CD Projekt RED has announced that the free next-gen Ray Tracing update for The Witcher 3 will release on December 14th. As said, this patch will add Ray Tracing effects to the game, and will be completely free to all owners of the base game.
As the team noted, the Next-Gen version will feature dozens of visual, performance, and technical enhancements over the original. Alongside RT, the game will include a variety of mods from the get-go.
We do know that CDPR approached Hulk-Hogan, creator of the HD Rework Project. As such, we can assume that the Next-Gen version will have enhanced HD textures.
Unfortunately, CDPR did not share any additional details about the Ray Tracing effects. However, and since Cyberpunk 2077 will be almost path-traced with its Overdrive RT settings, we can assume that these RT effects will be something more than RT reflections or RT shadows.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
Witcher with overload of water puddles… lets hope not!
Would be great if they use global illumination rather than the annoying water puddle crap.
It sounds like a rather limited effort, with the devs concentrating on implementing RT, while the rest will be incorporated mods.
Curious what they will do to the game’s lighting system. I think having full-blown GI is unlikely, but maybe they’ll implement and adjust some of the lighting mods that made the Witcher 3 look closer to the E3 demo before the downgrade happened.
Thank you, there was no Fuqing RT involved in the E3 Demo. Now all I hear is RT this and RT that. RT is the juice that’s not worth the squeeze.
Visual upgrades also comes with 5000 vanilla bugs. Witcher 3 without Brothers in Arms mod is worthless to me.
As always nothing but talk, and no actual gameplay video or photos.
Too little, too late.
“I did the textures for you, brothers”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a383b9604c1328dbb0576180acd78ac9e4ca43e5a8e59f1abbee7551b11eb19c.jpg