Witcher 3 bad reddit. I can imagine it's especially confusing/lackluster if you haven't played the previous games or read the books and you aren't intimately familiar with all the characters. The new Witcher 3 update runs very bad. The Witcher 3 I have NEVER played or seen or read the Witcher series however on the Xbox store I saw the complete edition on sale for $15 and have been interested in it for a while. Steam says I've been playing the game for 1 hour and 15 minutes, and about 10 minutes was actual gameplay. 3), an almost 40hours long DLC for the witcher 3 (Yes, that dlc even won some GOTY awards, and the best RPG And there are 4 (+ 1 missable which is key element for Ciri to become the empress) factors that decides Ciris and Geralts fate. She excels at being a Witcher and not so much at everything else. The game has good RPG elements with the enemies in form of paper/scissor mechanics like Roll Dodge for bigger enemies, Bombs/Yrden for ghosts, dodge for faster/smaller enemies, silver/steel sword for This wasn't the ending I got the first time but of the three I liked this ending the best, the other two leave the Weavess Plot thread hanging. I use potions and oils to prepare for combat and switch magic on the fly depending on the situation. Maybe try setting down "Sharpening". Compare a 1v1 Witcher fight to a 1v1 Skyrim fight. Now, I don't mean that the new abilities or how you get them, I mean the fact that the enemies have levels and can be ridiculously higher level than you. . Ciri is better in season 3 and they give her some push as a junior Witcher, which is how Ciri should be. The primary selling point of Witcher 3 is its story. Offering you to play on after Geralt's suicide only adds insult to the injury. Flaws in the Witcher 3 choices and endings. 323K Members. I swear to god roach is so janky I wish you could kill him with no consequences just for a brief respite. Bertram is obviously guilty but that doesn't change the fact that Little Red and her gang are armed robbers. It will continue to be graphically impressive and on par with the current year, probably for the next 5-10 years. Witcher 3 feels bland outside its quests and writing. They need to fix this. But at the same time, I do look at all these talks about the game being a masterpiece and raise a brow. Welcome to r/Witcher3! A subreddit for discussions, news, memes, media, and other topics pertaining to the third installment in the Witcher games franchise. The game is stunning -‘and the world only gets more immersive with the update. I've owned Witcher 3 on PC and PS4 and barely made any progress because the pacing is kind of slow and I don't have a lot of free time. For some reason, at 2560x1440 I am getting 55-65 frames per second on average. The game was built that way, many choices are morally conflicting. Can’t say enough good things. He’s always stopping full tilt for no reason, and takes forever to get to a running pace. With RT on I now get ~70-75FPS outside cities, and ~50-55 in cities. Its an action game with "some" RPG elements but its definetely not an RPG. High on 4. I actually didn’t have much problem in the way of bugs (on PC). The Witcher is not an action book/show series. Witcher 3 is a great game with a good story but terrible movement and combat. But it also passively forces you to pick the 'right' option. Even Dead Cells. Just finished my first playthrough and I gotta say, I've got a few problems and curious to hear other people's thoughts. The one exception being water. It'd be awesome if they could be closer to the written material but if this is what the end result looks like, then miss me with that shit. It doesn’t exist. I felt like season 2 went completely off trails and was overall trash (I have read the books once) I only watched the first half of season 3. jtsuth. *Something to keep you going. And like you said, game introduces itself as an RPG so you can choose whatever you like. Hell all of them are. In Witcher 3, all the possible endings are equally valid. I finally picked it up on sale and was so excited to play this nearly universally lauded game. 32. Some people listed true problems about the game but in overall the main problem is that this game is not an RPG like Cyberpunk. Old post: Make sure Vsync isn't forced ON anywhere (NVCP, RTSS etc) Open Documents\The Witcher 3\dx12user. The thing about The Witcher 3 is that, while it has some elements commonly associated with the genre, its linear quest design is antithetical to that experience. It is absolutely as good as everyone says it is. The difference between an RPG and those The combat lacks a sense of weight. If having a good combat with variety and different builds, TW3 is not the game for you. RTGI - On RT Reflections - On RT Shadows - Off RTAO - On*1 (More on this at the end, after hotfix 2) The Witcher 3 Ok so I am not trolling, I love the Witcher 3 and have played through it twice now and have just started a 3rd play through. Usually when people talk about negativities in the Witcher 3, the thing that most often pops up, is the bad combat features. It was just crazy after basically doing a marathon of witcher to end up like that! It's hard to imagine Geralt going down without a fight at the end, but they leave that to your imagination. 