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The best new feature of 1.05 is "Longer loading times". So glad they added that.

Can't say I've experienced any longer loading times, and if I have then they weren't noticeably longer.

There is however a bug where you can no longer create more than one mutagen if you already have at least one of the same type equipped or in your inventory. The only way to get around it currently is unequipping and dropping the mutagen(s) you want to create more of. To create a greater red mutagen, for example, you'll need to create a red mutagen, drop it, another one, drop that, a third, and pick the first two back up to create the greater.

Do people need gold that bad that they need a cheat for it? I found it pretty easy to get and just finished the game with full master crafted everything and around 30k crowns in me saddlebags

I'm only about level 18, and I haven't really found any use for gold. Most of the weapons I have are either crafted or looted, same with armour and runes/glyphs. I loot enough to stay in the fairly high thousands of gold no matter what I have crafted or repaired. Quests give a fairly decent amount of coin. Unless someone wanted to buy out entire merchant inventories at a time, I can't see how they'd struggle to get along by simply playing the game normally.

The recipes for Greater Runes are pretty expensive, and crafting some of the gear sets can get pricey.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but patch 1.05 hit yesterday: http://steamcommunity.com/games/292030/announcements/detail/134326778451604577

Amongst the fixes is my favourite fix in a game ever: "Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative."

What is the BDFI, and why does it exist? Well, there was an exploit people used where killing cows, looting them for their valuable hides, meditating for an hour in the same spot so they respawn, and rinse repeating provided large amounts of gold. Now? After meditating, you get attacked by the Bovine Defence Force, consisting solely of a single huge, overlevelled monster that spawns after you've meditated.

It can be killed, but by the time you're at a level high enough--with gear good enough--to kill it, the cash-cow exploit is practically worthless.

That's hilarious. You can get unlimited amounts of food (a boon for the highest 2 difficulty levels where you don't regenerate health on meditation) by killing chickens in Crow's Perch too, when all the villagers are hiding.

 Necros wrote:
Do people need gold that bad that they need a cheat for it?

It's wasn't cheating. If they wanted to cheat they just could have done so.

I know that in the early parts of the game, gold felt precious and rare, and I hoarded every coin I could. By the time I got to Novigrad and exchanged the florens for gold at the bank, I was swimming with over 3000 gold and suddenly not much to spend it on. I rarely have to buy much of anything anymore other than diagrams, gwent cards, and payment for smithing services.

I got up to around 17000, but then went back down to 9k due to buying diagrams/ingredients to make greater Glyphs.

The problem is it's bugged. It'll say you need, for example, two lessers to make a regular, but will only acknowledge that you have lessers if you make them, even if you already have two of the lessers you need. Bloody annoying.

I feel like you start swimming in gold the moment you hit Novigrad.

... and then you hit Skellige and everything is expensive. I blew 8k on diagrams for runes.

That's where most of my money went.

What levels did you all get to Skellige? I'm 21 and still wandering around discovering Velen, even though several Skellige quests are long grey, now. I never bothered going before, because the first mention of what I was to expect came upon accepting the level 24 Master Armourer quest in Crow's Perch. After all the annoyances I had with stumbling across overlevelled enemies just in Velen, I thought 'feth Skellige, I'll wait until I'm a high enough level'.

I probably should've gone earlier to chase up the main story, but being as invested in Velen as I already am, I didn't want to leave and come back to a place where every side quest is grey. Unfortunately, there are a lot of side quests, and I've gotten rather... distracted.

I wonder if it's mathematically possible to hit every side quest without overlevelling for any...

Dunno. I did a lot of Skellige stuff then realised, by rank 20, that the recommended level for the Novigrad stuff was 10, so I headed back east and am now doing those plotlines.

Eight hours ago I was hunting a giant... now I'm running around a city interviewing scorned lovers. What a wild life Witchers live!

I was really excited for the new patch for PS4 because I have trouble reading the text, and when it installed I couldn't notice any difference at all.

