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The Blood of Dawnwalker (from former Witcher 3 devs)

Biggest problem I've had so far is randomly getting stuck in one spot during combat, then enemies can just rain down blows until your stamina depletes
 
Flogger23m said:
...we need a mod for this? Well not that interested regardless. By the time I find time for it maybe they will patch these features in.
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Apparently the cinematic animations were made for 30 FPS because this mod can break them. I thought we were beyond LA Noire tech when it came to facial motion capture.
 
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14 hours in, 21 days left ingame. liking it more and more.
its a huge world. lots to do, tons of cool quests, the mainquest can be kinda grindy, destroying multiple of the same camps etc. but you dont have to do that stuff.
just got to the city, and its nighttime, running across rooftops, vampire-fantasy fullfilled for sure. cant wait to check it out in daytime, too
 
This Die Hard gamer I work with said he almost finished this game. He platinums like every game he likes. I'm not sure how much he get out of games just seems addicted. He's a console kiddie trying to covert him to PC but he told me the new Xbox is going to be a PC basically. Games on a 60" screen something I would never do told him he would get his life back if he gamed on a smaller oled screen.
 
Comixbooks said:
This Die Hard gamer I work with said he almost finished this game. He platinums like every game he likes. I'm not sure how much he get out of games just seems addicted. He's a console kiddie trying to covert him to PC but he told me the new Xbox is going to be a PC basically. Games on a 60" screen something I would never do told him he would get his life back if he gamed on a smaller oled screen.
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Who gives a shit what he enjoys gaming on and how exactly will using a smaller display "give him his life back"?
Do you ever think about the gibberish you type out before hitting the reply button?
 
grifter_66 said:
Who gives a shit what he enjoys gaming on and how exactly will using a smaller display "give him his life back"?
Do you ever think about the gibberish you type out before hitting the reply button?
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You don't know the guy I do he's messed up.
 
FWIW, it went from Mixed (with about 2k reviews) to Very Positive on Steam... pretty solid performance for the first title from a new studio. I don't have the time right now, but I'll be sure to give this Witcher: Vampire game a try.

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northrop said:
FWIW, it went from Mixed (with about 2k reviews) to Very Positive on Steam... pretty solid performance for the first title from a new studio. I don't have the time right now, but I'll be sure to give this Witcher: Vampire game a try.

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same old with steam. the first couple hundred reviews are always mixed because people with potato PCs cant run it properly (and its not a very optimized game to be honest).
everyone else is just playing and having a blast. day 2 onwards the reviews get more and more positive.

game is great. it really scratches the old witcher itch and is a great RPG in its own right.

the systems they rely on are mostly great. the time restraint has been discussed to hell and back, but in my opinion its a very welcome addition that adds so much to this genre.
i have 14 days left in my playthrough, after almost 25hours of playtime. i can see the last two lieutenants in those 14 days and im wondering how i will accomplish it.


theres two or three big quest chains that i started and wanna see where they go, and thats probably gonna be it for this playthrough. im sure theres loads that i wont see this time around, and thats great imo.
 
grifter_66 said:
If you have to know this guy in order for your post to make any reasonable sense why post it on a forum where no one else knows him?
My comment still stands.
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To add to it we all have some type of addiction to computers and/or gaming or we wouldn't be here for 20+ years.
We all live for a bit then die might as well enjoy the ride.
 
Comixbooks said:
Yeah I'm not going to pick this up graphics look bad pre 2005
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I picked it up. I wouldn't say they're that bad. I mean it's better than unmodded Skyrim. But yeah the art is "meh" and it looks like an older game. Just not 2005 old. It's kind of the old precision vs. accuracy thing. It's detailed like a modern AAA game, but stuff just looks misshapen and out of place. They should patch in DLSS5. Might as well. "Oh but DLSS5 ruins the art!" Already done out of the box.

The game is overly sharpened. I don't know why they did that. It doesn't seem to matter how much upscaling I throw at it, it's still too sharp. They really need a sharpness slider in the settings. There isn't one, but it looks like it's cranked to 100%. Throwing more upscaling at it doesn't help either.

