If you told me there's a 22min video about all the slightest alterations in a single quest from the Witcher 3 I'd say I'm uninterested but you somehow managed to hold my attention for the whole thing. Well done
I'm playing Witcher 3 for the 5th time,but now i'm on difficulty 2 and level 80.And even so i'm level 80 witcher,with 50% of opened synapses,i still can't kill the ice giant.When i was playing Witcher 3 on story difficulty,things was a bit easier in killing ice giant.But now i'm in real trouble becouse i need alies for Kaer Morhen battle,and i can't change difficulty level on my PS4,sombody please help me.
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 you must suck at this game if you have the easier difficulties set on. The combat is easy to get the hangs of. Even easier when you have skills unlocked. But I’m not sure what you can do about allies and your already low difficulty. Just look up some videos of the fight and learn how to do it properly.
@@megaavonaco9954 A week ago i have reached level 100 in Witcher 3,and when Witcher has reached level 100 in the game,others enemies has reached level 100 as well.Beside playing Witcher 3 on story diffculty was stil long and demanding,just all missions in Bloody Baron Story has take 4:40 hrs to complete,and missions with witch kaera 4:05 hrs.And final battle for toussaint has take 4:30hrs,so its not laughing matter.
Press select pause your game, go to options on the list. Then go to gameplay. Its toward the bottom of the list. You should see a slide bar for the difficulty. Its like the last or 2nd last option in the gameplay submenu.
This just proves again that this game is much more of a masterpeice than we have previously thought! Six years later we are still finding dialog choices!
@@BenDover-tk3jj If W3 is not a masterpeice then what is my friend? LOL :) The Witcher 3 Has Won More Game of the Year Awards Than Any Other Game - 251 The last of us witch is another masterpeice was second with 249 LOL
@@BenDover-tk3jj To me is the most condecorated game and the only one that can have the highest score right there with ME, simply bc outside everything we already know the game released on PC, console and even Nintendo, no GoW, last of us or whatever goty of the century that the press would masturbate about it would reach that bc is exclusive to certain people only, games are for everyone not exclusive.
Such a masterpiece you needed to mod the game to get a dialogue from not bugging and completely ruining immersion and creating plotholes..... jk yea it’s great, I just dk if I agree with that term either, a masterpiece would be something like Skyrim or Dark Souls, not Witcher, way too much dialogue, hard to follow the story for some, confusing story/quests, buggy as hell roach, etc. okay I’m ranting sorry I’ll shut up
"Lets dive into this quest..." at 3:30 Said while showing footage of Geralt diving. I love it when content creators make little touches like that, whether intentional or not.
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During my first run of the game. I was wandering around hunting / clearing secret locations to level up when suddenly the cutscene where the ice giant was feeding the harpies near the shipwreck started. I remember spending almost 2 hours trying to finish this quest with no markers or any details. met Hjalmar the first time ever when he was busy fighting this wyvern thingy. and the dialogue between the two made me pause the game and search online to find out that I'm in the middle of a mission that's started by accident.
this exact thing happened to me!! i went to undvik first thing in skellige to get the master armorer's tools. remember thinking what an interesting, unique area it was in comparison to the rest of skellige... until that first cutscene when i realised id started a quest by accident. funny thing is i obviously hadnt even met hjalmar and cerys at that point, so when geralt started saying all that stuff about tailing hjalmars men i had no idea who he was talking about :') think i got all the way through to the giants meat locker for the tools and then left before i ruined the quest too badly lmao
@@ripceridart i have completed the quest blind with no markers. I felt bad though. I felt like this bug made me lose some bits of the story. I'm planning to play a newgame+ for story purposes only with no other distractions on the side.
Happened to me as well. I headed straight to Undvik for armorer’s tools once I got to Skellige. I didn’t know that there would be another quest, so everything related to the giant and Hjalmar got me confused as hell. I was running around poking at everything, thinking “What a weirdly designed quest to find some tools, wtf is going on”
They shouldn't have plagued the map with question marks imo. It breaks exploration and leads to events as you described. Also they are not necessary, they are boons not goals. If someone does not want to explore and discover things, why should they be cursed with question marks? They will be most likely disappointed anyway, if they deprecate exploration. "Oh swell some mats, a useless sword and a random line from a random npc."
Another thing english speakers might not have realized is that "undvik" literally means "avoid" in swedish. It made me really wanna go there the first time I heard it lol. The pronunciation Geralt is using sound closer to swedish so that's the right one in my book. I always liked how Skellige seemed a bit like vikings had taken over England and together their culture and language sort of mixed and became a hybrid of the two. Not quite Anglo - Saxon and not quite viking either.
