Next patch, Yennefer will appear and kick Geralt's butt for wasting time killing cows instead of doing her bidding. 
Next patch, Yennefer will appear and kick Geralt's butt for wasting time killing cows instead of doing her bidding.
For as smart as Geralt seems to be, he sure is taken in by her easily. Even witchers like the booty I guess.
A game is basically a collection of rules; get 1 skill point a level, so many XP to level up, need to be level 20 to equip this thing, this spell does X-Y damage, etc etc. The thing is, if it's a board game the rules are in the rulebook and the players need to enforce them themselves. In a videogame, though, the software itself is the rules. It doesn't need a player to enforce them, it enforces them itself. If someone wants to break the rules of a board game, they just choose to not enforce them. It's not the same in a videogame since the rules are enforced by the game itself. If a videogame works badly and can't enforce its own rules, as intended by the developers, then that's like the rulebook itself stating the wrong rules, not like a player simply choosing to ignore them.
tl;dr: So a videogame fix is equivalent to correcting errors in a rulebook, and I don't think anyone would have a problem with that.
Besides, this whole "it's a single-player game so cheating is okay" mentality is pretty weird. I mean, sure it's "okay" - it's not illegal or anything - but it's pretty pathetic. If anything, it makes more sense to cheat at something actually competitive. Cheating to get a gold medal in the 100m race at the Olympics is morally wrong but it makes sense that some people would do it. Cheating at a single-player game is like timing yourself to run 100m on your own, taking 4 minutes, then changing your time to 3 seconds and getting really happy that you ran so fast. Sure, you're free to do that but don't complain when others find out and think it's pathetic.
I can't imagine this took more than a few minutes of developers time, and it clearly meant to be humorous.
I disagree strongly with that. Exploits, in single player games, don't matter much. It's up to the player to decide if to exploit certain parts of the game or not. It's not like there's PVP balance to consider, no one gets hurt by said exploit. If you want to use it, be my guest. I'm more of a purist
I totally agree with you. In a SP game, it mounts to nothing. I have no idea what is really went behind the dev's mind chosen to fix it. Is it to poke some funs into it or is it "it's my game and you play it the way I wanted you to play it"?I disagree strongly with that. Exploits, in single player games, don't matter much. It's up to the player to decide if to exploit certain parts of the game or not. It's not like there's PVP balance to consider, no one gets hurt by said exploit. If you want to use it, be my guest. I'm more of a purist
If it's just a poking fun, then it's cool and should leave it that way.
If it's the statement of the game developer then no matter what you tried, people will find way to make another statement and it becomes spitting into the wind for both. And it will escalate to BS. Wasting time while there are pressing concern like the inventory management system.
I shake my head every time I used the inventory system. What's a kindergarten level of design.
I think the "fix" was awesome really, atleast, this kind of troll fix. I assume they intentionally made it doable on higher levels, not sure about the loot though
A touch of trolling like this is a nice and fun addition to the game, in my opinion. Also, I'm not really sure about the wasting time part, it doesnt sound like a time waster really. I know absolutely nothing about programming, but I'd assume it's just counting how many cows were killed and spawning a monster in the game.
I do agree about the fact that there are some quality of life issues I hope will be adressed soon, especially including the inventory, and since 1.05, the "you already have that item" bug with mutagens.
yeah.. the quest & loot provide more than enough gold ... especially if you find some dimeritum ingots & plates in some sacks
... ( Found a big dimeritium ingot in a burned down village , where everyone was starving ... if they knew they could sell this ingot for the mass amount of gold no one would have to starve .. well I took it ,sold a few , so I had a few thousand coins in no time ... I like to spend those coin on runes for swords ... other than I see no use for having mass amounts of coin....Or maybe they could just stop the cows respawning or make it take so long that it'd be quicker doing contracts.
This is not true. An exploit in Single player is an issue in that it breaks the game's balance. The developers have a vision for the game and SP exploits can ruin the vision they have for the game. Also achievements are something that is suppose to signify completing various aspects of the game based on the intended balance of the game an exploit can trivialize some of these achievements. And achievements are by design intended to be something that are shared and compared. yet when someone uses an exploit they are not comparing on an even playing field.
What an exploit isn't is cheating as you are not using an advantage to hurt an other player's in game experience but that doesn't mean exploits are therefore harmless.
How important balance is to a developer and how detrimental to balance a given exploit is will dictate to them how much effort they put into fixing it. But it is hardly a waste of time and resources.
An exploit like that and a simple cheat is exactly the same thing in the end...
Things like that existed like forever in gaming and nobody complained. Again, nobody forces you to use that glitch. If you want to ruin your own balance it's up to you.
And achievements? Really? What for? For having much money? Pretty pointless achievement anyway and not one worth having. I don't even know if such an achievement exists for TW3. I hope not.
Yeah lets not [Sard Edit: MAKE THIS INTO SOME KIND OF FLAME WAR OR CAPITALIZED QUASI SHOUTING MATCH.
Because that's boring.
Chill out a bit, Goth. If you think someone isn't addressing your argument, either re-address it or let it go. Don't start arguing over the arguing. Not. Constructive.
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That thing a love about humans, they always find a way.. LOL :thumbsup: