Roach can now walk backwards and kick! Here's everything we learned about The Witcher 3 next-gen patch while at CDPROJEKTRED
Last week, I travelled to CD Projekt Red to play the long-awaited next-gen update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which will be released 14th December - AKA next week. I spent a few hours with the update, playing with the new graphical options, the quality of life improvements, and the quest tied to unlocking gear from the The Witcher Netflix show. And I talked to acting narrative director Philip Webber about it, too.
The next-gen update is made up of a curated selection of community mods for The Witcher 3, plus updates CDPR has made and the new DLC. "Regarding the contents, we are aiming to bring the same fixes and additional content to Nintendo Switch that we are bringing to both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 - so that means the update to Switch will not include next-gen features such as visual/technical/gameplay improvements, mods, or other additions exclusive to the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S versions of the game."
The crafting diagram you're rewarded for finishing it is the Forgotten Wolven Gear, which looks like Henry Cavill's armour from the first season of The Witcher on Netflix. Philipp Weber told me that if you upgrade the armour to its mastercrafted version, its appearance changes to the look of Cavill's armour from season two.The alternate Netflix appearances for Jaskier/Dandelion, and the wrinkly Nilfgaardian armour, can be turned on and off in the game's menu .
In Performance mode, you obviously don't get the ray-traced additions but you do get 60 FPS, plus a host of graphical tidy-ups and resolution and texture upgrades as mentioned further up. Digital Foundry has gone into detail on all of the graphical changes in the video above.
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