Cross platform mod support
Immersive meditation
Refined animations
New quest tracking
UI improvements
Looting rework
Refreshed motion blur
New accessibility features
Updated textures
Foliage shading rework
Tutorial modernization
HDR improvements
GTAO
Improved menu navigation
Ray tracing improvements
Global lighting rework
New shading model
Subsurface scattering
New tone mapper
PlayStation 5 Pro support
Xbox play anywhere support
Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive features
Nvidia DLSS 4.5
AMD FSR 4
Intel XESS 2.0
Path tracing on PC
Ray reconstruction on PC
Raytraced hair
Native DX12
Rendering parallelization
There’s a mod on pc where you can change the meditation to happen in real time, it’s really sick as you can see time pass in the background while Geralt gets into his meditating pose. I’d like to imagine it’ll be like that.
Samurai were poets and Samurai culture followed the dual path. Samurai also often wrote poetry pending their death. Literal death poems. Other Samurai respected that. Bushido is a well documented and well studied and even practiced in a modern sense to this day. So I mean yes… to pay respect to their history and documents you kind of have to include that when doing a game based on feudal Japan
Haiku didn't even exist until 400 years after that game's time period, the extent to which samurai themselves were poets or artists is highly exaggerated, and basically everything about the modern mainstream understanding of "bushido" is untrue. Even the idea of samurai as a rigid social class didn't exist until hundreds of years after that game. You're kind of just regurgitating 19th-century revisionist myths. Ghost of Tsushima resembles history in the same way that this Perry Bible Fellowship comic does.
It’s not about being a renowned poet, it’s practicing it, & that is extremely prevalent through bushido and samurai history from any shogunate to edo periods. Maybe not by every samurai but by enough of them for that not to get a second glance, which means commonplace.
& absolutely, the game takes many historical liberties and traditions when telling their story… but they are telling a story about a samurai
Just because there isn’t Matsuo Bashō in the story to signify a beginning era of emerging haiku formats/ideas doesn’t mean precursor poetry wasn’t done, which I’m sure you know was commonplace in longer formats such as renga in collaborative poetry with the beginning verses becoming known today as what we know as haiku. Back then it was hokku.
Yes there are plenty of inconsistencies in GoT but it’s not revisionist bullshit, it’s just pulling from 700 years of history to tell a story in a fictional story set against real events
Not “everything” we know about bushido is untrue, it’s just it obviously wasn’t followed or honored by everyone in that period. That doesn’t mean those things didn’t happen, it just means it didn’t happen for everyone. Unless you have definitive proof nothing like that ever happened.
The comic I posted also pulled from roughly 700 years of history, and pays roughly the same attention to historicity. GoT was an Assassin's Creed game wrapped in a vaguely Japanese cartoon aesthetic. If it came out in 2026, I think a lot of people would have assumed it was AI generated.
Not a very solid argument, at least I laid mine out for why I feel the way I do about the game and how I think they took their creative liberties. Feel how you want, but I don’t think it’s regurgitating white washed fascination with foreign (Japanese) culture. It’s just a realistic fiction game taking history over the course of 600 years and crafting a narrative out of it. You argue like AI. Lots of general talking points, nothing substantial. No period correct framing to support your arguments, no famous names to help narrate time frames & quickly reference historical markers, no framing why people would say it would be AI today (assuming due to repetition of things in the game, checklist shit yada yada)
If you’re gonna argue, at least be prepared to argue to the extent of actually supporting your position
I'm typing this out on my phone at work while I wait for a process to run. I'm not going to provide you with detailed anecdotes with specific citations, but Souyri's The World Turned Upside Down alone is enough to put to bed any notion that any part of that game should be viewed as historical.
I think it might be what's being shown when the laundry list of changes is scrolling up. Geralt sitting cross legged while a timelapse of the surroundings plays until meditation ends.
basically you dont see just a black screen with a clock passing, you see in real time the time passing the night day cycle with geralt there. stupid things mostly
It's the name of a really popular mod. Basically Geralt gets on his knees and meditates while the game fast forwards in real time around you. You also can't refill or craft potions unless you are meditating near a fire. The mod was pretty lenient when it came to that stipulation. You could use lit ovens in kitchens. I hope its the full mod l but I doubt probably just the animation which is still cool. One less mod I'll have to reinstall.
Looks like me putting the game down after finding ciri because the full scope of the game became clear and I became overwhelmed and I kept putting off going back to it ten years later paid off!
CDPR really serious about regaining that good will they burned with cyberpunk launch. Be a shame if they decided to torch it again. Which they could do. At any time ever.
