Witcher 3 gameplay from YouTubers from CDPR event

EatChildren said:
This is one area I'll concede is potentially "downgraded" versus older footage (eg: Sword of Destiny trailer) and that's overall foliage quality. I still think it looks gorgeous and dense, and that trailer wasn't without pop-in and such, but there are still/scenes which to me show a higher quality foliage (sharper assets, higher resolution transparency, less quality reduction at distance) especially on grass. I do wonder if it was toned back for performance reasons, or if supersampling + sharpening in the older footage gave an illusion of detail.

Regardless, there's no open world game on the market pushing foliage like Wild Hunt, so it's hard to complain. GTAV is the only contender for superior foliage tech, but that's Rockstar, and it comes at an insane performance cost. Downgrade or no downgrade, I do with CDPR and their engine would allow for more flexibility in tweaks, such as foliage LOD distance, for those who do want to try cranking up the quality to insane degrees. Shame it's baked into the assets.
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Well, as I recall, some utter jackanape tweaked all their verdant assets by hand in TW2, so maybe we'll get lucky and that'll happen again.

Also, has the LOD behavior described above actually been confirmed? Granted, it seems very likely given how it worked in the previous iteration of the Red Engine and also given some of the middleware they're using, but still, Geralt was nothing if not an enormously hopeful fellow..
 
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So my new PC (first gaming PC) will be in tomorrow and has a GTX 980 and an i7 4790k in it. Witches will be my first big PC game. How excited should I be to run it on that hardware?
 
texhnolyze said:
Yep, the OT subtitle must have a whoreson on it.
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Is it acceptable to use that word in a thread title? I was trying to think of something with strumpet and whoreson maybe heh.

Deadly Cyclone said:
So my new PC (first gaming PC) will be in tomorrow and has a GTX 980 and an i7 4790k in it. Witches will be my first big PC game. How excited should I be to run it on that hardware?
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You should be able to run it on Ultra with all settings maxed with those specs. You should be hyped!
 
Once upon a time I never considered myself a graphics whore. But I look at these images and find myself giddy like a school girl.
 
BannedEpisode said:
How does equipment/loot work in this game?

Is it just a system where you upgrade your starting items or can you find unique stuff out in the world?
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Its the latter. There'll be plenty of loot for you to find or craft, some of it very powerful unique/legendary items. Some stuff will be upgradable.
 
BannedEpisode said:
How does equipment/loot work in this game?

Is it just a system where you upgrade your starting items or can you find unique stuff out in the world?
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Tons of loot + crafting. Unless they've scrapped you can also craft upgrade tiers of armour.
 
BannedEpisode said:
Cool thanks.

Was unsure. New to the series and a lot of videos have Geralt in his "default" weapon/armor getup.

Sounds great.
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In the grand scheme of things you're still mostly getting variations of existing weapon and armour classes in the sense that it's not like, say, Skyrim where you can have a pretty wide variety of weapons and armours. Geralt wont wear helmets. You can't sword-and-shied or use a staff or something like that. For most part it'll be a silver sword and steel sword, and many variants of those.

Armour is light/medium/heavy and again upgradeable unless it's been scrapped, but the diversity there looks pretty good. Nothing quite like TW2 unfortunately (stylistic change I guess), but plenty of different looking stuff with visual differences between upgrades.
 
EatChildren said:
In the grand scheme of things you're still mostly getting variations of existing weapon and armour classes in the sense that it's not like, say, Skyrim where you can have a pretty wide variety of weapons and armours. Geralt wont wear helmets. You can't sword-and-shied or use a staff or something like that. For most part it'll be a silver sword and steel sword, and many variants of those.

Armour is light/medium/heavy and again upgradeable unless it's been scrapped, but the diversity there looks pretty good. Nothing quite like TW2 unfortunately (stylistic change I guess), but plenty of different looking stuff with visual differences between upgrades.
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I figured as much in that regard.

Wasn't expecting anything crazy different from character specific gear. Just as long as there is some fresh air coming in from time to time.
 
Remember that quest in TW2 where Geralt lost all his equipment after a bender and wind up with a tattoo?

It would be amazing if that tattoo is one of the worldstates which can be carried over to TW3 if you import an endgame save.

(I didn't asked Triss' help to remove the tattoo, I thought it was a rather cool, even it it's somewhat embarrasing memento)
 
Kvik said:
Remember that quest in TW2 where Geralt lost all his equipment after a bender and wind up with a tattoo?

It would be amazing if that tattoo is one of the worldstates which can be carried over to TW3 if you import an endgame save.

(I didn't asked Triss' help to remove the tattoo, I thought it was a rather cool, even it it's somewhat embarrasing memento)
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They already confirmed whether or not that is in.

its in... https://twitter.com/bacon_is_life/status/582249993811148803
 
Kvik said:
Remember that quest in TW2 where Geralt lost all his equipment after a bender and wind up with a tattoo?

It would be amazing if that tattoo is one of the worldstates which can be carried over to TW3 if you import an endgame save.

