@@xLetalis Hey, do you remember if to get a dialogue about Saski it is enough to choose Ihorwet or do you also have to indicate that you saved Saski instead of Triss? I need answers because I'm about to have election simulations
I like the change in the guards. Fighting off a dozen of them is still a penalty for me, because having to stop what I'm going and deal with combat for a few minutes when I wasn't looking for a fight can be annoying (even when the combat is fun), and it makes sense for Geralt to be able to cut them down with ease.
I agree. Like tonight I accidentally looted a broken oar in An Skellig and had to fight. Before I would have been irritated that 4 guards could kick a Witcher's butt. Tonight they were a little tough, being a few levels higher, but they made sense considering who Geralt is.
Iorveth's exclusion from the third part is the greatest crime of the developers. They could have given him a cute side story like Roche, but they ended up losing one of their most charismatic characters 😤
How about the Caretaker's "Shovel" and Olgierd's "Iris"? Do those swords scale? Imo they should as they are completely unique in how they work, on par with Aerondight.
These 2 steel shords definitely should scale (or at least Iris, but imo both), they both have a unique effect but they do an opposite thing - one deals damage to the user with a stronger attack and the other heals the user. Someone gonna contact CDPR to fix that?
The guards being weaker just makes sense as you could be overpowered against all other enemies and legendary beasts, but apparently not against a guy in regulation armor.
Bless you for going through all the trouble of finding these differences. As a hardcore Witcher 3 fan who played and beat this game 3 times including all dlc’s; having all these subtle differences is so easy to miss or even get that Mandela Effect of not recognizing the differences but thinking I MUST have seen them before. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the vids showing the differences and even including the side-by-sides of the version differences. Thank you.
3 times and you consider yourself hardcore? You didnt even discovered all the possible endings by youself, lol. Btw i lost the count after 23 runs (new game AND ng+).
Weakening the guards to be no more than cannon fodder would be logical from a story perspective. After all geralt is a master who can take down Snow White and her seven swordsmen single-handedly. I didn't like that the guards in forced you to follow the law, and not acts like a murder hobo. However, I think the story itself provides enough of the incentive to act like Geralt would. We don't need super-powered police to enforce it.
I noticed a bug in a gwent game: playing against Zoltan, he was able to play the Isengrim card twice. Which is especially funny considering that you have to go search for this card to complete this quest (I played against him before doing the quest, so it had nothing to do with that). I mean: why ask Geralt to do that when he already has the card not only once, but even twice 😂
0:50 I also saw them in Skellige this time and I was laughing so hard 😂 Couldn't remember whether it was something new, or something that I had always missed on my previous playthroughs
@@xLetalis Yeah it was, I encountered them before the next gen update. Don't what triggered it though, but eveything you showed is exactly the same as I saw them before the update.
@@zarenboug5410 I'm loading the exact same save when I show the comparison and it's not there for me in old gen, also I realized that there was a PC mod which made it available, so it certainly wasn't working
I actually thought about Ciri and Witcher potions earlier today! You might already know, but let me share my thoughts^^ At least in the games, its established that Witcher potions "can" help ordinary people. We can see that in Tomiras Quest. Yes, the girl isnt the same after drinking swallow, BUT she survives! The potion took its time, but helped her body to heal... Geralt even says something like, you never know how a person (not just witchers) react to Witcher potions. So, now to Ciris story. She used "Black Blood". Yes, a Witcher potion, but no potion that really messes with your abilities. Its just making your blood poisonous to vampires. I imagine that it puts "something" in your blood thats bad for them... Sure, not really healthy, but it might be ok... Also Ciris blood might make her more ... resisting to the bad effects... Thats why I think that especially this Witcher potion could work for her, because its not messing with her body too much... But well, like you, I would not bet my life on that, maybe its just something the devs did not think about too much, who knows^^°
Was just going to bring this up and add its hinted that metabolism is different. Think we can agree that Ciri probably has a better metabolic rate than the average human
But she was in a coma so how did the potion help?? Also we didnt notice the mental effects she wasn't conscious. And they had to take her to a DR. so how is this good?? Ciri is a child of the elder blood so that's how she can handle a witcher potion maybe.