Well Vikings did take over England and everything that ensued was just like you said 😂 lol but I know what you meant. People don’t realize just how “Nordic/Danish/Swedish” England really was. It would’ve looked much like Skellige. Course not the badass armor especially like Lugos clan wears (my favorite armor in the whole game especially the helmets besides the normal infantry helmets of the Nilfgaardians which look very similar those cool metal looking horns on their Ancient Roman style helmets)
Clan Drommund armor. That’s one thing I LOVE about Skellige if you pay attention. All clans have unique armors and especially unique helmets. Like I said the coolest helmets in the game aside from Nilfgaard. In fact I feel like Clan Drommund probably got their helmets from dead Nilfgaardians during their raids. Because they look really similar to what the Nilfgaardians wear. And not only that, they look more Roman than the Nilfgaardians we see in game. But who knows Nilfgaard is such a huge empire I’d bet the clan Drommund helmets do come from a specific Legion of a specific province.
@@jamieburn4577 Yeah how one plays a game differs from person to person. I try to be thorough and not miss cool side quests. But I guess I just missed this one. Also, It's a quest that's always been buggy for me.
What??? There is 2 tasks after you reach the first hjalmar's camp, then you pick up 2 different trails with Geralt's witcher senses, if you decided to take left and go to the end, wouldn't it bother you guys to not know what you missed if you went right first? I mean usually when I encounter these situations, I try to follow the path where I'm not supposed to go first, to be able to do everything that's possible and not fail anything, of course in 2015 when I first played, I didn't know which path I should take, so I just saved manually at the point before I needed to make a choice, and then follow one path, then come back to the other path and do something about it and keep going back and forth until I realize what I need to do to complete all tasks from one path and then switch to the other path to follow it through to the end properly and correctly, nowadays of course I already know what I can do first before finishing the quest incompletely, so I finish all the side tasks first and then go to the place where you finally meet hjalmar
The amount of effort that you put in editing, playing and explaining the story it's absolutely amazing. I really love watching these videos. Hope you keep doing them. :)
Even 8 years after it was released, there’s STILL details we are discovering in this phenomenal game! Wow.. Absolutely LOVE this game-so much content and gameplay in it, amazing stories, and their attention to detail is just RIDICULOUS! One of my all time favs!
Dude I literally did this. It;s my first time playing withcer 3 and I just decided to explore Skellige at level 19, and directly found Hjalmar fighting the Sirens like 2 days ago. It did feel like I was doing something out of order but I couldn't help but appreciate the fact that the developers thought of this possibility and still made it fun for me as a player stumbling onto the "quest". So cool that you decided to cover this specific quest
This might be a basic question, but what about the mini- quest that the jarl of undvik gives you? The one where you need to collect twine & nails? I don't think I've ever actually found all the required material. Does it actually do anything? One of the most in- depth Witcher videos I've ever seen, really well made!
It's kind of confusing - there's no actual quest twine you need to find, you just need the common crafting twine you'll definitely already have. The nails are a quest item you have to find, so it's a little weird. To answer your question, you just get a little XP if you give the items to him before killing the giant. If you wait until after, no XP. It doesn't make a difference in his ending or anything.
I love these deep breakdowns, you're basically digging so deep into the core of a quest it gives us a completely different perspective to the whole game, keep it up 👍
I didn't know that this was the first side quest designed for the game, that's really cool! And it really does explain why it's so different compared to the rest. Thanks for putting in all the hours to show us every side of it you could, it's so cool to see how many variations the designers created!! I always wondered what happened to the boat guy, good to know he didn't just disappear only for me lol
you started your channel just days after I decided to 100% the witcher 3 for the second time. I'm loving these videos and I never knew that you could go about so many quests in a roundabout way. Keep making the great content!
This mission is definitely the most complex. Only on my third playthrough I was able to save all of them for Kaer Morhan. Very well explained. Keep up the good work.
Another interesting video I will have a blast watching when I have the time! (It's currently 12 am so I'm going to sleep) Just wanted to say that the channel is amazing and I can't wait for more content! Keep it up
Jeez.... I thought I've seen all there was to dig, that's this complex and deep in the Witcher 3, but you somehow found something xLetalis hasn't broached yet, Bravo! Also, the fact that you "fixed" dialogue that was meant to happen was just such a nice icing on the cake for me, goes to show how much there can still be found in the game files, and the shackles hint at how much more cut content there is that we'd absolutely love to see in the enhanced edition.
I finished the quest on my own and not met Hjalmar at all on Undvik I think. I found the boat and went looking for the giant and killed him and eventually returned to the broken boat guy. I think I missed a lot of content but thats how the game works giving you the freedom to explore the world on your own.
Does it change any outcomes on Skellige? I saw this question asked a couple of times in the comment section and was actually hoping to get some answers about it in this video.
