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Game wouldn't sell as much as they'd want on pc given its big budget. Base it on console port to pc would be the better option financially seeing as that's where most of the sales will go.
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Well this is why nvidia is now resorting to using crap like tessellation/hairworks to justify high end cards. It doesn't help their business if people on PC aren't upgrading because their current gpu which is 3-4x faster than consoles is running everything maxed out and silky smooth. Note current consoles are too weak to even enable tessellation.

I predict I have maybe one more gpu upgrade left before the next console cycle, I can't see a lot of reasons to upgrade otherwise.
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How does this game fare with KB/M? Has anyone tried comparing the two and found out which works better?

Combat and movement aren't as good as other games, I struggle here and there with them. For some reason I couldn't lock off from a pack of wolves, Geralt was still facing them as I tried to run in the opposite direction.


Does the PC version offer higher resolution textures on ultra? Both PS4/Xbone feature identical assets, texturing for instance isn't that high res as I'd expect from a next-gen game, well besides the main characters.


DF will have an article comparing all three versions soon.
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I have experienced that weird locking issue too where I wanted to unlock and flee but pressing z seemed to do nothing. I can't say I've had issues with the keyboard besides that. The mouse is nicer to use in the inventory screens/menus. I preferred the lock on system in the older games to be honest, this one is very dark souls like but the old system worked better with a mouse.
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1.03 patch is out.

Improves stability in gameplay and the UI.
Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
Fixes grass and foiliage popping that can occur after density parameters change
Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
Sharpen Postprocess settings extended from Off/On to Off/Normal/High
Improves menu handling
Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
Corrects an issue with stamina regeneration while sprinting
Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcurs when scrolling the map
Generally improves world map focus
Corrects a bug where player was able to fire bolts at friendly NPCs
Corrects an issue in dialog selections
Corrects some missing translations in the UI
Minor SFX improvements -Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
Rostan Muggs is back

People reporting some nice performance gains of 20-30% with same settings. :up:
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Whoa the game doesn't look that great.

I told you guys console systems were the target platform because it is where all the sales are.

Confirmation here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... ue-head-on" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Did the console versions restrict the PC version?

"If the consoles are not involved there is no Witcher 3 as it is," answers Marcin Iwinski, definitively. "We can lay it out that simply. We just cannot afford it, because consoles allow us to go higher in terms of the possible or achievable sales; have a higher budget for the game, and invest it all into developing this huge, gigantic world.

"Developing only for the PC: yes, probably we could get more [in terms of graphics] as there would be nothing else - they would be so focused, like if we would develop only on Xbox One or PlayStation 4. But then we cannot afford such a game."
Suck on that Candy Arse.

this is why we console gamers are the superior gamers. We pay for our shit with fair prices and BIG TRIPLE A TITLES need LOTS of DOUGH to fund them or they just don't exist. PC gamers and mobile gamers don't want to pay big money for good games. They want US CONSOLE GAMERS to fund the games for them while they leech off us console gamer who are not as poor as PC GAMERS who are too cheap to buy a console to play the games as they were meant to be played. (Dark Souls 2 is one example here where it was meant to be 30fps)

In other words without us, you pc tards wouldn't even have had Witcher 3.

So stop disrespecting the superior gamers you idiots. If you are so angry about the gam copanies holding pc gaming back by targeting low spec machines, then you need to start paying MORE for your games. The problem is you idiots are sinking all of your hard earned money into hardware (which can never be maxed now because most of the content goes to console these days not PC) instead of giving to the artists and creators who have to build these giant worlds.

Notice how the PC games are cheaper than console versions? You get what you pay for. Which is games that are console games ported to pc and not PURE PC games. Two different things.

Witcher used to be PC RPG and thanks to us console gamers its now a console franchise.

Anyway if this had come to Wii U it wouldn't have any bugs. nintendo would force them to delay and tighten up the code and search for logic errors and bad coding that causes the thing to mess up your games. Since its open world RPG and not a JRPG you get the risk of encountering bugs just like skyrim.

Definitely buying the console version from retail. I don't trust sites like eurogamer. Ever since they rated RE4 on Wii bad which is just the enhanced GC version of the same game with better controls. You guys don't see the politics of the game industry. That's why you are tricked into accepting lies so much. All companies must lie to you to not affect sales of the console because if it does, they get less money. (so they make the pc edition ugly on purpose to encourage you to buy the low spec edition and then later enhance the pc version after sales of the c onsole version slow to get you to buy the pc version too. Selling you GOTY editions along with the launch edition means more money than just selling one or the other. GTA5 is perfect example of this where it was delayed to get you to buy the same game twice.)