I noticed another supposed fix was that geralt wouldn't accidentally activate lights when trying to loot stuff, but that didn't get fixed either.

Overall, I just haven't noticed any changes at all with the PS4 patch. Am I missing something, or where they just really subtle (and therefore not very useful)?

Different topic - is it just me, or is yennifer just a gigantic bitch? I mean, I didn't expect her to be some swooning damsel or anything, but she barely seems to give a gak about anything, much less geralt.

And their reunion was far from romantic, or even emotional. He spends two games looking for her, and finds her within a couple hours of the start of the game and it's like "Long time, no see." Just, very anticlimactic.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dunno. I did a lot of Skellige stuff then realised, by rank 20, that the recommended level for the Novigrad stuff was 10, so I headed back east and am now doing those plotlines.

Eight hours ago I was hunting a giant... now I'm running around a city interviewing scorned lovers. What a wild life Witchers live!

I wish at level 40 there were quests that were for level 40 people. Sadly there aren't any....

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Dunno. I did a lot of Skellige stuff then realised, by rank 20, that the recommended level for the Novigrad stuff was 10, so I headed back east and am now doing those plotlines.

Eight hours ago I was hunting a giant... now I'm running around a city interviewing scorned lovers. What a wild life Witchers live!

I always wondered how Geralt went from hunting a dragon and diving around in other realms in Witcher 2, and then when we get to Witcher 3, he's having troubles killing a ghoul.

Having just finished TW2 a week before TW3 launched... yeah, that was a bit jarring. It seems that either he's got more amnesia than he lets on (or knows), or that the only monsters left are the really, really dangerous ones.

I also felt that the difficulty took a rather major ramp up. I'm pretty sure I beat witcher 2 on advanced (whatever's between normal and hard), so I tried blood and broken bones and was just getting wrecked.

Even on normal difficulty I have to approach even downers with caution - it's really easy to get boxed in and combo'd down, and the little bastards are really quick.

While the monsters I've found substantially more dangerous, I'm finding the humans have the opposite effect. where I have to watch my step with a group of 4 drowners, I rode into a camp of like 20 pirates and killed them all without much trouble at all.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
I also felt that the difficulty took a rather major ramp up. I'm pretty sure I beat witcher 2 on advanced (whatever's between normal and hard), so I tried blood and broken bones and was just getting wrecked.

Even on normal difficulty I have to approach even downers with caution - it's really easy to get boxed in and combo'd down, and the little bastards are really quick.

While the monsters I've found substantially more dangerous, I'm finding the humans have the opposite effect. where I have to watch my step with a group of 4 drowners, I rode into a camp of like 20 pirates and killed them all without much trouble at all.

Having this exact issue. It's at a point now where I sometimes sit just outside of their engagement zone and smack (well, really just plinking) them with crossbow bolts till enough die for me to manageably win in close combat.

One tip I have is just get as many bombs as you can. there's a youtube video of a guy near novigrad who sells all basic bomb recipies, and while bombs are costly initially, they cost 1 dwarven spirit to regenerate them all, in addition to all potions, which is a mechanic I feel wasn't explained well at all and is honestly a little open to abuse.

But things get a bit easier when you've got a dozen almost free bombs at your disposal, and just spam those potions too. They're almost free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HYmtl9Wsiw

Also, axii is pretty great for stunning and getting a nice crit from the rear.

Signs are your friends against just about everything. VS humans, Axii is my go-to, because they'll stand there stupid and let you whack their heads off if it works. Against human hordes, Aard or Igni. Igni vs anything monster that isn't immune to fire. Yrden vs any wraith, ghost, spectre or similar spooky thing. Quen against any huge thing, because shields are nice.

ETA: Also, Thunderbolt is your friend. I am an Enhanced Thunderbolt addict in just about every fight, just cleaving through fools.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
One tip I have is just get as many bombs as you can. there's a youtube video of a guy near novigrad who sells all basic bomb recipies, and while bombs are costly initially, they cost 1 dwarven spirit to regenerate them all, in addition to all potions, which is a mechanic I feel wasn't explained well at all and is honestly a little open to abuse.