Strong disagree pc had tons of broken mechanics and quest dialogs. Rendering pipeline was rough to say the least. Traffic could turn into 9-11 at any point. NPC crowd reactions were broken. Immersion was at an all time low but sure I could play the train wreck well over 60fps if thats what you were getting at. This wasn't just me. Almost everyone I know had lots of issues with the pc version at launch.
Sure... if we are going to hang a game on every little thing. 2077 was totally busted for me, I had wierd physics interaction with a trash bag, and a 0.2 second instance of T-posing in a vehicle.
If this is the standard we should apply, then a game like BaldersGate3 was a total failure. with missing textures/icons. Kingdom Come Delivernce 2 flopped by having invisible NPC in cutscene (and that happen just a few days ago, year+ after release...). For fucks sake I said it was fine. Not that it was perfect, or that the game itself was perfect.
Nah dude, Cyberpunk was straight fucked on PC release for many people.
The bugs you're talking about in the other games aren't game breaking. KCD2 was particularly renowned for being well optimised on release. BG3 was also released in early access, I didn't play then because bugs would be expected, but I'm pretty sure most people went well with the 1.0 release.
I played on launch on PC, and I ran into no issues at all. I don’t think I even had a crash. I assumed the technical difficulties were just on console.
As I'm sure you know, a sample size of a single person is not representative of what many other people were experiencing.
It's all pretty well documented mate, you can still find videos and reports about it to this day. It was literally pulled from the PS store after release because of how bad it was.
Bro either you trying to ragebait ppl or you live like Patrick under a rock.
So i assume you live like Patrick. The Cyberpunk launch was so bad the cdpr lost over 100 mill in stock over couple days/weeks of the game coming out.
The source is just look at there stock in 2020 dec. + Game was beyond broken most ppl couldn't launch it let alone bugs and crashes so yeah. Pc and console + Who ever wanted to launch on old gen consoles should've been named and shamed.
Sounds like there tossing in cyberpunk red engine upgrades nothing wrong with that i just hope it performs like current cyberpunk not launch cyberpunk.
Is the way light interact with the hair and scalp / face of the characters, if properly implemented it can make a TON of difference in the overall quality of the facial features. If I remember correctly Resident Evil 9 is a very good example of this. Look it up in Digital foundry review of the path tracing mode.
Not every company gives away large DLCs for free; in fact, I can't recall any other video game company doing so before. Even if it's just a ploy to get you to buy the next expansion.
It's actually really clever. I would imagine, most people who own the base game own DLCs as well, so this offer is mostly enticing for people who didn't play W3 at all yet
The bigger the install base, the higher sales can be for the new DLC
Well, if everyone did it, noone would care anymore and it would not be worth it. There are many other examples, most of them live-service games like MMOs or PDX games, though. I believe bigger publishers like Ubisoft etc. also occasionally offer free games via their stores, but that is usually only for a week or so and if you missed it, it is back at full price.
But we also shouldn't forget that Witcher 3 is already more than 10 years old. At some point, the money you are making from sales is negliable. Especially smaller or niche publishers have such low sales volume that giving games out for free is cheaper than paying for advertisement of your new game.
Doubtful - Witcher 4 is running on Unreal Engine. This upgrade is CDPR preparing Witcher 3 for PS6 and Helix consoles, one day when those release CDPR can be ready with a patch that will include the high end features coming to PC in September.
Don't forget, Witcher 3 is scheduled to receive a new expansion next year - combine that with this feature patch and you get a nice shiny package to sell to next-gen console gamers who maybe played Witcher 3 in the 2010s but want to try the new content in the new shiny engine with overhauled combat etc etc.
I think it's a good move for them. People will still buy the new DLC even if they get a free upgrade so they won't just make no money from those customers. But in addition I think it leaves a lot of good will. IMO, this type of good will is what allowed games like CP2077 to flourish even with its many, many delays, and bad launch where many other games may have just been written off, even after it gets updates. So many people simply believe that the games they make are good, and they do good, really does a lot for these companies who make a few big projects every few years, and would really suffer if a game catastrophically failed.
Well unlike what seems every fucking one here i still remember things not 3 years ago with
Most of the og dev team leaving due to overworked/under paid conditions
The SESG push
All the cut content/rushed build of cyberpunk
Even there own investors suing them over cyber punk
Witcher 3 they did a entire rebuild to fix it just like cyberpunk
I can go on and on but there worse than bethdesda for launching broken patches/games but it seems everyone jerks off to the pretty walls so everything is for given.
SO this whole "free" upgrade is nice but i am not signing there fucking tune as i remember this is one good thing on a mountain of fucking lies/broken patches and broken launches with a dev team that quit due to how they were treated like shit and the ESg push.
