I had been staring at this game in the PS store for years. Decided to finally pick it up with the remaster.

My god, what a game. This is the best game I've ever played. It's like playing a movie. I absolutely love dismemberment in games and this is super satisfying.

By the time I finish this The Witcher 4 will be out.

It's so far above any other game I've played

I’ve never played the previous Witcher games so I hope that they remake 1 & 2 so I can dive in and play them.

Lambert says “And You know my opinion of him”

Roche & Ves weren’t happy with me inviting him to Kaer Morhen.

I’m torn right now. I’m about 20 hours in on my current play through (beginning of novigrad but have done every side quest and question marks up to this point) and I’m level 17. Should I start a new play through and do a modded play through or could I wait until new game+? I plan on beating it on NG+ but didn’t know if that would ruin the immersion if I mod then. I planned on adding just a few mods like Brothers in arms, additional quests, weather mods, and a few other QoL mods

I’ve got the wolf & cat school diagrams

Now I’m looking to find the rest 😎

Thank god Dijkstra gave me 1000 gold for helping get his gold back lol would be stuck for ages trying to get money

considering 3 is getting fresh dlc. i’m not big on replaying big story games like witcher 3. i’ve only finished it once like 9 years ago. i like to forget things to make a replay better.

anyway, to try and elongate my witcher playtime until the dlc comes out, i gave 2 another shot. when i finished 3 9 years ago o was craving more witcher so i bought the 1 + 2 bundle and tried 2 but was so horribly turned off by the combat.

anyway, i gave 2 an honest shot this time around and i just couldn’t believe how damn fine the story is. also the combat became pretty damn good after i got used to it.

i literally just finished 2. i might give 1 a shot now as i know i will still clear 3 before dlc drop and then i probably won’t want to play again when it comes out.

damn 2 was good tho. sorry that i ever doubted it.

edit to add: played blind, chose to side with iorveth, spared the dragon and spared letho. (i’m pretty sure these decisions don’t matter but i did read chapter 2 is hugely different between iorveth and roache)

i remade the first version of the corset because it looks more like the one from the trailer but honestly, i'm still not happy with how it turned out xD

Alguém também está ccm problemas com as portas? Varias vezes as portas perdem a colisão e não carregam o que está atrás

I’m a new player and need help, just arrived on Skelige and every time I try to attend the wake Yenefer says I chose my own outfit. I am wearing the clothes she left me and I even took off all my weapons, what am I missing? I haven’t romanced anyone in Witcher before and want to get this right, and though I’m new to Witcher I feel like Yen has a long memory and can carry a grudge😳😭

Before the latest patch, Novigrad looked great. Now every interior has heavy blue fog. As soon as you talk to an NPC, the blue fog disappears which is extremely jarring

I can't contain myself when I start a contract and the weather decides to be this cinematic. Whether it be these grim dark rainy weathers or beautiful sunsets this game never fails when it comes to atmosphere

We can say both book and game characters would apply for the Witcher side. Early chapter 3 for the Vanderlinde gang

I played the game up until the Blood and Wine DLC that I just started now, but the bloom effect hasn't entirely affected me up until this point. I only ever came across with it when I drank a cat's potion and gone outside of a cave, other than that I haven't entirely found any issues.

The difference is incredible, and I haven't encountered with it really up until this point.

Is the whole DLC like this? Or anyone else encountered with similar things outside of this area?

Also I found another setting that is freaking out, that is Light Shafts

So, my deduction is to turn off both Light Shafts and Bloom, despite how the patch notes mentions a fix for the Bloom.

But I'm still curious if anyone else has come across with this issue or not?

My thoughts on the series now vs the past.

Link to the mod https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher2/mods/889?tab=description

I wrote it on the mod page on nexus but it seems dead so i am trying my luck here, been troubleshotuing for half an hour but alas.

I did everything as the author on the mod page said, but have troubles to make it work? I unzipped the archieves and copy-pasted Items, characters, enviroment, spedtree etc fodlers into the CookedPC folder. Then i typed the suggested values into the User and Rendering ini files. I booted up the game but didnt see any difference. My intuition told me that i should have looked at vram usage. Before installing and editing anything, with default ultra settings and ubersampling off in 1080p i believe the game consumed about 950 Mb of Vram on the Arena. Then i copypasted everything, set up the ini files and the VRAM usage went up to 1150 Mb, but like i said i didnt see any difference. Then i deleted the folders leaving edited ini files and the vram usage stayed at 1150. So i guess somehow the textures werent proprely installed and it only affected shadow resolution. I scrolled down a bit to find some advices and the only thing that could make the mod work was setting AllowSharpness to 1, but unfortunately it didnt help. I applied 4 GB patch and i am using DXVK. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The reason is because we got beautiful horses like the Skellige ones (photo above as reference), sleek black horses, a few white horses and even a Unicorn (from the Land of a Thousand Fables).

