The Witcher 3 - Out Now! Impressions?

[HoloDust]

cannonballZ said:

HoloDust said:

Well, with that amount of trees in Witcher 3 it's wonder poor bugger wants to run at all once you get into woods.

But yeah, he really gets stuck sometimes, and sometimes he's behaving bit too much like real horse (not wanting to go down steep hills), but I'm guessing they made him that way.

On the other hand, I find him very usefull, Nekker Warrior Decoction gives one helluva way to run into strongest of enemies a lot higher than you.

Wait, you use the horse in battle?  I can't get him to swing his sword on the side the enemies on. The sword swings to the opposite side of enemies, almost purposely it feels. Thank goodness for the Quen and Igni signs, I've learned to take on almost any monster or human with those two.

Yeah, I use him all the time, specially when I don't want to bother much with group of bandits or pack of wolfs or nekkers.

Geralt does alternates from which side he swings, it depends on closest enemy. If you're riding fast in most cases he will do it properly, if you're however sprinting with Roach, you have to be more carefull, since he won't have time to switch in time if you're not stirring correctly, but damage you inflict is higher.

It was specially usefull when I bumped into my first Leshen - he was a LOT higher level then me and though they are not very tough, once they call that wolf pack that is also a lot higher level than you, things turn ugly real soon. So 'cavalry charge' was my way to deal with them, I didn't have decoction at the time, so I had to menage horse's fear level carefully, since those wolfs were very persistant in their pursuit, even after I killed Leshen.