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The Witcher 3 was downgraded from what was shown in 2013 - Now with PS4 Comparison video

They might end up releasing a patch when the game comes out to remedy all the PC downgrades. I think it's too early to suggest it's a downgrade for all platforms. Not trying to protect them or anything but they do have a good history so I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt and wait until official release. 

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But well on a serious note, the one thing that does bother me is that this game might not run well on AMD hardware at launch: I've been looking at the requirements and they recommend a 290 on the same league as the 770 on the Nvidia side. That screams completely unoptimized for AMD since the 290 is quite a bit ahead of the 770, but we'll see.

I didn't play The Witcher 1 or 2 at launch but I have heard that both of them were pretty demanding when they came out, so I wouldn't be surprised if The Witcher 3 ended up being demanding as well. Also, isn't it a "The way it's meant to be played title"? That means that at the very least Nvidia have had more time/closer connections to Nvidia, which helps them tweak their drivers.

Let's just hope the most important parts of the won't be Nvidia exclusive. Like the boobs physics for example.

 

 

 

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Like I said, I never planned on buying this for full price so I'm not mad in the slightest, but I still care. Also I really don't understand your outrage over the community's outrage. People expected a certain level of graphical fidelity and they won't be getting that, it's the same thing that happened with Watch_Dogs. Now people won't have trust in CDPR, which they shouldn't have had in the first place. This is a lesson that everyone needs to learn, don't pre-order, ever.

 

Trust goes out the window when a developer makes evasive statements on the graphical capabilities of the game a few months out from launch. If CDPR had straight up avoided showing and promising anything, or using inflated PC specs to power brutally inefficient code that required a beast of a PC; people would be less outraged. But CDPR showed off "in-game" content. They set that bar themselves. 

 

They failed to reach that bar because they didn't have resources and time to build a separate PC game, instead giving you a Console+ experience as opposed to the consoles getting a PC Lite experience; a big difference in methodology that I hope people understand. 

 

Then again, this is what people get for so blindly following a company and saying "oh they could never do wrong, oh its worth pre-ordering since its gonna be a great game". Hey, if those people can blow 60 bucks on a game before it even launches because they somehow can make the judgement that "its a good game", why can't people on the other side give the game crap based off far stronger and tangible information? The double standard that people used, especially with respect to this game, is amazing. 

 

Preordering is bad and people should feel bad BUT CDPR are good guys so they get my money. A million games preordered of what? Are people that impatient? Need it that badly? Its a digital game, you can chill can you not? Console gamers even have proper reviews with Digital Foundry releasing their video shortly; at least they have a valid reason to want the game "pre loaded" but PC users? why? 

 

We have no real reviews for the PC version. We have no metrics, no benchmarks, not a single port report. The game is digital. Its not going anywhere. You can wait 2-3 days after launch to make up your mind. Are people that pressed for time that they need the game ASAP? Its a game planning dozens and dozens of hours; does it matter when you start playing it?

Alas, I can't understand that mentality. I got burned by BF4 and have tried to avoid the hype and the pomp and the excitement, and for good reason. Even the most "trusted and friend of PC gaming" developers will screw up and screw you over.  

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Who cares, the people who don't nitpick about graphics are going to have fun playing the game while the people who got their jimmies rustled over graphics are left behind complaining.

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Well, let's sum up the important parts... they had a dx9 engine back in 2013 that looked breathtaking, but they also expected the consoles to be more powerful (like the xbox 360 and ps3 when they came out). Realizing that the consoles aren't as powerful, they had to change the engine and downgrade it a bit, so that the game could actually run on consoles (their first impressions about the consoles were actually, that they won't be able to run that game). As if those things did not happen before... There are some misinformation about the graphics, back in early 2015 several journalists of game magazines were invited to play the game for a several hours, and they were said, that the game has been running at high settings... and it looked much better than the console versions (a German magazine called "gamestar" has several videos regarding this topic):

 

the gameplay scenes start at 2:15 and we can clearly observe better graphics compared to the PS4 version (in my opinion, the ps4 runs at low-medium settings). 

 

Yes, the game does not look like advertised in 2013, but... they had to make sacrifices to make the game run on consoles, but it's not always about the graphics, what about the more than 100 hours of gameplay? What about the story and the realistic social problems it's using to create great atmosphere? 

 

I do have to admit, I'm of Slavic descent, and the game (actually both the first and the second game and the books) appeals to me.

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Well, I noticed a good thing in all this actually.

"we sequentially had to takeout/turn down a lot of features not just from our NVIDIA GameWorks pipeline but our normal game solution scripts as well(...)"

 

Does it mean, that Witcher 3 might actually run well on AMD cards? Cos than I don't mind downgrade that much. :D

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Well, let's sum up the important parts... they had a dx9 engine back in 2013 that looked breathtaking, but they also expected the consoles to be more powerful (like the xbox 360 and ps3 when they came out). Realizing that the consoles aren't as powerful, they had to change the engine and downgrade it a bit, so that the game could actually run on consoles (their first impressions about the consoles were actually, that they won't be able to run that game). As if those things did not happen before... There are some misinformation about the graphics, back in early 2015 several journalists of game magazines were invited to play the game for a several hours, and they were said, that the game has been running at high settings... and it looked much better than the console versions (a German magazine called "gamestar" has several videos regarding this topic):

 

the gameplay scenes start at 2:15 and we can clearly observe better graphics compared to the PS4 version (in my opinion, the ps4 runs at low-medium settings). 

