viveks86
Member
that could be possible yes
Nice shot. Is there any AA though? Could have made it so much better!
The Witcher 3 PS4 gameplay
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Nice shot. Is there any AA though? Could have made it so much better!
Are you playing with patch applied? Did you notice any difference with frame rate?
P.S. Nice screenshots by the way.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
How does it compare to other Open World RPGs ? Like Skyrim, Fallout or DA:I ?
HORRORSHØW
Member
lol from foliage to follicles
Cool, thanks.
Lurgan1337
Banned
Visuals are very good indeed. Landscape in beautiful and cool. Great sense of adventure and real fantasy world. I very like that characters have different body types, because Skyrim and many other games feel just stupid with EVERYONE being a middle-aged fit man lol. And almost every other character feels unique enough. Only noname peasants and bandits look simillar, but then again they are in just to feel big and alive.
Writing is superb. I like almost everything that I hear and what I read, the VO is great as well - I'm playing English version btw.
I also beat both W1&2 so I know the series alright.
nelsonroyale
Member
Exactly. People worrying about how this is going to look on PC, there is so much geometry in there, pristine IQ will make a massive difference. This will easily be the best looking open world game on PC.
Nice!!!
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Do you have a capture card ? Could you stream a bit on hitbox ?
nelsonroyale
Member
Yes, that seems in line with my sense from media...very coherent and believable environments. Awesome. Just five days and I will be joining you.
no capture card sorry
Based on many many screenshots from the PS4 version out there the IQ is good. Its not 4K but it aint anywhere near the "is there any AA?". Game has pretty clear and good IQ. Sure certain lighting conditions could show AA issues, but that is definetely not the norm. I for one was surprised how clean the game is on PS4.
Lurgan1337
Banned
I'll be honest. I dislike DA:I a lot, as well as Skyrim. I feel that they are some of the most unimaginable and plain lazy AAA titles out there. I do like New Vegas though
As I said - movement feels clunky at times. ESPECIALLY if you are trying to be all crazy and go climbing huts and roofs all day everyday. They added animations for climbing stuff etc, but if feels so off at times. Like they added the feature a month ago and didn't have any time to make it feel not wierd.
Quests were superb so far, but there's a little problem I felt. Game literally overuses Witcher's Sense. Looking back I see that almost 8 out of 10 quests rely of you using it almost nonstop. Sometimes it just does not feel right to me =\ It makes me feel I'm a Predator switching vision modes constantly
As I said - the game is great - but I just nitpick everything that feels wrong to me presonally.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Great, I also dislike Skyrim and DA:I, both for different reasons and I like Fallout NV. We share the same taste, sir.I'll be honest. I dislike DA:I a lot, as well as Skyrim. I feel that they are some of the most unimaginable and plain lazy AAA titles out there. I do like New Vegas though
As I said - movement feels clunky at times. ESPECIALLY if you are trying to be all crazy and go climbing huts and roofs all day everyday. They added animations for climbing stuff etc, but if feels so off at times. Like they added the feature a month ago and didn't have any time to make it feel not wierd.
Quests were superb so far, but there's a little problem I felt. Game literally overuses Witcher's Sense. Looking back I see that almost 8 out of 10 quests rely of you using it almost nonstop. Sometimes it just does not feel right to me =\ It makes me feel I'm a Predator switching vision modes constantly
As I said - the game is great - but I just nitpick everything that feels wrong to me presonally.
Lurgan1337
Banned
Yep environments feel super alive. I feels just like those cool Kingdome Come: Deliverence vlogs with almost real villages and stuff.
Btw there was stupid technical bug, I hope patch got rid of it. Basicly when I did the quest from trailers - when Wild Hunt burns the village - it felt super awkward.
They heavily use frost as a magic weapon and it looked like half-done.
First raiders appear. Second later frost auras pop in. And second later textures begin freezing. And that was a cutscene damn it. Felt like some 'under-constructuin for internal use only' shit lol.
Infinite_Daremo
Member
Quests were superb so far, but there's a little problem I felt. Game literally overuses Witcher's Sense. Looking back I see that almost 8 out of 10 quests rely of you using it almost nonstop. Sometimes it just does not feel right to me =\ It makes me feel I'm a Predator switching vision modes constantly
I can see the criticism of features like this but i'd still prefer it over cookie crumb trail or a minimap indicator given the option. At least it ties in with game lore. That said the feature still annoyed me in the Batman franchise though.