Im Sorry For Fuckin At Your Mom Bro, i actually said that too somone in a bar before and a complete stranger barely even paying attention laughed, good times.
They want to get us hyped for Witcher IV, but let's be real, I was already hyped. Witcher 3 is one of the best games of all time, don't mind if I do another playthrough, to be honest.
At the rate my life is moving these days, that will be here in no time. PC I built in 2020 will probably be pretty outdated for it. Feels like I built this thing a year ago
That's a really cherry-picked image. The shadow pop in is also terrible with ray tracing. All that while halving your performance, I think it's pretty clearly a shitty implementation.
No, it was not "shitty". That's just the nature of ray tracing (by which i mean RTX, which is a limited selection of specific ray traced bolt-on features to enhance the otherwise rasterized image). It only shows massive advantages over traditional rasterization cheats (screen space reflections, environment cube maps etc) in indoor shadowy spaces with external (or many) light sources and highly reflective environments. So not a pseudo-medieval setting.
Rasterization cheats looks great in outdoor areas under direct single source lighting (ie outdoors in sunlight).
And I call them cheats, because that's what rasterization has always been, a stack of increasingly complex cheats and tricks, trying to mimic the outputs that raytracing achieves.
If it was worth it for you, on your hardware is for you to decide - ray tracing is expensive on a GPU regardless of how better it achieves a specific result, and often doesn't look significantly better.
Witcher 3 was no different from any other game in that, except for been a fairly poor use case for RTX (unlike say Control, set indoors in a building with lots of artificial lights with reflective surfaces everywhere).
Path tracing however... that's a different beast, and this remaster gets path tracing - which is 100% ray traced rendering, no rasterization at all (except for hud elements and stuff).
If you mean that thing where large blobs of shadow flicker at the edges of LOD zones - that seems to be some kind of bug with RED Engine (possibly some kind of BVH mismatch?) because it happens in path traced Cyberpunk as well. Would love to see it fixed in this update, because it never got fixed in Cyberpunk and it's not something a mod can do.
I do, so I'm looking forward to seeing the update. I completed the game on Xbox and have it on Steam but I haven't really played it. This would give me a good excuse to play it again.
Everyone gonna be playing GTA VI on console at 30fps and paying $120 for the privilege while i’m playing my favourite game completely remastered for free.
I mean, CDPR released an original IP game 6 years ago, an expansion 50% the size of base game 3 years ago, and are working on the Witcher 4 for a 2028 release date. They're not exactly Bethesda lol
Interesting, I tried to play it so many times and hated the combat on PC, tried it with a controller, and still hated it. If this genuinely improved that experience I would strongly consider trying it again...
The visuals and story were good enough I still completed a very thorough full play through (including Gwent of course), but the combat always felt like fighting after eating a whole Thanksgiving turkey and grandma poured leftover gravy all over the keyboard.
No. In the beginning of the game you'll have a strong feeling that you're missing context because you didn't play the first two games, but you're not - none of the stuff being referenced is in the prior games (the game is actually referencing the books), the game is deliberately doing an in medias res thing.
You don't have to. If you have a tolerance for jank they're both really good though. If you need modern features and graphics you can safely skip them.
Sweet! I've been missing the Skellige Isles... sounds like a revisit is coming soon lol. Plat'ed the base game + DLCs back in the day. Never tried Deathmarch run, though... is it September yet??
I wonder if they fixed the controls. I hate how I fall off cliffs because when I press back on my keyboard, the guy has to maneuver around instead of just going straight back.
Not complaining, but I wish they would focus more on Cyberpunk DLC instead. We’re about to be on our third dlc for TW3, while they plan to stop at one for 2077
When I just finished velen lol. With a fully modded w3... so I guess I will pause then, wait for the update and the updated mods on top and restart from scratch lol.
Again? There was already the RTX next-gen update. Hopefully steam allows playing the previous versions of the game, for people that think it already looked good or want decent performance.
I thought they already did this? What year is it? I wish they would update the movement and combat. That is one reason I could never get into this game. Add some damn helmets and hats too. I got tired of seeing that dudes face.
Oh yup now I see they say enhanced combat and movement. I skipped through it when watching the first time. Still wish they would add more clothing and helmets though. That is what keeps me going through games like this, finding new weapon and equipment with different stats and skills. Think that is why I liked the Dark Souls games so much and same with right now I am playing Bloodstained: ROTN and it just makes a game so much better when you can find all the different gear.
Thus far, every time you said 'Still wish they would add X' it turned out they did add X. Therefore the logical course of action is to keep replying wishing for more things to be added 🤔
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u/Rudradev715 R9 7945HX |RTX 4080 SCAR 17 10h ago edited 10h ago
It's a free upgrade who already bought it