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December 14th on will be all about TWIII for me, til Valheim, Starfield and or Diablo IV drop.
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I never played the DLC for TW3. Can I just start the DLC with a reasonably leveled character, or would I have to level up a character in the main game? I don’t have a save file for TW3 so I no longer have an endgame character.
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I’m pretty sure there’s a boost so peeps can jump right into the DLC.
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Is Henry Cavill still going to be in there game?
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Was it mentioned? All I’ve read is there’ll be armor sets, weapons and characters from the first two seasons in this update.
What’s included:
- New quality/ performance modes on PS5/SX/SS (60fps/ 30fps ray-traced)
- Ray tracing (Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion)
- AMD FSR 2.1 (PC + consoles)
- DLSS 3.0 (PC)
- Ultra+ settings (PC; not shown yet)
- HD textures mod integration
- Other mods integration
- New 3rd person camera mode
- New mini map mode
- New map filters
- New UI features
- New quick cast signs feature
- New animations
- PHOTO MODE
- New Netflix inspired armor/weapons/character appearances
- New Netflix inspired quest
- New weather effects
- Quest fixes
- Bug fixes
- Cross saves/cross-progression
- Chinese (simplified) voice over and some new dialogue lines for other languages
- Tweaks to gameplay
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It was mentioned a while ago when Netflix came out with season 2 I think. Ever since then I haven’t heard anything anymore. It was supposed to come out in an update.
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Confirmation this modder has definitely added their retexturing to the update among other rework:
gameinfinitus.com
The Witcher 3 Dev Confirms Some of the Console Mods, Fan-Requested Changes For Next-Gen Update
The Witcher 3 is getting a re-release for the PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. This will bring new content including support for mods.
gameinfinitus.com
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The textures look pretty nice, but the animations looks like a PS2 game. I guess I never realized the original version looked that bad.
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Tried it a bit this morning, albeit on PC. Looks good, but the PC exclusive Ultra+ settings to everything and the inclusion of extra ray tracing features over the console versions are absolute system killers!
I averaged around 26-40 fps in Beauclair and the immediate surroundings on a 3070. Sure looks pretty though!
And I encourage people to try out the photo mode while travelling in a boat:
Though this might also be a problem with Nvidia Hairworks which I'm not sure is on the consoles or not.
I averaged around 26-40 fps in Beauclair and the immediate surroundings on a 3070. Sure looks pretty though!
And I encourage people to try out the photo mode while travelling in a boat:
Though this might also be a problem with Nvidia Hairworks which I'm not sure is on the consoles or not.
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Hairworks is definitely not available on console.
SilverEye
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Makes sense. It's very performance hungry, thought it might have made it over with the next gen patch, at least for Geralt, but they did right to prioritize other features.
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The one feature I was hoping for:
I spent far too much time on the PS4 version, pausing the game, scrolling to options, dropping the hud, taking a screenshot, pause the game, scroll to options, turning the hud back on and unpausing, just to take a pic.
I’ll never understand some developers when they don’t include a PM for their game.
Logged into very briefly to check if my GoTY edition was updated and it was thankfully. Now to find time and play this gem.
I spent far too much time on the PS4 version, pausing the game, scrolling to options, dropping the hud, taking a screenshot, pause the game, scroll to options, turning the hud back on and unpausing, just to take a pic.
I’ll never understand some developers when they don’t include a PM for their game.
Logged into very briefly to check if my GoTY edition was updated and it was thankfully. Now to find time and play this gem.
SilverEye
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Sadly it's missing the most important feature of any photo mode: Poses and facial expressions.
alcatraz06
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Gonna download this today. Interested to get back in. I played through and beat the game around the time it came out, but really haven't revisited it since.
supersoulfly
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Got it ready to go.
Will check it when I get home.
Will check it when I get home.
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Tried it a bit this morning, albeit on PC. Looks good, but the PC exclusive Ultra+ settings to everything and the inclusion of extra ray tracing features over the console versions are absolute system killers!
I averaged around 26-40 fps in Beauclair and the immediate surroundings on a 3070. Sure looks pretty though!
And I encourage people to try out the photo mode while travelling in a boat:
Though this might also be a problem with Nvidia Hairworks which I'm not sure is on the consoles or not.
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Master Race'd
alcatraz06
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For some reason, my TW3 save files disappeared years ago. I'll probably start a base game save file, but at a certain point I may just start a DLC run since I think you can do that from the main menu. I never played the DLC but always heard it was great.
I haven't read much about new accessibility features, but I hope there's a setting that lets you increase the text size in the menus (they may have added this in previous versions, not sure). I remember during my 2015 playthrough the text being so tiny, which was annoying in a game so menu-heavy that places emphasis on deep reading of the menus and systems.
