They already released a patch. There are people with many, many hours in the game and haven't mentioned any real problems.
Every big game that comes out now get's post-release patches for bug fixes and what not. Sometimes there's a performance patch too.
The first Blacksmith is at the Nilfgaardian camp where you accept the contract from the captain when asking about Yenneffer. You can't miss him, you go there as part of the main quest line.
A couple things, does anyone else find the camera slightly annoying at times? Like when you are trying to loot a box and you run slightly over it and the option disappears and you have to rotate the camera around and it kind of fights you? Also sometimes when you are moving around corners indoors, it fights you when it sort of zooms in. Also the fall damage...how can dropping 6 feet kill a Witcher. "Hey guys I'm a badass sword fighter who can kill any beast and take on an army of men single handedly, but I have weak ankles so if I trip over a rock I'm done for". Lastly the combat itself, I hold block/parry but sometimes still get hit. I'm not sure how that mechanic works as it seems way too hit or miss when I attempt to use it. When fighting humans it works fine though most of the time. Maybe I need to just dodge instead but at times that moves Geralt way too far away from the enemy and you can't attack from that distance.
Every big game that comes out now get's post-release patches for bug fixes and what not. Sometimes there's a performance patch too.
They already released a patch. There are people with many, many hours in the game and haven't mentioned any real problems.
lolIs there any way to disable Geralt's beard? The shaving thing gets old really quickly, and I can never find any barbers.
Seems common, GTA V had the same strict cutscene ratios.
And while it may be annoying for those 21:9 displays, I love a true 16:9 HUD on a 48:9 setup (3x1080p surround/eyefinity), stretched HUDs can be very bad.
A good thing would be an option to have both, stretched for 21:9 but an ability to lock it in for multi-monitor.
They already released a patch. There are people with many, many hours in the game and haven't mentioned any real problems.
I find that parry/block only works against certain weapons, or maybe it is the level of your target? Those bandits with big two handed axes? that shit will not block...or it's just because they are level 5 and I am so far level 1 and 2. I spend most of my time trying to dodge around to eh side, anyway, as I'm getting nearly 60% effective at avoiding all damage that way.
For parry to work, you have to time it just before you are about to be struck. I haven't got that down yet.
My first 8-10 hours were problem free but since then, I have started getting regular freezes after 1-2 hours of play. Game doesn't crash, just becomes unresponsive. Not game-breaking, just annoying.
I believe parry is only partially effective against 2H weapons. Against a guy with a regular longsword you can parry all day.
Also, parry doesn't have to be timed. You can hold the button and Geralt will stay in the parry stance blocking everything. The counter move (where you parry then punch/kick the guy off balance) has to be timed after the attack begins.
doesn't parry technically mean "counterattack?" small thing, but I was distinguishing between "parry" and "block", where parry needs to be timed, and yes, you can block all day.
If you're off the beaten path running on foot or galloping on Roach and all of a sudden the game seems to experience a slight inexplicable blip or sudden pause that lasts maybe half a second (due to a 5 FPS drop), then you may want to consider lowering your shadow setting.....at least until CDPR optimizes it a bit more..
After much testing, I narrowed it down to the shadows being on ultra that was causing it. The shadow rendering distance to be more specific, which corresponds to this ini. tweak:
CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=1
Lowering that setting ameliorates the problem, increasing it exacerbates it. Now this only seems to occur in certain off beat areas, and I think the reason for that is that CDPR spent most of their time optimize the shadow maps for places where the player would most normally travel. But if you go off the beaten path, then you could encounter this annoying problem..
Overclocking my GPUs did not help either, which surprised me.. The only thing that got rid of it was to drop shadow quality from ultra to high.. That said I'm still going to play on ultra shadow settings as it's a minor problem (albeit annoying) that only manifests in certain locations..
doesn't parry technically mean "counterattack?" small thing, but I was distinguishing between "parry" and "block", where parry needs to be timed, and yes, you can block all day.
This can't just be me, when people say they are running the game "smooth" at 40-60fps I just can't see how that is possible. Either A: They are blind or B: They have are happy with shit performance. I had to tweak my settings for over an hour before I was able to get somewhere in the range of 55-60fps on a R9 280, even still I am not happy. The minute the frames drop to 55 I can feel the drop, I can see it. I have no idea how people can play any game at less than 60fps.
This can't just be me, when people say they are running the game "smooth" at 40-60fps I just can't see how that is possible. Either A: They are blind or B: They have are happy with shit performance. I had to tweak my settings for over an hour before I was able to get somewhere in the range of 55-60fps on a R9 280, even still I am not happy. The minute the frames drop to 55 I can feel the drop, I can see it. I have no idea how people can play any game at less than 60fps.