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Quests were superb so far, but there's a little problem I felt. Game literally overuses Witcher's Sense. Looking back I see that almost 8 out of 10 quests rely of you using it almost nonstop. Sometimes it just does not feel right to me =\ It makes me feel I'm a Predator switching vision modes constantly
As I said - the game is great - but I just nitpick everything that feels wrong to me presonally.
That's what I feared when I saw the Witcher Sense the first time :sigh:
How is the weight system though, do you easily get over the carrying limit like in Witcher 2 or is it more balanced?
I'll be honest. I dislike DA:I a lot, as well as Skyrim. I feel that they are some of the most unimaginable and plain lazy AAA titles out there. I do like New Vegas though
As I said - movement feels clunky at times. ESPECIALLY if you are trying to be all crazy and go climbing huts and roofs all day everyday. They added animations for climbing stuff etc, but if feels so off at times. Like they added the feature a month ago and didn't have any time to make it feel not wierd.
Quests were superb so far, but there's a little problem I felt. Game literally overuses Witcher's Sense. Looking back I see that almost 8 out of 10 quests rely of you using it almost nonstop. Sometimes it just does not feel right to me =\ It makes me feel I'm a Predator switching vision modes constantly
As I said - the game is great - but I just nitpick everything that feels wrong to me presonally.
Kudos for the impressions.
Specifically about witcher senses, can you complete the quests without using it so much as the game seems to force it? Or is it pretty much necessary to use it constantly?
Thanks.
sometimes the game tells you to use witcher sense but i found the things without using it,so you are not forced to use it each time
Lurgan1337
Banned
So far I never had problems with it. One time I did some quests and exploring, ended up killing a band of deserters. Picked up like dozen of swords from their mutilated bodies. And I carry a shitton of crafting materials like I'm a merchant myself. And weight was something liek 28\60. It it really good in my opinion.
What I dislike - is that my swords break too easy in my opinion. For example there was a long story quest in ruins with a lot of shit going on. I went in with prestine outfit and almost halfway thru indicators poped up, saying both my swords were half-broken. I didn't have any upgrades on them and then again - I'm lvl 6 using lvl 1 swords - but it feels like a chore.
I disliked weak weapons in Dark Souls 2 and I really liked DS1 and Bloodborne. I literally repaired weapons like 5 times in a whole playthrough. But I saw some items for repairing durability on field, so there's that
SnowDrops
Member
I figured there are alot of PC-People in here too who might find that interesting:
from PC config-files, anything we didn't know yet?
[DLC]
dlc_yen_alternate_look=false
dlc_ciri_alternate_look=false
dlc_triss_alternate_look=false
dlc_gwent_cards=false
[Hud]
HudSize=1
TimeLapseModule=true
BoatHealthModule=true
BossFocusModule=true
CompanionModule=true
ConsoleModule=true
DamagedItemsModule=true
EnemyFocusModule=true
HorsePanicBarModule=true
HorseStaminaBarModule=true
ItemInfoModule=true
BuffsModule=true
Minimap2Module=true
OnelinersModule=true
OxygenBarModule=true
QuestsModule=true
WolfMedalion=true
MessageModule=true
MinimapRotation=true
MinimapFocusClues=false
MinimapTracksWaypoints=true
MiminapPoiQuestionMarks=true
ControlsFeedbackModule=true
Rendering
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AllowBloom=true
AllowShafts=false
AllowAntialias=false
AllowMSAA=false
AllowBlur=true
AllowDOF=false
AllowVignette=true
AllowSharpen=false
AllowRain=true
AllowSSAO=true
AllowMotionBlur=false
AllowCutsceneDOF=true
AllowBillboards=true
AllowSoftLight=true
AllowFog=true
AllowUnderwater=true
AllowChromaticAberration=false
[Rendering]
MaxTextureSize=2048
