f7ad69 No.14644128
Hey /v/ I'm about to start playing pic related. What should I expect? I've played Morrowind and Deus Ex to completion so I can handle mildly janky combat. Any particular mechanic I should pay particular mind to?
Also Witcher thread I guess
14f0ac No.14644139
>>14644128
Don't just click madly, the combat requires timing.
817ad7 No.14644197
dc8888 No.14644212
Been a while since I played but I remember Igni (fire) sign being stupidly strong and the other ones save Aard (wind) being mostly worthless. The story starts off very slow but starts to pick up around chapter 2/3. Neutral path is best path, though the Order path lets you remove Elf if you're into that. Also I hope you like Swamps.
1df215 No.14644224
>>14644128
>I'm about to start playing pic related. What should I expect?
shit
15e11d No.14644246
Best Witcher game by far. Still unplayable garbage if you can't stomach shit gameplay for decent story.
29c0f2 No.14644322
Make sure you read all the books, they tell you how to defeat monsters. Make sure you read all the books, they allow you to acquire ingredients to make potions. Make sure you fuck shawni instead of that skank Triss. Don't waste time collecting any of the runes to forge new weapons, the game will just give you new weapons as you go. For that matter, don't waste your time on any of the inventory shit aside from healing items and potions.
Fuck the gay elves, but also fuck the church of the flaming rose.
56cf85 No.14644351
It's a pretty comfy game. Try and avoid using a guide for the detective quest - it's one of the more memorable parts of the game. And I hope you like swamps because you'll spend a fair bit of time in one.
Keep a wolf pet with you. In the swamp, you end up talking to a dryad in the druid camp. You can fuck her but you need to give her a wolf pelt. I didn't have any on me at the time and she wouldn't accept one when I returned, so I missed out on green pussy.
712b3e No.14644364
>>14644128
Combat is… well, hope you like clicking. Walking around in the rain and people running for cover doesn't get old though.
I think there are a few mods that help address the combat.
d43ef1 No.14644366
>>14644128
Really fucking weird controls.
The kind of controls only crazy polacks could come up with
82874b No.14644379
Get
>Rise of the white wolf
It's a mod that changes the combat to not be complete MMO style tap tap combat. Everything in front of you is turned into meat ribbons by Geralt's master swordsmanship but If you're attacked from the sides of behind you have an significantly increased chance of being hit. Changes everyone's stats to be balanced for the mod including your own.
82874b No.14644388
>>14644379
Webm related is what the game is like without mods. Also forgot to mention that dodging is useless as a dodge in the game and you should be using it to reposition yourself while fighting groups of enemies to avoid getting backstabbed.
509635 No.14644389
>>14644128
There's a mod that removes monster respawns. Install that shit ASAP or the swamp will sap any and all enjoyment you could possibly get out of the game.
82874b No.14644399
>>14644389
How would he grind for materials? Assuming he's into grinding for hordes of items
49e1a8 No.14644411
>>14644128
Why isn't there a merchant edit called "The Kvetcher"?
e4231f No.14644417
>>14644389
Once you get past the swamp the game improves drastically though and as long as you prepare appropriately, it's bearable.
82874b No.14644432
>>14644417
I honestly enjoyed that entire chaper. Especially since I figured out the mystery myself when I walked into the detectives house and noticed my medallion was vibrating
65dfef No.14644462
>>14644128
>What should I expect?
Don't make these cuckchan tier threads holy shit. Just play the fucking game and make your own judgements.
82874b No.14644491
>>14644462
>play Witcher one
>Throw up from aids gameplay
>stop playing Witcher
Wow that was a great experience. Luckily I made a thread like this asking if I could make it better and surprise a few anons helped and recommended a few mods that fixed it and now I'm supporting the Witcher series.
4bb1df No.14644791
>>14644128
best witcher game imho
the combat system is basically a rhythm game
6d8a79 No.14644848
just play the game you indecisive faggot
88f4d9 No.14645317
it's pretty shit. Boring and tedious combat, boring and tedious quests, boring supplies collecting, shit voice acting, and incredibly bad performance because CDPR gave no mind to the engines limitations. Chapter 3 is especially bad for this. Also drowners.
