During an interview with GamePressure, Adam Badowski, Managing Director of CD Projekt RED, admitted that there will be some fragments where the game won’t look as good as its first E3 gameplay footage. Adam explained the reasons behind this, so keep reading before deciding to bring the hammer down on CD Projekt RED.
As Adam told GamePressure:
“The quality of the lightning and adding light in the trailer remains debatable. We’ve made a mistake which was the fact that some shots were rendered in dark and greyish colors. To put it simply, that was the option picked by the engine. I think that there will be places that will look jaw-dropping, and no one will claim that they differ from what was seen in the trailer. Unfortunately, there will also be fragments, where the game looks worse. It’s the same with GTA– when the wind picks up and it gets grey, especially in the forest, the graphics seem certainly worse than in the neon-filled and lively city.”
So yes, some places won’t look as hot as those found in the pre-release trailers. Whether this can be considered a graphical downgrade or not remains to be seen.
On the other hand, Adam claimed that the final product will pack better models than those featured in the E3 gameplay footage.
“If someone will be rewatching the trailer, he will notice that the in-game models look better, even Geralt, he is more polished – for one, he has better shaders. We’ve added a ton of details, we’ve significantly improved the facial expressions and the lip sync. We have 7 different spoken languages, so we aren’t able to record actor’s face with the performance capture technology like in, let’s say, Call of Duty. That wouldn’t fit on three blu-ray discs. Keeping that in mind, we’ve implemented a dynamic system based on vowels and consonants, similarly to the one in the previous two games, where it didn’t work out. It has been done so well in Witcher 3, that there is no comparison – we have set the bar higher for the entire industry when it comes to other games that rely on it and that’s the thing that wasn’t visible in the trailer.”
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt releases this May!
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Witcher 3 will be one of the best PC games of 2015 year, I think. By the way, check this out: https://mega.co.nz/#!1l5gybpS!dByIwB5W6kBH-d4KMroRwIUegG-ftLWTzgAKr8W0few this is my simple scene created in new Unity 5 (soft particles and real time reflections).
It’s 2 minutes old to me.
Nope, it’s rather old 🙁
The point is, just because YOU saw it on another website does not mean everyone else has. I can’t believe I need to actually explain that to someone.
So if I hear today for the first time about the JFK assassination that makes it recent news?
Not all news is created equal. You’re comparing an obscure quote from a man who makes games to the assassination of a world leader, lol
It actually does, its recents news for you.
It’s not recent news, period. You can’t really expect news media to keep covering a 50 year-old event on account of the dumb and ignorant masses.
JFK WAS MURDERED?!
:O
Everything I’ve seen looks amazing, but at the end of the day one question remains: Is it a good game? 😀 That’s the only that matters.
Thats the question, except when the devs starts to use the “our game will have the best graphics so far” excuse to sell some extra
copies.
did they say that?
I think there is a misunderstanding there. It is their best looking game so far. I never saw that they were comparing with any and every game out there…. that would just be stupid. From what I saw so far, some parts are on par with the trailer, other are inferior (from graphics standpoint).
But this is not new from them, they did with the first and with the second. The only difference is that they’re genuinely trying to deliver the best game they can make. That is why after community input, they always release a completely free “enhanced edition”. If they keep up their work as before and allow mods (as they’ve done before), then I’m confident they will do well by us gamers.
Does that mean they can do no wrong? Of course not.
Does that mean it will be the best game ever? I highly doubt it.
But if they deliver a good game that can be modded, it is great by me.
All I ask is the same treatment as we got so far.
PR talk for “THE down GRADE IS REAL”
I love CDPR games, but they need to stop this over hyping BS. They got themselves in this mess by claiming
“Genre defining next gen graphics”
and then showing a fluff trailer at the very beginning.
Then the community manager said” there is no downgrade, you will see graphics like the VGA trailer, I promise”
I think the game will be great. STill, we all know the reason it has been downgraded,
weak,pathetic consoles!!!! Imagine if this game was PC only. It would have already been released by now, would look better, run smoother, and have more content.
I knew when they said all platforms being released at the same time it would cause trouble.
I just hope they learned some valuable lessons and CyberPunk 2077 shines even brighter as a result.
Go RED!!!
I appreciate their honesty. Something like this wouldn’t be said by big name publishers and developers. A little bit of humility goes a long way and CD Projekt RED are definitely setting an example.
The real issue for me is this should have been said months ago. I am regular on their forums and have been since 2009. They had every opportunity to be honest and humble prior. They do a lot of things right, but they still have some maturing to do.
In reality, this was prolly a good thing to happen to them at this stage in their “studio life”. I think they have learned valuable lessons and will utilize said lessons in the future.
Take for instance, I am on vacation this week. I applied for it at work many months ago. You know when CDPR promised they wouldn’t delay it any more. Their words was, “we aren’t newbs we know what we need to finish this game” Enter Left shark trusting ole’ CDPR. So, I made plans to play w3 this week. Yeah, we see how that worked out…lol. Yeah, I am, salty, still would rather have a solid game launch though. I forgive them but I will never trust a launch date ever again. In fact I have feeling it will get another delay. This is why with CP 2077, I hope they finish the game then announce a release date within 90 days. Enough time to market and build the hype.
