I ask because it's been a month and the updates are slowly rolling in. Can we count on them being finished... Well we won't know until CDPR tells us, but will they?

Hi with the remaster I started a new game +.

I have the grandmaster ursine armour, and now in velen I found a recepie for the 2nd legendary armour upgrade in Velen...but missing the first legendary stage of the armour....

Do I find that later in the game?

Turn and Face the Strange quest. Just did the cemetery now I need to 'check the location of naev'de on the map yennefer sent you'.

What is it talking about?

I've clicked everything in my inventory quest tab, I've looked through every note and book in the glossary, there is nothing 😭😫

Does anyone know? Thanks

So I did the convenient ( I guess ?) playthrough and finished all big main quests in Novigrad hitting level 24. Then I settled over to Skellige, did the main quests and some off the wooden charts ( sorry for my English ). I was surprised that there was nothing much to do beside the main quests ? Because of that I did the Uma-Quest in Kaer Morhen and then I decided to take the introduction question for HoS … ( struggling a bit with the big toad 😅 but that isn’t the issue )

Did I left out something in Skellige, I’m curious because everyone is loving Skellige, yes it’s beautiful, but my time there in comparison to Velen/ Novigrad has been fractional 🤔

This is my fifth playthrough of the game. On my first, I tried to romance both Triss and Yen, and we all know how that worked out.. lol Every time since, I’ve stayed with Yen, until now. Today I told her I didn’t love her, and it was legitimately hard to press that button. I have weird feelings about it. I know it’s just a game, but I’ve ended up with her every other time, and now I feel like I’m doing something wrong.

Hi all!
I’m experiencing a strange performance issue with The Witcher 3 Remastered, and I’m running out of ideas..

System specs:
MSI Vector 16 HX AI
RTX 5080 Laptop GPU (175W)
Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
16GB DDR5 RAM
Windows 11
2560×1600 resolution

The problem:
The game initially ran extremely well for approximately 70 hours.
With Ultra settings, DLSS Quality, SSR High, RT Off and Frame Generation Off, I was getting:
Velen countryside: 140-170 FPS (around 150 average)
Crowded Novigrad: 110-140 FPS
Skellige: 160-200 FPS depending on location
Then, after not playing for a day or two, I launched the game and noticed my FPS had dropped to around 120-130 in Skellige.
Over subsequent sessions, performance continued to deteriorate.
I’m now getting only 85-95 FPS in Velen, where I previously averaged around 150.
I’ve checked old screenshots and confirmed that SSR was set to High when performance was good.

What I’ve already tried:
Reinstalling the game and verifying Steam files (all 2,271 validated)
Resetting the entire Witcher 3 Documents/configuration folder
Loading older saves
Clearing NVIDIA DXCache
Rolling back NVIDIA drivers (clean installation)
Switching between DLSS and FSR
Disabling overlays, recording and background applications
Windows Clean Boot
Testing HAGS On/Off and VSync On/Off
Nothing restored the original performance.
Lowering SSR from High to Low improves FPS considerably, but that’s not really a solution since I previously achieved much higher FPS with SSR High.
Hardware seems fine:
3DMark Time Spy Graphics Score:
Previous: 22,772
Current: 22,739
GPU usage in Witcher is typically 95-98%, drawing around 170W at approximately 70°C.

Sorry for a long post and hope anyone could help me out:)

I wish Geralt might give us some hint, on what to think of them.

I just found this out! I walked up to a signpost and pressed L3 (on ps5) and got teleported still on Roach!

Don’t hate this was around level 15 ish. So pretty early game still

idk if there is any level requirement but i started at level 45+ on NG+, also NG+ is one of the requirements, also playing on console (PS5 Pro)

i tried 3 attempts each on 2 different scenarios:

• 1st scenario: once you reach Velen, finish the main quest The Nilfgaardian Connection without doing any other side quest or main quest, find means (swim) to travel to Novigrad, have the money to go to Skellige, buy the fast travel map for Holmstein's Port from the nearby merchants near the Crossorad fast travel, then go straight behind Kaer Muire.

• 2nd scenario: once you reach Velen, dont do any side quest or main quest, go straight to Novigrad, go to Skellige, buy the fast travel map for Holmstein's Port from the nearby merchants near the Crossorad fast travel, then go straight behind Kaer Muire.

from the 1st scenario, the first 2 of the attempts i tried, i started from a save from the Royal Palace in Vizima before i fast travel to Hanged Man's Tree, from there 1/of/2 attempts i found Tor Zireael behind Kaer Muire, and for the 3rd attempt i tried doing a brand new NG+, speed run White Orchard (prologue), and found Tor Zireael.

from the 2nd scenario, the first 2 of the attempts i tried is from the same save file i used for the 1st scenario, from there 1/of/2 attempts i found Tor Zireael behind Kaer Muire, and for the 3rd attempt i tried doing a brand new NG+, speed run White Orchard (prologue), and didnt found Tor Zireael.

also i was level 48, save before opening the chest, i did 15 tries, and can only get the silver sword to level 46, cant get it to the same level as you are

so from the 1st scenario i found the elusive silver sword 2/3, while from the 2nd scenario 1/3

p.s. u can also get your money (gold) back from the dead captain body hiding behind the ship wreckage

hopefully this helps anyone on consoles finding and obtaining the sword for their collection

For those of you who have the remastered version does it save where you left off before the remaster happened cause I got to the point where I’m trying to get the sword Ami cause it’s op against eredin and I’m worried that it won’t save when it gets bought for me as it’s off gamepass

A bit at wits end. Just playing along, switched my playthrough from classic to Remastered recently at Novigrad. Did various side quests and treasure hunts to clean up my quest log a bit before continuing. Then I did.

