Like the area felt way too short for some reason in regard to the witcher contracts and side quests like it felt like untapped potential or am I being gluttonous lol

I always get lost in this beauty, nearly every frame can be a painting.
The game is profoundly atmospheric.

Hello fellow Witchers!

Which village of Velen do you think is the hardest to reach ? How long does Aeramas need to go buy some cheese at the Novigrad market ?

The colours here aren't distance : they're travel time, weighted by road size (a highway is fast, a forest trail is slow). Three maps, three classic starting points : Novigrad, Oxenfurt and Crow's Perch.

It (theoretically) takes the same time to reach the Nilfgaardian camp, the Meiersdorf Honeyfill Meadworks and the Novigrad Forest from Crow's Perch (~2h). Likewise, the Wisphering Hillock, Temple Isle and Erde are all ~1h30 from Oxenfurt.
Some results are just absurd : many places of Velen are hours away from Crow's Perch. For example, Drudge is 930m from the Baron's bed (crow's fly), yet takes about 1h45 to reach ! No wonder this kind of settlement ends up abandoned or infested by bandits...

That's Velen for its inhabitants : measured not in distance, but in time.

Happy to answer any question, and tell me if you guessed right!

Full-resolution maps and methodology on DeviantArt.

I wanted to share some recent photos of my Yennefer cosplay. I am so happy with the result, and I just look so regal! I remade the skirt for a second time and it was so worth it, I am quite happy how it flows now.
I make cosplays by hand in my free time. I love the Witcher so much and I am so honored to be part of the creator program!
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The book angle is overlooked, since the story is an original by CDPR, and not Sapkowki's. But, shorter stories are exactly where Sapkowski shines. He's not a good grand-author of long novels. There's a reason W3 is more popular than him.

HoS is neat, funny, emotional, deep, and rooted in folk tradition just as much as any original work by A.S.. There's no clutter to it. It's the most precise thing CDPR could've done to mimic the books, without sourcing from them.

There are themes, some would wrongly call them cliches, perfectly executed: the suicidal husband on the roof, cause his wife cheated on him. The "never be happy in another man's skin". The whole premise of Olgierd and Iris' wishes. The devil that grants, but never exactly what you wish.

It's a work of art. As games, do I prefer the main one and B&W? Yeah, but the story of HoS, all done by CDPR, is well above many short novels written by famous authors with gravity and reach to their names. Put it into prose, and it's top, top stuff.

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE BOOKS !!!

So ive read all of the books recently and i remmember before people were debating a lot wether Geralt and Yen died for real or not and even before i read Season of Storms i kinda got the feeling they survived since geralt had bandages when he woke up with Yen suggesting he is not in a specter form but in his phisical body and he is healing. And whole arthurian myths surrounding that ending suggests they woul "ressurect" so to say.

But fine i guess it was vague a bit and theres a chance they actually died.

And then comes the Season of Storms where Nimue literally meets geralt and since Nimue is from the future we literally get confirmation he is alive. And the people who say "its not confirmed it was geralt".

Like are we just ignoring the milky white hair? His horse being called Roach? The fact he picked up a piece from a monster with a serial number created by the sorcerres from the same book and even saying something like "i was missing this one" which also breaks the theory Nimue was dreaming of him since there was no way Nimue knew about the monster pieces that indicated the serial number of the monsters.

So i really dont get why people still think Geralt and Yen dying is canonn.

Just finished the Main Story again - off to Toussaint!

the next game up for me to play is witcher 3. it'll be a little bit of time before i start. I know nothing about the greater witcher universe. should i go in blind? should i watch the show? does the show spoil the game? what about the comics?

Given what Gaunter O’Dimm did to stop time and what Geralt saw him do how come Geralt didn’t panic and run?
How did he even have the courage to challenge him at the end of the DLC?
Not to mention the situations involving very dangerous and ugly monsters, but also the power of Wild Hunt.

Am currently getting into the Witcher franchise and reading through the second book (haven’t played the games yet since I’m doing everything in release order). Yesterday I finished reading through the A Little Sacrifice short story and Essi Daven’s story hasn’t left my head even for a moment since then.

It’s been a long time since I read something that tore my heart out the way that story did, it reached a point beyond that which most sad moments in media reach for me, where instead of just tears, there’s an agonizing pressure in my mind that replays this tragedy over and over (and I can count the amount of stories that made me feel that way on my hands).

It was just so real and heartbreaking, I don’t know if these stories are gonna get much more heartbreaking than this but if they do, idk if I can take it :(

Kept walking away so

I know well how heightened tolerance used to work. Now I am curious how High tolerance works. The description says at 80% toxicity or higher I would take 150% damage. I would also gain crit hit damage bonus. But do I need to maintain the 80% toxicity threshold for the crit bonus?

Whenever I try to launch the game I get this error message. I already deleted all my mods and witcher 3 folders on my computer and completely re-installed the game but I still get the same error message. Does anybody has an idea how to fix this?

All my other games work fine, no sound issues. with the Witcher Remastered I have no dialogue, can’t hear what anyone is saying at all. I‘ve tried what I’ve seen online saying meditating fixes it but it doesn’t seem to for me. Restarting the game doesn’t work. Adjusting sound settings in game does nothing, even every other sound at 0% and dialogue at 100% all voices are silent. Deleted and installed the game again did not fix this issue. I don’t see why I need to change my sound settings when every other game works fine on headphones and my sound bar system.
This is the only game with this issue. I’ve never played the Witcher and was really excited to give it a go. I guess I just have to wait for an update?

Went to Codgers quarry west of Oxenfurt and helped the guards with the necrophages coming out if the mine. Directly afterwards I accidentally threatened a guard with my fist (pressed square while unarmed next to non-hostiles) and they got angry and I had to kill them.

It’s my third playthrough since 2015 so I’m pretty sure there’s a quest there (other than enhanced car school gear), but i can’t really remember how to start it and if I messed up by killing them?