THE WITCHER 3: WILDE HUNT

[Human Snorenado]

I was gonna post something about bombing all of GAF into the stone ages and the world being better off, but this is the newsfeed blurb when I clicked reply, and it pretty much perfectly sums it up:

christ i hope some scientist manages to resurrect a stegosaur so it fucks you to death

[studyguy]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164348764&postcount=54
 

[Brehvolution]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=164348764&postcount=54
 

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"I want it to be good. I just can't be bothered to watch some of the hundreds of hours of video online to make an informed decision. Therefore, it only sold because of marketing instead of merit."

[Human Snorenado]

GAF has finally hit it's special fellow Event Horizon moment- legions of humorless fuccbois posting Very Serious Comments about the sad state of the gaming industry, while no where is there anyone left running the place- it's basically a robotic wasteland of "play by these stupid rules which produce unfunny shit posting, kthxbye." I'd say that evilore had a moment where he looked at his creation and cried a single tear of regret, but let's be real- he's the HSIC (Head special fellow In Charge, natch)

[doctavius bonbon]

3 hours left bros.

let us turn this thread into a bastion of positivity and pristine screenshots.

[Human Snorenado]

I actually bought a 20' hdmi cable for this, gonna run it in big picture mode on the tv in my room

[Joe Molotov]

GAF doesn't deserve Witcher III, we do.

[Brehvolution]

[sarslip]

 

[El Babua]

PSN version also unlocks at 7PM EST.

[Great Rumbler]

I'd say that evilore had a moment where he looked at his creation and cried a single tear of regret, but let's be real- he's the HSIC (Head special fellow In Charge, natch)

Evilore shed more tears over being rejected by Major Nelson than he ever did over NeoGAF.

[studyguy]

I'd say that evilore had a moment where he looked at his creation and cried a single tear of regret, but let's be real- he's the HSIC (Head special fellow In Charge, natch)

Evilore shed more tears over being rejected by Major Nelson than he ever did over NeoGAF.

I keep hearing about this but never bothered to special fellow enough to read on it.
Did Major Nelson just shit on the dude or something?

[Great Rumbler]

-Major Nelson offered E3 passes to Evilore
-Evilore took this as "bribery" and declined the passes
-At E3, Evilore caught up with Major Nelson but Major Nelson "quickly turned away from him"
-Grudges were held

[Human Snorenado]

It's about ethics in video game forums.

[studyguy]

Is that it?
For real? Who catches feelings over that shit?
Moreover how does one react so badly that people keep hanging it over your head?
I see a post now with Nelson putting him on blast, but no response.
The fukk

[studyguy]

Oh this game unlocks when I get out of work?
Well I guess I'm downloading a save then cause I'm not even out of the third chapter of W2.
Fuck it Roach path it is. Iorveth's a fucking bitch anyway.

[Great Rumbler]

Unlocked but they got an update

It's unpacking the encrypted game files.

[doctavius bonbon]

gog galaxy failing to download the update.   

gonna try downloading it directly instead.

[Human Snorenado]

I gotta wait until I get off work at 8 to play, brehs

#datstruggle

[studyguy]

gog galaxy failing to download the update.   

gonna try downloading it directly instead.

Oh cool.
Sounds like I'm in for a good time when I get home.
Repost shit if you find a solution breh. I'm GOG as well, that program is sketch af as it is.

[Joe Molotov]

Files decrypting...
NVIDIA drivers installing...
Pants tightening...

[doctavius bonbon]

gog galaxy failing to download the update.   

gonna try downloading it directly instead.

Oh cool.
Sounds like I'm in for a good time when I get home.
Repost shit if you find a solution breh. I'm GOG as well, that program is sketch af as it is.

just downloaded the 1.01 patch from here: http://patch0.thewitcher.com/witcher3_patch_1.01.exe, and everything worked fine afterwards.

[Joe Molotov]

gog galaxy failing to download the update.   

gonna try downloading it directly instead.

Oh cool.
Sounds like I'm in for a good time when I get home.
Repost shit if you find a solution breh. I'm GOG as well, that program is sketch af as it is.

just downloaded the 1.01 patch from here: http://patch0.thewitcher.com/witcher3_patch_1.01.exe, and everything worked fine afterwards.

