The Witcher 3 GOTY Edition

[rusty_shackleford]

They added the Shitflix Nilfgaardian scrotum armor no fucking way

Jesus Christ. I get that the lunatics are running all the asylums these days, but did they have to get the lobotomy ward? I didn't even see the Netflix crap and I still know it was one of the most ridiculed aspects of its early marketing.

I wonder how much money changed hands to get that in

$0
the poles do it FOR FREE

 

[Athos]

The ballsack armor was added as a joke. Not even fans of the shows liked that costume.

 

[Arthandas]

TL:DR

- quick casting signs without the "bullet time" menu
- new map filters
- dynamic HUD
- scalable fonts
- some flat surfaces are now 3D
- foliage remade from scratch
- better clouds
- photo mode
- new TPP close-up camera
- ability to pause the game during cutscenes
- new secrets
- new content from the tv show (there's a new quest to get it), scrotum armor (toggle in the settings), new Dandelion skin (also toggleable)
- RTGI and RTAO ray tracing (global illumination and ambient occlusion)
- SSR (screen space reflections) for everything, not just water
- FSR 2.1 and DLSS
- new textures + integration of the HD Reworked Project
- Ultra+ settings for PC
- higher draw distance for all versions of the game
- quicker load times for consoles
- bugfixes (apparently there was another QA pass)
- Chinese subtitles and full voice over + "some improvements to other languages"
- cross-saves between consoles and all PC versions

They said there's more and they'll show it later.

 

[Gerrard]

How much you want to bet that the fucked up positional audio is untouched?

 

[Justicar]

At last decent lod subhumans and I didnt see any niggers added codextards are wrong yet again.

 

[JDR13]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

 

[ADL]

Lighting changes look nice but it's funny how even with ray traced global illumination, still looks worse than pre-downgrade footage.

Edit: not even RTGI, just shadows.

 

[AwesomeButton]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

I will complain about the lack of software RT for older cards. This is one of the few games where enabling software raytracing on a 1080ti would have made sense, because the game is old enough and the card strong enough to still give good framerate.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I don't understand why they are showing off the map filter that hides boat and question mark icons. I already have this in my game. From the main menu - Options, Video, HUD Configuration - Undiscovered POIs on Minimap. Set this to "off" and no question marks.

 

[JDR13]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

I will complain about the lack of software RT for older cards. This is one of the few games where enabling software raytracing on a 1080ti would have made sense, because the game is old enough and the card strong enough to still give good framerate.

I doubt it. Ray tracing in a game like TW3 would bring any 10xx series card to its knees.

 

[CrunchyHemorrhoids]

Oh, and they integrated friendly hud! Congratulations!

Autohiding hud, alternate controls, alternate camera, full removal of magical gps markers to name a few they've shown so far. Despite appearing small those changes can already have a huge impact on the moment to moment gameplay experience of those playing on consoles/no mods. IMO this is already going beyond what you'd expect of a free nextgen port/update.

And I suspect most of the gameplay "tweaks" wouldn't have happened if the project hadn't moved in-house.

 

[Ezekiel]

Playing this for the second time in seven years. Looked for a way to turn off the stupid lens effects, all the dirt and dried moisture that appears on the screen. First search result was my own thread from back then.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/615085406673529039/

 

[gerey]

I didn't even see the Netflix crap and I still know it was one of the most ridiculed aspects of its early marketing.

They know too, hence why they included it.

CDPR despises their costumers and wants to humiliate and anger them at every opportunity.

TL:DR

You forgot to add:
- breaking every mod years after most modders moved on from the game so there's nobody around to fix/update them

 

[Arthandas]

You forgot to add:
- breaking every mod years after most modders moved on from the game so there's nobody around to fix/update them

How are some third party random unofficial modifications their problem? Going by that retarded logic no game should ever be patched or updated because 'muh mods'...
It's up to modders to keep their shit up to date and if they aren't then apparently the mods aren't worth it.

 

[Lambach]

They know too, hence why they included it.

CDPR despises their costumers and wants to humiliate and anger them at every opportunity.

Or they actually got high on their own supply and genuinely believe 99.5% of fans love everything about the show, scrotum armor included, while the other 0.5% are just Klan members or something that they can safely ignore.

Becoming out of touch is pretty common once you get big and famous.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Going by that retarded logic no game should ever be patched or updated because 'muh mods'...

They should be patched in a way that doesn't break mods, YES.
If a game supports modding it should be as strict as the linux kernel is with breaking userspace with regards to breaking mods.

