighting monsters?

    Ahh, I see, well, never looked for 'TW1' style combat mods, but I can't recall having seen them in my search for other mods.. In one of the updates for TW3, an alternative combat option was introduced, but I never tried, so I don't know what differs in there.....

    Also didn't really pay any attention to what events raised levels in TW2; just did (side-)quests and levels increased.....

    Alright, thanks for this info =)

    I guess if you're an active non-arcade sim player, your reflexes are probably still sharp so you don't need to be that strategic about real-time combat and think of levelling. I'm just not as fast anymore as I used to be in my teens, so in real-time games (even with tactical pause) I prefer to always build ahead of the difficulty curve. If it means grinding... then yes I'll do it, at least to an extent.

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