Just created an account to support this thread. The ending is really gamebreaking for me, as it seems to be for a lot of people.
First, I'm okay for a "pre-ending" state for endgame but then, why didn't they chose to actually let us play BEFORE the Isle of Mist & Wild Hunt attack on Kaer Morhen so the Fortress is not completely messed up as well as other places (unavailable tower with the balcony, a lot of debris, broken portcullis etc...)
Secondly, they should have put the main characters back in the game, even if some should not be there & even if they had nothing new to say (which would not be illogical since we play on a pre-ending situation, right ?) just for the lore, roleplay and atmosphere ! Kaer Morhen is completely lifeless and useless now, No way to see Triss or Yen again, nor Ciri, nor plenty of others really broke the entire world and there is no point playing anymore since you can't roleplay without characters in the world.
Imho this is what CDPR should add once you finished the game, I'll add some changes regularly :
Places :
- Restore heavily destroyed places like Kaer Morhen or Djikstra's place, like they were before Isle of Mists
- Open Main Quests related Locked Doors like Houses in Crookback Bog which are locked once you complete the final Baron's mission, I'm sure there are plenty of others locked places related to main quest.
Characters :
- Put Vesemir, Lambert and Eskel back in Kaer Morhen, doing their stuff, training on dummies, nothing special
- Add Letho somewhere in Kaer Morhen too, meditating at Campfire or something (If not Dead)
- Put Yennefer back in Kaer Morhen if you romanced her, otherwise put her back in Kaer Trolde's Inn
- Put Triss back in Kaer Morhen if you romanced her, otherwise put her back in her room at the Chameleon (or Maybe restore her Novigrad's house and put her back in ?)
- Put Hjalmar & Crach an Craite back in their rooms, in Kaer Trolde
- Add Philippa, Fringilla & Margarita in a house in Oxenfurt or Novigrad or in the luxury room at the Chameleon
- Put Avallac'h somewhere, I dont know where exactly for this one.
- Put Ciri in Kaer Morhen, doing witcher Stuff maybe like training, meditating, nothing exceptional ?
- Put Keira Maetz back in her Velen's House or somewhere in Oxenfurt/Novigrad ? Or Maybe in Kaer Morhen ? (If not Dead)
- Put Ves back in the Temerian Camp, since Roche is already there, why did ves disappear from it ?
- Put the Bloody Baron back in his Quarters maybe ?
Miscellaneous :
- Put the Orphans of Crookback Bog back, so the place is not completely lifeless
- Add some more folks in Kaer Trolde Main Hall, so the musicians are not completely depressed playing for... nobody
I'm sure i'll find other missing characters soon, i'll add them then as well as other propositions to make the world back to life, but these things are very easy to add in the game for the most part since it's nothing new, just put some scripts back.