Sorry, perhaps my lack of English grasp put me offside but I don't understand the joke...
Not that it adds anything to the discussion, or is of significance, but I noticed a creepy figure of what looks like a man at the back of that 'point of interest' (the old shacks) at 2:25, straight before that ominous music kicks in *shivers*. I just wanted to take control and make Geralt go there!
The water effects look really amazing. It's also great that Igni looks very similar to TW1, where I think it looked much better compared to TW2.
Yepp, I know. But my point is that he didn't freely chose to go into the water. He wanted to say somebody so there was a direct "need" to go into the water. To be honest, I don't have anything against entering the water at all if it's quest based. But as I said before it should be very obvious that Geralt is vulnerable in the water and that it's an extreme high risk to enter the water. My concern is the sandbox gameplay or the free roaming. Players shouldn't incentivized to enter the water. If you personally just want to enter the water t examine how long Geralt could survive, feel free to do so, no problem. But I'm against everything that motivates players to let Geralt enter the water, like e.g. secret underwater passages to caves where you could find rare ingredients or armour or whatever. Game design on that basis would lead to swimming and diving as a regular part of exploring the world and would display the ocean/water as something Geralt enjoys instead of dislaying it as something that Geralt avoids at all costs if not absolutely necessary (like for saving somebody from sea monsters)...
I think the blood looks good though it quickly disappears. The dismemberment is also a nice addition and makes the combat look more brutal and realistic.Yepp, I know. But my point is that he didn't freely chose to go into the water. He wanted to say somebody so there was a direct "need" to go into the water. To be honest, I don't have anything against entering the water at all if it's quest based. But as I said before it should be very obvious that Geralt is vulnerable in the water and that it's an extreme high risk to enter the water. My concern is the sandbox gameplay or the free roaming. Players shouldn't incentivized to enter the water. If you personally just want to enter the water t examine how long Geralt could survive, feel free to do so, no problem. But I'm against everything that motivates players to let Geralt enter the water, like e.g. secret underwater passages to caves where you could find rare ingredients or armour or whatever. Game design on that basis would lead to swimming and diving as a regular part of exploring the world and would display the ocean/water as something Geralt enjoys instead of dislaying it as something that Geralt avoids at all costs if not absolutely necessary (like for saving somebody from sea monsters)...
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I agree. Water looks really cool. If only the blood system would be on par with the water system now....
That's the problem. It's just a "small" detail but to me it's a big immersion breaker. It would be so cool if blood would actually realistically spread from corpses/body parts in the water, for example in the swamp or in puddles, and on solid ground without disappearing after just a few seconds for whatever weird reason...
That would be cool, but I think the corpses probably also disappear after a few seconds. It's like this simply to avoid performance issues.
Yeah that's fair enough and I see your point of view clearly. Personally I'm still all for the water exploration. As much as I love the lore of The Witcher, I love exploring places in games as much and CDPR's world is one I will want to see fully.Yepp, I know. But my point is that he didn't freely chose to go into the water. He wanted to say somebody so there was a direct "need" to go into the water. To be honest, I don't have anything against entering the water at all if it's quest based. But as I said before it should be very obvious that Geralt is vulnerable in the water and that it's an extreme high risk to enter the water. My concern is the sandbox gameplay or the free roaming. Players shouldn't incentivized to enter the water. If you personally just want to enter the water t examine how long Geralt could survive, feel free to do so, no problem. But I'm against everything that motivates players to let Geralt enter the water, like e.g. secret underwater passages to caves where you could find rare ingredients or armour or whatever. Game design on that basis would lead to swimming and diving as a regular part of exploring the world and would display the ocean/water as something Geralt enjoys instead of dislaying it as something that Geralt avoids at all costs if not absolutely necessary (like for saving somebody from sea monsters)...
That shouldn't be an issue on PC imo. Disappearing corpses and blood is not next-gen and definitely no latest PC tech.
the davs have said it before that the cpu of gpu can't handly corpses staying for a long time in open areas, just exept it, when they make 10ghz procesors it might be able to do it, or if they do it in a small hause only that indoor area is being procesed you can have realistic decaing bodies in like a week ingame time. it just comes down to what you want a) full open world with huge areas and no loding screed b) small areas loaded individualy once you get there and corpses that last for weeks
For example in TW1 I probably killed at least a hundred drowners in the swamp area. If their corpses didn't disappear, it would kill the performance on any PC.
Yeah, it would be good if they could add an option to make the corpses remain for at least a few minutes before they disappear. In TW2 the corpses vanish after 2 seconds which doesn't look very good.
i think that was also done so that the loot bag would show up fast, but i agree it wouldn't be to much to ask for it to last 1-2 min
I agree. But I hope there will be no such canon fodder foe in TW3. I rather have only a few drowners wihch are really dangerous than dozens of them who die with one blow...
It would be great If thet could apply some kind of solution to this problem. Some call it minor, but actually this is something that bothers me more than for example whether 'yennefer has dark brown hair in that light' or not. This brakes a bit of immersion when you see dissapearing body or blood. It is great to see how much the battle was difficult or gory.
Well the purpose of the loot bag was so they could hide the corpse but still have some object that you could loot. Basically they replaced a high polygonal body with a low polygonal bag. It was simply for optimization, otherwise they could have let you loot the corpse.