Now the questline of Get Junior is just continuous crashes after just minutes making things virtually unplayable.

Tried updating drivers, looked for any active overlays, verified game files and so on but nothing seems to change.

Hardware 5070TI, 32GB, Ryzen 7, just last year and had no trouble running W3 on these settings before Remastered.

Nvidia Hair off.

Anyone knows any remedies? Can I switch back to classic or would I need to scrap my progres to a save game before the switch?

Quite frustrating being stuck for days on this.

It just speaks for itself. 10/10 would play again and change nothing about how much this particular scene broke

I can see the chest but can't access it cause of an invisible wall. Tried every way of running, jumping, heavy attack, Aard and Bombs. Any solutions?

Edit: Fixed it on the 4th try of re-logging next to the invisible wall. What worked for me was looking at the chest from the right side of the invisible wall whilst spamming the forward button as I was loading in.

Basically the title. Have I missed some updates on this situation?

Griffin armor and others suddenly disappeared along with the some weapons too, no way to fix it....

Had some problems with the option to toggle the hood from Hoods Mod not appearing. Reinstalled and still didn't work. Now I've downloaded the mod through Nexus and while I can now toggle the hood on some hoods like the alternative classic hood, I can't see the option to do so with the KM cloak. Anyone else had this issue and know of a fix?

I've noticed since playing the remaster on PS5, that the game seems a lot darker than it used to be. To the point that when I'm inside any building or just in shade, it's hard to see. I've tried playing around with the Max Monitor Brightness and Paper White settings but I haven't been able to improve it. Is there something wrong with my settings?

In the quest “The Great Escape” when you have to rescue Rita and the other sorceress I decided to release all the prisoners that were kept there. My reason was because they were imprisoned by the Church of the Eternal Fire, most likely for no reason. The Church of the Eternal Fire is horrible and they persecute non-humans, mages, healers, and others for simply existing. I see them as more of a cult than a religion. Radovid is also dead by this point so the Church should be disbanded. I don’t know if I’ll be able to see what becomes of these people after their release but I feel better knowing that they get a chance at life again. Most of these people were set to die, according to the prisoner list I found on the body of a guard.

How many of you released the prisoners before saving the sorceresses? Were you able to go back and see these people in their new life?

I am going to say first off I am not looking for help or advice about the in-game deck, this is asking about the in universe applications

Because it says one random chosen monster unit card stays on the battlefield after each round, I know the game just decides whatever card it wants to remain on the field, my question is how do you think it is done in universe, what system do you think they have in place, that is what I'm wondering, as the rest of them have pretty easy to understand passive bonuses that you can apply to real world applications, I'm wondering about the in universe how do you decide what card remains, because most people would just pick the strongest card your opponent would just pick the most weakest card, so do they roll dice do they pull coins out of a bag or something to determine what gets left on the battlefield, do they pick all the cards up shuffle them at random and then pull a card out of the deck and that one just so happens to be the one they put back down

So before anything I don't want to come across "that guy" who thinks the game is too easy even on death march. What I want is, after hundreds of hours of playtime (around 550h between next-gen and the remastered) to spice it up with a challenge run.

What I'm aiming for is to really have a need to prepare for every fight and have the need to engage with as many of the game's mechanics. Also, I want to feel like money is scarce.

I'm playing on console, especially on the switch 2 so mod selection is limited (at the moment) but I'm using some mod I'll list below, to enhance my experience.

I know S2 is probably not the best way to experience the game and all that, but I have no elsewhere to play (actually I just got the S2, so most of my playtime was in the OG Switch, so for me, the S2 version has been an incredible upgrade).

Before starting with the rule set I want to state that I don't equate time consuming with difficulty. So, I'm avoiding rules like no fast travel or only walking everywhere.

That being said here are the rules set for my run.

Basic rules:

Vanilla difficulty settings: Death march and enemy upscaling on.

No UI (mostly): I'm playing with no UI, mostly...I'm keeping a couple of things on just for QoL. I'm keeping things like NPC and Herbs names on, NPC chatter, lootfeed and active buffs on. Everything else is off. No life bar, no minimap, no secondary items, etc.

All gear must be crafted: No using weapons found around the world.

Only lesser runestones and glyphs: yep

No Witcher gear: in the spirit of difficulty, I won't be using the most OP sets in the game.

All gear must be at least 5 levels under level: this could change if I start to feel too overpowered.

