[SPOILERS] Blood&Wine Discussion thread

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The Numbers:
• 30+ hour adventure.
• Over 90 new quests.
• Over 40 new points of interest.
• Dynamic points of interest system. Killing bandits in their main hideout will affect the number of enemies in surrounding camps.
• 14000 lines of dialogue (Hearts of Stone had 6000).
• 100 individual pieces of armour (including new Witcher sets).
• More than 20 new monsters.
• New Game + maximum level increased to 100.
Armour and Weapons:
• New Witcher armour class ‘Grandmaster’.
• New armour merchant who is the only one able to craft this level of Witcher gear.
• Can get blue, hooded armour from Witcher 2, armour from Witcher 1, Ursine Witcher armour with furry pauldron that was in the artbook but cut from the main game.
• More than 30 new weapons.
• Can now dye armour. Dyes can be bought from a merchant, crafted or looted. Only obtainable in Toussaint. Pink is among the colours.
• You can acquire the golden, plumed armour of the Touissant knights, and the same goes for Roach!
New Mutation System:
• Mutations. 12 new abilities. Mechanic is unlocked through a quest started by a letter from Yennefer. Examples: Signs can have critical hits causing the enemy to explode, instead of dying Geralt is healed and has damage immunity, opponents knocked down by AARD freeze and die instantly. Can only utilise one at a time.
• The UI resembles Witcher 2’s character customization screen. Basically they’re super strong abilities/stat boosts that require mutagens and skill points to unlock. Can only pick one at a time but you have to unlock earlier ones to get the others.
• Despite unlocking it at level 34+ (recommended level to venture to Touissant) the system and anything you’ve unlocked carries over to New Game+ so you won’t have to unlock it again.
UI Changes:
• Greatly redesigned User Interface.
• Can now rotate Geralt in stats screen.
• Books moved to glossary.
• Upon looting a readable item a little notification pops up in bottom left of screen. Upon clicking in the right stick (on Xbox One controller), you can read the text of recently looted books, letters, notes etc without having to go to the menu, inventory, finding the right book and so on.
• Option to remove fish-eye effect from witcher sense.
Home Base:
• Geralt gets his own motherfucking vineyard.
• It’s called Corvo Bianco.
• You can renovate it with large sums of money, the option I saw was for 5000 Orens.
• You can add a greenhouse of sorts where you can grow herbs for all your witcher potion needs, an armourer’s table, a stable for Roach (with its own stat bonuses), upgrade your bed, renovated interior and exterior, secret lab, guest room.
• Guest room where old friends will come to stay. They said the names Triss and Yennefer, but were reluctant to reveal the names of anyone else who might visit. Surprise Iorveth/Saskia visit??
• Scaffolding and workers will appear after you choose to build something. Each change takes a certain amount of in-game time to complete, but you can just meditate til everything’s done.
• Can display your armour, weapons, paintings and books.
• Some paintings can be bought, or specially made, others are obtained through quests.
Music:
• Over 2 hours of new musical content in the game.
• The title screen song is a reworked version of the Bruxa song from the CGI trailer.

Other Tidbits:
• Can enter Geralt in a tournament, creating his own logo and team colours.
• Can enter under a fake name, although you may not fool everyone.
• You can of course race horses, but other events involve crossbow shooting and a grand melee. Seems like there will be more but they didn’t want to say.
• No new unique weather effects, but the lighting has been prepared specially to reflect the feeling of Southern Europe.
• No new hairstyles.
• As of the preview event (3/5/16) they were still working on the final boss fight.
• Grass has been optimised, more of it but less expensive.
• Improvements to cloth tech (see interview for more detail).
• New sword sheathing option. With this new option Geralt no longer automatically unsheathes his sword at the start of combat. Also, he no longer switches weapons to match the opponent. The player has to do it on their own.


Source: http://wccftech.com/witcher-3-blood...amic-system-mutations-detailed/#ixzz48KQe2ijK

New Inventory UI screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/a6fvj
Add a Toussaint Gwent tournament confirmed in Forums to the above list :D
Personally I love the idea to display armor and weapons. New Gwent tournament, new skellige deck, new witcher gear and armor from W1 and W 2, new skills, even roach will get a roof now :)
More importantly inviting Triss/ Yenn or friends Just Wow :D
That Pink color Armor hahaha
Till now I have been selling all paintings, Now I have a wall to hang them.
In conclusion, B&W gives more reasons to play TW3 again from beginning :D

Thanks for the one stop shopping of info, it's good to have it all in one place ... even if the source is a questionable site, most of the info can be found in other places too ... so it seems reliable in this case. Good find.
 
