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CD Projekt Pink has introduced The Witcher 3 Remastered, coming as a free improve to all house owners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X/S subsequent month on September 29.
In a surprising conclusion to Gamescom’s Opening Evening Stay, the developer confirmed an inventory of further options coming to the sport’s Remastered model in addition to notably enhanced visuals, which we have listed out under.
There is no improve to the sport’s present Change 1 model, although a separate Change 2-native model of The Witcher 3 Remastered will probably be offered, and house owners of the Change 1 model will be capable to declare this free. The remastered recreation may also be offered on PC through Battle.web for the primary time, the place it would unlock a Geralt-themed pores and skin in Diablo 4.
The Witcher 3 Remastered — and the present recreation, as of immediately — may also embrace entry to the sport’s first two expansions at no further value. In fact, all of this precedes the arrival of the upcoming Songs of the Previous, The Witcher 3’s third enlargement, due in 2027.
All the pieces new coming to The Witcher 3 Remastered
Main options embrace tweaked fight, improved traversal and motion, revamped mount dealing with, enhanced monster behaviors, a ability tree revamp, armor transmog, an expanded photograph mode, new finishers and way more.
Different additions embrace the long-awaited cross-platform mod assist, new quest monitoring, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI enhancements, a looting rework, refreshed movement blur, new accessibility options, a tutorial modernization, HDR enhancements, a foliage shading rework, ray-tracing enhancements, a world lighting reork, new shading mannequin, subsurface scattering, and a brand new tone mapper.
PlayStation 5 Professional assist, plus Xbox Play Anyplace and unspecified Nintendo Change 2 “unique options” have been additionally talked about, as have been Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XESS 2.0, path tracing and ray reconstruction on PC, native DX12 and rendering parallelization. There’ll even be ray-traced hair.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Songs of the Previous will comprise extra Gwent, the franchise’s compulsive card recreation.
As beforehand confirmed, there was no signal of The Witcher 4 tonight— although none was anticipated. Yesterday, we gained affirmation that the highly-anticipated Ciri-starring sequel is concentrating on a 2028 launch window, and was very a lot nonetheless within the oven at current.
“Our crew right here at CD Projekt Pink HQ is tough at work on a model new saga, one with Ciri on the helm,” CD Projekt Pink joint CEO Michał Nowakowski mentioned beforehand. “We have now greater than 500 extremely gifted builders working to create one thing really particular for you. The Witcher 4 options an enormous and immersive open world, intense and action-packed gameplay, and a deep, impactful story that we hope will stick with you for a very long time. Merely put, that is our greatest, boldest, and most bold recreation thus far.
“Now I do know you are wanting to study when it is coming. That is the query we’re listening to from you on a regular basis. So whereas we’re not exhibiting The Witcher 4 on the occasion, and we’re not able to share a precise date, I can let you know this: The Witcher 4 is concentrating on a 2028 launch window.
“I do know it is a bit of a wait and also you’d like to play it sooner, however let the crew cook dinner. It is going to be well worth the wait. Till then, there will probably be loads extra of The Witcher to come back, together with Songs of the Previous when it launches in 2027. And you’ll make sure gamescom can be in our plans for the approaching years.”
Compensate for all of tonight’s bulletins in our roundup of all the pieces revealed at Gamescom Opening Evening Stay 2026.
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