12553f No.14645326
a8183a No.14645347
Besides Full Combat Rebalance and White Wolf what other mods are recommended? Also, what difficulty should I pick for FCO? Last time I played using the mod I remember it being pretty difficult.
252373 No.14645351
Very good game, but very rough. Bad voice acting all around for the most part, bad combat, bad animations etc. but it still somehow overcomes all of its problems and is a great game. Best leveling of the three games I think.
There isn't really any advice I could give, the tutorial spells it all out for you on how to play, its an RPG where you're expected to live with your choices, you can't go too wrong with the leveling I definitely don't want to spoil anything either. I guess the only real advice is if you're not finding it great in the first and/or second chapter, wait until the third as that's when the game picks up big time. Chapter 4 is the best and supremely comfy. When I first played it wasn't until chapter 3 I fell in love with the game, but on repeat playthroughs I love it all.
e507b8 No.14645356
I thought it was a fun game. I liked the combat because it was different from other games combat, makes you involved as you try and find the rythm.
12553f No.14645389
>>14645356
>i like wiping my ass with my hands instead of toilet paper because it's different!
lol
2c50e9 No.14645648
>>14645347
don't do your first playthough with fcr
just play vanilla with a texture mod.
88f4d9 No.14645685
>>14645356
you just click after the animation is over. Or if you play on easier difficulties, click when the icon changes. There's no rhythm, and it's pretty much garbage.
9660cb No.14647797
Skip it and move on to 2 and 3.
8f9156 No.14647806
3b807b No.14647970
Combat is kind of shit, there's a lot of walking around that's really shit, inventory system is shit, the boss of the first act is much harder than pretty much the rest of the game, the second act is the worst act in the entire game, bombs are mostly shit, aard and igni are the only useful signs (aard is more useful in the first half of the game) and the rest are all shit, those giant plant monsters are weak to fire and the best way to kill them early in the game is with a torch, swallow is the most useful potion followed by tawny owl, don't bother hoarding the runes/ores throughout the entire game because you can only upgrade your starter steel/silver swords, and you can eventually get stronger unique steel/silver swords anyways, if you get drunk you walk faster while moving sideways, make sure you have at least one willow potion in your inventory sometime in act V, get the intelligence skills that lets you do things like pick herbs and shit first so you can collect shit for your potions and oils, oils are really good in this game if you have one for your enemy type, fistfighting is shit, dice poker is shit, most of your money in this game will probably be spent on buying books so you can pick plants and get organs from creatures, if you're going to do this it's better to buy the books earlier rather than later.
143a04 No.14648133
>>14645648
>a texture mod
It's really not that bad if you don't use the third person camera, which didn't really fit the gameplay anyway.
f40e0c No.14648177
Combat is pretty weird, but the game is otherwise good. The moral choices are not obviously black and white and the game doesn't hold your hand.
Hope you like slaying drowners.
d4af79 No.14649051
>>14644212
I'm not anti-elf like most of /v/, but the elves in the Witcher universe are total shitheads and I had no problem slicing them to ribbons. Fuck the Scoia'tel.
f51789 No.14651161
Expect a control scheme that makes you quit.
252373 No.14651191
>>14649051
>Humans arrive from out of nowhere
>Breed like rabbits and take over Elven cities
>They demolish Elven statues, desecrate Elven land, build over ancient cities, erase history
>Elves meanwhile are too few in number and don't breed that much
>Their land is taken, their culture destroyed and forgotten
>Shunned and exiled from their own homelands
>Told to get with the times when they understandably moan about their fate
>Elves for the most part are second class citizens in the towns and cities they built
>Some take to banditry and terrorism in the vain hope of reclaiming their lost lands and customs, but its too late and they are dying
The Scoia'tel are shit but they can't do anything else.
6ba9ce No.14651267
>>14651191
You forgot the part where the elves cucked themselves, prefering the vigerous and lustful humans over their own, and how even their ovulation cycle change from every 10 - 20 years to ovulating with every human/elven fuck.
8247d4 No.14651292
I'll warn you about gameplay mechanics but everything about the story should be unknown if you're new. The novels are good and the games are sequels, so if you're into reading or audio books you might want to put the game on hold. The game explains enough that you'll understand the plot and world without the books, but you'll appreciate everything a but more if you've read them.
