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- Saving:
- I'll only mention this once: Save often.
- Quick Save before every conversation. It'd suck to screw one up only to have to reload from a slot you saved an hour or more ago.
- Unlike the previous game, there is a quick save slot, so I do recommend making a "hard" save every now and again.
- Combat:
- Use your Signs and Potions often. They make combat easier, especially on the higher difficulty levels.
- On higher difficulties, spend more time dodging than attacking.
- Leveling:
- Enemies level up at the same rate as you do, so the game is consistently challenging. This also means you need to keep your gear upgraded.
- Enemeis respawn, so you can grind out a few levels every now and again if you like.
- Loot:
- I haven't made a guide to any gear or items because the list would be huge, and the game has a good way of comparing stuff. If you do everything, you'll find the "best" stuff anyway.
- Money is scarce in this game, so loot everything and sell it to vendors.
- The game won't let you sell a quest item.
- Different vendors buy and sell different things, so be sure look around for different types of vendors to sell stuff to.
- Trophies are equipped by Roach. Every time you pick up a new trophy, it replaces the one you currently have equipped.
- Crafting Recipies and Diagrams are looted from Points of Interest.
- Gameplay:
- Read the manual.
- When following an NPC who's talking, you may be attacked as you go. The sounds of battle can make the conversation impossible to hear. Therefore, stop moving while the conversation goes on, and only advance when there's no talking.
- Also, you may reach your destination before the conversation is over, cutting the conversation short. So again, just stand still if you want to hear the whole thing.
- Always exit a builing or compound before fast travelling, as you can fuck up some quests if you don't.
- Take boats back to Harbors when you're done with them, as they'll just stay in the middle of the ocean otherwise.
- System:
- Read the books before you play the game. The game takes place 5 years after the books, and they give some great background for the games. There are many times where you'll recognize characters and history, or where characters mention events from the books, where you'd be lost otherwise.
- There is no save editor. I recommend using the mods above and just not selling stuff.
- Turn Sharpening to Off, otherwise everything looks grainy.
- To alter gamma, use Fullscreen to show the Gamma settings option.
- To turn off subtitles in cutscenes, open C:\documents\witcher3\user.settings and change all of the Subtitle lines to False.
- If you can't dive (c key by default), QuickSave, then Load it.
- Signs the game needs to be restarted:
During conversation, if you get a second or so of blurriness.
If the horse stops showing its animation while riding.
If characters slide around during cutscenes without playing a walking animation.
- To enable the console, in \The Witcher 3\bin\config\base\general.ini
add DBGConsoleOn=True
- A good list of console commands
last modified 20 August 2020