Yeah, no chief. Witcher potions are for witchers, period. The whole point of witcher training and Trial of Grasses is to allow prospects to withstand the mutation that will allow potion consumption (highly toxic decoction made from chemicals and monster parts) without fatalities. Even after, a Witcher can't just chug a 12 pack of assorted potions or they will die. W3 made a lot of blunders lore wise, perhaps W2 said it best: normal organisms gradually evolve but what makes witchers unique is being an organism that survived intense, forceful and sudden evolution. For example Swallow is for bleeding and hemorrhage but it does so by causing "cancer" to a witcher, cancer aggressive enough to regenerate tissue. Elder Blood is a gene selected and bred for the purity of magical talent. Mages normally are "made" but a magical base has to be present. Elder Blood are the most pure magic gene born individual, therefore their magic surpass all other mages, which technically are imitation's of EB. For Ciri to use Witcher potions she would need to loose her genetical purity, ergo not be Elder Blood.
@@xLetalis I did a research and it seems the texture of the boots use to have a visual bug or something. Take a look yourself ;) Edit : the red bug doesnt appear in your old videos with Gaetan
The change to the guards might be due to the way the combat mod they used applied to elite enemies and they actually removed the buffs for them being overleveled.
On the beehives not killing people, that must've been done in a hotfix, rather than the next-gen update. In my pre-ng+ throwaway run, I used the beehive to kill & loot Tomira. Day 1 of the next-gen update.
I hope one day we'll get an exclusive list of all the changes they've applied to the new version. Everything that was added, altered and removed, neatly typed into one big table!
I think Ciri’s elder blood makes her resistant to Witcher potions, or at least partially. Her blood is from Elven descendants, which might make her resistant to certain types of magic. Plus she only drank a dose. Perhaps her capacity is limited.
Sounds like bullshit to me. It's made using ghoul blood which has nothing to do with elven magic. It would literally be poison to her. Her powers are about space time magic and not about resisting poison. Witchers can do it because they've got a bunch of mutations from a variety of species which almost certainly includes ghouls and necrophages too
@@Artaxerxes. So you think I’m a bullshitter? Thanks I appreciate that. Plus I didn’t say that Black Blood has any ties to Elven magic. I just illustrated my point that Ciri has Elven blood and that might affect her magical abilities, and in fact we know it does. What are the odds that Ciri is possibly immune or resistant to certain magical powers?
@@justsomeguy747 she has no magical abilities. she forsake them. and if a mage took those potions he would die too. and she does not have any immunity to magical powers. she can get sick and die. she had an infection in the books. this is literally BS lorebreaking piece of dialogue.
Im the books, she is resistant to some potions. It's not elaborated why or to what extent, but it is something. And it's not like normal people can't drink witcher potions. Again, there are examples of that being done. It's just that in those cases, one needs to be extremely careful and the effect might not always be desirable. And her elven blood could certainly play a role with a potion that interacts with blood.
@@Nerazmus Exactly what I said, partially. I didn’t talk about the books but yeah. Ciri is no ordinary human. She has incredible power within her that is also affected by her Elven ancestry. Elves predate the world’s existence if I’m not mistaken. In mythology it is sometimes believed that older entities are stronger than younger ones, and sometimes vice versa. Although Carnthir is older than Ciri, she was still a powerful opponent for him, but he defeated her still.
Henselt's death was not fixed on Iorveth's path. The game still behaves as if Roche killed him only the import on pc changes the dialogues with he died in the battle with radovid
Man they could honestly add a couple new quest, easter eggs, armor, and weapons once a week for months and I would be fine with that or even a new expansion.
I also found a new bug regarding the new forgotten wolven swords. If you do the witcher contract at the border to novigrad, where you get a pass for crossing the border, you can encounter a scoiatel gang and the take your weapons, if you have these 2 swords in your inventory from the a save game before new game +, oncve you get them back they get leveld up(regarding your current level) so you cant use them anymore. check it out if it is of any interest.
Oh and the Fast Travel post at Crow's perch....you need to go there for it to become available....otherwise it wont show. Someone was complaining about it on Twitter...you have to go inside the inner keep...and not just near the armourer's table.
@@xLetalis Yes that's right....I always do, so maybe I forget some people never finish it all....which is weird....it's a great quest one of the most moving too.
That stamina thing sounds like a round of Would You Rather? You can run indefinitely, but you either have to be part werewolf or fondle a statue's balls.
8:57 I always think this means she somehow throw him potion to his mouth rather than she drink it, like it is quiet obvious option i think, as game stating theese potions are poison+ highly doubt ciri will not be dead after bite that can go through armor
I have always said the guards were needlessly over-levelled, it ruined my immersion slightly. I get that it was intended to discourage killing guards as that's not something Geralt would do, but there was no reason to kill them anyway even if I played an overpowered build since guards drop no XP, gold or gear upon death. Now the game is more realistic and more convenient for an OCD looter like me.
I agree with this, as someone who played it for the first time on the next gen update, I attacked the nilfgaardian camp and quickly realized it was completely useless since they not only drop nothing but costed me money since it costed me sword's durability. Never bothered attacking a guard again, but knowing I can kill a bunch of guards very easily makes complete sense for Geralt's character.
Eh, the reason Geralt could pay off the dwarf wasn't because of Witcher 2 per se. They first met in the books when Yarpen Zigrin, a couple of other dwarves and Geralt went hunting for the golden dragon. And then again they travelled together later in the books.
Can confirm that on console, the Iorveth mention to the dwarf during Swords and Dumplings quest doesn't work. I always choose Iorveth path when playing Witcher 3, and I've done Swords and Dumplings twice since the update. Must still be a pc exclusive dialogue like some other references . . .
@@xLetalis I'm on xbox And I just tested it again (cuz I have a save before the quest) and the dwarf recognizes me from Vergen and Yarpin, but there isn't the option like in the video
i tought Ciri made the vampire itself drink the black blood, making its own blood turn poisnous to it and killed it, the subtitles litrally says Let it Drink, not Drank it.
I'm late and all, but the thing about the guards is that you never even kill them. The only finisher you get is the headbutt and their "corpses" don't leave a pool of blood under them. So it's fair to assume you only ever beat them unconscious. And I'm not sure, but if you "die" to them, you just wake up on the ground. (think this happened to me once)
Two things, One being that it's good that the guards can't be looted or else Geralt would be going on a massacre. Two being that they could easily recolor the armor in that quest and take of that little emblem on the chest off and it would look alot better. If they didn't want to make a unique armor that is.
I always assumed Ciri could drink Witcher potions because of the mutagens/mushrooms the witchers at Kaer Morhen were feeding her. Iirc Triss's POV seems to imply that her strength and speed were augmented by these and that they'd make her infertile eventually, so she's mutated in some way, just not as much as a full witcher who's gone through the Trial of the Grasses.
Tbh, the guards being a penalty makes sense but often times it was hard to even realise what you did to anger them. Thematically it also doesn't make sense that one guard outclasses Geralt. I think if they were just designed to be relentless and organised in attacking him, like all attacking at once, making it hard to dodge or block all of them.
To the world within the Witcher Universe its simply Witch hunter = killing witches and non humans such as elves, dwarves, which Geralt doesn't do for a living
6:50 my friend, that also happens with ciri sword in the old gen version, but only with the regular stands, the one you're putting the forgotten wolf swords doesn't have that problem (I use that one to display ciri sword since the old gen version).
It would have been nice to receive, instead of the Witch Hunter's Armor, maybe the Oathbreaker's Armor; Vesemir's Armor; or even or the amor from the beginning of the game with a nice enough level...
The year is 2077. Witcher 3 Museum Edition has just come out for the PS50. xLetalis has found a new trader that lives in a small remote cave in Skellige selling Pyerog stones that has been there since forever that nobody noticed in almost a century.
