Mankind has chosen savagery.
Or maybe there’s still time to stop the Gamers™…
If you want bank robbing there’s always payday 2. Everyone, guys and gals wear a snappy suit. Except Sangres and his garish shirt(s). And Ron Perlman. Bodhi too.
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Well, got my Sinrunner Blanchy. And that’s gonna be it from me for this patch. I am just not enjoying this expansion at all. I hope for 9.1 Blizzard will be so kind to add a modicum of fun to this game again.
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Just finished watching NGE
yeah that was weird alright
How come out of curiosity? I’m also having issues so I’m curious.
One thing I don’t like are dungeons. I don’t enjoy bosses, often I don’t like the dungeon design either! Too few mobs or too many between bosses.
They finally fixed the bug with taming a flayed wing chimaera.
When I haven’t got the sub to tame one with.
I know you didn’t ask for my opinion but there was a reason for anybody to leave the game is simply the amount of chores for minimal amount of return.
Go collect Anima here.
Go collect souls there.
Run Torghast for like 2H and more if you fail to kill the last boss and get no return on time investment for the 5 previous floors you won.
The ridiculous amount of currencies to collect on the first gosh darn patch.
I won’t diss on Mythic +, Raiding and the current loot system as it is. It has issues but it’s fine overall.
Now imagine having to do multiple alts. Sure you can get them pretty quick to max level but the time sink these chores take on you is ridiculous. Chieun is correct when she said that this the grindiest of all expansion for cosmetics rewards and so on. The slow progression of gearing is also terribly felt if you’re in a pug setting (A guild can circumvent much of it though.) regardless of role, a tank or heal may get dungeons invites faster but that means nothing if the gear obtained is sparse.
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It’s repetitive and a grindfest and I’m sad.
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If you are a new player, going for an OP build (which is literally just taking a few perks straight from attack power and spells and then going full alchemy) definitely makes the fights cheesy- But I personally have started to value aesthetically pleasing gameplay over just winning fights.
The short answer is that “yes, you can do it”, but you will have a bit of a bad time in some encounters, and higher level opponents will feel near impossible to beat- But I kind of feel thats the whole point of deathmarch in the first place.
I personally really like the idea of my Geralt being really good fighter wise, and hate just being under the effects of a draught/potion all the time. I also like using signs, particularly aard and igni, as I feel they are the most witcher-y. Though, if you -really- don’t want to have a complete CBT time, I -really- suggest you put 3 points into Axii just for the dialogue options it gives.
One thing to note though is that you probably want to bind your dodge/sidestep as your default defensive over the roll move. Parrying is also a bit risky, so if you are new to the whole game, it’s best to focus on dodging. In general, however, you can parry:
- Most human-sized or smaller opponents stationary/counter attacks.
What you usually can not parry:
- Leaping/charging attacks.
- Opponents that are larger than you.
- Special attacks.
- Two handed weapons (Axes, maces, polearms).
Parrying in general is a bit of a punished mechanic in the Witcher because even when you get a riposte off, it doesn’t safeguard you from being hit, especially if you are being attacked by muliple opponents. Don’t be afraid to use everything in your arsenal, including bombs (Moon dust is SUPER good vs wraiths and vampires, specifically).
Using sidestep/dodge in general is safer and more rewarding when you want to reposition yourself, while having Quen to guard you from stray blows. Fast attacks are also safer to use than heavier attacks. Also a good thing to note is that vs most opponents, they recover/counterattack after you land 2-3 attacks, so its a good idea to just dodge/use a sign on them rather than try and force another combo in.
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Yeah because gamers hate em (apparently).
Got a crank caller pretending to be from the HMRC last night telling me there was an arrest warrant out for me.
They said they’d phone me back in the morning about sending them money, so I after getting off the phone with them imediately phoned the met about the “warrant” for the lady to answer me to call the scammer (and I quote) “scum” also got concerned if this scammer had phoned somebody vulnerable instead who wouldn’t have varified it.
So anyway, the scammer rang me up this morning, I told her that I rang up the police about the warrant and that the operator called her scum, the scammer told me; “i’m not in the mood, **** off” and hung up on me.
That wasn’t very professional now was it?
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They hate reality not conforming with their anime waifu fantasy a lot of the time by the looks of it.
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I think it’s that but also in general among youth (including my own generation), I feel there is a lot less courtship and/or interest on the opposing sex, beyond the obvious funny business- Regardless if you are a man or woman, I feel.
I also think that in general the whole “outrage culture” as we know it, regardless of whether its to do with games, politics or whatever else, is largely because of social media, which sadly is a genie you can’t really put back in the bottle. Back when I was small and I played video games for example nobody gave a crap about whether your character was a male or a female (E.g. Tomb raider) regardless of gender, but these days before you even purchase the game and look up information about it there’s a several tweets and facebook posts worth of complaining how it is political, ruined or w/e.
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We need to discredit and destroy the false notion that games suddenly became Political in 2012 or something like that.
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Yeah games had women in them back in the 90s.
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More than that; the whole idea of gaming having been this wholesome, entirely apolitical thing until the essjays came and demanded lara’s boobs to be smaller.
The fact that the same people can’t seem to figure out the nakedly blatant politics of classics like deus ex tells me half of these people are click/sub grifters and the rest are in dire need of a new hobby.
If your whole political awareness is summed up in wanting no more politics in X (Gaming, star wars, etc), you haven’t been paying any attention and are probably disinclined to even learn why you’re wrong.
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yeah the real travesty is that they became less angular
more seriously - yeah it’s pretty impressive how people miss the politics in Deus Ex, a game that has a long unavoidable politics rant in its first level
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why did no one tell me how cool the tomb kings are
been beating my head against the wall trying to play dwarves when i could just ravage the world as egyptian skeletons.
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yeah ‘The Mummy’ is a fun movie.
waiting for them to add a scorpion king lord using a badly cgi’d Dwayne Johnson as the reference for the model
The same blindness to the inherently political cyberpunk genre got its understandable upswing recently but it’s somehow easy to miss.
I sort of doubt much of it is useful discussion in good faith since, as with my earlier example, these are people who either didn’t or pretend not to notice what the empire in star wars represent.
I won’t even get into the socialist utopian vision of star trek.