The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Kafein]

I think the smooth combat was "in" TW2 all along. They just had to turn a few knobs to make it acceptably snappy. By the way it's still far from perfect. My biggest gripe is that considering there is no range assist (you can attack and miss the enemy by 1cm if you started the attack from too far), the attack moves themselves are too long and too randomized. Sometimes I miss purely because Geralt decided to make a pirouette before hitting instead of a simpler move.

[Xant]

Worst part about the combat for me is that enemies have no mass, they can slide through each other. Very annoying when fighting indoors.

[Patoson]

I like the combat in general, but what is shown in this video annoys me sometimes (random automatic target switch):

[Xant]

Where can you get respec potions if Keira's met an unfortunate accident in your game?

[Tor!]

Novigrad magic items guy next to barber

[Xant]

Found him, respecced to this

http://i.imgur.com/ADoDCtN.jpg

The dodging DR reduction thing seemed useless so I went full strong/fast build, makes the combat a bit more fun when you vary the attacks (and it's worth it) instead of just smashing mouse 1.

[Golem]

I like the combat in general, but what is shown in this video annoys me sometimes (random automatic target switch):

You basically switch targets by movement keys+looking their direction(like having them in the center of the screen), you'll get the hang of it.

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Been doing way too much of the Gwent cards questline.

Can now play as Nilfgaard with a lot of high grade scores and 2 or 3 heroes.

My Northern Realm deck is pretty beastly, 3 heroes, lots of specials and a dragon

[Golem]

Been doing way too much of the Gwent cards questline.

Can now play as Nilfgaard with a lot of high grade scores and 2 or 3 heroes.

My Northern Realm deck is pretty beastly, 3 heroes, lots of specials and a dragon

Does the dragon have any special ability?

[SirCymro_Crusader]

Does the dragon have any special ability?

It's one of the better cards of my deck.

It has a strength of 7 and if any of your opponents cards (melee) add up - in total - to more than 10, it destroys the highest strength cards (minus heroes)

[Kafein]

Where can you get respec potions if Keira's met an unfortunate accident in your game?

Obscurantist!

Also I don't really think that video is fair criticism at all. He demonstrated nothing by fighting humans by groups of three. Humans are a joke compared to most monsters and beasts.

[Banok]

I've been doing fairly thorough testing of runes for science, I'm that sad.

I wont go into the numbers and too much detail but reloading same environment vs same monster (leshen). ran with 3 runes of same type each time.

chernobog rune acording to dev post is supposed to increase attack power so x3 greater runes should be 15% attack power he claimed it was just UI is broken, however I tested it and UI is correct the rune has 0 effect in testing.

the fire DoT scaled with attack power strangely, the tick damage was lower but more ticks for more overall damage - really weird. Attack power also doubled amount of poison DoT ticks. I thought burning rune would be best, since against humans its does damage over time aswell as crowd control and alot of monsters are weak to fire. Fire dot also does its damage over less time than poison.

however I've changed by mind, the armour piercing runes are all around best pick imo. Don't get me wrong 15% burn, or even stun/stagger is going to be very strong. However +70 armour piercing increased damage by about 13% on both high and low attack power set ups.

It felt alot like the leshen would be poisoned alot less than burned, the % on the runes was simply does not seem accurate in my tests. which made me wonder if rune effects of same type stack, however with armour piercing the effects stacking is very noticeable. which is why I assume certain monsters resistances effect rate of poisoning/burning or even complete immunity. It does say in bestiary leshen is weak to igni.

The freeze chance also seemed felt lower than burning, freeze does not stop enemy like stun/stagger it only slows them down. but it does last a fair amount of time. However I can't be sure its the % chance to burn/poison/freeze my target are actually different, that would require way more science that I'm willing to do. However I never saw my stun runes do anything vs lechen, which makes sense since Axii did not work either - immunities are definitely a thing.

My point is tho that the armour piercing rune is going to be beneficial on every swing vs every enemy. sure some enemies have more armour so effects may vary, but less so than the other runes which might not do anything at all in a fight due to luck or foe's immunities.

Last caveat is that watching humans scream as they burn is probably more fun than any % in damage, but thats what the "pyromaniac" skill is for.

You basically switch targets by movement keys+looking their direction(like having them in the center of the screen), you'll get the hang of it.

this. the lock on system is bad and misleads the new player, since actually game works very well without ever locking on. character auto targets whichever enemy you move towards while swinging. that guy in video just simply hasn't figured out how to play yet.

[Asheram]

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 The quest "Wandering in the Dark"
Nithral and I died at the same time. I was keeping my distance til I got stuck on those rocks, I died he died I cried. Load most recent save came up I clicked it, quest updated and load didn't happen and I am now in the room listening to the ambience Keira just standing there. Cant pull up escape menus to reload a save, quit game etc. Cant open any menu's like profile, inventory map anything. I am scared to close the game thru task manager for fear of losing everything. I am .......); hard atm.

[Golem]

Don't you have any older saves?

I'm going to replay Witcher 2 so I can get my hands on the Save. Maybe will write a short comparison of combat and such..
I have a question: is there a way to change targets once you lock-on with mouse and keyboard?

[Asheram]

I have a question: is there a way to change targets once you lock-on with mouse and keyboard?

yes, I rebound it to tab, its lock on target in the keybind menu, I think that's it anyways. I think it cycles thru targets when pressed. I don't like that you cant lock on a target though til the target sees and attacks you.