Oh. My. God. You guys are seriously the best. Moving NG+ up to the level you start the game and upping the maximum level for it were one of the two biggest wishes I had for the existing game.

The other one, by the way, would be to make the Wolf Armor schematics accessible for their appropiate level without having to wait until the story unlock of Kaer Morhen. If you want to hit "100% best developer team", please add this little wrinkle, because it is so annoying to not be able to get the level appropiate armor when the other sets are already unlocked.

And so many other great new additions. Damn, the 31st can't come soon enough.
 
Thanks for the one stop shopping of info, it's good to have it all in one place ... even if the source is a questionable site, most of the info can be found in other places too ... so it seems reliable in this case. Good find.

I think with the level of information already available, I should skip the trailer. Trailers usually have story and character spoilers. HoS trailer pretty much gave out many character spoilers. I am really sad about the missing Viper grand master armor though. Can anyone of the Devs confirm the same ? May be Mr @Marcin Momot ?
 
So it looks like Dandelion will play a role in it. I hope it's a good one. I never liked his game version, so maybe it's a chance for CDPR to finally do him justice.

Still no news about Fringilla :( Perhaps she'll be one of the "friends" who you can invite? You just can't do Toussaint without at least giving her a cameo.
 
She must be the main love interest of the expansion! I dont care how they pull it off since she is already in the main game but it is a must! We cannot loose her too : (
 
Still no news about Fringilla Perhaps she'll be one of the "friends" who you can invite? You just can't do Toussaint without at least giving her a cameo.

Yeah lack of news about Fringilla is a little bit disappoiting. But you know, if that's true that Yennefer will play a cameo; all three of them in Toussaint - might have been a little mess :D Anyway - I'll be looking for Fringilla all the time until I'll finish DLC.
 
She must be the main love interest of the expansion! I dont care how they pull it off since she is already in the main game but it is a must! We cannot loose her too : (

We already lost her. To that horrible third act :cry:

But you know, if that's true that Yennefer will play a cameo; all three of them in Toussaint - might have been a little mess

Just three? :D Give me Phil, Rita, Sheala, Francesca, Ida...I want all of them!
 
Scenario of Dandelion meeting Anna would be fun. :) Though my guess of his part would be indeed connected to the vineyard friends thing we've been hearing about, which would make it quite minor. Here's hoping.

I think Fringilla is plausible. She's been up in the discussion from the day we heard of Toussaint in B&W -
- and as we get Regis cameo, i can see Fringilla as well. I'd guess Regis being added to the plans later in the development, though he could've been on the table from the start. I would've picked Fringilla from the feedback before Regis in all honesty when it comes which was more convenient to bring in. I guess the trailer might reveal something more, hopefully just not too much.
 
We can switch off auto-sheath? Sweet jesus, someone at CDPR finally heard our cries. I really hope they ramp up DM difficulty, especially with the new abilities. Otherwise Geralt will be even more OP. And I'd like to know which features are in the base game as well.
 
I want to see Francesca in Touissant! Who else to attend Anna Henrietta's ball than her and her elven entourage? : ) But I doubt we will : (

Ida is kind of a loner though, so she might not be coming along.
 
She must be the main love interest of the expansion!

I suspect it could be someone from the first new screenshot, or a new character (there is one referenced a few times in the patch files that could be on the screenshot, but I will not spoil it). Perhaps instead of Fringilla Vigo, the writers wanted someone new, and did not find the idea of another romance with her after the books very interesting.
 
I suspect it could be someone from the first new screenshot, or a new character (there is one referenced a few times in the patch files that could be on the screenshot, but I will not spoil it). Perhaps instead of Fringilla Vigo, the writers wanted someone new, and did not find the idea of another romance with her after the books very interesting.

Or May be its many encounters this time :D
 
You know what I really want? I want Dandelion to sing. And to sing well. It's been three games and he still doesn't have a good song. It's crazy!
 
You know what I really want? I want Dandelion to sing. And to sing well. It's been three games and he still doesn't have a good song. It's crazy!

i know this sounds rude, but if he is like in witcher 3 i say no thanks, had enough of him.
 
i know this sounds rude, but if he is like in witcher 3 i say no thanks, had enough of him.

Maybe he'll magically transform into his book version? Doubtful, but everything's possible. I don't expect much, but if he at least gets a good song, I'll be satisfied.
 
It's too bad Dandy is nowhere near as good as his book version. Not in any of the games, really. Maybe if he's just chilling at the vineyard, getting drunk and annoying your patrons. I could handle that.
 
Maybe he'll magically transform into his book version? Doubtful, but everything's possible. I don't expect much, but if he at least gets a good song, I'll be satisfied.

Hehe,
And if he lures a succubus out of her hole again, im happy too :D
 
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