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Game looks so good with the higher res textures.
Game looks so good with the higher res textures.
They have plans for large DLC packs that add completely new areas and 30hours of new content. How much of that will be smuggler caches I don't know lol.
The war is the backdrop for the game's story. The game's story isn't about the war. I just wish the game didn't have the quest that, it really isn't necessary IMO. They could've achieved the same outcome without Geralt being so directly involved.decides the outcome of the war
http://images.akamai.steamuserconte...osite-to=*,*|2048:1152&background-color=black
Game looks so good with the higher res textures.
Jesus Christ this game man, was getting late and wanted to wrap up side quest in Novigrd, next thing you I'm going full Sherlock Holmes and its 4AM.
I realize this is indirectly related, but I've been watching The Hexen. I'm surprised at how well done it was considering it was a Polish mini-series. It's obvious where CDPR got their character looks from.
Anyways, after watching the mini-series and diving into the book lore i've become increasingly conflicted. I knew that the games took some creative freedom with the lore in order to make games, but it really is amazing how how different Geralt in the game is from the Geralt in the books.
Geralt would never lower himself to doing the type of questing that he ends up doing the majority of the time in the games. He honors his codex. While he isn't against stepping up against humans who disrespect him directly, he generally ignores the rest. In regards to killing monsters, he will only do it when they actively hurt humans and even then only for pay...he won't kill them needlessly. He generally doesn't hunt dragons in any circumstance, because he feels that they have the right to take the occasional cow because humans have stolen their hunting lands. He definitely wouldn't be so involve with politics or take missions that require him to stalk or kill people.
Anyways, this isn't a criticism of the games themselves because they stand on their own. For me personally, it is much harder to like the simplistic, opportunistic version of Geralt as is portrayed in the games. I much prefer the complex person we see in the books and video.
I realize this is indirectly related, but I've been watching The Hexen. I'm surprised at how well done it was considering it was a Polish mini-series. It's obvious where CDPR got their character looks from.
Anyways, after watching the mini-series and diving into the book lore i've become increasingly conflicted. I knew that the games took some creative freedom with the lore in order to make games, but it really is amazing how how different Geralt in the game is from the Geralt in the books.
Geralt would never lower himself to doing the type of questing that he ends up doing the majority of the time in the games. He honors his codex. While he isn't against stepping up against humans who disrespect him directly, he generally ignores the rest. In regards to killing monsters, he will only do it when they actively hurt humans and even then only for pay...he won't kill them needlessly. He generally doesn't hunt dragons in any circumstance, because he feels that they have the right to take the occasional cow because humans have stolen their hunting lands. He definitely wouldn't be so involve with politics or take missions that require him to stalk or kill people.
Anyways, this isn't a criticism of the games themselves because they stand on their own. For me personally, it is much harder to like the simplistic, opportunistic version of Geralt as is portrayed in the games. I much prefer the complex person we see in the books and video.
Not necessarily.That would make the world's most boring game though.
CDPR was sneaky with patch 1.08. I just installed it earlier and I noticed I took a FPS hit on my R9 390. It appears that they raised the tessellation, just for parity for Nvidia, because they know AMD GPUs aren't as good at tessellation. Especially considering this is an Nvidia game, and AMD cards were whipping Nvidia in Witcher 3 benchmarks in several price/performance ranges. I capped the tessellation to x32 in CCC and I got a 15FPS boost. It must have been something crazy like x256-x512 or more by default, because even capped at x64 which is the highest it'll go in CCC I gained about 12fps. A big enough boost to counter hairworks. My FPS with full ultra + all hairworks with x32 capped tessellation is better than no hairworks with Witcher 3's default tessellation. I'm not a fanboy, but I think its BS when they do this to appease one company while screwing PC owners who aren't using their favored company's products. CDPR has pissed me off. FYI I got a standard bench I run, which I posted in another topic, and its not placebo, I got a pretty hard FPS hit with 1.08 over 1.07, its a fact. I did multiple tests to make sure I wasn't tripping, or there were no outside factors causing the decreased performance. The FPS increase was so massive that spots that were in the 60 range in 1.07 sometimes dipped into the 45 range in 1.08. That's ridiculous! Also I'm getting load screens running around Novigrad in 1.08 when that never happened in previous patches.
Those are low res textures. They look decent from a distance, but get up close on them and you can play count-the-pixels. That's the difference between HD and not. HD textures are 2k minimum. And ultra textures should be 4k+ IMO. But unfortunately they had to dumb down Witcher 3 for consoles, and CDPR was too lazy to give PC gamers high res textures. All they need to do is release redkit, so the modders can improve their last gen texture resolutions. I zoomed the camera in on a rock, and it looked like an atari 2600 took a dump on my computer screen. That's last gen.
