CD Projekt has launched the patch notes for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered replace, confirming PC and console-specific modifications to the single-player role-playing recreation.
Including to its official checklist of enhancements for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, CD Projekt has now launched detailed patch notes that anybody downloading the replace tomorrow will discover fascinating, as revealed on The Witcher website.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered releases September 29 on PC (Steam, GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, Battle.internet), PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X|S, and Nintendo Swap 2. When you purchased any model of the sport prior to now, bodily or digital, you may improve totally free to the Remastered model throughout the identical platform ecosystem as quickly because it releases. (We’ve bought the official The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered world launch instances, so when the sport unlocks in your area, in addition to the replace obtain sizes so you may put together.)
CD Projekt additionally issued a warning to followers that with the enhancements launched all through The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, the system necessities for the sport have modified. The picture under confirms the PC specs:
To ease you into Geralt’s life on the highway, take a look at the Issues the Witcher 3 Doesn’t Inform You, plus IGN’s The Witcher 3 Walkthrough and The Witcher 3 Endings information, which outlines the entire main quests and selections within the base recreation and expansions (now bundled in with the Remastered version). Whenever you’re prepared for the powerful selections, take a look at our The Witcher 3 Intercourse and Romance information to see who Geralt can smooch and all of the alternatives to take action. And to make Geralt as sturdy a monster hunter as potential, take a look at all of the Witcher Gear Areas, Locations of Energy Areas, and even Gwent Card Areas.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered replace patch notes:
Visible and Rendering
- Carried out an improved shading mannequin.
- Up to date a number of textures and fashions based mostly on property from The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Venture.
- Improved lighting and shading for grass and foliage.
- Up to date the visible results of Indicators, together with their improve variations.
- Added new visible results for abilities.
- The sport now options native DirectX 12 rendering with multithreading for higher efficiency and visuals.
- Up to date tone mapping for improved colours, lighting, distinction and element.
- Added GTAO (Floor Fact Ambient Occlusion) as a brand new Display House Ambient Occlusion choice.
- Up to date the HDR calibration panel by including new choices and different enhancements.
- Added Ray-Traced HairWorks for improved lighting and shading on hair.
- Improved Movement Blur with a higher-quality, extra cinematic look.
- Up to date Subsurface Scattering for extra pure pores and skin rendering.
- Improved terrain and materials rendering for extra pure lighting, shadows, reflections, and highlights.
- Carried out new Picture-Based mostly Lighting (IBL) for improved ambient lighting and reflections throughout completely different environments.
- Reworked Bloom for extra improved lighting results throughout completely different environments.
Gameplay
- Improved the talent system. Abilities at the moment are organized right into a talent tree and every talent has three ranks. Unlocking new abilities now requires having the mandatory prerequisite abilities relatively than spending a set variety of talent factors. IMPORTANT: Because of these modifications, your talent factors have been reset.
- Rebalanced the talent tree by refining talent bonus values, results and synergies.
- Renamed some abilities to higher mirror their results.
- Now you can Reforge your tools to alter its look with out affecting its stats. Solely grasp craftsmen (Yoana and Hattori) provide this service. Unlock appearances by including new tools and crafting diagrams to your stock. Dyes from Blood and Wine utilized to tools will carry over to the reforged merchandise.
- Polished the fight conduct of all non-boss monsters, together with their assault patterns, counterattacks, motion, reactions, flight and the applying of results.
- Cantering and galloping now requires urgent the button as a substitute of holding it.
- Added a brand new “Horse management enter sensitivity” slider in Settings → Controls.
- Improved Roach’s and Geralt’s motion, participant management and animations:
- Refined Geralt’s leaping animation in order that it feels extra pure and polished. Be aware: This does not have an effect on bounce distance and top.
- Added new finisher animations for Geralt.
- Added new idle animations for Geralt.
- Improved Geralt’s ledge climbing, ladder climbing and vaulting animations in addition to his velocity for extra responsive, fluid motion.
- Improved Geralt’s hole closing animations in fight for smoother gameplay.
- Improved target-lock switching when shifting the digicam in fight.
- Polished animations for mounting and dismounting Roach, in addition to cantering and galloping.
UI/UX
- Meditation now incorporates a timelapse as a substitute of a UI display screen for a extra immersive really feel.
- The talent display screen is now reorganized right into a extra intuitive talent tree format.
- Up to date the map display screen to make switching between tracked quests simpler. Untracked quests now have a definite marker and might be tracked by choosing it.
- Now you can cover herbs, boats and corpses on the minimap in Settings → Video → Interface for a cleaner, much less distracting view.
- Improved quest notifications by combining quest updates right into a single HUD notification.
- Close by loot can now be grouped right into a single window, so that you now not must flick thru a number of loot home windows. You may allow this characteristic in Settings → Gameplay.
- Added a loot feed that shows not too long ago collected objects on the left aspect of the display screen. You may disable it in Settings → Gameplay.
- Added merchandise tooltips to the loot window, permitting you to preview an merchandise’s particulars earlier than choosing it up.