The combat is just bad. Every so often there's a hipster who defends it, but the combat is based around choosing the CORRECT stance, and not the one that you prefer, and pressing m1 when the cursor lights up. You can cast spells which are surprisingly effective without being over powered unless you make a ridiculous build and finally you can drink potions before a battle which are limited by a "toxicity" meter which when full starts to hurt you.
Only look at a guide when you absolutely must. The fun come fron assessing information by yourself, making a decision then living with it.
Lastly you can fuck everything with little to no repercussion.
a455dd No.14651758
The Witcher was never good
577e45 No.14651789
>>14644128
Its an amazing example of Eurojank play it ASAP.
a53822 No.14652372
>>14651191
Sounds like Europe
8f9156 No.14652505
>>14644364
>>14644388
I wanted to play Witcher 1 too but keep hearing its shit. Can some mod autist please list all the mods required to make it playable?
a2a66a No.14652544
>>14644197
t. underage
it's just basic cRPG combat with annoying rhythm game added. meanwhile the sequels are godawful clunky action games with all gameplay elements dumbed down for console crowd.
28efbd No.14652617
>>14652505
The big combat mods mostly make it worse, or at best, just as bland as before. Modders of witcher games are, just like modders in general, egotistical yet unimportant people that push their amateur slapdash tweaks as miracle overhauls.
c9e719 No.14652635
>>14652544
It's sad that you can admit the combat is shit in the same post you chastise another for saying it's shit.
28efbd No.14652658
>>14652635
That's crpg fans for you. If they even wanted good action combat, their games would have it by now. In a world with nier automata and nioh exist, they still prefer ELEX.
252373 No.14652717
>>14652372
That's what I was going for.
16116f No.14652872
>>14644389
>needing a mod to crutch for something that you can buy ingame
Jesus christ what have this board become.
15f411 No.14652918
>>14652658
Overreliance on story elements was the worst thing that happened to gaming. Before that it was just pure gameplay. There never were any good RPGs. This whole genre is shit.
6b4756 No.14652936
>>14652918
A good story is essential if your game is longer than, let's say 12 hours. It's good to have good gameplay but sooner or later it gets old and people need something to keep them going.
9b6a4d No.14658279
>>14652505
It's shit.
>Can some mod autist please list all the mods required to make it playable?
Witcher 3
7b6d7c No.14658488
>The Witcher 1
Great worldbuilding, writing, and characters. Visuals are a bit dated and combat is a bit wonky and takes getting used-to but I actually really liked it once I got over the learning curve, it's a neat system that rewards discipline, timing, and preparation. Overall a great game, probably my favorite of the series.
>The Witcher 2
Phenomenal visuals that still hold-up great, writing and characters are still really good overall, and I like how the story progresses in a nonlinear fashion depending on various factors. However, the combat, while good and an improvement over the first, is very tough (imagine Dark Souls without the ability to strafe around enemies), don't play on the highest difficulty unless you're a fucking masochist, and use a controller because the mouse and keyboard controls are kinda shit. Also has less fantasy elements which some people dislike. Solid game with just a few flaws but they don't cripple the experience.
>The Witcher 3
A fun open-world romp with good variety and the writing and characters are still consistently-good. Combat is just BamHam Asylum with a few RPG gimmicks thrown-in, not bad but kind of a downgrade from the other games imo, not as many tactical options. This is still a really fun game and a good end to the trilogy.
88f4d9 No.14658524
>>14658488
the combat in TW1 isni't wonky it's just bad. It's boring and easy. And the combat in TW2 is like the devs played demon's souls but the designers built an rpg system, not an action rpg one. Plus quen was 100% broken at launch and made the game trivial. the game's like that limp bizkit song otherwise.
9a85c8 No.14658897
>>14644212
I use pretty much only the Quen sign shield as on the hardest difficulty it saves you from being cheaply one shotted from any random.
It's weird how on the hardest difficulty as well that a lot of the boss battles are far easier than random encounters with a group of monsters as they gang bang you into oblivion each having the ability to basically 2 hit kill you.
0c64ea No.14660995
Dont forget the play the extra missions from the menu, one of them shows how Eskel got his face scar.
2acf52 No.14661003
Play in hard. Having to actually prepare of encounters will make the combat just a bit funner.
005e87 No.14661609
Played all 3 games, are there any plans for more?