6. LarsTheL33T. Opinion: The Witcher 3's gameplay is "okay" at best, not great, but the storylines and visuals still make it a great game. The Witcher is a critically acclaimed fantasy book series created by Andrzej Sapkowski. My two biggest complaints with Witcher 3 were addressed a few months after release: they overhauled the UI and provided an alternative movement option that was more responsive. Choice 2: Accepting the coin if you visit Emhyr leads to a bad choice. It's very good and you very quickly get over the graphical differences in the switch version. The sex cards in the first Witcher game were kind of the game's way of trying to censor those scenes as much as possible so that they didn't actually have to show them in cinematics. It's a good game, a very good one even, that does a lot of things right if you're into narrative-driven fantasy games. Witcher 3 has some of the best writing in any wrpg rivaling mass effect,divinity,dragon age the writing is so good the Bloody Baron sucked me in so hard I was more invested in these characters then finding ciri. We’re planning on releasing it for free in 2024. 0 is well above Ultra from 1. • 8 yr. The game shows you a peasant who is struggling on his farm. Nilfgaard is a lot less free, more controlled, but also less brutal and savage. He absolutely refuses to move for like 2 whole seconds, and when he snags on every invisible thing, it’s drives me mad. At the end of the day, the white frost is defeated and Geralt has fulfilled his part in destiny, so there's that haha. Witcher 3 very much falls into the latter category, but a bit differently to Mass Effect from what I understand. If I play your game for over an hour and the only reason I have to continue playing is because some “real gamer” keeps egging me on, then your game is bad. The games dont really give you too bad of a view of nilfgard. Whether it is the online aspect or cutscenes, world interactionetc. luxmoa. Triss’ voice is sexy. Which camera are you using, original or new? : r/Witcher3. Witcher 3 has had better graphics than most triple A games for a long time past it's release. He doesn't even want to be around humans in the first place. The default audio is set to home theater on PS5 for witcher 3, I'm just using a soundbar so I can set mine to TV or whatever and it sounds much better, also make sure you don't have 3D audio enabled on the PS5. OP • 3 yr. Roach sucks so bad. I think the game is good, but people having been raving on about graphics and there is nothing special about them. PC Specs: Display: 1920x1080, Intel Core i5-13600k, 32GB DDR5 Ram, GTX 3070. Although there are some things that I think are of poor taste (Radovid) I think it sticked more to the base material than season 2, and the 'half-ending' seemed to go in the right way. On that computer, I was able to play this game on Max settings in 4K resolution. For example the Witcher 3 game has 13 hours of cutscenes. 349K subscribers in the Witcher3 community. Yes, it may be technically more correct with reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion all turned on. The major thing I can see based on the first chapter of the game is that they are not very forgiving. That’s boring. Same, performance was fine for me on CP2077 at launch, even running older hardware. The concept of the game seems to be “whoever has better cards wins”. Noshamina. witcher after fixes was a 10/10 game. Too many RPGs have a min/max attitude to them: the perfect build, the perfect ending. The textures are really flat and some of the foliage, trees etc look like cut outs. Yes, my performance was also initially worse, but disabling Screen Space Reflections (which previously didn't do anything) seems to have brought my performance to previous patch levels. So I got use to games like Demon's Souls or DARK SOULS where timing of your dodges or blocks are important. I have reverted to hotfix 2 because performance is so bad with this patch. The series follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter in a universe where people often prove more wicked than