The concept of modern games is simple and clear. Developers first release the "neutered" version, with a small amount of content, and then, if everything goes well, they sell add-ons at the price of a full game. In some cases, this is completely unjustified, since they include costumes, some advanced features of the characters and other nonsense, without which it was already played perfectly. In the following case, this is not so. We are talking about the game "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt." Stone Hearts is an add-on that brings not only bug fixes, but also a huge amount of new content.
Plot
The main task facing our hero will be the need to deal with the tragedy of the Everock family. Here you will get acquainted with the fact that in modern games it is very difficult to meet - a real drama will unfold before your eyes.
After you install the Stone Hearts patch on the Witcher 3 game, head to the Seven Cats tavern. Here begins a line of five basic quests, for which you put this add-on. Go to the bulletin board and get the starting task - "The first sprouts of evil."
So, we play The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts. A start. After the video insert, we are sent to the customer. He will be the hereditary nobleman Algerd Von Eveerek. Along the way, you will have to make a small choice that does not affect either the game or the plot, and only affects your mood.
We receive the order for the murder and go to the well in the city center. Going down, we meet with the already familiar Shani, treating a soldier. After a short dialogue, we set off to wander around the dungeon. Near the grate, knock out the decrepit wall with the Aard sign and get down. After you finish off with all the “utopits”, you will find yourself in the central hall, where you have to fight with the boss - a hefty frog.
After the battle - a small cut-scene with a sharp plot twist. And now you are sailing on a ship, but by a "happy" accident crash. Having got rid of the shackles and sorted out with the soldiers, we set off for the meeting place in the village of Yantra. Then they will send us to kill Algerd. “The Witcher 3” (addition “Stone Hearts”) is quite severe for the player, and the plot winds from side to side, so sometimes it seems that the writers themselves are confused in their ideas.
Upon reaching the estate, save the person from execution (maybe this will be useful to you) and engage in battle with the owner of the estate. In order to crank everything up quickly, use counterattacks as often as possible. After the victory, your opponent will put his head in place, and a small dialogue will complete the quest.
Part 2
And then “The Witcher 3” (DLC “Stone Hearts”) presents another surprise. Our enemy again becomes a customer. Initially, he will have only two quests available that can be completed in any order.
"And I was there ...". Your task is to cheer the dead brother of a nobleman. That is still a problem. After receiving the quest, we go to the house of Shani and wait until the soldiers leave. We talk with the girl and, if desired, look for a letter with a wedding invitation.
The next stage is the crypt. We meet with a partner near him and offer to go to a wedding together. Indoors, we get rid of many ghosts and destroy one of the walls with Aard. Having reached the right place, we consecrate the necessary sections with the help of the censer. We kill the appeared ghosts and make a deal with the last - Vitold. He will dwell in you, and you will go to the wedding with Shani. Here you have to fulfill several small assignments, the passage of which will greatly facilitate the sign of Aksy.
After all the contests, we go to the house for dancing. After that, we go a little further and speak (optionally) a small speech. We are watching a short video, after which Vitold writes a letter to his brother. Now you can leave. There will be another modest cut-scene and a series of dialogs on the street. If you decide to stay at the wedding, then a side quest will begin - "Clear Night". The reward will be an immodest movie with Shani and Geralt in the lead roles.
Part 3
"Sesame, open up." This is the third story quest for The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts. Armor and their receipt in this saga has always been one of the difficult tasks. With this DLC and quest, which we will now consider, you can get a good mid-level set of armor. So, after receiving the quest, we go to the Borsodi auction house.
They will take you there as a guest. Meet the countess first. But before that, make sure that you have a lot of money in your pocket (50-60 CZK per recipe). During the dialogue, after a bit of bargaining, you can buy her snake school armor schemes. But only at that moment. If you want to postpone the purchase, then nothing will succeed.
After that, play a screw. Having torn the bank, give back 10% of Vivaldi. Inspect the paintings and speak with an art critic. Answer his question about the ownership of the picture. As an apology, he will tell you that at the auction it is worth buying a picture of Van Horn and reselling it in a bookshop in Novigrad.
