I've done pretty much everything except the ubislop POIs, and did not skimp out on skills either, with 2 days left.
Also wasn't exactly super effiicient with the designated time wasting decisions.
Nothingburger beyond the prologue really.

>>747662253
If you spend 70 skill points and do 80 ubislop tier missions, you will finally be forced to skip on one mission
Just play it naturally and as long as you don't go for 100%, it won't be an issue
Main thing it's there for is to give structure to your playthrough. You'll try doing day activities with each other and night activities with each other, sometimes, you'll feel like doing a day mission while at night, so you'll skip to night by spending 6 skill points.

It's neat and not worth stressing about.

Only becomes a pain in the ass if you have the autism that compels you to clean the map from all icons and the autism that compels you to get every character upgrade possible

No. If you mess with them once a day, once a night you can kill each boyar within 5 days. You don’t even need to kill any of them, technically, to kill Brencis (although it will help)

>>747662253
There's a mod for it.

>Great first shot at a mechanic that has room for improvements
>Casuals whined so it will just be removed for the sequel
I hate normalfaggotgroids like you wouldn't believe.

Notice how we've never once ever, not even (1) time had a thread about how good timers are and how they add tension. Interesting.

>>747663226
Why would third worlders want to make a thread about that

>>747663226
The timer is good and you're a filtered scrub

>>747663226
I said this in Kingmaker and Pikmin threads constantly I like time limits as an anti cheese mechanic

>>747662253
yes i has to rush and kill the 3 bojars be ause i ran out of time
on the other side i had already my share of the game
best thing is to best the boyars early and save few days before 30 so you can experience wvery possible approach for the end. the end scene is more or less the same anyway
save the family or not snd if you dont save rhem you can extend. i tried and nothing majore changed after 30 days

>>747662253
No it is not a big deal at all
I was able to finish every single quest, including every single boyar quest and spend all the skill points from the quests + level 39 with multiple days to spare
I however did almost 0 activities (bandit camp, monster lair, circle of power, etc).
There would not be enough time to do all the quests + all the activities + spend your skill points

>>747662253
No, to the point where you literally don't have to worry about it at all. You technically have 60 days, since there are 30 days and nights.
The timer system really did the devs a disservice, as all it ended up doing was making players feel they needed to rush the main stories and skip the hundred small quests there are in the game. I haven't done a single small quest as a result of that.

>>747663226
Dead Rising.
Kingmaker.
Seance of Blake Manor.
As someone already said, only retarded autists can't see the benefits of such mechanics, because they irrationally NEED to complete everything (even though most achievements for games require multiple playthroughs anyway).

>>747662253
You won't be able to do everything in one run full stop, you can prioritize the big side quests and get them all done though

>Pieter actually talks about the fairy sidequest if you did it
Kek

>fuck anca and tell her i love her just because she is kinda alright so far and there didn't seem to be any other love interests and she was kinda cool previously despite complaining too much about being old (and she is too old, but they modeled her younger looking so it's okay)
>she just becomes all dismissive and brushes it off when coen asks about their future afterwards
Bitch got the fountain of life and just immediately throws away the guy who stood up for her, was there for her, AND IS THE ONLY REASON SHE EVEN GOT THE FUCKING THING
Fuck this cunt, she is dying in every single future playthrough

Also, met the Egyptian bitch as well later, and she is just a full on insufferable holier than you cunt just like all modern females

For most of the game up until these moments i was loving the story and characters, but fuck this shit. But i guess it is realistic writing when it comes to women

>>747664632
> But i guess it is realistic writing when it comes to women
Only for the egyptian woman, as she has hundreds of years of jadedness that would actually turn her character into that.
But Anca's writing makes no sense. A woman with her story of isolation and purity would be head over heels for a guy like Coen. She would dedicate her whole life to him, realistically. Her writing makes absolutely 0 sense.

>>747662253
if you dont do all the random boring question marks then no

It is the Fallout 1 of vampire games
>timer
>can kill anyone
>can kill final boss almost immediately if you know where to go and are strong enough
>open world design
>game ends with you getting rejected by your family

>>747664894
>A woman with her story of isolation and purity would be head over heels for a guy like Coen. She would dedicate her whole life to him, realistically.
virgin fantasy

>>747665217
I didn't get rejected by my family in my ending. Coen decided to leave out of his volition. The elder sister was angry cause she knew I wanted to leave.

Also, Fallout is not open world by modern standards.

>>747664632
>M'LADY I GAVE YOU THE POWER! PLEASE BE MY GF!
nah, simps deserve nothing

>>747664894
Yeah it's fucking stupid. I guess she just thinks "i can get ANYTHING i want now, and Coen is alright i guess but not PERFECT like i DESERVE!"
But she didn't even get any younger? She just "feels" younger, and suddenly she thinks she's a godess

>>747665680
the reason women are the way they are today (which has you so jaded) is because of the relentless barrage of indoctrination from social media and also a culture which promotes promiscuity, which absolutely destroys the mental state of a female.

Dawnwalker is the middle ages. There is none of that. Anca's story is one where she lived the majority of her life amongst nuns. She even tells you she's still a virgin. She also has lived her life in isolation. Someone like that would go absolutely crazy for a companion and would never pass that opportunity up.

Kino game

>>747666059
This, and
>>747665680
>>747665941
It's not just any pajeet simp you retards, Coen has a long history with her and staying by her side and being a good person to her, as well as being good looking and well built. He's not just some limp wristed simp

>>747666040
> I guess she just thinks "i can get ANYTHING i want now, and Coen is alright i guess but not PERFECT like i DESERVE!"
No it's not that at all. It's just extremely poorly written, and a poor excuse for the devs to not permanently tie her into Coens story, which they want sequels of. It's so dumb and honestly really telling of how shortsighted the devs are.

