Complaints..had to be some.

On food? Then you're probably playing on hard setting. I'm playing on the third dunno what's it called, but the one that won't restore health when you meditate.
It looked like normal and I always play games first time on normal. The other two lower looked like easy and casual.
I do believe it's normal because some fights did get a bit easy, but some were challenging when a bunch of trashmobs I can't parry jump on me and a werewolf, although not outlevelling me much (I was level 4, quest suggested level 6), I couldn't beat at all (left him for later).

Didn't have to buy food anywhere yet, have plenty of it from looting. Swallow does the trick while in fights. I did take some "sun" whatever abiility so while I'm just exploring it does regenerate.

Originally Posted by joxer
Didn't have to buy food anywhere yet, have plenty of it from looting. Swallow does the trick while in fights. I did take some "sun" whatever abiility so while I'm just exploring it does regenerate.

Sun & Stars, I reckon, I took that too - vitality regen by day, stam by night. I don't think not being able to regen through meditation adds to difficulty in the least - it just means you have to hang around longer or use some food, which is quite plentiful anyway - I have a stash of about 80 raw meat right now.

Originally Posted by joxer
On food? Then you're probably playing on hard setting. I'm playing on the third dunno what's it called, but the one that won't restore health when you meditate.
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Yes in the beginning I spent money on food and a lot of it. Not now I think I am at level 12 or 13 but in the early levels yes food….

I have not looted one thing from any town.

Loot everything!
This is RPG, you're supposed to loot barrels and find all illogical stuff in them!
Unless you're playing dogooder Geralt…

Avoid looting guarded containers ofc, if you try that guards will attack you and are usually near level 30, you can't win them early.

Originally Posted by joxer
Loot everything!
This is RPG, you're supposed to loot barrels and find all illogical stuff in them!
Unless you're playing dogooder Geralt…

Killing bandits will give you quite a bit of food and water for "free". You can also hunt wildlife for fur and meat (use Axii to make it easier or create your own hare followers).

Do I (after Dragon Age: Bears) look like wildlife hunter?

Fur and meat you can get easily by nailing hans, ducks, cows, pigs etc in villages.

Originally Posted by JDR13
I just realized that the contents of a store will change slightly every time you talk to a merchant. That's a big no-no in my book.

Why.. it is realistic! someone else bought it.

I can't go Skyrimming(is that even a word) in this game. With Skyrim I had mindless fun just running around trying to get to the top of mountains or finding the next cave that was the same as the last cave.

I just can't do that in this game every where you go there is content and a lot of it.

Maybe that isn't a complaint at all….

It certainly means I'm exploring a lot more cautiously, because you can run into a situation that actually requires thinking, sort of…

You can't go Skyrimming here because there is no bloody annoying dragon above Mage's Guild lurking, waiting for you every single time you fasttravel there.

One thing I do really dislike is that they allow you to go into the homes of every villager and remove everything that isn't nailed down, even if the family is at home - you can snuck stuff from under their noses and they don't bat an eyelash.

Considering how well designed the rest of the game is for the most part, I can't understand how they thought this was a good idea: Geralt may be a gruff character, but surely one doesn't want to play him as a common thief. And besides having to go into every house and painstakingly sort through the peasants belongings does not add to gameplay in the slightest.

I rather think that this obsession with huge amounts of loot started with the explosions of useless loot that the original Diablo had and devs now think that players won't be happy if they aren't laying their theiving fingers on stuff every five seconds or so. IMOP most RPGS would be much better with 1/4 the amount of loot (make that a 1/10 for skyrim! ).

Originally Posted by Roq
One thing I do really dislike is that they allow you to go into the homes of every villager and remove everything that isn't nailed down, even if the family is at home - you can snuck stuff from under their noses and they don't bat an eyelash.

Considering how well designed the rest of the game is for the most part, I can't understand how they thought this was a good idea: Geralt may be a gruff character, but surely one doesn't want to play him as a common thief. And besides having to go into every house and painstakingly sort through the peasants belongings does not add to gameplay in the slightest.

I rather think that this obsession with huge amounts of loot started with the explosions of useless loot that the original Diablo had and devs now think that players won't be happy if they aren't laying their theiving fingers on stuff every five seconds or so. IMOP most RPGS would be much better with 1/4 the amount of loot (make that a 1/10 for skyrim! ).

The Witcher games have always been like that, no clue why. That is why I rarely bother with going into houses in the game unless I know there is something need to be done in the house.

I am sure there is a lot of pressure out there to give the MASSES loot to collect so that could be one reason but doesn't explain why in the other games it was similar.

Though if this is the worst mistake of the game that they wasted time putting useless waste into the game then so be it.

I already have more than 2000 orens, and I buy most of recipes. Looting the dead off battlefields, also the corrupt priest didn't know what he was getting himselfl into.

Originally Posted by Thrasher
I already have more than 2000 orens, and I buy most of recipes. Looting the dead of battlefields also the corrupt priest didn't know what he was getting himselfl into.

Orens are meant to be spent on drinks and well….

Priest selling coke is bad?

I don't have a problem with the way looting is done. What is a peasant going to say to a Witcher anyways? Soldiers or bandits on the other hand will react if you try to loot their stuff.

So I've killed a few algouls now (nasty bastards) and still no bestiary entry.

The only bigger issue I have is the loading of NPCs when I enter an area. This very commonly happens. NPCs sometimes only see to get loaded/become visible when I get close to them. Sometimes I even see their name tags above where their bodies should be, and then they pop-in. I hope they fix this issue. If this is a performance issue, where NPCs are loaded on a background thread, I would expect this to happen on consoles, but since it's happening on my i7 4790K I'm not sure. I hope it's a bug and that it gets fixed.

EDIT: Awesome, seems it's a known issue, and they're investigating it.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threa…ery-slowly-PS4

Originally Posted by danutz_plusplus
The only bigger issue I have is the loading of NPCs when I enter an area. This very commonly happens. NPCs sometimes only see to get loaded/become visible when I get close to them. Sometimes I even see their name tags above where their bodies should be, and then they pop-in. I hope they fix this issue. If this is a performance issue, where NPCs are loaded on a background thread, I would expect this to happen on consoles, but since it's happening on my i7 4790K I'm not sure. I hope it's a bug and that it gets fixed.

EDIT: Awesome, seems it's a known issue, and they're investigating it.
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threa…ery-slowly-PS4

It's happens as well with deserter/bandit camps. I arrive and wonder have I already cleared it and suddenly a few short pants guys appear saying "Get him".

Originally Posted by JDR13
I don't have a problem with the way looting is done. What is a peasant going to say to a Witcher anyways? Soldiers or bandits on the other hand will react if you try to loot their stuff.

Perhaps:

"Please don't nick all my stuff and ransack my village, cos if you do we are all going to starve" or….

"A witcher doesn't make trouble, he makes trouble go away" or…

"If you nick that I'm not going to give you the gwent card you need to complete your quest".

Take your pick . I mean you can't be serious - if you want to play Geralt as a thieving ratbag, thats your prerogative, but it isn't how CDPR designed the game. So its a defect from an immersion POV for those who notice that sort of thing.

Sure, for those who are extremely anal, but that would be a small minority.

I'm pretty big on immersion myself, and I don't have a problem with it.