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 Psienesis wrote:
New favorite call-back: Djange Frett, greatest bounty hunter of Skellige.

Hahaha oh god thats two references in one.

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
New favorite call-back: Djange Frett, greatest bounty hunter of Skellige.

Hahaha oh god thats two references in one.

Is that... Django and Jango/Boba Fett?! Oh lord ahahahah

 Enigwolf wrote:

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
New favorite call-back: Djange Frett, greatest bounty hunter of Skellige.

Hahaha oh god thats two references in one.

Is that... Django and Jango/Boba Fett?! Oh lord ahahahah

Specifically, Django and Jango Fett, given the way the VA pronounces the character's name when you meet him.

That and he says to one of the guys you go after "I like the way you die.", straight out of Django Unchained.

Big Patch coming out this week:

A new, alternative (optional) movement response mode for Geralt.
A player stash for storing items, available in various locations throughout the game. Stash locations are marked on the player's map.
Crafting and alchemy components no longer add to the overall inventory weight.
Books are now placed in a dedicated tab in the Inventory and books that have already been read are properly grayed out.
Multiple sorting options are now available in the Inventory.
Alchemy formulas and crafting diagrams can be "pinned", meaning all components and ingredients required to make them will be conveniently marked in the Shop panel.
Dozens of fixes for quest related issues, both major and minor.
A few performance enhancements, including the optimization of FX, scenes and general gameplay.
Various improvements to horse behavior.

Link

Finally a place to store all the crap that I have been lugging around.

About bloody time.
Worst.inventory.system.EVER

Its like playing a game from 15 years ago. "Just ram it all in a bag and worry about it later"

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Worst.inventory.system.EVER

Ever played Skyrim?

This one is pretty clunky though. I'm glad that alchemy stuff won't weigh anything.

Huh, unless I am carrying like a dozen swords and five sets of armor, I never run into encumbrance issues.

 Psienesis wrote:
Huh, unless I am carrying like a dozen swords and five sets of armor, I never run into encumbrance issues.

Its not really encumbrance, its the sheer quantity of crap that you quickly accumulate.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Huh, unless I am carrying like a dozen swords and five sets of armor, I never run into encumbrance issues.

Its not really encumbrance, its the sheer quantity of crap that you quickly accumulate.

I wish there was a way to just mass salvage every common item in your inventory :/

 Asherian Command wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Huh, unless I am carrying like a dozen swords and five sets of armor, I never run into encumbrance issues.

Its not really encumbrance, its the sheer quantity of crap that you quickly accumulate.

I wish there was a way to just mass salvage every common item in your inventory :/

I agree.

I think the biggest part for me was the books - I never want to throw any of those readable things away for lore purposes (I love reading the lore, god Mass Effect spoiled me so hard...) but risking accidentally selling them was annoying. Glad about alchemy weight too. ALSO pinnable recipes, ugh, such an elegant solution to late-game when you have a crap-ton of recipes, and keep having to check back on what you're missing without having to tediously scroll down.

Seriously though, CD Projekt did an awesome job with this, and more devs need to follow their lead. Never mind with the weekly DLC being delayed, the amount of quality of life fixes this provides, I'm so happy.

Eh, I kinda like the nod to realism that you can't disassemble a sword with your bare hands. Maybe the inventory issue is a PC vs Console issue? I mean, with the Sort button, I can get everything ordered and lined up on every tab and things that are new are highlighted with a gold star, things that aren't are not.

My only complaint on the inventory is the way it provides only the names of books, not whether they are linked (even tangentially) to a quest, or where you found them, or anything like that.

The inventory was kinda wacky before. Sorting was decent, but sometimes it sorted in odd ways, or shoved things in odd compartments. There were a few times where I had readable quest items go into either the quest item tab or the tabs that books went in, and I had to try and figure out which it was.

If there were 'Sort By' options, it'd make it easier, or subsections inside the tabs--which would be great for consumables, because I know I've lost all sorts of bombs and potions amongst random bits of food. Consumables should have "Food", "Oils", "Potions", and "Bombs", or a way of visibly seeing how they're currently sorted, like Alphabetically (All) or Alphabetically (By Type), with the former just listing everything alphabetically, and the latter listing all the Bombs first, then Food, then Oils, and finally Potions.

It might also be that I'm a hoarder in RPGs and just suck at picking through clutter.

 Psienesis wrote:
Eh, I kinda like the nod to realism that you can't disassemble a sword with your bare hands. Maybe the inventory issue is a PC vs Console issue? I mean, with the Sort button, I can get everything ordered and lined up on every tab and things that are new are highlighted with a gold star, things that aren't are not.

My only complaint on the inventory is the way it provides only the names of books, not whether they are linked (even tangentially) to a quest, or where you found them, or anything like that.