UE5 Lumen does a nice job with lighting but at a big performance cost. Once again it's software Lumen, so it doesn't use the raytracing hardware found in any GPU strong enough to run this thing decently. On the up side it looks pretty good on "low". The art is still short of the mark of course but it's good enough to play. Plus most of the gains from "low" are turning down lighting and shadows, so weaker cards can just do that and run the rest on medium+. Then there's the vegetation setting. In Borderlands 4 low vegetation is one of the two low settings that makes the game look like shit. Bye bye grass. The other is low geometry, which causes massive pop-in. In this one some 5090 owners might prefer vegetation on low because instead of making all the vegetation disappear low vegatation stops the trees and bushes from twitching. So more bad art. Trees and bushes don't say in the wind, they twitch.

socK said:
General consensus seems to be good with jank

Think I'll keep it on the radar and maybe it'll get patched up a bit
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That's how I feel about it. It's janky. If I stand still in the game and look around everything seems smooth. Start moving and it's just a little off. People keep complaining about "stuttering" and such on Steam. Some of them are just clueless, but I think a lot are mistaking jank for stuttering. Best I can tell graphics are fine but the game has some issues with handling player inputs/movement. I've tried it on Intel ARC B580/9600X/32GB and 5090/285k/64GB and it's the same except for the graphics settings I can use.

Seems like a good game though. Just not the prettiest. I'll take it over most of the graphically pretty boring corporate slop we've been getting lately out of big studios. Maybe it's the real successor to Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, jank included. IMHO Bloodlines 2 looks better, but it's got lousy gameplay. It's more like a visual novel or walking simulator occasionally rudely interrupted by someone trying to kill you than an RPG or adventure game. Mind you I don't think BL2 has good graphics, I just think they're better than Dawnwalker's. Still, I'd take playing Dawnwalker over that and a whole lot of much prettier games.
 
finished it today after 36hours.
loved it. its janky for sure, but the world is great. quests top notch.
killing the big bad can be done in multiple different ways it seems, i went the solo route, which was very satisfying.
finished it all in the 30day time limit, with a day to spare, and it didnt feel like i left any big quests on the floor.
felt really powerful in the last 3rd of the game, which was awesome.

can only recommend it. its great.
 
Apparently a single play through is a good bit shorter than I thought. Can you realistically do every side mission or visit every place on the map before time runs out? But if it is 36 or so hours that might be short enough where I may replay it.
 
Flogger23m said:
Apparently a single play through is a good bit shorter than I thought. Can you realistically do every side mission or visit every place on the map before time runs out? But if it is 36 or so hours that might be short enough where I may replay it.
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you cant do everything in the 30 days, no.
 
mQzz said:
you cant do everything in the 30 days, no.
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I think that's a good thing.

As much as I love games like Obilvion or Skyrim, where ONE GUY can become the ultimate master of the thieves guild, The most unholy assassin of the dark brotherhood, the grand chancellor of the mages academy, the saviour of kvatch, the arena grand champion, the patriarch of the knights of the nine, the leader of the fighter's guild, the motherfucking GOD OF MANIA

I think it makes sense to force the player to take the RP seriously by giving them a time limit.
 
KazeoHin said:
I think that's a good thing.

As much as I love games like Obilvion or Skyrim, where ONE GUY can become the ultimate master of the thieves guild, The most unholy assassin of the dark brotherhood, the grand chancellor of the mages academy, the saviour of kvatch, the arena grand champion, the patriarch of the knights of the nine, the leader of the fighter's guild, the motherfucking GOD OF MANIA

I think it makes sense to force the player to take the RP seriously by giving them a time limit.
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yeah, i personally think its very well done. you feel a bit of pressure all the time, have to make difficult decisions (do i help the guy, taking half a day to do so, or do i let him die and save that time?) while also being pretty generous and it not feeling bad in the long run.
my playthrough felt great.
 
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