MaxAtlasTextureSize=2048
MaxCubeShadowSize=512
MaxSpotShadowSize=512
TextureDownscale=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=500
TextureMemoryGUIBudget=80
TextureTimeBudget=10
TextureInFlightBudget=128
DecalsChance=1.0f
DecalsSpawnDistanceCutoff=10.0f
TextureStreamingDistanceLimit=40000.f
TextureStreamingCharacterDistanceLimit=50.f
TextureStreamingHeadsDistanceLimit=10.f
TextureStreamingReduceGameplayLOD=true
UberSampling=0
TextureMipBias=0
MsaaLevel=0
DynamicDecalsLimit=30
MeshRenderingDistanceScale=1.0f
MeshLODDistanceScale=1.0f
TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold=2.0f
TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier=10
ForceInstantAdaptation=false
ForceInstantEnvProbeUpdate=false
EnableTemporalAA=true
CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=1.0f
CascadeShadowmapSize=1024
CascadeShadowQuality=0
MaxCascadeCount=4
MaxTerrainShadowAtlasCount=3
GlobalOceanTesselationFactor=10
UseHairWorks=false
HairWorksAALevel=8
TerrainReadAheadDistance=200.0f
ForcedDebugPreviewIndex=-1
[TextureStreaming]
MaxResidentMipMap=6
[LevelOfDetail]
MeshLodGameplayDownscale=0
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=0
DecalsHideDistance=30
StripeHideDistance=60
SwarmHideDistance=200
DimmerHideDistance=60
[Budget]
DecalBudget=100
sorry if old
from PC config-files, anything we didn't know yet?
[DLC]
dlc_yen_alternate_look=false
dlc_ciri_alternate_look=false
dlc_triss_alternate_look=false
dlc_gwent_cards=false
[Hud]
HudSize=1
TimeLapseModule=true
BoatHealthModule=true
BossFocusModule=true
CompanionModule=true
ConsoleModule=true
DamagedItemsModule=true
EnemyFocusModule=true
HorsePanicBarModule=true
HorseStaminaBarModule=true
ItemInfoModule=true
BuffsModule=true
Minimap2Module=true
OnelinersModule=true
OxygenBarModule=true
QuestsModule=true
WolfMedalion=true
MessageModule=true
MinimapRotation=true
MinimapFocusClues=false
MinimapTracksWaypoints=true
MiminapPoiQuestionMarks=true
ControlsFeedbackModule=true
Rendering
[PostProcess]
AllowBloom=true
AllowShafts=false
AllowAntialias=false
AllowMSAA=false
AllowBlur=true
AllowDOF=false
AllowVignette=true
AllowSharpen=false
AllowRain=true
AllowSSAO=true
AllowMotionBlur=false
AllowCutsceneDOF=true
AllowBillboards=true
AllowSoftLight=true
AllowFog=true
AllowUnderwater=true
AllowChromaticAberration=false
[Rendering]
MaxTextureSize=2048
MaxAtlasTextureSize=2048
MaxCubeShadowSize=512
MaxSpotShadowSize=512
TextureDownscale=0
DetailTextureDownscale=0
AtlasTextureDownscale=0
TextureMemoryBudget=500
TextureMemoryGUIBudget=80
TextureTimeBudget=10
TextureInFlightBudget=128
DecalsChance=1.0f
DecalsSpawnDistanceCutoff=10.0f
TextureStreamingDistanceLimit=40000.f
TextureStreamingCharacterDistanceLimit=50.f
TextureStreamingHeadsDistanceLimit=10.f
TextureStreamingReduceGameplayLOD=true
UberSampling=0
TextureMipBias=0
MsaaLevel=0
DynamicDecalsLimit=30
MeshRenderingDistanceScale=1.0f
MeshLODDistanceScale=1.0f
TerrainScreenSpaceErrorThreshold=2.0f
TerrainErrorMetricMultiplier=10
ForceInstantAdaptation=false
ForceInstantEnvProbeUpdate=false
EnableTemporalAA=true
CascadeShadowFadeTreshold=1.0f
CascadeShadowmapSize=1024
CascadeShadowQuality=0
MaxCascadeCount=4
MaxTerrainShadowAtlasCount=3
GlobalOceanTesselationFactor=10
UseHairWorks=false
HairWorksAALevel=8
TerrainReadAheadDistance=200.0f
ForcedDebugPreviewIndex=-1
[TextureStreaming]
MaxResidentMipMap=6
[LevelOfDetail]
MeshLodGameplayDownscale=0
CharacterLodGameplayDownscale=0
DecalsHideDistance=30
StripeHideDistance=60
SwarmHideDistance=200
DimmerHideDistance=60
[Budget]
DecalBudget=100
sorry if old
viveks86
Member
So it's exactly like the arkham games. Overusing it or not is really up to you. That's good to know
It's been doing the rounds since the preload 2 days ago
i know wich ruins you meannelsonroyale
Member
Oh I do think it looks clean on PS4. It looks really impressive overall, but I think the added IQ will make a discernible difference with this type of game. So many details already packed in.
