Witcher 3 - News Roundup

GameRanx brings news that the next two free DLCs for this game will be released on May 27th. A quote:

This DLC includes a new contract for players to take up that is appropriately named "Missing Miners" and sends players on a mission to locate and rescue a group of miners that have gone missing. The second DLC item for this week will be an alternate look for Yennefer, one of the game's primary NPCs.

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VG 24/7 reports that the problem with saving games on Xbox One will be adressed in
a patch.

According to a post on the official forums, Cd Projekt RED quest designer Philipp Weber said the team is "aware of the issue" and is treating it "very seriously." "We hope to put the fix in a patch as soon as possible," he wrote.

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GameTrailers has made a review with a score 9.8/10 for this game.

Shacknews has an editorial about five things to be loved about the The Witcher 3, ranging from Geralt's beard to the Gwent game. A quote then, about bandits fighting in their underwear:

We get that times are tough, but at least put on some pants. The land is full of bandits that love fighting in little more than their skivvies, shoes, and a helmet. This is either an audacious act of intimidation to show that they don't need armor to fight you, or it's a clear sign that there's not much on them worth looting. Either way, naked bandits are abound, and it's up to you to teach them the merits of wearing pants. Then again, there's a scene where Geralt fights wearing just a bath towel, so maybe we shouldn't be so judgmental.

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Kotaku's Phil Owen has written an editorial on how the longer he spends time with the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the faster he moves in it:

Once I became absorbed in The Witcher 3's main plot, I started sprinting more and more and now, even with a ways to go, I've irrevocably shifted into fast-and-furious mode. Unfortunately for me, that meant I spent nearly all of my weekend alone in my apartment playing this game, and I'm still not done yet. Hopefully I'm close, or else I'm going to lose tonight and the next couple days to it as well. This is a key reason why I've often harped on game length. It interferes with my life! It's not CD Projekt's fault I am what I am, though.

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More information.

Steven Wong:
5 Strange Things to Love About The Witcher 3

• Geralt's Amazing Beard
• Liquor is Best
• Geralt is Medieval Batman
• The World is Addicted to Gwent
• Bandits like to Fight in Their Underwear

The panteless bandits always makes me think of this scary fella from True Detective



wouldn't be too far fetched to think he was the inspiration

vurt said:

The panteless bandits always makes me think of this scary fella from True Detective

wouldn't be too far fetched to think he was the inspiration

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What those near-naked men in Witcher III are wearing are actually late medieval 'shorts' ('braies') minus the leggings that normally are attached:



There are actually a lot of medieval depictions of people just wearing the 'shorts' while working outdoors. I suspect the bandits etc. only wearing shorts and a helmet are supposed to have been 'surprised' when you run into them and didn't have time to attach the leggings or put on a shirt / tunic. Or maybe the leggings and tunics were torn apart by the many wild and/or rabid dogs in the game…