But things get a bit easier when you've got a dozen almost free bombs at your disposal, and just spam those potions too. They're almost free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HYmtl9Wsiw

Also, axii is pretty great for stunning and getting a nice crit from the rear.

Yeah, I only just discovered that you don't have to make one bomb every time you use one, just meditate and regenerate it... Same with potions... It doesn't make sense mechanically either lol.

Also, I put a point into arrow deflection and it has not ever worked even once. I think you're just supposed to hold parry, face the archer, and he's supposed to do it automatically, but it simply doesn't work. Anyone else having issues with it? Does it randomly work? Am I doing it wrong?

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Also, I put a point into arrow deflection and it has not ever worked even once. I think you're just supposed to hold parry, face the archer, and he's supposed to do it automatically, but it simply doesn't work. Anyone else having issues with it? Does it randomly work? Am I doing it wrong?

Did you slot the ability into your "board"? Just because you have spent points on the talents does not mean they are active. There's, what, a max of 12 talents you can have going at once, assuming high enough level to have unlocked them all? You have to drag the ability from where you bought it to that grid.

So, assuming the ability is slotted, yes, you just hold the parry button while facing the archer. If you wait for him to release the arrow and then parry it, at Rank 2 or greater in the talent, then you will parry the arrow directly back to the firer.

 Psienesis wrote:

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Also, I put a point into arrow deflection and it has not ever worked even once. I think you're just supposed to hold parry, face the archer, and he's supposed to do it automatically, but it simply doesn't work. Anyone else having issues with it? Does it randomly work? Am I doing it wrong?

Did you slot the ability into your "board"? Just because you have spent points on the talents does not mean they are active. There's, what, a max of 12 talents you can have going at once, assuming high enough level to have unlocked them all? You have to drag the ability from where you bought it to that grid.

So, assuming the ability is slotted, yes, you just hold the parry button while facing the archer. If you wait for him to release the arrow and then parry it, at Rank 2 or greater in the talent, then you will parry the arrow directly back to the firer.

Same problem with me. I've deliberately tested the deflection, and it's maybe worked 1/10 times.

Don't know what to tell you, other than maybe it's a timing or facing thing? Haven't run into any problems myself, though I've also not encountered many archers lately.

 Enigwolf wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:

 Kap'n Krump wrote:
Also, I put a point into arrow deflection and it has not ever worked even once. I think you're just supposed to hold parry, face the archer, and he's supposed to do it automatically, but it simply doesn't work. Anyone else having issues with it? Does it randomly work? Am I doing it wrong?

Did you slot the ability into your "board"? Just because you have spent points on the talents does not mean they are active. There's, what, a max of 12 talents you can have going at once, assuming high enough level to have unlocked them all? You have to drag the ability from where you bought it to that grid.

So, assuming the ability is slotted, yes, you just hold the parry button while facing the archer. If you wait for him to release the arrow and then parry it, at Rank 2 or greater in the talent, then you will parry the arrow directly back to the firer.

Same problem with me. I've deliberately tested the deflection, and it's maybe worked 1/10 times.

Ok........that's super helpful. And a bit frustrating. So even though you level up an ability, it doesn't work until it's tied to a mutagen? I didn't catch that, though I was wondering what the point of tying abilities to mutagens was.

That must be my issue then.

You don't need to have a mutagen slotted for that block, but your abilities do need to be in those pillars to have any effect at all. But, otherwise, yes. Just because you spend points in it, it doesn't do anything til it's in a slot. Thus, early on in the game, it is probably better to concentrate points in a few Talents (as you have few slots to use) rather than spreading the points around, unless you're a fan of menu-diving to swap them in and out.

You can, of course, switch abilities on the fly (though I keep my Axii buff slotted at all times, because I'm never going to remember to slot it when I walk up to people), to go between offense/defense or sword/magic or whatever combos you have unlocked.