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35 Minutes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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U so pretty!
Inferno313
Banned
Can't wait to play this on my new gaming PC! That battle music is fantastic!
Krusenstern
Banned
The map only seems to cover this area (although I cant really spot Oxenfurt, maybe that island on the right in the river, with the icon)
Yup, that seems more like it.
Does the game world consist of the entire Northern Kindgoms actually? We know that Kaer Morhen is in the game aswell and that is basically in the north east end of the entire map.
Turin Turambar
Member
I thought the ladies of the wood were a pure spiritual entity, when I saw the woman touching the tapestry and talking. My face when the I reached the end part 
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
Probably, you can go to Skellige too.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
johnny is one ugly motherfucker
Turin Turambar
Member
No, only three areas, the Skellige islands, Novigrad and NML.
puffyshirt
Banned
Man, those graphics were incredible, and that storytelling was soooo well done. The Witcher team has just nailed engaging storytelling, even Bioware is put to shame by it (imo).
I hope this is inly a tiny sliver of the world, I can't wait to spend hours and hours just exploring.
I hope this is inly a tiny sliver of the world, I can't wait to spend hours and hours just exploring.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
And Kaer Morhen.
Wind's Howling
Member
Might as well wait until tomorrow so there is a server where I can download that file faster from. Having to wait 4-5 hours for a torrent is a bit too much on my end.
Gully State
Member
Combat looks so much improved.
Krusenstern
Banned
Is Kaer Morhen only accessible by fast travel then? That's the only way I could think of getting there.
puffyshirt
Banned
Yeah, The Witcher series has never had the absolute best animations. These are actually much improved. They should have got the Dragon's Dogma folk in on it.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Seeding @1.2MB/s. For as long as there is leecher.
puffyshirt
Banned
Yeah, I would assume (or at least hope) that optimization hasn't even started yet. The FPS took a hit a few times there, so if it isn't running perfect on whatever they're using, I'm completely screwed haha.
Night Hunter
Banned
Downloading now, will seed at least 1:1
General Lee
Member
This might be the first Witcher game I'll play for longer than hour. Hopefully the combat has improved since that was pretty much the reason I skipped the previous games. Also the framerate seemed bad and stuttering during the city scenes, which seems to be a problem for a lot of new games. It's really annoying when you enter a more dense area and suddenly the engine starts to have a seizure due to cpu bottlenecking.
StormyTheRabbit
Member
That seems like a pretty uninformed reason to describe the stuttering. The game is more than half a year away, it still has tons of unoptimized code to be sorted through.
GameAddict411
Member
jesus christ! they need to sort out the technical difficulties(the E3 demo had similar problems), the jitter is just super annoying and nauseating, so is the the awful pop-in.
Turin Turambar
Member
One of three:
-you can go only with fast travel
-when you visit it it's a specific story moment and you don't have control over it
-they "moved" the castle ruins to a closer place. The same way they have moved three places together.
General Lee
Member
That's the primary reason for low fps and stutters in games such as ACIV and Watch Dogs. It's inevitable with dense areas with lots of AI other CPU consuming processes. Sure they'll optimize Witcher, but unlike people claim, games don't magically gain massive performance gains at the end of development, unless the dev is really inept at using its engine. You get some exta performance with better graphics driver optimization, but that does very little for CPU bottlenecks, unless you're talking things like Mantle.
Adry9
Member
Calm down, they are making they best looking game ever and they still have 6 months untill release.
The Albatross
Member
Can't down load the nicer feed at work, but is the jittering less in that than on YouTube? I'm not one normally bothered by low FPS but the jittering on that was immediately noticable and distacting for me.
Looks fantastic! The best part might as well be the fact that cities and even buildings are accessible without constant loading screens. I hope this will be a standard for future open-world WRPG's.
Edit: by the way, I'm not sure if system requirements have already been officially released (I've found several contradicting ones on Google), but should an i5 4670k + Sapphire R9 280x Dual-X be able to handle this on High with 30+ fps? TW3 looks like a monster to handle, but I hear CDPR's pc games are very well optimised.
Edit: by the way, I'm not sure if system requirements have already been officially released (I've found several contradicting ones on Google), but should an i5 4670k + Sapphire R9 280x Dual-X be able to handle this on High with 30+ fps? TW3 looks like a monster to handle, but I hear CDPR's pc games are very well optimised.
Always-honest
Banned
That... was...awesome. I never played a Witcher game before. But i want this.
Incredibly well crafted world. And the music!!
Video didn't run very smooth though... was that youtube, my computer, or the game?
Incredibly well crafted world. And the music!!
Video didn't run very smooth though... was that youtube, my computer, or the game?
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Yeah thats the pontar.
Cities dont seem to appear in the map as the typical city icons (Novigrad does not appear like that for example), so i suppose its still there somewhere.
Of course, I completly understand that. Thats not the problem im seeing. The problem is, that if they travelled to the novigrad outskirts like some posters are saying, thats NOT no mans land, and still the dev say it is (the heart of it, he even says). Of course its not going to be geographically correct to the maximum detail, but things like Brokilon, Yarra River and Cintra had to already appear in that map if that was really No Mans Land. We are not talking about some little details here, we are talking about a river with the same importance as the Pontar, the biggest and most important forest in the northern kingdoms and a destroyed city important for Ciri, and Skellige are just besides Cintra, so they are not that appart from the coast. And yet the only thing I see is a huge mass of water that doesnt even exist in any of the maps.
One thing is reescaling things for a game, something that is completly understandable, and the other is taking away important landmarks and putting some new ones.
Maybe the map is cut in zones and that is indeed only Novigrads outskirts, but then we have to remeber they told it was a seamless world without loading screens or chapters.
Still we need to know where places like Skellige, Vizima and Kaer Mohren appear in the map and how far they are from Novigrad.
Well I don't know what kind of computer you have, but I do have a pretty nice rig and I had the same thing. It's just YouTube compressing the footage.
Spiffy_1st
Member
Both The Witcher and Bloodborne replaced rolling with small dashes. Looks like the era of rolls are over.
Baldwin_the_First
Member
Outstanding.
The story & the graphics.
The story & the graphics.
jim2point0
Banned
I'm going to lose myself forever in this game....
RebornYeti
Member
Only watched 3 minutes because I didn't want to get too spoiled.
Boy, this game is looking mighty fine. I got the same sense of wonder that I felt when I first saw that E3 demo of Oblivion... But this is on a whole different scale.
Pre-ordered.
Boy, this game is looking mighty fine. I got the same sense of wonder that I felt when I first saw that E3 demo of Oblivion... But this is on a whole different scale.
Pre-ordered.