lordfuzzybutt
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New screens:
Hmm, the butt wrap of Geralt's and the guy on the right are exactly the same.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - New screenshots
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Hmm, the butt wrap of Geralt's and the guy on the right are exactly the same.
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dr_rus
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Da fuk is going on in the skies there? Maybe related to the comet from TW2? I wonder if the plot will be saving the world this time around...
cripterion
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Damerman
Member
wasn't it a tease to the spectral riders instead of a comet fromt he witcher 2? I'm thinking that this is just a moon or some side effect of the spectral riders doing crazy shit in the sky.
Denton
Member
They didn't model extra towel wraps, preorder canceled
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Canceled indeed.
But on a serious note. They simulate the cloth physics rather well, one would think they would do something similar for the towel. But when I go into that bath house I will be looking at other objects anyway.
firebranded
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Would definitely like for it to be tomorrow.
Examples of russian localization:
Those don't work directly, apparently.
Edit: and now they do.
lukeskymac
Member
If 1. was the case, they wouldn't be releasing downsampled pics.
MaxVarEmreis
Member
Massive spoilers from book
I think this is some parallel world. Ciri and Wild Hunt have powers to travel between them.
dr_rus
Member
Yeah, I read them all, doesn't look like it though. And I believe that this spoiler is for TW2 more than the books. But it certainly does look like the Wild Hunt is involved in this sky change.
Jay Shadow
Member
It'll be one of the 16 dlcs
jim2point0
Banned
Every console game gets downsampled screenshots though. Doesn't seem to bother anyone.
MaxVarEmreis
Member
I think that is upper right corner we have second planet/moon. I could be wrong and this is something else, but if I'm right answer to question "what place is that?" is simple
if you know anything about
ciri and the conjunction of spheres
And the one that the lady has on is similar to the one on Triss in the beginning of TW2.
I don't see the point of creating unique assets for such a minor,contextualized situation.
It bothers me.
New screens:
This game will become my life, when it's released. On day one, I'm definitely gonna be up all night playing it.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
That was by no mean a complaint, I was looking at it, saw it, said it. No big deal. It was more of a joke.
haha Sorry if I sounded a bit too defensive there.Just a bit tired of the nitpick this game gets lol
lordfuzzybutt
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
This is basically what I feel, that Ultra includes Ubersampling or some other equivalent rather than stuff like "increased draw distance".
Well, that guy from Gamestar claimed that after switching the graphic options from High to Ultra increased vegetation, foliage, shadows, texture quality, and some other things too.. and Ubersampling this time should not be ready at the time of release of the game
Yeah, I've been kind of expecting (and hoping) that you'll get to go to the elves' alternate dimension. If that's the dimension though, it seems a lot tamer in tone than what I was expecting. It looks almost like Halo meets Fallout NV.
New shots look great and veg looks improved. Probs ultra.
New shots look great and veg looks improved. Probs ultra.
MichaelFassbender
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Can't wait to run circles around people in the bathhouse for no reason at all.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It still all sounds very vague to me, and I don't trust preview impressions when we don't truly know what screenshots are being taken at. CDPR has been repeating the "mix of Ultra and High" rhetoric without specifying what's what while also stating they haven't truly shown Ultra and want people to be blown away on release.
I don't necessarily think they're lying, but mostly believe Ultra includes demanding settings related to resolution and anti-aliasing, expensive stuff that most people don't crank stupidly high if it comes at a cost of performance. Foliage, shadows, textures, etc; I cant see why they'd have superior settings to marketing material (supersampled marketing material at that) kept hidden for no good reason. Especially why they're also happy to demonstrate expensive effects like Hairworks.
CDPR occasionally has miscommunication between departments, so yeah, I just don't buy the idea that significant asset and effect related rendering settings have been kept on High for marketing material while Ultra has to wait until release. I can't think of any other developer/publisher doing this nor can see any advantage. I could maybe buy the theory that they want to keep polarity with a console release if Microsoft or Sony were publisher. But while they might have a promotion deal with the former publishing is done by neither. It's against Bandai Namco and Warner Bros interest to market a game looking worse than it supposedly does...but also at the same time having those worse settings shown in supersampled screenshots and 4K.
I'm running with the 4K screenshot they released. It seems to be a gameplay shot, HUD turned off, no fancy camera angling. With downsampling to 1080p, I can't see Ultra looking any better.
Not that I care because it's gorgeous.
I would be very surprised if the difference was any more than we got with Dragon Age. PC version has better textures & shading, longer draw distance, and higher framerate. That's pretty much it. Otherwise I'm not expecting much of any difference between them.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
It still all sounds very vague to me, and I don't trust preview impressions when we don't truly know what screenshots are being taken at. CDPR has been repeating the "mix of Ultra and High" rhetoric without specifying what's what while also stating they haven't truly shown Ultra and want people to be blown away on release.
I don't necessarily think they're lying, but mostly believe Ultra includes demanding settings related to resolution and anti-aliasing, expensive stuff that most people don't crank stupidly high if it comes at a cost of performance. Foliage, shadows, textures, etc; I cant see why they'd have superior settings to marketing material (supersampled marketing material at that) kept hidden for no good reason. Especially why they're also happy to demonstrate expensive effects like Hairworks.