This is what happened on my very first playthrough! I had cleared the Novigrad quests and only sailed over to get the Armorer’s tools. Witcher 3 being my first game, I didn’t know what an “an Craite” was and managed to find the giant and tools without running into the boat or camp at all. It was so cool on my second play through to find it all as intended, save homie and see the endgame ruin long before I had to go there! Such a great game.
I just wanted to get tools for the master armorer and accidentally ran into a massive quest that I hadn't started yet, Geralt talking to himself about a person he hasn't met yet is hilarious.
I'm always paranoid I'll miss something in games if i take a wrong turn or whatever but knowing there's so many options in this game and it's all been thought it is really cool.
This is the first video I've seen on this particular quest and it's variations. So glad to see fresh Witcher content. Seems like we'll never be rid of this masterpiece. Awesome video dude, hope to see more from you soon!
I found this quest by chance while exploring, it was honestly a great first time witcher player experience, just finding such an important character and proper quest without the game handholding you.
I love your channel mate, i thought i knew so much about W3 played over 500+ hours changing the way i did my play through each time. I never went about playing the game in a different order. Thanks for showing this its quite entertaining and i honestly believe you will grow extememly fast.
In my witcher playtrought first thing i did in skelige was this quest to find Tools for the Grandmaster armorer in Velen and i thought that this ice gigant was just a side quest. Thanks to you now i know that it isn't just a side quest XD
Really fantastic video! The Lord of Undvyk is a favourite of mine as it's always felt so unique! Fantastic to see all the different ways that the quest can go! Thanks for the video!
I'm playing on a switch and your video is so much crisper than what I've played 50+ hours on. Makes me want to cloud save to my Xbox and play on that copy
First time I played the game I went to Undvik before starting this quest and was utterly confused. Definitely didn't find our friend in the troll pot. I think I left the island "mid quest", because I was really just exploring, and finished it after properly getting the quest. The whole thing was a mess. Did it right during my second playthrough, but man, it's so easy to miss something in this quest. It being the first quest they designed makes sense. Too bad they didn't revisit it later on to polish it up.
I get the feeling they kind of gave up on this quest toward the end and just wanted to move on. There's too many weird things with the Lord of Undvik (the guy in the boat) and other loose ends that feel unfinished compared to the polish of other quests.
Holy shit, there's so much more to this quest than I ever thought. On most of my playthroughs, I just ran straight to hjalmar, and during one playthrough, I went through the cave with a tree, I didn't even know there were other npcs on Undvik apart from Hjalmar and Vigi, even the troll chefs.
good to have more folk working on this game and its many angles and cutscenes. Also nice that whatever armour or haircut you have will also appear in the scene for a game this old.
This is my favorite questline, thanks for reminding me of it in these hard times (last year of high school) when i don't even have the time to play the game.
Great video. And don't sweat making witcher videos in 2021. I only just played the game for the first time in 2022, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. That's the thing about cult classics, content surrounding them is relevant waaaay longer than it would be in most cases.
My guess about knowing Geralt on sight would be by description, since I'm sure tales were told of Geralt to him in years past considering his father's friendship with the famous Witcher.
Semi related, but I talked to a guy who told me he managed find and kill the giant without even meeting Hjalmar. Don’t know if it’s true or what the differences are, but he was mad and said the game was broken because he couldn’t do the quest anymore. I told him the whole game was choice and consequence.
I remember trying to do this but I couldn't find the way into the cave before the quest, I searched for a few hours for an open entrance because I had gone up to the forge nearby for the master tools, but I never found the entrance, sad to see I almost found this out on my own so I'm happy to be able to experience it here! Keep up the amazing content! 😍
Thanks for the upload! I'm going to run a new campaign soon thanks to your vids inspiring me! EDIT: On your final words, this video was definitely interesting start to finish! I enjoy seeing the contrast between the normal sequence of events and the out of order ones.
I was literally checking your channel everyday to see if the bell has bugged and missed to show me a notification for your video , but nah its working xd.
I went straight to Undvik before going to the feast and stumbled upon the sirens just as you said, without Folan. It felt a bit weird following Hjalmar to the cave but I never knew that was not how “it’s supposed to be”.
As a min maxing perfectionist in most video games im really glad you made this channel. I would love to find out all these things by myself but i simply dont have the time. Thank you for doing this.
I have watched so many of similar videos but I still find new things in yours. Impresive job, keep it up. There is never enough good Witcher 3 content. And thank you. :-D I am now going through Witcher 1 and these videos make me want to skip Witcher 2 to play 3 again.
Thanks for doing the job of breaking the game to find its secrets. I am always interested in discovering something new in this old but still gold game.
It would be cool to see a video montage of geralt being the worst witcher, making all the worst decisions, failing contracts, losing fist fights and completing missions with the worst consequences
Lol i just arrived on Skellige earlier today. Not only did I go straight to undvik for the master armorers quest, but my wandering spirit somehow took me to Folan before doing anything else on the island. And now this video appeared on my recommendation page...
