The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Scareb]

Witcher 3 patch 1.10 is a monster, full notes revealed • Eurogamer.net

 

[VALVOLINER]

15GB Patch!?

 

[Matt S]

17gb on ps4

 

[Dead-Man]

A Patch that's almost the size of the Phantom Pain .. Great

 

[Matt S]

On the PS4, witcher 3 now takes up 48 gb and change

 

[SAB]

My harddrive hit full this week and I had to delete older games to get Uncharted Trilogy on there.
Another 17gig for a patch is irritating. Going to have start looking at installing a bigger drive.

 

[Ex-Parrot]

Yep, one definite downside of current gen is that we've hit an age where the patches for the latest game in the franchise are often now just as big as the entire install size of the previous game in the series on the last gen platforms was... This is one of the reasons that I waited for the 1TB PS4 to hit before I upgraded. And even that is eventually going to need a harddrive switch out (I figure I'll get about a year out of it before space starts becoming an issue for me).

I've also got to think that they could optimise many of these patches to make them smaller, but it is probably a lot more work to do that, and without the size limitations any more they just wholesale replace/overwrite big chunks of the installed file structure instead as the quickest and easiest (for them) solution.

It's also a pain in the ass for those of us who have monthly download caps, I mean all these patches quickly add up, even when they're 'only' four gig or so a piece. Let alone the huge updates like this one. Ah, first world problems, eh?

 

[Matt S]

PS4 needs to support external hdds, then its a non issue. I have a 4tb one for $115 via Amazon -

 

[KitFisto]

I ended up uninstalling this and will trade it in. This is one of those games that just too much going on. Need 50 million things to make potions and have to go on 10 mini quests to even try to get stuff. Too many different menus and such. I can see why some love it, but for me it was too "busy". I like something in between this and just a button masher.

 

[PermaG]

Actually...you dont NEED to make anything.

Completed the game on hardest setting without really making anything.
As far as gear and whatnot, most of the quest rewards or pieces they eventually give you are on par with what you need if not better.

Never crafted gear, made a few potions to test them out, but hardly worth the effort compared to the beating things up.
Only things I ever really crafted were the item they wanted me to craft to push the story or quest along.


My biggest gripe with the game is the dumb tiered quests.

Get 1 quest, go get this thing. Ok.
Show up, talk to someone, they will give me this thing, if I do something for them. Ok.
Go to do that new thing, encounter someone that wants me to go get a 3rd thing for the 2nd, needed for the 1st....and so on.

 

[KitFisto]

Get 1 quest, go get this thing. Ok.
Show up, talk to someone, they will give me this thing, if I do something for them. Ok.
Go to do that new thing, encounter someone that wants me to go get a 3rd thing for the 2nd, needed for the 1st....and so on.

Yep, hence I didn't get far and Uninstalled

 

[Scareb]

Installing that giant ass update on my Xbone as we speak in anticipation of the DLC tomorrow. 16GB.......BAH.

 

[SAB]

Actually...you dont NEED to make anything.

Completed the game on hardest setting without really making anything.
As far as gear and whatnot, most of the quest rewards or pieces they eventually give you are on par with what you need if not better.

Never crafted gear, made a few potions to test them out, but hardly worth the effort compared to the beating things up.
Only things I ever really crafted were the item they wanted me to craft to push the story or quest along.

But witcher gear!
Mastercrafter bear school witcher armor is by far the coolest looking gear in the game.
...followed by Wolf school armor.

Geralt needs the proper duds!

 

[Hellion]

Can soneobe tell me where exactly Vesemir is located back at Kaer Morhen for the Berengars blade mission? I can find Yen and the other two Witchers but cannot find him anywhere.

 

[chris rankin]

I ended up uninstalling this and will trade it in. This is one of those games that just too much going on. Need 50 million things to make potions and have to go on 10 mini quests to even try to get stuff. Too many different menus and such. I can see why some love it, but for me it was too "busy". I like something in between this and just a button masher.

Glad I am not the only one. I tried to play this a couple of times and couldn't get into it at all. I listened to all the hype about how great this game is and it probably is for most people but not my cup of tea so I wasted 55 euros on it and won't even get half that back when I trade it in.

 

[Solidus]

It is a great game, and a serious contender for GOTY awards. I take it some of you guys never played RPGs before?

 

[KitFisto]

It is a great game, and a serious contender for GOTY awards. I take it some of you guys never played RPGs before?

RPG isn't the issue. For my taste this game had too many menu's to figure out. There were just too many little things you needed to do while in combat. Too many enimies that simply totally over matched you in the wild. Like I said, this game was just too "busy" in so many areas. I love RPGs, but did not like this game. I also felt the controls were clunky.

 

[chris rankin]

It is a great game, and a serious contender for GOTY awards. I take it some of you guys never played RPGs before?

I like RPG's and I love the Fallout games but they have a much more simple menu and combat system and it was easier to get used to. I think if you have played the other Witcher games then it probably will be better but I never have so maybe that's why.

 

[Solidus]

RPG isn't the issue. For my taste this game had too many menu's to figure out. There were just too many little things you needed to do while in combat. Too many enimies that simply totally over matched you in the wild. Like I said, this game was just too "busy" in so many areas. I love RPGs, but did not like this game. I also felt the controls were clunky.

The combat's pretty straight forward. You have an attack, dodge, and parry button, then there's a magic wheel to cast spells. That's it, nothing more.

As for the menus, you've got an equip menu, an inventory menu, and alchemy/potion menu, and an upgrade menu for leveling up abilities. That's it. It's really straight-forward. I dunno, it just sounds like you really never gave this game a chance.

Also, you've got to keep an eye on your character level. Don't engage in quests that require a higher character level than you currently have (eg. if Geralt is at level 4, you should avoid a quest that has a difficulty setting of level 10).

I like RPG's and I love the Fallout games but they have a much more simple menu and combat system and it was easier to get used to. I think if you have played the other Witcher games then it probably will be better but I never have so maybe that's why.

Are you guys sharing accounts? See my reply above. I played all of the games, but I thought Witcher 2 had a far less sophisticated menu system than this.

 

[Scareb]

I never played or even really heard of the first two games when I picked up witcher 3 and I find I sometimes get overwhelmed by games like these but I legit loved everything about this game. It's epic.