The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt simply received a brand new patch that brings a number of bug fixes and improves the general efficiency of the sport. The replace to model 4.02 is out now on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X, which acquired the much-delayed “next-gen upgrade” in December that was stricken by studies of technical points. The new replace fixes the dearth of a dialogue possibility that might assist progress the ‘Battle Preparations’ quest, improves water refractions on PC, provides a movement blur slider, and extra. The replace weighs about 2GB on PC and between 10–20GB on consoles.
Polish studio CD Projekt Red printed patch notes in a weblog put up, separating fixes primarily based on the platform. On PC, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s DirectX 12 model is anticipated to cut back the load on the CPU, along with stopping a bizarre flickering problem within the duchy Touissant, when the Nvidia HairWorks setting was toggled off. Grass shadows that beforehand appeared murky have now been mounted, although gamers might want to disable Ambient Occlusion as soon as extra for it to work. “You can find it in Options → Video → Graphics,” the put up reads. As talked about earlier than, a movement blur slider has been added to assist smoothen digital camera motion, whereas a refraction impact has been added to SSR (screen-space reflections) and ray-traced reflections.
Performance mode has been improved on each PS5 and Xbox Series S/X, and the sport not crashes when Geralt decides to run away from the medic Shani after hanging the dialog. Running The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Ray-Tracing on Xbox Series S/X would result in crashes, owing to a reminiscence utilization problem, which has been mounted now. PS5 customers not must endure blurry cutscenes or take care of their oldest save knowledge being deleted robotically. Some localisation points have been additionally resolved, beginning with up to date conventional Chinese fonts and punctuations within the Arabic translation.
Meanwhile, CD Projekt Red is deep into growth on Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty paid growth. The content material boasts the greatest finances for an growth within the studio’s historical past and options Idris Elba (The Suicide Squad) in a serious position — Solomon Reed, FIA agent of the ‘New United States of America.’ Details are scarce, however a trailer from final yr revealed that Keanu Reeves could be reprising his position because the magnetic Johnny Silverhand, who deems our allegiance to the federation a “bad idea.” Featuring mounds of useless authorities officers, Phantom Liberty is described as an “impossible mission of espionage & survival.”
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen replace and its newest patch is out now throughout PC, PS5, and Xbox Series S/X.