DAI for example, has considerably better textures than Witcher 3 does. Even though Witcher 3 is better in some other areas like lighting and shaders than DAI is.
DAI maxed out, these textures are HD
http://i.imgur.com/FrgnI7k.jpg
Witcher 3 maxed out:
http://i.imgur.com/z3wDMEG.jpg
The textures, and especially the shrubs look like garbage in Witcher 3. That fern looks like a playstation 1 cardboard cutout. I mean, &^*&!! I could get my 6 year old niece to draw a fern on cardboard and I could cut it out with a pair of scissors, and it would look about as good as Witcher 3's fern.
So guys, I've had this game since release (free copy from buying TitanX) but haven't installed it yet, is it time to play it ? Or do I wait longer for more patches/DLC/Ultimate edition ???
Not necessarily.
I played the first game back in 2007. I got half-way through. My performance sunk when I entered the Trade Quarter in Vizima (Chapter 3). So I stopped.
I later read the stories from the first 2 books. That changed my view on Geralt and the game. I suddenly realized why Geralt had to do his meditation in the game, before every big fight. How the potions worked. What Geralt was actually doing, what it was like to be a witcher. I finally finished TW1 last winter, in anticipation of TW3. I loved it. (I also played TW2, 2 or 3 years ago, but tbh, I can't remember much of it. I like TW1 more than TW2).
One of the main themes in the Witcher games is that you are often confronted with situation where you have to make a choice. You can pick an option where you are nice and friendly, or an option where you are a dick. But then later in the game, you realize that trying to be friendly can be just as bad as being a dick. In fact, I think that in the games, no matter what you do, things always end badly. Always.
I don't like that.
I'd like to have a real option to not chose. To try and stay neutral. Most of the time you don't get that option. You have to chose. E.g. there is no option to drop a quest, once you picked it up. I don't like that. In all quests, once you make a choice, you can't undo it. I realize that will be hard to implement in game (without bugs). But it would be nice.
I assume most of you played Skyrim. In Skyrim I did the Dark Brotherhood questline. You get the option to join the Dark Brotherhood, or not. If you don't I think you have to fight them. I joined the Dark Brotherhood. But after a few quests, I knew I made the wrong choice. Even though it's just a game, I wasn't gonna slaughter innocent farmers, etc. So I used the console to remove the "unkillability" of the DB NPCs. And I slaughtered them all. Then I used the console to remove the remaining DB quests. It wasn't in the game, but I could do it. I made the wrong choice, I realized that, I corrected myself.
I wish we could do something like that in The Witcher 3 as well. Let me change my mind. Let me kill my questgiver. Or let me walk away. Let me forget about quests.
As a result, we should be able to play a Geralt that is a lot less important. A true witcher. One that doesn't interfere in politics. That doesn't kill dragons. A witcher that helps the common folks. A simple guy. I would like that. I would like that more than playing a witcher who protects kings, who frees countries, who makes history.
World of Warcraft made a similar mistake. In the first years we are just regular adventurers who travel around Azeroth, who kill monsters, have adventures, try to make a little gold. But nowadays, you are the commander of you own army, you have followers, you have a garrison. The leaders of the Horde and Alliance come to the player for advice. Not fun. I'd play a different game if I wanted that. (I don't play WoW anymore. ))
Role playing doesn't mean you have to slay dragons and protect kings. Just walking through a forest, fighting wolves and an occasional drowner could be a great game.
Um, you realize that you are comparing a zoomed out perspective of foliage in DAI with zoomed in perspective of foliage in Witcher 3? Try giving us two screen shots from the same perspective.
Also, who the *(@%* stares at zoomed in foliage in either game? You're supposed to be fighting monsters, not looking for ants on leaves. I'd be surprised if either game provided high resolution textures of objects at that zoom level.
Yeah it's all a conspiracy and they didn't increase any other details or tweak anything else that could have caused it.
Been out of the loop for a bit, but apparently the final patch that adds NG+ has been released
Um, you realize that you are comparing a zoomed out perspective of foliage in DAI with zoomed in perspective of foliage in Witcher 3? Try giving us two screen shots from the same perspective.
Also, who the *(@%* stares at zoomed in foliage in either game? You're supposed to be fighting monsters, not looking for ants on leaves. I'd be surprised if either game provided high resolution textures of objects at that zoom level.