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The Witcher 3 - New screenshots
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maneil99
Member
Witcher 2 isn't a great looking game, it has high sharpening filters and terrible bloom and some of the worst animations from last gen, there was only 8 direction animations causing twitching if you went anywhere between the 8 axis
tryagainlater
Member
Guys, it could be still a fun game to play you know.
Interceptor
Banned
And after Flotsam the production values went down a cliff.
UnrealEck
Member
Going by those graphics, it doesn't seem like it's a demanding game.
I honestly think Dragon Age Inquisition looks better than those screenshots.
I think the graphics have been toned down. There's no nVidia hairworks on those wolves too so maybe it's a console version.
It's an nVidia feature. Maybe those are console screenshots.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Don't worry guys, I fixed it:
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Graphics got downgraded quite a bit. A first for CD Projekt? Oh well the game still looks decent enough. Visual quality is similar to Witcher 2 now but the open world gameplay will make it so much more fun and interesting.
I remember reading a while back that they were demoing the game within the old engine, while the new one was getting up to speed. That was over a year ago I think, but that is probably the case with these shots. I'd highly doubt the game is receiving a downgrade at all; they demo'd the Xbone version already looking waaay better than this.
I'd fucking shoot someone.
qa_engineer
Member
runnin_blue
Banned
Seriously? So you're saying the awesome, compelling, well-written storyline of the Witcher games is not what made you preorder? It was the quality of the wolve's fur? Or how many blades of grass you can see at a distance?
Ok. I don't get why some people play games.
Sure, but is that worth a day-one full price purchase for him? Chances are
he'll pick it up shortly after launch or when it's cheaper.
For instance, a game would have to be near damn perfect for me to pre-order,
yet the visuals on display here are clearly indicative of a downgrade.
Will probably get this on a steam sale, once the GOTY edition comes out.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
GoG sale!!
In light of the questionable monetary policy coming out of the European Central Bank, I think this is a very sensible position.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Do the series usually have GotY editions? As in, a separate thing you can buy again to get all the DLCs?
I've been meaning to play the game, but the few minutes I did play I was put off by this.
Well they've had the Enhanced Editions, which act similar to a 'GOTY Edition'.
Although CDPR have stated that with TW3 the intent is to get it "right" on release, and not have to do a Enhanced Edition this time around.
You can turn both of them off.
Sharpening has to be turned off via the INI settings and Bloom is turned off via your normal settings options (I don't understand why people leave bloom on in any game, it and Motion Blur get immediately flicked off in literally every game I play).
Whether you think the game looks better or worse without the Sharpening is up to you, but there is the option to go without it.
They called it enhanced edition, which includes DLC (insignificant stuff).
Yea, I didn't expect a point-and-click interface for the first game. Ended up watching
a walk-through on youtube instead.
Second game was much better (traditional gamepad support), especially after that major patch they released.
robertsan21
Member
Far from impressed by these shots, what happened to the graphics?
Both can be disabled by changing a 1 to a 0 in the config file.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Those effects have to run on the CPU on an AMD setup, and that's not viable on the consoles. Which is why all the pretty PhysX effects never get ported over.For the inevitable whining that will follow this, AMD users have access to some of these features and the consoles have some capability too, although what will be included with this game is still a mystery.
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I'm sure they can, I never looked into playing with the settings at the time as I was just testing the game.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Aa, but Enhanced Editions are not really separate things, aren't they? I thought they are more like free updates.
robertsan21
Member
wait what?
Is the "fur" enhancement only for PC?
It better be on the PS4 version!
I hate it when the release pictures of a game and once it´s released, it looks nowhere near that.
Is the "fur" enhancement only for PC?
It better be on the PS4 version!
I hate it when the release pictures of a game and once it´s released, it looks nowhere near that.
Coreda
Member
So bizarre. Somehow has pulled the feat of looking worse than any of the previous screenshots from the recent builds. Must be the console version or without certain settings on. Will have to ask Kinley about it.
I've been following the new screenshots and renders of late and that hilt in the second shot for example is definitely not from any of them (apart from the obvious model differences). It's literally a plain, smoothed circle in these screens. Certainly a far cry from this first shot for example:
First one is a mix of art and renders, the Triss graphic is a higher quality model render for promotional purposes. BTW these are two examples of in-game models someone put together:
Much better. There is some 'splaining to do.
I've been following the new screenshots and renders of late and that hilt in the second shot for example is definitely not from any of them (apart from the obvious model differences). It's literally a plain, smoothed circle in these screens. Certainly a far cry from this first shot for example:
First one is a mix of art and renders, the Triss graphic is a higher quality model render for promotional purposes. BTW these are two examples of in-game models someone put together:
Much better. There is some 'splaining to do.
It helps, yes.
robertsan21
Member
it´s a combination for me.
If the game looks like crap I will most likely not even try it. If the game looks great I will get an interest, then its up to the gameplay to prove to me that It´s worth buying.
If the game turns out to look far from what has been showed so far, I will most probably pass on it. Getting tired of all these "fake marketing" of games.
Coreda
Member
The Witcher 3 has been greatly anticipated in part due to the potentially standard-setting next-gen graphics. If seeing new screenshots to suggest otherwise isn't disappointing I don't know what is, especially considering all the other downgrades of games that have blown up.
People have been holding off buying new GPUs for this game, it's not a small thing.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
You guys are completely nuts.
The Game is absolutely not going to look like that unless you have it on low settings. That's no way in hell that it got downgraded like that.
I thought people were joking at first, but it seems some people actually think it'd get downgraded to the point that it looks worse than the Witcher 2.
The Game is absolutely not going to look like that unless you have it on low settings. That's no way in hell that it got downgraded like that.
I thought people were joking at first, but it seems some people actually think it'd get downgraded to the point that it looks worse than the Witcher 2.
That's how it should be. Although the lighting in the game seems to have a pretty big impact on whether his hair looks Grey/White and anything in-between.
artsi
Member
Well you're right, I can't believe the game would look this bad, but I'm trying to think why would they release screenshots like these.
I was comparing the distant vegetation and IQ to one of my Arma 3 screenshots (which is even larger scale, so no excuses) and it's just bad.
Mountains are nice, but that's about it.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Meh, Dragon Age looks better
Kind of similar shots, Wii U can really hold it's own against other current gen titles
So i wasn't the only one who was reminded of that Zelda U screen lol.
On topic though isn't a simple solution to this apparent downgrade sentiment just to look at pre release vs release Witcher 2?
Was there any significant downgrade there?
I'm definitely inclined to believe that this is either an old build or a rough part of the console versions especially considering we saw that 35 minute PC demo which looked better than those screens.
Plus to the people thinking of cancelling or holding off pre orders....... -_-
runnin_blue
Banned
Yeah I'm feeling the same. I like a good looking game just like anybody but I think it's just plain dumb to not buy a game by a PROVEN developer because graphics.
Dumb.
Same here. I don't care if it looks just like TW2 but I need it to control better and I need the combat to be improved.
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