Interestingly I play with a controller and in order to sort my items I have to switch from using a controller to a keyboard. Which is very interesting..

Have to be honest, while it felt a little clunky I didn't really find the inventory system a deal-breaker.

From some of the comments on gaming boards it sounds as they are introducing a fix to the impossible jump from the end of the first level!

The storage idea sounds like a good idea, I did think that housing might come eventually. Although, not sure how in keeping that would be with the nomadic lifestyle of a Witcher.

Oh its not a deal breaker by any means, its a great game. Just bloody annoying having this huge glut of rubbish staring you in the face. Its not as though you have to go into the inverntory much anyway other than to "oil up" as it were.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Worst.inventory.system.EVER

Ever played Skyrim?

This one is pretty clunky though. I'm glad that alchemy stuff won't weigh anything.

Really? I didn't think Skyrim was bad at all. Maybe it was just because you weren't carrying about quite so much stuff and you could hotlink.

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Oh its not a deal breaker by any means, its a great game. Just bloody annoying having this huge glut of rubbish staring you in the face. Its not as though you have to go into the inverntory much anyway other than to "oil up" as it were.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Pete Melvin wrote:
Worst.inventory.system.EVER

Ever played Skyrim?

This one is pretty clunky though. I'm glad that alchemy stuff won't weigh anything.

Really? I didn't think Skyrim was bad at all. Maybe it was just because you weren't carrying about quite so much stuff and you could hotlink.

Getting burdened in the middle of a cave smack dab in the middle of nowhere was the most annoying thing...

Skyrim's interface was awful. Thank God for SkyUI.

Yeah, the default icon/font size for ES games has always been terrible. I remember that Oblivion originally could only fit like 8 items on the screen per inventory page. So if you had a lot of, say, alchemy ingredients, you had to scroll and scroll and scroll to go through them all.

Just finished the entire Bloody barron quest line. Not your usual RPG fodder to say the least.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Just finished the entire Bloody barron quest line. Not your usual RPG fodder to say the least.

What outcome did you get, I got:

 Pete Melvin wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Just finished the entire Bloody barron quest line. Not your usual RPG fodder to say the least.

What outcome did you get, I got:

Spoiler:

he hung himself! Didnt see that coming, not your usual RPG fodder in the slightest

I got

 thenoobbomb wrote:

I got

Spoiler:

the outcome where he left with his wife

As did I. Its one of those quests with no happy ending though, only slightly less bad ones.

 Silent Puffin? wrote:

 thenoobbomb wrote:

I got

Spoiler:

the outcome where he left with his wife

As did I. Its one of those quests with no happy ending though, only slightly less bad ones.

Spoiler:

I must have done something unusual though as apparently she turns into a waterhag if you free the ghost in the whispering Hillock and either gets killed or dies if you break her curse. This didn't happen to me, she was just utterly mad and went of with Philip Strenger to some far away healer. 'Black Beauty' still wiped out Downwarren though and the crones still ate the children. What a happy and joyful game this is!

I got an interesting ending

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Just finished the entire Bloody barron quest line. Not your usual RPG fodder to say the least.

I would have to say that the Bloody Baron is one of the best written, and performed, characters I've seen in a long time. Full credit to the writers, the voice actor, and the animators.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 Silent Puffin? wrote:
Just finished the entire Bloody barron quest line. Not your usual RPG fodder to say the least.

I would have to say that the Bloody Baron is one of the best written, and performed, characters I've seen in a long time. Full credit to the writers, the voice actor, and the animators.

Oh my god it gets better from there. The Skellige quests are so well acted and well written. Ugh it was so cool.

Oh, I've already finished the game, but I do find the Baron to be that well done of a character. Skellige was good, too.

 Asherian Command wrote:

Spoiler:

I saved the orphans, freed the spirit, saved the baron and his wife...

How? I thought the latter was impossible if you did the first two?

The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight are truly the first next-generation games I've seen, way beyond what we've got on previous consoles. They are the reason I'll be getting an XBox One.

I reckon a dominant factor in the XBox One's failure is that all of the same games were available cheaper on the 360, so there's literally been no point spending £400 on a new console - to quote the AVGN, "What were they THINKING?"

By contrast, the PS3 was a piece of crap, it takes you two hours to download ridiculous updates and install the game before you can play it ("This is embarrassing" was my mate's comment when he was trying to show me his PS3 for the first time and we couldn't play anything on it), and you need DOUBLE the free space if you're downloading games, which means you needlessly have to delete other stuff and then re-install it. The PS4 seems like a HUGE improvement over the idiotic, time-wasting, over-expensive, nowhere-near-as-good-games PS3.

Sorry to go somewhat off-topic.

The benefit of the PS3 over the PS4 was that the 3 was released several years prior and had an exclusive title that was one of the best games I had played in the past decade.