The Witcher 3 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Not much hating going on ITT TBH. Just a few dumbfucks who are playing at being so edgy they're almost vorpal.

 

Witcher one was built on a heavily modified Aurora engine. They say approximately 80% of it was rewritten. Then, CDPR started working on Witcher 2 that was to use an evolution of the W1 engine. The screenshots you posted are from a tech demo on the engine. This is as far as they ever got with it. At the same time they were working on their own engine that was to be used for Witcher 3. It had nothing to do with Aurora. it was called REDengine.

Due to some financial turmoil associated with the failed attempt to convert the 1st game for the consoles as Witcher: White Wolf (there may also have been technical problems/limitations with Aurora, but I only read one source where it was only vaguely hinted), they cancelled all the work on the Aurora Witcher 2 and decided to use the then unfinished REDengine to make the second instalement in the series.

So please, stop pulling info out of your ass.

 

The point of the discussion is this quote:

In any case, no witcher game looks like NWN 1 in anyway. Not even NWN 2. Even if the engine is the same. The only unconsciously relation codexers would see probably is the bioware logo on the intro of witcher 1, but then the codex would hate mask of the betrayer.

But i'd say the witcher has more resemblance in presentation with the mass effect series, which uses the unreal engine.

In any case, that quote would be the same as saying half-life 2 is a big mod for Quake.

 

Even if Red engine had its basis in Aurora, which it doesn't, who fucking cares. It looks and works well either way, more than Aurora ever did.

 

Some real gameplay screens

 

I hope these are from the console version, because those textures and the grass don't like too good.

 

There is one main build for all platforms, PC will only have a little better textures.

 

Looks great. Add the sharper textures for the PC and it will look fantastic.

 

The grass doesn't look good but that's kind of a spergy detail. The overall scene looks fantastic.

Also, that's a particularly invasive HUD.

 

Modded Skyrim is probably a better game than this turd.

 

"Thread Incliner"

 

The top one looks pretty shit I have to say. Foliage looks crap and the scene is really lacking in depth.

 

Skyrim is a different type of game...... witcher should be compared to gothic/ risen / two world series..... aka euro trash rpgs.

 

Yeah. Looks like the Aurora engine alright.

 

And you can mod any crappy sedan to be better than a roadster.

Maybe it will look better, maybe the combat will be better, but you still need someone to sit on retarted NPCs, script/plot, quests. No one is doing that.

 

Witcher 1 looks better than W 3





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Some of you really need to book an appointment with your eye doctor.

 

Posting in a thread where people (possibly) get tags.

 

The stopped using the modded Aurora engine after Witcher 1..

Everything looks fine except the foliage in the top picture.. although it's very possible a screenshot just caught them in a bad light.. If that foliage has any kind of reaction to wind or physics when you walkthrough it.. and has slightly better texturing on PC.. I think it will look fine.

Other then that.. game looks amazing.. This is what Inquisition wants to look like but can't because every ones face is made of some weird playdo material..

First off.. your top screenshot is 99% skybox.. that island in the distance and water is an illusion / painted texture in itself and the grass is blurry as fuck.

I agree the texture on that particular foliage looks a little nicer but you cherry picked an image with basically just a 2D image of a sunset painted on top of some bearable grass and compared it to a game that actually uses in-game travelable areas as it's far distance.. That mountain in the bottom picture is not a skybox. If you look at the texture of the ground, it's not even comparable..

 

There's not enough DOF or bloom in those screenshots to be from the finished game.

 

WOW THATS A BIG WORLD
WOW THATS A LOT OF LEAVES
WOW LOOK AT THE FLOWERS
WOW LOOK AT THOSE SHADOWS
SO PERFECT
SO BEAUTIFUL
BUT GUESS WHAT?
THATS NOT EVEN OUR FINAL FORM!

 

I just don't even. They do it themselves.

 

Wake me up when CD Projekt makes a decent game.