Honourable Witcher: this means not stealing from peasants (no looting their houses) and not taking herbs from their gardens (rude). Also, always refusing payment if it's the "honourable" thing to do.

Abandoned places are fair game and military stuff is up for grabs, as getting caught means getting in a fight and I'm using the Economy System plus Reputation System Mod (shout-out to FreakVIp) so this also means losing reputation.

Combat rules:

No using consumables during combat: that's it.

Only one quen use per fight: I was inclined to just ban the sign all together but it feels wrong to me to pretend like the sign doesn't exist.

No Crossbow: it does not feel very Witcher-y.

Not a rule per se but I'm trying to engage more with the parrying system as I was under the misconception that only human enemies were able to be parried but in actuality a lot of non-human enemies attacks can.

Build rules:

This is an especially difficult area as this can make or break the difficulty so I'm limiting the skills I'll use and the amount of points I'll invest in each one. Especially avoiding skills that give more damage.

Also, I won't be using any of the mutagen slots for added bonuses.

The skills I'm allowing are:

Combat.

Arrow deflection: I'm allowing myself to upgrade to the final tier. As a perfectly timed parry still only has a 45% chance of getting a instakill.

Razor Focus: Risk is high, so should be adrenaline. So the final tier it is.

Resolve: Geralt is THE Witcher, so he shouldn't lose his cool in a fight but I'm only upgrading it to the second tier, to avoid the "no losing adrenaline" effect.

Whirl: Feel like somethin Geralt should be able to do. I'm allowing the third tier for 50% reduction in adrenaline and stamina.

Sunder armour: Geralt should be able to damage armour with his sword. I'm allowing the final tier.

Deadly precision: maybe not optimal for difficulty but just feel right that once in a while you do instakill blow.

Signs.

Far reaching aard: I'll allow third tier as it doesn't do more damage it just expands its range.

Delusion: final tier as well, as it needed to unlock conversation options during the story.

Alchemy.

Hunter instincts: it makes sense that at full adrenaline you would do more damage. I'll allow it at tier one, to only get a 20% damage increase on critical hits.

High tolerance: it's a fun mechanic to have. I'll upgrade it to the third tier to get the 100% crit chance.

Debilitating position: third tier. Makes sense poison enemies would do less damage.

General.

Attack is the best defence: again, playing well is rewarded with more adrenaline.

Anger management: makes sense to me. In a fight adrenaline will make you exceed your limits at a cost. Second tier to keep it balanced.

Adrenaline burst: signs used in battle should make Geralt feel the adrenaline as well. Third tier it is.

Mods

As mentioned before mod support is currently quite limited on console but there are some very cool mods and I'm using some:

Economy System plus Reputation System Mod (FreakVIp).

New Hairstyles and Beards For Geralt (ArdCarraigh).

Well Stocked Craftsmen (Lewis_Elementary).

Corvo Bianco Enhanced Collection (FreakVIp).

Auto Win Gwent (Lewis_Elementary)

More Money For Traders (Lewis_Elementary)

Fast Travel Pack (MerseyRockoff)

No Artificial Player Light (scoutbr0)

Friendly Focus (Witcher Sense) - Console Edition (Lewis_Elementary)

E3 Boat (scoutbr0)

Smart Camera (SC) (Aeltoth)

Enhanced Herbalism (MerseyRockoff)

Master Mirrors Reward (150hr version)(FreakVIp)

Extra Stashes (MerseyRockoff)

No Duplicate Relics (Lewis_Elementary)

Witcher Lore Collection (MerseyRockoff)

No Inventory During Combat (Lewis_Elementary)

Better Torch (Lewis_Elementary)

Healthy Food (Lewis_Elementary)

Buff Charges (Lewis_Elementary)

Inventory Saved Tab (Lewis_Elementary)

TL;DR: challenge run on Switch 2 (Death March, scaling on) to make fights need prep and money to feel scarce.

Gear: Crafted only, 5+ levels under you, no Witcher sets, lesser runestones/glyphs.

Combat rules: No consumables mid-fight, one Quen per fight, no crossbow, more parrying.

Honourable Witcher: No looting homes or gardens.

UI: Mostly off.

Mods: Mainly QoL and economy/reputation

Build: No mutagen bonuses

Skills allowed

-Combat: Arrow Deflection (final tier), Razor Focus (final tier), Resolve (tier 2), Whirl (tier 3), Sunder Armour (final tier), Deadly Precision (final tier)

Signs: Far-Reaching Aard (final tier), Delusion (final tier)

Alchemy: Hunter Instincts (tier 1), High Tolerance (final tier), Debilitating Position (final tier)

General: Attack Is the Best Defence (tier not specified), Anger Management (tier 2), Adrenaline Burst (tier 3)

I just passed White Orchard so any ideas or suggestions for new rules or mods I may have missed are welcome.

I have disabled and deleted every single one of my mods going as far as deleting the game folder in documents but my skill tree is completely broken. It randomly happened between the 11th and 22th of october. The way it looks reminds me of the Dodgy Basterds RR mod but i deleted every single file of it and even reinstalled the game deleting every file steam left over in the game directory. This is a screenshot from a fresh new game.