The Witcher 3

[ancient oar]

on my first playthrough i ignored it, on my second i played pretty much everybody in the game

now i’m playing for the third time i’m early game and it’s annoying me again 🤣

[lime topaz]

Yeah you gotta just buy every card from innkeepers and traders and play everyone you come across

Once you get some spies it gets a lot easier

[valid patio]

Spy deck. Ez wins. GG

[stark anvil]

Looking at the washed out version of the screenshot on my phone sure is making me wonder if they made a whoopsie with the rtgi implementation regarding encoding lol

[cold basin]

Real im smoking everyone with my spy northern deck

Unless I get really unlucky I generally get atleast 3 spies per game

[lime topaz]

Yeah same

Decoys are useful too for stealing enemy spies

[cold basin]

Yeah that’s all I use them for

[lime topaz]

And healers to resurrect enemy spies

[lime topaz]

Based

[cold basin]

Yeah

I mean I’ve had games where I played 8-10 spies probably

From resurrecting, decoy etc

[lime topaz]

Yeah same here, it's really satisfying

[cold basin]

I wonder if the skellige deck is good

I’ve almost all cards for it so i wanna try it

[lime topaz]

Definitely do, the tournament is played with a Skellige deck

It's not as good imo as Nilfgaard or Northern Realms for me but I like it

[cold basin]

Btw I’m not sure if this is a bug or not but I somehow have Ciri and geralt twice in my cards

[lime topaz]

It's different

[cold basin]

Is that intended?

[lime topaz]

Seems like a bug

[cold basin]

Rip

[lime topaz]

I never got duplicate special cards

[cold basin]

Okay yeah maybe something with this modlist

[lime topaz]

Might be possible but I collected so many cards in my last playthrough too

[lime topaz]

It's possible, I used pretty vanilla card mod, just one that changes the artwork

[cold basin]

Like in toussaint also many bartenders had duplicate cards for the base game cards

Like not special ones but yeah

[lime topaz]

Yeah they do. Man Toussaint really bumped up Gwent difficulty too

The herbalist in the town kept wrecking me

[cold basin]

Im playing max diff in gwent since toussaint

Cause it was getting too easy

Wonder if I can get a 4th one of these dragon hunter archers

4 would be crazy stacked if played in 1 round

[lime topaz]

Oh yeah for sure

You can do a similar thing with shield maidens in the Skellige deck

[cold basin]

[rose whale]

I am curious what do you guys increase for higher APL Scenes? Exposure or paper white setting of renodx?

[stark anvil]

In this mod they’ll be functionally pretty similar

Personally I’d do hdr boost so you can keep shadow contrast (unless you want that raised)

[cold basin]

you mean the shadow contrast that RT competely cooks so that you have made a tonemap shadow strenght setting to address it?

[stark anvil]

Yeah that one

[cold basin]

i dont really mind using higher paperwhite

[stark anvil]

I honestly wonder if sRGB gamma might work better here

[cold basin]

only doesnt look that nice at night

especially without a darker nights mod

which i cant get to work in this modlist without the pain of script merging

[ancient oar]

this looks sickk

i loved toussaint during the daytime how it looked

even at night it was nice

[cold basin]

for sure

new drip who dis

[woven yacht]

ya so fashion bruh

[cold basin]

no moar sweating in bear pelt armor

truly impeccable

[woven yacht]

the girl behind is clearly checking

[cold basin]

shieet u right

[woven yacht]

gotta find her back

Yen not gonna mind

[cold basin]

[woven yacht]

same same

[cold basin]

https://tenor.com/view/bruhlmaojk-dexter-dexter-edit-gif-1861923237019944738

[stark anvil]

toussaint in HDR is peak honestly

[cold basin]

ong

[stark anvil]

those 3000 nit yellows you know

[cold basin]

though for some reason some light sources look pretty dim here

like my torch n shid

but whatever

[cold basin]

shhh youll spawn dio

[abstract tulip]

ayy the best armor

it fits Toussaint like a glove

GM Wolven armor also looks excellent and very fitting for Toussaint

[cold basin]

Yeah works really well for toussaint

[cold basin]

shieet this looks noice

[clever cape]

It does🔥

[cold basin]

just grabbed it

[clever cape]

I really love how balanced your preset is. You really get vibrant and contrasty shots, but at the same time, nothing is crushed or unatural. It's vibrant, but you didn't really loose original hues and you can actually see what the hell is going on in the scene, even at night.

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-balanced-gif-3226445978144001245

[spring crown]

Fair and Balanced © ™

[cold basin]

Thank you :) yeah I’ve tried to make it work in 99% of situations,

I have a few saves that I kept swapping in between which had major issues and when I found a new problem and went to tweak for that, I would also go back to the older saves to make sure I didn’t fuck up what I fixed before xD

Im sure there are certain situations like with specific Time of day and weather in specific locations that I cannot account for where it’s not perfect, but I’ve tried my best

[rose whale]

It seems as if there is still vignetting in this haunted house where the him is, even though it is turned off

On the island svorlag

[cold basin]

its a different effect for that quest

cause of the monster thats there

[rose whale]

I know but I thought it might be easy to fix

[woven yacht]

this shot doesn't even look from a game tbh

great stuff

[cold basin]

[abstract tulip]

Aerondight, another nod to the first game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kiGSKsPIJI

[cold basin]

bro out here with da apple vision pro

[cold basin]

soon™

[stark anvil]

It made me sad when my journey with the Witcher 3 was over

[cold basin]

shit man its all ive been playing for 2 months straight

ending something like that is always creating some huge void

[south musk]

i never really played this game much. but i could see myself playing for the HDR, staying for the gameplay

[stark anvil]

I’ve never had a game I spent ~150 hours on make me sad when it was over before this or since

[cold basin]

its great man

Jon cooked

[stark anvil]

Usually I’m over it by the end of that kind of runtime. Well before it really.

[south musk]

rookie numbers

[cold basin]

though i had to fiddle a ton to get good settings

aint no way you have 1000h in starslop almost

[south musk]

lots of modding

as in, learning shaders and math and building the film grain

lut scaler etc

[stark anvil]

Oh I mean I’ve put a lot of time into games, just like, the ending for tw3 is bitter sweet. Great ending, but they know they’re done with Geralts story and that part of it is sad.

[cold basin]

alright alright fair

ive never played it myself, everything ive seen about it would just make me sad and even more depressed about whats to come with TES6

[south musk]

let me see how many hours on cyberpunk and i haven't really played a quarter of the game. i 100% starfield

[south musk]

hmm, would have thought more. probably because GoG doesn't track you

[stark anvil]

There’s no way that’s accurate lol

[south musk]

definitely no way i spent more time writing dx9 support than the first renodx mod

[stark anvil]

Bro really adds dx9 support in less time than I’ve spent on some individual mods

[cold basin]

SF be cracked like that

its crazy how little games i have played over 100 hours... really been struggling to play longer games for like close to a decade now

[stark anvil]

Same. I’m actually not entirely sure there’s another single player game I’ve put 100+ hours into.

