We simply received our first have a look at The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s much-delayed free “subsequent gen” replace, by which they imply present gen, and which yep, seems like a looker. Vanilla Witcher 3 nonetheless seems attractive for an almost seven 12 months previous sport, however the upcoming replace will add ray-tracing choices, extremely+ settings and a set of different visible and high quality of life updates.
It isn’t out ’til December 14th, however you’ll be able to peek at it under whereas the devs natter within the background.
Skip forward to fifteen:30 for the beginning of the stream, or 16:20 for the beginning of the footage.
I will cop to nonetheless not understanding what all these phrases imply, however the graphics fella mentions that they’ve built-in FSR and DSS assist, whereas including dynamic decision scaling and “some very good SSR which used to simply be for water, however is now for every thing”. Elsewhere, the devs say “nearly all our foliage property have been reworked”, and there are “higher textures for nearly every thing”. The brand new grass does certainly appear fairly lush.
I just like the little adjustments they point out, too, like smoke coming from villagers homes. You may already do quite a lot of this with mods, and quite a lot of the adjustments and upgrades are certainly direct mod integrations. Nonetheless, wrapping all of it up in a single secure, developer-approved bundle is nice for lazy sods like me.
You can take pleasure in all of it with the brand new fleshed out photograph mode, full with all of the distinction and publicity sliders you can ask for. There’s a lot extra, together with new digital camera modes, climate situations and mini-map ui choices. You may additionally be capable of take away all of the query marks cluttering up your map, which is a shocking factor to not be capable of do up ’til now. Identical goes for the cutscenes, which is able to now be pausable.
One final change that stood out to me – they’ve tweaked the management scheme on a pad, so as a substitute of mentioning a radial menu in your Indicators now you can maintain a bumper to make them set off while you press your different buttons. I discovered that radial faff an excessive amount of to hassle with, so hey, there is a small change that would make a doubtlessly outsized distinction.
All this has jogged my memory I by no means received spherical to ending the Blood and Wine DLC, which I’ll effectively do when The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt – Full Version replace lands on December 14th.