Everything Coming To The Witcher 3 In The Free New-Gen Upgrade - Kotaku

One of the best games of the past decade is astir to get adjacent better, and for escaped to everyone who already owns it. CD Projekt Red yet revealed everything that volition beryllium included successful The Witcher 3’s new-gen upgrade, and adjacent showed disconnected a spot of it successful enactment with a caller trailer. The agelong hold for the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S versions decidedly seems worthy it, and fans are already meticulously picking implicit granular improvements to shadows, reflections, and foliage.

During a livestream connected Wednesday, CDPR developers went implicit what players tin expect erstwhile the update drops connected December 14 after a twelvemonth of delays. One of the large changes for console owners volition beryllium the enactment to take betwixt show and graphics modes, portion PC players volition person the enactment of a much zoomed-in camera presumption that adds a much cinematic consciousness to the game. Overall, the changes look geared astatine making the critically-acclaimed unfastened satellite RPG adjacent much visually awesome and subordinate friendly.

Here’s the trailer:

And here’s everything successful the escaped upgrade:

• 60fps show mode oregon 30fps with ray tracing (except connected Series S)
• Haptic feedback connected PS5
• Over-the-shoulder camera and photograph mode connected PC
• Cross-save betwixt PS5, Series X/S, and PC
• Button shortcuts for Sign magic
• Map filter to region flood of “?” symbols
• Option to person mini-map vanish portion connected horseback oregon during combat
• Bigger subtitle fonts
• Questline for acquiring cogwheel inspired by Henry Cavill’s Geralt portrayal successful the Netflix bid (RIP)
• Optional Netflix-style costumes for Ciri, Yen, Tris, Dandelion, and Nilfgaardian soldiers (lol)
• Other, much granular graphics options, updates, and bug fixes

Fans person already begun poring over the supra trailer that aired during the livestream for clues astir what the enhanced mentation volition look like. In summation to shinier surfaces erstwhile it rains and much stark contrasts betwixt reflections and shadows, the satellite wide conscionable looks a spot much crisp and detailed, and successful immoderate ways person to The Witcher 3’s stunning E3 uncover which players marveled astatine backmost successful 2013.

Players accused CDPR of downgrading the game erstwhile its finished 2015 mentation didn’t look precisely the same. While that’s to beryllium expected astatine this point, The Witcher 3 is successful the antithetic presumption of getting adjacent amended looking implicit clip acknowledgment to the caller console cycle, particularly connected PC wherever a caller Ultra Plus settings enactment volition propulsion the seven-year-old crippled to the max.

I’m not 1 of those sticklers combing done abbreviated clips and screenshots and counting the other pixels successful a puddle, but with The Witcher 3, I get it. Despite awesome games similar Ghost of Tsushima, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and Horizon Forbidden West, it inactive remains my idiosyncratic modular bearer for satellite building, storytelling, and immersive exploration successful an open-world RPG. I’ve already spent a 100 hours with the crippled crossed the basal run and 2 fantabulous expansions, and I’m acceptable to walk a 100 more. I tin already consciousness the upwind howling.