(I didn't asked Triss' help to remove the tattoo, I thought it was a rather cool, even it it's somewhat embarrasing memento)
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I think Sile says she can help get it off too but not sure if its an actual quest.

I think in the W1 to W2 transfer some weapons came over, wonder if I can bring my Caerme and Vran armor ;)
 
EatChildren said:
In the grand scheme of things you're still mostly getting variations of existing weapon and armour classes in the sense that it's not like, say, Skyrim where you can have a pretty wide variety of weapons and armours. Geralt wont wear helmets. You can't sword-and-shied or use a staff or something like that. For most part it'll be a silver sword and steel sword, and many variants of those.

Armour is light/medium/heavy and again upgradeable unless it's been scrapped, but the diversity there looks pretty good. Nothing quite like TW2 unfortunately (stylistic change I guess), but plenty of different looking stuff with visual differences between upgrades.
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There's more then just one handed swords, they showed of two handed swords in the live stream.

Also there's still plenty of armor variety (more then TW2 in fact). Lots of vibrant colours, armor has many upgrades (Which change the look of the armor, confirmed in yesterdays live stream).

You can even upgrade the base armor (The one that Geralt is normally seen wearing in the official trailers and videos).
 
Leb said:
Do we have a list as to which aspects of the world state are actually importable? I understand from the Q&A that no actual equipment will be importable, which I suppose makes sense given how useless the TW1 imports were in TW2.
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Equipment not importing and the tatoo thing are the only specifics I've seen. They have suggested that the imported things wouldn't have a big impact on the experience though.
 
OT: "Grass blades, Wall cracks and Whore-son's Henchmen."


I like this one though:

OT: "The sword of destiny has two edges - one of them is you."
 
Leb said:
I understand from the Q&A that no actual equipment will be importable, which I suppose makes sense given how useless the TW1 imports were in TW2.
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I don't know what you're talking about. It makes total sense that a character would assemble a set of legendary armor and then find out it's already obsolete a few months later when he arrives in a backwater village.
 
Jay Shadow said:
I don't know what you're talking about. It makes total sense that a character would assemble a set of legendary armor and then find out it's already obsolete a few months later when he arrives in a backwater village.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow your roll, buddy. Flotsam isn't some backwater village, I mean, they have a brothel and a ballista (lately broken, coincidentally after some jackass witcher blew through town).
 
Leb said:
Do we have a list as to which aspects of the world state are actually importable? I understand from the Q&A that no actual equipment will be importable, which I suppose makes sense given how useless the TW1 imports were in TW2.
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Useless? The Raven armor lasted until act 2 for me easily...Kayran armor was an upgrade but not that huge of a deal.

IT did some a bit strange though, given how legendary and good both the Ravens armor and Aerondight were, kind of like the holy grail of armor and weapons and then mere "normal" armor/weapons pass them up in usefullness.

PErhaps in Witcher 3 with upgrades any legendary items you find can remain useful provided you keep upgrading them and finding the materials.
 
erawsd said:
They already confirmed whether or not that is in.

its in... https://twitter.com/bacon_is_life/status/582249993811148803
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Cool! I didn't know that. Thanks.

Leb said:
Do we have a list as to which aspects of the world state are actually importable? I understand from the Q&A that no actual equipment will be importable, which I suppose makes sense given how useless the TW1 imports were in TW2.
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I just hope there won't be a bugged quest where certain character(s) appearing when they were killed in TW2.

Stiler said:
There's more then just one handed swords, they showed of two handed swords in the live stream.

Also there's still plenty of armor variety (more then TW2 in fact). Lots of vibrant colours, armor has many upgrades (Which change the look of the armor, confirmed in yesterdays live stream).

You can even upgrade the base armor (The one that Geralt is normally seen wearing in the official trailers and videos).
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In TW2, when playing in Dark mode there's a set of swords, when equipped put a darkening filter on your screen which I didn't really like. Hope they won't do something similar for TW3
 
where's that new trailer
 
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Fallout-NL said:
For those of you who have both a fairly beefy PC and a PS4, which version will you be getting?
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Both. Originally I had it preordered for PS4, the collectors edition.


Then I picked up the PC version for 13 bucks off GoG.

I recently bought a 970 FTW to play my Steam games at 4K. In my Witcher Wild Hunt hype, I ordered a second 970 FTW in hopes of playing Ultra 4K @ 30fps.

So I will be playing on PC
3770k
2x 970 FTW SLI
16GB Ram
W8.1

But I would have been happy to play my PS4 version as well, as it looks great. The real reason I am going PC is because I have a 4K TV I will be playing on.


If I was playing @1080p he choice would be less cut and dry. Although 60fps is nice. It would depend on your setup.

If you have both your PC and PS4 hooked up to your TV. Play it on PC.

If you have your PC hooked up to a monitor, and PS4 hooked to a TV, and the size/comfort difference is large. Go PS4.

It's a 200+ hour long game after all.
 
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