Lurgan1337
Banned
Usually I use it this way. I need to find some clues of what did happen in a room. I use senses once and every object of interest is marked red. And then I run around the room collecting clues.
But out in the open some quests force you to do it. OR I'm just stupid which is true too.
viveks86
Member
Yeah that's kind of why I asked, because AA issues didn't really stand out in any other shot. Seems like the high frequency detail in that shot exacerbated it
aw too bad, no spookerz for me I guess.
Lurgan1337
Banned
well there were some ghosts and a mini-boss. so that's more like spooky enough >.>
Going by the reviews I have read, you can complete many quests/ parts of quests without the use of the witcher sense, but there are some parts that demand that you use it to finish a quest.
I guess because you don´t know when you have to use it, you are forced to use it all the time...
not forced at all,found a lot of stuff without using it
SnowDrops
Member
It's been doing the rounds since the preload 2 days ago
Didn't see it anywhere, so yeah, sorry
But intresting nonthelessthe post about Config-Options from IGN-stream had me worried because it said "AA - On/Off"
but there is "MSAA level" in the config files so I'm good now
Lurgan1337
Banned
I guess it's only story quests with paranormal stuff. Like here's an illusionary wall - but you can tell only with your senses!
Great to hear about the carrying limit and the witcher sense not being forced on you, not so great hearing about the weapon duration though.
DS1 did it perfectly, my weapon never broke or was close being broken (except on few occasions) because I repaired it every time I had the chance instead of being forced to repair it.
Gurgelhals
Member
Yay for proper multisampling anti-aliasing support in the PC version! :-D
I hope my GTX 980 can manage 1440p + MSAA... :-/
I hope my GTX 980 can manage 1440p + MSAA... :-/
viveks86
Member
Didn't see it anywhere, so yeah, sorry
the post about Config-Options from IGN-stream had me worried because it said "AA - On/Off"
but there is "MSAA level" in the config files so I'm good now
I literally just commented on it on the other thread. Sorry to burst your bubble twice
I think Bloodborne destroys this game visually. It really goes to show how much visual consistency has to with the quality of the final image. W3 has this tech-demo look going on in many of the pics. The initial trailers look so good because they have some sort of unified lighting system there and the image is much more consistent.
Lurgan1337
Banned
yep. during that quest my steel sword broke to something like 20% and I had to use another one from my intentory instead. felt super wierd to me.
the_batman
Banned
well this game is open world, so..
Summer Haze
Banned
Even so, Bloodborne still doesn't look anywhere near as good imo.
Lurgan1337
Banned
yep, and it is very good at being open world rpg. The game feels very simillar to RDR very often.
Gurgelhals
Member
nelsonroyale
Member
I have a feeling a lot of people will change their tune on this game visually when they get it in their hands. Witcher 2 looked utterly stunning, especially the consistency of high quality assets, this seems to be a step up from that and in a much bigger setting. The lighting looks pretty stunning overall as well. Just comming off playing Dragon Age and the difference between the two visually is pretty striking. DA has many similar elements but the environments are so much simpler and less convincing.
So you can actually find clues in a room for example by search around and not using witcher senses? A quest for example had the player investigate the room. There was a rug on the floor that when you use witcher senses Geralt mentions something and then an "X" opos up and you find out there is a small room beneath.
My question is, if I am thorough and investigate the room without witcher senses, will "X" pop up and enable me to find the secret room? Or are you required to use witcher senses to find it?
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Tend to disagree, Bloodborne looks really good if you compare it to the PS4 Version of The Witcher 3.