Unbalanced gameplay

[withnoname31]

After watching several walkthrough by people who got the game early. I'm noticed a worrying trend: people switching to magic built almost immediately.

The reason? Magic allows players to repeatedly dissing out good damage while keeping a safe distance ( thus low risk, high reward)
Melee, on the other hand is simply not worth it because the damage is not higher than magic ( thus high risk low reward).

Even if this problem is only in the early game (presumably). This is a serious flaw that could potentially be a deal breaker for many people.

[Abstr4cted]

This may be fixed with a Day 1 patch who knows.

[Gilgamesh]

So don't use magic then, problem solved. It's a single player game.

[withnoname31]

Originally posted by Gilgamesh:

So don't use magic then, problem solved. It's a single player game.

Yeah right, seriously I can't imagine myself playing a Geralt that never touching a sword and spam magic like crazy.

[Ebon Wolf]

Well you can beat W3 by spamming light attacks with the occasional igni since it was so OP in vanilla W3.

[Sparhawk122]

Very good point.

[Hathur]

Meh, not a big deal to me, Skyrim, Witcher 3, countless other rpgs had "easy mode" playstyles.. in some way its a good thing for people struggling with the game. If one playstyle is too easy, I just avoid it and play another (i.e., heavy / strong attack style in witcher 3 was vastly inferior to fast style, but I played it entirely with that because it made the game more challenging).

[Sparhawk122]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Meh, not a big deal to me, Skyrim, Witcher 3, countless other rpgs had "easy mode" playstyles.. in some way its a good thing for people struggling with the game. If one playstyle is too easy, I just avoid it and play another (i.e., heavy / strong attack style in witcher 3 was vastly inferior to fast style, but I played it entirely with that because it made the game more challenging).

Bad balance limits role playing capability. So it has the chance to be a big deal.

[Kamen Rider]

really?

ive seen the walkthrough from ign showing that while magic is powerful your mana runs out fast and you have to swap to rifle/sword so its better to build a balanced character

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Udoroth:

really?

ive seen the walkthrough from ign showing that while magic is powerful your mana runs out fast and you have to swap to rifle/sword so its better to build a balanced character

This also, someone on youtube already has 15+ hours of gameplay up and I'm noticing he only has enough mana / magic pool / whatever to kill a few enemies, not an entire group. It seems to be there to help combat but not replace firearms / melee as your magic resource pool is limited.

[Lightning]

It's a single player game tbh, just play how you see fit

[withnoname31]

Originally posted by Hathur:

Meh, not a big deal to me, Skyrim, Witcher 3, countless other rpgs had "easy mode" playstyles.. in some way its a good thing for people struggling with the game. If one playstyle is too easy, I just avoid it and play another (i.e., heavy / strong attack style in witcher 3 was vastly inferior to fast style, but I played it entirely with that because it made the game more challenging).

I also always used fast attack in the witcher 3. It's both effective and satisfying to play.
But in this game, as far as I can see. Magic attacks are basically the one-two punch, pushing out slow moving magic balls.... And that to me is ****ing boring.

[SerWoofles]

Honestly magic looks really strong but also quite limited. Watched a bit of one of the lets plays on youtube, it seems more or less fine.

[withnoname31]

Like I said, even if this is an early game problem (magic become limited later)
It leaves an early impression of bias to one play-style.
It basically the game telling you to be a mage first to do good early game .

[🐈TinyLilAsian🐈]

It's a single player game. , why the fudge would balancing be an issue? If you dont like it, dont play magic.
There is no class restriction in the game. so i dont see a problem with everyone starting as mage, especially on a single player game.

[DivineLion]

so what about guns? how are they??