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You guys are talking about two different things though. The Witcher videos show some really aggressive culling being done on anything that might possibly obscure the camera, and it actually looks like a bug. It seems to me that they're culling from either a different viewpoint than where the camera actually is, or they aren't using the right FOV degrees.

The Archeage thing is just a straight up performance problem of trying to load in too many assets at once.
 
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Nothing you said is wrong, but they're both very similar bugs that can be fixed. ArcheAge should load those huge, jail shaped assets in with the buildings, but instead loads them in while it's loading in all the waifu pillows.
 
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Vorph_sl said:
You guys are talking about two different things though. The Witcher videos show some really aggressive culling being done on anything that might possibly obscure the camera, and it actually looks like a bug. It seems to me that they're culling from either a different viewpoint than where the camera actually is, or they aren't using the right FOV degrees.

The Archeage thing is just a straight up performance problem of trying to load in too many assets at once.
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Yeah hopefully it is fixed. Still looks awesome
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This was a day 1 buy for me, only had to decide between PS4 and PC, heavily leaning toward PS4.

Right now though, I'll be waiting a few days to hear about performance and quality for PS4 vs PC.

It's still definitely a buy though.
 
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This was a day 1 buy for me, only had to decide between PS4 and PC, heavily leaning toward PS4.

Right now though, I'll be waiting a few days to hear about performance and quality for PS4 vs PC.

It's still definitely a buy though.
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Yeah this is where I am sitting at. It depends on how well the PS4 version matches up against the PC version, but also performance and bugs that may or may not happen in droves with the PC launch. Either way, it's a full price purchase.
 
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There's no way I'm gonna play this game on a downgraded version, I'll run The Witcher 3 on 2560x1440p @ 60fps setup and I'll laugh at all y'all poor console players while secretly stuttering at 20fps on my melting computer.
 
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Eh, CDPR is a PC developer and consoles get the cut-down port, not the other way around. I wouldn't worry much about performance problems or bugs that don't exist in all versions. I'd be more concerned about the console versions not actually maintaining 30 fps at 1080p (900p on the Xbone, lol).
 
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Platform choice seems obvious to me. If you have a nice rig, get it on PC. If you don't, PS4.
 
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Tuco_sl said:
Platform choice seems obvious to me. If you have a nice rig, get it on PC. If you don't, PS4.
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Is a 2500k OC'd to 4.5 Ghz with 8 Gb Ram, 500 Gb SSD and 4 GB Gigabyte 770 GTX decent anymore? Aside from the new SSD it plays everything well enough but system itself is almost 3 years old.
 
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I never felttoooffput by Witcher 2's combat system, but I remember only rarely using potions and consumables as they were a huge chore to maintain and prep prior to a fight. I only remember using them when I got my ass kicked and had to reload and make a fight a little easier. Hopefully with the way they've streamlined the potion system, those tediums have disappeared.

I wonder if they utilized some of the changes made by the combat mod CDPR made for Witcher 2 in W3 combat? I never went back and tried the mod, but everyone I've heard talk about it said it was 100% gooder.
 
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I could never get into Witcher 2. I've downloaded it at least 3 separate times and uninstalled it to make room on my SSD for other games. The combat just bugs me. I hate systems that I can't analyze. Made the combat feel "twitchy" because you had to err on the side of caution. Felt stupid rolling and dodging everything, getting in little hits when you're supposed to be this badass.

Does this combat mod fix any of that? Might have to abstain from #3 if they go further towards that type of combat. Which sucks, would really like to support CDPR.
 
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Dandai_sl said:
I never felttoooffput by Witcher 2's combat system, but I remember only rarely using potions and consumables as they were a huge chore to maintain and prep prior to a fight. I only remember using them when I got my ass kicked and had to reload and make a fight a little easier. Hopefully with the way they've streamlined the potion system, those tediums have disappeared.
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That was one of the best things about FCR2: most potions last a really long time.

I wonder if they utilized some of the changes made by the combat mod CDPR made for Witcher 2 in W3 combat? I never went back and tried the mod, but everyone I've heard talk about it said it was 100% gooder.
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Doesn't look like it. Geralt is back to rolling and the combat looks like vanilla TW2 in all the videos I've skimmed through. A big part of FCR2 was messing with all the gear, and TW3 obviously has a completely new gear system. Hopefully they at least rebalanced spells--not that FCR2 actually fixed that, it just moved the broken one from Quen to Aard--and made it so potions aren't so tedious to use.

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Does this combat mod fix any of that? Might have to abstain from #3 if they go further towards that type of combat. Which sucks, would really like to support CDPR.
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Sort of. Geralt spins instead of rolling most of the time (I think it has to do with how many enemies are around--and yes, it still looks silly if you spam it). And there's a new parry/riposte system that makes it so you don't have to hit & run to survive so much. The downside is it gets *really* easy once you get the hang of it, so imo it's required to play on Dark difficulty.

As for 3, it looks an awful lot like vanilla TW2 combat to me. There's a lot of new animations, which is good, but the combat itself still does not look fluid. I suspect playing it right after Bloodborne is going to make me even more critical than I normally would be.
 
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If it is back to the combat tedium of vanilla Witcher 2 then I will pass until the inevitable combat mod. Like I did with Witcher 2. That shit was obnoxious.
 
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Was this FCR2 something you had to install manually? Or if you tried the game within the last year or so, it would have this update automatically from Steam?
 
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Utnayan_sl said:
Is a 2500k OC'd to 4.5 Ghz with 8 Gb Ram, 500 Gb SSD and 4 GB Gigabyte 770 GTX decent anymore? Aside from the new SSD it plays everything well enough but system itself is almost 3 years old.
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here is the min requirement:

Minimum System Requirements
Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
RAM 6GB
OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
DirectX 11
HDD Space 40 GB
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Utnayan_sl said:
Is a 2500k OC'd to 4.5 Ghz with 8 Gb Ram, 500 Gb SSD and 4 GB Gigabyte 770 GTX decent anymore? Aside from the new SSD it plays everything well enough but system itself is almost 3 years old.
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I wouldn't expect 60FPS all the time, but you should stay over 30 much more often than not, if I had to estimate.
 
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Ugh - just found out you don't actually pick a protagonist to play and are forced to switch at times, period.

Disappointing, was thinking there was more to it than that.
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
Ugh - just found out you don't actually pick a protagonist to play and are forced to switch at times, period.

Disappointing, was thinking there was more to it than that.
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You thought it was going to be like a separate character play through with ciri? I think cdp is a bit too invested in geralt to fully switch narrative to ciris' pov. Maybe in another game, there are so many possibilities with ciri.
 
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