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Major Gosnell Sep 17, 2015 @ 5:38am
What exactly does Ciri do at the end?
What exactly is it that ciri does at the end,it seemed awefully abrupt and not very well explained,did she stop it,what?
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Guywars Sep 17, 2015 @ 5:50am 
Depends on what ending you got. There are 3 possible endings, even though 2 are very similar.
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Major Gosnell Sep 17, 2015 @ 5:54am 
no i dont mean the epilogue i mewan when she runs into the snow what is she trying to do
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Guywars Sep 17, 2015 @ 5:56am 
She's going in there to stop the White Frost.
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Major Gosnell Sep 17, 2015 @ 6:55am 
ah ok,i just expected to see her fight a manifestation of the white frost
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jclosed Sep 17, 2015 @ 8:27am 
Originally posted by Major Gosnell:
ah ok,i just expected to see her fight a manifestation of the white frost

As far as I understand it, the white frost is an negative energy manifestation. It's like an tidal wave of dark energy that withdraws any warmth from an world/universe. It feeds on energy and induces an premature death to all affected worlds by freeze all movement (and thus life).

Ciri can block this negative energy with her powers and wraps it in it's own bubble to let it feed on itself, and thus negate its existence.

Yeah - I know, I know.. ;-). I have read an lot Science Fiction and I love writers like Greg Bear, Larry Niven and so on, but also love Tanith Lee and the masterly crafted disc world from Terry Pratchett...
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MBOmnis Sep 17, 2015 @ 8:35am 
Lotsa imagination running around here. But it sounds right, although there's no clarification about what the White Frost actually is and what Ciri did. I do have to ask, though, did she actually stop the White Frost?
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jclosed Sep 17, 2015 @ 8:39am 
Originally posted by luck.duck:
Lotsa imagination running around here. But it sounds right, although there's no clarification about what the White Frost actually is and what Ciri did. I do have to ask, though, did she actually stop the White Frost?

As far as I understand she does, and thus saved not only the "witcher's" world, but an lot of alternative worlds too. If you have the ending that you talk with Emhyr, Geralt tells Emhyr that she stopped the white frost.
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Exarch_Alpha Sep 17, 2015 @ 8:47am 
She used the Crucible to destroy the Reapers.

Well not that but it was a bit silly part which could have been better shown.
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jclosed Sep 17, 2015 @ 8:49am 
Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Originally posted by jclosed:

As far as I understand she does, and thus saved not only the "witcher's" world, but an lot of alternative worlds too. If you have the ending that you talk with Emhyr, Geralt tells Emhyr that she stopped the white frost.

She stopped the White Frost in all of the endings, hence why their world isn't destroyed in all endings. The difference in the endings is only whether she survived and returned and if she did, what her future would be.

Eh.. Yes. Was it not obvious that I ment to say that? I only mentionned that Emhyr ending because there Geralt litterly say's she stopped the white frost in that ending, but it's very obvious she does it in the other endings too.. ;-).
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jclosed Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:01am 
Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Originally posted by jclosed:

Eh.. Yes. Was it not obvious that I ment to say that? I only mentionned that Emhyr ending because there Geralt litterly say's she stopped the white frost in that ending, but it's very obvious she does it in the other endings too.. ;-).

He also said she was dead when she wasn't.

You'd be surprised how many dimwits believe that she didn't stop the White Frost in the empress ending because it's winter time and they see snow everywhere. Just saying.

Yeah - I have seen that too. For me the moment that bubble of ice surrounding the tower bursts and the remains rain down, is the moment the white frost is defeated. But that's just my intepretation I gues...
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Markuz Juniuz Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:02am 
Maybe on their next Witcher game called "The Ashen Haired Witcheress" or something that would be the tutorial part. She's so powerful during that time then in order to defeat the white frost she expends all of that power.

Then on the real part of that game she's not as powerful anymore and we'll be leveling her up to get close to how powerful she is at the start. Eek! So original, hahaha.
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MBOmnis Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:05am 
Originally posted by Markuz Juniuz:
Maybe on their next Witcher game called "The Ashen Haired Witcheress" or something that would be the tutorial part. She's so powerful during that time then in order to defeat the white frost she expends all of that power.