"Which doesn't seem to make sense but *I'll keep talking until it does"* This reminded me of *Altair* telling *Abbas Sofian* in *Assassins Creed: Revelations* that "I'll keep talking until you're satisfied" when Abbas says that what if he finds Altair's words from his explanation of killing Al Mualim wanting! & I have absolutely no idea why it reminded me of that specific bit from that old of a game.
Just started replaying recently, and this time I "accidentally" took a shortcut doing Lord of Undvik. I say "accidentally" because I wasn't trying to do the quest, I was hunting down some of the Witcher armor diagrams and accidentally crossed paths with Hjalmar. Went from the fast travel post and tried to go directly in the direction of the quest marker, jumped across a chasm (barely making it) and met him before I realized it started his quest. Never encountered the trolls cooking Folan, and wondered what these nails were that show up as quest items when I looted them later on.
And I was thinking that my game was broken when I completed the Silver Basilisk quest in Touissant without any quest or markers. I never took it in the Cockatrice inn and just stumbled across the dead merchants and the guy who was trying to preserve the Basilisk. It's awesome that the game allows you to be a legitimate tracker without any minimap guidance, it blew my mind.
This is the kind of things that made us all have so much faith in Cyberpunk, we went all in not thinking it possible for them to screw us like they did.
Here's a little bonus from my experience. If you inspect the corpse at 7:48 without starting the quest OR finding Folen, Geralt will say the line "Hjalmar lost a lot of men here" anyways, even though you have no idea what's going on on the island. This actually happened to me on my first playthrough, when I came to Skellige and went straight for the Armorer tools. That specific line made me feel like I was missing something important, so I left Undvic as soon as I got the tools, fearing I might be breaking some quest. Turns out everything was accounted for except for that one corpse interaction.
There’s actually several moments like that. Unless they’re particularly interesting I usually don’t include mistakes, because, well.. this video was already over 20 minutes long haha
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If you told me there's a 22min video about all the slightest alterations in a single quest from the Witcher 3 I'd say I'm uninterested but you somehow managed to hold my attention for the whole thing. Well done
I'm playing Witcher 3 for the 5th time,but now i'm on difficulty 2 and level 80.And even so i'm level 80 witcher,with 50% of opened synapses,i still can't kill the ice giant.When i was playing Witcher 3 on story difficulty,things was a bit easier in killing ice giant.But now i'm in real trouble becouse i need alies for Kaer Morhen battle,and i can't change difficulty level on my PS4,sombody please help me.
@@slavenarkaimovski3897 you must suck at this game if you have the easier difficulties set on. The combat is easy to get the hangs of. Even easier when you have skills unlocked. But I’m not sure what you can do about allies and your already low difficulty. Just look up some videos of the fight and learn how to do it properly.
@@megaavonaco9954 A week ago i have reached level 100 in Witcher 3,and when Witcher has reached level 100 in the game,others enemies has reached level 100 as well.Beside playing Witcher 3 on story diffculty was stil long and demanding,just all missions in Bloody Baron Story has take 4:40 hrs to complete,and missions with witch kaera 4:05 hrs.And final battle for toussaint has take 4:30hrs,so its not laughing matter.
Press select pause your game, go to options on the list. Then go to gameplay. Its toward the bottom of the list. You should see a slide bar for the difficulty. Its like the last or 2nd last option in the gameplay submenu.
Well said. I just realized the video was 22min long 😂👍
This just proves again that this game is much more of a masterpeice than we have previously thought! Six years later we are still finding dialog choices!
"Masterpiece" is pushing it. It's a good game at least and a great game at most
@@BenDover-tk3jj If W3 is not a masterpeice then what is my friend? LOL :) The Witcher 3 Has Won More Game of the Year Awards Than Any Other Game - 251 The last of us witch is another masterpeice was second with 249 LOL
@@BenDover-tk3jj To me is the most condecorated game and the only one that can have the highest score right there with ME, simply bc outside everything we already know the game released on PC, console and even Nintendo, no GoW, last of us or whatever goty of the century that the press would masturbate about it would reach that bc is exclusive to certain people only, games are for everyone not exclusive.
Such a masterpiece you needed to mod the game to get a dialogue from not bugging and completely ruining immersion and creating plotholes..... jk yea it’s great, I just dk if I agree with that term either, a masterpiece would be something like Skyrim or Dark Souls, not Witcher, way too much dialogue, hard to follow the story for some, confusing story/quests, buggy as hell roach, etc. okay I’m ranting sorry I’ll shut up
@@jaron788 The Witcher 3 is the most awarded game in history with a total of 251 awards! These are facts! need i say more! LOL
"Lets dive into this quest..." at 3:30
Said while showing footage of Geralt diving. I love it when content creators make little touches like that, whether intentional or not.
