Contemplating that The Witcher 4 has solely been in full manufacturing for a number of months, there weren’t any expectations to see gameplay footage any time quickly. Nonetheless, CD Projekt Red has now clarified that The Witcher 4 footage that was shared at State of Unreal wasn’t really from the sport itself. As a substitute, it was merely a tech demo set on this planet of The Witcher 4.
“It is a tech demo, and a primary take a look at the cutting-edge expertise powering The Witcher 4–but not The Witcher 4 itself,” defined a CD Projekt Red spokesperson to VGC. “It showcases the highly effective basis we’re constructing in shut collaboration with Epic Video games to push open-world design additional than ever earlier than and the core methods and options we’re creating utilizing Unreal Engine 5. We’re actually pleased with this early milestone and excited to provide you a sneak peek at among the cool tech like UAF, Nanite Foliage, Sensible Objects, ML Deformer and FastGeo Streaming which might be serving to form the way forward for The Witcher.”
The footage may be very spectacular, and it contains practical horse musculature and physics, in addition to one of the vital sturdy villages we have seen in a recreation alongside all kinds of NPCs. The tech demo was additionally operating at 60fps on an ordinary PlayStation 5. If The Witcher 4 can ship that stage of element and preserve that framerate on a PS5 and Xbox Sequence X|S, then gamers ought to be very completely satisfied.
CD Projekt Red hasn’t set a date for The Witcher 4 but, and it is not out of the query that it might skip to the following console era. The Witcher 3 devs not too long ago disclosed that they deliberate to make Ciri the primary character for the sequel all the way in which again in 2014. Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle additionally defended the selection to place Ciri within the lead and denounced the concept that doing so was “woke.”