Complete Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Beginners Guide (2023)

Thanks for the vid! Helpful. Small thing: would be awesome to have footage of the things you’re talking about as you’re taking about them (IE. a 3 second clip of the different signs Aard, Axii etc) rather than just talk about them. Or like, even a screenshot of the ‘notice boards’ as you mention them rather than general gameplay. Just helps tie things up. Sorry for the unsolicited advice! Helpful vid though for beginner like me :) thank you!

Yeah so i get the steamdeck with the most storage
And at full battery playing the witcher 3 the battery only lasts for 2 and a half hours

just installed it looking forward to it

I'm not just new to Witcher 3, I just started gaming about 5 months ago. After watching my kids play for years, for my retirement present I asked them to loan me one of their old consoles and some games since I finally had time to learn. So first, I'm pretty bad at game play having never even used a controller before, but I love the open world games! This is my third and definitely the most complicated.
My question is: I've failed a few quests already because they had time limits, like chasing down a bandit. How do you know when a quest or part of a quest is time limited? Is it indicated somewhere?

This game is truly a pain in the ass. Ive been up and down reddit trying to understand basic mechanics such as health and crafting.

On Xbox X its still $80 in Canada for tje complete edition. Id like to give it a go but $80 for an 8 year old digital copy of a game seems a bit steep. Thats why Im seeing if its as great as ive heard it is.

Haha I have no idea how to play this game

Thank you! I just started playing and I’m late to the party, so this was very helpful!

Took me too long to try this game, it’s insanely good 5hrs in I know it takes about 50 to complete

I beat the game two and a half times on a non high seas copy (I'm poor) and I have 160 hours on GOG. Note that none of those playthroughs were my first, so I know where to go, what to do, and I still have about 70 hours of genuinely enjoyable game time every time I play this. Now I am replaying the game yet again because there's a mod that adds an entire fully voiced quest after the ending of Blood and Wine that concludes the story of Orianna, and it's just one of the first of many that might come after modders cracked questmaking. Honestly, this game not only has a shitload of content but might turn into an infinite user generated content masterpiece like Skyrim did.

I’ve had the game for ages but only just got around to starting it, guess I got into it at just the right time! Thanks for the tips!

I would contradict Your intro: Every other time would be better to do another playthrough.
With the so called update they introduced low FPS, stuttering, crashes and game breaking bugs. The game has not been in such a bad state for so many years - and may never return to a smoothly running game.
The best time to play this masterpiece is - sadly - over for so many players on PC. Me included. And I do not even run on ray tracing, but fell back to DX11.

I’m playing it again and playing it with max settings with RT on is crazy good. What a great game and beautiful story. Very worth it 😌

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