The Witcher 4 Tech Demo Wasn't Actually The Game, Says CD Projekt Red
CD Projekt Red has cleared up the status of The Witcher 4 tech demo that was shared earlier today.www.gamespot.com
Considering that The Witcher 4 has only been in full production for a few months, there weren't any expectations to see gameplay footage any time soon. However, CD Projekt Red has now clarified that The Witcher 4 footage that was shared at State of Unreal wasn't actually from the game itself. Instead, it was simply a tech demo set in the world of The Witcher 4.
"This is a tech demo, and a first look at the cutting-edge technology powering The Witcher 4--but not The Witcher 4 itself," explained a CD Projekt Red spokesperson to VGC. "It showcases the powerful foundation we're building in close collaboration with Epic Games to push open-world design further than ever before and the core systems and features we're developing using Unreal Engine 5. We're really proud of this early milestone and excited to give you a sneak peek at some of the cool tech like UAF, Nanite Foliage, Smart Objects, ML Deformer and FastGeo Streaming that are helping shape the future of The Witcher."
The footage is very impressive, and it includes realistic horse musculature and physics, as well as one of the most robust villages we've seen in a game alongside a wide variety of NPCs. The tech demo was also running at 60fps on a standard PlayStation 5. If The Witcher 4 can deliver that level of detail and maintain that framerate on a PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, then players should be very happy.
CD Projekt Red hasn't set a date for The Witcher 4 yet, and it's not out of the question that it could skip to the next console generation. The Witcher 3 devs recently disclosed that they planned to make Ciri the main character for the sequel all the way back in 2014.
What's the point in the demo if it's not a demo of the game?
It literally says it's a tech demo in the footage itself.
So...lied about Witcher 3 downgrade
Lied about CP2077
annnnd here we are again with them laying down the ground work for more bullshit
This company cannot be trusted.
I assume it's one of their biggest challenges they want to tackle at Unreal. Keeping as much fidelity as possible at a higher framerate on console.
Was the team the same for W3 and CP?
Witcher 3, most of the magic comes from books. If you read lore pages for every character, you will see how well established each character it.
They didn't. That's not W4, it's just a tech demo.
isn't the nanite foliage thing new? that tech alone no doubt makes huge jumps in visual quality over the traditional way of rendering trees and shit, not to mention Epic are constantly upping the performance of Unreal, they even mentioned streaming is like 90% faster than when they demo'd Matrix.. its a Tech Demo afterall and we've yet to see any games release that look anything remotely like their UE5 tech demos but GFX engines do get better over time so who knows
If u watch that vid i posted about downgrade of witcher 3, u have the dev explaining/lieing about this stuff so many times that his lies contradict his other lies, in the very same interview, multiple times
It's a CGI movie. They didn't add the game yet, when they do... reality will settle in.
Hype factor, bro, im veteran gamer and i consider myself fairy resiliant to bullshot trailers(got deceived so many times in the past before, which makes us not trust those pre-release trailers/vids, even gameplay ones, and usually if something looks sus af, its sus af after all ;p) but here dev himself claimed stuff right at the begining, it had to hit us right in the feels
The game will be though... Just in time for the 6090.
She went from botox mom to cute babe again, hard to believe it's just camera angle and light conditions, i mean it could be but no one know for sure, devs are not gonna tell us if they fine tuned her face so my guess is as good as yours buddy, maybe stop calling people stupid when you also have no idea if they changed shit or not, if there are changes they are obviously small stuff, they didn't completely remade her face.
It doesn't but guerrilla punched way above their weight with a crossgen game.
U might not "recall" but there were some, not crazy like with for example killzone2/motorstorm cgi pretending to be realtime cutscene/gameplay trailers, but if u look closely u will see cuts were made
Because they will ignore the largest install base of consoles at launch?
You made her hot.
Brutal. Is was a PS5 amateur all along.
More like hot garbage
She looks beatiful now and walks like a woman with the correct hip movements.
Yet another whiny incel victory?
It's not really a big deal or anything. Gameplay > graphics. Graphics are something I wow at for about an hour or 2 and then I just don't really care about it. The game isn't any better or worse for looking different.
Never give them the benefit of the doubt.
And what's crazy is that Naughty Dog's hate is just because of what the character model looks like. Or maybe perpetually online children are offended that they have to play as a *gasp* woman in a videogame.Valley was 1440p 30fps on PS5. Hellblade 2 runs close to that resolution at 30fps and looks quite comparable and amazing I would say...
With initial 5.0 version they were fucused on 30fps gameplay, now they optimized this engine quite a bit.
All this tech is in UE5. First time seeing cloth physics?
Negativity? From the usual people that hate CDPR?
This is what NEGATIVITY looks like:
