The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

You would hope they fix the performance issues before they release this physical copy. But I guess we'll see.

The PC version actually runs worse than Cyberpunk, it's weird. My pc is decent, mid range, and can run 2077 fairly smoothly with settings fairly high, including Ray Tracing etc. But turn on Ray Tracing here and it just chugs along, with frame pacing issues to boot.

I haven't tried that, in all honesty the game still looks pretty good even with vanilla lighting, and there have been a few other smaller improvements so it's still better than it was.

I get a pretty solid 144fps with RT turned off, only really drop frames in Novigrad or other dense areas, it drops down to a third that as soon as I turn the effects on, it's mad.

The first quest is all about finding Yennefer, and you do meet her early on.

But yeah, I did the man whore storyline too.

I just have no recollection of really meeting her prior to meeting Triss. I think I'd met Keira, which is where I realised this game had awkward sexy times scenes, then Triss and then quite a bit later Yen pops up and is mad at me for something. So I was like fine I'll sex you too.

I’m up to Novigrad, where I’ve traditionally bounced off the game in the past - like, a dozen times maybe. It was years before I got beyond it and finished the game, but I love the whole White Orchard and Velen sections.

The PS5 version puts a whole new perspective on it though. When those six quest markers for Broken Flowers came up I went ugh, as usual, but here’s the thing. Remove the twin embuggerances of Novigrad’s terrible frame rate and the game’s interminable load times, and I find I’m engaging much more with the actual game. Playing on Death March for the first time too, because the risk of getting killed doesn’t mean a two minute wait.

You utter slag.

So... have they just forgot about patching this then?

Yeah, I’m terrible at selling shit in RPGs too. Especially if it looks like rare special named equipment. It drags me down until I can crawl my way to town and stuff it in my stash chest.

I'll have a look when I next play...

Thinking about it, it did seem expensive that the trip to Skellige basically wiped out the money I had at the time (though you can get it back straight after the voyage.

Knowing that I'm broke due to me being me, rather than by design, also makes Emhyr's monetary rewards seem less impressive.

I started selling my junk. Selling most of the books and Scrolls and maybe a quarter of the weapons in my stash I earned 7k, more than double what I initially had.

Now I need to wait for the merchants gold to reset.



I might get to 25k or so easily. I could start selling the crafting materials I don't need, but as I still have most crafting to do I don't want to sell stuff I later need.

I didn’t really find much to spend serious money on in Witcher 3, beyond some recipes.

Games like this need a “Someday…” sword or armour set in a shop you’ll want to come back for. Or property to buy or improve. Could have been a whole monetary quest line to fix up and invest in Dandelion’s bar after the vagrants are cleared out.

.true witcher experience. You played like the lore demanded.