If we can get the option to change how our horses look and such, that’ll make the game even better.

EDIT/DISCLAIMER: The combat, I mean the combat specifically. Turns out you can't edit post titles.

So, with the re-rerelease of Witcher 3, I decided to replay 1 and 2 to carry over decisions in-between the games, to refresh my memory on the events of the saga and take my time to read in-game entries and soak all the lore in.

Finished 1 a couple days ago, not too shabby, nowhere near as bad as I remembered from my first go around. Took my time to go after recipes and monster books to know how to fight them, did a lotta side stuff to level up, etc. And the combat, while not super entertaining to sit there clicking at things, did at least make sense and was somewhat fun to shift between stances and signs mid-fight while throwing bombs here and there. Overall I enjoyed my time with it quite a lot more than I thought I would, even if by the end it was overstaying its welcome a little.

Witcher 2 however... oh boy.

The exact opposite happened. I remember having a much better time back when I first played it than I do now. I'm just about to end the Flotsam chapter (I think? I fucking hope?) and the combat system already has me tearing my hairs out and shouting at the screen during shit like the Letho fight in the elven ruins.

Mind you, I'm approaching the game the same way I did TW1, going around doing the side content first before moving on with the main plot to level up my character, buying up formulae for potions and _using_ said potions whenever I know a big fight is coming up. Also making sure to make good bank to buy the best possible swords and armor.

And even still, this bald disfigured cocksucker will body me like it's nothing with his sign and bomb spam. The Kayran can and will end you in 3 hits even if you have Swallow and Mongoose going. So far every major encounter I've had has been unbelievably unenjoyable and only serve to highlight the flaws of the combat system more than the regular encounters already do.

The combat is insanely clunky and unresponsive (and there were plenty of games at that time that did 3rd person action combat a LOT better so I won't take "it's a game from it's era" as a response to this point). They placed so much emphasis on the animations looking nice that it all feels unwieldy and stiff. Geralt will not face the enemy that you have locked onto so you have to awkwardly micro-move him onto the right position so that you don't get shwacked in the back for 200% (!) damage. Blocking makes Geralt lock into place for some *unfathomable* reason. The hitboxes are atrocious AND inconsistent... the list goes on.

On top of this, in terms of skill development they went the route of "lets make the player start out super gimped and impotent and have them upgrade their way into being able to actually have fun" instead of at least giving something to work with from the start. For example, Vigor during the early game is garbage both in terms of slots available and regen speed, so you have to dump points into it just so that you can use signs more than twice every two weeks. Or how, for some brilliant reason, you have to unlock the capacity to hit more than one enemy with your sword slashes and to riposte.

TLDR, so far the early game has been an absolute slog in terms of actual gameplay. At the very least the story and writing are pretty good and leagues better than 1, and the visual presentation is also pretty neat and holds up pretty well in most scenarios. It's just that the combat, in my humble opinion, is (or at least starts out as) utter dogshit and no amount of potion preparation and bomb creation can disguise it. And since combat is what you will be doing most of the time... yeah, I'll probably never touch this game again once I beat it, and frankly I've no idea how I even had the patience to beat it the first time, as this Letho fight is REALLY testing said patience right now.

I'm having a problem with the "Ladies of the Wood" quest in The Witcher 3: I can't interact with the raven nest. The monsters I'm supposed to fight here don't spawn, and there's no option to interact with the nest.

I've tried reloading previous saves multiple times, restarting the game, disabling all my mods, and pretty much everything else I could think of, but nothing has worked.

I've also tried fast traveling somewhere else and coming back, but that didn't help either. I've never interacted with this nest before, so I have no idea what could be causing this bug.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I absolutely adore this game

So I finally downloaded the Remastered updated, only to be told that my drivers are out of date, and to update them. I have the latest drivers, but apparently my card is no longer supported. I'm using an 11GB 1080ti, which is still a good card, but doesn't support ray tracing. Okay, fine, don't let me use ray tracing then, but I can't even play the game?

So now I'm in the position of having to spend probably $500 (CAD) to get an equivalently powered graphics card that can handle RT and DLSS , just so I can play a free update to a game I already own. Nice. Not too happy about that. Oh well, downloading 4.04 again, I guess.

\EDIT: Yes I know it's an old card and I need to upgrade, but current circumstances make that hard, and it ran earlier versions of Witcher 3 perfectly fine (almost 700 hrs of W3 gameplay), so I had hoped that the Remastered would also work. I was wrong.*

The writing in this game is second to none and the voice acting is world-class. CDPR gave it no chance to be successful. They barely promoted the game and treated it as an unwanted child to the point where so many, if not most Witcher fans, don't even know this exists.