The Witcher 3 - Visuals

[Khaos-51]

So I saw some new screenshots posted by Nvidia and one of them caught my eye.
Some pretty odd changes from the 35 minutes demo to this. Really makes me wonder what the hell happened?

Before:

After:

WoW what a fucking difference what happened there?

 

[Jasheon]

Just wait for the game to come out guys, over analyzing everything is bad for your health! Gotta keep up your stamina for the 12hour sessions!!! hahaha :hai:

I think those new nvidia shots have to be a lot lower than ultra settings that's for sure, they all 3 look bad.

 

[SeasonedWitcher]

If those shot's are CDPR's idea of 'optimization,' they can keep it. The side of the Castles 'stone work' is now a straight line!

 

[oOParaOo]

This.

I doubt that they'll actually answer the question, but at least they'll know that people are concerned about the graphics. The developers always seem to stay away from the downgrade talk, and people will eventually find out the truth once the game releases. We need an explanation on why The Witcher 3 on ultra can't reach VGX levels of visual fidelity.

By the way, it's not just things like forward soft lit particles that are missing, it seems like they changed a lot of things like: lighting, water, shaders, textures, semi-volumetric clouds, light sources, subsurface scattering are either gone or are different now.

Looks at Sony.. And m$ we know why... parity. CD have already said they only make 1 version of the game. We got nurfed.

 

[amfibiya89]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dvkGwwny0

Ps4 gameplay. What i noticed. The Igni particles are low and less dynamic. But what is interesting Geralt's default hair is more dynamic than what we saw from Youtuber's videos on PC. What build was that? Final or same with youtubers's? Can not see any difference. May be because of quality of video.

EDIT: May be i am wrong about hair.

 

[stexman3]

From all the gameplay that was released this year the one from PS4 looks the best and i don't know why.

 

[amfibiya89]

From all the gameplay that was released this year the one from PS4 looks the best and i don't know why.

From which aspect? Graphics? Actually i can not see anything from this quality video.

Edit. May be you did not watch this 2 videos. The bitrate is super in this 2 videos. And we can see what the game looks like. And for me this graphics is amazing.

1st part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI020ktIaVA

2nd part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frv80IjjsOw

 

[wonderboyxd]

I guess that confirms that CDPR themself are not allowed to release or cause footage that looks better than console, atleast before release.

 

[C0bR]

I guess that confirms that CDPR themself are not allowed to release or cause footage that looks better than console, atleast before release.

Because there is no such footage. We have seen all the settings pushed to the max in one of those German vids.

Apart from gimmicks like Hairworks and mandatory framerate/resolution, the game looks identical on consoles. You think you gonna have a nice texture on that wall of Novigrad on PC? Think again. The parity is now undenialably real.

 

[YourAverageNord]

Because there is no such sootage. We have seen all the settings pushed to the max in one of those German vids.

Apart from gimmicks like Hairworks and mandatory framerate/resolution, the game looks identical on consoles. You think you gonna have a nice texture on that wall of Novigrad on PC? Think again. The parity is now undenialably real.

Maybe they didn't want to show the console versions because of the visual parity between the PC, PS4 and Xbox?

 

[SpeedRunner101]

BWAHAHAHHAHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dvkGwwny0#t=305 5:03

NEXT GEN PHYSICS



Also LOL how PS4 looks exactly the same as PC.

 

[misho8723]

BWAHAHAHHAHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_dvkGwwny0#t=305 5:03

NEXT GEN PHYSICS



Also LOL how PS4 looks exactly the same as PC.

Yeah, but the water doesn't react to the blast

 

[Cathulhu81]

This looks really well for a console Only 2 issues - 1. no effect on water of both Aard and barell explosion. "Red latex catsuit" effect after slicing someone in half, that was visible couple of times in earlier videos is still there but i don't know if it's the same build of the game.

 

[moonknightgog]

This looks really the same of the PC version. Too bad.
Well, at least it will run on my 580, I hope.

 

[Scryar]

Build is about 3 weeks old according to the german facebook page

 

[C0bR]

Yeah, but the water doesn't react to the blast

Neither does the PC water anymore.

 

[SpeedRunner101]

Yeah, but the water doesn't react to the blast

Its hilarious BECAUSE it is an official gameplay and:

The water doesn't react to Aard
The barrel floats through the air...
Delay between award blast and "liftoff"

fail.

 

[misho8723]

Its hilarious BECAUSE it is an official gameplay and:

The water doesn't react to Aard
The barrel floats through the air...
Delay between award blast and "liftoff"

fail.

Yeah.. the water reacted to Aard in the 35 minutes long gameplay from January, didn't it?

 

[moonknightgog]

Neither does the PC water anymore.

You make me cry.

 

[Cathulhu81]

Yeah.. the water reacted to Aard in the 35 minutes long gameplay from January, didn't it?

There was this very nice effect of ripples like when breeze comes over still water.