How is the new Character Development going to be?

[Lanaya]

How is the new Character Development going to be?

I had a few questions in regards to character development.

1. How advance are the skills such as signs and swordplay are at the start of the game?
2. Will importing a save game grant you new starting skills, or increase your level ala Mass Effect?
3. How advance and deep are the skill trees?
4. Will you be able to Max out two skill trees by the end of the game? or only one?
5. Is there going to be a New Game+ where you keep all your levels and items?
6. Could we get a screenshot of the current character sheet?

 

[rsjursen]

2. Imports generally give you decent starting weapons and money. I don't remember if you start at a higher level, but I am going to say from W1 -> W2 one didn't.

Sorry I do not have all the answers.

 

[archaven]

From the interviews it seems there are the same 3 as in TW2. Swordplay, Signs and Alchemy. I like more info on the skills and the trees as well.

 

[StaGiors]

1. We don't know.
2. Nope. Confirmed.
3. No idea.
4. Same.
5. Nothing has been said on the matter.
6. We can't. Unless they show it to us.

 

[Lanaya]

Did anyone get any idea on the character development from the E3 demos? maybe somone who was there? or somone with a keen eye?

 

[StaGiors]

Did anyone get any idea on the character development from the E3 demos? maybe somone who was there? or somone with a keen eye?

The Character Development tab was not shown in the E3 demos. The only chance you have of learning about it, is if it was shown at the 45 minutes behind closed doors presentation. You won't find out about it in these forums, since moderators delete content that was not meant to be public. As they should. Your best bet is to wait for CDPR to reveal it, which I doubt will happen soon. Or ever. Propably, we will find out in game.

 

[Mothra]

the only thing you can see clearly from the videos is that there is still XP and that it seems to increase your level once you reach certain thresholds.
there were no screens of the character screen. But I expect the same system as in TW2, 3 trees, in TW2 you could reach the final abilities in 2 treebranches, I guess in TW3 as well.

 

[StaGiors]

the only thing you can see clearly from the videos is that there is still XP and that it seems to increase your level once you reach certain thresholds.
there were no screens of the character screen. But I expect the same system as in TW2, 3 trees, in TW2 you could reach the final abilities in 2 treebranches, I guess in TW3 as well.

Mamais has confirmed that there will be 3 trees in the character developement, much like TW2, only now they will be more balanced, and bigger.

 

[Mohasz]

2. Imports generally give you decent starting weapons and money.

They said only (some of) the choices will carry over to the 3rd game, your weapons and armors probably won't. I'm not sure which interview was that, but it was E3 this year.

 

[BroccoliSouP]

They said only (some of) the choices will carry over to the 3rd game, your weapons and armors probably won't. I'm not sure which interview was that, but it was E3 this year.

Yep. I saw it too in some interwiev. No items import just choices which sucks because they gave us lot of awesome equipment right before the end of TW2.

 

[StaGiors]

Personally, I am glad we won't be able to import items and weapons. The top notch weapons and armor that we had at the end of TW2, due to balance issues, will have to be downgraded to pretty weak stats. So first chance they get, most people are going to sell them anyway, because they have found something better. It takes away the "attachment" factor towards said items. So what I did in TW2, so that I don't lose it, is that I "sacrificed" my Aerondwight silver sword, to the Dragon, and played the whole game in Raven's Armor. Well, that is till I crafted the Vran Armor or the Dark Mode armor in Chapter 3. I'm crazy.

 

[Mothra]

If they handle it like in TW2 it would be OK. The mahakam rune shihil was good enough to last through act1 until you crafted the jagged blade,
moon blade/aerondight was good enough until you did the monster lair quests and got the superb schematic (or just pick up the Kaer Mohren sword).
But I am OK with a "clean" slate. We should have at least a little money, some potions and bombs when we start.

 

[randyrhoads]

I had a few questions in regards to character development.
4. Will you be able to Max out two skill trees by the end of the game? or only one?
5. Is there going to be a New Game+ where you keep all your levels and items?

Would love to be able to max out 2 skill trees without the NG+ feature. But if it's not possible then add a NG+ feature