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During my first run of the game. I was wandering around hunting / clearing secret locations to level up when suddenly the cutscene where the ice giant was feeding the harpies near the shipwreck started. I remember spending almost 2 hours trying to finish this quest with no markers or any details. met Hjalmar the first time ever when he was busy fighting this wyvern thingy. and the dialogue between the two made me pause the game and search online to find out that I'm in the middle of a mission that's started by accident.
this exact thing happened to me!! i went to undvik first thing in skellige to get the master armorer's tools. remember thinking what an interesting, unique area it was in comparison to the rest of skellige... until that first cutscene when i realised id started a quest by accident. funny thing is i obviously hadnt even met hjalmar and cerys at that point, so when geralt started saying all that stuff about tailing hjalmars men i had no idea who he was talking about :') think i got all the way through to the giants meat locker for the tools and then left before i ruined the quest too badly lmao
@@ripceridart i have completed the quest blind with no markers. I felt bad though. I felt like this bug made me lose some bits of the story. I'm planning to play a newgame+ for story purposes only with no other distractions on the side.
That's just happend to me
Happened to me as well. I headed straight to Undvik for armorer’s tools once I got to Skellige. I didn’t know that there would be another quest, so everything related to the giant and Hjalmar got me confused as hell. I was running around poking at everything, thinking “What a weirdly designed quest to find some tools, wtf is going on”
They shouldn't have plagued the map with question marks imo. It breaks exploration and leads to events as you described. Also they are not necessary, they are boons not goals. If someone does not want to explore and discover things, why should they be cursed with question marks? They will be most likely disappointed anyway, if they deprecate exploration. "Oh swell some mats, a useless sword and a random line from a random npc."
Another thing english speakers might not have realized is that "undvik" literally means "avoid" in swedish. It made me really wanna go there the first time I heard it lol. The pronunciation Geralt is using sound closer to swedish so that's the right one in my book. I always liked how Skellige seemed a bit like vikings had taken over England and together their culture and language sort of mixed and became a hybrid of the two. Not quite Anglo - Saxon and not quite viking either.
That's cool! Also, cool take on Skellige - never thought of it like that.
Well Vikings did take over England and everything that ensued was just like you said 😂 lol but I know what you meant. People don’t realize just how “Nordic/Danish/Swedish” England really was. It would’ve looked much like Skellige. Course not the badass armor especially like Lugos clan wears (my favorite armor in the whole game especially the helmets besides the normal infantry helmets of the Nilfgaardians which look very similar those cool metal looking horns on their Ancient Roman style helmets)
Clan Drommund armor. That’s one thing I LOVE about Skellige if you pay attention. All clans have unique armors and especially unique helmets. Like I said the coolest helmets in the game aside from Nilfgaard. In fact I feel like Clan Drommund probably got their helmets from dead Nilfgaardians during their raids. Because they look really similar to what the Nilfgaardians wear. And not only that, they look more Roman than the Nilfgaardians we see in game. But who knows Nilfgaard is such a huge empire I’d bet the clan Drommund helmets do come from a specific Legion of a specific province.
Its more like viking + scottish/irish than english + viking
Skellige is literally a mix of Viking and Celtic culture. Kinda like Iceland
I played this game so many times and didn't even know who fallen was or saving him was a thing. Love the vids keep it up
me too
Same, im working to the highest dificulty right now and its so much nicer than normal or hard, very souls like :)
@@jamieburn4577 There's no objective for it. If you turn left instead of right as the video shows, you wont ever meet him. It's a bit "easter eggy"
@@jamieburn4577 Yeah how one plays a game differs from person to person. I try to be thorough and not miss cool side quests. But I guess I just missed this one.
Also, It's a quest that's always been buggy for me.
What??? There is 2 tasks after you reach the first hjalmar's camp, then you pick up 2 different trails with Geralt's witcher senses, if you decided to take left and go to the end, wouldn't it bother you guys to not know what you missed if you went right first? I mean usually when I encounter these situations, I try to follow the path where I'm not supposed to go first, to be able to do everything that's possible and not fail anything, of course in 2015 when I first played, I didn't know which path I should take, so I just saved manually at the point before I needed to make a choice, and then follow one path, then come back to the other path and do something about it and keep going back and forth until I realize what I need to do to complete all tasks from one path and then switch to the other path to follow it through to the end properly and correctly, nowadays of course I already know what I can do first before finishing the quest incompletely, so I finish all the side tasks first and then go to the place where you finally meet hjalmar
The quality of your videos is astounding, I'm really interested to see how this channel will evolve
The amount of effort that you put in editing, playing and explaining the story it's absolutely amazing.
