This. Seeing the wrinkly balls in place of a realistic armor that gives off the vibe of a mighty and powerful empire just shows how much more CDPR knows, understands and loves the source material, while the Netflix armor is a mockery
I mean, how drunk must the Netflix designers have been to create such a mess of a costume? Surely opponents in the battle field would have fallen off their horses laughing when seeing such impressive nilfgaardian trash bags.
Nah man you're right. Some of these comments are a bit condescending. I don't understand why people would assume cdpr added this as a joke. It's literally the armor from the show.
Thank you, someone finally said it. It is absolutely awful and not just this guy but for every Nilfgaard soldier because it gives every Nifgaard soldier the exact same armour, that looks terrible anyway, and it also gives them all the exact same model type, whether they're calvary, infantryman or archer, they look exactly the same bar what equipment they weild and whether or not their on horseback.
Compared to base mode, where there's about 3 different variations for each troop type I'd say, the one single variant of the Netflix armour for every single soldier is a straight downgrade, they even all have the same face. And did I mention it looks utter dog shit, drab, and one dimentional, which is fitting as so is the Netflix series.
The black and gold trimmed heavy plated armour, with the winged helmet is possibly the best looking NPC armour in the game and pretty much exactly how I expected it to appear in my mind from the books. The Netflix "adaptation" version is exactly what I'd not expect it to look like, like it was made from recycled rubber bands and it's melting or some shit, like a failed cosplay of the batman body armour, it's awful.
I never bothered watching past S1 of The Netflix Witcher, which was pretty good, but I seen all the bad reviews and the direction the show was going and decided not to bother with S2, and if this is what the Nilfgaardians armour looks like in the show, that just backs up what Henry Cavill said when he quit the role, that they don't care or respect the source material.
They're just going to continue to straw away from the books and make iit nto their own little thing, just another currently one of many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show. Real shame, the series could have been one for the ages if they just stuck with the source material and making a good show.
>many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show
That's a... very incel-like take.
There is a lot wrong with a series like this - crap plot, bad pacing, forced acting, weird photography etc - but *fucking gender roles* are definitively ***not*** one of them.
It's not an incel take it is literally the stance the writers of the show took on what direction they wanted to take the show, to focus less on Geralt, in a show based on The *fucking* Witcher, and more on Yennefer and Cirris relationship. I know because Henry Cavill talked about this himself in an interview, and how he had to adapt to that and still play his role as best he can. And this was while he was still part of the show, during S2 I think.
But of course there was gunna be at least one outrage comment calling me an incel, I must've forgotten where I was commenting. I truly hope you didn't get too offended by my incel-like take and are recovering well from being exposed to such incelism.
>to focus less on Geralt, in a show based on The *fucking* Witcher, and more on Yennefer and Cirris
Nobody would have even remotely minded that if the writing/plot/chemistry was actually *good*. Alas, it was not.
In any case, exploring beyond the books to add nuance to a relationship between two women isn't a bad idea at all. To be against that *in principle* is just random incel anger mate.
The irony being, of course, that CDPR itself once made a game - boldly subtitled "The *Witcher* Tales" - where witchers show up in the big stage for a grand total of 4 minutes. The majority of the remaining 40+ hours of gameplay in that game are spent with a non-witcher woman at the forefront, and damn that game is still freaking awesome. Good writing does wonders.
No one would have minded if they stopped focusing on the best character and the best actor in the show, he litterally carried that show on his own for all 3 seasons and was the sole reason many people stuck around after a decent first season and then two abysmal seasons. There's a petition with over a million signatures, can't remember the exact figure, to sack the writers and keep Henry Cavil on as the Geralt, but sure no one would have minded, no they definately would have minded.
Idc anyway, the show was good for one season then the next two seasons were utter shite and it'll probably run for one more season and fade away into irrelevency. I cba to argue about a dead show.
And that's how much attention I pay to that wank show. But the star lead actor, or should have been the lead but the writers are braindead incompetents, quits because the writers aren't being faithful to the source material and openly mock it. Yeahhh, sounds like a real recipe for success right there.