The auction will begin. Buy a figurine and a picture. Glasses can become good accessories, but they will not bring practical benefits. During the break, ask about the Borsodi House, for which you will be thrown into the street. After a little scuffle, a stranger will come up to you and offer help. Now you have to assemble a team to penetrate the building.
- But first, a little preparation. Make a potion, the recipe of which will appear in your book after receiving the quest. Go to the auction house and instinctively eavesdrop on the patrol conversations. Next we go to the pier and meet the cook there. Axim convinces him to pour poison into the food of the guards.
- Cracker. We go first to Hugo. From there, in the wake of blood to the lake. We kill the bandits and open the letter. We dive under water, but, unfortunately, this candidate is already dead. We go to the parking lot of a traveling circus and find there Evelyn. We wave at the performance by simply shooting the apples on the head of the "elf" from a crossbow.
- Teddy bear The choice of this assistant will slightly affect the further passage.
- Casimir is a deceived husband with horns who is about to commit suicide. We convince him to help us with the sign of Aksy.
- Quinto - captured by our friend Hans from the town of Tsidaris. You can redeem it or win a gwent.
Now that the team is ready, it's time to start penetration. You have to witness the film "Eleven Ocean Friends" according to the game "The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts". The school of the Snake, by the way, left its mark here too. In the course of the quest, you can get her top weapon.
The first to climb the tower is Lasochka. There will be a guard waiting for you, who should not have been - another surprise from the game The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts. We take swords (wooden) in the attic and go down the stairs below. Passing through the rooms, search all the back streets, here you can find many useful trophies.
At a certain point you will come across a guard, a mess will begin. Your employer will take a person hostage, and you will need to take time. During this time, the bear cub will open the door to the treasury. After this, a small conversation will begin, during which you will learn about the reasons for the raid, and who needed it.
Here you will face a series of questions that need to be answered by the player himself. First you will have to choose which side to take - the owner of the house or the customer. After the cut-scene, you will either have to talk to the surviving brother and agree to pick up the box you need, or kill the survivor and take all the treasures in your hands. By the way, in the chest to the left of the box there will be a diagram of the snake school sword mentioned above.
We return to Algerd. He will tell you the full story of the auction house. Despite the fact that the endings are different in The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts, everything you chose in this quest will not affect the final.
Part 4
The last (or not?) Quest that Algerd will give us is to go to his old mansion and bring the rose, which he gave to his wife before leaving.
We go to the house. Along the wall we pass to the fault and get into the back yard. We kill the key keeper. It is best to hit him while he stuck a shovel in the ground. After the victory, pick up a shovel and talk to a pair of demons chained to the mansion.
In the house, immediately near the entrance, pick up a book with drawings from the table. In the chest, you can find a drawing of the Banshee sword, which has the ability to drink the lives of opponents. On the way we inspect the sights and select everything more or less valuable. Having reached the second floor, through the balcony we get into the Iris room. She is dead.
Bury Iris, as a pair of demons will tell you, near the easel, put her drawings on the grave. A ghost will appear that will take you to the memories of a woman. Each time after the restoration of memory, various opponents will attack you.
- Transfer the palette with paints from the bench to the table near the picture. Pass the book to the man.
- Pass the glass from the fountain to the woman.
- Light fixtures and a fireplace. A sample can be seen in the picture.
- Transfer the towel from the floor to a place near the bowl.
- The glass and fruit should be moved closer to Algerd, on the table. From left to right - grapes, wine, apples.
- Raise the candles. We arrange them in a circle and activate the pentagram. When the fire starts, run away to the basement.
- There we give the marriage contract to father Iris, and a beer to Algerd.
- In the last picture, distribute the food as needed. The tray is for the housekeeper, the large bowl for the dog and the small bowl for the cat.
All. Now you have to defeat the Algerd doll. Use counterattacks, as last time, and there will be no special problems. Watching the screen saver. After that, you will have another choice - to pick up the rose and free the woman, or leave her to suffer in the picture, and take the canvas to the customer. At this stage, you will have the opportunity to finish the plot in the game "The Witcher 3" (addition "Stone Hearts").