Honesty? They said two or three months ago “NO DOWNGRADES”, now they come with the “game will looks worse on some places”.
Did you even read the interview? They said they made a mistake. And their “We are not downgrading it,” comment was about optimizing The Witcher 3. They meant they wouldn’t dial back the visuals in order to improve performance.
Like Dying Light optimizing? Taking off HBAO, SSAO and AA doesnt sound like optimization. And yeah I read it all, and the “mistake” things sound like they needed to downgrade some parts of the game in order to get steady FPS, that its not bad at all, better ugly but smooth.
Now you’re speculating.
seems more and more like a downgrade is coming. “hey um, we improved all these things!” *game releases* “like we said we improved a few things so of course we had to downgrade alot of other things!”
its pretty much confirmed at this point, frankly after all the pandering to Sony and Xbone it really does not surprise me. its like RED is becoming Crytek.
Fanboys need to understand that even if i want the game to be good. false advertising, downgrade and console parity are not acceptable.
A fanboy is about to reply you.
i fully expect that, i really cannot understand how emotionally attach some people are with a PRIVATE company to the point of blinding themselves to any critic and defend anything that the said company does no matter what.( they do it for free)
I have HUGE respect for RED, but they did handle The Witcher 3 “downgrade controversy” really poorly and dodging will only make it worse when the game is released.
What will happen is except for a few die hard fanboys, most people will loose the trust and faith Red did build by treating PC gamers right. I honestly expect Microsoft to buy the studio in the next 5 years. They keep saying we will “never” , except for MS!
You guys keep pushing this without realizing how this company has handled games before. So far, it is the same as before.
If they remain true to their previous works, they will after release a “enhanced edition” for free. They will have mod tools for anyone who wants to improve as they see fit.
It is far from what other companies do. And, by the community, it can be made exceptionally good… if the game is captivating.
They already said no “Enhanced Edition” for W3
They said the same about the second. Maybe they’ll just release it as “patches” this time. Or maybe they will say screw the costumers (it would be the first time from them). Time will tell and until they burn us, they have my full support.
Let’s wait and see.
Time as always will tell.
Exactly.
People really need to stop with the downgrade confirmed. Its still definitely going to be one of the (if not the) best looking game(s) this year. Also their sorta saying its not downgraded, they may have just upgraded the trailer version. Besides you cannot experience a 100+ hour game in a short trailer.
Well, most people know that but they’re pissed because graphics are scaled down from the initial screens and trailers. That’s BS no one likes to see, especially PC gamers. Everyone needs to know that false advertising is normal and it’s a standard in video games, you can’t do anything about it.
You cant do anything about it, except not buying the game. Ubisoft PC sales dropped this last year, anb thats a good news because some people is not buying downgraded or falsely advertised games.
More gamers have to act like that! I am one of them. Thats the only way developers will learn! While in Witchers case the game will look beautiful no doubt and as a game besides the graphics it looks that its going to be really good I have to say that I am fed up watching videos and images for a game for months and suddenly when its about to be released the graphics are being downgraded.
The order 1886 looks better than the witcher 3 by far.
In PS4, maybe.
Open world?
Well yeah if you make tight corridors with blacklines and cutscenes that cannot be skipped because they are loading screens, ofcourse it will.
yes but that is running at 30fps and 900p.
And it still looks better than the Witcher 3 lol.
A comparison based on what? A game very few people decided to buy and a game that is months before its…release?
Not to mention that W3 will be yet another deep and rich and beautiful 150-hours game whereas 1886 runs all of 6 hours.
800*
LOL. Good one m8.
at least they are honest…I guess
On the topic of the witcher 3 I’m definitely not liking the comments that the Managing Director of CD Projekt RED is saying.
He basically said the pc version will be nothing special compared to the console version, it won’t have improved textures, the recommended requirements only run it at 30 fps and It is impossible to make a game for three different platforms that will utilize all of the various platforms’ unique feature and specs.
I really feel the witcher 3 will not be a great performing game on PC and that consoles were the lead platform.
Shame on CDPR. It’s either that earlier Swords of Destiny trailer was not in-game (false advertising) or the game has been gimped on PC version for parity. I don’t believe that lighting alone can deter image quality to such a huge degree. They are just denying false advertising. Also, they said they will never do exclusive but they went ahead with Microsoft XB1 Collector’s Edition.
Doesn’t matter what you believe, lighting is the single most important component of visuals. Maybe learn something before you go around talking sh*t
What they are saying is.. you can’t expect the whole game to look amazing, when it’s an open world game. There will be places where it won’t look as good. I understand that. The GTA reference is spot on. There are a lot of places that just look ugly, but in general, but the games still looks GORGEOUS (GTA4 and 5). The lightning effects, the weather effects and the detail can be just crazy high in places.