Niccas d/ling patches like it's Quake III: Arena outchea. GOG, son, this ain't 1999. 

[doctavius bonbon]

oh dear, game crashed after the last tutorial cutscene.

i hope it isn't consistent.

[AdmiralViscen]

I haven't read it, but I can't imagine anyone on GAF outdoing the psycho in the official SomethingAwful thread. Truly a sight to behold.

This was the peak:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720352&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=12

spoiler (click to show/hide)

That kid took some of his money and bought a game called Alien Colonial marines.

Why?

Because I was sitting there watching that movie with him and he loved the thing. His favorite part was when they set up the automatic machine guns and they went off and he knew when the guns were going off by looking at the counter tick down.

Aliens obviously.

He spent the money he got from this very site to buy that game. It was a horrid broken mess as we all know. And he wanted to buy it and I insisted that I do it for him and he insisted no, he was going to buy it because there were great internet people that helped him and it he wanted to let them know he had fun and spent that 40 bucks wisely so I made him a steam account, he downloaded it, and I bought him a nice gaming laopop to play it on since he was in his bed.

The game crashed constantly. Completely bug ridden as I found out later, and then knowing later through my contacts that the company... fuck it.

This kid looks up to me and says, "This game doesn't work that well......" I tried to fix the computer, over and over, I gave him 5 laptops, nothing changed it. He said, "The movie was better I think".... And All I could think of, was that fuck, ********* covering his ass while he was being sued by ********  for 3rd party, yes....  what a mother fucking bastard.

But those ads were awesome. You looked at the screen on the TV and you can sucker those casuals into buying your product or those moms and dads without thinking twice.

9 weeks later, that kid died.

You can see from why I am so adamant about being ethical when it comes to these games?  Honeslty, no internet shit, have you ever had to explain to a kid that had some funds to spend to help him out and make him smile, and loved a game that oh well, "Those publishers suck I guess, lets go call it a life!"

Yeah some may think I am nuts. How about owning up to your product and not being an unethical fuck. Has that ever once entered some minds.

Witcher 3 will be fine. What got me was the usual defense of obvious bullshit deflection.

Let me clue you in developers. We don't owe you SHIT. We bought your product, and sometimes off false promises and unfinished product. The hell you fucking say we are entitled for feeding YOUR family. Get off your fucking high horses and realize that false advertising is bullshit, and all your viral garbage will not make a few decent people go away.

Doesn't matter to you.  You made your cash.

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[Great Rumbler]

GAF destroyed, even on Medium settings this game looks hella good and pretty much blows everything completely out of the water.

[Eel O'Brian]

nice

[El Babua]

oh dear, game crashed after the last tutorial cutscene.

i hope it isn't consistent.

The game hard locked my PS4 during the intro CGI

[doctavius bonbon]

I'm also running the game on medium with HBAO+, and it looks quite lovely.

I'm just glad we'll see shots that aren't badly compressed, resized jpgs, or gifs from low bitrate twitch streams.

[Joe Molotov]

BrandNew, come get your boy.

[Human Snorenado]

This game in big picture mode, brehs

 

[doctavius bonbon]

game please stop constantly crashing  :'(

let me love you 

[Human Snorenado]

[toku]

Little shit like how nilfgaardians actually speak a different language when talking to each other.

Dat atmosphere

[Stoney Mason]

Finished 2 today so ready for 3 now.

[Steve Youngblood]

game please stop constantly crashing  :'(

let me love you 

It's crashed on me three times. Not inspiring, but I haven't lost any significant progress yet.

[Human Snorenado]

No crashes, just taxing the ol R9 280x. It's a sauna in my room.

[Steve Youngblood]

I'm going to blame the crashes on HairWorks.

[Human Snorenado]

I turned off hairworks, but even before I did I had no crashes. You playing on pc or shitty dirtperson version, steve?

[Steve Youngblood]

I turned off hairworks, but even before I did I had no crashes. You playing on pc or shitty dirtperson version, steve?

