The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt

[The Wobbly Orange]

Is anyone else playing this. It has to be one of the most bleak and compelling games I have ever played. I have a pretty hefty graphics card yet even at a mere 1080p I can only play on high with a couple of settings dialled back to medium.

I think I need a better paying job to play it in glorious 4k.


How are other people finding it?
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[barrkel]

I have a GTX680 in my PC here - beefy in its time, though aging now - and I can count the number of games I played on High settings on the fingers of one hand. I've always found High settings dropped frames in complex scenes, and in games, complex scenes are often high stress where you need to act quickly, so dropped frames directly impact your ability to stay alive.

So typically I scale things back so that it's a solid 60fps everywhere. I'm far more interested in a rock-solid smooth experience than a high fidelity experience. Can be very fiddly to achieve in many modern games that don't have a decent built-in benchmark to test settings against. I have memories of spending a bunch of time at the tops of mountains, edges of towns, etc., where dropped frames were obvious, and iteratively fiddling until the notchiness went away.

To answer your question, I have yet to finish Witcher 2, on my second attempt after I got bored the first time. Witcher 1 had an awesome plot twist so I started out very enthusiastic, but it waned. The bootup-time (including client download / upgrade almost every time) of Steam doesn't help with making it quick and easy to get into a game.
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[joncwl]

Absolutely loving it I'm must be 30 hours in and haven't progressed the story a great deal there's so much to do and it hasn't felt like skyrim-syndrome yet not even the slightest
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[The Wobbly Orange]

Drowners are a pain. They keep swarming me. Any tips?
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[joncwl]

[BigShow]

[trevoriv]

My sli gtx560's can't cope

I thought GTA was bad but this has made me upgrade.
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[Sload]

Nope, never finished the second title, was fun but laborious.
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[RichardCraniu...]

For anyone who's put off by the £50 price tag, it's currently on sale on cdkeys.com for £20
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[BigShow]

So I am now many hours in (playing it on XB1) and it's shaping up to be in my top 3 games of all time if not best of all time and I do not say that lightly.

There's more content, story and character development in any single side quest then most full games out there. The environment is rich and feels populated and alive, it's totally immersive and like the OP said compelling, plus it's just really fun to play and there's loads of topless women. They've made a masterpiece imo.

[The Wobbly Orange]

Well took me about 100 hours but that's it all done. Roll on the DLC.
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