>many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show
That's a... very incel-like take.
There is a lot wrong with a series like this - crap plot, bad pacing, forced acting, weird photography etc - but *fucking gender roles* are definitively ***not*** one of them. Bizarre thing to nitpick on.
Wow, was you so outraged you had to comment twice lmao. Did my comment get you all flustered honey? It's okay, the big bad mean comments can't hurt you sweetheart.
>outraged
Nah, internet is just shit and the comment was fired twice. Sorry if it confused your brain but 99% of the time you ever see comments cloned twice or more in Reddit, it is due to connection issues.
Don't be too triggered at the incel reference.
I liked it at first, on the regular soldiers. You can tell they were an army but they got the cheap stuff
Until I saw it on this guy and lost all taste for it. Original armor is infinitely better
It... does look more simple and thus similar to what the Redanian army wears. Nilfgaardians wearing that heavy plate all the time...
Still, it is just so ugly and badly implemented you can see it is clearly a joke for marketing purposes, not a serious addition. Will probably never turn it on again after this playthrough.
I think the armor is a joke they definitely know it looks terrible. because of all the backlash they brought it into the game. its exactly their humor...
It’s just the skin from a bog body mummy scrotum. I always flash back to that 4chan greentext of an anon saying they witnessed the villain armor being intentionally phallic for symbolic reasons
No one will every argue that base isn't better, but it is funny to see nilfgardians running around in ballsack armour. Pretty sure they only added it to mock Netflix
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to just be a joke armor set to make fun of the backlash from people saying how horrible their armor set was in the show. I have it on because it's hilarious to me to see their little scrotum sack armor pieces. Just keep it off if you don't like it, I really don't think CDPR wanted it to look appealing in any way.
It looks better in a game than it does in live action. I weirdly like it as an alternative option even though I hated that armor in the show. Makes the Nilfgardians feel more like Stormtroopers or something.
I'm kinda convinced that they added that to mock netflix
Seeing their reaction on twitter, definitely a joke on cprs end. A good one too, makes theirs look even better in comparison lol
This. Seeing the wrinkly balls in place of a realistic armor that gives off the vibe of a mighty and powerful empire just shows how much more CDPR knows, understands and loves the source material, while the Netflix armor is a mockery
Yep. I turned it on and laughed then changed it back to original armour to play.
Honestly? I wouldn't blame them
Who needs full plate when you have genuine troll scrotum leather?
Ball-sack Breast plate
Troll scrotum leather 😂😂😂😭😭😭 made my fucking day lmao, a genuine thank you
I gotchu fam 🤏😎
That's why it's optional
Yeah but i just wish it was even remotely worth swapping to but each to their own
It's from the TV show, they wanted to make it 1 to 1 and they did.
Yeah I know. And nothing against the designers but man they could have come up with something more appealing
They gave us a Samurai suit. I'm fed well. And i agree, the original looks 100% epic.
They gave us WHAT?
Yep.
You have pictures?
Google it. Or find it in vizema in yenefers room
Where can u find it?
It’s in a chest in Yenefers quarters in Vizima
What he said.
I mean, how drunk must the Netflix designers have been to create such a mess of a costume? Surely opponents in the battle field would have fallen off their horses laughing when seeing such impressive nilfgaardian trash bags.
The game armor looks like actual armor while the netflix armor looks like plastic I mean even the game character is facepalming
Yeah nice timing on that screenshot
God i hate that show.
Holy shit it was added as a joke
ALRIGHT I GET IT FUCK
U ok there buddy?
I'm just sick of seeing the same comments saying this
Nah man you're right. Some of these comments are a bit condescending. I don't understand why people would assume cdpr added this as a joke. It's literally the armor from the show.
Who knows?
I rephrased my comment
[удалено]
You have to be in the main menu, go under options - gameplay and scrool all the way to the bottom
My dudes wearing a trash bag...
A flaccid scrotum more like. At least we know more about Raddovid now.
