Here’s the patch notes for The Witcher 3 Remastered

CD Projekt Purple has shared the patch notes for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered forward of its release tomorrow.

Releasing throughout PC, PS5, Xbox Sequence X|S and Nintendo Change 2, it is a free improve for anybody that has purchased the sport inside a system ecosystem up to now. Sure, which means there’s free upgrades from Change to Change 2, and any Johnny-come-lately with a PS4 or Xbox One disc will even be capable of get the present gen improve.

It is a main overhaul of the sport, which touches upon the underlying graphics engine as soon as extra, including path tracing for the primary time on PC, ray tracing choices, integrating the Witcher 3 HD Reworked Undertaking textures and fashions, and extra. On Change 2, after all, there’s additionally an order of magnitude extra energy than the unique Change model, whereas PS5 Professional homeowners get the advantages of PSSR.

This additionally lays the foundations for the gameplay of the Songs of the Past DLC. There’s enhancements to traversal, horse driving, and a modernisation for the fight. The ability tree has additionally been revamped, and there’s a smattering of UI and UX tweaks and enhancements all through.

Right here’s the complete patch notes for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered:

Visible and Rendering

• Applied an improved shading mannequin.
• Up to date a number of textures and fashions primarily based on property from The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Undertaking.
• Improved lighting and shading for grass and foliage.
• Up to date the visible results of Indicators, together with their improve variations.
• Added new visible results for expertise.
• The sport now options native DirectX 12 rendering with multithreading for higher efficiency and visuals.
• Up to date tone mapping for improved colours, lighting, distinction and element.
• Added GTAO (Floor Fact Ambient Occlusion) as a brand new Display screen House Ambient Occlusion possibility.
• Added Ray-Traced Native Shadows.
• Up to date Display screen House Reflections.
• Up to date Display screen House Shadows.
• Up to date the HDR calibration panel by including new choices and different enhancements.
• Improved Movement Blur with a higher-quality, extra cinematic look.
• Up to date Subsurface Scattering for extra pure pores and skin rendering.
• Improved terrain and materials rendering for extra pure lighting, shadows, reflections, and highlights.
• Applied new Picture-Primarily based Lighting (IBL) for improved ambient lighting and reflections throughout completely different environments.
• Reworked Bloom for extra improved lighting results throughout completely different environments.

Gameplay

• Improved the ability system. Expertise are actually organized right into a ability tree and every ability has three ranks. Unlocking new expertise now requires having the required prerequisite expertise fairly than spending a set variety of ability factors. IMPORTANT: Because of these adjustments, your ability factors have been reset.
• Rebalanced the ability tree by refining ability bonus values, results and synergies.
• Renamed some expertise to higher replicate their results.
• Now you can Reforge your gear to alter its look with out affecting its stats. Solely grasp craftsmen (Yoana and Hattori) provide this service. Unlock appearances by including new gear and crafting diagrams to your stock. Dyes from Blood and Wine utilized to gear will carry over to the reforged merchandise.
• Polished the fight habits of many non-boss monsters, together with their assault patterns, counterattacks, motion, reactions, flight and the appliance of results.
• Added a brand new “Horse management enter sensitivity” slider in Settings → Controls.
• Improved Roach’s and Geralt’s motion, participant management and animations:
• Refined Geralt’s leaping animation in order that it feels extra pure and polished. Notice: This doesn’t have an effect on bounce distance and peak.
• Added new finisher animations for Geralt.
• Added new idle animations for Geralt.
• Improved Geralt’s ledge climbing, ladder climbing and vaulting animations in addition to his pace for extra responsive, fluid motion.
• Improved Geralt’s hole closing animations in fight for smoother gameplay.
• Added a brand new exploration digicam with elevated FOV.
• Added a brand new dynamic fight digicam to extend visibility when preventing enemies.
• Improved target-lock switching when shifting the digicam in fight.
• Up to date collision avoidance when driving Roach.
• Polished animations for mounting and dismounting Roach, in addition to cantering and galloping.