I lied Skyrim

The list is def short

[cold basin]

skyrim is my most played singleplayer game for sure

i had 600 hours on xbox 360 alone

[south musk]

tbf, i was i told it couldn't be done. so you know how that works...

[cold basin]

then some on Xbox One, Legacy skyrim i think 400 hours on an old steam account

and 520h now on PC Special edition

kinda crazy

[stark anvil]

Lmao

[cold basin]

yeah

and now im like gawddamn this game takes 50 hours? fuuuuuck

[stark anvil]

I played 1000 hours of car soccer though

[cold basin]

my most played game overall is Black Ops 2 by a long shot

~6000h

[stark anvil]

A few

[cold basin]

like i played that during my school years almost 4 years straight, i played other CoDs that released since then but i kept going back to BO2 lmao

only really BO3 then finally won me over

[rose whale]

Did you play kcd2?

[stark anvil]

No, I never finished the first

[cold basin]

kcd man i also have to play that

[stark anvil]

I like so much about that game just not actually playing it

[cold basin]

1 and 2

[rose whale]

Me neither but kcd2 is a masterpiece

[stark anvil]

The combat is just not fun to me

[cold basin]

I also wanna try this new game thats supposed to be bit like elder scrolls

forgot the name..

[stark anvil]

Tainted grail

[cold basin]

Ah yes that

[rose whale]

Fable?

[stark anvil]

I bought it and played like 50 min of it lol

[cold basin]

fable is like... very far from elder scrolls xd

[ancient oar]

god i wish xbox 360 recorded playtimes

i wonder how much time i spent as a kid on there

[cold basin]

ungodly amounts

for me

[ancient oar]

yea probably same

[stark anvil]

Tainted Grail seems a lot like elder scrolls but they are not as good as Bethesda at giving you a narrative hook to get invested

[ancient oar]

gta5 i know i had like 1k hours on xbox 360 cuz of the social club website

but i spent an insane amount on ssx 2012 and that is nowhere to be found

also an extra 1k on pc

[cold basin]

hm

[rose whale]

If you finished skyrim just play the anniversary edition next

[cold basin]

still wanna try it though

I cant play skyrim anymore man

[rose whale]

You should try the special edition then

[ancient oar]

ive tried skyrim once and couldnt get into it

[cold basin]

i know like the entire game like from memory at this point

[unreal badge]

Guess you either deactivated tracking or maybe it doesn't track if you launch without GOG but directly from exe?

[cold basin]

i will play skyblivion though

also perhaps a enderal playthrough

[rose whale]

Same. I am waiting for skyblivion. Tried oblivion remake but the combat was just too bad

[cold basin]

oblivion remake sucks donkey balls just from the stuttering alone

[rose whale]

Thankfully I didn't play oblivion in the past so I will get some hours out of it

[cold basin]

i did play it though i dont remember much tbh, like i know the cities and some quests n stuff

[rose whale]

Some people say its better than Skyrim which I don't trust

[cold basin]

it is certainly in some aspects

[stark anvil]

oblivion never hooked me

skyrim took a while to hook me actually

I didn't "get it" for a bit

wasn't much of an RPG guy at this point

[cold basin]

ive not played morrowind because i was too young and getting into it now years later is just like whack

i hate the combat system

[unreal badge]

Haha. I played original Oblivion to death, Shivering Isles especially. Or the intro. Probably had the intro on endless repeat at some point.

[rose whale]

Skyrim hooked me immediately. Was like an adult version of zelda for me back in the day lol

[ancient oar]

ive tried skyrim and oblivion remastered but i kinda got bored after few hours idk it never got me hooked

[unreal badge]

Sheogorath has the best lines.

[rose whale]

I hear that a lot

Certainly a very interesting character

[cold basin]

really hoping skyblivion is good

from what theyve shown i think it will be

[rose whale]

Iirc it will come out this year?

[ancient oar]

is that a mod?

like combining skyrim and oblivion?

[rose whale]

Yes

[cold basin]

they remake all of oblivion

in skyrims engine

[ancient oar]

wait but so its gonna be oblivion game with just skyrim's engine?

[cold basin]

been going at it for a shit ton of time by now

[rose whale]

It's oblivion and skyrim with potara earrings basically

[unreal badge]

Change will preserve us! It is the lifeblood of the Isles.

It will move mountains! It will mount movements!

@rose whale one of the rare cases where I think that it works even better in German:

Sie wird Berge versetzen,
und Sätze verbergen.

[rose whale]

https://tenor.com/view/vegetto-dragon-ball-z-gif-7214759

[cold basin]

yes

theres also Skywind

which does the same with morrowind

both projects aint finished though

skyblivion was supposed to release end of 2025, theyve delayed it dont think theres an exact date yet

[unreal badge]

I'm terrified to start Skyrim because I wouldn't know where to start! Too many mod choices.

[rose whale]

Take a look at mxr on YouTube for some inspiration

Although i think they banned his channel for specific reasons...

[unreal badge]

alright. What, haha?

[cold basin]

[unreal badge]

this one? https://www.youtube.com/@otamike

nah, that just has a vid about mxr.

[stark anvil]

oh whoops didn't do SDR things with this

[spring crown]

Isn't contrast a gamma slider? This is what SF told me

Unless that's no longer the case with mewtwo

[stark anvil]

not exactly, but t's not lke it's that different either

[spring crown]

https://tenor.com/view/same-different-but-still-gif-18224441

[stark anvil]

shit, I somehow didn't do the gamma stuff right for calculating peak, I'm just gonna delete this build....

no one saw anything

[woven yacht]

What tha hell is Clicker Heroes?!

[stark anvil]

Tonemapper needs testing, might be too bright for defaults

• switch tonemapper to Neutwo
• improve highlights slider (doesn't explode values as much)
• switch saturation and blowout code to run before tonemap (prevent hue clipping with max channel tonemap, predominantly on highlight sat)

no gamma thing, I tested srgb emulation as a curiosity and while it helped with visibility, it looked wrong

and while contrast isn't exactly the same thing as the gamma slider, you're better off just dropping contrast + sat lol.

[tall merlin]

yea i have 8000 hours on bo2

6000 ish on csgo/2 all up

bo2 was so easy to spend that much time on, literally played that game basically every day for years and even played it into 2017

the greatest

excited to test the new build out

[cold basin]

Ayo

I probably won’t test this one though, I’m happy with my settings and don’t feel like messing around again now this close to the end of my playthrough

[stark anvil]

very small changes really

well, unless you used the highlights slider I guess

[cold basin]

New tonemapper won’t change it much?