Lots of games have tiny text, although I think this is improving with options to increase the size. I know when I started GOWR I increased the text to max size immediately.
I haven't read much about new accessibility features, but I hope there's a setting that lets you increase the text size in the menus (they may have added this in previous versions, not sure). I remember during my 2015 playthrough the text being so tiny, which was annoying in a game so menu-heavy that places emphasis on deep reading of the menus and systems.
Lots of games have tiny text, although I think this is improving with options to increase the size. I know when I started GOWR I increased the text to max size immediately.
moonshaped
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Fired this up for a quick 30 minutesxlast night before bed. Can't wait to finally give this game a solid go.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Official Website
The offical website of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Your number one source for news, latest videos and screenshots from the upcoming RPG developed by CD PROJEKT RED!www.thewitcher.com
alcatraz06
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I'll probably use that but I'm more focused on the menus. Like consider some of the finer details of the inventory screenshot below, particularly the info under the crossbow, like the required level, etc. This stuff was kinda hard to parse during my first run, although my TV back then wasn't that great.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Official Website
The offical website of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Your number one source for news, latest videos and screenshots from the upcoming RPG developed by CD PROJEKT RED!
Installed and ready to restart.
Looking forward to seeing this all the way through this time...
Looking forward to seeing this all the way through this time...
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Look forward to impressions.
alcatraz06
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Gotta say so far this is one of the best looking PS5 revamps that I’ve seen. The level of detail, the faces, the lighting, the foliage, the NPC activity — it all looks terrific. Geralt in particular looks so much better. This kinda feels like a first time play for me, although some things are coming back to me. I still need to get into the rhythm of the combat.
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Fuck, eh…. IGN gotta IGN and cockblock uploading images they can’t handle because they’re too large?
Dump.
Dump.
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Here's a couple of mine
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Thanks. I guess IGN couldn’t handle the foliage that added another 3MB on top of this:
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Dunno, man…. font seems to be legible for me. Hold down your left stick for description size:
And it’s a permanent option once you close out of a screen and into a new one until you switch it off. Which is nice.
And it’s a permanent option once you close out of a screen and into a new one until you switch it off. Which is nice.
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Managed four hours with this Friday night, and I’m down to sink into this:
I forgot how immersive this game was or I have a better appreciation for it now, dunno, but this game is a familiar welcome change.
I forgot how immersive this game was or I have a better appreciation for it now, dunno, but this game is a familiar welcome change.
I'm hoping the same applies to me when I start it back up.
I don't remember the game being that gorgeous, so that may help keep me hooked...
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Wait til it storms. I remember my first run doing that quest in White Orchard looking for dudes brother in that battlefield during the daytime. This time it was at night and during a storm. Big difference in mood of course.
Even the track that played during was delightfully gloomy.
I love when TW3 dips into the survival horror style of mood and atmosphere...
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2tru4youtistru
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Loving the updated game so far. I decide md since I had already gotten pretty far into the game the first time around to go on a easier mode than normal just to keep from getting bogged down and not being able to get very far before new games start coming out. At first I tried the mode right below normal but found it was still challenging at times especially when fighting groups so I went down to just the story mode. Wasn't sure what that meant but I found it to be just right for what I want for a rerun. Still has combat but not as challenging with groups. I wish it made it so your weapons and armor didn't degrade. I wish they would have added more accessability settings for stuff like that. Personally I prefer games where you have accessability settings where you can tweak certain things like that without lowering difficulty. Obviously it makes the game easier just like a difficulty setting but it's actually different. It customizes the game to how you want to play it. I don't automatically choose to lower every setting, just to be ones that make it the most fun.
kunalanand501
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You should play original Witcher then. That game has the best atmosphere of any witcher game by far.
2tru4youtistru
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Had a funny moment last night. I went into this house, there was people asleep in three rooms. But in one room this chest was on top of a guy laying down in the floor and the guy was awake and looking at me. Hilarious.
2tru4youtistru
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I've noticed some issues while playing. Some left over from before. Things just .moving around that aren't supposed to be. One issue I hate and I thought it might be fixed is how sometimes when you start a fight, character doesn't automatically draw his weapon and when you hit the buttons to draw the weapon it still doesn't work. Seems like it should be an easy fix but apparently after 7 years or so they still can't.
SilverEye
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Isn't that an option you have to turn on? Auto-equip weapons?
I very much recall Geralt drawing within range of enemies automatically...
SilverEye
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That was true for the start, but some time since then there's been an added option:
I don't know what's the default option though. Mine was set to on, but I could have done that and not just remembered.