Like I said, I totally get the business reasons for the last-gen versions. Skipping them at launch would’ve been a non-starter. We’re only now starting to get games exclusive to the newer consoles.
At the same time, it’s a shame they had to try to accommodate that last-gen hardware, because it’s obvious their ambitions outstripped their ability to make the game work properly on those lower specs.
Editer
6611
Glad to see this out, so they can focus on the enhanced Witcher 3. :)
I’m excited to come back to this, but not so excited that I’m not going to finish a couple of other games first and wait for the inevitable 1.5.1.0 release that will come after users find the glitches they missed.
The real question is whether to start over or not. It’s been over a year since I’ve played so I don’t remember a lot of details about the setup. But I also don’t remember any great sequences I’m excited to replay, so I guess I’ll likely pick up where I left off and just figure any details I need will be reiterated as the story unfolds.
I just started over myself. Playing on XSX, and it seems pretty good so far. It’s been over a year since I played, though, so I couldn’t tell you what’s actually different about the perk trees, but I’m sure there’ll be an analysis out soon (if there isn’t already).
I have it set to RT mode, and it seems pretty smooth to me, but I’m only just past the tutorial mission where you rescue the girl. Of note- in the Settings menu, it says “Ray Tracing Mode provides photorealistic rendering of shadows and reflections as well as gameplay at 30fps with dynamic 4k scaling” (emphasis mine). I do feel like it’s better looking than I remember, but again, it’s been more than a year.
JMR
6613
Has anyone tried hacking yet? Is it still crazy overpowered?
stusser
6614
As I recall they nerfed the “hide in the bathroom and silently execute every last motherfucker in the building at range” strategy a couple patches back. Haven’t played in awhile myself.
I’m curious to read impressions or reviews of the revised skill perk trees and that type of thing. It always sounded weird how broken that whole thing was.
Does the inventory system still have 20 different types of food and drink that you never use and are there because it’s a Witcher system they never bother getting rid of?
I remember how funny was one perk for swimming. Which was totally worthless in the game, of course. From what I have read in the changelog, it doesn’t seem they touched it.
This part of the patch notes kind of covers that:
Drastically reduced the amount of loot lying around as a part of an effort to allow players more breathing room to experience quest scenes and the world itself.
stusser
6619
They did, they replaced that useless perk entirely.
Houngan
6620
New rig so this game is back on my radar, is more of a Deus Ex “bunch of stuff going on and medium free world, light cutscenes” or a “Witcher/RDR2/etc. hours of cutscene conversations” type? I’m not casting aspersions either way, but I strongly prefer fewer expository non-gameplay scenes.
Definitely the latter. Though to be fair some of the expository “cutscenes” do involve gameplay of sorts.
Dejin
6622
That’s the way I played at launch. It made the game easy, but it also made me feel like I was a badass hacker. Personally I don’t mind if the game isn’t balanced for different builds. I think it leads to a more interesting game, and its not a multiplayer game anyway (at least not right now).
There is a lot of exposition at the beginning and again in the endgame. In the vast middle bits, it’s an open world playground. You can extend those middle bits for quite a long time, as there are explicit warnings for the quest that leads to the ending.
Houngan
6624
That seems like the good compromise, reckon I’ll check it out.
Paul_cze
6625
Still very much enjoy even just walking around this city. However it seems like CPU requirements went up a bit. I have to lower crowd density to medium to keep 60 where previously I could stay at high. Makes sense but is annoying, but then I do plan on replacing that old ryzen.
rrmorton
6626
STILL A SHARP LOOKIN’ GAME!
I have the PS5 version downloading right now. At $30 CAD, that’s a pretty good deal for what, for me, will feel like a brand-new release since I didn’t play it yet.
Now, I’m not wildly excited about it, and expectations aren’t high, so I think I’ll possibly enjoy it if there aren’t any frustrations.
I think the prettiest game I’ve ever played… not sure what tops it
I think I’m also in at this price point and with this update. The alternative is waiting for a complete edition in a few years…
