Day 1: What do you love, what could use work?

So, since a few of us have been able to play the game now I wanted to put a Day One thread here and get some of your thoughts on gameplay. No story spoilers here. As for me, on day one I sat there in awe of the weather effects, ambient game sounds, music and overall atmosphere. I was just sitting at windmill for a while staring off into the sunset enjoying the view and the sounds of the old, creaking windmill, on it's last leg. Then of course I raided the house next to it for some sweet hidden treasure. :D The story is interesting even as someone that's not already played through the Witcher games or read the books. Also, this starting area already has so much to do and it's just a small taste of what's to come, so that's a scary thought =X

However, I do have some minor complaints and wonder if it is just me having these issues. First off, I crashed before downloading the new nvidia drivers, so don't forget to do that... Also, is anybody that's playing on m+kb having lag issues between pressing buttons and actions occurring? Especially in combat and selecting signs, sometimes I have to go into my signs menu twice to try to select the sign because it doesn't register the first time I try to select it. This also applies towards pressing sword attack buttons as well. I don't know if this is meant to be the case or I'm having input issues. Also, Geralt moves like the characters in Mass Effect, sliding around sideways and very much controller based, but I can handle that, at least the key binds are better than DAI was at launch, however, it does feel like an afterthought, imo, like most games that are console/pc. These are minor complaints that may or may not be me being picky and may get fixed.

How do you guys feel?

 

I love overstepping a flower and then the run around to get back to it and try again lol typical.

About that RPG learning curve, having soooo much random crap in my inventory and not knowing what I need to sell, what I need to dismantle, what I need to keep, etc. I went broke dismantling stuff before I even realized "I probably don't need this many of this raw material anyways...."

And that menu system. Also, not the worst, but not good either. Is there a way to hit the map and just get back out of it without having to spam the escape key?

 

I do seem to remember a tutorial that opens up the menu by pressing the Backspace key as an alternate way to get into your skills menu? Overall I hope the menu gets a tweak, and I'm currently posting in the thread on the forums about the input delay, someone said it's like a 300ms input delay? *shrugs* I hope it gets fixed cuz it's annoying.

 

FYI, I have to check this when I am able to to see if it fixes any of my issues with movement but the forums suggest turning on hardware acceleration in the Video options in the game if you're having problems. I dunno HOW this helps but I'll try it when I get off work.