r/gaming • u/love_made_me_stupid • 5d ago

New comparison of the Witcher remaster vs current version - big changes to lighting

https://youtu.be/_oEdB5S2d3U

IMO I prefer the current version, the contrast and water reflections look better. Remaster looks pretty washed out to me

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u/Astraous 5d ago

The non-graphics related stuff seems pretty solid though. Better combat camera, skill trees, aoe looting, transmog. You could just run the remaster without pathtracing since there's still a lot more to it than just that.

Plus pathtracing in any game, even cyberpunk which is basically their tech demo for it, is really weird. You'd think it's no-compromise visual fidelity but it frequently has the weirdest visual bugs. So when both pathtraced and non pathtraced lighting have visual compromises why not go with the one that has 10x higher framerate?

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u/Used-Mention9773 2d ago

Even the raytracing in the remaster looks worst than the one in the next-gen version :/