[stark anvil]

slight luminance bump

[cold basin]

Hm I see

[cold basin]

Luminance as in highlights or everything similar to slightly higher paperwhite ?

[stark anvil]

highlights

[cold basin]

Right

[stark anvil]

top end of the curve specifically

[cold basin]

And the sat blow out code change won’t have much of an impact either?

Since many changes I made are specifically to address hue issues

[stark anvil]

Hue clipping simply won’t look good, it should only be an improvement

It’s very specifically going to affect your highlight sat at 51, so basically not at all lol

[cold basin]

Okay

[stark anvil]

What it will do is make it so highlight sat lowers brightness a bit though lol

In some circumstances anyway

[cold basin]

hmmge

would a test build be simple to make so i can compare the old and new method ? like having the termite spleen with the old sat code and the new changes with Mewtwo

like dont bother if its annoying to do

https://tenor.com/view/mewtwo-pokemon-gif-6011907206502424459

[still prawn]

how do i counter the super dark shadows in caves and inside houses

[cold basin]

see if that helps you

wouldnt really go lower than 65/70

[still prawn]

i tried 50 and i still cant see details in dark areas

[cold basin]

what screen

[still prawn]

im using a qd oled

[cold basin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhxR-gMU_U

where does yours clip?

[still prawn]

hmm i can see it blink until 4.1% 100

[cold basin]

that screen has mad black crush then

should at the very least be able to see like 72/76

[still prawn]

oh damn

[cold basin]

yeah i can see all the way to 68

64 is essentially completely black (or reference black as it says in the video)

[still prawn]

im pretty new in using oleds, is there any way i could compensate from this, i already did the calibration stuff

[cold basin]

can you tell me what Monitor you have specifically?

like the model

[still prawn]

aoc q27g41zde

[cold basin]

also what "calibration stuff" did you do

[cold basin]

thx

[still prawn]

uhm, just one actually

hdr calibration

in windows

[earnest rain]

damn 100

[cold basin]

ah ok

[earnest rain]

i can almost see 76 on a miniled lol

[cold basin]

okay i can barely find shit about this monitor

[still prawn]

yea its hard to find info on it

[cold basin]

i think thats the same monitor just with a slightly diff name because of different region, i assume youre german?

in SDR its already doing some really cooked gamma i think?

what HDR picture modes do you have? can you take like a photo?

[still prawn]

i think its an upgraded version of this with just a higher refresh rate https://www.aoc.com/za/gaming/monitors/q27g4zd
im from the philippines

[cold basin]

ah ok i see, the model name you have comes up with a bunch of german stores hence why i asked

[cold basin]

okay yeah Display HDR or HDR Game is what seems to be recommended

try HDR Game, see if the black levels are better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhxR-gMU_U

[still prawn]

yea i could see up to 80 now but i think the colors are messed up

[cold basin]

ohno

[still prawn]

or it could just be in my wallpaper, i can try and see what it looks like in game

give me a sec

[cold basin]

[still prawn]

hmm i can clearly a lot more now than before but my wallpaper is messed up lol

game looks normal too

[cold basin]

i have one more idea... since the 240hz versions of these seem to work fine atleast in reviews... can you try setting it to 240hz?

see if that improves anything about the black floor

i know it sounds weird but just try

[still prawn]

should i go back to dispalyhdr?

[cold basin]

yeah sure

[still prawn]

hmm didnt see any improvements with 240

[cold basin]

okay then im out of ideas

[still prawn]

yea ill probably play with hdr game from now on lol

[lime topaz]

Think I'm nearing 1300 hours in Witcher 3

[cold basin]

based

i think i should end about 620h or so

[lime topaz]

I think there are games that have surpassed it gameplay wise but there's something about it that can't be beaten

[lime topaz]

Based as hell

Funny thing is

You probably got more achievements than me

[cold basin]

i mean tbf im specifically doing a 100% plathrough and trying to get all achievements in 1 run

[lime topaz]

Oh very understandable

I did almost everything in my last playthrough too besides achievements

Also fuck em Skellige question marks

[cold basin]

all the achievements im missing

which all are ez

only the serve time thing i think i have to reload for something

[lime topaz]

Woah, this is your first time playing B&W then?

[cold basin]

yeah

[lime topaz]

Nice, enjoy the rest of it

Remember to have saves near the end for some of those achievements

[cold basin]

will do

[cold basin]

https://youtu.be/fpXaWX_hASw?

what de heeeell

[ancient oar]

oh i remember watching this xD

[tall merlin]

did u test new version yet

[cold basin]

no

[stark anvil]

I mean I could but I promise it won’t make your preset worse.

[cold basin]

oge oge

[woven yacht]

https://youtu.be/RbGbqVIXbMI?si=pKxSywxtOSYAfGFz

Witchers!!! this got me hyped ngl

[quiet sandal]

Wont be ready until I fix it up with Reno

with goat Musa's help ofc

[stark anvil]

game is begging for saturation correction

[stark anvil]

I will also be willing to work on it. Pretty excited for this one

[quiet sandal]

Goated collab

lesss gooo

[earnest rain]

I wasn't too excited for this at first but it looks better than i thought

world doesn't seem as interesting but still cool

even got some cool looking puzzles

this really is totk + witcher

they even got the sky islands

[woven yacht]

Thank u

[stark anvil]

yeah I'm expecting the world/story to kinda suck

honestly, I think it will be mid, but it's gonna be fun mid

it's just so stupidly ambitious, I have to try it

weird ass game, doesn't seem real

[earnest rain]

that's what i was thinking but idk anymore at this point there's like so many different things from the looks of it

the only way it'll be mid is if it has no identity

[stark anvil]

I played black desert, I'm familiar with their game

game will have an ass load of systems and none of them are gonna feel as good as they could

but that will also be part of the appeal

[earnest rain]

the combat atleast seemed pretty good

i love the more gamey combat games

[stark anvil]

combat is a physics sandbox of sorts, which I'm beyond down for

rest of the game can suck ass as long as I can ricochet enemies off of walls and shit

[earnest rain]

bro can fly around the map and make after images of himself lol

i'm interested about the puzzle aspect

no way it's well done

[cold basin]

im still skeptical, but i havent watched that video yet

[stark anvil]

THERE'S A MECH?!?!

what doesn't this game have

[earnest rain]

yeah lmao

was giving fallout vibes

[quiet sandal]

I wouldnt place any expectations on the story, BDO's is just generic MMO point A to B plot line

Characters are also just there as place holders

Dont see them making an interesting story just going off their previous work

gameplay and combat however will have plenty for you to do

Recent BDO updates have gotten some OST identity and uniqueness. Hopefully that carries over here

Jon, the torches are killing me though

Remains to be seen if they'll add 'Modding' support to this one

Messing around with lighting and settings outside of us decomping shaders would be nice

