The Witcher 3 Hints and Tips, Glitches, Achievements on PS4, PC, Xbox One and Mac
The Witcher 3 has gone ahead and won nearly every damn Game Of The Year award you can get and has become a great game full of achievements for all players. Hints and tips lay all across the world as you traverse incredible landscapes on your horse Roach. With such a huge fanbase and such a huge following, there’s no doubt that this game is one of the best of the year, if not maybe one of the best in the recent 10 years. It’s a game that truly has you immersed like no other world ever has and keeps throwing surprises at you.
For those of you who don’t know, The Witcher 3 has you set in a fantastical world filled with all sorts of large beasts, difficult beasts, small beasts and more. Nearly everything in this land is out to kill you and nearly everything in this land takes a certain tactic to be able to kill. It’s a game that will have you meeting incredibly interesting characters who all have their own stories that you will truly want to involve yourself in. Sometimes you get lost in which quest is the main as you’re so enveloped in a side quest that has you traveling and meeting such fascinating people.
For those of you that already love the game and want to know what Achievements there are to get or want to know what goals you should be working toward, then be sure to check out our achievements list below for hints and tips on how to improve your Witcher 3 game. For those of you who are new, you can check out what sort of weird and wacky things you’ll be asked to do within this incredible world.
GLITCHES
Monster Nest Looting Glitch
All monster nests can be looted numerous times. This has worked on every revision of the game including the current version 1.08. Find a monster nest. Kill the monsters and destroy the nest with a bomb as usual. The trick now is 2 fold- 1. Loot the nest but NEVER take out all the loot- leave ONE item in the nest. If you take all of the items it will NOT respawn. 2. Once you have looted the nest, leaving one item still inside, rotate your camera so the “x” to loot the nest disappears off the screen. You can run around to make it go off screen BUT the fastest way is to stand in a spot where simply rotating the camera makes the “x” to loot the nest go off camera/screen. As you look back at the nest so the “x” is on screen- loot again! And repeat- always leaving one item in the nest. I find it easiest to stand in front of the nest where simply rotating the camera 360 degrees every time I loot causes the respawn. WAY faster than moving around. The number of times you can loot the nest is relative to how long the nest would spawn monsters if you were killing the spawned monsters but did not blow the nest up. You can easily loot a nest 70-80 times…
Achievements
There are many achievements for both PC, PS4 and Xbox One. However, on Xbox One, some are Secret, hence the (secret) next to the Achievement titles. The Value is also how much Gamerscore you’ll earn for each on Xbox One. All Achievements are the same on PS4 and PC.
| Achievement | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| A Friend in Need (secret) | Find and free Dandelion. | 15 |
| All In | Play three hero cards in one round of gwent and win the match. | 15 |
| Armed and Dangerous | Find and equip all the elements of one set of witcher gear. | 30 |
| Ashes to Ashes (secret) | Complete the contract on Therazane. | 15 |
| Assassin of Kings (secret) | Take part in the assassination of King Radovid. | 15 |
| Bombardier | Collect the formulae for 6 different bomb types. | 15 |
| Bookworm | Read 30 books, journals or other documents. | 15 |
| Brawl Master | Complete all fistfighting quests in Velen, Skellige and Novigrad. | 15 |
| Brawler | Defeat Olaf, the Skellige champion of unarmed combat. | 30 |
| Butcher of Blaviken | Kill at least 5 opponents in under 10 seconds. | 30 |
| Can’t Touch This! | Kill 5 foes in a fight without taking damage (except for Toxicity) and without using the Quen Sign. | 15 |
| Card Collector | Acquire all gwent cards available in the base version of the game. | 15 |
| Dendrologist | Acquire all the Abilities in one tree. | 15 |
| Environmentally Unfriendly | Kill 50 opponents using the environment (e.g. swamp gas, insects or objects). | 15 |
| Even Odds | Kill 2 monsters you have a contract on without using Signs, potions, mutagens, oils or bombs. | 30 |
| Family Counselor (secret) | Find the baron’s wife and daughter. | 15 |
| Fast and Furious | Win all the horse races in the game. | 15 |
| Fearless Vampire Slayer (secret) | Complete the contract on Sarasti. | 15 |
| Fiend or Foe? (secret) | Complete the contract on Morvudd. | 15 |
| Fire in the Hole | Destroy 10 monster nests using bombs. | 15 |
| Fist of the South Star | Defeat an opponent in a fistfight without taking any damage. | 15 |
| Friends With Benefits (secret) | Complete the subplot involving Keira Metz. | 15 |
| Full Crew (secret) | Bring all possible allies to Kaer Morhen for the battle against the Hunt. | 15 |
| Geralt and Friends | Win a round of gwent using only neutral cards. | 15 |
| Geralt: The Professional | Complete all witcher contracts. | 15 |
| Globetrotter | Discover 100 fast travel points. | 15 |
| Gwent Master | Defeat Tybalt and win the gwent tournament held at the Passiflora. | 15 |
| Humpty Dumpty | Kill 10 opponents by knocking them off somewhere high with the Aard Sign. | 15 |
| Kaer Morhen Trained | Perform 10 effective counterattacks in a row without getting hit or parrying. | 15 |
| Kingmaker (secret) | Complete the subplot about choosing Skellige’s ruler. | 15 |
| Let’s Cook! | Learn 12 potion formulae. | 15 |
| Lilac and Gooseberries (secret) | Find Yennefer of Vengerberg. | 15 |
| Master Marksman | Kill 50 human and nonhuman opponents by striking them in the head with a crossbow bolt. | 15 |
| Munchkin | Reach character development level 35. | 65 |
| Mutant | Fill all mutagen slots. | 15 |
| Necromancer (secret) | Help Yennefer extract information from Skjall’s body. | 15 |
| Overkill | Make an opponent suffer from bleeding, poisoning and burning simultaneously. Do this 10 times. | 30 |
| Passed the Trial | Finish the game on any difficulty. | 15 |
| Pest Control | Destroy all monster nests in the Velen / Novigrad region, or in Skellige. | 30 |
| Power Overwhelming | Have all possible Place of Power bonuses active at the same time. | 15 |
| Ran the Gauntlet | Finish the game on the “Blood and Broken Bones!” or “Death March!” difficulty levels. | 30 |
| Shrieker (secret) | Complete the contract on the shrieker. | 15 |
| Something More (secret) | Find Ciri. | 15 |
| That Is the Evilest Thing | Ignite the gas produced by a Dragon’s Dream bomb using a burning opponent. Do this 10 times. | 15 |
| The Doppler Effect (secret) | Resolve the doppler problem in Novigrad. | 15 |
| The Enemy of My Enemy | Use the Axii Sign to force one opponent to kill another. Do this 20 times. | 15 |
| The King is Dead (secret) | Defeat Eredin. | 30 |
| Triple Threat (secret) | Kill 3 opponents in one fight using 3 different methods (swords, bombs, crossbow, Signs, etc.). | 15 |
| Walked the Path | Finish the game on the “Death March!” difficulty level. | 65 |
| What Was That? (secret) | Attack, counter, cast a Sign and throw a bomb (in any order) in under 4 seconds. | 15 |
| Woodland Spirit (secret) | Complete the contract on the Woodland Spirit. | 15 |
| Xenonaut (secret) | Visit Tir n | 15 |
We hope you enjoyed finding out that little glitch for The Witcher 3 and then the list of achievements you’ll want to try and hit whilst playing the game. Let us know your favourite Witcher 3 glitch or achievement in the comment section below. Or if you have a great story to tell us, be sure to mouth off about that too!