I really love watching these videos. Hope you keep doing them. :)
Even 8 years after it was released, there’s STILL details we are discovering in this phenomenal game! Wow.. Absolutely LOVE this game-so much content and gameplay in it, amazing stories, and their attention to detail is just RIDICULOUS! One of my all time favs!
Dude I literally did this. It;s my first time playing withcer 3 and I just decided to explore Skellige at level 19, and directly found Hjalmar fighting the Sirens like 2 days ago. It did feel like I was doing something out of order but I couldn't help but appreciate the fact that the developers thought of this possibility and still made it fun for me as a player stumbling onto the "quest". So cool that you decided to cover this specific quest
10:31 that transition was sick man, good job
This might be a basic question, but what about the mini- quest that the jarl of undvik gives you? The one where you need to collect twine & nails? I don't think I've ever actually found all the required material. Does it actually do anything?
One of the most in- depth Witcher videos I've ever seen, really well made!
It's kind of confusing - there's no actual quest twine you need to find, you just need the common crafting twine you'll definitely already have. The nails are a quest item you have to find, so it's a little weird.
To answer your question, you just get a little XP if you give the items to him before killing the giant. If you wait until after, no XP. It doesn't make a difference in his ending or anything.
@@NeonKnight Right, that's what I thought, thank you!
You can find nails in the abandoned village where you fight the sirens with hjalmar
I went to the boat after finishing the game and the boat was gone
What quest is hat? Never found it.
you have an incredible way of keeping my interest on something that would normally be long and boring, love it man
This game has to be the most detailed in terms of quests and story. It's just insane how the developers considered all possibilities.
Puts Fallout 4 to shame doesn’t it
@@kinguchiha6212 fl4 is more fun to play tho but that's about it
@@deangregoric4735 oh absolute disagree lmao F4 is not even close imo
I love these deep breakdowns, you're basically digging so deep into the core of a quest it gives us a completely different perspective to the whole game, keep it up 👍
I didn't know that this was the first side quest designed for the game, that's really cool! And it really does explain why it's so different compared to the rest. Thanks for putting in all the hours to show us every side of it you could, it's so cool to see how many variations the designers created!! I always wondered what happened to the boat guy, good to know he didn't just disappear only for me lol
you started your channel just days after I decided to 100% the witcher 3 for the second time. I'm loving these videos and I never knew that you could go about so many quests in a roundabout way. Keep making the great content!
This mission is definitely the most complex. Only on my third playthrough I was able to save all of them for Kaer Morhan. Very well explained. Keep up the good work.
I like the look of grandmaster wolven armor in yellow
For a new channel, these vids are incredible
I seriously can’t believe there are things still being discovered about this game!! Great work!
Another interesting video I will have a blast watching when I have the time! (It's currently 12 am so I'm going to sleep)
Just wanted to say that the channel is amazing and I can't wait for more content! Keep it up
thank you! 😎
Jeez.... I thought I've seen all there was to dig, that's this complex and deep in the Witcher 3, but you somehow found something xLetalis hasn't broached yet, Bravo! Also, the fact that you "fixed" dialogue that was meant to happen was just such a nice icing on the cake for me, goes to show how much there can still be found in the game files, and the shackles hint at how much more cut content there is that we'd absolutely love to see in the enhanced edition.
Great video! Also: the "In the Giant's Shadow" OST is soooo underrated
Skellige music in general is amazing. It's crazy how many top-tier tracks were left off of the OST
@@NeonKnight very true
Vigi survived in my playthrough
how did you do this? 😂
@@fabmantherealdon’t step on the snow when going for the key it crackles and that’s what wakes the giant
I finished the quest on my own and not met Hjalmar at all on Undvik I think. I found the boat and went looking for the giant and killed him and eventually returned to the broken boat guy. I think I missed a lot of content but thats how the game works giving you the freedom to explore the world on your own.
Does it change any outcomes on Skellige? I saw this question asked a couple of times in the comment section and was actually hoping to get some answers about it in this video.
The dialogue about "what happened to the rest of your crew" has been fixed in 4.0.
I love when games let's you do quests/objectives before the game asks you to do them.
I'm obsessed with this game and I'm always wondering "I wonder what happens if I chose X instead?!" This channel answers that for me. So fun to watch!
This is what happened on my very first playthrough! I had cleared the Novigrad quests and only sailed over to get the Armorer’s tools. Witcher 3 being my first game, I didn’t know what an “an Craite” was and managed to find the giant and tools without running into the boat or camp at all.
It was so cool on my second play through to find it all as intended, save homie and see the endgame ruin long before I had to go there! Such a great game.
I just wanted to get tools for the master armorer and accidentally ran into a massive quest that I hadn't started yet, Geralt talking to himself about a person he hasn't met yet is hilarious.
