I think that's a little TOO slow progression. In BC it is level 30 is level 33 and that's a good balance. With level 30 to 35 you will reach some end game armors only if you absolutely do everything in the game.
It's very very easy to do that change if you want. If you already know how to extract/import files with QuickBMS it just take a second to open all skills from beginning (you just need to go in geralt_skills and change all the requiredPointsSpent to 0 in the skills in the end of the file).
For example:
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<skill skill_name="sword_s17" requiredPointsSpent="8"
change to
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<skill skill_name="sword_s17" requiredPointsSpent="0"
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I would also suggest not steal anything. Its kinda silly this isnt punished by the game in most cases.
To me, gameplay (exploration and side quests) > armors.
Id much rather be doing challenging an fun quests at end game with less armour than steamrolling over everything with total ease in a suit.
Plus, if you get to endgame and just need a couple of levels for mastercrafted, just use the console command to increase your level. Seeing as the story is already complete, Id call it fair game
Here, I made the changes you wanted (only opened skills):
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ql8c5b5acebs9qa/Allskillsopen.7z
Use it by putting it where the patch.bundle is located and run install.bat.
You need to restart for it to work, however.
More realistic, immersive me thinks. I can imagine you don't want to get surrounded in this view. Like in a real battle, you can't see what's comin from behind when you're head on with a sword on front.
True, during combat it is awful.
However, the idea of 'first person witcher senses'... now that might be on to something...
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Brilliant. I'll edit my OP and include it with credit to you.
Contrary to what some in this thread have suggested, it's absolutely amazing to play without the mini-map, but you have to commit to using visual cues from the environment.
I think people tend to get complacent when listening to quest-givers because they know that some big flashing arrow will take them right where they need to be, but if you really do listen, most quests will direct you to where you need to be (and if not, just bring up the big map; all the info is on there). I'm pretty hardcore about not using UI elements in my gameplay, and if you're willing to do things like seek high ground to get a good vantage point of the environment and really make an effort to commit the landscape to memory, then you get an amazingly immersive experience. Of course, this style of gameplay isn't for everyone, but I do encourage people who like immersion to give it a try.
I think people tend to get complacent when listening to quest-givers because they know that some big flashing arrow will take them right where they need to be, but if you really do listen, most quests will direct you to where you need to be (and if not, just bring up the big map; all the info is on there). I'm pretty hardcore about not using UI elements in my gameplay, and if you're willing to do things like seek high ground to get a good vantage point of the environment and really make an effort to commit the landscape to memory, then you get an amazingly immersive experience. Of course, this style of gameplay isn't for everyone, but I do encourage people who like immersion to give it a try.
Can you or someone please upload these skills and monster files somewhere? Files that are not in that bms format I mean. Stuff that can be read by notepad. I'd love to look in to them to see what resistances enemies have, how their stats scale by level etc.
Anyway, played tonight's session without any HUD element. Felt awesome. Actually just spent most of the time running around and enjoying the experience. The only time I used the minimap was during a monster search, where it draws yellow circles and you have to find something. You need to know where that circle is and that's only shown on the minimap. Other than that, it was a lot of fun.
Man, the immersion is real now. Can't stop playing. Exentryk, I don't know how to do this. I'm just playing with all skills open as in the mod, turned the difficult level to normal as battles gets more hard in the immersive camera. You can't see what's coming at you sometimes, get hit by surprise, it's just too good. Not using any combat mods.
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My biggest issue with removing the Mini-Map was that constantly opening/closing the Map is infuriating due to the fade in/out, and it completely blocks everything else whilst you're on it.
In Morrowind for example, you can bring up your map (Which it opens/closes IMMEDIATELY), but still continue to move your character. Which means I could be travelling North along a road, think I must be getting close to a point where I need to make a turn, quickly open the map to confirm and everything is smooth with my character continuing along the path whilst I do it.
However in The Witcher 3, not only is there the frustrating fade time when you press M, but doing so completely stops the game in its tracks, so just trying to do something simple like re-orientating myself feels clunky and unintuitive, and obviously the game is not designed around that experience but instead using your mini-map. Not to mention the fact that when you open your map it ALWAYS resets to its maximum zoomed in state, which means you have to waste more flow destroying seconds by scrolling out and adjusting yourself accordingly.
Map clunkiness is not much of an issue in Witcher 1 & 2, because environments are small enough it's not really a big deal (Especially in 2, I think over 10 playthrough's I've opened the map maybe a handful of times). However in Witcher 3 you really need some kind of intuitive way of guiding yourself around the big world, and sadly it's heavily designed around the mini-map. For at least what I consider "immersive", the game needs a serious UI overhaul, and with that would also presumably come more intuitive M/KB functionality which is never a bad thing.
Still, there's some neat tips in this thread to helping improve immersion to those that want it. Definitely just turning off all your HUD elements, even if you leave the mini-map on, is still something I believe anyone who values it should be doing without question.
I'm hoping we'll see some cool stuff once the Redkit releases. Which I really hope is actually coming in a somewhat reasonable time-frame. Honestly I think a large portion of potential modders are just going to vanish when FO4 releases, and the longer the Redkit gets delayed the sooner we near that point.
In Morrowind for example, you can bring up your map (Which it opens/closes IMMEDIATELY), but still continue to move your character. Which means I could be travelling North along a road, think I must be getting close to a point where I need to make a turn, quickly open the map to confirm and everything is smooth with my character continuing along the path whilst I do it.
However in The Witcher 3, not only is there the frustrating fade time when you press M, but doing so completely stops the game in its tracks, so just trying to do something simple like re-orientating myself feels clunky and unintuitive, and obviously the game is not designed around that experience but instead using your mini-map. Not to mention the fact that when you open your map it ALWAYS resets to its maximum zoomed in state, which means you have to waste more flow destroying seconds by scrolling out and adjusting yourself accordingly.
Map clunkiness is not much of an issue in Witcher 1 & 2, because environments are small enough it's not really a big deal (Especially in 2, I think over 10 playthrough's I've opened the map maybe a handful of times). However in Witcher 3 you really need some kind of intuitive way of guiding yourself around the big world, and sadly it's heavily designed around the mini-map. For at least what I consider "immersive", the game needs a serious UI overhaul, and with that would also presumably come more intuitive M/KB functionality which is never a bad thing.
Still, there's some neat tips in this thread to helping improve immersion to those that want it. Definitely just turning off all your HUD elements, even if you leave the mini-map on, is still something I believe anyone who values it should be doing without question.
I'm hoping we'll see some cool stuff once the Redkit releases. Which I really hope is actually coming in a somewhat reasonable time-frame. Honestly I think a large portion of potential modders are just going to vanish when FO4 releases, and the longer the Redkit gets delayed the sooner we near that point.
You go to a subforum and at the top left corner, there should be a red 'Post New Thread' button
Yeah, once the REDkit hits, we will hopefully start seeing some interesting mods. A RED pointed out in another thread that they are working hard on it, which is why it's taking so long, so it seems like they're taking this seriously, which is good. A strong modding community can really make a huge difference.
Also, could you check your PMs, please.
While I do appreciate the time, effort and hard work the RED team are giving the mod tools, I think it would be brilliant if they could release a basic beta version to at least the most famous/popular modders so they could start work on basic stuff before people lose interest in the game.