Redflyingmonkey

Really feeling the learning curve tho ... 30 hours in the game now and I still get tutorial messages pop up on my screen . I accidentally skipped two or three once and found myself getting destroyed by a gargoyle 2 levels below mine. Loading the save back I learned about Oils for swords which enhance your damage versus a certain type of monsters, in this case for the gargoyle Elementa beasts. As well as "decoctions" which use a mutagen to give you some monsters attribute. AND special potions that protect you against a certain type of monster damage.... I mean before you go hunt a beast you have to do all this and then some (if you play at highest difficulty). Plus special crossbow bolt, special items (like torches, magical lamps ...), bombs (so many of them), enhancing drugs, Signs enhancers, perks organization, blessings from places of power, timed ameliorations on gear at the local forge... The crafting system is cool tho, the potions you make always stay with you, even when you consume them all you just have to meditate and they're regenerated. Horse combat is cool, amazing slow mo when you power up your attack, and with geralt's strenght if you get a blow in, the enemy explodes in a blood cloud lol. There are some monsters you can only kill on horseback too, which adds to the previous list. Quests are really well made too, just as notations websites mentionned it. No "radiant quests" other than Gwent challenges (a card game, halfway between Magic and Risk). Some quests are funny (an old lady asking a century old Witcher also accidentally Assassin of Kings, Butcher of Bukenia, to find her frying pan. Yeah.). Other quests are fucking sad (raped woman kills herself, becomes a spirit...). Creepy too (miscarried baby transforms into a botchling, a disgusting Cursed monster half baby half foetus, which drinks the blood of pregnant women and eats other unborn babies in their wombs ...). I even got scared the fuck out by one quest I played late at night, with a Nightwraith. Bitch doesn't appear on your "witcher radar", so she jumped out of nowhere a dozen of times before I finally got her, like those screaming pranks on youtube. It was fucking terrifying. So yeah 30 hours is enough for me to say ; 10/10 would buy again.

Holy fucking shit. Botchlings. Holy shit. 

Only thing I find really annoying so far are the armors. The first armor tiers look really, really, reaaaally dumb. Kind of renaissance style outfits, with flashy colors and stuff. Reminds me of uber-saturated Fable II sometimes ...  Apart from that, I really recommend it to anyone who doesn't have it yet. Played 16 hours and still nowhere near the end of the first "act". Plus the maps are exquisitely done, with lots of details. The guy who was in charge of the transportation is a genius, the speed of the horse is so accurate and so effin awesome for once ... Most open worlds nowadays have some crappy horses, and you look way stupid clicketing on them for ages. Here the devs created a really well done path finder, where your horse automatically follows the road whenever you get close to it, and you just have to press A to kind of "surf" on the road, like you just get taken by it, while being able to decide whenever you want to quit it and go way off in the boonies.  Also it has the best cut scenes I've seen in any game (not counting cinematics one, I mean in game cut-scenes), with amazing details on the faces, like a peasant playing with a loose tooth or a child puffing his cheeks to pout.  Some stages of the animations are kind of stiff, but most are really smooth and really accurate concerning the builds of the different characters (a fat dude will walk like a fat dude, and kitty Gerald walks like a (hulk-y) cat, Ciri walks kind of shyly like a teenage girl, Yen more femme fatale like, Triss' animations are a bit more tomboyish etc... ).  Also those are details, the story dudes, the story... First time in ages I play a game for hours while completely forgetting the need to eat, shit or sleep.   

I hate wolves ... 

God damn I'm stuck  there is a guy, a merchant, imprisoned in a cage in the middle of Velen. I can't find the key for the cage and it looks like the dude is fucking rich too ! He's marked as a "person in distress" on the map but I can't find anything on google :'( 

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR   Well I don't think I need to restart the PC so shithead GoG or Steam can start the game lol.  Must be GMT+1 yeah, 19 minutes huh... I'll go fap. 

Wait I'm not super used to that predownload thing, it's 00.30 on the 19th here in France, I should be able to play it right ? Why can't I ??  

What ? You mean 1 minute right ? 

  Doesn't need to be that big really. Just spawning a few NPCs, creating some lines of dialogue, and a script to make them bring you to some sort of arena or secluded place so you can fight, then introduce the soul stealing effect once you kill the guy...  It could be a side main mission, with a long quest that could accompany the vanilla story line, and killing another Immortal would give you a nice power up to carry on your Dragonborn business. I'm thinking about a stamina/health/weapon perks boost, with a nice power once you get a certain threshold, say like 25 of 50 Immortals killed. Power could be "Summon Lightning" like in the series or "Deadly Dance" where you decapitate all enemies for a short moment. Once you kill all Immortals and you are the last one alive, there could be a passive ability too like "The Last One" which restores all your health back once your HP falls under 5%, making you virtually invincible unless you are killed by a finishing move or a critical hit.    The more I'm thinking about it and the more I wanna do it 