beasts. As a matter of fact, when I played the Witcher 3 with mods that was actually on my old computer, which was a GTX 1080 and an i7 7700k. Witcher 3 used to run buttery smooth before, with a lot of settings turned to max (optimized using the GamerNexus article) and with a power usage of about 18-20W while locked at 40Hz. Please submit a ticket . It tends to feel disjointed and doesn't meld well with the side content. The problem is that the game feels like a movie, and if I wanted to watch a movie, I'd watch a movie. Choice 5: Don't let Ciri visit Skjall's grave is the bad choice. The second Witcher game did none of that. Jaskier is great as always. It has a strong world, a serviceable combat system and a massive roster of very interesting characters. DS3 is a bad game. In Witcher 3 regicide is considered good, siding with tree results in totally Ciri’s voice is sexy. Everybody knows of the Yennefer or Triss decision towards the end. I decided to be supportive to Ciri (not make her decisions for her, but supportive) however, this ultimately leads to the worst ending (Ciri doubts herself, Geralt goes to kill the Welcome to r/Witcher3! A subreddit for discussions, news, memes, media, and other topics pertaining to the third installment in the Witcher games franchise. Witcher 3 is a RPG game first and an action game second. For me personally, the combat wasn’t that bad and I can’t recall never thinking that ”wow, this sucks At the moment the only difference from this and an Assassin's Creed game is the sky changes different colours and your facial hair grows. The Witcher 3 lacks all of those things for me. Though originally written in Polish, the franchise gathered a large international following from likewise acclaimed game adaptions by CD Projekt. The crazy emperor won the war and is killing everyone at the stake, Ciri died and Geralt goes off on a vengeance quest just to cry over the medallion before getting bum Personally I prefer pre next gen, more mod compatibility and frankly the new stuff just isn't worth low performance. Main complaints: Basic Movement - The movement is cyclical, scripted, sluggish, and slippery. There's really only a few sword attacks in the Witcher, and a few spells/bombs. Ciri Dies, Geralt performs Suicide by combat, no mention of what happens to Avvalache, Triss, or Yennefer. Being a supportive and protective father figure shouldn't lead to the bad ending ffs. Bummer, because it's cool for some of the monsters - but it has to be disabled for good FPS. In a game called “the Witcher” I wanna do Witcher stuff not decoration. It's very different and has a learning curve, but that's the fun part: once you get it, and learn how to deal with different encounters, it's a very rewarding experience. The sweet spot seems to be max refresh rate minus 20, then divide by 2. So don't be afraid to turn the settings down to High or even Medium to get a good boost to FPS to make up for the performance hit that RT has. Ive played through vanilla+the 2 expansions two times now. even if cp77 has all of its bugs fixed and performance issues optimized, that doesn't fix the shitty ai, the lack of any ai in general, and a shit ton if missing features. For those unaware, all the presets have been changed in the 4. 03 look change the sharpen slider to low and mipmap bias to 0 in either documents/The Witcher 3/user. It’s super profound, very moving and I think CDPR put a lot of work into it. Hardware: Ryzen 3600x 16GB 3200 RAM 6750XT. You have to get 2 good ones to get the witcher endning, 2 (+1 missable) good ones to get the Empress one and, 3 bad ones to get the bad ending. Here is a guide if you're okay with a few minor quests spoilers. That’s about it, or even better download the “HD revorked” mod for the Witcher 3 it’s amazing, and at last good luck and. Compared to something like Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry, etc. Every song can be flawed by bad singer, every story can be flawed by bad storyteller and every TV adaptation can be flawed by bad adapting team. DS3 has this extremely amazing combat system and a good unique storytelling over Witcher 3 while in almost every other area Witcher 3 wins. But the gameplay, soundtrack, the lore, quests and etc are so In NVIDIA Control Panel, force FAST Vsync on the Witcher 3 executable. Objective flaws in art of course exist because art is always accompanied by craft, otherwise it is just unrevealed thought. •. Specs - 3060Ti with a heavy OC - R5 5600 - 32Gb DDR4 3200Mhz. Witcher 3 looks like an out of focus video on Switch. Hairworks off. Astral Chain and Breath of the Wild look considerably better. Choice 3: Accompanying Ciri with the lodge leads to a bad choice. Geralt’s voice is sexy. Dude. And it's supposed to be routine for Geralt, so it works. But in the vast majority of situations, it just doesn't look that good to me. 7. I believe Witcher 3 uses physx version where all work is performed by CPU (bad) instead of GPU (good). They also feel like fan service. 