Thanks for your work, Kinley!
Sadly, the answers to the questions I care about most are disappointing to downright terrible:
Will there be quests where we don’t have to kill a monster. Like the Graveir quest in Witcher 1 for example.
It was similar with the troll quests in Witcher 2, you could become a troll friend. There are quests like this, you don’t have to choose the violent way. There are some monsters that are aggressive by nature and you will have to fight them. But no, you don’t have to fight everything, it is up to you.
I admit that the question was misleading or at least no asked in the way I meant it. But the answer is really disappointing since it kind of shows me that Witcher 3 will really be a combat game first and not an RPG. Or more precise: it will be less like the books and more like your usual video game. Sure, you CAN avoid fighting in some quests but it seems like quests are almost entirely about "conflict" in some sort. My question was not whether you can solve quest peacefully but if there are any quests which doesn't involve any violence at all (not even as an option or only as a very "bad" option). The answer indicates that quests can usually be solved violently or by killing some sorts of enemies as the "usual outcome" that can be avoided from time to time but not that some/most quests are just "about life"...
Will the corpses of your enemies remain visible on the ground for longer periods of time if your hardware allows it?
The corpses will stay on the ground, they will disappear after some time, and they have to because of the hardware requirement. But in general the really cool thing about it is dismemberment if you perform cool attacks you can cut someone’s hand, head or leg off. So that’s really cool, you’ll see that flying away and lay on the ground.
That sounds like a very evasive answer given the fact that Kinley especially added "if your hardware allows it". I doubt that there is any hardware limitation that naturally causes corpses to disappear if I have a supercomputer at home. What I (we?) wanted to know was if corpses could stay visible in a certain area until we leave it IF WE OWN THE HARDWARE. Thanks for not answering or explaining anything here, CDPR...
There were early interviews where they talked about a PC centric UI. Is that still planned?
I wouldn’t say so, now we’re doing the game for all platforms, so PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and we needed to adjust it accordingly so you can play it equally well on the pad and on the keyboard as well.
I probobly don't even have to say how insanely disappointing this answer is. THIS IS TERRIBLE, CDPR. You sacrificied PC for consoles and I downright hate you for doing so. Sorry, but that's how I feel. I'm not a CDPR fan/supporter anymore. May some console folks fill that empty space now...