  I don't know (and don't really care) about others but as for me, I've always been way more interested in quest mods or follower mods than graphics ones. It's not for nothing that I spend 10 hours and more every 3 days trying to get all my scripts to work together.  Your point is made and accurate though, but there's still a bit of a difference between a game like Skyrim which has been out for 4 years now and is starting to feel a bit old, and a brand new game realized by some of the best designers in the world If this whole whining appears 5 years from now, I'd kind of understand it. I wouldn't call myself a modder if I thought a game stopped being able to do better once it is out. But right now, we only have perfectly logical downgrades (if you keep in mind that CDPR is not your brother wannabee developer but a company.) As such I feel it downright despicable that people would pretend deserving a better version of the game than the console copies while keeping the same price as them. If the PC version is better than the console version, it means more work has been done on the PC version, and as such perfectly logical that the PC version should be more expensive than the console versions. But of course the "PC kid race" would feel even more outraged as this maneuver.  Now people are saying if the game had been PC exclusive, it would've been better, while completely disregarding the fact that, again, CDPR is a fucking company, they need to make the green, and the green nowadays relies pretty damn much on publishing console versions as well as PC ones.  Some people need some wake-up slaps, you gotta agree on this.   

  Shh don't tell them, this mere idea would make their brains explode. People nowadays are whining about strands of grass in a RPG with the best writers on the market, imagine what would happen if you told them the most important part isn't the graphics. They would go full retard, even worse than right now. Leave the fragile creatures alone. 

I think it uses the same node as the quiver actually. The fact that the lute is placed lower than the quiver could mean they are both using the same node and thus are placed automatically next to each other.  I'm saying this because I use Groovtama's XPMSE skeleton, and in the weapon scaling I can modify the quiver position in game. Doing this, I found out it moved the lute too, but it always positions it next to the quiver instead of directly clipping with it. Interested by the solution too, as I'd like to have the lute behind my back and the quiver on the belt, but can't do so with both of them glued together ... 

  I'm not an expert but a katana and a claymore have fundamentally different fighting styles. A claymore is designed for bashing and crushing, the blade is also relatively small compared to other two handed swords. It's a misconception that claymore are the "longest" swords, they were actually one of the smallest two handed swords at the time they were used (max 1 meter long blade).  On the other hand, a katana was traditionally used for a more refined style of fighting ; piercing and slashing. The steel on a traditional japanese katana is sturdier than a traditional 12th century Scottish claymore thanks to the forging method, but the claymore is broader and overall less brittle (it is still a heavy weapon and has a larger blade).  So yeah the katana would snap if parrying flatly a blow from a claymore, if the two fighters have a similar build. But, the fighting style used for a katana does not center around flat parries anyway, the blade is curved and you usually parry with the intention to make your adversary's blade slide to the side, allowing you to slash in a single motion. So I'd say a scenario where a claymore clashes a katana directly is unlikely, if both fighters are experienced the katana should have the advantage as the claymore is considerably slower and allows the katana user to parry a blow effectively, without exposing the blade to a heavy cleave that'd definitely break it.  Still, in an open battle, the outcome between a bunch of small Japanese people with traditional katanas and sturdy Scottish Highlanders with claymore should be obvious, life isn't a movie and the Highlander guys would just use their longer reach to hack them in pieces from horseback    Yeah I have those kinds of nerd discussions often in college with the history majors, and we agreed on this ; 1 highlander vs 1 katana user, the katana user is advantaged if the two have the same builds and they're on the ground. But in a war, the Highlanders' fighting method would prevail as the Japanese would get crushed by the traditional mounted charge of the claymore armed Scottish.   

  As Jersey pointed out we're not really entering their argument here as we all still belong to the PC gamers community (I'd be well fucked if I say I'm from the "PC Master Race", this joke has to die now).  So you may have misunderstood the subject at hand here, we're not having the usual console vs PC argument in any way, but actually saying this whole argument is retarded because of it's consequences. It's not just "some trouble" : right now everything said on the internet about a product can have a real effect on it, and the company behind it too. People don't trust game companies as much as they did back in the day, with a community centered around reviews, articles, notations, polls, streams, forums and whatnot, those kinds of arguments can have a really negative effect on a company trying to advertise it's game.  And now we have a bunch of fucktards everywhere crying for their "PC only HD patch" that would restore everything that CDPR downgraded in the past 2 years on the PC version, saying the game is now "crap" just because they can't see blood splatters in the water. I can totally see the crappy notations on Metacritic and other websites of that kind from those douches who'll rate the game a flat zero because they go full retard at the mere mention of the word "downgrade". Those notations do have a real effect on sold copies of the game too, because of what I mentioned earlier : people now check twice before buying a game, and the predownloading is not helping that much in that regard.    Trolls and morons are cute and all, just not when the little fun they're having starts to effect talented teams of developers in some sort of fucked up chain reaction. 

