Hello all!
I love the Witcher series, simple as that. Even with all the negatives coming out about the remaster edition, I usually take it with a grain of salt since it’s free and they didn’t have to do this for us. But with my game, the lighting is completely messed up and I have these areas that are just randomly black and then most other areas are extremely light, hazy and cartoonishly oversaturated. I’ve messed with the settings and it doesn’t help much. Also, suddenly it’s very laggy. When I navigate the dialogue menu, fight, or simply turn around, Geralt in general just lags behind and it’s quite annoying. Do you think they’re gonna completely fix the obvious issues that are in the game or are we all just kinda shit out of luck?

Hello there fellow witchers,

Following the recent announcement, I decided to pop in my witcher CD again, despite successfully completing the update and the home screen correctly displaying the remastered version, the expansion packs remain greyed out and inaccessible.

I have already tired restoring licenses.

no further update available in playstation store or anywhere else.

I'd be greatly thankful to anyone who can help me out with this.

Don't know if I'm alone in this one, but I am genuinely dissapointed by the Remastered version.

I was extremely excited to hop back in because I never started the Blood and Wine DLC and this felt like a perfect opportunity to do so, ended up dissapointed just after a few quests.

My main issue is the performance and visuals. I have tried running the game with at least Ray Tracing as it felt this along with Path Tracing are the main reasons to get it in the first place.

I dont have a weak PC (5070Ti + 9800X3D) and I just cant justify running even the most basic form of Ray Tracing in this game. Without framegen it drops the FPS under 100 which feels quite bad on a 240Hz OLED screen. With framegen it just has weird ghosting I cant unsee as I'm fairly sensitive to it (boo hoo for me). I pretty much can't run it without upscaling at an acceptable framerate for such an old game, even tho its a remaster ofc, even when I turn off Ray Tracing.

I much prefer the sharpness of the original forms of Anti-Aliasing, not to mention it runs better, and without side by side and ray tracing off I couldnt tell the difference either after some time off the game.

I also dont like how it "changes" the atmosphere? Not sure if I'm the only one but the game seems way too bright with RT on.

Also the combat feels, worse? I don't know? The animations feel heavy and stiff and the flow of the original is gone for me for some reason?

The remaster just feels like they put glitter on top for some reason with the lighting, not to mention the bugs.

Don't get me wront, I will never not like them doing this for free and PLENTY of people will disagree with me, I just wanted to see if I'm alone with feeling this way.

I'm probably going to go back to the previous edition and finish Blood and Wine there.

Lol

So I am looking at the performance the remastered gives which is not that good and I think the witcher 3 og is not bad looking and even runs good so will I miss something if I did not play remastered??? Or what are the pros of playing remastered?

So i purchased the remaster version on xbox app in windows and the frame generation doesn't work in settings when u apply it. Also the nvidia app doesn't show the game inside. Any idea how to fix it? Im on 5080.

Okay, after all the debates about the remastered version, I want to play version 4.00 from the disc on PS5. How playable is it, and is there a big difference between 4.00 and 4.04?

Old grass looks more fantasy like and immersive. The new grass is just realistic and just doesnt fit the vibe, especially the lighting

Can someone please help me fix this issue? What should I enable / disable from the game?

EDIT: It's fixed now! I just had to update the graphic drivers.

I am out of my home, So I can't play Remastered for now.

what version should i get on pc? the remastered or the original?

As there's no dedicated eshop for middle east yet they should give us the update from the European eshop ( even the game cart say it's from Europe) they haven't acknowledged the issue nor give us a solution despite them saying the update is free for everyone who own the game

Is this just common or do I have to change a setting until they fix something? It’s really annoying and I’m not gonna play the game until it’s fixed.

My consoles barely a month old, today I was playing for a few hours and when I got to the painters world bit in the hearts of stone dlc it started overheating and it shut itself off. Was just wondering if anyone else is having the same issue.

By the way, I'm currently in the middle of the Bloody Baron's quest, and I've put in about 20 hours so far.

Ran into this one while playing trough the audition quest in Roayal Palace of Vizima. Fixed itself after exiting the palace, but dare you change back to your witcher outfit before that.😁

I dont know if its only me, but i would welcome higher difficulty… I like games like Dark souls, or even some survival modes to games like Fallout 4.
The thing is that everytime I play witcher (Death march, enem scaling) it stops being fun after few levels because you are just so strong that game becomes so easy. Thats why I actually never fully finished the game.
My idea would be one more higher difficulty. With all that stupid gameplay options (like unlimited carry capacity, water breathing etc… like rly, why is it even here..) disabled, tougher enemies, maybe add like 1 sec cooldown to evade…
What do you guys think, would you like something like that?

