Following its launch almost exactly one year ago, CD Projekt Red set about improved The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's technical performance on PlayStation 4 via numerous game updates - but it's still not perfect. During particularly busy scenarios, the title's still prone to dropping a few frames here and there, but thankfully, it's never enough to have a negative impact on the experience.
It's interesting, then, that the Polish developer reckons Blood and Wine - the game's upcoming expansion - will run better on consoles than the main release. Speaking to Eurogamer, senior environment artist Len de Gracia hints that the add-on will likely run at a solid 30 frames-per-second from the word go. "We are still aiming for [30fps] but for the most part we have already hit it," she states. ""In certain places we still need to run through stuff and try to optimise it the best we can, but in comparison to Witcher 3, production has been way smoother," de Gracia adds.
That's not all, though. The developer also reveals that the expansion actually looks better than Wild Hunt thanks to graphical techniques that the studio didn't utilise when making the main game. "Generally it is a graphics upgrade from the base game," de Gracia comments. She continues: "80, 85, probably even 90 per cent of the assets - in terms of environment that you find in this game - are brand new [...] we just wanted to show that we can actually push it to the limit this time."
Those of you who have played through Geralt's adventure will know that it can look gorgeous at times, so we're looking forward to seeing just how much of an improvement Blood and Wine is when it releases at the end of this month. Are you excited to explore Toussaint? Watch the sunset in the comments section below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Blood, Wine and a Ploughman's sandwich, I'm really looking forward to the juicy story content.
I enjoyed the main game but I've struggled to get into the first dlc, not because of its quality but probably because I put so much time into the main game. I've had a good break from it now so I'm excited to play both of them and hopefully be reunited with Triss and Yennefer
I own this game and it's season pass, but haven't gotten around to playing it yet. I'm finishing up FO4 right now (going for the plat), then I'll probably try to get through a few smaller games that have been collecting digital dust (Life is Strange, Valiant Hearts, Home, Fire Watch, Three Fourths Home and, obviously, Hatoful Boyfriend) and then I'm heading into Witcher 3. I seriously can't wait.
Meh, I'll pass
@glassmusic three fourths home is trash, hatoful boyfriend is pretty hilarious if you appreciate the absurd humour, stay away from the holiday star DLC though, it's trash.
Nice
@carlos82 Oh man the first DLC was soooo good. If you liked the main game at all, you're doing yourself a huge disservice if you skip Hearts of Stone.
@glassmusic Can't speak to the others, but Life is Strange and Valiant Hearts are both awesome.
@kad4724 the plan is to play both back to back, I just needed a break after finishing the main game which I loved by the way. So I'll be spending this month with Uncharted 4 a bit of Fallout dlc then I'll be free for this
Games like Witcher 3 don't come around often.
So many games get hyped out of this world nowadays yet so few are better than just good.
Awesome news all hail cd project red
I will end up playing this before uncharted. Witcher 3 and the first dlc were the best.
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi Shame to hear about 3/4 Home, fortunately it looks like it's super short. I'm seriously looking forward to the others. I was stupid enough to grab the Hatoful Holiday thing when it was on sale recently BEFORE I read reviews. That's something I almost never do, and this is why. Ahh well. Five bucks wasted.
@kad4724 Life is Strange is the one I'm most looking forward to. My wife's not much of a gamer but I'm going to try to rope her in to the story on this one.
Really looking forward to it......Saying graphically will look better on ps4 wow .....The main game already has the wow factor interested to see what the upgrades for the expansion will be
I'm still waiting for a GOTY edition on disc and I hope it will come after this.
@glassmusic I finished Life is Strange only yesterday and def worth a play though thought the last episode dragged on a bit...
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