Restarted the game (after finishing Novigrad so ~40 hours in? don't ask me why) now I'm finishing up Velen stuff before going to Novigrad and I already found 5 new quest I overlooked(small ones but still).
The Witcher 3
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Restarted the game (after finishing Novigrad so ~40 hours in? don't ask me why) now I'm finishing up Velen stuff before going to Novigrad and I already found 5 new quest I overlooked(small ones but still).
hard not to wonder why. I mean you can respec by buying a potion (costs 1,000)
But you didn't even go to Skellige i assume yet then huh?
I'm still not yet to Novigrad. I just went there earlier and played a bunch of people in gwent and bought a couple prostitutes just cause. But then left without doing anything else. Want to finish up everything basically south before I move up. Sadly looks like no more Gwent quests. The rest of the cards I'll have to find on my own looks like. No more pointing out who has great uniques.
I'm off to start searchign for the Griffin set, though now.
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Restarted the game (after finishing Novigrad so ~40 hours in? don't ask me why) now I'm finishing up Velen stuff before going to Novigrad and I already found 5 new quest I overlooked(small ones but still).
Yeah it's nice that you can find some quests (and waste time doing so) by just roaming the countryside…....some of which you can be locked out of doing like "Death By Fire".
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Mostly because of OCD reasons, game is so huge(like I don't even think Skyrim can compete without mods, and witcher 3 is going to get mods at some point I think dev said they're going to release tools in some form) it's kind of impossible to do everything the first time. But that's what I'm going to do now after understanding Velen/Novigrad as maps. I've been to Skellige to gather the Ursine set but haven't done any great quest there beside on for a black perl.
Again I can't believe how much stuff(that doesn't feel hollow) there is to do in that game.
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Mostly because of OCD reasons, game is so huge(like I don't even think Skyrim can compete without mods, and witcher 3 is going to get mods at some point I think dev said they're going to release tools in some form) it's kind of impossible to do everything the first time. But that's what I'm going to do now after understanding Velen/Novigrad as maps. I've been to Skellige to gather the Ursine set but haven't done any great quest there beside on for a black perl.
Again I can't believe how much stuff(that doesn't feel hollow) there is to do in that game.
Not to mention the DLC coming out is supposed to be 10 hours one and 20 the other I believe. So 30 more hours total. Or is it 10 hours one and 30 the other?
Either way, I feel like we are going to get another whoel new area like Valen size.
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Who's done the Cabaret secondary quest? It seriously was one of the best optional quest I've played. The sudden change in tone felt really dark and gritty.
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Who's done the Cabaret secondary quest? It seriously was one of the best optional quest I've played. The sudden change in tone felt really dark and gritty.
Really great quest you are right. Especially the different options in the end are great as a mystery solutions.
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Best purchase in a long while. I'm over 40 hours into the game and I feel like I've barely scraped the tip of the iceberg.
Must have spent around 10 hours alone just hunting down gwent players and I'm still missing a TON of cards.Just finished the Family Matters + Ladies of the Wood storylines and it's easily one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
The story, characters, music, everything was just fantastic and it all came together to create an amazing atmosphere.Also very pleased with the performance. Didn't expect much as my GTX 670 hasn't been a high-end card for a while now, however it can still pull a constant ~45 fps at high settings.
Absolutely stunning game.
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I was this close to lowering my difficulty setting - cus I tire of spending money on vitality items - when I, well, grasped that while your health does not regenarate while meditating, potions or whatnot, do. It does say so after a meditation, but I ignored it for whatever reason. Don't have have to craft them each time. So now, until something better comes along, Swallow has really eased up the experience.
I was in the cave with that witch women, following the Wild Hunt, and oh my god I struggled: empty on items, little health, many enemies. Didn't notice Swallow had replenished till the end.
Was hesitant cus I didn't like the third Dragon's Age, but this turned out to be awesome.
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after a meditation, but I ignored it for whatever reason. Don't have have to craft them each time. So now, until something better comes along, Swallow has really eased up the experience.
The enhanced & superior versions of Swallow which extends the time the potion remains effective.
And boy putting this game through it's paces reveal more and more glitches.
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I said it once… I say it again... Game is a blast... Absolutely outstanding!
For me with ease GOTY
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I've been on Velen for days and I still haven't discovered all of what Velen's POI have to offer. Have been running into Monster's way above my current level though.