Just finished TW3 after putting it on hold forever. Felt a bit shitty that Ciri and Geralt didn't stay together as a witcher duo and the remaining Wolf witchers split up. Hoped for a more cheerful ending. Really wanted Kaer Morhen to become more lively ever since TW1.
0c64ea No.14661657
>>14661609
>Played all 3 games, are there any plans for more?
No, cyber punk got delayed even longer as well. If they even did make another one it wouldn't come out for at least 10 years.
>Ciri and Geralt didn't stay together as a witcher duo
They do in one of the endings
005e87 No.14661674
>>14661657
Whaddya have to do for that ending? Just respond positively to all the dumb shit she wants to do?
377863 No.14661706
>>14644128
it's been long since i played but if I remember correctly, a fully upgraded yrden has a chance to 1 shot enemies, just pop quen first and then run around a yrden sign until all the enemies around run into it and die.
a86cf1 No.14661734
>>14661609
I didn't finish it yet
f8cb42 No.14661756
Make sure you save Berengar.
a86cf1 No.14661762
f4acdd No.14661774
>>14661609
By the end of W3 I had a ton of gold on me. I wished that in the end I could use it to renovate Kaer Morhen and reopen the "witcher" school, but without actually making new witchers, I'd just train normal humans to be really good fighters. And ofc Ciri and other companions would stay there with Geralt and help him run it.
e7ae32 No.14661778
okay anonymous, dont razz me too hard here
I really love the witcher, but I got stuck on the swamp boss, the mage faggot.
What the fuck do i do /v/? I got stuck at the shitty gay mage HELP
4d93e8 No.14661793
>>14644322
I enjoyed Witcher books
005e87 No.14661864
>>14661734
Whaddya mean? I finished the main campaign, am about to do the DLCs. Figured they aren't related to the main ending since they were a few levels higher than the final quest.
Also
>Shaving Geralt
da8601 No.14661922
>>14661674
Not all, just some of them and you don't let her see her dad during one mission.
252373 No.14662111
>>14661674
Its not you and Ciri being Witchers happily ever after, its her going it alone. Respond positively for most of the big moments and deny to go see Emhyr.
It felt good to get the "good ending" for my canon Geralt on my first playthrough.
005e87 No.14662142
>>14662111
Emhyr's fuggin dead, though.
ca1743 No.14662193
>>14661609
>Split up
>Hoped for a more cheerful ending
But Anon you see…
>Geralt Retires
>Ciri leaves so she can make a cameo in Cyberpunk
>Vesemir
>Lambert either makes off on his own, makes off with Keira or
>Eskel leaves for a far off land to find a new home for the Wolves, thus making him and the new location the focus for The Witcher 4
2e1fcf No.14662197
>>14652505
I found it was the opposite. After experiencing the combat and neutering of potion effects in the later games, I longed for the mechanics of the first game. It is entirely worth playing vanilla.
The third game in particular made potions and herbalism super gay - most things are just a boring stat boost or pointless to consume, and you have essentially an infinite amount of them. Blizzard in the first granted you super slow-mo and let you really rip into enemies at the cost of toxicity, but they turned that into a tiny bit of slow-mo after killing an enemy. Swallow, the lifeblood of the first game? Inferior to food with the gourmet perk. And don't get me started on potion consumption in the second game.
I usually only touched the superior versions of Petri's Philter (absolutely breaks group fights with Igni or that Aard mutation in Blood and Wine) and Tawny Owl (since it could last through the night), outside of situational ones like Black Blood or Killer Whale. Only maybe 4 or 5 of the decoctions are worth a shit and I almost never used them until the endgame when you could stack 2 or 3 (with the help of that one alchemy skill and a head full of recipes) and still have enough room for a White Raffard's Decoction just in case.
>>14652872
It's not the drowners that bothered me. You could easily ignore them. It's the fucking archespores that wreck your ass even when you just want to run past them to finish a sidequest. You have to waste a Golden Oriole or at least stop to put up several Quen shields while running through. Considering how much you have to travel, it's an incredible pain to deal with.
9e418e No.14662209
>>14644246
>Best game
>for story.
Maybe books are more your thing.
67e344 No.14662434
>>14661003
Exactly this anon!