- Renamed the “HUD Configuration” part in Settings to “Interface”.
- Up to date the CD PROJEKT RED Account connection, My Rewards and telemetry consent menus.
Picture Mode
Up to date the Picture Mode UI and vastly expanded its options and choices:
- Now you can select from a number of completely different characters to position in your shot.
- Added a number of poses and expressions for Geralt and placeable characters.
- Added a Look-at dropdown, permitting you to decide on the place Geralt and placeable characters direct their gaze.
- Now you can place lights and regulate their brightness, shade, angles and extra.
- Added a affirmation immediate earlier than exiting Picture Mode to assist forestall unintended exits.
- Now you can lock the digicam place in Picture Mode to ensure you seize the right shot.
- Added the choice to use completely different surroundings presets to your scene.
- Added the choice to avoid wasting digicam presets, permitting you to avoid wasting and reuse digicam positions and angles.
- Now you can change the facet ratio of your screenshot.
- Added the choice to toggle a first-person digicam mode so you may see the world by Geralt’s eyes.
- Now you can allow or disable digicam collisions with objects and partitions.
- Set the right scene by altering the climate and time of day.
- Regulate the depth of climate results like rain or storms.
- Added an choice to toggle Rule of Thirds strains in varied facet ratios, with elective cinematic black bars.
- Digital camera coordinates will now be seen within the UI.
- Added an choice to cover surrounding NPCs.
- Added placeable props, providing you with much more methods to create the right scene. Simply do not ask the place all of them got here from.
- The cursor is now seen in Picture Mode on PC when utilizing a mouse.
Accessibility
- Added a brand new Accessibility part to the Settings menu. Moved current accessibility-related choices there.
- Added Ukrainian textual content localization.
- Added the Bard’s Ballad preset. You may allow it when beginning a brand new recreation on the Simply the Story issue or through the recreation within the Accessibility part. It’s designed to cut back cognitive load for gamers who expertise psychological fatigue or have issue concentrating. It streamlines gameplay by simplifying sure mechanics and disabling choose options for a smoother, extra targeted journey. You may allow the preset within the Accessibility tab and customise it by enabling or disabling the next choices:
- Vitality Regeneration Enhance – Provides the likelihood to regulate its activation threshold (“Prompts under (%) Vitality”) and the speed at which Vitality will increase (“Regeneration Depth”).
- Infinite Breath – Geralt cannot run out of oxygen whereas swimming and diving.
- Limitless Merchandise Sturdiness – Your gear won’t ever put on down, so there is no want to go to craftsmen for repairs.
- Limitless Boat Sturdiness – Boats are indestructible, making jagged rocks and sirens now not a priority.
- Ignore Merchandise Weight – Journey the Path carrying as a lot as you need.
- Sooner Boats – Sail sooner throughout the seas. The seas round Skellige simply bought a bit of bit smaller.
- Toggle Witcher Sense – Toggle on and off with out having to carry the button.
High quality of Life
- Streamlined tutorials to maintain them concise and targeted on instructing core recreation mechanics. We expect Vesemir would approve.
- Added an choice to rapidly disengage from fight. Maintain the dodge button (Alt/〇/B) to unlock out of your goal, then press the dash button (L Shift/X/A) to run away.
- Now you can acquire loot with out dismounting Roach.
Modding
- Added Cross Platform Mod Help, an in-game software powered by mod.io that lets you simply browse and set up player-created mods to customise your recreation. You could find it within the recreation’s primary menu in Mods. Log in together with your CD PROJEKT RED Account, join it to mod.io and begin shopping. You could find extra details about the Mod Supervisor here.
- Numerous engine, UI and different enhancements for REDkit, making it simpler for modders to create, handle and customise their content material.
Fixes
- Mounted a problem the place it wasn’t potential to alter Proper Stick Sensitivity if the settings have been accessed immediately from the primary menu.
- It is now potential to set Stick Sensitivity to the worth of 0.69.
- Mounted a problem the place HDR settings would typically not seem on consoles.
- Within the Everlasting Fireplace’s Shadow – Mounted a problem the place the Forgotten Wolf College Gear Diagrams weren’t displayed within the UI after being obtained as a reward.
- Wine is Sacred – Mounted a problem the place quick touring out of Toussaint through the “Search the wine cellar with Anna Henrietta” goal might block quest development. This repair will not be retroactive, so gamers who encountered this difficulty might want to load a save from earlier than it occurred.
PC-specific
IMPORTANT: Be sure you have the most recent graphics drivers put in. Seize them right here: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel.
- Added help for Path Tracing.
- Added help for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, along with Ray Reconstruction.
- Added help for AMD FSR 4, together with Body Era and Anti-Lag 2. FSR 4 is supported on AMD Radeon RX 7000 Sequence and newer graphics playing cards. On unsupported GPUs, the sport will use FSR 2 as a substitute.
- Added help for Intel XeSS 2.0, along with Body Era and Low Latency.
- Added help for DualSense controller haptic suggestions.
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