And I screwed up the Bloody Baron quest but that's what another playthrough is for.
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what do you mean by screwed up?
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Pretty sure he means he wants a different outcome.
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Pretty sure he means he wants a different outcome.
Yeah the one that doesn't involve people being brutally killed and certain people committing suicide.
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Yeah the one that doesn't involve people being brutally killed and certain people committing suicide.
How the heck I should known? I really liked Baron by the end of the quest and I just wanted to make it up for the family…how should I known it would end up like this?
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I'm guessing when you see a vengeful spirit insisting that you release them instead of killing them….....maybe you just kill them especially when can already tell releasing the spirit is going to have some heavy consequences........just not as negatively heavy as you imagined.
But then again this is The Witcher we're talking about.
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I'm guessing when you see a vengeful spirit insisting that you release them instead of killing them….....maybe you just kill them especially when can already tell releasing the spirit is going to have some heavy consequences........just not as negatively heavy as you imagined.
But then again this is The Witcher we're talking about.
Huh yours also sounds interesting. The only spirit I met that could have been vengeful was the Botchling.
I treated the Baron fairly after the first Ciri flashback since he took care of her genuinely.
Does anyone else get annoyed by the church of the Eternal fire, especially considering that Geralt was responsible for creating them. I did not teach Alvin the shit they spout.
Plus another question about them, why wasn't it disbanded after you figure out Alvin was the mastermind behind Withcer 1.
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Alvin takes whatever you taught him and twists it. If you have a save, you can see how he twists it in the final level.
Radovid takes in the remnants of the Order after the first game. Of course, an Order ending never had them disbanded and had Siegfried take over after the events of Witcher 1.
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I'm guessing when you see a vengeful spirit insisting that you release them instead of killing them….....maybe you just kill them especially when can already tell releasing the spirit is going to have some heavy consequences........just not as negatively heavy as you imagined.
But then again this is The Witcher we're talking about.
stuff in spoiler, though I imagine most are done with this quest at this point
! The children live instead of being eaten by the three witches if you let the spirit go. So you were fine with lettting those five or six innnocent children being killed. The spirit flat out says the will die if you don't free him.
! I'd rather save a half dozen innocent children than an abusive husband, bad father. -
stuff in spoiler, though I imagine most are done with this quest at this point
! The children live instead of being eaten by the three witches if you let the spirit go. So you were fine with lettting those five or six innnocent children being killed. The spirit flat out says the will die if you don't free him.
! I'd rather save a half dozen innocent children than an abusive husband, bad father.Like I said it's the Witcher every action has some sort of consequence with no middle ground…...but at least nothing happens to Johnny I hope.
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For those who are done with Keira's storyline….Spoilers ahead.
! Have you'll seen what happens to Keira Metz if you allow her to go to Radovid?
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Ho Lee Sheet!! Stuff like that makes this game one of the best I've ever played.I also really have to appreciate how CDPR has handled Geralt's expressions.
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stuff in spoiler, though I imagine most are done with this quest at this point
! The children live instead of being eaten by the three witches if you let the spirit go. So you were fine with lettting those five or six innnocent children being killed. The spirit flat out says the will die if you don't free him.
! I'd rather save a half dozen innocent children than an abusive husband, bad father.! im pretty sure a village (or more?) full of innocent people also gets destroyed if you save the children.
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^In regards to the above
! Yes, the entire village of Downwarren gets destroyed and all the people in it die.
@Leon:For those who are done with Keira's storyline….Spoilers ahead.
! Have you'll seen what happens to Keira Metz if you allow her to go to Radovid?
! >! http://i.imgur.com/XMAVhHD.jpg
Ho Lee Sheet!! Stuff like that makes this game one of the best I've ever played.! Holy crap, man! I actually expected that it'd just be rumors of horrible things, but I should've known better. Mere rumors aren't good enough for Witcher games.
! She should've known better, though. I mean, you straight up told her what would happen. Unless, of course, you chose some other dialog path I guess. Then you were probably just laughing at her. -
! im pretty sure a village (or more?) full of innocent people also gets destroyed if you save the children.
! A whole village that was basically worshipping the evil witches and cutting off their own ears and making a trail of treats and ears for kids to follow in order to be sacrifices.
! Not exactly 100% innocent. Though not like they can do anything about it. They just doing what they can to survive.