How can you compare gta5 on pc with w3. niether is out yet, Also
how can cdpr say” just like gta5″ for pc when it isn’t released. Sounds like more bull to me. They can and should downgrade the console version, I mean they are weak and you get what you pay for. there is no reason for the pc that they can not deliver the level of details they showed in the VGX trailer and have several settings for those with lower end hardware
Because they all are video games. Every single game goes thru the same thing. No game is 100 % gorgeous in every single spot and zone. Theres bound to be ugly textures here or there. I understad what he is saying.
Under the right conditions(weather/textures/lighting) a lot of places might look WAY better than some other ones. Thats how it is in EVERY open world game i’ve played. Even MMO games.
If everything was amazing, then you would need more than 100 gigs, and prolly a lot better PC to run it. DX12 from what i hear, should help with those types of games quite a bit.
Crysis for example has some ugly areas/maps, but it also has some of the most gorgeous and lush tropical islands ever.
I’m unsure if it’s optimisation, people being lazy so they don’t put as much detail into everything (cuz it might take longer to develop)or just not being possible yet.
Bottom line – Don’t trust the first trailers of a brand new AAA game. 90 % of the time, they won’t match up the final product.
THE DAMAGE CONTROL CONTINUES! You console pandering faggots deserve to get your game pirated.
To be sincere, the graphics could be amazing or crap. I don’t care and i don’t hype about Witcher. This title just makes me curious, nothing more.
Just hope they don’t delay anymore. Release this one at once and go full throttle at Cyberpunk 2077. That one really hypes me!
I bet the best looking game would be Batman Arkham Knight!
at first they were like, no, nothing has changed or downgraded but now it’s only fragments worst than first footage, god knows how big are those fragments. i don’t care about it’s graphics, still looks good, but please don’t have performance issues, i’m not asking too much, don’t be watchdogs (heavily downgraded – performance was and still is garbage).
TW3 will look the same on PC and consoles, targeting 30FPS on PC
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – PC vs Consoles. Interview with Adam Badowski, Managing Director of CD Projekt RED
http://www.gamepressure.com/e.asp?ID=51
>Platform unification exists – we have a single build, which is distributed to each one of them. The game is the same, the draw distance is the same. Minor differences result from the fact that the GPU is parameterized differently on different consoles, which can result in, for instance, the temperature of the color.
>Are all the textures and models the same?
>Yes, there is only one version, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to make the game on time. We would have to take it all apart, and build and test on three different platforms at the same time, which is impossible. So we have one base, and then carry it over to other platforms.
>On the recommended requirements on the PC will we have 30fps, or 60fps?
>I think, we’ll stick with 30fps. Until the very end we intend to work on efficiency – it is crucial, as the machines are quite varied.
Don’t care about graphics …
Optimization? / /
Then go and buy a 300 box with sonya stamped on it. What you doing here? This is pc gaming. But you are silviu the company’s slave. I dont want to be rude, but your support to every company f*$@ing pc gamers make me sick
I support every game company that gives to us PC gamers a good optimization graphics/fps ratio to be at his best 🙂
as for Consoles? i never had one …only PC’s
4k/5k as Linus said are just only dreams lets just us and dev focus on 1080/60 perfect stable and take the most of our raw power from the actual hardware 🙂
Consoles were the lead platform since day one. Then port the game to pc, through brute force.
I remember they saying it that they cant create a different game for every platform
Its sad. The fact that we can afford proper gaming is like a curse. The fact that console gaming exist is the cancer of our progress.
STEAM & GOG dayONE 4k FTW
All i got here is that the game wont look the best in all locations and in all weather time of day situations. Obviously they used the best looking parts of the game in E3.
Nothing that we cant fix with mods.
Q:Witcher 3 on the PC has quite high requirements, while the minimal resemble the recommended ones in GTAV.
A:The requirements we’ve announced are real, it’s not like we’re lowering them. That’s what our programmers have fought so hard for – the optimization is getting better every day.
Q:On the recommended requirements on the PC will we have 30fps, or 60fps?
A:I think, we’ll stick with 30fps. Until the very end we intend to work on efficiency – it is crucial, as the machines are quite varied. Our programmers strongly urged us not to resolve to demagoguery, not to confuse anyone, or to bring down the requirements to lower spec. As I said – it can only be better.
And with this i am done F*U RED!
2 months to release and multiples delays and on the last trailer you could clearly see FPS drops and some shuttering on a Xbone, BUT THAT S A CONSOLE HUR DUR! that makes things even worse, think about it, if that was the best they could do on a platform that they shilled constantly, imagine PC that was ignored? I want this to be a great game, hell i want W3 to be THE BEST RPG OF THE CENTURY, but i can already tell that it will run like sh*t.
not all TOD are equal, besides all games make trade offs
The Witcher 1 had a serious issue with graphical performance consistency. Vizima ran so smoothly at high settings on an Nvidia GTX 280, but I had to crank the settings down to medium when I reached the swamps.
I see the one of the last gameplay from The Witcher 3 and I can tell they have a lot of work on this game yet to finished it for me.Combat looks too easy, they still do not do possibility to focused camera on the enemies. Details like grass or hair looks very stiffly.