With "Death March" giving less experience and reduced stat scaling when you level, hopefully that'll alleviate the over leveling issue some.
Sorry. I should have clarified. i frames are frames (a short instant) of invulnerability when you dodge. It's usually early in the dodge. Many games have this gimmick. It's when you can dodge based on timing, even if the enemy can still reach you. The enemy hits you, but it doesn't count, as if you'd turn into a ghost in that momment. If a player is used to this gimmick (the Soul Series has it), then he might think he should have dodged some attacks that caught him. I'm very happy about TW3 not having i frames. It's a terrible gimmick and a lame game development crutch.
No question I'll be playing this on hard, maybe even Dark if there's no perma death. Too many reviewers have stated it gets really easy late game, and I want none of that. Also, I'm sad right now because it's pretty clear there's no long distance targeting. It's going to be whiff, whiff, whiff - hit. Almost every other attack. It just seems off, like a part of the system is missing. I'm baffled why they would remove a key feature that enabled Geralt to tackle groups of enemies.
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Should be cool if u can change the color by a local witch or so, but thats probably not going to happen.
Oh right I forgot that the higher the difficulty, the less xp you receive. Hi Death March indeed.
I am a bit concerned however by reviewers mentionning they finished the main quest around level 35 or so. Hopefully there are some higher level stuff in the world (since the cap is 60 I think?), but still it means that you can't do everything else that you want before the main quest, which is a bit sad. IMHO in an open world the world shouldn't scale with your level indeed but the main quest should.
I hated in DA:I that you had to rush the main quest and avoid some zones completely if you didn't want to overlevel.
I am a bit concerned however by reviewers mentionning they finished the main quest around level 35 or so. Hopefully there are some higher level stuff in the world (since the cap is 60 I think?), but still it means that you can't do everything else that you want before the main quest, which is a bit sad. IMHO in an open world the world shouldn't scale with your level indeed but the main quest should.
I hated in DA:I that you had to rush the main quest and avoid some zones completely if you didn't want to overlevel.
Anyone knows if you can do that atack that geralt did in the first video when hold his sword, take two steps and hit the hipnoticed enemy?is like if you were holding the hard atack botton and you finish with they. In the game if yoi hold the Y he doesn't do any special atack...but I'm in the first level yet
I may be wrong but I think with one adrenaline point or whatever it's called and a skill in the heavy attack tree you can hold down heavy attack to do a powerful blow.
Go to the tutorial section in game and in the combat category look for strong attack and special attacks.
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Swordplay combat = Hollywood
Game is great overall but aside from player, and especially horse movement being clunky... I want to note I'm Playing on PC, using PS4 controller via InputMapper...
but..... Is it too hard to ask for a simple realistic swordplay from a game of this magnitude in 2015 ???
I understand it's a fantasy game but there's plenty of stuff for fantasy lovers, but the rest of us who want some realism, CD RED you couldn't at least have given us realistic sword combat ?? Yea I get you should throw in a few dodge/rolls or risk turning it into a buttom mash fest, I do that, but even then can it be really that hard to build a sword combat system that can stand on it's own two legs ??
First off, once you get close with your sword it's like they motion captured only 10 sword swings and 8 of them are 360 spins.
Secondly WHY oh WHY do the quick/light sword strikes half (if not most) the the time G-Money ends up doing some bullshhhh Hollywood 360 spinorama strike instead of simple precise crisp swing/stab/cut as one would think it'd be common sense for a quick/light strike.
There are PLENTY of Medieval weapons/warfare experts in Europe, (the re-enactors specifically) you couldn't hire one guy and motion capture some proper realistic sword hits ? Instead you slapped a motion capture suit on the accountant at the office and apparently told him the scenario was there are bees buzzing all around, kill them with your sword.
Trying to put together a swordfight via something swift and precise is impossible, not just because of the reasons I listed above, but also because of these reasons you're stuck in these long drawn out animations for too long, this isn't my opinion these things I'm talking about are facts there's no way around it. I'm wondering if patches or better yet future mods will be able to fix the combat ??
Summing this up would be like a Mixed Martial Arts fighter going into a fight, and almost exclusively using his roundhouse kicks/knees and spinning elbows/fists for the majority of his strikes, does that sound ridiculous to anyone ?
Game is great overall but aside from player, and especially horse movement being clunky... I want to note I'm Playing on PC, using PS4 controller via InputMapper...
but..... Is it too hard to ask for a simple realistic swordplay from a game of this magnitude in 2015 ???
I understand it's a fantasy game but there's plenty of stuff for fantasy lovers, but the rest of us who want some realism, CD RED you couldn't at least have given us realistic sword combat ?? Yea I get you should throw in a few dodge/rolls or risk turning it into a buttom mash fest, I do that, but even then can it be really that hard to build a sword combat system that can stand on it's own two legs ??
First off, once you get close with your sword it's like they motion captured only 10 sword swings and 8 of them are 360 spins.
Secondly WHY oh WHY do the quick/light sword strikes half (if not most) the the time G-Money ends up doing some bullshhhh Hollywood 360 spinorama strike instead of simple precise crisp swing/stab/cut as one would think it'd be common sense for a quick/light strike.
There are PLENTY of Medieval weapons/warfare experts in Europe, (the re-enactors specifically) you couldn't hire one guy and motion capture some proper realistic sword hits ? Instead you slapped a motion capture suit on the accountant at the office and apparently told him the scenario was there are bees buzzing all around, kill them with your sword.
Trying to put together a swordfight via something swift and precise is impossible, not just because of the reasons I listed above, but also because of these reasons you're stuck in these long drawn out animations for too long, this isn't my opinion these things I'm talking about are facts there's no way around it. I'm wondering if patches or better yet future mods will be able to fix the combat ??
Summing this up would be like a Mixed Martial Arts fighter going into a fight, and almost exclusively using his roundhouse kicks/knees and spinning elbows/fists for the majority of his strikes, does that sound ridiculous to anyone ?
The game has been released. If it isn't broke, I don't see them changing things much. Obviously the movement sucks, and that can be tweaked, but asking for more animations in combat is probably something that wouldn't be answered until Witcher 4.
I love the combat in this game !
Hello everyone, I just want to show you a fight. It's on PS4 without UI , in Death March, I hope you'll enjoy it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0DYxx9vs0
Hello everyone, I just want to show you a fight. It's on PS4 without UI , in Death March, I hope you'll enjoy it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de0DYxx9vs0