! There is no perfect way to do this quest. Even if you manage to save the kids and keep Anna alive, the village is still dead. If you want to keep the village alive, the kids get eaten. -
^In regards to the above
! Yes, the entire village of Downwarren gets destroyed and all the people in it die.
! Holy crap, man! I actually expected that it'd just be rumors of horrible things, but I should've known better. Mere rumors aren't good enough for Witcher games.
! She should've known better, though. I mean, you straight up told her what would happen. Unless, of course, you chose some other dialog path I guess. Then you were probably just laughing at her.! Yeah. I was having a Dragon Age: Inquisition vs Witcher 3 conversation about if Dragon Age would be considered a dark fantasy. I started laughing when they started saying stuff like 'Read the Codex!' and 'Listen to this story!' as references to Dragon Age being dark compared to Witcher which actually enforces 'show, don't tell.'
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For those who are done with Keira's storyline….Spoilers ahead.
! Have you'll seen what happens to Keira Metz if you allow her to go to Radovid?
! >!I was expecting her to be burned at the stake but I guess Radovid likes to change it up in line with his crazy ass mentality.
For those who are done with Keira's storyline….Spoilers ahead.
! Have you'll seen what happens to Keira Metz if you allow her to go to Radovid?
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Ho Lee Sheet!! Stuff like that makes this game one of the best I've ever played.I also really have to appreciate how CDPR has handled Geralt's expressions.
They deserve praise for the dialog too especially Geralt's banter with some of the npc's.
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I was actually quite annoyed with Keira and let her do what she wanted…and it turned out that way.
Also, I found the Ard Skellige soundtrack among the best I've every listened to.
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I was actually quite annoyed with Keira and let her do what she wanted…and it turned out that way.
Also, I found the Ard Skellige soundtrack among the best I've every listened to.
When I first rode on green farms of Skellige and this soundtrack started it was one of best gaming moments for me for a long time…. Music and Audio of this game is just so amazing.
Oh and AngryJoe finished his angry review of Witcher 3, He was a huge fan of DA:I and also liked Witcher 2 alot.
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Man this game is just "wow"
Just doing quests for people like Dandelion, Triss and Zolten is awesome. Feels like I'm doing main story shit and these are optional quests.
Dandelion side quest below
! man Pricilla better get her voice back. Fucking elder vampire. I was getting so pissed and wanted to kill the bad guy so bad reading about what was being done and it keep happening. Felt like I was playign a Criminal Minds episode.
! BTW potion tree is so freaking amazing. I mean having a enhanced vampire oil to apply on blade. Having Supreme devils puffball (makes it so monster can't transform ever), drinking some black blood. Then the potion tree makes it so that you poison them and also take less damage from the monster you have the oil on for. You wreck shit. Devils puffbal makes foglets your bitch tooThis game is just so freaking massive and explorative. So many random side quests and htey are all different and fullfilling. Not one side quest have I thought "i've done this before" or "another fetch quest" ect. They all feel unique and half of them make me wonder if this person I'm talking to is in the books or something cause they feel so real.
Gwent rules as always, but my deck is too overpowered for the North. Trying out new decks. Hoping for a mod for further playthroughs that switches up the starting deck so that I don't always be basically playign north all the time. Speaking of next playthrough. I have made some decisions this time that wouldn't normally cause know going to play again and want the other decision to be my final one. Going to play through this one blind and see what mistakes I make unkowingly and fix them.
MODS I WANT:
1. Slower leveling. First time ever thought this, but seriously you get overleveled if you do too many side quests. or maybe they could just up every quest from 5 and up like 5 levels up or something.
2. Reduce fall damage. i dont' need to jump from Xenoblade heights, but hate that falling off the top bunk of a bed kills me.
3. New tab for books/notes solely. Also show if book has been read before when in shop.
4. I love the new filter thing they added so you can hide already crafted items, but be nice to also add hide items you can't use yet due to level. Just more filters, menu tweeks. Same with map. Let me hide complete monster nest, ect. Let me toggle on blacksmiths or barbers, ect.
5. Gwent tweeks. Make a few restrictions, like only so many Hero cards allowed or something. Would really help with the being too overpowered.Isn't really much to fix really. Feel like there shoudl be something for the left and right d-pad buttons. Why can't I put more potions or something to them? Don't really need them, but just feels like a waste to have two buttons doing nothing.