That sun sprite has to go for me

I 'ate 2d textures that rotate with player camera. Adding those to the sun just make me fume

[stark anvil]

how can a game be so per channel and also the flames be this pink while being this blown out

[quiet sandal]

BDO special sauce

I am going to take a guess with my crystal ball

[stark anvil]

the game will have native HDR according to the steam page

[quiet sandal]

They will be using custom shit again

Native HDR is good since frameslopping will work

I was worried I'd have to do SDR path which would be rip for FG

[stark anvil]

just gotta hope it's not beyond salvation

[quiet sandal]

unless ofc

HDR is beyond fucked

[stark anvil]

this game has a lot of clipping

the whites of clouds is almost all just clip

I'm not seeing anything in the promo screenshots that make it look like per channel is actually needed for things to look right at least. The Witcher is kinda obnoxious because the sky gradients are pretty deeply entwined with hue shifts.

well, I'm sure it'll need blowout from per channel at least

[quiet sandal]

Mewtwo max channel with pisswise and per fannel blowout

BDO was custom per channel S curve with per channel eye adaptation and baked per channel LUTs on top

shit was peak

[stark anvil]

@south musk would it be possible to sat correct a LUT with baked in per channel adjustments similarly to how perchannelcorrections can sat correct a tonemapper?

[quiet sandal]

oh and cranked exposure

Wouldnt have Musa done it already for GoT?

[stark anvil]

possible he didn't think of it

[quiet sandal]

if it was easy?

Musa

not thinking of something?????

impossible

[stark anvil]

I don't think it's too likely but it's possible lmao

I guess how well that works would be dependent on what the LUT is accomplishing. If it's tonemapping + grading, there would be no way to keep the grade and not the tonemap

but if you just wanted the contrast adjustments from a LUT then it would definitely work

[quiet sandal]

We can speculate all we like

once the game comes out

You will witness true kino in the code

https://tenor.com/view/tom-delonge-blink182-wtf-meme-what-the-heck-first-date-gif-25383351

No grass shadows?

The Least

Endfield

Now Crimson

With Endfield I just increase shadow hardening

[stark anvil]

is weird when screen space shadows are such an easy win for grass

[quiet sandal]

WELLLLL they said they have a PT solution

for GI or whatever the word salad was

but then you see no grass / foliage shadows

and firefly artefacts in interiors

that circular lens flare is also rip

[south musk]

Lut correction is just undo. Most lut trashing is lift gamma gain in gamma space, so the inverse is in gamma. Current LUT correction is per channel "de-lift"

[tribal sable]

pink flames + clipping

[tribal sable]

would have to do some weird shit like crawl the lut to construct a contrast curve

and then compare that contrast curve by luminance with per channel

and apply that diff to the lut or something

[stark anvil]

couldn't you just luminance correct the ungraded color based on feeding Y through the LUTs?

[tribal sable]

maybe idk

not sure how it would interact with the tint of the lut

[stark anvil]

true yeah

[rose whale]

What is the benefit of neutwo?

[cold basin]

It sounds like Mewtwo

[woven yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/mewtwo-pokemon-pokemon-mewtwo-shadow-bal-mewtwo-uses-shadow-ball-gif-17042036983771428165

[woven yacht]

one of my cats I named it Mewtwo

[cold basin]

Lol based

[woven yacht]

my Mom when she has to call him "Metoo come"

😂

[cold basin]

[ancient oar]

@cold basin i got the vader 5 pro yesterday and goddamn i didnt expect it to be this damn good and cool, for 70 bucks this is prob one of the best controllers ive ever tried

i bought it cuz i saw u guys talk about it and was like "why not lemme try"

[south musk]

What's the in/out of the lut? Linear to srgb?

[cold basin]

Yessirrr

Im considering upgrading as well though I’m already pretty happy with the 4 pro

[south musk]

You can use specific point samplings to get some lift gamma gain values. Starfield (has 200+ LUTs) used a lift gamma gain for shadow midgray and highlights, essentially making a different hue in each section. I had found a way to strip the hue, but in retrospect, that's probably just input color hue anyway

There's probably some overlap in cp2077 LUTs with witcher 3

[ancient oar]

i watched some yt guy review the controller comparing it to vader 4 pro, direwolf and apex and said the vader 5 pro makes the 4 pro feels cheap in comparison, if its worth the upgrade tho thats up to you def, since i didnt have 4 pro i cant say, this is my first flydigi controller and gotta say im rly impressed like very much

[cold basin]

Yeah mines my first flydigi as well

I do be tempted

But I can’t imagine the 4 feeling cheap in comparison

It’s already the best I’ve ever used 😭

Mainly the better wireless stuff and better sticks are interesting to me

Perhaps the back button placement

On the 4 Pro the 3rd and 4th buttons are a bit annoying to reach

[tall merlin]

i think it might be too bright

especially looks like it might be too bright in scenes with higher average brightness

[ancient oar]

btw how does one switch the sticks themselves? i was intrested in using a taller one but i dont wanna just yank it out with force so im asking, ive never swapped the sticks on any controllers xd

[tall merlin]

i dont necessariy dislike that but it does seem to be brighter than before

[cold basin]

Uhh not sure actually never switched them

[tall merlin]

man this game is so beautiful its crazy

[cold basin]

Left I keep default and right I have a different stick extension that goes on the default stick

[ancient oar]

oh i thought you swapped it out cuz your right one looked taller on the picture

[cold basin]

Yeah it is

[ancient oar]

i got the stick bag with the controller so i could swap the sticks since they come with taller ones too but i couldn’t even find a video online how to swap them

[cold basin]

I think on the 4 I pulled it off accidentally once

Don’t know if there’s some sort of mechanism

[ancient oar]

hmm might have to just research it then i don’t wanna pull it with force incase it’s not meant to be done like that

would fking yank it off and break it day 2 of ownership

[cold basin]

[stark anvil]

It was just a hypothetical for other games. Ghost of Tsushima having per channel shit in the LUTs is what I was thinking of though.

[tribal sable]

ghost is gamma 2.0 input srgb output

[foggy gate]

fuuk it ima buy it too

[cold basin]

Hmm such long wait time on Ali atm for me

2-3 weeks

[foggy gate]

got mine for 85€ and 7€ for shipping

coming next week

didnt buy the charger thingy tho

[cold basin]

Yeah this is like the full set

[foggy gate]

o yea im dumb

[cold basin]

I kinda want the phone holder and case

Actually… fuck the case

Charger I don’t really need tbh either just looks cool

[foggy gate]

swag led on it

[ancient oar]

i got it for about 75 € free shipping + the sticks bag and controller bag was included. overall not bad shipping took like 2 weeks to europe approx

overall i’m very satisfied especially for that price, prob the best controller i’ve ever used on pc

[earnest rain]

I got this 8 bitdo pro 3 controller and I’m kinda obsessed with the layout

Unfortunately it’s the only controller like it

[ancient oar]

oh i got one 8bitdo too, its the ultimate one i think its called? black myth wukong edition

[earnest rain]

2c?

