The Witcher 3 | Review Thread

Been holding off waiting for reviews and money, finally got to preorder and Best Buy is no longer offering free release date delivery and Amazon doesn't even fucking have a goddamn estimate. Fuck the fuck off with that bullshit. Game is basically a week out and you can't even give me an estimate?? If it isn't here on Tuesday Amazon there will be words....
 
ok this is a question for the pc dudes, and it's a more hardware related question

I have an older cpu on my rig (i7 2600k) and was wondering if I pair this with a gtx 970 I will get excellent witcher performance?
 
So that's the only difference, not 180p's alone is worth 7 quid.

Well, we dont really know yet, X1 might have worse frames or something, but I really doubt it. That's the known difference as of right now. If you want to know it all, you're gonna have to wait.
 
ok this is a question for the pc dudes, and it's a more hardware related question

I have an older cpu on my rig (i7 2600k) and was wondering if I pair this with a gtx 970 I will get excellent witcher performance?

You will likely be fine with that, especially if you've overclocked it (and since it's a K, you should be). If you aren't then a lot of people are fucked because that's still a great CPU.
 
Are all of the reviews in the OT or is that just the ones that have been released so far? There are so many foreign language reviews! I don't know which ones to use in the OT lol.
 
ok this is a question for the pc dudes, and it's a more hardware related question

I have an older cpu on my rig (i7 2600k) and was wondering if I pair this with a gtx 970 I will get excellent witcher performance?
A solid setup. Should be getting Ultra with few settings high, comfortably.
 
A solid setup. Should be getting Ultra with few settings high, comfortably.

Whatabout me?

I got an i5 3570k and a MSI HD7950

I am still debating on upgrading my GPU but I'm tight on funds at the moment.

I have no idea what kind of performance I expect to get. I probably won't get Ultra, but as long as I can get a solid framerate with no drops, I'm happy.
 
excellent :)

it's not overclocked as I've never felt the need to

I have the same CPU, and I overclocked to 4.0 GHz. I can play at high settings with any recent open world game, but 60 fps is out of the question. GPU is a 980. I can find a compromise by downgrading the settings here and there, but with PC I go ham or go console.

My CPU dates back to 2011 anyway, so I'm due for an upgrade.
 
Whatabout me?

I got an i5 3570k and a MSI HD7950

I am still debating on upgrading my GPU but I'm tight on funds at the moment.

I have no idea what kind of performance I expect to get. I probably won't get Ultra, but as long as I can get a solid framerate with no drops, I'm happy.

Probably a mix of medium and some high, but it's hard to guess with AMD sometimes. 7950's not too far above the min suggested card so I'd at least temper expectations.
 
A day 1 patch is nice but unless they're providing patch notes, acting like it fixes every issue is being pretty naive. Every dev will say that sort of stuff about day 1 patches.

Could be the FPS drops are fixed. Could be the swamps are better. Could be neither and they simply fixed the vibrating water cod piece.
 
Whatabout me?

I got an i5 3570k and a MSI HD7950

I am still debating on upgrading my GPU but I'm tight on funds at the moment.

I have no idea what kind of performance I expect to get. I probably won't get Ultra, but as long as I can get a solid framerate with no drops, I'm happy.
Medium with probably some settings high at stable frame rate would be my guess. Your CPU is pretty good, but GPU might bottleneck. It also depends on AMD specific drivers for this game since it's Nvidia promoted title.
 
Probably a mix of medium and some high, but it's hard to guess with AMD sometimes. 7950's not too far above the min suggested card so I'd at least temper expectations.

Medium with probably some settings high at stable frame rate would be my guess. Your CPU is pretty good, but GPU might bottleneck. It also depends on AMD specific drivers for this game since it's Nvidia promoted title.

Well I know once I get back to work I'll be saving my paychecks for.

970 GTX and another 8GB of Ram to bump it up to 16GB.

I'll take the compromise now, but at least I know in the future I'll have best Witcher 3 experience to look forward to.

Thanks for the information.
 
About pre-load and other languages, here official information:

"
Hello

The polish version for pre-download will be available soon.

Regards,
JuriJ
GOG.com Support

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Saw two mentions of more lenient weight limits. In that preview posted bit earlier it says it's much more accomodating, even compared to other rpg's.

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Happy to wait on this a few weeks and see what the real reaction is after three weeks or so. That's usually when the honeymoon period ends.
 
Marcin Momot said Day 1 patch will solve the FPS issue on PS4...

He is the Community Manager (ie. Marketing) and he used the words 'improved' and 'better' in regards to the performance the Day 1 patch will bring. Not solved.

I'm not expecting miracles (I am also getting it on PS4) but hopefully the framerate will be better than some reviews have stated.
 
Jeff Gertsmann said the review copies had the Day 1 patch installed and still had framerate issues? Unless there is another Day 1 patch.
Did you read topic?

The game is another good example for me to lose some time from real life to this. Next month comes TESO. How in the hell I have time to play these games and do something else too :P.
 
Did any review mention the differences between the difficulty levels?
 
Any word on digital foundry doing their analysis? I'll be buying the console version with the better frame rate, even though I have the PS4 version preordered.
 
Any word on digital foundry doing their analysis? I'll be buying the console version with the better frame rate, even though I have the PS4 version preordered.

Given X1 copies of the game aren't being sent out, I wouldn't expect a comparison article to appear until after the 19th.
 
Here's hoping my 2500K @ 4.4Ghz and OC'ed 980 will give me a solid 45 fps (G-sync) at 1440p. Might just pull it off, right?

I wonder what AA options we'll be getting. I wonder if the only AA option will be a on/off toggle, just like TW2. Could probably be so, as it's the same engine, just updated.
 
Jeff Gertsmann said the review copies had the Day 1 patch installed and still had framerate issues? Unless there is another Day 1 patch.

VideoGamer.com said:
...the PS4 review build supplied to media included some of the fixes found in the upcoming day one patch, but not all of them

That's what they were told.

As others have mentioned, I would expect some improvements overall but not a huge jump.
 
That's what they were told.

As others have mentioned, I would expect some improvements overall but not a huge jump.

Indeed.


CDPR also said 2 days ago, that in the past 2 weeks they have made large improvements in performance on all 3 platforms, and that the PS4 framerate issues are already remedied.
 
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