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! A whole village that was basically worshipping the evil witches and cutting off their own ears and making a trail of treats and ears for kids to follow in order to be sacrifices.
! Not exactly 100% innocent. Though not like they can do anything about it. They just doing what they can to survive.
! There is no perfect way to do this quest. Even if you manage to save the kids and keep Anna alive, the village is still dead. If you want to keep the village alive, the kids get eaten.! i also subscribed to the belief that a lot of people have is that if you free the spirit the kids may not be eaten, but the fact that they are surrounded by a swamp full of drowners and that somr of the kids come from the village that worships the Crones the probably end up dead anyway.
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! i also subscribed to the belief that a lot of people have is that if you free the spirit the kids may not be eaten, but the fact that they are surrounded by a swamp full of drowners and that somr of the kids come from the village that worships the Crones the probably end up dead anyway.
! But no one "wins" in that entire mission! you see the kids later at some school in novagrad so they make it.
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Finished the game only things waiting for me as far as I know are questionmarks in skellige.
And wow the best praise I can give is that I'm feeling post game depression something I haven't felt since finishing the original Persona 4 years ago. -
Well, I finished it, but to be honest the ending was ruined much for me, so I didn't get any post game depression. Too many choices rested on superficial choices that weren't always even logical, especially regarding who wins the war and Ciri. Mind you, I actually got a pretty good ending.
Major spoilers regarding major quests.
! With Ciri, many parts such as the Lodge chat, letting her explode at the Lab, what you say when visiting Emhyr, don't seem very logical in how they affect Ciri's confidence/depression/(that she's getting used feeling she has). You could easily argue that both choices could have been the positive outcome, but in-game it's not.
! * Snowball fight is logical, but seems small and superifical.
! * Such as escorting her to the Lodge. Could easily argue that you want to escort her cos neither of you trust the Lodge (having a friend is not bad), yet the correct answer is to let her go in alone because "independence".
! * Accepting Emhyr's money: Really, you can't just accept the money and give it to her or something?
! * Letting her explode at the lab. I dunno, it seems better if you tell her to calm down? Just seems really weird.
! * Graveyard visit is obvious. Works fine.
! * And the horse-stealing quest doesn't actually affect her ending, at all, while it seemed like the one that was the most logical to do so out of all of them, save the graveyard.
! * Might have been a few more that I don't remember.
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! And then with the whole Radovid assassination thing, it is only triggered if you complete Triss's storyline, so if you didn't care about her or liked Yennifer, you're screwed, Radovid auto-wins the war. Then you have to make sure you complete a sidequest for Sigi at that time, progress the main story for a while, not piss off Sigi again when you're likely to, and then do the final quest.
! Now for the actual quest itself.
! Radovid attempts to kill you for some silly reasons that just more-or-less sounds like "I'm mad and cos I can".
! Then Sigi derps at the end and attempts to kill you in fair combat with some generic bandits vs Roche + Ves and you. Really OOC moment.
! Mind you Sigi was:
! * THE spymaster of Redania, at one point, and a major underground spy power now. Not knowing about your friendship with Roche from the common knowledge events of W2 is plain insulting. Yet he expects you to simply leave Roche.- He told you he sucks at combat in the very same quest not 6 hours ago. Yet he goes into melee combat.
- There was a victory toast that he could have very easily poisoned, he wasn't even there to drink it, but the others drank it without him anyway.. Plus it would have left Geralt alive cos of witcher's toxin resistance, which would have been fine with him. Everyone knows Geralt doesn't care much for politics.
- He somehow wins vs Roche + Ves with common bandits if you do leave.
- He gets no dying cutscene.
! That quest was just so bad, left a sour taste for me all the way to the who wins a war ending. Plus Radovid going mad after W2 is a bit off. And Radovid auto-winning if you don't do the quest is really annoying.
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! Skellige was done nicely at least. The personalites of the two Croach candidates is really shown through their dialogue and actions. So in the end the style they rule with is easily guessable and fits. That was the only ending I felt I earnt properly.
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Radovid going off his rocker seems logical considering how much power the assassinations and other events granted him. That bit about Djikstra is kind of stupid but hey what do you
expect?! People with considerably lower combat skills and holding justifiable grudges against Geralt to not make an attempt on his life?
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Am I the only one loving the song of Pricilla? Really nice melody.
