got the worst ending possible

[sergykid]

obviously, spoilers coming, though not sure it's the case anymore after 3 years. So:

i just hate myself, can't believe how disappointed i am with myself. Got the worst ending i could have hoped for. Ciri is not to be found, can't find any sorceress anymore, i remained in that hut swarmed by monsters. Don't know what happened with the lodge or with the war. I didn't kill the king, i've wanted to but the quest failed itself before fighting the Wild Hunt.

i've watched youtube videos with the possible endings, and how i just hate me.

[Exarch_Alpha]

That´s why you use multiple saves. It´s not like the game is annoying like japanese RPGs and their 3 slots.

[sergykid]

know about this, i just hate myself for my first playthrough, which decisions i made i thought will be good, i ended up with the worst scenarios.

[sergykid]

thanks for the response, all you've written i saw in youtube videos. All the endings and good and bad moments for Ciri to remember. I was mostly netrual, i was the good guy, trying to let her take decisions, not telling her what to do, not agreeing though to steal or destroy.

at the end, she remembered only 3 moments, the one with the mug at the table (which i don't even know what was that), the boy being buried, and me putting the necklace from the lab. I suppose it's 2 bad and 1 good, which resulted in the bad ending.

what i hate myself for is because i tried to do good, to let her free, not necessarily agreeing to whatever she wanted to do bad. Didn't want her to die, and didn't want to remain without Yennefer.

i only made saves at points where choices would have impact, but it's big distance between them. My earlies from current decisions is right before taking the boat with the elf sage. So i could just load that one and go kill Radovid, then come fight the Wild Hunt. But at this point, there isn't any possibility i can save Ciri anymore.

[O2Z]

Originally posted by sergykid:

obviously, spoilers coming, though not sure it's the case anymore after 3 years. So:

i just hate myself, can't believe how disappointed i am with myself. Got the worst ending i could have hoped for. Ciri is not to be found, can't find any sorceress anymore, i remained in that hut swarmed by monsters. Don't know what happened with the lodge or with the war. I didn't kill the king, i've wanted to but the quest failed itself before fighting the Wild Hunt.

i've watched youtube videos with the possible endings, and how i just hate me.

hahaha i missed 60 of the quests on my first playthrough but i got the best ending imo ciri a witcher 3 gonna start a new play through soon with mods :d and a controllers its going to feel a whole new experience

[Exarch_Alpha]

Controllers really are a bit overrated, it helps with bombs and potions and that´s it. The decrease in response time really isn´t that huge

[deidian]

Originally posted by sergykid:

at the end, she remembered only 3 moments, the one with the mug at the table (which i don't even know what was that), the boy being buried, and me putting the necklace from the lab. I suppose it's 2 bad and 1 good, which resulted in the bad ending.

2 bad and 1 good is not possible. The game will show the flashbacks based on the ending. If Ciri doesn't returns/presumably dead then all the bad memories resulting from your decisions will be shown. If you get any of the two endings in which she returns then good memories resulting from your decisions are shown.

Rewatch it, but from what you said I would bet for:

-Drinking session at Kaer Morhen to drown sorrows.
-You assisted to the Lodge meeting with her.
-You calmed her down when she wanted to trash Avallac´h hideout.

Also being neutral was in some sense the problem. Geralt is not a neutral guy, he is in the team of his loved ones, the people for whom he cares, which means the he could take sides[in a fight, not political moves like assasinating Radovid] or commiting crimes and/or questionable actions if the circunstances push him to do so.

[Ron]

bad ending still beats other game's main endings... the last scene with geralt and the monsters is so powerful and sad

[whoeverxwins]

Just one correction. You CAN take her to see Emyr and still get the best ending. Just don't take the gold. When the Emporer offeres the horse, she will nod it's ok. I did this and got the Ciri witcher ending.

[v0]

yeah if emhyr's alive and they met she'll be empress (or mia). doesnt matter what you do at meeting.

[sergykid]

this is why i am so disappointed with myself. I know what Geralt would have did. I did not play the game as Geralt, i played it like me myself have been there. All choices and decisions i picked just as my own person was in the story, not what the character Geralt would have picked.

and in the end, me in the game, my person in such a fantasy reality, would have failed utterly.

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

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1) got drinks, 2) didn't go see Emhyr at all, 3) accompanied her, but stayed behind as decor, didn't intervene, 4) calmed her, 5) visited grave. So i got 3 bad and 1 good I've said 2 bad because i don't remember the Lodge scene in her memories. If i did not calm her at point 4, it was 2-2 good-bad and she may have survived. So close, yet so far.

Originally posted by whoeverxwins:

Just one correction. You CAN take her to see Emyr and still get the best ending. Just don't take the gold. When the Emporer offeres the horse, she will nod it's ok. I did this and got the Ciri witcher ending.

can't take her to Emhyr anymore, the save is past the point when she awakes me so i can choose to go see her father.

[deidian]

Originally posted by sergykid:

Originally posted by whoeverxwins:

Just one correction. You CAN take her to see Emyr and still get the best ending. Just don't take the gold. When the Emporer offeres the horse, she will nod it's ok. I did this and got the Ciri witcher ending.

can't take her to Emhyr anymore, the save is past the point when she awakes me so i can choose to go see her father.

I see that some people don't understand and they are making a mess out of this matter.

