Patch 1.07 Bit of a let down

[Ascaryn]

Patch 1.07 Bit of a let down

Getting real tired of all this. I waited for this patch cautiously, it had a massive list of fixes announced. I've gone from being positive to skeptical regarding any claims from this Developer.


Patch down loaded and installed....

Frame rate still seemed Juddery, went to Novigrad to carry on Find Junior, saw the same levitated guard at the same bridge, ignored the fact it was not fixed and completed the part of the quest with the stash. Found out I couldn't speak with Roche.... tried everything to get him to respond. Gave up on this quest once again!!

Decided to change gears and go on a treasure hunt for Witcher Gear. went to the quest markers showing on the Map. Found two chests when I pressed X to see the contents it showed no inventory in the chest. Gave up on that, due to no other option. Looked on Map for next location went to a coastal tower and fought through terrible camera controls and poorly designed level layout. However being a pretty bad-ass witcher at this stage managed to defeat my adversary, who promptly fell through an exterior staircase and wedged into the sheer tower wall well out of Geralt's reach!! Not in the mood to re load the level, I changed gears and decided to pursue a Monster Contract.

Found a contract "New Recruit" only thing here was a bale of loot hovering approx 30' (Game Scale) above the ground, pretty minor really. I did notice that any cut scenes I had been involved in since downloading Patch 1.07 were very choppy(again) in fact some seemed to be poorly edited together. For some reason those with Triss seem especially woeful.

Every time I fast travel my mini map goes temporally black as it tries to update where I have jumped to. But if I'm using your fast travel system should the game not know the correct map. The Map is another issue trying trying to drag your pointer across the map or inventory system is slow and juddery. A lot of the Witchers problems seem to be response or processor related.

Basically what I'm noticing more and more is we seem to be going in circles. So CDPR I ask you as a paying customer that purchased your product. What improvements did you actually deliver on with this patch?

I'm a Witcher fan, I really am, but I'm not a fan how your game breaks immersion, or responds to input. This Patch was a fairly long time in coming, and so far I am not being wowed by anything I am seeing, if anything it seems to me my playing experience has taken a few steps backwards.

:geraltsad:

 

[dcarner]

I'm not the hardcore Witcher 3 people most on here are, but I have come to really enjoy the game. I have nearly 100 hours in on this game and am not that far into the main story. I have had up until 1.07, 1 quest not work (there was a book I was supposed to deliver to an armorer in Skelliege that I don't have the option to). In 24 hours since I've uploaded the patch, I have found gwent cards galore that I didn't previously have, which is great, but three additional quests that I cannot finish because of bugs. I'm not a programmer, or will ever pretend to be, but this week with my family out of town, I was going to work on getting into the main story, and now, I'm scared to do anything because quests are not able to be completed. Throw in the fact, I can't equip my weapons because of new levels required, I'm a little bummed on this game. I really hope fixes are coming, and soon. Really soon.

 

[Ascaryn]

I hear you. I've played a ton too. I have had a reasonably trouble free time but it's getting frustrating. There have not been many main missions that failed for me. Interestingly thought the armorer and the book is the same for me. I think the Blacksmith is the one that is supposed to get the book but he is not talking to anyone. Great ambitious game that doesn't quite deliver. Game Developers don't realize how lucky they are there are not many industries where you can push out a flawed product and tell paying customers you will fix it later.

 

[kmana81]

Whenever I came across an NPC and they were silent, I would meditate for an hour. The NPC would then respond.....bummer that the patch didn't do any good for the frame rate on the PS4....I wonder if starting all over would make the game better.

 

[TheVVumpus]

I just want to know what world CDPR live in where these 1.07 fixes actually make any performance difference at all:

• Introduces a number of improvements in the game streaming system. Players should experience fewer blurred textures, NPC spawn times should be markedly reduced, and there should be an overall improvement in the speed with which game assets are loaded. Streaming system improvements should be most noticeable on consoles and systems with non-SSD drives.
• Improves performance in the swamps of the No Man's Land region.
• Fixes an issue whereby the presence of fog could adversely affect game performance.
• Optimizes various FX which should result in improved performance during the Battle of Kaer Morhen quest.
• Introduces a number of optimizations that improve overall performance throughout the game.
• Improves overall game performance.

Color me skeptical but I'm thinking they shoved those into the notes just to give people a false sense of hope and don't plan on implementing them until the next patch. I mean seriously how can they claim they addressed all of these things but there's zero evidence that ANYTHING has improved performance-wise.

 

[lanstartare80]

Stats for witcher gear go down also! And level go up!

 

[kentoncrow]

I feel like they try and cater to much to pc players requests when a chunk of them probably didn't spend a penny on it.