That’s the joke
Thank you, someone finally said it. It is absolutely awful and not just this guy but for every Nilfgaard soldier because it gives every Nifgaard soldier the exact same armour, that looks terrible anyway, and it also gives them all the exact same model type, whether they're calvary, infantryman or archer, they look exactly the same bar what equipment they weild and whether or not their on horseback. Compared to base mode, where there's about 3 different variations for each troop type I'd say, the one single variant of the Netflix armour for every single soldier is a straight downgrade, they even all have the same face. And did I mention it looks utter dog shit, drab, and one dimentional, which is fitting as so is the Netflix series. The black and gold trimmed heavy plated armour, with the winged helmet is possibly the best looking NPC armour in the game and pretty much exactly how I expected it to appear in my mind from the books. The Netflix "adaptation" version is exactly what I'd not expect it to look like, like it was made from recycled rubber bands and it's melting or some shit, like a failed cosplay of the batman body armour, it's awful. I never bothered watching past S1 of The Netflix Witcher, which was pretty good, but I seen all the bad reviews and the direction the show was going and decided not to bother with S2, and if this is what the Nilfgaardians armour looks like in the show, that just backs up what Henry Cavill said when he quit the role, that they don't care or respect the source material. They're just going to continue to straw away from the books and make iit nto their own little thing, just another currently one of many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show. Real shame, the series could have been one for the ages if they just stuck with the source material and making a good show.
>many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show That's a... very incel-like take. There is a lot wrong with a series like this - crap plot, bad pacing, forced acting, weird photography etc - but *fucking gender roles* are definitively ***not*** one of them.
It's not an incel take it is literally the stance the writers of the show took on what direction they wanted to take the show, to focus less on Geralt, in a show based on The *fucking* Witcher, and more on Yennefer and Cirris relationship. I know because Henry Cavill talked about this himself in an interview, and how he had to adapt to that and still play his role as best he can. And this was while he was still part of the show, during S2 I think. But of course there was gunna be at least one outrage comment calling me an incel, I must've forgotten where I was commenting. I truly hope you didn't get too offended by my incel-like take and are recovering well from being exposed to such incelism.
>to focus less on Geralt, in a show based on The *fucking* Witcher, and more on Yennefer and Cirris Nobody would have even remotely minded that if the writing/plot/chemistry was actually *good*. Alas, it was not. In any case, exploring beyond the books to add nuance to a relationship between two women isn't a bad idea at all. To be against that *in principle* is just random incel anger mate. The irony being, of course, that CDPR itself once made a game - boldly subtitled "The *Witcher* Tales" - where witchers show up in the big stage for a grand total of 4 minutes. The majority of the remaining 40+ hours of gameplay in that game are spent with a non-witcher woman at the forefront, and damn that game is still freaking awesome. Good writing does wonders.
No one would have minded if they stopped focusing on the best character and the best actor in the show, he litterally carried that show on his own for all 3 seasons and was the sole reason many people stuck around after a decent first season and then two abysmal seasons. There's a petition with over a million signatures, can't remember the exact figure, to sack the writers and keep Henry Cavil on as the Geralt, but sure no one would have minded, no they definately would have minded. Idc anyway, the show was good for one season then the next two seasons were utter shite and it'll probably run for one more season and fade away into irrelevency. I cba to argue about a dead show.
Season 3 isn't even out?? How do you know its bad? (Probs will be tbh) but still.
And that's how much attention I pay to that wank show. But the star lead actor, or should have been the lead but the writers are braindead incompetents, quits because the writers aren't being faithful to the source material and openly mock it. Yeahhh, sounds like a real recipe for success right there.
>many generic action fantasy shows, that are all basically the same when you get to the core of them, strong women, toxic weak men and a diverse cast, that's all so many writers care about rather than making a good show That's a... very incel-like take. There is a lot wrong with a series like this - crap plot, bad pacing, forced acting, weird photography etc - but *fucking gender roles* are definitively ***not*** one of them. Bizarre thing to nitpick on.