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I really liked how your choices played towards Ciri, it's nice to have a game that doesn't make everything so on the nose* (for the on the nose decision game, Bioware does a really good job with that I think).
I also disagree with not being able to know what choices are the positive ones. I found it fairly easy choosing the most positive reaction just by putting myself in her shoes judging by what they showed us about her before.! Like the gold one is just obvious, I don't think it needs to be discussed why that would sting emotionally.
! The snowball thing was choosing between patronizing her with good intention vs just trying to lift her spirits dunno maybe it's also just from my own experience that I thought the other choice is pretty much the worst thing you could say at that moment.
! Same with the lab decision. Ciri is a hothead, a person of action so you're not going to get through her with just well meaning words.
! I think the sorceress meeting is debatable but I think it's totally understandable that not doting on her all the time is a good thing.
! And about Skajll that's just being there for her.
As for Djikstra sounds a bit aggravating for me his downfall seemed rather natural with the way it played out for me. But I can certainly see that given certain choices that it doesn't really add up at all.*As in not being in the drivers seat for all the important decisions, I like that just being supportive and being there for people can go a long way.
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! Well the major gripe with Djikstra is that he could and should have just poisoned the cups like any half decent spy, never mind that he was the spymaster for a country. The others didn't even wait for him to turn up before drinking it. Melee combat like that was just too stupid and OOC. Djikstra knows the combat compacity of himself, the bandits, Roche, Ves and Geralt. He would not have entered combat at all.
! I got the good Ciri ending on my playthrough, I was just not happy how Radovid is the winner by default. -
Once in a while you run into a game where you just want to do it all. Level 13, 7502 in cash, and I only just now talked to Triss, and have no journey to Skellige Isles yet. I've been rather preoccupied with the "?"'s. Pain in the ass addiction, really. Batman comes out soon.
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I only got to the isles a few days ago myself.
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Did anyone come across a random scene where you find witch hunters breaking into a house and they're basically after an alchemist.
I really agonised over the decision before I decided to do what Geralt would have done in the books. This is actually the first instance of the game where I felt like it could have been a scene in the books.
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So after what seems like ages finally beat the game good lord:blink:
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So after what seems like ages finally beat the game good lord:blink:
I'm not even close.. I'm somehow addicted doing all of the side quests and witcher contracts o_O
Love this game
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I'm not even close.. I'm somehow addicted doing all of the side quests and witcher contracts o_O
Love this game
I'd still be far from finishing the game if I hadn't said fuck it to exploring the Skellige Isles which is mostly made up of a filler p.o.i
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I'd still be far from finishing the game if I hadn't said fuck it to exploring the Skellige Isles which is mostly made up of a filler p.o.i
I want to be as cool as you =(
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Once I found that 100 inventory bag my life got so much easier.
I was going to do all of Skellige but as I kept traveling between waypoints, the amount of ?'s that appeared was overwhelming. They're at sea, the worst of all. Those darn flying things attack your boat constantly and then they'll sink it. Swimming back to shore is a pain.
A friend later told me they're easily killed with a crossbow, which I never thought of doing. But by then I'd realized I was playing that game at every waking moment, so I just dropped everything and did the main quests. Shame, really, I wish I'd done that assassination mission for that spa owner.
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Once I found that 100 inventory bag my life got so much easier.
I was going to do all of Skellige but as I kept traveling between waypoints, the amount of ?'s that appeared was overwhelming. They're at sea, the worst of all. Those darn flying things attack your boat constantly and then they'll sink it. Swimming back to shore is a pain.
A friend later told me they're easily killed with a crossbow, which I never thought of doing. But by then I'd realized I was playing that game at every waking moment, so I just dropped everything and did the main quests. Shame, really, I wish I'd done that assassination mission for that spa owner.
The Zerrakanian saddlebags aren't big enough to carry most of the items of you get if you can believe that and yeah killing sirens are a pain in the ass. Though the game does make them somewhat easy to deal with by letting you shoot them while steering. Though the game doesn't immediately divulge this information
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As soon as you get that horn sirens are the easiest enemies in the game
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Wow they "fixed" movement. One less complaint about the game. Going to hold off on a replay until the season pass content hits then it's back to another crazy ~120 hours(probably less, since I'll be skipping every dialog that I'll remember and I know the game better now).
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LOL!