GOG has the OST (including FLAC) if you buy GOTY edition. But some themes are missing there. You need to extract game resources for them.

Found Voynich manuscript displayed by one of the merchants :) Together with some Leonardo da Vinci anatomy sketches.



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Quoting: ShmerlGOG has the OST (including FLAC) if you buy GOTY edition. But some themes are missing there. You need to extract game resources for them.

In addition to the soundtracks, it should also come with artbooks, wallpapers and comics (for each expansion too). The map is quite pretty too, if anyone wants to frame it. :)

(Same for Steam, look into ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/The Witcher 3/.)

Hehe, "Portrait of the Witcher as an Old Man" was funny :)

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Funny Monkey Island reference:



One of the fistfighters in Beauclair is called Mancomb (paraphrasing Guybrush), and he also engages with Geralt in the taunting sparring.

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Extreme Cosplay - very intense quest. Those living statues are hard. And Geralt after that was pretty angry, and I made him vent out to Durand about how humans drove elves away from their land.

That fight was horrible. Think I actually gave up on it after countless tries because Geralt kept dying in seconds from those very powerful and damaging "statues". It's possible this was much worse on NG+ though, and I've only played the expansions with that. Many other encounters were fine, but this one (plus one or two Ciri quests) were brutal.

The "boxing" encounter mentioned above was fun, and I wish there were more missions that could be solved peacefully.

At other times I wish it was possible to kill NPCs, but almost everyone is immortal.

Quoting: PangaeaThat fight was horrible. Think I actually gave up on it after countless tries because Geralt kept dying in seconds from those very powerful and damaging "statues". It's possible this was much worse on NG+ though, and I've only played the expansions with that. Many other encounters were fine, but this one (plus one or two Ciri quests) were brutal

Yeah, I discovered that quest when traveling back to Beauclair from the Termes palace ruins (after exploring the crypts there to find grandmaster wolven gear diagrams), so I already got some background on the conflict between humans and elves that happened in that area in the past, so Extreme Cosplay fell right into the context I was just analyzing before that.

I'm not in NG+, but I'm using Death March so those statues are indeed very hard, since they teamed up pikemen with sorceresses and when they all attack together it's huge amount of damage. So not getting surrounded was the first priority. Using some bombs and evasion I managed to distract the pikemen enough to take them out gradually. Then I tried to stall sorceresses with Axii. It barely works on them, and they also have some kind of force shields similar to Quen. Felt bad about it, and wasn't sure if they were really machines, they felt quite alive. Probably one of the hardest fights in the game so far (may be besides for Eredin and the Toad prince).

Quoting: PangaeaThe "boxing" encounter mentioned above was fun, and I wish there were more missions that could be solved peacefully.

At other times I wish it was possible to kill NPCs, but almost everyone is immortal.

I actually manage to avoid killing in some encounters, unless necessary in self defense. For example, I was exploring the Bastoy prison ruins, and that hooded woman turned into an Alp. I managed to get the treasure there without killing her, assuming she was just defending her territory. Axii works wonders.

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Witcher 3 is on a 70% sale now on GOG, which is the highest it has been (often seen it 60% off). Witcher 1 and 2 are also on sale at 85% off. A great time to pick it up. Apparently it's a 5 year anniversary for the third game's release. Strange that I only started playing it a year ago or something, because before that it wasn't truly playable on Linux.
https://www.gog.com/promo/witcher_birthday

Yeah... Quite hard. Those 2 wizards are pretty powerful... If you don't keep moving, you become an easy target. You must get rid of them in the first place or else, you are literally toast.