Reply With QuoteIf anyone is considering collector's edition of the game, here are the accurate pictures of the large figurine:
Focus is "Witcher sense" and replaces tuning of medallion in TW1/TW2
Potions are divided into 2 categories:
"normal" potions:
you will have to find ingredients, recipe and brew the potion
everyone of those created potions will refill when you rest
you can "load" potions and then release them during combat (they will have a short duration)
you can loose toxicity from consuming potions over time or by resting
Better Recipes/Upgrades for the same potion can be found throughout the world
"mutagenic" potions:
you will have to rest to drink AND activate them
they have a permanent effect and toxicity
you can cancel the effect while resting or replace/add other mutagens
CDPR says that should give players the option to "go hardcore" and mix mutagens/potions/toxicity to maximum effect while "casual" players can just use mutagens with an occasional swallow.
I hope that works out and that upgrades/mutagens are tied to quests/exploration/challenges.
If anyone is considering collector's edition of the game, here are the accurate pictures of the large figurine:
stop tormenting that griffon geralt what are you doing
Looks like the Mountain got to that bust before this guy received his Collectors Edition...
Wow. That looks kinda like my grandma.
Why did The Witcher 2 ship with mini-busts of George Washington?
well this thread has taken a turn down awesome lane!
So... finishing the game in 100 hours = speedrun.
BTW, the bust of Geralt that I received few years ago was (and still is) perfectly fine.
...and the cat potion from TW2 if he can highlight blood now, too. Still, it leaves a sour taste IMHO.Originally Posted by mothra
We'll have to see how this is implemented, although auto-refilling potions seems again like one of those hand-holding devices. The whole hunting part of the game looks like it could be fun, though.Potions are divided into 2 categories [...]
Yep, the auto-refill sounds bad, a dev on the CDPR forum said they are still tuning it and auto-refill is not set in stone.
But they do want to prevent players hording potions, they want them to use them constantly. We will see how it turns out.
There was no mention of a cat potion, its implementation in TW2 as a X-Ray Vision was not really lore-friendly (or used by anyone if he was sane), so either they got rid of it or change it imo.
At least in TW1 on the highest difficulty you had to use potions constantly.
You can finish TW2 w/o potions on Dark, that is true.....but efficient ? Not really.
You are much more prone to make a mistake if it takes forever to kill enemies instead of one hit. But I agree that on the highest difficulties it should not be possible to survive w/o a potion.
Although I have no solution how to prevent skilled players to circumvent damage with the current way combat works atm. Don't know about TW3 but they said a few times that all demos were played
on easy with additionally toned down monsters and they used a dev sword.
So I'm still playing through the first one (I've been going very slowly, so I've made it to Act IV in… maybe a year), but I just installed the second one, which I know is notoriously poorly optimized. I have a Macbook Pro and run boot camp, so i decided to install it on OSX and in boot camp and compare performance. I can basically run any game I've tried on ultra on the boot camp side (Infinite, the Arkham games, Nu Thief, Far Cry 3, etc.), but this game was laggy and had very long load times. The OSX version is just the same thing in a wineskin wrapper rather than a true port, so I expected it to run like crap. Get this… on the same graphical settings, the OSX wineskin version ran far better than the native windows version with the latest graphics drivers. Considerably faster load times, no frame rate slowdowns, same graphical quality. I really don't get it. O.o
Johnny quest:
A little FedEx-y but nice. Looking good.
The stiff animations grate a little after playing GTA V. All open-world game developers should legally forced to implement euphoria, heh.
35 minutes of gameplay. Finally.
The ending of this video contains a huge spoiler! But I guess we all know that.
Full resolution here:
http://www.gamersyde.com/leech_32805_1_en.html
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I see there's no one interested in this game anymore, but...
The Witcher 3 probably not 1080p on consoles
Quite the opposite! Well, I don't care about the consoles but the gameplay video looked pretty, thanks for posting it here.
It is the game I am looking forward to the most in many years.I see there's no one interested in this game anymore, but...
Probably my most-anticipated game since Skyrim.
I couldn't care less what happens with consoles. The fact that The Witcher 3 uses so many resources that a new console doesn't have the power to play it on ultra is a big plus for me. More eyecandy is always better. I have a gtx680 now. I might actually buy a gtx980 or something like that if the 20nm GPUs become available in time. And this game will be my main motivation for spending that money.
It was on my list right below NuThief and above any possible STALKER sequel. It seems that I should have been smarter and placed it in the first position. I hope I will not be disappointed this time.
Let's just hope that CDPR will not decide to remove some of that "eyecandy" from PC version in order to "provide the same experience on all platforms". I need to buy a new PC this year, but I am still waiting till CDPR announces system requirements for this game.I couldn't care less what happens with consoles.
For me it is more a case of trying to avoid hearing too much about it as I don't want to spoil the experience. I loved the first 2 games am looking forward to see where they take this final episode to.
Interview with the composer and sound designer of The Witcher 3 (enable subtitles!):
I liked that he admitted that the sweeshing sound of drawn swords is a Hollywood trope. A bit sad that they didn't completely get rid of it, though. But then again, the also fencing is still Hollywood-like ridiculous mostly, so I shouldn't hope for revelations in that aspect in the first place. I do admit that I've enjoyed all two soundtracks so far, I have them ready in my car.
Delayed again - May 19th, 2015 now.
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-witcher-3-delayed-again/
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