1. • 10 mo. . She tells you right before to “do whatever you want” and if you take her to the Emperor and take the money, she was just a contract that needed to be fulfilled. settings or ingame folder rendering. I don't see anything wrong in that picture. 2K votes, 388 comments. You don't have that "invincibility frame" when you time your dodge so you have to rely on GOOD hitboxes. Only good things that happened was Temeria eventually became a liberated state under Nilfgaard, and Skellige became peaceful and prosperous under Cerys' rule. This is also why novigrad is the worst part of Unpopular Opinion Time - Raytracing looks bad in Next-Gen update. Sure. RTGI - On RT Reflections - On RT Shadows - Off RTAO - On*1 (More on this at the end, after hotfix 2) A fat guy 5 levels below you deals more damage with a punch than an earth elemental 5 levels above you. You don't necessarily need a PC to be a member of the PCMR. I’ve seen a lot of praise for this questline, which is why I decided to do it, but man that was bad. Cabaret/carnal sins questline is bad. ini, not sure where it was. You are infact missing out on some of the story if you don't get the "bad" ending at least All things related to The Witcher - books, games, TV You name it. The issue is the game is made for stronger hardware, and those games are not, so they made stylistic choices (cell shading; pixel art) to allow for good visuals, despite low hardware. But The Witcher 3 keeps it comfortable and pleasant. It is roleplaying, there is no "right" or "wrong" way to play it, it is just a "choose your own path" story. The witcher 3 is a story driven game. Choice 4: Not letting Ciri ransack Avallac'h's lab leads to a bad choice. All the mages in nilfgaard are treated pretty badly, kept on short leashes and closely controlled, and they are also quite racist, unless the nonhumans are useful to them (like the scoi'atel during the second northern war). "The bad ending" also fits with Lamberts quote about witchers getting killed "hunting drowners for 30 orens". All you have to do is turn on RT then hit back to see how it looks while paused, go back and change to performance, hit back and see how it looks while paused. Combat is not without its flaws for sure, and sticks out because nearly every other element within this game is excellent, but isn’t even close to being average or bad as some would suggest. Besides being not an RPG, the animations are really bad for a game on this scale. It's very obvious the difference (water reflections, sun rays, dirt on the lens, the shadows make things more grounded to the world, etc). They are kind up front, but if they perceive you as making a mistake, watch out. The only thing I find cringeworthy is when witches are casting verbal spells. Ive gotten 100% completion on steam for both. If you hate the Witcher 3, it's not likely that people in a sub dedicated to Witcher 3 will give a shit about your opinion. It's got action elements with a ton of things interwoven with it. I however do not like nudity in my games. Jarenien • 7 mo. Super duper yes. TW3 has lots of issues, some really annoying but overall I think it's in the top 3 of best games ever made. 4. 4 (by user score, there are higher rated games with ~200 votes or with metascore less than 80 so im guessing there are mostly fan-votes). I hate that we call it “The bad” ending. So I finally beat the regular game of the Witcher and was originally so excited to go out and buy the DLCs. 03 or lower on PC, which means mipmap bias 0 and less sharpen via the ingame sharpen slider. I'm on a new playthrough of the Witcher 3, am currently in Skellige and sailed for about 600 feet just to There are games with better and more sophisticated combat. It's the same with soulslike games - there are so many now, but only in some of them their combat style actually works. 755hrs on Witcher and 148hrs on Elden Ring (for now). Now it runs at full power on medium settings with a ton of stuttering and lower fps. When it comes to quests, dialogue, and graphics I totally understand the praises The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Witcher 3 is currently the highest rated game on metacritic - 9. All graphics settings on ultra except foliage visibility range on high since it has a larger impact on fps than other settings. But by the time I'm in Velen 90% of the fights for the rest of the game are spamming 1-2 buttons and winning easily, even on Death March. however, I got the worst possible ending. Everyone is DEAD or missing. I recently built my PC and bought the Witcher 3. 