I'm wondering myself. It looks great to me. And there are those small touches which I personally find really important. Attacks chain together smoothly. The way many strikes begin from where the last one ended - your swung the sword and it ended to your left and low? Your next swing will start from there, without Geralt phasing suddenly into some default stance. Speaking of stances, I enjoy how he has several of them (the Souls series, for all their good sides, stick out to me in how the character doesn't change stances at all, after watching videos of TW3). Geralt's quick, without flashing around the screen like in an anime. And finally, we now have cool finishers, too. Combat may not be perfect here, but it looks damn good to me.
They said very early on, and no way can I find the link now, that he would stare at the next opponent you target. So I wonder if the player had swung the camera around to view the archer, his head would follow. The same happened when he was staring at the downed wolf and the other one got him. And again, Geralt swings at air when fighting the first wolf. So I don't know, targeting is still a mystery to me.
Yup. All finishers happen during gameplay now. No more losing control over your character
The distance from camera bothers me the most, they've yet to replicate the intimate feel of combat the close camera gave in the numerous trailers.
To be honest the camera distance and camera angle in general works against immersion for me. The gameplay trailers had it right imo, it gave the world a more tangible feel, current camera gives me the feeling of being detached from the world. Its like I'm watching Geralt from a distance rather than being Geralt, hope its adjustable.
Also not a big fan of the screen turning red when getting hit, how the hell did that make the cut? Its very Call Of Duty of them.
Lastly, hope vegetation quality is improved in ultra mode, looks very 2D, low res copy/paste vegetation. They've created this lush environment, amazing wind and weather effects, let down a bit by the current assets, mostly the grass. Mod support soon after release please.
All in all, looks really good, and can't wait to play it. Damien's comments were interesting regarding not showing it running on max, be curious to see if it does slap you in the face with its quality. Not that far off from release, almost time to start putting their best foot forward I think.
Hope all goes well at Pax.
When Geralt got hit by the wolf all the borders of the screen turned red, shouldn't be just a part of the screen based on the direction the atack is coming from?
Totally agree. I'd maybe even use Witcher sense camera all the time if there would be an option. I hope there will.
Also because of the camera beeing so far away and above, It doesn't really look like extremely real world (altho it is extremely beautiful), more like watching a big model from up close. Skyrim in that regard was great, you could actually feel the scale of everything like you were actually there. Witcher 3 looks like mix of TES series and Diablo in that regard.
Or maybe that is just how the world is rendered? Or camera 'lens'? I don't know.
And I also agree about this blood thing, I hope you can turn that off.
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Yup. All finishers happen during gameplay now. No more losing control over your character
Do the finishing moves only happen when you kill the last enemy? or is it a skill you can aquire and can be performed at any time?
It's not a skill. You will be able to perform them from the beginning of the game and they will trigger when killing the last enemy in the pack.
Marcin looking this video , the consoles quality will be equal, I can wait similar quality on PS4.
Well i guess that the auto aim and auto run to the enemy, and roll reminded me abit of Shadow of mordor and Batman. I did not like the combat in either. I would prefer it dark souls style.
What is this, is this blood?
Don't you think, there is too much blood and it looks kind of unrealistic, when it splatters.
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Why does Geralt have this massive blood flow, just out of a single bite?
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Don't you think, there is too much blood and it looks kind of unrealistic, when it splatters.
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Why does Geralt have this massive blood flow, just out of a single bite?
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In the name of all that is holy, you won't even notice that while playing the game.... Y'all need to apply to beta testing games, some people from this forums, then the 90% of the games would be real-life simulators as an end-product.
Petty things aside, this is the most beautiful atmosphere-wise footage so far, I don't even remember SoTD trailer and whatnot after this. Combat just keeps getting better, and it made me nerdgasm even in that 35 min demo footage.
Just give me the damned game already CDPR, I curse all these gaming/expo events for teasers like this.
Damien's PR talk about the possible quality on PC translated to normal language:
"the highest visual settings are being saved for those who buy the game" = "we assured to not piss off console players with footage on maximum PC settings before release"
and/or
"the highest visual settings are being saved for those who buy the game" = "the game on maximum PC settings is still running like shit so we can't show it right now"
:cheers:
"the highest visual settings are being saved for those who buy the game" = "we assured to not piss off console players with footage on maximum PC settings before release"
and/or
"the highest visual settings are being saved for those who buy the game" = "the game on maximum PC settings is still running like shit so we can't show it right now"
:cheers:
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