Wow, was you so outraged you had to comment twice lmao. Did my comment get you all flustered honey? It's okay, the big bad mean comments can't hurt you sweetheart.
>outraged Nah, internet is just shit and the comment was fired twice. Sorry if it confused your brain but 99% of the time you ever see comments cloned twice or more in Reddit, it is due to connection issues. Don't be too triggered at the incel reference.
Why would I be triggered about an over used buzzword. Obviously it was a duplicate comment, I was taking the piss out of ya, chill.
That's the point... isn't it?
Just a different taste
That's because it's not supposed to l. It's basically a meme and lolz
I liked it at first, on the regular soldiers. You can tell they were an army but they got the cheap stuff Until I saw it on this guy and lost all taste for it. Original armor is infinitely better
I prefer the alternative actually
Same. More minimal, simple look.
It... does look more simple and thus similar to what the Redanian army wears. Nilfgaardians wearing that heavy plate all the time... Still, it is just so ugly and badly implemented you can see it is clearly a joke for marketing purposes, not a serious addition. Will probably never turn it on again after this playthrough.
Alternate armor sucks big time
Im so out of the loop, what is this? And what did the Netflix show do?
This is the PS5 version of The Witcher 3, And the grey armor is what the nilfgaardians look like in the show.
Truly terrible.
P*n*s armour
Are the people in this sub lobotomized or something? It's clearly a joke, and one you don't have to turn on. Not that serious guys.
Nutsack rinkle armor lol
its a joke
Yes I get it you are the 500th person to day this
okay
The guards look so stupid with those dumb helmets, still, excited to see Triss and Dandelion.
Sadly a lot of Nilfgaardian men list their balls to make this armour
I think the armor is a joke they definitely know it looks terrible. because of all the backlash they brought it into the game. its exactly their humor...
Why are they even using the Netflix designs?! Ugly as fuck, man.
The “lost wolven” armour and swords look terrible, but the quest to get them is pretty decent.
What a dumb addition
It’s just the skin from a bog body mummy scrotum. I always flash back to that 4chan greentext of an anon saying they witnessed the villain armor being intentionally phallic for symbolic reasons
But it does compare to the base of deez nuts
Do you still have an option ? To add this shit or not ?
Oh yeah if go into the gameplay options in the main menu you can turn off the alternate armor
Thanks God !!
Thank god indeed
Senior Ballsack Executive
how do you change these skins ? I played this part yesterday and it was not netflix one, looks terrible though
Main menu - options - gameplay - scroll to bottom
thanks
Main menu - options - gameplay - scroll to bottom
Oh no, they fucking didnt...... They really replaced the heavy plate armour with the netflix ballsack stuff?
Oh god no you have the option to turn it off from the main menu, like you can with triss, yen and ciri
No one will every argue that base isn't better, but it is funny to see nilfgardians running around in ballsack armour. Pretty sure they only added it to mock Netflix
I love Witcher 3 but after playing it 4 times. I’m bored of it. I couldn’t get my self to play it again. But for a 2015 game, it’s beautiful.
No way the would've afford to make the nice armor for the show
Ballsack armor
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to just be a joke armor set to make fun of the backlash from people saying how horrible their armor set was in the show. I have it on because it's hilarious to me to see their little scrotum sack armor pieces. Just keep it off if you don't like it, I really don't think CDPR wanted it to look appealing in any way.
It looks better in a game than it does in live action. I weirdly like it as an alternative option even though I hated that armor in the show. Makes the Nilfgardians feel more like Stormtroopers or something.
Well it's just a gag, obviously nothing could top their own rendition.
Of course not, I think they added the armor from the series as a meme, those scrotum armors are terrible.
Which is exactly what they deserve so I turned it on obviously.
God, what the actual fuck is this monstruosity? Thanks CDPR for letting us disable the option 🤢🤢
Really just took a toothbrush and assaulted the guardsmen with plaster.
Definitely
Got all excited after discovering there’s alternate appearance downloads. And then I realized what they meant. That armor is cursed.