Then on the real part of that game she's not as powerful anymore and we'll be leveling her up to get close to how powerful she is at the start. Eek! So original, hahaha.
Gee. That reminded me of Lords of Shadow 2.
OP Dracula in tutorial, then weak-ass Dracula getting his ass whooped, then you have to recover Dracula's true power... and even after you're maxed you still have to sneak your way through those big-ass demons because plot device.

Eugh. I feel bad for preordering that crap.
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Markuz Juniuz Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:21am 
Originally posted by luck.duck:
Originally posted by Markuz Juniuz:
Maybe on their next Witcher game called "The Ashen Haired Witcheress" or something that would be the tutorial part. She's so powerful during that time then in order to defeat the white frost she expends all of that power.

Then on the real part of that game she's not as powerful anymore and we'll be leveling her up to get close to how powerful she is at the start. Eek! So original, hahaha.
Gee. That reminded me of Lords of Shadow 2.
OP Dracula in tutorial, then weak-ass Dracula getting his ass whooped, then you have to recover Dracula's true power... and even after you're maxed you still have to sneak your way through those big-ass demons because plot device.

Eugh. I feel bad for preordering that crap.
The idea worked on Knights of the Old Republic though. Maybe it's because jedi do not sneak. :)
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Markuz Juniuz Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:31am 
Originally posted by BuzzardBee:
Originally posted by Markuz Juniuz:
Maybe on their next Witcher game called "The Ashen Haired Witcheress" or something that would be the tutorial part. She's so powerful during that time then in order to defeat the white frost she expends all of that power.

Then on the real part of that game she's not as powerful anymore and we'll be leveling her up to get close to how powerful she is at the start. Eek! So original, hahaha.

I'm really hoping for something different, to be honest. Maybe something along the lines of what happened during the First Conjunction of Spheres when the worlds were aligned and magic and monsters crossed over into Geralt's world. Show the decision that led to the creation of witchers and how they adjusted to the changing world.

Ciri is, in my opinion, way too overpowered to carry an entire game all by herself. Unless they choose to do something from the books which I don't think CDPR or Sapowski would like or approve of. They could decide to show Ciri's adolescent years which were rather violent and horrific -- not quite the stuff for games.

Or they could focus on some other witcher altogether, which would probably be best in the long run. If they can come up with someone intersting enough, folks might want to see more of him and they could squeeze yet another game out after that.

But honestly, I know this one was really successful for them and all, but if Cyberpunk 2077 is a huge hit, I doubt we'll ever see another Witcher game from CDPR. And if it bombs big time, we'll definitely never see another one.

Yeah, I just can't imagine how they'd make someone so powerful still interesting. They could turn it into a Diablo-clone, hehehe. Click-click-click. OK, not CDPR's style.

Or we could have a Ciri game that shows what happened between Geralt's death and would culminate in that tower... Err... but we already know what will happen so... erase.

I think Geralt is the only interesting witcher to me. Vesimir is more of an instructor, Lambert is too much of a prick, Eskel? Hmm... He got trashed by Caranthir. No-name witcher, no thanks. It's hard to top Geralt.

I wish them all the luck with Cyberpunk. I wish the EA rumors are really, really, really not true. I don't want CDP going the EA grave.
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MBOmnis Sep 17, 2015 @ 9:39am 
Originally posted by Markuz Juniuz:
Originally posted by luck.duck:
Gee. That reminded me of Lords of Shadow 2.
OP Dracula in tutorial, then weak-ass Dracula getting his ass whooped, then you have to recover Dracula's true power... and even after you're maxed you still have to sneak your way through those big-ass demons because plot device.

Eugh. I feel bad for preordering that crap.
The idea worked on Knights of the Old Republic though. Maybe it's because jedi do not sneak. :)
Or because you didn't initially know you were Revan and you weren't a Jedi initially. You didn't start out overpowered and then lost your powers. :P
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