 

Yes, the game does not look like advertised in 2013, but... they had to make sacrifices to make the game run on consoles, but it's not always about the graphics, what about the more than 100 hours of gameplay? What about the story and the realistic social problems it's using to create great atmosphere? 

 

I do have to admit, I'm of Slavic descent, and the game (actually both the first and the second game and the books) appeals to me.

Some pictures of the pc version:

 

http://www.sector.sk/files/novinky/2015-4-11-8-37-1/ukazal-prave-witcher-iii-vylep-image-9983.jpg

 

http://www.sector.sk/files/novinky/2015-4-13-17-51-47/4k-zabery-na-svet-noveho-zakli-image-750.jpg

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I am not worried about the graphiçs downgrade.

I mean if the game çomes out and the graphiçs are downgraded I will be pissed just on a matter of prinçiple , I hate when this happens and I wont be biased and exçuse this çompany just beçause they are good sports.

Now if on top of that the game has the "projeçt çars syndrome" , you know running at the same FPS on a 660 ti and a 290x.

I wont touçh it with a 30 foot pole.

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Yes, the game does not look like advertised in 2013, but... they had to make sacrifices to make the game run on consoles, but it's not always about the graphics, what about the more than 100 hours of gameplay? What about the story and the realistic social problems it's using to create great atmosphere? 

It's not always about graphics, except when CDPR had said from the beginning that they were going to make this game for PC first and downgrade accordingly.  Only to turn around last year and say that "there isn't much difference between the PC and console versions."  People feel burned because they were promised something they aren't getting.  Because now we know that like every developer before them, CDPR developed for the lowest denominator, it's insulting.  

 

We call ourselves PCMR as a semi-joke, but we ARE the master race. We invest the most money into the hardware that fuels our hobby.  And with that investment we expect more things other than just simple graphical prowess.  Larger more active worlds, smarter AI, better game and storytelling mechanics.  Instead we get horseshit from devs and publishers who just shit out the same stuff year after year.  When will it end????  We thought that CDPR, with their pedigree of the Witcher 2 could finally stick it to the man and make a true PC game that was ported down to consoles and not the other way around, and what do we get? A slap in the face? After pouring 100's of ice buckets over our heads.

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''you can't just explain it like this''

in other words:  '' microsoft and sony payed me to make the pc port less viable, to promote their consoles, and im stupid enough to accept their offers.  ''

 

 

how to be a bad game dev.

 

I don't think it's fair to say who got paid by who. We don't know any of that for a fact. We're just the audience.

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Who cares, the people who don't nitpick about graphics are going to have fun playing the game while the people who got their jimmies rustled over graphics are left behind complaining.

people who think this are the same people who would defend rockstar if they had released the game like PS4 to PC, but rockstar were clever weren't they, they tricked me into believing those screenshots are from PC , but nope, they had something better for PC, now when ubisoft did the same thing with Watch dogs, did people come out and say "who cares about graphics" ? that's hypocrisy 101, you don't get to choose who gets a pass and who don't. 

 

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I am not worried about the graphiçs downgrade.

I mean if the game çomes out and the graphiçs are downgraded I will be pissed just on a matter of prinçiple , I hate when this happens and I wont be biased and exçuse this çompany just beçause they are good sports.

Now if on top of that the game has the "projeçt çars syndrome" , you know running at the same FPS on a 660 ti and a 290x.

I wont touçh it with a 30 foot pole.

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It's not always about graphics, except when CDPR had said from the beginning that they were going to make this game for PC first and downgrade accordingly.  Only to turn around last year and say that "there isn't much difference between the PC and console versions."  People feel burned because they were promised something they aren't getting.  Because now we know that like every developer before them, CDPR developed for the lowest denominator, it's insulting.  

 

We call ourselves PCMR as a semi-joke, but we ARE the master race. We invest the most money into the hardware that fuels our hobby.  And with that investment we expect more things other than just simple graphical prowess.  Larger more active worlds, smarter AI, better game and storytelling mechanics.  Instead we get horseshit from devs and publishers who just shit out the same stuff year after year.  When will it end????  We thought that CDPR, with their pedigree of the Witcher 2 could finally stick it to the man and make a true PC game that was ported down to consoles and not the other way around, and what do we get? A slap in the face? After pouring 100's of ice buckets over our heads.

Well, the witcher 2 was one of the best RPGs ever made (regarding the story and the atmosphere, what the hell, even the graphics)... Well, they had to, the console market can not be ignored, because that's where the money is (or let's say a big chunk of the potential income). However... the witcher 3 is going to be one of the best RPGs in a long time and it will set several standards regarding story, atmosphere, and even quest design and gameplay... and it's my last big adventure with Geralt.  