Just now I went to the armour smith in the main courtyard of novigrad who used to saw top notch swords before they patched it in the new update. Well I’m playing on v4.00 and he just said it again which took me by surprise
9:32 I didn’t watch the Netflix series, but that sounds incredibly stupid and I can’t imagine in any context how that would make sense given the lore of the books and games
9:06 - On Ciri drinking Witcher Potions: So in my 'head canon', or theory, to explain this away without breaking the game's continutity/established Lore & Canon was this; Technically, Ciri doesn't specifically say that she _drank_ the Black Blood potion. Rather she only says that "But a dose of Black Blood did the trick. We fought a while, i feigned a mistimed dodge and let it drink. The rest was easy." Now yes, i know, that's pretty damning. But let's allow ourselves to reach a little. We know that Ciri has magical powers, yes? We know that not only that, but Ciri is also the most powerful living magic user on the planet, potentially on all planets, yes? We know that her most frequently used form of this magical power is short-distance teleports, Warcraft-Blink or DC's The Flash-style, yes? So if you take those three little fun-facts, plus her overall intelligence on display throughout the games and books, what _i personally believe_ happens is one of two things: 1. When she says "feigned a mistimed dodge and let it drink", she's being a little bit sassy/on-the-nose. Rather what she's saying is she feigned the mistimed dodge to bait a lunge and then the moment the Vampire went for the lunge she blink-teleports towards it with the potion vial in hand, and jams it down the beast's throat/in it's mouth, then, just as fast blink-teleports away. The Vampire, unable to keep up with the sheer speed of "The Lady of Time & Space" bites down (expecting a mouthful of neck/throat, or a silly witcher girl's hand) breaking the glass. The Glass lacerates the shit out of it's mouth, meaning the potion doesn't even need to be swallowed to intermingle with the vamp-blood to cause it's effect, nevermind the fact that of course a little of the potion would be swallowed anyways, and it fucks the vampire up. 2. At some point before the fight, just as a precaution, Ciri brews the Black Blood and all that, but then slathers it all around her neck, shoulders, and upper chest. That way if at any point the Vampire _does_ happen to get a feeding-type of bite in, it will inadvertantly suck the potion off of her skin/clothes/collar as it's trying to suck her blood. In closing, the reason i like this idea/theory so much (and why i've chosen to believe it as part of the game's canon all these years) is because the normal way a Black Blood potion works is, The Witcher drinks the potions and the potion in turn slightly alters his blood in a way that causes great harm to Vampires & Necrophages. So imagine what it might then do if instead of going through that process, where it is consumed once, then diluted extremely as the "concentrate" sublimates with the rest of the blood in a Witcher's circulatory system, it was introduced directly to the Vampire's (in it's concentrated form) digestive system, as is the case in Example 2, or to both it's Digestive _&_ Circulatory system as in Example 1. In my mind at least, it would be orders of magnitude more potent, and may literally cause the blood of the vampire to immediately begin boiling, causing expansion and vapor-build up, potentially resulting in a BLEVE. Or it may just interact so maliciously/caustically with all the organic tissues in a vampire that they literally begin to dissolve as if you forced them to swallow a condom full of 'piranha solution' and then punched them in the stomach and burst the balloon. Who knows? (Edited to fix about 15 typos, if someone's actually gonna take the time to read all this psycho-babble, they ought not to have to deal with shitty spelling & grammar too.)
6:58 ahh... I see how Lambert thinks of himself as being better witcher than Geralt. He DOES NOT lose his pants after encounter with a woman ... He knows this is a battle, one must be always ready to counterattack. That's why he sleeps in full gear.
unbuff > goto balls statue > waitfor/console clear moonlit night > SS stam regen > save > use balls > SS stam regen > load > use decoc > SS stam regen For what purpose did you use 2 different starting values for your tests at 4:37 ? It makes no sense to NOT use the same starting value of 58 OR 22 for both tests.
The battle of the gate in Vergen was legendary against Henselt. Besides, all his friends were with the Scoitael, so Geralt would never side with Roche. We want an Iorveth DLC .
Thanks for mentioning the Roach card and how you get it. I didn't realize you have to launch the stand-alone Gwent game first. I actually submitted a ticket about not getting that card. lol
If any of the next witcher games are, by some miracle, not set in the past, I hope they bring back Iorveth. Heck, even if its a prequel they could give him a cameo considering how long elves live.
I’m replaying the 1.31 version because it has better mod support and my PC is Pascal gen, can’t do ray tracing anyway. I’m having a blast. About 20 mods in, this looks better than. I remember. 6GB or VRAM at 1080p.
@@xLetalis Don't sell yourself short man! You have many followers and fans now. Imo, many of us would LOVE to chat about the witcher while you play. Totally get if it is a hassle, but I think we all would have a blast :)
Hey the dead body that someone thought was Gunther o dimms. I found another body that looks the same. It's in the sewers on the mission "now or never" with Triss. It's is a little after the hidden library. It's buy it's self except for the fire next to body. Just thought I'd let you know that. since weren't you looking for another body like it. Have a good night and be good.
hey letais, not sure if you mentioned it in "details you have missed", but ciri has also a dialogue option for your mark from gaunter o dimm in skellige. you can ask her bout this (maybe earlier somewhere) in skellige, when ciri, yen and philip stand in circle. its nothing big or special, but im not sure if you mentioned it.