PC of course.

GeForce GTX 970
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50 GHZ
16.00 GB RAM (15.89 GB usable)

Playing with most stuff on High and with HairWorks on currently. Everything looks great (although cutscenes are noticeably jittery) and performs well (aside from the occasional crash). Ah well. I'm sure this stuff will get sorted out soon enough.

[Human Snorenado]

I've got an i7-4790 running at 3.66 and 16 gigs of ram... had it running on ultra but was getting too many frame rate dips, so down to high

[doctavius bonbon]

Even on low settings, I get a black screen every 10-15 minutes at random. Guess I'm waiting for a hotfix.  ;~;

Geforce GTX 760, Intel i5-2500k, and 8 gigs of ram btw.

edit: some dude said it might be linked to overclocking? wat. mine is factory overclocked, actually.

https://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/36g6z4/for_people_with_black_screen_problems/

[Human Snorenado]

I'm crash/issue free too. Maybe it's that 16gb of ram and i7?

I'm running an i7 (different cpu, granted, but still) and 16 gigs of ram and no issues. I haven't overclocked anything, though.

Clearly this game just looks like shit, also. I mean, Poland's govt should probably have CD Projekt Red put to death in the streets or whatever.

[fizzel]

finished witcher 2 again in time, see that my distinguished mentally-challenged tattoo carries over. 

Dicked about for a couple of hours, game opens up like the first witcher with it folklorey peasant village atmosphere; but a map of that size has me worried about Creed-itis when it comes to filling it up with shit. I hope there's more to the side questing than right trigger>press X on red bits.

[Rufus]

finished witcher 2 again in time, see that my distinguished mentally-challenged tattoo carries over. 

Wow! I think I got it removed on my save. Now I wish I hadn't.

Apparently it runs even with 4GB RAM. Might just pull the trigger early.

[Great Rumbler]

8 gigs of RAM, Intel i5, and a 750ti here, no crashes on my end through 2.2 hours.

[sarslip]

Only one game complaint thus far: the fall damage.

Geralt flat out dying from some falls I'd easily survive. This mutant knight ninja kicking the bucket anywhere after 13 feet

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one thing killing me playing on my living room tv, is the text is small af. 

[Great Rumbler]

I know it's a small thing and not something that hasn't been done before, but Geralt's Witcher Vision [which is really just detective mode] is a pretty cool addition to the game and I hope it continues to get used a lot.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Game is waiting for me at home aaaaw yissss

Gonna play tonight!

[Human Snorenado]

Protip- if you can ride Roach into a fight, it seems like you do more damage with mounted swings of your swords than you do on foot. I've settled into an easy canter drive-by where I just casually trot into a pack of monsters and start slicing heads off.

[demi]

Is there a difficulty like Dark at the start?

[Cerveza mas fina]

What this stuff about choices you have To make if havent got a savegame?

[demi]

I cant think of anything in W1 or W2 which would be worth caring about deciding over. The stories are pretty forgettable.

[Stoney Mason]

What this stuff about choices you have To make if havent got a savegame?

If you say you don't want to 'simulate a savegame' you make choices that you'd have made in w1 or w2(? not sure it all blended together lol)

I thought it was the opposite. If you simulate a save game (which is on by default at least on xbox one version) then you meet someone later who basically asks you questions that creates your save game states.

[fizzel]

Witcher 3 audio direction for peasants. 

[sarslip]

for real i didnt know they imported marb reds to novigrad 

[Brehvolution]

AMD 8350
R9 270x 4GB
8 GB RAM

Everything on high
Blur off
Shadows low

Still getting the hang of the flow of combat. The griffon killed me the first go around but I got it. The noonwraith section was a lot deeper than what was shown in the videos. Igni is much more powerful that what was shown on the videos.

Amazing game.
Probability of divorce: increasing

[Brehvolution]

I thought there were question it would ask in the beginning if you didn't import a save. I didn't see any of that so I have no idea what the world is based on.

[Stoney Mason]

It happens a few hours in depending on how fast you leave the first area.

[Cheddahz]

this game is a whole lot better than that one other fantasy rpg that came out last year