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The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - E3 2014 Trailer - The Sword Of Destiny

Kinthalis

Banned
Well, SMAA is not that good on movement. Probably it's fine for this game, that has a slow pace, except when you're riding.

They should be able to add a temporal filter as well. MSAA doesn't do much for temproal aliasing anyway... well maybe at 8X, but that's a gargantuan load on the GPU, moreover, MSAA isn't going to do anything about texture or transparency aliasing - the foilage would all be jaggy.
 

TheD

The Detective
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HOLY MOTHER OF FUCK JENEFFER AND CIRI FINALLY CONFIRMED
YEEEEEEES FOR ALL THAT IS HOLY YEEEEEEEEEES

This is going to be one of the most amazing rpg's ever.
If you are fan of the books this is going to be the wildest ride ever.

Thank you CD Projeckt, you are the best.
 
In terms of story, the Witcher 1 is the first in the story right? I thought the 2nd was a prequel.

Witcher 2 is a sequel, but they are pretty much self-contained stories. If you play W1 and then W2, your save file from the first will be used on the Witcher 2 to give you some starting goodies, and some of dialogue choices will reflect what you did on the first game.
 
Rumour was that it ran at 30-45 FPS at Ultra on a 780 Ti with 8xMSAA.

If this is true... Oh my god. My 780 Ti is getting so wet right now.

It's probably still unoptimized, so I wouldn't worry. I also don't understand why so many in this thread think they will need three Titans to run this game.
CDPR develops first and foremost on PC. They optimized Witcher 2 quite well, so I will not expect any less from CDPR.

Of course I would need to replace my 660Ti too come release, but I don't expect this game to require a monstrous setup for early 2015 standards.
 

fresquito

Member
Ofcourse not.That's why CDP should clear up what kind of hardware this trailer ran on.
Okay, thanks for the reply. I think it's pretty clear this is PC hardware. If you're advertising your game, you will use the best hardware at hand. You don't advertise a game running on PS4 hardware and don't clearly state it's PS4 hardware.
 

Xamdou

Member
Witcher 2 is a sequel, but they are pretty much self-contained stories. If you play W1 and then W2, your save file from the first will be used on the Witcher 2 to give you some starting goodies, and some of dialogue choices will reflect what you did on the first game.

I see, thanks for the clarification!
 
It's probably still unoptimized, so I wouldn't worry. I also don't understand why so many in this thread think they will need three Titans to run this game.
CDPR develops first and foremost on PC. They optimized Witcher 2 quite well, so I will not expect any less from CDPR.

Of course I would need to replace my 660Ti too come release, but I don't expect this game to require a monstrous setup for early 2015 standards.

But, but... I want to run this game with ubersampling turned on at 60+ fps!
 

Dawg

Member
It's probably still unoptimized, so I wouldn't worry. I also don't understand why so many in this thread think they will need three Titans to run this game.
CDPR develops first and foremost on PC. They optimized Witcher 2 quite well, so I will not expect any less from CDPR.

Of course I would need to replace my 660Ti too come release, but I don't expect this game to require a monstrous setup for early 2015 standards.

This is true. I remember talking to one of the devs waaaaaaay back at gamescom, joking that the system requirements would probably blow my pc away.

But then he said that optimization is actually a really big deal for them. They want as many people as possible enjoying some of their best graphics. Sure, there will be settings for people with crazy setups like 3 titans but then again so did TW2 with uber sampling etc.

My brother ran The Witcher 2 on a GTX 560 and it still looked incredible with very decent fps.
 

benzy

Member
Rumour was that it ran at 30-45 FPS at Ultra on a 780 Ti with 8xMSAA.

If this is true... Oh my god. My 780 Ti is getting so wet right now.

Is that 780 ti considerably stronger than the ps4 GPU? If the ps4 can pull this off at 1080p with at least 2xMSAA it'll be a looker for me. My PC sucks ass.
 

Derp

Member
It's probably still unoptimized, so I wouldn't worry. I also don't understand why so many in this thread think they will need three Titans to run this game.
CDPR develops first and foremost on PC. They optimized Witcher 2 quite well, so I will not expect any less from CDPR.

Of course I would need to replace my 660Ti too come release, but I don't expect this game to require a monstrous setup for early 2015 standards.
I know. I'm not worried, I'm saying it's a good thing. They invest a lot of time into optimisation which I value a lot.

And I also agree that many people are overestimating the hardware required to run this game. Optimisation goes a long way, guys. This isn't Ubisoft Keiv and one of their shitty ports. This is CDPR, the god of all gaming companies.