Speaking on putting stuff on display, idk if you ever done it, but if you put the bathing towel on a display in corvo bianco (the one you can drop and pick up again before talking to Emhyr) it pretty funnily shows fleshy legs with it, but without feet
@@xLetalis I suspect since it "counts" as pants, and game probably needs texture covering whole legs, so that's probably the reason includes skin texture for whole legs. It's prettt funny to see it on a display, just feetless legs hovering in the air
the guard change was part of FCR3 which was merged into game. I do wish we had a complete lists of changes they kept and changes they didn't. For example I know they did NOT keep the buff to sorc allies in combat, they're still weak but in FCR3 they were massively buffed to fit lore (why on earth would yen triss and keira so terrible at dps was reasoning FCR3 changed it). one day what might be a good video is looking at the compiled list on FCR3 mod page, and testing what CDPR cherry picked from mod and didn't. for example i know they cherry picked reward increase from some quests but not others (i recall at very least the mod modified reward of selling ciri, gaunter, AND the baron, but so far I haven't seen any notes about baron reward)
for anyone wanting to make money in the witcher 3 if you have blood and wine you have the quest a knight errant, or something along those lines in that quest you essentially liberate locations from bandits, the best location is a castle east of beauclair, you wil enter and you wil kill all the bandits save for the runner that tries to reach the signal fire, this is simple enough, you then move trough towards the upper courtyard and start killing all the bandits there, when you are halfway trough a new wave of reinforcements should arrive due to the signal fire, kill them off as well loot all the corpses in the courtyard but do not move into the keep, instead leave, go to the fast travel point, jump to any other point and then immediatly jump back, you can repeat this as much as you want I tend to use this to do business with the grandmaster craftsman, he charges ludicrous prices for gettin grandmaster armor and this just helps to recover the cost getting at least a couple hundred crowns per sword allows you to earn back the money spent at least
That dwarf let me in without axii or bribe anyway, he’s one of those “!” Mini quests you can help out earlier and he also defends you to the Hattoris bodyguards brother
In the polish version Ciri never says she drank black blood, just that she let the vampire have a "drink", so I'm pretty sure that's a mistranslation, and a confirmed one if the internet is to be believed. I guess they just didn't want to re-record the voice line for this ending :T
The game breaking bug in Battle Preparations where Avallac'h just says "yes?" when you go talk to him to tell him everything's ready needs to be fixed. It still hasn't been fixed in the Next gen update. I'm sol with my next gen playthrough. I don't even have saves from before the quest and starting a new game is no guarantee the bug won't happen again. Same thing with the wine wars belgaard quest where objectives wont mark as completed making the quest uncompletable. Even if you load and use different saves and redo the quest, once it bugged, it'll always bug out.
6:15 the guards didnt respawn they got up because you dont actually kill them just knock them down or out they will get up if you look away or go a little distance away
Respawns in settlements in general should have been delayed to at least once per week in game time, much like how inventory in vendors takes about that same amount of time to respawn. Without this, it is far too easy to keep farming domestic livestock like goats, geese, and cows for sellable loot, especially in White Orchard. Now that the guards are more balanced with the rest of the enemies in the game, it is far too easy to just farm them too for loot with every guard outpost, such as the Redanian Post at the bridge between Velen and Novigrad, as well as Reardon Manor for Nilfguaardian loot drops.
3:12 Regarding the bees in White Orchard it worked for me. After the update I started completely clean game and tried it, well Tomira is dead and I got all the alchemy stuff
You can burn the beehives and get honeycombs. They actually sell for a nice amount of money in the beginning of the game. There is a merchant in the woods who pays well for them.
My real question is, how come Letalis doesn't really use Witcher 2 music in the background? 🤔 sunrise at flotsam and a quiet corner are amazing tracks!
i saw in a videos that you using torch sometimes, i found oil lamp it works like keira's lamp but with fire. I sometimes using it besides potion called cat. Funny thing: once i missed clicked bomb or sign and a lamp came on (i was in a fight) and i cant remember am i drop dragons dream bomb or ther was earth gas, but as i just get inside that smoke it was ignite by fire in lamp, it's nice feauture, and i saw it only by miss click
