Hello, does Death March difficulty include permanent death?
If not then how to trigger such a mode?
Thank you in advance for any help

Death March does not have permanent death. The devs originally said there would be a "Dark Mode" difficulty with permanent death, but they cancelled that.

The only mod I could find for perma-death is this one, http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/161/?

I don't use mods for this game so I can't vouch for its quality, and it only has 6 endorsements so take that into account.

did you actually play the game at least once from the start to the end? Did you count the times when geralt instead on rolling away started to jump like a bunny or denied parrying for no reason? Can you imagine what this would cause on cdpr support forums?

What's the purpose of a perma death when you can easily backup your savegame folder? Deathmarch is really demanding as it is especially both expansions - a bruxa 20 levels below mine did kill me with three successive hits. In B&W I (almost) died on every first encounter with a new monster not knowing its behaviour and special attacks :(

Thanks for arguing like this, that's what I like. Some true arguments. However the truth is I just wanted to know these things. To be honest I'm kinda sad/pissed because that was the reason from turning me out of Death March, however I've turned this on at the biggest keep of bandits in expansion Blood & Wine - btw haven't died...

Just to answer you cause it's a good manner. Yes I've played the game to the end once except Blood & Wine, since start at diff blood and broken bones. I wished to play it on the Death March whole, but I was scared cause of the perma death cause I didn't want to cheat... I don't wanna even use modes now because of the struggles with compatibility etc.

Lets talk about the deaths now. Well the bruxa in B&W did no problem for me tbh, I've killed it on 1st try... I was lvl 42 not more for sure. Have used only oil + normal food + queen with alternative mode + trap for slowing time at diff blood & broken bones. My 1st death was while running on foot from Corvo Bianco to the nearest monster nest when I encountered an abyss where I felt... That's how I mostly die by rushing through environment...

My wonders about Death March diff started now, since I get sword from The Lady of The Lake and I wasn't able to stack it's dmg by killing monsters too fast... rofl

Does anybody know if I can stack it on humans too? My swords keep swaping to steel one unfortunatelly. That's why I let biggest band of bandits live in that castle where I turned for Death March.

It does stack on humans too, at least it should. I know with 100% certainty that the damage stack works on wild dogs and wolves, so if it works on them, surely it should work on humans (as they're all "steel sword" enemies). You can disable the auto-swapping too, if you go into the options and turn off auto-sheathing. You probably expected this, but expect that sword to do extremely minimal damage to human opponents, but Hangman's Venom should help a bit.

There is a option -> Options / Game / Auto Sheathe/Unsheathe. This gives you full control over your swords.

The Aerondight - yes it will stack on humans too ...
but using the wrong sword applies a huge malus on damage - it will take much longer (guess 15-20x) to kill a human with silver. So if you're after artificially extending the fight sequence, chosing the wrong sword is the way to go.

the combat difficulty between "blood and broken bones" and "deathmarch" is huge. But i like it way better that way, if you dont prepare you will just die, even against a bunch of lvl1 nekkers :D

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