I love you CDPR.
 
Well, CDP better come out and clear that up.

If PS4 can't support these visuals then they should state that.
Why? This is what it looks like on the primary platform. I think people take it as a given that PC devs will develop for high end hardware, and consoles don't fit into that, so they have to scale things down for them.
 
I just hope they have some sort of primer for those who don't read Polish since only a few of the books are translated.
The game comes with a Compendium to catch people up on important events and people in the world.

How many of the books aren't translated? I need to catch up on the story.
One more is supposed to come out at the end of this month, so that leaves 2 in the series, and one collection of short stories untranslated. All of them have fan translations in the community section of the game forums though.
 

SmartBase

Member
How many of the books aren't translated? I need to catch up on the story.

The one after Time of Contempt is the newest translated book IIRC.

And is there any bad translations to look out for?

Honestly the ones I've read were as if they were scribed by a native English speaker. I can't speak for fan translations and would rather stay away from them.

My guess is thats what that " Witcher Compendium" that comes with every game is for.

I hope they have a slick intro like in the Enhanced Edition of the second game, but that would do nicely as well.
 

SugarDave

Member
I've just been looking up details on the books. Can anyone who has read them tell me if I've got this right?

The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny are short story compilations that act as introductions which should be read first.

Then there's (in order) Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Swallow's Tower and Lady of the Lake that act as the connected "saga" set after the short story collections.

Sword of Destiny and the final two novels have yet to be translated into English but there are apparently fan translations online that are very good. Then when I'm done, the games take place after all of the books, correct?
 

lmbotiva

Junior Member
i never played W1 but i did finish 2, can anyone explain that trailer to me please, because i feel it was all based on what happened on W1
 

BigTnaples

Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Really though, someone needs to tweet some devs and figure out if the PS4 version will have next gen fur on wolves, bears, beasts and coats. Or if Nvidia is going to cock block the consoles.
 

Sentenza

Member
Is it just me or does he look even younger than during Witcher 2?

Doesn't look as old and tattered as his previous designs.
I don't think he looks particularly younger; nor older, for all that matters.
He just looks like made with a slightly different art style, but that's pretty much it.
 
I've just been looking up details on the books. Can anyone who has read them tell me if I've got this right?

The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny are short story compilations that act as introductions which should be read first.

Then there's (in order) Blood of Elves, Time of Contempt, Baptism of Fire, Swallow's Tower and Lady of the Lake that act as the connected "saga" set after the short story collections.

Sword of Destiny and the final two novels have yet to be translated into English but there are apparently fan translations online that are very good. Then when I'm done, the games take place after all of the books, correct?
Yup, you got it all correct.
 
Really though, someone needs to tweet some devs and figure out if the PS4 version will have next gen fur on wolves, bears, beasts and coats. Or if Nvidia is going to cock block the consoles.

I don't think the console's hardware will be able to afford the processing power it would take tbh.
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
Is it just me or does he look even younger than during Witcher 2?

Doesn't look as old and tattered as his previous designs.

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He still looks pretty grizzled. I think some stuff in the trailer is from flashbacks, so that might account for him looking a bit younger.
 

TheD

The Detective
Really though, someone needs to tweet some devs and figure out if the PS4 version will have next gen fur on wolves, bears, beasts and coats. Or if Nvidia is going to cock block the consoles.

I highly doubt Nvidia is going to write an OpenCL version of Physx.
 

HeelPower

Member
Why? This is what it looks like on the primary platform. I think people take it as a given that PC devs will develop for high end hardware, and consoles don't fit into that, so they have to scale things down for them.

Okay, thanks for the reply. I think it's pretty clear this is PC hardware. If you're advertising your game, you will use the best hardware at hand. You don't advertise a game running on PS4 hardware and don't clearly state it's PS4 hardware.

Personally I don't mind.

I am getting the game on PS4 eitherway.
 
Saw the trailer 1 hour ago.

i needed 1 hour to calm down so i could write that i'm excite

This game....


THIS GAME

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BE STILL MY HEART
 

Jonboy

Member
My lord, that was incredible. February seems so far.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BOY

I guess I should try out the Witcher 1/2, but I only have a crappy laptop to play it on :(

Kind of in the same situation. Would really like to play the 1st two games. Then again...we keep hearing this E3 is going to have a ton of remasters. Would be really awesome if 1 and 2 were among them (doubtful...but I'm hoping).
 
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