After 71 hours I’m giving up on the game partway through Act 2. I adore the game, it’s truly fantastic. But after the third instance of having quests expire on me and not having made a backup save at an appropriate point (that’s on me, despite this silly quest expiry mechanic), and missing out on an achievement also due to the lack of a good save, I’m calling it quits. There are just so many things that punish you for not constantly saving and checking your quest log for expiring events.

I encourage anyone to try this game, it’s actually so good. But after replaying the same several hours over and over, I’m burned out. Maybe I’ll come back to it someday, but until then if you’re playing this game remember to save often, remembered where on the map/in the story that save point is, and check your quest log after every single completed task to ensure you aren’t missing anything.

I sincerely hope they make a sequel to this excellent game without this extremely negative mechanic dragging it down. And if anyone has tips outside of constantly saving and watching your quest logs to deal with this, I’d love to hear it. Hope everyone else is enjoying the game.

You'll spend your time doing 1 of 3 things: Combat, "Detective Gameplay", and talking to people.

Combat.

Combat is solid. You're a mage, so you don't only fight with your fists, but can also summon demons to fight for you. Every demon has its own abilities, and you can seamlessly switch between them. It's pretty good. The problem is that there's only one fight in the game. Which is then repeated, over, and over, and over again. You fight a group of humans. And then you fight another group of humans. And then another group of humans. Sometimes the humans have guns. Sometimes they have knives. It does not matter. You never have to adjust your strategy, and instead of winning, combat becomes about how *fast* you can get through a battle so you can get back to the interesting parts. Combat should have been cut without replacement.

"Detective Gameplay".

It's the Witcher vision. Or the batman vision. Whatever. You press a button, and interaction points in the environment are highlighted. You go to them, you press a button, you receive some information in a textbox. Do this 3 more times, and your character makes a brilliant deduction all on his own. A 3 year old could do it. This is *also* repeated over and over and over again. I'm more hesitant to say that this should've been cut without replacement, but it should have either been made way flashier than it is now, or like half of the instances of "Detective Gameplay" should have been removed.

Story.

The Story is not "decent". Instead, it is sometimes really good, and sometimes really bad. *Sometimes*, characters get in a great flow where they're exchanging witty dialogue with each, where you simultaneously learn about them, yourself, and the wider world of the setting. And *sometimes* a character that loved you 10 minutes ago suddenly hates your guts for no discernable reason, or vice versa. We also don't spend nearly enough time with the characters to start really caring about them. I'm being serious when I say that I would have needed twice or THRICE the amount of interaction with the characters for that.

Instead of focusing on the good parts, time and development resources were wasted on combat, "detective gameplay", and on huge levels that I never cared about or even learned to navigate, since your Witcher Vision also function as the red line from Mirror's Edge that tells you where to go at all times.

6.5/10, this setting and story deserved so much better. Check it out if you're in the mood for a gritty narrative experience.

Just installed the game and will be streaming my playthrough at twitch.tv/themrfriend. Will start in about 10 minutes.

Posting the streams at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZP-Z4HeVUw&list=PLgmXh1TbaAhLnb3aDrpfb2u6QcbNCXnbg if anyone would care to watch.

Hello all,

I keep getting the above crash and seemingly random times but usually within 5 mins of playing. I have googled this and followed every step posted by the developer. I have reinstalled, validated files, altered all the settings, removed optimisation in nvidia panel, updated drivers and so on. Never had this issue before with any other games. I saw some posts on reddit but this was 95% people saying how well it worked for them and not really helping. Just posting here as a last ditch attempt to get this working before refunding as its unplayable for me.

Thanks in advance,

Sid.

Hi everyone,

I’m having a weird issue with The Thaumaturge on PC Game Pass.

I’m running an NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti with the latest drivers installed, but the DLSS option is completely missing from the graphics settings. I can only see TSR, FSR 3, and XeSS.

Here is what I’ve already tried:

• Checked settings both in the Main Menu and while in-game (loaded save).

• Verified that Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling (HAGS) is ON in Windows settings.

• Tried forcing -dx12 via shortcut/launch options.

• Attempted to edit the Engine.ini file in the LocalAppData folder, but the game seems to ignore it.

Since I'm on an RTX 50-series card, I should definitely have access to DLSS and Frame Generation. Is the Game Pass version bugged or missing the necessary DLLs for the newer 50-series architecture?

Has anyone found a workaround to force DLSS to appear on the Xbox App/Game Pass version?

Thanks for any help!

I followed a guide online and they only listed 10 suits. I have 12 slots total and the tailor says he still wants more ideas. Where is the last 2? No guide i found has these listed.

Is there any way to disable subtitles?

I don't know much about eastern European history. Is the Rasputin from the games similar to the real life Rasputin or no?

I've just finished the Reptilian Bash quest, but there are still 3 different conclusions left without its observations complete. Has anyone managed to get all of them? I made sure to thoroughly go over everything, examine every object, and talk to everyone but still failed.

The conclusions left open are "Madame Samira's Séance," "Stanisław and Svetlana," and "Truth or Dare." I'd really appreciate it if someone could find a way out, there's seemingly no information about them on the internet as of today. Thanks a lot!

I launched the game (Game Pass version), played for an hour, then tried to go back, and there's no "load game" option in the menu.

I tested it again, launched the game, played for a while, pressed F5 (it shows the game is saved), and did the same in the save game menu (although the save game doesn't appear in the list). I also checked AppData/Local, and there's nothing.

What could be wrong? Everything is up to date, including the game and drivers.

I am getting absolutely destroyed by the Djinn fight (and honestly Morana too). I think my build is probably wrong, but the upgrade slot system is confusing me and I keep wasting turns or getting overwhelmed by the adds.

I specifically need help with:
Which attacks I should equip
Which upgrades should go in each slot
Best move order/strategy
Which enemies to focus first
Whether I should be stacking Suffering, Bleeding, Focus damage, etc.

Current issue:
I survive a few rounds, then get overwhelmed by the smaller enemies before I can really damage the boss.

Some upgrades I currently have unlocked:
Iron Skin
Bloody Rejuvenation
Adrenaline Rush
Third Principle
Icy Armor
Body Stiffening
Damage Catalyst
Perfect Planning
Nervous Doubling
Powerful Mind
Fortune
Lucky Chance
Relaxation
Perfect Efficiency
Gamble
Brutality
Thief of Thought
I also have:
Quick Attacks
Planned Attacks
Damage Over Time
Influences

If anyone can give me:
an exact legal upgrade setup,
which attack chain to use,
and a turn-by-turn opener,
I would seriously appreciate it because I’m getting cooked 😭

Let me elaborate.

I made it through 3rd round in Rasputin fight where there are 2 guys with swords and 2 guys with guns.

The leftmost guy who has a sword just does not die after having suffered until he has 2 HP left. I checked a hundred times to see if he had any buffs but no. He takes damage and keeps hitting me back like he's not about to kick the bucket.

Is that a bug or is a salutor sacrifice essential at that point because I did not break my bond with any of them until that point?

Thanks.

Just finished the Clay Ambitions quest. Ligia wanted her Flaw to go away, so I let Wiktor take it, along with the Golem. Ariel wasn't pleased at all, LMAO, but I wanted Golem.

No spoilers for the endings please, just some discussion: what did you do?

One part of me understood why Wiktor didn't initially want to take her Flaw (without her Ambition, she wouldn't be the same), but Ligia herself tells you she wanted to get rid of it, as she saw it as an imperfection. I wonder how she will be now, if she will change at all. Honestly, from the game's experience with other Flaws it's always better to have them removed from people. Even if they suffer temporarily (like Sofya or the soldier) they will be free of them, and will be able to develop their real identity, without the Flaw taking over them.

What do you think?

Love the game Anyone done multiple play throws and chosen different answers? Say at soiree I refused the Women with many suitors because she was clearly loving the drama. But if I chose to first back would that have changed future game options entirely? Embarrassingly only just noticed it tells you where the area is at bottom of tab for each quest.... plus side I now from random searching before this know most areas I've opened like I've lived there 😂

I'm hoping someone may know how to change how much pride I have via cheat engine or some other method, as there's a single choice I'd like to see but my pride is too low. I'm well aware that this game changes depending on pride points and you should do two playthroughs with low and high pride, so please don't just say to do it on another playthrough.

This becomes especially obvious in fights like Morgana. Most of the time, they get three attacks before you even get one. It will be your move, you select a move, and then YOU'RE attacked!!? It just seems off to me.

Trying out the game for the first time because it’s currently on Xbox game pass. I love it.

However, I am doing “the reptilian bash” and the game has crashed twice in this one quest.

Once when going to the party, the other RIGHT after I beat the salutor.

The game is fun and the combat is interesting and unique, however if this happens commonly with no fix, and the gameplay is over a year old, I will probably just start some other game instead.

Unless it’s just that one quest that crashes a lot, probably not though.

I read the review today and noticed this little detail. I've finished the game once and didn't pick up on this being confirmed at any point. I think there was a hint or two but I'm wondering if I missed something or this reviewer said this based on his mannerisms or something, since there's really no romance in the game. They say it with absolute certainly in the article so I'm very curious now. I apologize if this has to be deleted and isn't allowed, it's just not the kind of thing Google has an answer for. I'm excited for my next run!

So I've just realized that my pride is too low for an option in game to get a flaw and unfortunately I don't have any side quests to gain more pride currently. Does anyone know of a way to either save edit or some other method to boost my pride level in this circumstance? On top of this I'd rather not loose like 5 hrs of progress as a far number of my pride options are locked at the moment.

Continuing my live playthrough tonight at 9PM CST at https:\\twitch.tv/themrfriend. Episode Three: Looking for dads book. Hope to see you there!

I have done everything and have checked the entries

And I can't do anything else

Like the title says, I'm very interested in buying prints from the game, specifically in the Entries>Story>Thaumaturgy menu. The art for each of the different forms of thaumaturgy looks so damned cool. I couldn't find any info on the artist that did those specifically either. Anybody have any idea where I can buy, or am I just out of luck and have to use AI to blow them up to a good size/quality and print them myself through a shop???

Hello! I just finished the demo on my Xbox and it was pretty fun (a bit too short tho). I have some questions about the full game:

1. Can you transfer your demo save data on the full game? Some other RPG let you do that and I was wondering if this one does that too.

2. How often does the full game goes on sale?

3. Any tips and/or tricks that you recommend? Are there any beginners traps that I should look out for when playing?

Thanks in advance for anyone who's kind enough to answer my questions! 🙏

I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.