Love that
"Doesn't make sense so I'll keep talking until it does."
I'm always paranoid I'll miss something in games if i take a wrong turn or whatever but knowing there's so many options in this game and it's all been thought it is really cool.
i love your videos man, keep it up king.
This is the first video I've seen on this particular quest and it's variations. So glad to see fresh Witcher content. Seems like we'll never be rid of this masterpiece.
Awesome video dude, hope to see more from you soon!
I found this quest by chance while exploring, it was honestly a great first time witcher player experience, just finding such an important character and proper quest without the game handholding you.
I love your channel mate, i thought i knew so much about W3 played over 500+ hours changing the way i did my play through each time. I never went about playing the game in a different order. Thanks for showing this its quite entertaining and i honestly believe you will grow extememly fast.
The one guy building a boat for the giant is still there waiting for nails.
In my witcher playtrought first thing i did in skelige was this quest to find Tools for the Grandmaster armorer in Velen and i thought that this ice gigant was just a side quest. Thanks to you now i know that it isn't just a side quest XD
Really fantastic video! The Lord of Undvyk is a favourite of mine as it's always felt so unique! Fantastic to see all the different ways that the quest can go! Thanks for the video!
It's really so wild how much the script of the game accounts for the slightest varrieties.
cant imagine how many time you had to reload the same save. very good video
I'm playing on a switch and your video is so much crisper than what I've played 50+ hours on. Makes me want to cloud save to my Xbox and play on that copy
Can't imagine how much work went into this.
First time I played the game I went to Undvik before starting this quest and was utterly confused. Definitely didn't find our friend in the troll pot. I think I left the island "mid quest", because I was really just exploring, and finished it after properly getting the quest. The whole thing was a mess.
Did it right during my second playthrough, but man, it's so easy to miss something in this quest. It being the first quest they designed makes sense. Too bad they didn't revisit it later on to polish it up.
I get the feeling they kind of gave up on this quest toward the end and just wanted to move on. There's too many weird things with the Lord of Undvik (the guy in the boat) and other loose ends that feel unfinished compared to the polish of other quests.
I would absolutely love to see a full play through of the Witcher three with you trying to break the game doing everything backwards.
Thank you for dissecting this quest for unique outcomes so I don't have to. There's just so much to it that I wouldn't know where to start.
Holy shit, there's so much more to this quest than I ever thought. On most of my playthroughs, I just ran straight to hjalmar, and during one playthrough, I went through the cave with a tree, I didn't even know there were other npcs on Undvik apart from Hjalmar and Vigi, even the troll chefs.
I didn’t even know hjamlars archer bro and horn were a thing til my 3rd play through lol
good to have more folk working on this game and its many angles and cutscenes. Also nice that whatever armour or haircut you have will also appear in the scene for a game this old.
This is my favorite questline, thanks for reminding me of it in these hard times (last year of high school) when i don't even have the time to play the game.
Such a good channel. Even after all these year you can do content like this with this beautiful game.
Keep it up brother :D
Lord of Undvik is one of the longest quests in the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, respect you spent all this time doing this
I can't even imagine how much time you spent testing this
Great video ... just keep it up
Great video. And don't sweat making witcher videos in 2021. I only just played the game for the first time in 2022, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. That's the thing about cult classics, content surrounding them is relevant waaaay longer than it would be in most cases.
My guess about knowing Geralt on sight would be by description, since I'm sure tales were told of Geralt to him in years past considering his father's friendship with the famous Witcher.
This channel is absolutely brilliant! Excellent narration and content, you're going to very well in the future! Good luck!
thanks man! 😎
Man I have played through this game at least 12 times and I still learn cool shit from you. Thanks so much and keep the videos coming.
Another banger video much love from the land down Under
Semi related, but I talked to a guy who told me he managed find and kill the giant without even meeting Hjalmar. Don’t know if it’s true or what the differences are, but he was mad and said the game was broken because he couldn’t do the quest anymore. I told him the whole game was choice and consequence.
I remember trying to do this but I couldn't find the way into the cave before the quest, I searched for a few hours for an open entrance because I had gone up to the forge nearby for the master tools, but I never found the entrance, sad to see I almost found this out on my own so I'm happy to be able to experience it here! Keep up the amazing content! 😍
This is literally a deep dive into topic, great job!
I mentioned this on your last video, this is so exciting! I did this on my current playthrough.
Dude is making waves, he's just started up with not very many videos but already has over a dozen thousand followers, keep it up🤟🤟
Thanks for the upload! I'm going to run a new campaign soon thanks to your vids inspiring me!
EDIT: On your final words, this video was definitely interesting start to finish! I enjoy seeing the contrast between the normal sequence of events and the out of order ones.
This is insane, just finished the game and found out it has so many details.
