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| Radicalus wrote: | Important: Halt doing your main quest.
Chances are very high, that you are not getting XP for the main quest. Some side quests are bugged as well. Patch ETA unknown. Hits vast majority of players. |
Who cares about some XP for the main quest? Chances you are like 8 levels ahead of the main quests are pretty high for the whole game are pretty high.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:00 Post subject: |
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One thing they should really improve are the trophies. Their effect kinda sucks and there's no diversity (it's always exp/dismemberement/gold).
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ixigia
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:05 Post subject: |
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As someone who finished the Baron quest this morning, I can only agree with everything you all guys said.  It's a relatively simple example, yet it shows how narration and writing (along with the correct pacing) can convey real emotions and put your very inner self into the shoes of the protagonist(s), riding the feeltrain.
I think the explanation is very simple, and it all revolves around on thing: talent. You either have it (the CD guys could literally write a 1k pages essay about that), or you don't, and that's where the next gen Bioware comes into play, full force.  
I may be partial because the last Biowere game that I enjoyed was 6-7 years ago, but damn their lack of brilliance really shows in pretty much everything. Their works surely have a lot of contents, but it doesn't really matter when the 90% of them is cheap and forgettable. If you ask me what was the most memorable moment in DA:I, I don't even know how to answer. I'd say riding the Bull, but that's about it, kinda like a 3D fantasy Hatoful Boyfriend experience.
The linear writing, paper thin characters, the rinse and repeating of quests taken straight from the online world, almost no immersion whatsoever, the feeling that you do what you do because you have to, not because you like it really did not help. When a game is a chore, we can only fart in its general direction xD
This never happens with TW3.
I often avoid quick traveling just to enjoy the ride and the world around it, because you never know what could be the next encounter (I play with the minimap/markers disabled, so the surprise is always around the corner), and you can be sure that even the most trivial quest will be an interesting one.
It's the first game ever where I feel the urge to 100% it, pretty much an achievement per se.
| Radicalus wrote: | Important: Halt doing your main quest.
Chances are very high, that you are not getting XP for the main quest. Some side quests are bugged as well. Patch ETA unknown. Hits vast majority of players. |
damn it! 
*must resist*
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:05 Post subject: |
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Frant1c
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:09 Post subject: |
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| ZezoS wrote: | | One thing they should really improve are the trophies. Their effect kinda sucks and there's no diversity (it's always exp/dismemberement/gold). |
That and the mutations, I was expecting far more diverse effects, as it is now its either +% on vit, dmg or sign intensity.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:09 Post subject: |
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| Radicalus wrote: | | Aquma wrote: |
I also feel Bioware actually tries to cater to mature audience with DA. Case in point: awkward attepmts at showing frontal nudity for the first time in DA:I, or equally awkward attempts to make politics in the game grey-shaded and complicated. It's supposed to be a mature game. They just don't have the writing skills necessary to really make it happen. That's why I feel it's actually quite fair to compare these games. |
I agree with most things, except this last part:
BioWare might have tried to cater to a mature audience, but it's not the writing, that was wrong. The problem was much deeper.
BioWare tried to make a game that is all things to everyone: rainbow cast, quirky, nerdy characters, homosexuals, etc ... they chose a super politically correct SJW aproach. It failed. Because it had no soul. It was like a checklist: check off as many boxes as possible.
Game mechanics and world design wise TW3 is simply on another level. Another dimension even. |
Yeah, I think you're right. As usual, making something good for everyone is making it good for noone.
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ixigia
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:17 Post subject: |
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| 4treyu wrote: | | ixigia wrote: |
| Radicalus wrote: | Important: Halt doing your main quest.
Chances are very high, that you are not getting XP for the main quest. Some side quests are bugged as well. Patch ETA unknown. Hits vast majority of players. |
damn it!
*must resist* |
Hmmmm sounds to me that was directed @ pillermann and whoever is having this bug? I have verified that I am getting my XP with every quest (main or not) and leveling up. |
Yup I'm gettin them XP points too so far, but I'm kinda scared to keep going now..I don't want to trigger anything other than sjw's |
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proekaan
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:44 Post subject: |
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I did the baron's quest line and the ending....*sob* btw I took the ancient power route.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:49 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:50 Post subject: |
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| Radicalus wrote: | Important: Halt doing your main quest.
Chances are very high, that you are not getting XP for the main quest. Some side quests are bugged as well. Patch ETA unknown. Hits vast majority of players. |
Yep, just went and got to the Bloody Baron. No XPs. I'm level 11, the quest is level 6.
