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[–] 94 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The DLC is just retired Geralt playing Gwent in Toussaint all day and all the new content is just more tournaments and decks 🙏

^Seriously though judging by the title I would expect some sort of flashback, probably some kind of prequel thing involving Ciri's backstory to lead into Witcher 4.^

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I’m sure it’s a tie in DLC to TW4. Now I’m wondering if I should put off my first TW3 playthrough until this DLC is out lol.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I also have never played it and this might convince me to go back and check it out. I picked it up on Steam years ago for like five bucks.

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  • [–] [S] 51 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    While I'm always happy with new Witcher content I hope they don't invalidate the perfect ending Gerald had in Blood & Wine

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    Damn, I REALLY need to finish the third one... I haven't even finished the base campaign.

    It's not that I don't like the game, I am fascinated by every part of it, and it's been installed and updated on my computer for many years...

    It's just so in depth, I do not have the attention span and dedication I used to in optimizing builds for a game. I felt like I was on hard mode if I didn't use the potions and sword oils and things, but I kept forgetting what to use, and that's assuming I even had the right stuff on me to begin with...

    That's probably why I keep going back to skyrim more often, it's combat is more simplified and casual. Which is funny because I always download mods to make the game more like the Witcher and improve combat....

    I'll finish it one day, in my most recent playfhrough I had just gotten to some giant squid creature in a swamp, and kept dying so I just didn't keep playing anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    They actually updated the game with a lot of quality of life stuff. Things like automatic oils when you draw your sword, so you don’t need to constantly dig through menus to reapply it. IIRC that one actually started as a mod, which got so popular CDPR decided to add it as an option directly in the game menu.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I actually saw that automatic oil application had been added at some point, that's a huge bonus!

    There's a few other things I remember having issues with, but they were all minor individually, so they've probably been improved on.

    I definitely need to give it another try, and this announcement certainly makes me want to pick it up again soon.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's okay to play on the easiest difficulty, no shame in that. The story is so worth it! Also, the blood and wine dlc I soo good. It honestly could've been a standalone game, so definitely play that one too!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I mostly play on the easiest difficulty in any game, I play games as escapism, if I wanted to be frustrated I'd go talk to relatives.

    Exceptions are games I've played a bunch.

    I've heard nothing but high praise about Blood and Wine and am excited to experience it!

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did they improve how picking up loot works? It was so bad I considered it near unplayable without a mod for that.

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  • That was actually one of my big complaints as well. I don’t think they ever fixed it. My complaint was that you needed to be facing a container to loot it, but Geralt’s regular movement controls felt like steering a sailboat. Even the alternative controls were only a stopgap.

    I eventually installed a mod that auto-looted every container within a certain radius. It basically did an invisible ping every second or so, and grabbed the contents for any containers that were close enough. I also had to disable the theft mechanic, because people would get mad when a protected container was auto-looted. But it worked well enough. As a bonus, I didn’t need to get off of Roach to loot herbs/enemies/containers/etc because the radius loot worked even when I was mounted.

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  • [–] 45 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    love it when studios randomly come back to a game years later with a new dlc like "hold on tim had a really cool idea while working on the next one so we're gonna add it to the old one"

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Tangential, but I also love when they keep adding bugfixes decades after launch / last content updates.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    yeah, shows that they actually give a damn about what they sold you. always nice to know that they're gonna make sure what I paid for will still work right. it's part of why I love indie games so much. you can reach out to the dev like 10 years after they stopped working on it and let them know about a minor bug and it'll be fixed like the next day.

    edit: spelling

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Will this DLC remind me how to play the game?

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Wild. So all these complete editions won't be complete for long. Ars Technica said it's $7.99 on GOG right now, so that's a heck of a cheap way to get into the game if one were so inclined.

    Not quite as good as paying $6 for the Mass Effect trilogy, remastered, with all the DLC, and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out... but not bad either.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    There's about as much game in Witcher 3 as in all three Mass Effects combined, so it's still a very good deal.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I don't doubt it. Mass Effect 1 was short — anyone who says otherwise spent time exploring planets and doing stuff they were told was important but wasn't. You don't even get achievements for collecting all the ores, relics, and whatever else we were collecting in surveys and in those downed satellites we wasted skills to unlock. I think, at most, it was XP. Mass Effect was the original Eden Prime mission, the time on the Citadel, the three planets the council sends you to, that beach one where spoilery stuff happens, the last world, and then the final fight. 2 and 3 made you do a bunch of stuff to have the resources to complete the game with everyone surviving (more or less — you had to really set up Spoiler and Spoiler both surviving in Mass Effect 3, from the first one).

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    and the loot box shit from ME3 stripped out

    I wish they hadn't stripped out the entire multiplayer mode in the remaster. It was surprisingly enjoyable (minus the lootbox mechanic)

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    My guess is, they just didn't want to keep the servers up. I got Mass Effect 4 (Andromeda) at deep discount, but it came with multiplayer bonuses. I didn't realise I could have saved $1 ($4 vs $3) to skip those bonuses. And the servers are offline. So, oops. Shame on Xbox for selling multiplayer packs for a game with multiplayer shut down, but $4 for Andromeda isn't bad.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I find the controls for Witcher 3 are key bad looking back (just stuff like Gerald’s movement kinematics and the response times)

    So hopefully if they do this they can just do a bit of a polish pass too.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did you ever try the "alternative movement" setting, which they added with one of the updates? Much faster response with that enabled.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Hoping this supercharges interest into the modding scene. The 2024 redkit release was way past the games popularity peak

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I hope it will be playable on a new game. I've finished the game on a Switch then sold the cart and gave away the console. I'm using a pc for all my gaming now.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Dang I need to get back to this to play thru blood and wine first

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    [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It should be noted that the new content comes with new system requirements for the base game and the expansion. Windows 11 is going to become a requirement and the minimum CPU requirements have been updated to match Windows 11's.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    wow, "AMD Ryzen 5 2600" is literally the processor i am using right now, i think it is also 12 years old lol.
    i am on windows 10 though. thankfully i do have a gaming computer that is recent. i understand everyone wont.

    there really isn't a precedent for system requirements on a 12-year-old game. on one hand, sure we want to make it available to everyone who has the same PC from the base game, but on the other hand, making a game today for yesterday's computer is tedious and most would prefer they take advantage of newer tech.

    i'm in the camp that is freakin stoked that they are doing this period.

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Ew, no. They already screwed me over with the trilogy. They don't get any more money from me

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