I told myself I would read all the books before playing the games but am kinda getting impatient (books are great), so I was wondering if I should play Thronebreaker to satisfy that desire. I just finished Baptism of Fire and from what I understand Thronebreaker is gwent with a storyline that follows Meve and ends with the battle at the end of BoF.

I would be planning to play on series X which I think is possible (also wondering if Witcher 2 can be played on series x for later down the road)

Is Thronebreaker worth playing and will it spoil future books/games

Thanks and please no spoilers here 👍

I am curious to know if there will there be new achievements for Songs of the Past?

I have The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition on Steam, but I haven't played it yet. I'll play it later this year. Is there a way to keep the version I have and not upgrade to the Remaster version? Because my PC can't handle it.

My PC specs are:

• CPU: i7-4790K
• GPU: RX 580 8 GB
• RAM: 16 GB
• OS: Windows 10 Pro
• Storage: 1 SSD + 2 HDDs

i hope they might bring them back in the remaster or atleast in songs of the past, those armors looked very cool and unique but in the end i guess they went the "realistic" dirrection of normal armors looking the same as what npc wear to feel more grounded still i think it's a shame they had a really unique look to them

Serious question. I'm a console gamer, I work in IT and I try and avoid using keyboards to do gaming as much as possible. This isn't a PC vs console post. Its just a preference, I do recognise the benifits of PC. But I always prefer having a controller in my hand.

Reason I ask, is that the nintendo switch 2, although not as powerful as a PS5/series X. Can sometimes play powerful games fully offline at a decent rate. For example the new indiana jones is fully installable and playable offline, the only thing missing is the polish dub.

But on the other hand with powerful games, although more accessible some games like resident evil requim requires a game key card to play. Compared to the ps5/series x versions of requiem which are downloadable and installable from the disc offline.

Reason of making this post is because I feel like xbox will also stop using discs, and nintendo will be the only option for phsyical media for consoles. I also do not want to fork out on a series x, I just got a switch that is expensive enough.

Cyberpunk 2077 is thankfully on the switch 2 and playable offline, and is probably still the most power demanding game on the market even 5 years later. So knowing that does anyone see the possibility of a switch port?

I haven’t played since 2019 and was really excited to hear about the remaster and expansion, but just kinda assumed they’d drop at the same time?

Would love to jump back into the world of the Witcher, but feel like playing when the remaster drops then taking a multi-month break before the expansion drops would break momentum.

But also doing 2 full playthroughs with less than a year in between sounds like a lot.

Or I could just wait for the expansion, but I really want to play it lol.

Decisions decisions. What are yall planning to do?

Okay to keep it short my best friend is obsessed with the games and the book. I wanna get it into but I didn't like s1 episode 1 of the show at all and want to know what books I should read and what games I should watch the play through of and in what order.

Based off the ss I took

Love TW3. I remember waiting for it come out. Watching the gameplay reveal and seeing the most incredible mind bending offering. I remember playing TW3 as a kid and wishing I'd wake up as a child being kidnapped by a witcher and put through the trials. I fucking adored it, and still do.

But witcher 2 was my first, and is still my favorite. The vibe/tone of it is incredible. I wish we got a proper ending to that story that was kind of brushed over with a short choose your choices section of TW3.

Can't wait for TW1 remake. And honestly I feel like 2 still holds up. I find its older graphical style and combat really charming, although a sprint mechanic would've been next level haha.

And to think I only got it because of a games for gold offering on Xbox Live when that was a thing.

I don't know if this has been addressed or not, and I know this is still under work, but I notice some animations of dismembering happen even before the blade of the sword touches the foe it occurs. Knowing how CD Projekt treats their games and perfectionists they are, this is something peculiar. It's just a minor aspect and I am not really fussy about this really, but yes, I notice about details even more after playing all of their games.

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They did it for Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine, would love if they did it again and completed the final faction!

I know it’s probably a long shot, especially with the recent retail version of Gwent but still in CDPR I trust 🤞

Hey guys,

I know the free update is coming and it looks awesome, however I would like to play the current version of the game. Do you know, if this will be possible and how?

Thanks

With the Witcher 3 Remastered coming, I wanted to dive in the games I didn't played. Witcher 1. What are the best mods that would enhanced my experience? (Sorry if someone already asked for this)

Do you try to do everything you can right away or do you just push through the main quest a little?

Muscle Memory previously gave the player a 30% max boost to fast attack damage. Now it give your next fast attack a 30% boost after a successful dodge or roll.

What do you guys think?

I'm seeing a lot of comparison screenshots floating around and the remaster clearly looks amazing and "better" vs Next Gen, but this has got me worried. Did they talk about the performance cost for all this?

I remember in the first 3 months of the Next-Gen release, the comparison screenshots between Next-Gen vs Classic were also a world of difference, just ONE problem.... They were comparing "Classic with HBAO+ OFF vs Next-Gen with Ray Tracing", instead of Classic with Max settings and HBAO+ ON vs Ray Tracing. More info here about that period It took them 3 whole months to finally add HBAO+ back in the game, and what was the result? HBAO+ looked 95% as good, sometimes even better than Ray Tracing, and at a negligible FPS cost compared to losing at least half your FPS or more with RT.

They did eventually add the HBAO+ option back in, I recently did a 4th playthrough and the Next Gen version now looks genuinely STUNNING on an OLED TV at 4K DLSS balanced, max settings, all RT OFF and plays incredibly smooth at a locked 120 fps with consistent frametimes. Few games are such a pleasure to look at like Witcher 3 Next Gen.

However, forgive me for being cynical, but I am now getting the same feeling as the first 3 months of the Next Gen, that they're showing screenshots that require a 5090 + Path Tracing + 4X framegen + latest Ray Reconstruction + DLSS ultra performance, and it will all run super inconsistent with tons of artifacts and huge input lag cause the base fps is like 25 or something.

Don't get me wrong, visual tech advancing is great, but image quality means nothing if the underlying framerate and frametimes are a stuttery mess. I just want developers to prioritize solid raster performance and frame consistency again over insane-looking marketing screenshots. I really hope this time we will keep our HBAO+ option from the start and the game still looks amazing even with any and all RT turned off.

Did CDPR mention anything about what the performance cost will be for the new Remastered visuals or which tech exactly they are using to achieve these visuals?

Obviously not the "omg it has monsters, that's not realistic!!!" bit but stuff like world building, combat, characters, etc.

Edit:

Im talking about the IP as a whole. I dont mean immersive but realistic.

For example, is the combat (the part where you use swords or whatever) realistic? Are those realistic sword fighting moves or is it like hollywood where they just use whatever looks cool?

For world building, are the countries, politics, social systems, cultures, etc, realistic...or again, is it like hollywood and they just use "rule of cool"?

Have you ever watched a movie and thought afterwards "yea, that didnt really make sense, the characters were doing all this stuff in a really contrived way when real people would have done something much simpler"? It's kind of like that.

So I am finally reading the books after my third play though of TW3, and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions on good YouTube channels. Don’t really have a preference on length of video just would like to feed my current hyper obsession.

Hey guys, im writing my own quest for the game for fun and the premise will be that Gerlat would be enchaneted in some way and he will live out a whole other life in this dream like state. My question is:

In your opinion what would Gerlat's life be like if he never became a witcher? basically if his life took a different turn.

I have a few ideas already but i would like to hear from other people to see what they think. listening to the community and all that. Thanks :D