- Buy GOTY version. Blood&Wine is one game itself. No reason to buy base game only While game is great and I love it, it is fair to tell you about CD Project's failures: - manual is nonexistent. While W1 and W2 were well documented - combat is garbage. You have no control which target you will attack, you will get hit because game makes moves that are useless. Fight more than 1 enemy and you'll puke. You do not fight enemies but against game moving Geralt into deadly situation against your will and common sense - you either butcher everybody or spit blood to win over the system - no pleasure to win by being smarter than your enemy - horse is such coward that mounted combat without 1 potion is impossible - horse follow mouse - no free camera - bad skill development - you cannot use all skills yet you have to buy them to get something you want No quick swap of the active skills - no inventory management (3d time in a row!!!) - you cannot grab sword because it is above your level. Rocket science probably - disabled granny with rotten stick 1-hit kills you; unharmed by 5 dwarf-made premium sword strikes due to level difference. Level difference is dealt in very bad way - at first potions last "no time". Weak? OK. Lifespan? No way! - you cannot meditate / pass time without alchemy activation. So it always consume 1 alcohol if you have used any potion (1 or 10 makes no difference) and do not even asks you which one. Total failure. - expensive runes and glyphs cannot be removed from armor and sword only destroyed - that prevents you to apply them early in the game. And later - they are not that important - shopping has also some flaws - and so on - some quest choices are dubious at best TO SUM UP: Many issues I have described can be solved by few mods. Unfortunately I was unable to deal with combat, yet. Be ready to mod your game Do not take it as rant: I love and play W3, would buy it again - one of the best games I have ever played but it is fair to tell what is wrong
