The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Mem]

You do know they are on the same map? You can visit novigrad anytime you're in Valen, in fact the main quest recommends level 10.

Yep I'm close to going there but having fun exploring,so much not listed on the main map like hidden caves,loot etc,only way to find those is exploring.

Found a few elite bosses with no levels just names.

 

[Aristotelian]

So, I just finished a "Lamp" quest (deliberately being vague), and I came across Assassin gloves in a hidden area I had to open. They were a huge upgrade, with +10% crit chance and loads of stats. I watched a video on youtube showing that the legs drop somewhere nearby as well. My question is: are the loot drop locations for assassin gear completely random? If not, I should go back and get the legs. If not, perhaps I should skip some of them as well to ensure that I could (at a very high level) loot them if the loot is adjusted to the level I am when I loot an object.

I'm playing on the second hardest difficulty and this is interesting - I take on monsters much higher than I am and Geralt mumbles "mistake" as I approach them, but nothing after I kill them. I'm still finding levelling really slow, and aquiring upgrades much more slowly - I wish I could find a red mutagen in order to provide a nice boost to the fast attack upgrades I've taken so far (I'm level 7 but found a lot of the places of power) - anyone know where I could find a red mutagen in either Vellen or the starting area? Some monsters I kill drop blue and green parts, but I haven't found a red one.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Pfft light armour, mastercrafted armour at only 190 armour overall? I found a diagram for something at level 24 or 25 that gives 150 straight away light or medium, a relic I think but nothing fancy. I'll be focussing on heavy armour. Never been that interested in light armour. I want something to whack Geralt and then bounce off. :awe:

It doesn't work like that. All the masterwork armor has the same defense rating. The stats are different. You aren't supposed to get hit and you build a character around the stats you want to focus on.

Since loot always scales with level you may find something with a higher armor rating at higher level but you will never get the same stat bonuses.

 

[cmdrdredd]

So, I just finished a "Lamp" quest (deliberately being vague), and I came across Assassin gloves in a hidden area I had to open. They were a huge upgrade, with +10% crit chance and loads of stats. I watched a video on youtube showing that the legs drop somewhere nearby as well. My question is: are the loot drop locations for assassin gear completely random? If not, I should go back and get the legs. If not, perhaps I should skip some of them as well to ensure that I could (at a very high level) loot them if the loot is adjusted to the level I am when I loot an object.

I'm playing on the second hardest difficulty and this is interesting - I take on monsters much higher than I am and Geralt mumbles "mistake" as I approach them, but nothing after I kill them. I'm still finding levelling really slow, and aquiring upgrades much more slowly - I wish I could find a red mutagen in order to provide a nice boost to the fast attack upgrades I've taken so far (I'm level 7 but found a lot of the places of power) - anyone know where I could find a red mutagen in either Vellen or the starting area? Some monsters I kill drop blue and green parts, but I haven't found a red one.

Only some gear has specific locations. Much of it seems totally random to me. Monsters drop mutagens sometimes I dunno what drops red off hand. There are crafting recipes for them.

 

[Demo24]

I set it all to ultra except shadows off, motion blur and blur off, vsync on, unlimited frames, sharpness to high and hbao to highest it can go. Looks pretty similar as before and I don't notice a big difference.

Also thanks to the tips here I beat that keira quest and defeated the wild hunt too. I'm a couple points away from level 7 now. I need to earn more coins to upgrade my saddle and probably going to do exploring now so I can find stuff to craft some better weapons but I doubt I'll come across anything useful. I'm always short of a few items I need to craft a better sword or armor.

What kind of frames you getting? I did the samething, and it's dropped me noticeably in the past 2 patches. I guess the visuals were mildly improved enough to hurt my performance.

Also beat that quest last night, thought it was pretty fun!

Really need to find someone to craft me a sword though.

 

[BFG10K]

Your eyes max out at around 27 fps.

https://frames-per-second.appspot.com/

If you can't see a difference between the 30FPS and 60FPS in that link, I'd suggest consulting an eye specialist immediately as you're likely in the stages of being declared legally blind.