UI/UX

• Meditation now incorporates a timelapse as a substitute of a UI display for a extra immersive really feel.
• The ability display is now reorganized right into a extra intuitive ability tree structure.
• Up to date the map display to make switching between tracked quests simpler. Untracked quests now have a definite marker and might be tracked by choosing it.
• Elevated the variety of most markers on the map.
• Added new map markers.
• Now you can disguise herbs, boats and corpses on the minimap in Settings → Video → Interface for a cleaner, much less distracting view.
• Improved quest notifications by combining quest updates right into a single HUD notification.
• Close by loot can now be grouped right into a single window, so that you not must flick thru a number of loot home windows. You possibly can allow this function in Settings → Gameplay.
• Added a loot feed that shows not too long ago collected gadgets on the left facet of the display. You possibly can disable it in Settings → Gameplay.
• Added merchandise tooltips to the loot window, permitting you to preview an merchandise’s particulars earlier than choosing it up.
• Renamed the “HUD Configuration” part in Settings to “Interface”.
• Up to date the CD PROJEKT RED Account connection, My Rewards and telemetry consent menus.

Picture Mode

• Up to date the Picture Mode UI and vastly expanded its options and choices:
• Now you can select from a number of completely different characters to put in your shot.
• Added a collection of poses and expressions for Geralt and placeable characters.
• Added a affirmation immediate earlier than exiting Picture Mode to assist forestall unintentional exits.
• Now you can lock the digicam place in Picture Mode to be sure you seize the proper shot.
• Added the choice to use completely different atmosphere presets to your scene.
• Added the choice to save lots of digicam presets, permitting you to save lots of and reuse digicam positions and angles.
• Now you can change the side ratio of your screenshot.
• Added the choice to toggle a first-person digicam mode so you’ll be able to see the world by way of Geralt’s eyes.
• Now you can allow or disable digicam collisions with objects and partitions.
• Set the proper scene by altering the climate and time of day.
• Alter the depth of climate results like rain or storms.
• Added an choice to toggle Rule of Thirds strains in varied side ratios, with non-compulsory cinematic black bars.
• Digital camera coordinates will now be seen within the UI.
• Added an possibility to cover surrounding NPCs.
• Added placeable props, providing you with much more methods to create the proper scene. Simply don’t ask the place all of them got here from.
• The cursor is now seen in Picture Mode on PC when utilizing a mouse.

Accessibility

• Added a brand new Accessibility part to the Settings menu. Moved current accessibility-related choices there.
• Added the Bard’s Ballad preset. You possibly can allow it when beginning a brand new sport on the Simply the Story problem or through the sport within the Accessibility part. It’s designed to scale back cognitive load for gamers who expertise psychological fatigue or have problem concentrating. It streamlines gameplay by simplifying sure mechanics and disabling choose options for a smoother, extra centered journey. You possibly can allow the preset within the Accessibility tab and customise it by enabling or disabling the next choices:
• Vitality Regeneration Enhance – Provides the chance to regulate its activation threshold (“Prompts under (%) Vitality”) and the speed at which Vitality will increase (“Regeneration Depth”).
• Infinite Breath – Geralt can’t run out of oxygen whereas swimming and diving.
• Limitless Merchandise Sturdiness – Your gear won’t ever put on down, so there’s no want to go to craftsmen for repairs.
• Limitless Boat Sturdiness – Boats are indestructible, making jagged rocks and sirens not a priority.
• Ignore Merchandise Weight – Journey the Path carrying as a lot as you need.
• Quicker Boats – Sail sooner throughout the seas. The seas round Skellige simply bought a little bit bit smaller.
• Toggle Witcher Sense – Toggle on and off with out having to carry the button.

High quality of Life

• Streamlined tutorials to maintain them concise and centered on instructing core sport mechanics. We expect Vesemir would approve.
• Added an choice to rapidly disengage from fight. Maintain the dodge button (Alt/〇/B) to unlock out of your goal, then press the dash button (L Shift/X/A) to run away.
• Now you can acquire loot with out dismounting Roach.

