The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered is out now

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered from CD PROJEKT RED (developed in collaboration with Yigsoft) has now been formally launched, bringing many enhancements to the present sport free of charge. It fully replaces the Full Version, and contains each Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine as commonplace.

See the launch trailer beneath:

For the Home windows PC model (which you could run on Linux with Proton) there’s a couple of further PC-specific options added:

PC Particular Key Additions

Added help for Path Tracing.

Added help for NVIDIA DLSS 4.5, along with Ray Reconstruction.

Added help for AMD FSR 4, together with Body Technology 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 an alternative.

Added help for Intel XeSS 2.0, along with Body Technology and Low Latency.

Added Ray-Traced HairWorks for improved lighting and shading on hair.

Added help for DualSense controller haptic suggestions.

As for the specs you are going to must run it:

Every little thing else is beneath:

Key Adjustments

Visible and Rendering

Carried out an improved shading mannequin.

Up to date a number of textures and fashions based mostly on belongings from The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Mission.

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 abilities.

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 OcFeaturesclusion) as a brand new Display Area Ambient Occlusion choice.

Up to date the HDR calibration panel by including new choices and different enhancements.

Added Ray-Traced Native Shadows.

Up to date Display Area Reflections.

Up to date Display Area Shadows.

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.

Carried out 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. Abilities are actually organized right into a ability tree and every ability has three ranks. Unlocking new abilities now requires having the required prerequisite abilities fairly than spending a set variety of ability factors. IMPORTANT: Because of these modifications, your ability factors have been reset.

Rebalanced the ability tree by refining ability bonus values, results and synergies.

Renamed some abilities to raised mirror their results.

Now you can Reforge your gear to alter its look with out affecting its stats. Solely grasp craftsmen (Yoana and Hattori) supply 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. Be aware: This does not have an effect on leap distance and top.
- 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 digital camera with elevated FOV.
- Added a brand new dynamic fight digital camera to extend visibility when preventing enemies.
- Improved target-lock switching when shifting the digital camera in fight.
- Up to date collision avoidance when using Roach.
- Polished animations for mounting and dismounting Roach, in addition to cantering and galloping.

UI/UX

Meditation now encompasses a timelapse as an alternative of a UI display screen for a extra immersive really feel.

The ability display screen is now reorganized right into a extra intuitive ability tree format.

Up to date the map display screen to make switching between tracked quests simpler. Untracked quests now have a definite marker and might be tracked by deciding on it.

Elevated the variety of most markers on the map.

Added new map markers.

Now you can conceal 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 through a number of loot home windows. You’ll be able to allow this function in Settings → Gameplay.

Added a loot feed that shows just lately collected objects on the left aspect of the display screen. You’ll be able to disable it in Settings → Gameplay.

Added merchandise tooltips to the loot window, permitting you to preview an merchandise’s particulars earlier than selecting 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 number of poses and expressions for Geralt and placeable characters.

Added a affirmation immediate earlier than exiting Picture Mode to assist stop unintentional exits.

Now you can lock the digital camera place in Picture Mode to be sure you seize the right shot.

Added the choice to use completely different setting presets to your scene.

Added the choice to avoid wasting digital camera presets, permitting you to avoid wasting and reuse digital camera positions and angles.

Now you can change the facet ratio of your screenshot.

Added the choice to toggle a first-person digital camera mode so you’ll be able to see the world by way of Geralt’s eyes.

Now you can allow or disable digital camera collisions with objects and partitions.

Set the right scene by altering the climate and time of day.

Modify the depth of climate results like rain or storms.

Added an choice to toggle Rule of Thirds traces in varied facet ratios, with non-obligatory cinematic black bars.

Digital camera coordinates will now be seen within the UI.

Added an choice to cover surrounding NPCs.

Added placeable props, providing you with much more methods to create the right scene. Simply do not 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’ll be able to allow it when beginning a brand new sport on the Simply the Story issue or through the sport within the Accessibility part. It’s designed to cut back cognitive load for gamers who expertise psychological fatigue or have issue concentrating. It streamlines gameplay by simplifying sure mechanics and disabling choose options for a smoother, extra centered journey. You’ll be able to allow the preset within the Accessibility tab and customise it by enabling or disabling the next choices:
- Vitality Regeneration Increase – Offers the chance to regulate its activation threshold (“Prompts beneath (%) Vitality”) and the speed at which VitalFeaturesity will increase (“Regeneration Depth”).
- Infinite Breath – Geralt cannot run out of oxygen whereas swimming and diving.
- Limitless Merchandise Sturdiness – Your gear won’t ever put on down, so there isn’t any 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.
- Sooner Boats – Sail sooner throughout the seas. The seas round Skellige simply acquired 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 predict Vesemir would approve.

Added an choice to shortly 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 accumulate loot with out dismounting Roach.

Modding

Added Cross Platform Mod Help, an in-game device powered by mod.io that means that you can simply browse and set up player-created mods to customise your sport. You will discover it within the sport’s primary menu in Mods. Log in along with your CD PROJEKT RED Account, join it to mod.io and begin searching. You 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 had been accessed immediately from the principle menu.

It is now doable to set Stick Sensitivity to the worth of 0.69.

Fastened a difficulty the place HDR settings would typically not seem on consoles.

Within the Everlasting Hearth’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 may block quest development. This repair is just not retroactive, so gamers who encountered this subject might want to load a save from earlier than it occurred.