Wow I'm astonished this hasn't been done already. If I have the time after my finals I'll definitely try making this. 

Don't share that Falcon, SGHair's owner is still butthurt about whatever happened to his mod and does not want any download links shared. Just saiyan !

For anyone interested in the books who couldn't find a translation of them anywhere (like me), I found this http://www.4reader.com/blood-elves-online-andrzej-sapkowski.  Looks like the first book on the saga concerning the relationship between Ciri and Gerald, which looks pretty damn useful if you are a little lost in the story line and/or didn't play the last two games/don't want to play them again. Translation looks good, a tad bit too many metaphors but I guess it's just the Polish way, hard to translate all their images and comparisons in a less word-y language like English. 

  That's because gamers are shitty little fucktards who take everything for granted. I have nothing but respect for BioWare, CDPR, Bethesda etc, the things they give me is well worth my money and I wouldn't even think about whining like a little bitch about performance or business decisions they make as companies. They're a business and I'm just an end consumer who's beta-testing a new generation of games, of course there are gonna be downgrades and glitches and bugs, so what. It's 2015 right now, people should get used to this. There are enough shiny new indie games to burn their graphic cards over, I don't understand why they would act like freshly raped maidens when they see a downgrade on an AAA franchise.  Sometimes I wonder if adult gamers are not the minority in all this, with all the whiney shit I see everyday on reddit. I mean those things can't be adult people with a whole brain, it's just not possible. The only things left are an advanced specie of apes addicted to video games or a bunch of shitty brats. It's like no one remembers the fucked up stuff we had 10 years ago while trying to play a game on our PCs. Glitches and bugs and unoptimized stuff has always existed and if anything, things are getting better as time passes with some exceptions. "PC master race" needs a fucking purge.  So yeah, I enjoyed DA I like a madman, and if this game looks even better than that I say bring it on and leave the whiney shit to the fucktards right ?   PS : I know it's all internet drama that shouldn't deserve to be angry about, but the people creating all those dumb as fuck controversies have no idea the impact they have on a company, and on it's developers, by shitting on their hard work and lowering their ratings. Even more so with a company like CDPR, still fragile from their near bankruptcy : they need all the hype they can get.   

Not trying to be "that guy" who pisses on the birthday cake and shits in the newlyweds' mouths, but I recently saw this stuff. Pretty sad as I got super excited for those amazing particles in the 2013 trailers. I just know some people are going to break their puny angry fists on their keyboard reading that they purposely downgraded the PC version to keep it on the same level of quality as the console versions while threatening to "boycott" the entire company for this, but hey whatever. Still buying the shit out of it right now : let it not be said that this guy right here will be a mopey, petty little fuck just because of one or two obvious downgrades.  I'm hyped as never before since Morrowind and Quake 3 (yeah that much), and all the testing blogs on the interwebz are just feeding that hype with fresh charcoal. 3 days !!! 

4k screens are locked at 60hz atm I believe, i even think the vast majority of them do 30hz. (Hope you have a 4k monitor to accompany that monster OP !)

Lol nice. Needs a quest at the bard college ! 

Nah dude, I'm not the type you described "horny kid" whatever, and I still only carry on playing skyrim to check how huge my next boner will be with my new mods. Played Skyrim through and through for 3 years I'm pretty much done with the vanilla thing lol. 

Wow people are still arguing about how op you can be in Skyrim ? C'mon it's 2015, no one plays Skyrim long enough to cry about combat stats anymore lol. 

Hi, so I'm a tad bit confused concerning those mods. I don't think I need to show my papyrus or load order for this, it's just a matter of knowing how exactly I can make them work together.  Basically I want to get all NPC from Anna's NPC to be in my guild using Guild Starter mod, and all followers from Interesting NPCs too. Problem is when I try to recruit them, they stand still where I last talked to them, even though they're technically in my guild. So I tried using the My Home is Your Home mod to set their place to where I placed the guild HQs. But I can't since all Anna's NPCs have this one annoying dialogue when you make them "leave your service", where you have to pick a place to find them later (and of course the guild HQs is not in those options). So I use set playerfollowcount 0 to dismiss them forcefully, except they start running away all of a sudden and I can't find them anywhere without using console.  And about INPCs, they just refuse to move when I do that.  Kind of confused how I should go to make everything work seamlessly together, maybe someone here uses the same mods as me ?  

Yeah I'm scared about breaking the quests so I only take the followers I know won't cause problems. How do I get them to be in my guild WHILE living in another house tho ? Can this be done on tesedit ?