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people who think this are the same people who would defend rockstar if they had released the game like PS4 to PC, but rockstar were clever weren't they, they tricked me into believing those screenshots are from PC , but nope, they had something better for PC, now when ubisoft did the same thing with Watch dogs, did people come out and say "who cares about graphics" ? that's hypocrisy 101, you don't get to choose who gets a pass and who don't. 

 

Niçe sig mate .

I agree 100% thought. Ubisoft çan downgrade their games but oh çd projeçt red does it( if this is confirmed)  and its okay .

This is speçial treatment and shows double standards .

All çompanies çan mess up , even valve and they should be çalled out aççordingly

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Ubisoft çan downgrade their games but oh çd projeçt red does it( if this is confirmed)  and its okay .

This here. It's not about graphics, it's about principle. The end.

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Niçe sig mate .

I agree 100% thought. Ubisoft çan downgrade their games but oh çd projeçt red does it( if this is confirmed)  and its okay .

This is speçial treatment and shows double standards .

All çompanies çan mess up , even valve and they should be çalled out aççordingly

( My normal ç is broken on the keyboard , :( )

 

This. We can't allow anybody to screw us over. Period.

Valve had a pass and they tried funny stuff with paid mods. The community tore them a new one and they went back on that one for now.

We shat on Ubisoft for their continuous crap and false advertisement. Same with EA and Activision and everyone before them.

 

Now "oh its CDPR, they are the good guys, they get a pass".

No. They do not deserve the pass.

I don't give a flying f*ck about the downgrade. But I do care about deceiving the consumers and the fanbase.

They are a company that wants money. They lied to have it. They deserve the shitstorm.

 

The downgrade IS real. Lets just wait for the real release to see what is the real extent of it.

 

 

Anyways...was really wondering why you were using ç, that is funny ^^

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Trust goes out the window when a developer makes evasive statements on the graphical capabilities of the game a few months out from launch. If CDPR had straight up avoided showing and promising anything, or using inflated PC specs to power brutally inefficient code that required a beast of a PC; people would be less outraged. But CDPR showed off "in-game" content. They set that bar themselves. 

 

They failed to reach that bar because they didn't have resources and time to build a separate PC game, instead giving you a Console+ experience as opposed to the consoles getting a PC Lite experience; a big difference in methodology that I hope people understand. 

 

Then again, this is what people get for so blindly following a company and saying "oh they could never do wrong, oh its worth pre-ordering since its gonna be a great game". Hey, if those people can blow 60 bucks on a game before it even launches because they somehow can make the judgement that "its a good game", why can't people on the other side give the game crap based off far stronger and tangible information? The double standard that people used, especially with respect to this game, is amazing. 

 

Preordering is bad and people should feel bad BUT CDPR are good guys so they get my money. A million games preordered of what? Are people that impatient? Need it that badly? Its a digital game, you can chill can you not? Console gamers even have proper reviews with Digital Foundry releasing their video shortly; at least they have a valid reason to want the game "pre loaded" but PC users? why? 

 

We have no real reviews for the PC version. We have no metrics, no benchmarks, not a single port report. The game is digital. Its not going anywhere. You can wait 2-3 days after launch to make up your mind. Are people that pressed for time that they need the game ASAP? Its a game planning dozens and dozens of hours; does it matter when you start playing it?

Alas, I can't understand that mentality. I got burned by BF4 and have tried to avoid the hype and the pomp and the excitement, and for good reason. Even the most "trusted and friend of PC gaming" developers will screw up and screw you over.  

You know, I said it the other day. "yeah, if people could stop pre-ordering, that'd be great..."

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But well on a serious note, the one thing that does bother me is that this game might not run well on AMD hardware at launch: I've been looking at the requirements and they recommend a 290 on the same league as the 770 on the Nvidia side. That screams completely unoptimized for AMD since the 290 is quite a bit ahead of the 770, but we'll see.

THAT is because it's a gameworks title, which is a continuing reason why I refuse to buy team green. It's artificially adding value to segregate the gaming community and is anti competitive to boot.

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You know, I said it the other day. "yeah, if people could stop pre-ordering, that'd be great..."

And at the same time pre-orders hit 1M. If this turns out to be true, I hope people would learn something.

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THAT is because it's a gameworks title, which is a continuing reason why I refuse to buy team green. It's artificially adding value to segregate the gaming community and is anti competitive to boot.

 

Yeah that's what visual advances are all about, segregating the community!

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And at the same time pre-orders hit 1M. If this turns out to be true, I hope people would learn something.

I hope a crap ton of those pre-orders get cancelled.

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Honestly this stuff is pissing me off so much that I can hardly enjoy games anymore.
The games industry is getting worse and worse you can't watch any pre release footage anymore without it being false, you can't buy a game anymore without getting shoved pre order bonuses/ DLC packs down our throat, and half of the games are so broken on release that you have to wait months for them to be at a playable state.

I just want to watch a trailer buy the game and have a great experience but that seems nearly impossible these days.

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