Your chanell is perfect proov that the change to hide like/dislike ratio isnt to protect small and new chanells, great vid
Hjalmar : need to tend to my mate's wounds.
Geralt : he's dead
Hjalmar : naaah he is just taking a nap.
You and Xletalis are the kings of Witcher 3 content. Keep up the awesome work
Neon knight! Just when i was starting to miss you
I love how this channel just came out of nowhere. Seems right in time for the next-gen edition to come out and bring us all back to Witcher.
"They boil down to 'yes' and 'yes with extra steps.'"
Hmm. Yes. The Fallout 4 method.
Thank You For Your Videos! You Never Fail to Deliver or Impress.
I was literally checking your channel everyday to see if the bell has bugged and missed to show me a notification for your video , but nah its working xd.
I went straight to Undvik before going to the feast and stumbled upon the sirens just as you said, without Folan. It felt a bit weird following Hjalmar to the cave but I never knew that was not how “it’s supposed to be”.
As a min maxing perfectionist in most video games im really glad you made this channel. I would love to find out all these things by myself but i simply dont have the time. Thank you for doing this.
I'm so addicted to Gwent that I can't help but play it nearly every time I talk to a merchant etc...
i accidentally finished this quest when going to the island to find tools for the master armorer...very interesting experience
I have watched so many of similar videos but I still find new things in yours. Impresive job, keep it up. There is never enough good Witcher 3 content. And thank you. :-D I am now going through Witcher 1 and these videos make me want to skip Witcher 2 to play 3 again.
thanks! 😎 don't skip Witcher 2!
Dudeee You went so deep in this vid great work
the small title about the meeting hjalmar with Troll food u got me there xD
Aw man, a 22 minutes video? We are in for a treat. Nice job, mate. Your channel has been growing so fast, you deserve it!
I enjoy getting all the separate details great vid!
Thanks for doing the job of breaking the game to find its secrets. I am always interested in discovering something new in this old but still gold game.
u mean i did this on accident 8 yrs ago and THOUGHT THIS WAS NORMAL THE ENTIRE TIME
Bro you've seriously got a knack for Witcher 3 quests and screwing them up...
great job, this is exactly what I was thinking about while playing the game these days
It would be cool to see a video montage of geralt being the worst witcher, making all the worst decisions, failing contracts, losing fist fights and completing missions with the worst consequences
You can see Vigi 'dying', iirc he rugby tackles a wild hunt warrior into a portal and it closes. Quite fitting for his character.
Lol i just arrived on Skellige earlier today. Not only did I go straight to undvik for the master armorers quest, but my wandering spirit somehow took me to Folan before doing anything else on the island. And now this video appeared on my recommendation page...
"Which doesn't seem to make sense but *I'll keep talking until it does"*
This reminded me of *Altair* telling *Abbas Sofian* in *Assassins Creed: Revelations* that "I'll keep talking until you're satisfied" when Abbas says that what if he finds Altair's words from his explanation of killing Al Mualim wanting! & I have absolutely no idea why it reminded me of that specific bit from that old of a game.
Congrats on the growth bro the 2021 witchers gotta stay together 💪
I love how Skellig people are a mix between norse-celtic-irish lol
Just started replaying recently, and this time I "accidentally" took a shortcut doing Lord of Undvik. I say "accidentally" because I wasn't trying to do the quest, I was hunting down some of the Witcher armor diagrams and accidentally crossed paths with Hjalmar. Went from the fast travel post and tried to go directly in the direction of the quest marker, jumped across a chasm (barely making it) and met him before I realized it started his quest. Never encountered the trolls cooking Folan, and wondered what these nails were that show up as quest items when I looted them later on.
And I was thinking that my game was broken when I completed the Silver Basilisk quest in Touissant without any quest or markers. I never took it in the Cockatrice inn and just stumbled across the dead merchants and the guy who was trying to preserve the Basilisk. It's awesome that the game allows you to be a legitimate tracker without any minimap guidance, it blew my mind.
This is the kind of things that made us all have so much faith in Cyberpunk, we went all in not thinking it possible for them to screw us like they did.
Here's a little bonus from my experience. If you inspect the corpse at 7:48 without starting the quest OR finding Folen, Geralt will say the line "Hjalmar lost a lot of men here" anyways, even though you have no idea what's going on on the island. This actually happened to me on my first playthrough, when I came to Skellige and went straight for the Armorer tools. That specific line made me feel like I was missing something important, so I left Undvic as soon as I got the tools, fearing I might be breaking some quest. Turns out everything was accounted for except for that one corpse interaction.
There’s actually several moments like that. Unless they’re particularly interesting I usually don’t include mistakes, because, well.. this video was already over 20 minutes long haha
Got damn I was quick
i didnt even know about that whole foltan part. I somehow always ended up where hjalmar is, like instantly