The final
So, the rose or the picture is with you. We already mentioned that in The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts, the endings can be different, so the moment of choice is getting closer. But first, we go to the tavern "Alchemy" to meet the man of Olgird. Gunter O'Dim will catch us there. After a series of dialogs, we go to the sanctuary of Lilvani, where they will tell us to find Shani. From her we learn that we need to find a certain professor in Oxenfurt, since he knows how to defeat the demon.
We penetrate the city with the help of Shani. Then we kill all the hunters who guard the scientist’s house. We go up the side stairs to the balcony and knock the door out with a sign. We take away all the most valuable and go down. From the dialogue we learn all the details about the demon and leave. We are going to Shani for another intimate conversation.
And now that choice. We give the rose to Algerd. A demon will appear and try to take his soul. If you don’t intervene, you will receive a solid reward of your choice and end your adventures in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Stone Hearts):
- 5000 CZK
- you'll never go hungry
- an endless glass of vodka
- saddle for a horse at +100 to energy,
- information about Ciri, if the main plot has not yet been completed.
But if a sense of justice plays in you, and you empathize with the deceived nobleman, then you can fight for his soul. You will be sent to another world, where you will have to solve the riddle in the allotted time. There you can find the silver sword of the Snake School.
We run directly, because time is very short. In the mansion, look for a room with many mirrors. They will begin to break, and you better go out into the garden to the fountains. There you need to find a place where the murmur of water is most audible, and sign the wall through the wall. After that, another screensaver will begin. Algerd is free and gives you his saber.
This ends the story passage. The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts also contains a number of additional quests, some of which have already been mentioned throughout the article. Now we will briefly consider them.
Already been
Remember, reading the passage The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts, you could stumble upon the mention of a portrait of Van Horn? In fact, this is one of the added quests that appeared after the update. In addition to the already mentioned amount of 500 kroons, you can also get the trophy left by the witcher Goetan, but on the condition that in the quest "Games of cats and wolves" they left him alive.
Another quest, "Clear Night", revealing to us the true character of the "faithful" Ciri, also has several endings. They depend on which gift you choose:
- Mead - and you are waiting for a universal bummer.
- A branch of mountain ash - and you get a few game "buns".
Without a trace
This quest is also simple enough to spend a lot of time on it. In Borovitsy you can find an announcement that a person has disappeared. Go to the herbalist to find out the details of the order and they will send you to search the forest. Having found the wagon, follow the trail of blood and go out to the hut. Chat with the inhabitants, go out and go around the house around. We destroy the boxes and go down. After another conversation with the owners - we kill them and go with news to the herbalist.
Spell
Cook at least 5 thousand crowns. Next, on the bulletin board, which is located next to the tavern "Seven Cats", we get information about the arrival of the master of runic words.
After talking with him, we give money, and in the barn we pick up the pickaxe. We check the land on the plot, and then go to the cave. There, under the column, you can find the jade stone, which the master needs.
With further contributions (10 and 15 thousand), he will be able to increase the level of runic words even more. Believe me, it's worth it.
Rose on the red field
In The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts, the quests are very similar to the ones you might encounter before the add-on. This one was no exception. After you begin the first mission at Algerd, one of his maidservants will approach you and ask for help.
Go in search of her lover in the village. Deal with ghouls and search his house. Then, following the traces of blood to the corpse of a poor young man. After that, search the area in search of the point from which the killer shot and further in the tracks, breaking through the outposts of the Red Rose Knights. In the last cave you will find a certain master with a guard who will attack you through a couple of phrases of dialogue. After killing everyone, you can go take the quest.
Ophir armor
We also included in the passage "The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts" and this way to get a set of good armor. In the course of the previous quest (about the rose) in one of the houses you can find a scroll in Ophir. Taking it to a merchant near the windmill, you can find out that there are several more such manuscripts.
Go on the instructions of the merchant. After finding the cart, follow in the footsteps until you find the body of the hostage. Then a little forward and stumble upon a hatch in the ground. Get down and kill everyone who tries to stop you from getting the scroll.
We go further and find the camp in which the next page will be, and then further to the ruins of the fortress with the last fragment. Take all the pages to the merchant and he will remake them all into recipes that you can use with local artisans. On this passage, "The Witcher 3: Stone Hearts" ends. There are still treasures, but the pleasure of finding them will not replace anything, so we leave this to you.