I managed to complete Witcher 2 on insanity difficulty after grinding for the special gear you can only unlock through that difficulty, and you have to prepare or you get fucked.
On my fourth playthrough of Witcher 3 now but playing on the hardest difficulty and preparing oils, potions and bombs is a must, but it's not a chore like you'd think it's actually fun, and once you unlock and make the potion or bomb, it automatically refills when you mediate so it's really not a chore at all.
Also choosing the right signs for the situation helps a lot, I'm finding I'm using Axii a hell of a lot more than I ever did on the easier difficulties, along with the trap sign as it slows down mobs of enemies.
>>14661609
There are at least 3 different endings anon, perhaps you get the worst one?
67e344 No.14662514
>>14662494
Lol wtf, I've never had this happen yet.
Lmao it's so stupid but keeps the game interesting things like this happen.
252373 No.14662557
>>14662193
>implying the next Witcher shouldn't be about the first Witchers trying whatever they can to fight monsters
That way, you can have pure magic Witchers, sword and board Witchers, stealthy Witchers using traps and bows. Go all out with the classes.
197fe7 No.14662631
>>14662557
Personally I think the next witcher game should be heavy on timeskips.
Allowing you to follow the decline and ultimate death of a witcher school.
Every winter you go back to the castle to see less of your comrades showing up. Are they dead? Did they decide "fuck those guys"?
Every year the whacky fun winter hijinks get a little less numerous.
Eventually it's just you and one other guy. You have a bit of fun though its a touch sad as you try to recapture that feeling of you partying with a bunch of witchers you've had time to build relationships with. You promise to see each other again next year.
Then another winter comes and he doesn't show up. You wait and you wait but spring comes and he never showedup.
And that would be where it ends. With you all alone in the castle.
All your friends and peers dead, the people you met over the years who appreciated your work either dead or old and replaced by people who hate your guts for being a mutant.
A story of constant loss and hiraeth
c73f72 No.14662632
>>14661609
really hate the devs for completely forgetting about Siegfried, Vincent and that talking Ghoul Vetala in the 3rd game
67e344 No.14662636
>>14662632
I wouldn't worry too much as they kind of dropped by the wayside the events of the second game as well bar one or two mentions here or there.
Becoming buddies with Letho and giving him refuge at Kaer Morhan is a nice touch, helping you against the siege
c73f72 No.14662665
>>14662636
Siegfried was in the 2nd game though in the Last Chapter, but damnit I would like to see him again in the 3rd Game and help me with the siege of Kaer Mohren
cdd5b9 No.14662672
>>14662632
The worse part is that retarded bug where TW2 considers Siegfred dead even if you saved him.
252373 No.14662746
>>14662665
I've talked about this before in relation to Iorveth. It sucks they got lazy and didn't import those choices over but at the same time it makes the world feel more real instead of "everyone you met in the previous two games just happen to be in the Novigrad/No Man's Land area during a war".
5a78f8 No.14662750
>>14662665
I kept waiting for him to show in TW3. He was probably the deciding reason that I sided with the knights in TW1 instead of remaining neutral.
005e87 No.14663641
>>14662750
Was there an option to go neutral in TW2? I seem to remember being forced to choose between the terrorist Iorveth and Roche. And in TW3, the whole neutrality thing is out the window.
5a78f8 No.14663661
>>14663641
In TW1 you can remain neutral and do only small acts of kindness to a few Scoiatail and only go against them during the bank robbery. I hindsight I wish that I had done this.
In TW2 youhave the obvious choice of sticking with Roche or you can choose to side with the knife ear fanatic because "muh oppression." There is no neutral option. I've read a few of the books in which Geralt discussed the idea of witcher neutrality and it's surprisingly convincing. Sadly in the latter two games neutrality isn't an option.
252373 No.14665228
>>14663641
>>14663661
Witcher neutrality is a meme, a BS excuse they can bring up whenever they feel the heat. You can act vaguely neutral in W2. Freeing Iorveth's Scoia'tel or helping Roche go after the Flotsam leader. Iorveth is the more neutral option, you're busting people out of prison and then leaving right away to chase Letho. With helping Roche you're getting involved much more directly with the politics at play. Then in Chapter 3 you can stop helping Roche or Iorveth to go after Triss.
Really the point of Witcher 2 is to force Geralt into a no-win situation.