CDPR occasionally has miscommunication between departments, so yeah, I just don't buy the idea that significant asset and effect related rendering settings have been kept on High for marketing material while Ultra has to wait until release. I can't think of any other developer/publisher doing this nor can see any advantage. I could maybe buy the theory that they want to keep polarity with a console release if Microsoft or Sony were publisher. But while they might have a promotion deal with the former publishing is done by neither. It's against Bandai Namco and Warner Bros interest to market a game looking worse than it supposedly does...but also at the same time having those worse settings shown in supersampled screenshots and 4K.
I'm running with the 4K screenshot they released. It seems to be a gameplay shot, HUD turned off, no fancy camera angling. With downsampling to 1080p, I can't see Ultra looking any better.
Not that I care because it's gorgeous.
I agree. It's all a bit weird. Although they have repeatedly said there is no downgrade too. So I guess we will see.
If my 3770k and SLI 970's can replicate that screenshot at 4K and 30fps I will be more than happy.
That's what I also believe, but all this time without showing console gameplay is an major red flag, that I just can't ignore. I'm not too concerned about graphics, my concern is about framerate and texture pop-ins.
I'm running with the 4K screenshot they released. It seems to be a gameplay shot, HUD turned off, no fancy camera angling. With downsampling to 1080p, I can't see Ultra looking any better.
Not that I care because it's gorgeous.
I'm hoping to see major improvement in the ground textures. It seems like that shot is missing POM and the ground textures look totally flat. It could also use better AO such as HBAO+, which I believe the game will support. Fingers crossed!
jim2point0
Banned
With a game of this scale, I'm not expecting POM on every random ground texture. I'm expecting shit like that is probably going to look exactly the same on ultra as it does in that shot.
Well there it is.
Well there it is.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
It probably is flat and there's been no evidence of Wild Hunt using POM.
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
Yeah, expecting certain areas to receive more love than others, but not ever single spot in this absolutely gigantic world map is going to be uber detailed. Even on Ultra. It will still look amazing overall though.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
GTAV/modern game expectations I guess, even if it's not realistic.
Wild Hunt is a huge project made by a lot of people. But it's important to step back and be realistic every once in awhile. The engine looks great but CDPR aren't exactly known for being a graphical powerhouse. They never have been, and while The Witcher 2 is stunning much of that can be attributed to the gorgeous art. They've never been the kind of developer, like Crytek, advertising themselves as using every cutting edge rendering technique possible.
GTAV accomplishes insane detail because they've the engine and genre experience nobody else has, and unmatched manpower. GTAV on PC is gorgeous, but it's unrealistic to expect everything in that across to Wild Hunt. Especially considering GTAV technically already released and then had extended development for bells and whistles. Wild Hunt only just went gold.
Plus CDPR focuses detail on parts they believe more important and realistic within their workload. They talk about it in their Gamespot interview, how for villages (for example) they carefully build them relative to the topography that was there first rather than the village first then the topography. They pay attention to what kind of NPCs are in the region, their jobs, relative to what environmental stuff is nearby. The slope of the land, forests, streams, mud, etc. That's where they focus their attention and artistry.
You're going to get flat surfaces in every game. That's just part and parcel of video games.
Those look great. Can't wait!
Question though; I'm going to be away from May 7th to the 19th. I was going to buy TW3 and play it as soon as I got back, but I haven't played TW2. Should I? Should I play 1 as well? I know they aren't necessary, but I feel like 3 will have a more meaninful payoff story-wise if I do.
Question though; I'm going to be away from May 7th to the 19th. I was going to buy TW3 and play it as soon as I got back, but I haven't played TW2. Should I? Should I play 1 as well? I know they aren't necessary, but I feel like 3 will have a more meaninful payoff story-wise if I do.
This shot gave me the impression that they definitely are using a combination of POM and/or tessellation. May be I'm wrong
Ignored the bottom left as it seemed like actual 3d modeled rocks (though I might be wrong about that too)
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Probably just rock assets similar to The Witcher 2, which had a lot of smaller ground geometry that streams in at high detail when close then rapidly reduces LOD (right down to billboards) when distancing. From memory tinkering in the TW2 editor they're handled similarly to foliage.
You'd be fine with viewing The Witcher 1 Retrospective on YouTube. Try playing The Witcher 2 if you have the time. I'd also recommend reading the short stories; Sword of Destiny & The Last Wish to get a better understanding of Geralt's background and the world.
CDPR has stated that the prologue for the Witcher 3 will bring you up to date with the current state of affairs in the game, and should be easy to understand for newcomers.
DirgeExtinction
Member
That cyclops looks horrible. Everything else looks nice.
OnionPowder
Member
Replaying The Witcher 2 right now in preparation for this and TW3 is a generational leap over TW2. TW2 has aged pretty bad over the years. I can't believe how good these screens look.
m_shortpants
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I've been on the fence about building a PC recently, but I think this game has pushed me over the edge. I'm going to order parts this week.