 

[Face2Face]

Has anyone tried out any graphical mods yet? Looks like Nexusmods has a couple to choose from.

This one in particular caught my eye. This is the E3FX mod. It's gets rid of the oversaturated colors and tried to make the game a bit colder and darker. Kind of like the D3 Dark mod for Diablo 3.

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/23/?

 

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[Face2Face]

https://frames-per-second.appspot.com/

If you can't see a difference between the 30FPS and 60FPS in that link, I'd suggest consulting an eye specialist immediately as you're likely in the stages of being declared legally blind.

Pretty sure it's satire.


On another note. Is this how the items work?

No background - Common item - common
Blue background - Master item - uncommon
Brown background - Magic item - Rare
Green background - Witcher Item - Very rare (most of these will need to be crafted)

This game feels a bit like Diablo when it comes to the inventory screen and items. Me likey...

 

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[Fire&Blood]

Has anyone tried out any graphical mods yet? Looks like Nexusmods has a couple to choose from.

Using CineFX for about a week now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld-vQhyixKo

Mods with more impact need a lot longer than a week to emerge. Once official tools are out, I expect mods to go after the 2013-2014 image quality though I am happy with the visuals already. Someone ought to round that gate's corner from the 35 min gameplay video.

~70 hours in, I am fanatically avoiding main story progress but I overleveled in the process, I'll have to bump up the difficulty again. To put things in perspective, I finally left WO after 30-35 hours.

I'm not sure if it's the patches or if it was like this from the start but xp is gained outside main and side quests. I read in here that we can't grind to level up but it's not true. Granted, the XP rewards are minimal (2 points for killing one wolf) but the game does reward xp.


Amazing side quest plots and resolutions, did not expect these to stay up to par this far into the game. If another RPG is to top this one, I'm really curious to see it.

 

[Face2Face]

To be frank, I think you're all pissing in the wind with those desaturation mods. See below, these are all vanilla screens from the game. Some are light and vibrant, some are dark, desaturated and ominous. Like I said in a former post, in a game with dynamic weather and day/night cycles, the mood is going to fluctuate. It's unavoidable. If you try to 'fix' some scenes by applying indiscriminate desaturation filters, then you'll end up overcompensating in others and have a virtually monochrome game every time it naturally moves in that direction. How do you know that the 2013 footage didn't look that way just because the game happened to be using those weather/lighting conditions at the time of capture?

Some good points, but I may still give it a whirl to see how it reacts with everything. I really won't know until I try. Worst case, I can uninstall it.

 

[Merad]

~70 hours in, I am fanatically avoiding main story progress but I overleveled in the process, I'll have to bump up the difficulty again. To put things in perspective, I finally left WO after 30-35 hours.

How on earth did you squeeze 30+ hours out of White Orchard? I did essentially everything in the zone and it took me around 8.

 

[Mem]

How on earth did you squeeze 30+ hours out of White Orchard? I did essentially everything in the zone and it took me around 8.

Some people like to explore everything over and over,took me about 10 to 12 hours to finish WO.


By the time you arrive at Velen you are level 4 or 5 already,I'm still exploring Velen at level 16 and that is with 42.5 hours of playing time.

Some people like to rush through to the main story,others like to explore like I do.

End of the day we all have different priorities with RPGs.

 

[sze5003]

What kind of frames you getting? I did the samething, and it's dropped me noticeably in the past 2 patches. I guess the visuals were mildly improved enough to hurt my performance.

Also beat that quest last night, thought it was pretty fun!

Really need to find someone to craft me a sword though.

I haven't checked frames. I put these settings on while I was in the cave and after I beat the bosses I sailed to a small town to save. Didn't notice any slowdown though. I'll have to check during daytime and then run fraps. They are probably in the 30s or mid thirties or 40's I would guess.

I actually didn't see an improvement much in visual quality except for the terrain vs high settings. I may keep it like this, no slowdowns during the cave fights either on ultra it seemed.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Pretty sure it's satire.


On another note. Is this how the items work?

No background - Common item - common
Blue background - Master item - uncommon
Brown background - Magic item - Rare
Green background - Witcher Item - Very rare (most of these will need to be crafted)

This game feels a bit like Diablo when it comes to the inventory screen and items. Me likey...