If Geralt convinces Ciri that they should go to see Emhyr and Emhyr wins the war Ciri will go to Nilfgaard to be the heiress of the empire. If Emhyr doesn't win the war then she'll set on the path as a witcher. Taking the gold or refusing it doesn't matter in regard of heiress of Nilfgaard ending vs witcher ending, only matters if Geralt convinces her to go to see Emhyr and the war outcome(Geralt has to arrange in shadows a victory for Nilfgaard by taking both Radovid and Djikstra out of the game)

[whoeverxwins]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by whoeverxwins:

Just one correction. You CAN take her to see Emyr and still get the best ending. Just don't take the gold. When the Emporer offeres the horse, she will nod it's ok. I did this and got the Ciri witcher ending.

Was Emhyr alive at the end?? As far as I'm aware, taking her to see him will result in her becoming an empress. Accepting the gold or not affects whether she will survive. The gold determines the positive or negative count for her survival. Seeing him ticks the empress ending, unless, of course, Emhyr has been assassinated, in which case then she will always become a witcher regardless of whether Geralt accepted the gold or not -- so long as there were more positive than negatives.

1. Don't have to good at everything/Drinks = NEGATIVE, Lift your spirits/Snowball fight = POSITIVE

2. Go see Emhyr = EMPRESS unless Emhyr is dead / Don't go see Emhyr = WITCHER
-- Accept Gold = NEGATIVE, Refuse Gold = POSITIVE

3. Accompany Ciri to meet with the Lodge = NEGATIVE, Encourage her to meet them alone = POSITIVE

4. Tell Ciri to calm down in Avallac'h's lab = NEGATIVE, Help her trash the place = POSITIVE

5. Tell Ciri there's no time to visit Skjall's grave = NEGATIVE, Go with her to put the boy to rest = POSITIVE

I'm nearly certainly that this is the case. Every guide I've seen bears this out. My own playthroughs have as well. You can certainly take her to see Emhyr, accept the gold and still have her be a witcher by virtue of the fact that if either Radovid or Dijkstra lives at the end, Emhyr will die and if he's dead, there's no way Ciri can become empress. But accepting or refusing the gold does not affect that at all. I have no idea why people keep insisting on that because it is not true.

She's fine if he refuses the gold because she likes the idea of the horse as a gift but it has nothing to do with her becoming an empress or choosing to be a witcher. Accepting the gold is a huge negative for her. She'll feel betrayed by Geralt and won't be able to forgive him for that. Refusing it acts as a tonic for her as it proves to her that he didn't do it because he was commanded or paid for his services. He risked everything to find her because he loved her.

But the mere act of meeting with Emhyr is enough to push her over the edge. Later on, she receives a letter from him that convinces her that her place is on the throne. So that's a big no-no if you want her to be a witcher. The gold only acts as a determining factor if you have an even number of Postitives and Negatives, then accepting the gold would mark Ciri as dead while refusing it would ensure that she'd return alive.

Folks really need to let this fallacy go already. Three years and it still comes up.

Maybe he wasn't because I missed killing Radovid. But I did takke her to see him, just didn't accept the gold.

[♠ Radovid V. ♠]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

If you didn't kill Radovid, then he wins the war and Emhyr is assassinated by his former supporters back home. With Radovid ruling the North, any mages still in the North would be put to death.

If you helped Triss get the mages out of Novigrad, then a good number of them will still be alive in Kovir. But with them gone, the hatred the witch hunters had for mages would then be turned to any non-humans still around, meaning dwarves, halflings, elves and any magic users

Will Radovid go after nonhumans if he wins the war and Geralt didn't help Triss with the mages?

[deidian]

Originally posted by ♠ The Governor ♠:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

If you didn't kill Radovid, then he wins the war and Emhyr is assassinated by his former supporters back home. With Radovid ruling the North, any mages still in the North would be put to death.

If you helped Triss get the mages out of Novigrad, then a good number of them will still be alive in Kovir. But with them gone, the hatred the witch hunters had for mages would then be turned to any non-humans still around, meaning dwarves, halflings, elves and any magic users

Will Radovid go after nonhumans if he wins the war and Geralt didn't help Triss with the mages?

Regardless of if Geralt helps or not the mages in Novigrad if Redania wins the war with Radovid being king pyres will burn with mages, nonhumans, herbalists,.... So helping mages only matters in the sense that the death of many mages that lived in Novigrad is saved, but in the long run all are going to burn or run away from the pyres(and Redania/North Empire) if Radovid wins.

[DrNewcenstein]

The blacksmith from White Orchard also comes up missing, though that's probably a timed event if you bring him the arsonist.

I did (in no particular order) Help Mages Escape, Snowball Fight, Bury Skjall, Go See Emhyr and take Horse, Steal Horses, Trash Lab, Accompany to meet with Lodge (I wanted to know what was said since I don't trust Phillipa and would rather kill her), dumped Yen and committed to Triss, Killed Junior, Radovid, and Dijkstra, Saved Ves (I know, some of those don't affect Ciri), and prevented her from killing Dudu who had assumed Junior's identity.

Ciri took the Empress' gig, Temeria survived as a Vassal State under Ciri's rule, and Ceris ruled Skellige.

Logically, with Ciri on the throne, Nilfgaard could not have a reason to attack those who helped her, though I would have preferred to see Hemmelfart and his witch hunters burned at the stake, and his "Church" laid waste so that Novigrad could remain a free city for all races.