Modding

• Added Cross Platform Mod Assist, an in-game software powered by mod.io that means that you can simply browse and set up player-created mods to customise your sport. Yow will discover it within the sport’s foremost menu in Mods. Log in together with your CD PROJEKT RED Account, join it to mod.io and begin shopping. Yow will discover extra details about the Mod Supervisor here.
• Varied engine, UI and different enhancements for REDkit, making it simpler for modders to create, handle and customise their content material.

Fixes

• Fastened a difficulty the place it wasn’t doable to alter Proper Stick Sensitivity if the settings have been accessed immediately from the primary menu.
• It’s now doable to set Stick Sensitivity to the worth of 0.69.
• Fastened a difficulty the place HDR settings would generally not seem on consoles.
• Within the Everlasting Fireplace’s Shadow – Fastened a difficulty the place the Forgotten Wolf Faculty Gear Diagrams weren’t displayed within the UI after being acquired as a reward.
• Wine is Sacred – Fastened a difficulty the place quick touring out of Toussaint through the “Search the wine cellar with Anna Henrietta” goal might block quest development. This repair just isn’t retroactive, so gamers who encountered this difficulty might want to load a save from earlier than it occurred.

Different

• Added Ukrainian textual content localization.
• Added assist for Xbox Play Wherever.

PC-specific

IMPORTANT: Be sure you have the most recent graphics drivers put in. Seize them right here: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel.

• Added assist for Path Tracing.
• Added assist for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, along with Ray Reconstruction.
• Added assist for AMD FSR 4, together with Body Era and Anti-Lag 2. FSR 4 is supported on AMD Radeon RX 7000 Sequence and newer graphics playing cards. On unsupported GPUs, the sport will use FSR 2 as a substitute.
• Added assist for Intel XeSS 2.0, along with Body Era and Low Latency.
• Added Ray-Traced HairWorks for improved lighting and shading on hair.
• Added assist for DualSense controller haptic suggestions.

IMPORTANT: With the enhancements launched all through The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered, the system necessities for the sport have modified.

PlayStation-specific

• Applied multithreaded rendering on PlayStation 5 for improved efficiency.
• Added assist for PlayStation 5 Professional:
• Launched assist for PlayStation Spectral Tremendous Decision (PSSR) to ship larger visible constancy with out compromising on efficiency.
• Added assist for Variable Refresh Fee (VRR) and uncapped body charges.
• Up to date Graphics Modes:
• Ray Tracing Mode now brings enhanced lighting whereas focusing on 60 FPS.
• Efficiency Mode now presents the next decision whereas focusing on 60 FPS and as much as 90 FPS on VRR-capable shows.

Nintendo Change-specific

• Added assist for Nintendo Change 2, with the next Change 2-specific options:
• 4 playstyles: Handheld, Professional Controller, Twin Grip (utilizing Movement Controls) and Mouse Sensor.
• Movement Management Patterns in two modes (At all times Enabled or Horse Solely) for gameplay actions corresponding to: utilizing main and secondary consumables, calling your horse, casting indicators, utilizing your crossbow, throwing bombs and making your horse gallop or cease.
• Mouse Sensor in two modes: At all times Enabled or Dynamic, supporting 3 completely different management schemes: Consolation, Dynamic and Default.
• Aiming with Gyroscope Mode is supported in Handheld, Professional Controller and Twin Grip playstyles with two modes: At all times Enabled and Ranged Weapons.
• Contact Display screen enter is supported in menus, dialogue, world map, Gwent and Picture Mode.
• Pleasure-Con 2 HD Rumble, delivering extra assorted and immersive vibration suggestions.
• VRR (Variable Refresh Fee) in handheld mode and HDR (Excessive Dynamic Vary) assist.
• Devoted Movement Controls tutorial, which might be replayed at any time from the Predominant Menu and Pause Menu.

Supply: The Witcher