[ancient oar]

for 25€ its a pretty damn good controller for that price

ye 2c

idk i think so i forgot

[earnest rain]

Yeah it’s a great controller

[ancient oar]

but for the price and 1k polling rate, 4 extra buttons and for 25 bucks? insane

bluetooth too

[earnest rain]

Fr

[ancient oar]

vader 5 pro is rly nicer tbh but it also costs about 3-4x as much, so i think 8bitdo is a great budget controller

[earnest rain]

If only it was compatible with switch

[ancient oar]

i think there is another version thats for switch or?

[earnest rain]

Yeah there is

I just wanna use one controller with everything

My endgame would be the pro 3 but with silent abxy, replaceable battery, and lower latency

[stark anvil]

Yeah same

[stark anvil]

Also same

[earnest rain]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-schwarzenegger-predator-flex-teamwork-together-gif-16947606

[foggy gate]

got a 8bitdo ultimate bluetooth and the trigger gave out on me, think they added hall effect triggers in the ones after this one 🫠

[stark anvil]

that happened to my ultimate as well 😢

[foggy gate]

rip

liked xbox layout more anyway

[rugged nest]

I have the ultimate too and I can’t use it cause it gives me hand pain

It’s truly tragic cause I love the controller tbh

I was gonna get Vader 5 and then I saw they dropped Dinput support for some obscure reason

[ancient oar]

my c2 ultimate 8bitdo has hall effect sticks & triggers which is why i found it so cool for that price

[foggy gate]

why is lack of dinput support an issue?

[night yarrow]

im using a modded dualsense edge

[cold basin]

What do you need dinput for

[night yarrow]

some old games i guess

they dont work well with xinput

i own some

[cold basin]

Surely for those few games you can emulate it somehow?

[night yarrow]

ya something like xinput plus

[cold basin]

Yeah sooo… not an issue then

[night yarrow]

well

native is always better

you can use ds4windows for dualsense

for old games

[cold basin]

I need muh perfect input lag for this 20 year old game

[night yarrow]

its not about input lag xd

taking extra step

[cold basin]

So what is it about then

Couldn’t care less lmao

Not using a banger controller because it doesn’t support a giga deprecated api is wild

[night yarrow]

ya not a deal breaker

tbh though

xinput is also super ancient now

[cold basin]

It is

Came with the Xbox 360 controller no?

[night yarrow]

ya

[cold basin]

So like 2005/6?

[night yarrow]

and was barely undated

[night yarrow]

ya

the function is pretty limited by todays standard

thats why controllers now need extra software to config things

[cold basin]

Apparently MS is working on a new thing called GameInput

[night yarrow]

that one was buggy a few months ago

causing stutters

[cold basin]

Well yeah it’s Microsoft

Give it 5 years

[night yarrow]

https://borncity.com/win/2025/10/01/windows-11-event-viewer-flooded-with-gameinput-service-reconfigured-messages-sept-2025/

[cold basin]

damn i just cleared one of those Hanse bases, was pretty fun fighting against so many people

[ancient oar]

@cold basin i found how to swap the sticks on the vader lol, i really just had to pull it out, simple as

might feel wrong at first but it just pulls right off

[cold basin]

good to know I suppose it’s the same mechanism on my Vader 4 then

[rugged nest]

Some games don’t play nice with Xinput

[rugged nest]

Dinput is not deprecated. And it’s generally better than Xinput

[ancient oar]

yes it said vader 4 and 5 can do that without disassembling the controller

maybe on the earlier controllers it was more complicated

[cold basin]

I mean... it very much is deprecated, shits not been revised since DirectX 8, yes it works but its pretty much superceded by xinput and MS also refers to that as just a Legacy API. XInput is also legacy to a certain extend since MS seems to want to replace it with that GameInput thing

[ancient oar]

this weather + time of day looks rly nice

[abstract tulip]

@cold basinso thus far, how would you rate B&W in terms of all the DLCs/expansions you've ever played?

because for me, it's number 1

[cold basin]

Hmm

I think 2nd place behind Shadow of the Erdtree, that was Peak asf for me

I have not played Phantom Liberty yet which would probably also be competing in this realm

[tall merlin]

Very jealous of u its very good

[cold basin]

Im unsure if I’ll do a playthrough anytime soon… even though I have a 4090 I kinda wanna wait for new gpus to experience it to the fullest. PT looks so fucking sick but it’s just so hard to run

[tall merlin]

its unfortunately pretty short but i think thats the main issue i have with cyberpunk in general, the game is just not rly that long compared to like witcher 3. and yeah that is definitely valid its cooked on my 4080 at 4k. i still think its very playable but playable depends on the person

i dont mind playing with ptnextv3 with fg at 90fps but i know a lot of people cant stand the latency

idgaf tho

[cold basin]

I haven’t even finished Cp77 originally

I got stuck in some main mission on release and it was so bugged that even all the updates never fixed it

[tall merlin]

its obviously really good but fuck the main story especially is so short

[cold basin]

Played like 40 hours

[tall merlin]

yea i did the same thing

took me a minute to come back to it after i stopped but imo probably better to wait for it to play it with hdr + pt

i was on a 1070 when it came out

its gonna look ridiculous on ur g5 though

def the best looking game ive finished

the anime is really good too

[cold basin]

Does it spoil anything about the main game?

[abstract tulip]

PL was excellent

but B&W still number 1 for me

[slate forge]

I considered Phantom liberty to be a great experience on my 4090. Especially nowadays when DLSS performance looks so good. Didn't feel like I was missing out on anything. Just my two cents though.

[cold basin]

I can’t use upscaling from such low res

Sitting like pretty close in front of a 55 inch G5 on my desk

You can tell even with DLSS 4/4.5

Absolute lowest I use is like 60% but that’s already pushing it

Prefer 70-80%

[slate forge]

I also use a 4k 55 inch screen for the game as well funnily enough. To each their own obviously though, I guess I'm just easier to please. Thought the game looked incredible still.

but I also went from console gaming to a 4090 a couple years ago so to me very marginal improvements you get with scaling these newer models are rarely ever worth the performance cost.