2nd place went to Blood and Wine (9. I recommend getting to level 10 and turning that bitch on death March difficulty. There are 5 endings, 2 devastating, 2 sad, and 1 happily-ever-after. I think someone described it as “very real” and closest to true Witcher lore. It's a good game with amazing story and top tier side quests and DLC, but the combat is by very far the worst feature of the game. We’re thrilled to announce that we’re working on a mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt! ⚔️ It will allow you to create your own experiences in the game by making something completely new or editing existing quests and content. maxmw. In Witcher. It's an overhaul for many aspects of the game, including combat. Games need 3 things: *Something to draw you in. ago. Many times, what seems like the right choice ends up having bad consequences, although sometimes it's only that way because the game developers made it that way. 1 devastating and 1 sad are due to picking Triss over Yennefer. Branching plotlines are not enough to make a game an RPG, otherwise Telltale's The Walking Dead or Life is Strange would belong in the genre. I’ve encountered zero major issues. Witcher 3 Bad Ending. With 12900k, and rtx 3090, DLSS quality, my GPU utilization drops to 80% with Hairworks enabled - most noticeable in Velen. There's also a lack of enemy variety, especially in a 100 hour+ game. Not the level of choice or diversity, not the outcomes, but the story itself - CDPR put a lot of effort into coming up with one long, really good story. This is something hard to strictly define, but generally you can feel "weight" in a melee game's combat system from factors like visual and audio feedback, how enemies stagger from your attacks, hitstop effects, etc. Welcome to the official subreddit of the PC Master Race / PCMR! All PC-related content is welcome, including build help, tech support, and any doubt one might have about PC ownership. To disgracefully kill your 3 games old hero because of some immaturely written and portrayed blonde. The Witcher combat isn't bad, it's just not amazing, and it has to hold up for a very long game. Her The awful part of the Witcher 3's open world. With a 3080 you should be able to easily play the game on 4K max Can’t be compared. And these 4 aren't the best chosen ones. EvasionEvo. Today I uninstalled it, very upset that this game ended up being so boring, broken, and irritating. I've also seen videos of people with my settings and hardware running at nearly 100fps. This was dreadful and is magnitudes worse than the previous 2 seasons. Like you said, character's are interesting, and the story is interesting. However I play RPG's for deep complex narratives and characters that move me and I got none of that from this game, yet many praise it for having one of the best stories ever and I want to know what makes it A fat guy 5 levels below you deals more damage with a punch than an earth elemental 5 levels above you. It is bad written and you don't have a lot choices. boguelas. The Witcher 3 Full Disclosure: TW3 is a Top 5 game for me all time, and I have around 400 hours in multiple replays, and am currently hunting down the last few achievements to earn a 100% completion. Much better than the stock game imo. Also it is pretty empty overall compared to Witcher 3. Discussion. I've made way more progress on Switch since I can play it in bed. Basically says the Tree Spirit is the Crones mother that went mad so the Crones had to kill it so the book is saying it's evil but since the book is biased/untrue the Tree Spirit is actually a druid that protects itself based on the beliefs of nature, not good or evil. You say you’re able to play on 1440 P with your 3080. The rare texture not loading right away but that was few and far between. grumpycatisnotdead. But with that said, Witcher 3 hands down. And everyone else has She stops it in all the endings, the bad ending just causes her to lose confidence in herself and die in the process. 