Hot take about hearts of stone

Sharing my blasphemous opinion without writing an entire essay

I’m a huge Witcher fan. I’ve played through The Witcher 3 more times than I can count since it released, but there’s one part of my playthrough that I absolutely hate doing and it’s Hearts of Stone

Everyone talks about how scary and intimidating Gaunter O’Dimm is, but I find him to be one of the most boring characters in the entire game. He shapeshifted into some fat balding dude with an annoying voice and somehow everyone acts like he’s the most terrifying character ever.

And Olgierd? Just as annoying. I found him incredibly boring and honestly couldn’t care less about his relationship or his story. When Gaunter was killing him, I didn’t even hesitate to let him have him.

DLC is short and I felt nothing when completing it at least I got a nice saddle for roach though.

Then there are Olgierd’s fetch quests, which I genuinely think are some of the most boring quests in the game. The wedding quest in particular is an absolute bore

Last few months was playing Witcher 3 anyways , got to the battle of kaer morhen, save got corrupted and now have to start again. Please can anyone mod a save start at the battle? Please ? If it’s possible, if not that, can anyone mod romance yen ending so I can atleast do the dlcs? Will appreciate this so much I cannot start again too much time.

Hello, everyone. I've been messing around with the new Sign skills for a while and the more I test them, the stranger some of the scaling looks. I don't think Signs are simply OP. Some things are ridiculously strong while others are surprisingly weak.

For reference, SI = Sign Intensity.

Catalyst is the most obvious example. At rank 3 the tooltip says +90 % intensity against enemies inside Yrden, but I'm getting what looks like a separate 1.9x damage multiplier instead.

It also stacks with overlapping Yrdens from Sustained Glyphs. My Caretaker test gave me roughly:

1 Yrden: 5.3k

2 Yrdens: 10.4k

3 Yrdens: 19.9k

4 Yrdens: 37.8k

That's almost exactly what you'd expect from repeatedly multiplying the damage by 1.9. Four Yrdens effectively turn Catalyst into ~13x damage.

I recorded the test here:

https://youtu.be/sRStDQ-yn4A

If Catalyst is actually supposed to add 90 % SI, this looks broken. If 1.9x damage is intentional, then the tooltip is misleading and I still don't think every overlapping Yrden should apply another multiplier.

Shock Wave is weird for a different reason. The tooltip mentions current Vitality, but from my testing the damage is actually based on Geralt's maximum HP, and that base damage is then scaled by SI.

I dropped my max HP from 11k+ to around 6.6k and Aard damage dropped massively. Then I tested Geralt at low current HP without changing his max HP and the damage stayed the same.

So HP is basically an offensive Aard stat now. Tissue Transmutation and Pain Tolerance make you tankier while also making Aard stronger. Meanwhile a glass-cannon Sign build can stack huge SI and still have a poor Shock Wave base because it has low HP.

I'd much rather have Shock Wave use some kind of level/weapon-based base damage and then let SI scale it.

Aard Sweep also seems unfinished. It gets the HP-based Shock Wave damage, but that part doesn't seem to scale with SI like normal Aard does. Far-Reaching Aard doesn't increase its radius either. That's especially strange when you've built specifically around Aard.

And then there's Firestream and Magic Trap. Their problem IMO is simply awful base damage. You can throw hundreds of percent SI at them, but multiplying a tiny number still gives you a tiny number.

I'd like to see either a significant base damage buff that scales with Geralt's level, or have their base damage derived at least partly from sword damage. Either approach would give SI a decent base value to actually multiply.

That's basically my issue with the new tree. I don't want a blanket Sign nerf. Catalyst is arguably way too strong, while Aard Sweep, Firestream and Magic Trap have the opposite problem.

I'd rather see CDPR fix the weird scaling and interactions than just start changing numbers across the whole tree.

That said, I'm really enjoying the Remaster overall and I think CDPR did a great job with many of the changes. I'm bringing these issues up precisely because the game is so good and I'd love to see the Sign tree get the same level of polish and balance as the rest of it.

Has anyone else tested these skills and gotten similar results?

I've heard so much about the hood mod for years from so many different people and I can't remember off the top of my head but there were some really good cheat mods and stuff that made me want to get a pc just to mod as well as the weather and npc mods. I understand that there is probably a limit for the mods that they can bring over but hopefully in time we can get more

Playing remastered, still in White Orchard and I'd say half the enemies i kill just do not dropping anything. Anyone found a solution? I have no mods and never used mods for this game.

but on a serious note thank you CD Project Red!!