[cold basin]

I come from console as well yeah switched in 2018/19

Iunno it depends how close you sit I suppose, like sitting a meter further back would probably make it usable but yeah

[ancient oar]

ive played PL legit last december for the first time, its amazing

on a 4090 with PT honestly it ran and looked great tbh, i was satisfied

on a 1440p ultrawide tho, on ur 1600p could be different

[polar linden]

I hope they optimize the RT in this game if the DLC is real

I get better performance with CP2077 path tracing lol

[cold basin]

real

w3 rt is crazy hard

[night pond]

it’s definitely an issue with the dx12 wrapper being so cpu hungry

[cold basin]

nay

its gpu

i can run high fps with lower res just fine

[polar linden]

it’s like the first game I’ve played that’s made my 4080 seem a bit weak

add the rt mods and it gets even worse

pray for PT update soon

[ancient oar]

i honestly rly like W3 with RT only, looks way sharper than cyberpunk PT and less ghosting/shimmering

[polar linden]

all that really matters to me is rtgi here anyways, the raster implementation is just gross, looks blue and weird

[stark anvil]

Apparently thats misinformation and the game doesn’t use a dx12 wrapper

[quiet sandal]

It doesnt

Nukem went over this

[stark anvil]

Yeah

[quiet sandal]

The game doesnt have a wrapper nor dx11ondx12 shenanigans

Saber was working on the actual remaster for years

War happened between Ukraine and Russia

so CDPR pulled the plug

and took on the project themselves

with limited time... Probably explains why the perf of RT is in the state it is

There's even a PT mode inside of Redkit, not usable in-game and it is severly borked even inside of redkit but it does exist

[abstract tulip]

I sit ~2,5 meters away from a 65" screen on my couch gaming setup and I rarely use anything above DLSS performance

[tall merlin]

its cooked on my 4080

i have to run lower internal res with dlsstweaks

especially bad with mods to fix the rt

that are needed imo

[still prawn]

can anyone share a screenshot of how their corvo bianco master bedroom looks like during 11 pm

[rare scroll]

[cold basin]

Probably quite dark

With RT

[still prawn]

[tall merlin]

damn

whats ur tonemapper shadow strength set to

[still prawn]

currently at 100

[tall merlin]

i would definitely lower it. @cold basin uses 72, im on 80

[still prawn]

heres at 50

[tall merlin]

50 is too low imo bur yea still bad

the rtgi in this game rly overdarkens everything

i use my torch a ridiculous amount

[cold basin]

For some reason in Toussaint the tonemapper shadow strength does like basically nothing

[tall merlin]

are u using cozy fires also

[still prawn]

disabled in the screenshots i sent, i wanna use it but it makes geralt's hair blonde in some scenarios so i just disabled it

[tall merlin]

jesus

[still prawn]

but it does for sure make things a lot better

[tall merlin]

thats unfortunate

i run 7 2 default 0 i think in that order w cozy fires

and it hasnt been bad like that yet

at higher values its probably worse id imagine

or i just havent noticed it too bad i guess

[tall merlin]

wonder how many of these highlights wouldnt be there on dlss 4

dont think ive taken as many screenshots on any game than i have on this

[cold basin]

Shown it in the past what it looks like switching preset live

[tall merlin]

yea i literally sent that video to friends

probably the best example of it

we rly didnt get highlights like that before its crazy to me

[woven yacht]

don't understand why only in RDR2 4.5 looks garbage

[tall merlin]

is it foliage? or smth else

[woven yacht]

trees and tree branches are completely off

[tall merlin]

thats unfortunate

there was a stability / bug fix update for the latest dll u could try. doubt itll change much but its worth a shot

released a few days ago

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/

jan 31st

[woven yacht]

yep, didn't try on RDR2 yet though but in Cyberpunk looks better

[cold basin]

Apparently RDR2 is like a bad offender of the foliage really meant to be working with TAA to look right

[woven yacht]

DLAA preset K looks wonderful though

[stark anvil]

I’d argue foliage in rdr2 never looked good

Or at least trees

[woven yacht]

ya but if u try preset M u get a strange result like tree branches are thinner and the environment appears to get less dense

kinda weird

[ancient oar]

doesnt a lot of rdr2 depend on TAA like hairs and stuff? arent trees part of that too or

[spring crown]

yes

RDR2 heavily relies on dithering for transparencies

[night yarrow]

unfortunately TAA in rdr2 is really bad

[cold basin]

soooo we're cooked

well K looked alright last i tried it

[tall merlin]

Just use 4.0 dlaa

in rdr2

or dldsr with dlss

it is bad tho yea

[foggy gate]

they keep updating the RR dll but u still cant use it with the new presets

[abstract tulip]

They updated RR? 👀

Any noticeable improvements?

[hollow burrow]

the update has nothing to do with games

[gusty silo]

@ancient oarcongrats on joining the vader 5 club :)

[gusty silo]

@stark anvil i feel like its time for an overhaul of your resetera thread, so much has changed in 2 years

[stark anvil]

I agree. I had planned to do something and talked with koklusz about it and didn't end up going through with it, but now might be a better time

wanted to essentially just make a HDR gaming thread, to consolidate HDR modding and best settings

lot of bad info on resetera and I think having one simple place for people to go to ask questions and get answers makes sense

[gusty silo]

fully agree

[stark anvil]

the closest thing to that right now is P40L0's thread

[ancient oar]

thanks, its a rly great controller, def the best one ive used yet for pc games

btw @stark anvil just wanna say thx for the reno mod for witcher (or any other games youve done), its rly a pleasure for my eyes replaying witcher with proper hdr :)

[gusty silo]

how that grifter hasnt gotten a forum ban yet ill never know

[ancient oar]

i remember when i was thinking about buying a controller about 2 years ago, i read something about the vader idk what the latest one was back then, but i went for the 8bitdo 2c ultimate cuz i dont usually use controller so i thought cheap and with hall effect sticks and triggers is a nice feature

but honestly might start using controller for more games cuz the vader 5 pro is really nice to use, also will atleast enjoy forza 6 with a good controller

[gusty silo]

if you dont know what to do with all the extra buttons, i bound one of the rear buttons to alt, and the other to tab, and the C and Z to Home and F12 for my Reshade and SK/RTSS overlays, and the extra top bumpers to page up and page down (one to toggle shaders, one to take a screenshot)

that still left me with the two paddles which i just did a duplicate of L3 and R3 for when i dont want to press sticks in

[ancient oar]

i currently only have 3 buttons bound, one is set to F5 cuz thats quicksave, the other to home, and another to Caps Lock cuz thats the button for auto take all mod, whats the default keybind to take an hdr screenshot in reshade? I usually use SKIV for it or SK but i cant rly get SK to inject into witcher or cyberpunk, i guess due to my modlist it just crashes on launch

[gusty silo]

i use the SKIV standalone that i changed the binding to be page up

i unbind reshades

[ancient oar]

oh yea i do too for taking screenshots, i just forget to open it sometimes

[gusty silo]

specifically i use that for capture screen, the reason i prefer skiv is so i can do capture region instead if i want as well, which i just have as win+shift+a (similar to the windows snipping tools)

since id be using a mouse anyways

[ancient oar]

oh i didnt even know skiv could take a region capture, good to know

i mostly just use it to take hdr screenshots or to view hdr screenshots from others