I'm going to wait it out and maybe do some side quests first.
I'm 42h in, level 11.
This game is so great, I can forgive the annoyance with the XP.
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 22:56 Post subject: |
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The extinguishable candles are strategically placed to maximize the annoyance factor.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 23:15 Post subject: |
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| Ishkur123 wrote: | | The extinguishable candles are strategically placed to maximize the annoyance factor. |
that and lag in controls and stupid horse made me uninstall witcher 3 after 55 hours at level 20, great game but can't get over that very annoying things.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 23:45 Post subject: |
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Played some more today and the game is good. I really like characters (well mostly Geralt and Ciri) and some quest are really different from Your typical "seach and kill". Not the revolutionizing game as reviews tend to paint it but still better than most crap.
I still kinda wish I've been playing Skyrim at some moments, because of horrendous controls, ui and all the unnecessary alchemy bullcrap. Creating potions is pretty cool but not when You have to find plenty of different ingredients for each potion etc... and breaking down some stuff into other... thats just too much clutter. And holy fuck do You scrap around for everything. Every plant, barrel, crate and every sack in people houses. There is no stealing concept. You just take everything. And that kinda bothers me because You constantly try to position Yourself next to crate/plant in order to loot it. CONSTANTLY - every 5 meters. That takes away from experience because Geralt takes 5 step every time and its impossible to precisely move. Besides, It's like Mass Effect 2 planet mining... And Geralt have so much in his pockets it almost feels stupid. If this game had Skyrim controls or something along those lines... like Skyrim's simplicity and complexity at the same time... if You know what I mean.
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| Posted: Thu, 28th May 2015 23:53 Post subject: |
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@KillerCrocker - you can buy ingredients for potions. No need to steal or break stuff. Matter of taste.
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:03 Post subject: |
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| Rifleman wrote: | | @KillerCrocker - you can buy ingredients for potions. No need to steal or break stuff. Matter of taste. |
I know but I just find it too much hassle to see all ingredients, remember them, go to shop... oh not I forgot what was name of that one purple thing, go back, scroll to potion, see what it was... and back to shop or to kill a monster for its skin/blood/brain.
its great concept but the execution is so cumbersome. I loved crafting in skyrim and elder scrolls games in general. it was just better done
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:12 Post subject: |
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| KillerCrocker wrote: | | Rifleman wrote: | | @KillerCrocker - you can buy ingredients for potions. No need to steal or break stuff. Matter of taste. |
I know but I just find it too much hassle to see all ingredients, remember them, go to shop... oh not I forgot what was name of that one purple thing, go back, scroll to potion, see what it was... and back to shop or to kill a monster for its skin/blood/brain.
its great concept but the execution is so cumbersome. I loved crafting in skyrim and elder scrolls games in general. it was just better done |
Then you would hate alchemy in witcher 1, was much, much more complex.. You really had to hunt for the right ingredients, to make potions, to be ready.. or buy some.
| Epsilon wrote: | | Meanwhile the people of that generation will call those guys relics, and not move with the times when everything is auto fucking. |
| EyePatchLives wrote: | | Press X to tame beasts. YOU ARE DA BEASTMASTER!!! |
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tonizito
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:12 Post subject: |
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Yeah, if only you could open your inventory near the merchants... CDPR needs to patch that ASAP 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:16 Post subject: |
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| LuckyStrike wrote: | | KillerCrocker wrote: | | Rifleman wrote: | | @KillerCrocker - you can buy ingredients for potions. No need to steal or break stuff. Matter of taste. |
I know but I just find it too much hassle to see all ingredients, remember them, go to shop... oh not I forgot what was name of that one purple thing, go back, scroll to potion, see what it was... and back to shop or to kill a monster for its skin/blood/brain.
its great concept but the execution is so cumbersome. I loved crafting in skyrim and elder scrolls games in general. it was just better done |
Then you would hate alchemy in witcher 1, was much, much more complex.. You really had to hunt for the right ingredients, to make potions, to be ready.. or buy some. |
Well I've finished Witcher1 without almost using it. Only used healing potions as far as I remember. I loved Witcher1... and remember it was indeed difficult.
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:26 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:28 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:45 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:48 Post subject: |
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| Ishkur123 wrote: |
cheers for that! |
You're welcome, it was posted earlier in the thread and it really, really does help. Now I can spam E and not have to worry about Geralt stopping to light the candles >_>
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:52 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 29th May 2015 00:56 Post subject: |
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What exactly is the point of extiguishing/starting fires anyway? Other than annoying the fucking hell out of me?
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Thanks for posting it.
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