There is orange for relic items too. That's a step above magic items.

 

[smackababy]

So, even with water detail set to medium, it looks really good. When you're out on the ocean, it looks pretty awesome.

 

[Cerb]

Your eyes max out at around 27 fps.

No, your eyes don't see at an FPS rate at all (they may have an overall sample rate, but that's still be apples and oranges, if so, and I'm not sure if it's ever been confirmed). You need highly accurate motion blur for such low FPS to max out your eyes (brain).

To date, extremely high crisp FPS are the best we have in 3D games, such as low graphics options to try for 120/144 FPS. I don't know TW3's added motion blur is just bad, or too strong, but I can't see WTF is going on in a fight, with it on.

 

[smackababy]

No, your eyes don't see at an FPS rate at all (they may have an overall sample rate, but that's still be apples and oranges, if so, and I'm not sure if it's ever been confirmed). You need highly accurate motion blur for such low FPS to max out your eyes (brain).

To date, extremely high crisp FPS are the best we have in 3D games, such as low graphics options to try for 120/144 FPS. I don't know TW3's added motion blur is just bad, or too strong, but I can't see WTF is going on in a fight, with it on.

I hate motion blur in all games. If something is moving in game at a speed at which my eyes will blur, they will. Otherwise, get that garbage out of here! They always extremely over do it. I can turn my head quickly and not have everything blur to the point of not being able to see.

 

[Cerb]

This is my issue, if I cant maintain 60fps on my 60hz display than anything below that feels like stuttering. When I enter towns in the game my FPS drops to 45-55fps, this creates an unpleasant experience because it feels like its constantly stuttering. I am just confused how anyone else is able to play with all that stuttering and jitter. I am willing to assume most people here are using 60hz displays which means anything less than 60fps is DEFINITELY producing an experience that is not smooth.

So either:
A. The game is only stuttering on my system at frames lower than 60fps.
B. I am crazy and I am seeing things.
C. Everyone else manages to overlook the stuttering/jitter and continues to ride the "its awesome" train.

I notice the frame drops, but not added stutter (I'm used to it, and it's a lesser evil compared to tearing, but I notice it). For me, this has been the smoothest play I've had in a long time, without trying to get 60FPS all the time. So much so that I do genuinely wonder if they implemented some kind of input sampling delay to compensate for the different frame times (the input sampling, or game ticks, if used, not matching the variation in frame times is what generally causes perceived stutter, not merely the drop in framerate by itself). Normally, it stays at 60, but not in some swamps, forests, or cities, where it can get to, and stay, in the 40s (now on 1.04, 20-30FPS in those areas no longer happens).

I use the game's own vsync and max frame setting, and 1 prerendered frame in the driver (global setting). Except for shader AA, chromatic aberration, and HBAO+, I have all the post-processing off. And of course Hairworks is off. The rest is at ultra (even ultra shadows work fine, now, with the last patch, though I am noticing more pop-in, if running). Were it more stuttery from the FPS changes, I'd drop the eye candy down until I got 60 almost everywhere.

 

[Mem]

Anybody know how long the main story is supposed to be?

 

[sze5003]

Anybody know how long the main story is supposed to be?

I read somewhere around 25hrs ?

 

[Mem]

I read somewhere around 25hrs ?

So not too short which is good,I'll be heading to Novigrad sometime this week.

Just got another awesome relic silver sword with some nice stats,even better then my current relic silver sword .

I love how the merchants buy for like 300 or 400 and sell it for 4000+ lol.

 

[Stuka87]

I read somewhere around 25hrs ?

I don't see how you could beat the main story that fast unless you are playing on like story only mode.

Side quest are required in order to get enough XP to level up. Total content length exceeds 100 hours.

 

[sze5003]

I don't see how you could beat the main story that fast unless you are playing on like story only mode.

Side quest are required in order to get enough XP to level up. Total content length exceeds 100 hours.

I dunno just basing it off what one of the websites said. I don't seem to get much xp from sidequests..I get more from story quests.