[gusty silo]

yeah i basically have it as my replacement as snipping tool since windows completely screws up the hdr brightness even on my desktop

cuz i leave hdr on desktop on 24/7

[ancient oar]

ive been using ShareX for taking region captures for a couple years now, hasnt been bad to me tbh

[gusty silo]

snipping tool with hdr setting on vs SKIV auto

[gusty silo]

i used to use sharex all the time, theyve got good hdr support now?

sorry everyone this is very not witcher 3 xD

[ancient oar]

oh no clue tbh, i mostly used it to take just a quick screenshot

i do know tho that if i use the standard screenshot region option and take a screenshot of hdr game for example, it makes it SDR and overblown

lemme check the settings if there is anything for hdr

[gusty silo]

yeah in snipping tool they have option here but its still bad

[ancient oar]

also i sometimes prefer to take sdr screenshots due to the size. if i always took an hdr screenshot, i wouldnt be able to send screenshots in dms at full res cuz i dont have nitro

[gusty silo]

huh weird, this is with it turned off and it looks better

[ancient oar]

xD yea windows working as intended

maybe its reversed they just forgot

[gusty silo]

yeah last time i even bothered to test that setting was like a year or two ago, maybe they updated something and forgot to remove that setting and now it just screws shit up xD

[cold basin]

where is that bruh

[ancient oar]

oh i dont even have snipping tool on my pc i think

[gusty silo]

hit ...

[cold basin]

uhhh

[ancient oar]

i have a stripped down w11 maybe it got removed too

[cold basin]

i cant even open that thing on its own

only like the shortcut works

[gusty silo]

thats weird, i just type snipping tool in start menu it opens right up

[cold basin]

kek when i open snipping tool.exe

[gusty silo]

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZ95KL8MR0L?hl=en-us&gl=US&ocid=pdpshare

install that

[cold basin]

[gusty silo]

ill have to test in hdr game and see what happens

but if it captures a proper colored SDR that could have its uses

[ancient oar]

is it also higher file size when u have that hdr setting thing turned on? if not then i might aswell use snipping tool over sharex

[cold basin]

i just have skiv open 24/7 at this point

and use that as my snipping tool

[ancient oar]

i'd do that too, i only use it tho to take the ss and send it in servers

[gusty silo]

close enough

that was full window capture of 3440x1440

top one is toggle off

[ancient oar]

wait hold on im trying it out rn and its literally like 1-2 mb

[gusty silo]

i mean it will depend on what you capture

i did discord

[ancient oar]

maybe the file size gets only big if i capture the hdr ingame?

[gusty silo]

its about compression

[ancient oar]

i just took a screenshot of my main monitor but in browser

[gusty silo]

my discords got lots of the same color grey, easy compression

game has lot of variety, harder to compress

[ancient oar]

riiight thats good to know tho, i might legit just drop sharex then

[gusty silo]

ill test alan wake 2 real quick

[cold basin]

compress deez

[ancient oar]

i wish there would also be a bindable capture region in sdr, if i wanna take a screenshot of the game that doesnt need to be png hdr

btw is there a way to have skiv running in the background or its only runnable as the app for now?

[gusty silo]

@cold basinwhat happens when you click the windows notification after taking a snip

[cold basin]

i dont get a notification for that

[gusty silo]

@ancient oartesting alan wake 2 menu which is in hdr, 1.89MB for full window snip with toggle off, and 3.16Mb with toggle on

[ancient oar]

oh i got skiv running minimized now, cool

[gusty silo]

and the toggle off looks better still

just windows things

[ancient oar]

ohh you mean for snipping tool? most of my cyberpunk hdr screenshots, with SKIV fullscreen, were like 19-20mb

[gusty silo]

snip tool toggle off vs on

skiv

[stark anvil]

yeah idk. I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt for the longest time (idk just wired that way I guess) but there's just no way he doesn't know what he's doing

[ancient oar]

i mean with the toggle on, its not bad for turning an hdr image into sdr without making it look that bad

[gusty silo]

it was mischief at best until he started making money off of it

now its full grift

[gusty silo]

yeah id say toggle on is better for actual hdr, but then screws your desktop snips up

skiv set to SDR

nothing comes close to SKIV

[ancient oar]

wait so how do you forve skiv to take an sdr screenshot instead of hdr, even in HDR content?

or did you do something else

[gusty silo]

use the snipping hotkey in SKIV to do it

it lets you choose

pick tone map to sdr

"capture region"

[ancient oar]

ohhhh sick i didnt see that windows before

window*

[ancient oar]

well i guess this is my sign to drop sharex cuz skiv is superior in every way wtf

all i gotta do is figure out how to make SKIV launch on windows startup minimized, if thats possible

[gusty silo]

sharex 1 claim to fame for me is autoupload to imgur when im posting on forums, but if you only post on discord yeah skiv is ALWAYS better

[ancient oar]

yea ive never used any of those extra crazy features tbh

i always just took a screenshot, 95% of the time for discord lol

[gusty silo]

im asking kal, over here #1252452982499311627 message

[ancient oar]

oh shit i asked him too in the other channel lol

[cold basin]

"he sold mirrors"

[ancient oar]

ay btw i appreciate this too, i took some inspiration from this and bound all button to everything, also the alt tab thing is cool i didnt even think of that :D

[cold basin]

bro im bout to crashout in this Main quest with regis where you have to get his bloodlust up

literally everything 1 to 2 shots me

AHHHHHHHH

https://tenor.com/view/skill-issue-urge-resist-cat-gif-25536160

straight up 1 shot cause im blind

fucking finally

took me like 30-40 mins

literally had to no-hit speedrun that

[unreal badge]

Difficulty/balancing is not Witcher 3's strenght. You can try several mods but, well. The writing and story is stronger than the gameplay will ever be.

[cold basin]

praying they improve those aspects for the new Trilogy

https://tenor.com/view/gimme-give-me-more-hungry-gif-14101283

[stark anvil]

My man is playing the Witcher 3

[cold basin]

using Mewtwo build rn seems same ish

[ashen spruce]

Novigrad docks froze

[cold basin]

[earnest rain]

who putting polad flag emojis on here lol

isn't the actual city based off a place in russia

also the irl novigrad is in crotia

[ashen spruce]

lmao
novigrad docks are based on gdansk in poland

[earnest rain]

ohh okay yeah i see that now the article i looked at just said the name was based off a city in russia (Novgorod). Right under it, it mentioned gdansk i just can't read.

[ashen spruce]

novigrad just means "new city" or "new town", there are many, many different towns and cities similarly named in half of europe

[tall merlin]

swapping to sdr?