3. READ THE RULES BEFORE POSTING, beware of spoilers if you haven’t finished the game. First of all, helping dandelion renovate his place. I'm about 15 hours into Witcher 3. So here's my own 'Optimized RT' settings for a mid-tier system. If I kill the Tree Spirit: ⋅Orphans die ⋅Lots of people live — the I got the bad ending (Spoilers obviously) Spoilers. I love Witcher 3 too but it has many flaws, especially story-wise. *Something to make you do. Now, I'm in agreement with CDPR on all of these except one. settings in notepad Set VSync=true Set LimitFPS=50 (this will depend on your refresh rate. How to not get the bad ending for witcher 3. Makes Ciri feel like you only went to find her for the money. Please remember to flair your post and tag spoilers or NSFW content. They didn't hold back and showed Triss in all her naked glory numerous times in the second game. r/Witcher3. If Witcher 3 had encounters that were designed better, and people had to utilize Geralt's toolkit more strategically, and push the system to its fullest people wouldn't complain so much. Ciri’s voice is sexy. You just have to love PCs. I was getting rather bored with the battles until I did that and then even just a random trash mob becomes a life and death battle. I find this odd considering that numerous websites have claimed that my setup should be getting an average of 90-110. My rig is Ryzen 2700x, 16gb RAM, with RX6600 8GB. Gwent is a bad joke. The Witcher fight will take about 4 times as long, way more control, way more attention and will award a much greater sense of satisfaction. Combat gets kinda stale a few hours in if you go red tree, if you want more fun and versatility, try literally anything else. This is why it isn't mediocre. I’m only alerted to the game by At this point "Witcher 3 is actually secretly bad" is an even more trite opinion than the whole hype around Witcher 3. Just finished my first playthrough of Witcher! The Witcher is a critically acclaimed fantasy book series created by Andrzej Sapkowski. But that’s because of the spells, not because of the words. 0 update. In addition, "Skyrim" is known for open world and "The Witcher" for story. With this game, you get meh gameplay and (I assume) an incredible story. So overall TW3 is a better game if you go by point by point Actually, those YT videos totally could be running on 1. The main focus is on the story, choices you do and the lore and that's completely fine. Radovid is a nice addition. It’s more of an emotional situation than a context situation. People should be prepared for episodes that show the harsh realities of life, with pacing that mimics those experiences. The remaining portion is, you guessed it, cutscenes. There's dozens of weapons with varied movesets, and dozens of enemy types. Witcher 3 doesn't Try re-installing the game, uninstall it and then install again, or if you’re on steam, try to “verify the files”. Not as bad, but witcher didnt have so many missing festures and broken promises compared to Cp77. Change correct dynamic range from audio settings. Try Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition. I was expecting to hate that fat slob but I ended up The main story is probably the worst part of the game honestly. For the 1. Has anyone else never won a single game of gwent, ever? I’d like to think I’m really good at the Witcher 3 and have beaten all the campaign and DLC, but can’t win one match of this stupid side game on the easiest setting. Witcher 3 has quite bad hitboxes. Dodging an attack may and will affect your win or loss. Resolution - 1440p DLSS - Balanced - Sharpening Off Nvidia Reflex - On + Boost. But as soon as the numbers start to pile up, things get difficult. Exactly!! Man Syanna was hated, banished, abused and then abandoned only for being born during an eclipse honestly, she’s mad and unstable and she has all the rights to be. I think it's important to state, I don't think Witcher 3 is a bad game, I'll even say its a very good game. Seems like performance in the W3 update might be more of a DX12 issue, as in CDPR did a bad job implementing it, since people are saying it runs much better in DX11 (haven't tried yet since I'm at work). In most RPGs you can at least get a good sense of which side your decisions will tilt you towards, or which alignment decisions will tilt you towards, and most games are pretty consistent about it, so killing is usually ruled bad, stealing is usually ruled bad, etc. The Witcher 3. What choices do I have to make in act 3 to get the good endings for witcher 3 wild hunt? It's about the way you treat Ciri, There are 4/5 moments and you need at least 3 to avoid the bad ending. I remember feeling empty and maybe even slightly depressed after my first play through with W3, because of how attached I got with all the characters in game. The fucking level system. The plot with Aretuza is relatively interesting. In compare to "The Witcher" you don't have a lot of different endings in "Skyrim". If this is the witcher y'all whiney book witcher fans wanted then I don't know why you cried for so many years. It completely changes the game. lyhdcmuvgpnajzcbcopw