It's up to modders to keep their shit up to date and if they aren't then apparently the mods aren't worth it.

no

 

[Lambach]

They should be patched in a way that doesn't break mods, YES.

Who the hell expects an AAA company to make the extra effort to ensure they don't harm the experience of a couple dozen thousand of players when updating a game that sold millions and millions of copies? There's just no ROI there. The 2014-2015 CDPR had a reputation of being "not like the other girls" in the AAA world, but that time has long past.

 

[Semiurge]

They included bugfixes? Genuinely interesting. I wonder what they are. If I didn't already have a playthrough underway I'd install this version from scratch. There's probably 0% chance that this upgrade will be available as an offline patch like the "enhanced edition" for the Witcher 1 retail version, and even still, there's a greater than 0 chance that it could fuck up saves. For the next playthrough then.

 

[Yosharian]

Just have to wait 6 months for W3EE to be updated so that it works again

 

[ferratilis]

Playing this for the second time in seven years. Looked for a way to turn off the stupid lens effects, all the dirt and dried moisture that appears on the screen. First search result was my own thread from back then.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/615085406673529039/

https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/2873

 

[ERYFKRAD]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

Damn straight, Yennefer is not Shani.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Oh, and they integrated friendly hud! Congratulations!

Autohiding hud, alternate controls, alternate camera, full removal of magical gps markers to name a few they've shown so far. Despite appearing small those changes can already have a huge impact on the moment to moment gameplay experience of those playing on consoles/no mods. IMO this is already going beyond what you'd expect of a free nextgen port/update.

And I suspect most of the gameplay "tweaks" wouldn't have happened if the project hadn't moved in-house.

I would have been excited if I hadn't been playing like this for years.

 

[Lambach]

i would have been excited if I hadn't been playing like this for years.

Sounds like CDPR have cemented themselves as Bioware 2.0. Bioware's huge Mass Effect trilogy re-release is also mostly just a bunch of existing mods bundled together.

 

[AwesomeButton]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

I will complain about the lack of software RT for older cards. This is one of the few games where enabling software raytracing on a 1080ti would have made sense, because the game is old enough and the card strong enough to still give good framerate.

I doubt it. Ray tracing in a game like TW3 would bring any 10xx series card to its knees.

I'd like to try it out. In raster performance the 1080ti is equivalent to 2070 Super and 3060, even has a marginal lead.

From what I've seen in their video, GI ends up giving a bit of a desaturated image and with too bright whites. To me it looks worse than non-GI honestly, like someone's edgy reshade config - "I'm gonna make it better with colder colors". So I'm curious to see it with my own eyes on my own display, even if it's not practical to play with it. Maybe just the scenes they used in the video were more unfortunate, though I doubt it.

I watched a Digital Foundry video recently where they were trying to run various recent games on 1080ti with software raytracing. The conclusion is that they can run ok, until you get into a scene with lots of raytraced effects, resulting in uneven fps throughout your playing time.

 

[JDR13]

If it came with a free blowjob from Yennifer, Codexers would still complain.

I will complain about the lack of software RT for older cards. This is one of the few games where enabling software raytracing on a 1080ti would have made sense, because the game is old enough and the card strong enough to still give good framerate.

I doubt it. Ray tracing in a game like TW3 would bring any 10xx series card to its knees.

I'd like to try it out. In raster performance the 1080ti is equivalent to 2070 Super and 3060, even has a marginal lead.

From what I've seen in their video, GI ends up giving a bit of a desaturated image and with too bright whites. To me it looks worse than non-GI honestly, like someone's edgy reshade config - "I'm gonna make it better with colder colors". So I'm curious to see it with my own eyes on my own display, even if it's not practical to play with it. Maybe just the scenes they used in the video were more unfortunate, though I doubt it.

I watched a Digital Foundry video recently where they were trying to run various recent games on 1080ti with software raytracing. The conclusion is that they can run ok, until you get into a scene with lots of raytraced effects, resulting in uneven fps throughout your playing time.

The 1080 Ti is from 3 generations ago at this point. Anything more than some very mild Ray tracing is going to kill it.

I currently have an overclocked 1080 that's about halfway between a stock 1080 and a 1080 Ti performance-wise. I tried enabling software RT in Crysis Remastered, and it instantly took my framerate from 30 FPS to around 10.

Software RT is sort of a joke anyways. You can barely see a difference when the scene is in motion. It's really not worth messing with RT at all if you don't have a card that supports hardware RT.