RE: Witcher 3
October 13, 2018 at 10:35 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2018 at 12:26 am by emjay.)
Okay, well I have downloaded it now... it did indeed take about two hours to download but got there in the end by doing it at night when my download speeds are faster - and it seems to be working, albeit a bit laggy/juddery in the screens I've seen of it so far. I haven't played anything yet, just explored the shop, and control mappings etc. I wish I could follow Joods' advice to you above, but unfortunately that's just not me; I'm not a jump in and experiment kind of person (even though the smartphone/app revolution kind of forced that on me a bit) but rather someone who prefers to read manuals thoroughly first before tentatively dipping my toes into something new... so the complete opposite 
... but doesn't look like that's going to be possible here.
I'm just not looking forward to being thrust into this thing when I have no idea how to play this sort of game... when I'll be lucky enough at the start to get my character to move let alone shoot or build defensive structures on the fly and all the while under the pressure of jumping out of a flying bus, into a world with an encroaching wall of death, and people looking to snipe you the second you hit the ground if not before then. The idea of it reminds me an awful lot of Hunger Games, so from that POV it looks like it could be very interesting and fun to play, once/if I get the hang of it, but the last time I played a game even roughly like this was Goldeneye on the N64, and I sucked at that an' all It's just going to be embarrassing that's all - I may as well have 'Noob' tattooed across my forehead and as soon as I land someone will just walk up to me and shoot me in the head I'm sure, so picking this up could be slow progress I think
Anyway as I said it's a bit juddery on my system so far, and that's not even in the game proper, as well as saying there's problems with my graphics drivers - but them saying they're up to date and the one recommended to replace it not being compatible - so basically I don't think my laptop's realistically going to be up to the job, at least not smoothly. Which is part of why I'm considering getting a PS4 instead to play it on; I'd like to be able to use it on my TV for one thing, rather than my (smaller) laptop screen, as well as thinking it would probably be easier to pick up using a control pad rather than a keyboard... albeit less flexible that way. Or I could get a control pad for the PC... do you use or recommend one?
ETA: I've played my first game now and managed to break down a wall, pick up two weapons, and use the map enough to make sure I stayed inside the eyes of the storms, sprinting across the map with Shift when I was running out of time. So that part was okay, but the frame rate/judderiness was absolutely terrible... unplayable basically... so I couldn't aim whatsoever... so even when I had a guy right in front of me I couldn't get the crosshairs to settle on him in order to take a shot... and that's where I died... right in the middle of one of the later eyes of storms... so right in the middle of someone else's firefights near the end. But I at least tried to fire my guns... I had dual pistols and a shotgun... but they were pretty much random shots in the general direction of other players cos of that aiming thing. From what I've seen though, I think I would indeed like this game, if it was running smoothly, but it's very clear my laptop's not up to the task graphically, so I don't think there's any point holding out for playing it on PC anymore; so realistically it's either buy a console or give up on it... but after all the youtube vids I've seen of it now, I'm pretty addicted to the idea of it, so I think it's likely I will indeed get a console, not sure which though, since all the major ones seem to run this game... but playstation is the one that's leaping out to me at the moment, and probably the cheapest as well.
... but doesn't look like that's going to be possible here. I'm just not looking forward to being thrust into this thing when I have no idea how to play this sort of game... when I'll be lucky enough at the start to get my character to move let alone shoot or build defensive structures on the fly
and all the while under the pressure of jumping out of a flying bus, into a world with an encroaching wall of death, and people looking to snipe you the second you hit the ground if not before then. The idea of it reminds me an awful lot of Hunger Games, so from that POV it looks like it could be very interesting and fun to play, once/if I get the hang of it, but the last time I played a game even roughly like this was Goldeneye on the N64, and I sucked at that an' all It's just going to be embarrassing that's all - I may as well have 'Noob' tattooed across my forehead and as soon as I land someone will just walk up to me and shoot me in the head I'm sure, so picking this up could be slow progress I think Anyway as I said it's a bit juddery on my system so far, and that's not even in the game proper, as well as saying there's problems with my graphics drivers - but them saying they're up to date and the one recommended to replace it not being compatible - so basically I don't think my laptop's realistically going to be up to the job, at least not smoothly. Which is part of why I'm considering getting a PS4 instead to play it on; I'd like to be able to use it on my TV for one thing, rather than my (smaller) laptop screen, as well as thinking it would probably be easier to pick up using a control pad rather than a keyboard... albeit less flexible that way. Or I could get a control pad for the PC... do you use or recommend one?
ETA: I've played my first game now and managed to break down a wall, pick up two weapons, and use the map enough to make sure I stayed inside the eyes of the storms, sprinting across the map with Shift when I was running out of time. So that part was okay, but the frame rate/judderiness was absolutely terrible... unplayable basically... so I couldn't aim whatsoever... so even when I had a guy right in front of me I couldn't get the crosshairs to settle on him in order to take a shot... and that's where I died... right in the middle of one of the later eyes of storms... so right in the middle of someone else's firefights near the end. But I at least tried to fire my guns... I had dual pistols and a shotgun... but they were pretty much random shots in the general direction of other players cos of that aiming thing. From what I've seen though, I think I would indeed like this game, if it was running smoothly, but it's very clear my laptop's not up to the task graphically, so I don't think there's any point holding out for playing it on PC anymore; so realistically it's either buy a console or give up on it... but after all the youtube vids I've seen of it now, I'm pretty addicted to the idea of it, so I think it's likely I will indeed get a console, not sure which though, since all the major ones seem to run this game... but playstation is the one that's leaping out to me at the moment, and probably the cheapest as well.