[cold basin]

Yes was showing diff

[still prawn]

what lightning mod are u using

[cold basin]

None

Or well for interiors I suppose Cozy RTX Fires makes a diff in lighting

But I’m not using any of those big lighting overhaul mods

[ancient oar]

ive been using Better Vanilla Lightning Changes and its not bad tbh, i might try out vanilla more with hdr see how i like it

[tall merlin]

I liked better vanilla but theres a lot i disliked about it too, honestly after going back to vanilla lighting i dont think ill change again

i played with benis for a while too

vanilla looks consistently better than better vanilla to me

[ancient oar]

yea imma go test it without it again cuz i was looking at the screenshots last night comparing vanilla and better vanilla and i liked vanilla in most of the shots

[polar linden]

bvl gets rid of a lot of blue tones I don't like, still prefer vanilla though for consistency

[ancient oar]

its so weird to see geralt with black eyebrows now

i have the mod where he has the 3d white eyebrows and got so used to it

[cold basin]

xd

[ancient oar]

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/4846 this one

i think its pretty cool even for his normal black eyebrows, i just prefer white

[cold basin]

bro looks like a grandpa with those

[ancient oar]

😭

[ancient oar]

i just checked the mod page yes

on that image yea

[cold basin]

aint no way im rocking that

xd

[ancient oar]

but thats some fucked up mod he has 100%

lemme go ingame ill show you mine

idk wtf is wrong with the one on his mod page

[ancient oar]

thats 100% some sort of mod for geralt

[cold basin]

thats not that bad

but iunno i like the darker eye bros

[ancient oar]

i used to say the same, this playthrough i decided to go with white just to try it and ive gotten so used to them being white

i also think thats book accurate or whatever

[cold basin]

its very normal for eyebrows to not turn white even tho you have very white/grey hair

[rugged nest]

This mod is cool I use it too

Geralt with brown eyebrows makes 0 sense

[stark anvil]

Potentially better ideas for dealing with the dreaded candles now (could be a net positive for the skyboxes too). Will have to test sometime

[cold basin]

bro gets the idea when im boutta be done playing

[stark anvil]

it's okay it'll be there for that DLC

[cold basin]

🥀

true

[stark anvil]

or your 100% playthrough next year

[cold basin]

hopefully is real

i aint doing another 100% run

if i play again then ill be playing normal

[cold basin]

how so bruh

[quiet sandal]

Forget about Witcher

Jon's new relationship will be with Crimson Dessert

[cold basin]

slop game

calling it rn

[stark anvil]

gonna be a game that sells 10 mil and then nobody talks about it in a year

[quiet sandal]

'NATIVE HDR IS SOOOO GOOOOD'

BEST HDR OF THE YEAR

[cold basin]

fr, i dont think it'll be as good as many expect it to be

im sure sales will be good though

but i dont care for it at all, ill await proper reviews like 1-2 months after release

[stark anvil]

combat looks fun though, don't care

[rare scroll]

looks like another dragon's dogma 2 / ff16

[rugged nest]

Geralt is a pale ass dude with white hair

[quiet sandal]

When the game comes out and is GOTY and sells a grokillion copies

I will personally implement a 'BDO grading' zip bomb code that only targets all the haters PCs when RenoDX is installed

[rugged nest]

Brown eyebrows just don’t fit imo

[stark anvil]

eh, idk if anybody actually expects this to be all around good. Every time I see commentary online about it, it's with extremely tempered expectations

dd2 should have been the next big thing, but then we found out they showed us the whole game already when it launched

[rugged nest]

Crimson desert is going to be a banger but it’s probably going to release half broken lol

And story probably will be mid. It’s a theme park type of game if that makes sense

But it looks like the biggest theme park in the world lol

[quiet sandal]

DD2 was abandoned so Wilds could become worse

[cold basin]

i aint reading no damn books though xd

[rugged nest]

Books are peak

[cold basin]

most 45-60 year olds crying rn

[rare scroll]

if you go lore accurate geralt he would look like this

[rugged nest]

Yep

[rare scroll]

i like the witcher 3 look more

[rugged nest]

Welp eyes are maybe a bit too much there

And you probably can add beard even tho in the books he doesn’t have it

[rugged nest]

It’s more mainstream and “handsome” yeah

[cold basin]

geralt a cutie

[rugged nest]

In the books he also doesn’t have that physique at all

He’s scrawny

Well not scrawny. Don’t know the exact word in English. But thinner while preserving muscle still

[rare scroll]

he also doesn't carry two swords on his back, the silver sword is mostly on roach

[stark anvil]

tbh I feel like the book depiction of geralt doesn't really work well on a screen, mostly the eyes. A lot of communication happens through the eyes, and the kind of story they want to tell (empathize with the "freaks") just kinda works better when they look mostly human.

[rugged nest]

I don’t agree tbh. He is a freak and is supposed to look like one. Making him look more human doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. It’s just to appeal to a wider audience probably

[rare scroll]

i really like all the changes cdpr did it works really well with the games

[cold basin]

ciri as a witcher isnt in any books right

[rugged nest]

Noup

[cold basin]

so cdpr is pretty free to do what they think is best with that

[rugged nest]

Welp they also did with the games

[cold basin]

i really liked how they made her in that cinematic trailer

[rugged nest]

They are before the last book all of the games. It’s not a retelling

[cold basin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA

peak

[rare scroll]

the witcher 3 released after the last book season of swords

technically the story ended in the book before it lady of the lake, season of swords is just one of geralt and dandelion adventures after what happened in lady of the lake

[gusty silo]

lol im picturing geralt dyeing his eyebrows now

but i guess he ran out before he could do his hair or beard

[lime topaz]

Gotta say I don't really remember the books mentioning his eyebrow colors

And there are often blonde or redheaded people that have darker/different colored eyebrows or beards

Geralt is one of the lesser described characters in general, even Coën gets a better description

[cold basin]

also just from an age perspective geralt is just 61 in w3. if you just search for 60 year old male on google images youll see a ton of people with gray hair and beard but darker eye brows

those seem to lose color the slowest

and geralt complexion wise doesnt even seem like hes 61

more like 45 50

[lime topaz]

Yeah honestly you can just headcanon the color of his eyebrows in my opinion

I always just prefer darker eyebrows on Geralt because it makes him more expressive

[lime topaz]

True

Also in the Crossroads of Ravens covers he has dark eyebrows, then again he's 18 in that

[rugged nest]

They dont directly mention them. But they do describe him as a pale as the moon white haired guy so...

[rugged nest]

I mean absolutely

Its a personal preference I guess

But geralt books overall doesnt look at all like W3 geralt

W2 was closer

[lime topaz]

Yeah I agree

I always get a face mod for TW3

This is what I generally use, I know he doesn't have glowing eyes in lore but they look cool as hell

[rugged nest]

Oh damn this is perfect

What mods?