Nightsolo's The Witcher 3 Downloads & Hints
Buy the Enhanced Editon from either:
GOG
Steam
File I'm mirroring:
- morpheus.zip (35 KB) - The Witcher Font (used for titles in this guide)
To skip loading screen intro videos:
In either C:\Users\User\Documents\The Witcher 3\dx12user.settings or C:\Games\Witcher 3\bin\config\base\engine.ini
add these lines:
[LoadingScreen/Debug]
DisableVideos=true
To enable the console:
In either C:\Games\Witcher 3\bin\config\base\general.ini or C:\Users\User\Documents\The Witcher 3\dx12user.settings
add these lines:
[General]
DBGConsoleOn=true
Hints
- Saving:
- I'll only mention this once: Save often.
- Quick Save before every conversation. It'd suck to screw one up only to have to reload from a slot you saved an hour or more ago.
- Unlike the previous game, there is a quick save slot, so I do recommend making a "hard" save every now and again.
- Combat:
- Use your Signs and Potions often. They make combat easier, especially on the higher difficulty levels.
- On higher difficulties, spend more time dodging than attacking.
- If you like being one-shotted, try Death March difficulty.
- Against packs of wolves, Dancing Star Bombs are useful.
- While out exploring, you can just run away from enemies and they'll stop chasing you eventually.
- Leveling:
- Enemies level up at the same rate as you do, so the game is consistently challenging. This also means you need to keep your gear upgraded.
- Be sure to turn off enemy upscaling at level 100, because they will continue to level while Geralt does not.
- Enemeis respawn, so you can grind out a few levels every now and again if you like.
- There are 191 skill slots. Plan accordingly.
- If you find yourself at max level with excess skill points:
- Download and install Cheat Engine
- Start witcher 3, load your save and open cheat engine
- Get a Potion of Clearance and use it to reset all of your skill points. Note the number available.
- Click on "file" then "open process" and finally "tw3.exe" (or whatever the Witcher3.exe process is called).
- In the middle of the program, there is a field called "value", so type there the amount of your current skill points (e.g. if you have 60 skillpoints, type 60).
- Click on "new scan" - on the left you'll see several addresses, but do not click on any yet.
- Go back to your game and add command to add skillpoints (preferably select like 20).
- Go back to Cheat Engine, tyep in the current number of skillpoints (so if you had 60 before, and then added 20, you should have 80 now), and click on "Next Scan" (DO NOT click on "new scan"!)
- If you still see multiple addresses on the left, repeat the above two steps until only one address is shown, if not, proceed to the next step.
- Right click on the address, and change its value to 0 -> that's it!
- Loot:
- I haven't made a guide to any gear or items because the list would be huge, and the game has a good way of comparing stuff. If you do everything, you'll find the "best" stuff anyway. The Wiki is a good source of that sort of information.
- Money is scarce in this game, so loot everything and sell it to vendors.
- The game won't let you sell a quest item. Once the item is out of the quest items category, it may safely be sold or dismantled or dropped.
- Different vendors buy and sell different things, so be sure look around for different types of vendors to sell stuff to.
- Trophies are equipped by Roach. Every time you pick up a new trophy, it replaces the one you currently have equipped. Therefore, you may want to check your inventory every now and again to ensure you have the trophy you want equipped.
- Crafting Recipies and Diagrams are looted from Points of Interest, mostly.
- Buy Diagrams and Recipies from vendors when you can. Once you know how to make something, you won't find duplicates any more.
- You will occasionally come across other curriencies. These can be exchanged by Vivaldi, who stands at the entrance to his bank in Novigrad.
- Gameplay:
- Read the books before you play the game. The game takes place 5 years after the books, and they give some great background for the games. There are many times where you'll recognize characters and history, or where characters mention events from the books, where you'd be lost otherwise.
- Read the manual.
- When following an NPC who's talking, you may be attacked as you go. The sounds of battle can make the conversation impossible to hear. Therefore, stop moving while the conversation goes on, and only advance when there's no talking.
- Also, you may reach your destination before the conversation is over, cutting the conversation short. So again, just stand still if you want to hear the whole thing.
- NEVER fast travel from interiors. Always exit a builing or compound before fast travelling, as you can fuck up some quests if you don't.
- Take boats back to Harbors when you're done with them, as they'll just stay wherever you left them otherwise, and they won't respawn or relocate themselves.
- Always have some food in your inventory, as several NPCs will ask for some. It's nice to offer, and some quests need it to advance.
- Try not to fast travel too much. Part of the joy of this game is just being in the world. If you start to tire of it, take a break and quit the game for a bit.
- System:
- There is no save editor. I recommend using mods and just not selling stuff.
- Here is a good list of console commands
- Turn Sharpening to Off, otherwise everything looks grainy.
- To alter gamma, use Fullscreen to show the Gamma settings option.
- To turn off subtitles in cutscenes, open C:\documents\witcher3\user.settings and change all of the Subtitle lines to False.
- If you can't dive (c key by default), QuickSave, then Load it.
- Signs the game needs to be restarted:
During conversation, if you get a second or so of blurriness.
If the horse stops showing its animation while riding.
If characters slide around during cutscenes without playing a walking animation.
If grass or shrubs appear as rectangles.
If music won't play.
- For New Game+, you have to re-find all the crafting diagrams. Abilities and Gold are retained. Most items including runes, weapons, and armor in your Stash transfers over. The first Stash you come to in a new game is at the White Orchard Inn. After the prologue, Geralt will be equipped with whatever he had on when you saved.
last modified 14 May 2025