This so much. Every single armor I crafted or bought looked like Warband's Beer Belly Plate and that just doesn't fit a Witcher, at all.
Oh yeah and apparently there's a problem with Kepler GPUs so I might get improved performance with the next driver update.
As for the leveling system, I think the system itself is good. Scaling like in TES games sucks. The problem lies in the fact that the actual differences between levels are huge. It doesn't make any sense from a lore point of view. Endregas are basic enemies in TW2 but somehow will destroy you at the beginning of TW3. In fact the whole "get hopelessly raped if you don't have the stats" thing is silly. It's okay to learn new techniques, potions, get mutagens etc. it's not okay to transition from weakling to superman. Outside of the lore the reasons to avoid this are even more obvious, as it means needlessly restricting players and creating "left out" content that becomes much too easy as you progress.
I think one game which did that about right was Dark Souls indeed, even though personally I think increasing stats should have been weaker still.
It's because of the story. They shouldn't have made it open world, if they were going to make such a linear story. I would be much more content with Geralt just wandering around doing "side quests" like killing regular monsters, saving children, what have you with something big once in a while. Say you go to Velen. You go to the first village, get some contracts, level up a bit. Then you happen to stumble upon some other quest which leads you to Oxenfurt. Go to Oxenfurt. Find other quests. Some time passes, maybe you upgraded your equip, suddenly a dragon attacks the city.. and such, not this ridicolous heist after Ciri. They could've started the game in Kaer Morhen, too. First quest train Ciri, then have her go into the world...I don't know.
I found a monster which has no level. I was gona leave it for later since its way too stronk and I couldn't even scratch it. but theres no fast travel nearby, So I turned difficulty down from highest to lowest, and it still 1 shots me LOL
> be me
> playing witcher
> go to novigrad, level 9
> start a quest with the master swordsmith, am his bodyguard now
> dealing iron and shit with some knobhead, made good trade
> some dwarves run in, oh shit
> level "??"
> get rekt
> load save
> use crossbow and axii to kill those bastards
> feelsgoodman
Seriously, though. Once I leveled up it showed me their level, when I ran into them again. So, I guess the "??" is there when the enemy is 10+ levels above or something.