>>747662253
I have about 8 days left and I've killed the 3 under-vampires and have a handful of more interesting quests I saved for last before I cuck Brencis. I've also dismantled most of the court's infrastructure as well. The time thing matters a little maybe but if you're not retarded you should be fine.

>>747662253
No, its just the usual millennial manchild fucking trash who cry about any kind of difficulty in a game.

>>747663226
Every time someone whined about the timer he was called a weakass scrub faggot, which he is.

timer is fine but there are other issues with the game
the last 2 weeks feel like a real chore and the game stops throwing anything new at you. the enemies are just HP sponges and they are too easy. i had 10 days left when i finally got too bored and decided to face Brencis.by that time I was so strong that he couldn't even outdamage my passive HP regeneration
I think the active abilities really take away from the flow of the game given how they just make you invulnerable. I really liked the earlier part of the game where you had no crutch to rely on with active abilities and each combat felt risky and up-in-your-face personal
by the end with your 1000th encounter against wolves you were just spamming active abilities and waiting for the HP inflated mobs to finally die while they posed no real risk to you
duelist difficulty

>playing on duelist
>enemies take forever to die
>reach dreadful rank
>enemies are even harder
I thought enemies died faster on higher difficulty? why are they taking so damn long to die, I've got the imbued mihai's sword, for fuck's sake

>>747666248
>Coen has a long history with her and staying by her side and being a good person to her, as well as being good looking and well built
this reads like a ramblings of a beta white knight begging to leave the 'friendzone'

Devs shat the bed with Anca and the endings simply for their need to have Coen be their Geralt, down to being miserable all the fucking time.
Brencis ending doesn't make sense because why the fuck would he vampirize Lunka when Coen can be his right hand man.
The ending doesn't change when you fucking beat Brencis in the prologue and it leads to Lunka being turned
They made the ending miseryporn just because Coen can't spend a couple of decades with his loved ones before being forced out.
As for Anca's sudden dismissiveness, it's her trying to protect her own heart since Coen might die etc and she only then allowed herself to be open to him. It's implied that should she live and become Coen's witchgf, they fuck until he needs to leave.

Best version of the ending would be that Coen can live in his village in peace when he either defeats Brencis in the Prologue or sides with him, whereas the other endings with Brencis turning Lunka happen when you telegraph your betrayal or assault on his castle.
The ending hook sucked ass Oh, your kid sister is a retard vampire bound for hell? Well the magical negro's vampire overlords might have a cure tm, best case scenario she's still eternally a child and bound to bloodsucker hell or to live forever in your head, which means you have to kill her

>>747668290
everything's a fucking damage sponge, it gets really annoying after some time.
get artery strike rank 4 asap and keep spamming this shit, it's a 50% to instakill, 100% if you can bleed them first, doesn't work on everything but it's a nice chunk of damage even if it can't proc
grab the cooldown reduction passives, iirc rank 3 reduces cooldowns when you crit. with a bit of investment into weapon crit chance you can keep spamming artery strike every 5 seconds

>>747668936
He's spent considerable time with her growing up and that's with her being socially isolated weirdo not allowed in the village. Her reluctance of forming attachments both makes sense and devs fault as per >>747668986
She's essentially fucked the student she's been tutoring and he caught feelings. She likely returns them judging by the epilogue, but she needs to come to terms with it as again, she's been socially isolated, a former nun and Coen's a vampire, her former student and should anyone know she's fucking him, she's on thin ice.

>timers exist in game
>can't do all of game's content in one playthrough
>start a 2nd playthrough
>game not fun enough to warrant it
>stupid fucking retards like this >>747663819 and >>747663408 and this >>747668014 can't get it through their heads how it takes away from the overall experience, and if the devs really wanted to limit the amount of content you could access in one playthrough for tension they could take a Fromsoft or Baldur's Gate approach GASP where accepting some quests nullifies others

>look through the books (-1 time)
>optional: prepare Anca an infusion (-1 time)
>are they being serious?
>it's a QTE
>are they fucking serious?
>QTE requires you to press R2 twice
>looking through the books requires you to move the joystick and press a button

The exact moment when I dropped the game. Time mechanic is dogshit, but this is plain disrespectful game development

>>747669829
>>747669885
mental illness

>>747670252
NTA but if you require a 2 button QTE to keep you engaged, you might be the one with mental issues.

>>747662253
you can end in the first week if you do SAINT florin's quest and spec witchcraft. you'll still fight each boyar in the end dungeon

>>747669829
>>747669885
Filtered

>>747662253
Time limit is nothing burger. You can do every quest (except in prologue?) if you skip worthless, Ubisoft style activities like ''kill the same enemy at marker location no. 14). And they are literally worthless, rewards are trash. Just do 1-2 if you must, more is plain waste of time. Same with random treasures you can dig out (except your fathers hidden chest you can find if you will advance questline with his blind pal, but even that can be skipped if you are not looking for armor increasing crt dmg and chance).

>>747662253
I dont like Coen's meek nice guy personality

>>747662253
>Bump into Lacra incredibly early in the game
>Waited a few days before going with her to the goat village (it's my fault, I didn't understand the symbol on the quest)
>I have now missed 40% of the story
Cool!

>>747672849
How is the Ocha quest 40% of the story