Anyway will hold off playing this until later. Too busy with other games right now but I hope by the time I start the bugs are all fixed. I think CD Projekt RED should try to start their own RPG franchise from scratch to take on the Dragon Age series using the skills from witcher 3. ie open world, good adult stories, choices that affect what happens, a character which you can customise. (not a ripp-off of Elric of Melniborne) As long as they don't get owned by EA (and stick to the no DRM policy) they can't fail.
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This game is incredible. So much joy just wondering around the world and discovering stuff. The world is jam packed full of rich content.
Sifting through all the loot and crafting is joy. All the writing is absolutely top notch. The last time I remember wanting to read everything, and soak it all in this much was probably Lost Odyssey.
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I have to say I am really interested in this now after listening to a few podcasts this week go into detail about it, certainly sounds awesome.
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I installed Master Race edition last night. I was too tired to do much other than get to the first staged punch up at ye olde tavern but even that was worth the entry fee. Beautiful game.
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GameHED wrote:Whoa the game doesn't look that great.

I told you guys console systems were the target platform because it is where all the sales are.

Confirmation here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015- ... ue-head-on" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Did the console versions restrict the PC version?

"If the consoles are not involved there is no Witcher 3 as it is," answers Marcin Iwinski, definitively. "We can lay it out that simply. We just cannot afford it, because consoles allow us to go higher in terms of the possible or achievable sales; have a higher budget for the game, and invest it all into developing this huge, gigantic world.

"Developing only for the PC: yes, probably we could get more [in terms of graphics] as there would be nothing else - they would be so focused, like if we would develop only on Xbox One or PlayStation 4. But then we cannot afford such a game."
Suck on that Candy Arse.

this is why we console gamers are the superior gamers. We pay for our shit with fair prices and BIG TRIPLE A TITLES need LOTS of DOUGH to fund them or they just don't exist. PC gamers and mobile gamers don't want to pay big money for good games. They want US CONSOLE GAMERS to fund the games for them while they leech off us console gamer who are not as poor as PC GAMERS who are too cheap to buy a console to play the games as they were meant to be played. (Dark Souls 2 is one example here where it was meant to be 30fps)

In other words without us, you pc tards wouldn't even have had Witcher 3.

So stop disrespecting the superior gamers you idiots. If you are so angry about the gam copanies holding pc gaming back by targeting low spec machines, then you need to start paying MORE for your games. The problem is you idiots are sinking all of your hard earned money into hardware (which can never be maxed now because most of the content goes to console these days not PC) instead of giving to the artists and creators who have to build these giant worlds.

Notice how the PC games are cheaper than console versions? You get what you pay for. Which is games that are console games ported to pc and not PURE PC games. Two different things.

Witcher used to be PC RPG and thanks to us console gamers its now a console franchise.

Anyway if this had come to Wii U it wouldn't have any bugs. nintendo would force them to delay and tighten up the code and search for logic errors and bad coding that causes the thing to mess up your games. Since its open world RPG and not a JRPG you get the risk of encountering bugs just like skyrim.

Definitely buying the console version from retail. I don't trust sites like eurogamer. Ever since they rated RE4 on Wii bad which is just the enhanced GC version of the same game with better controls. You guys don't see the politics of the game industry. That's why you are tricked into accepting lies so much. All companies must lie to you to not affect sales of the console because if it does, they get less money. (so they make the pc edition ugly on purpose to encourage you to buy the low spec edition and then later enhance the pc version after sales of the c onsole version slow to get you to buy the pc version too. Selling you GOTY editions along with the launch edition means more money than just selling one or the other. GTA5 is perfect example of this where it was delayed to get you to buy the same game twice.)

Anyway will hold off playing this until later. Too busy with other games right now but I hope by the time I start the bugs are all fixed. I think CD Projekt RED should try to start their own RPG franchise from scratch to take on the Dragon Age series using the skills from witcher 3. ie open world, good adult stories, choices that affect what happens, a character which you can customise. (not a ripp-off of Elric of Melniborne) As long as they don't get owned by EA (and stick to the no DRM policy) they can't fail.

I posted the exact quote the page before. Too bad there's no 360 version.
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CrackHED doesn't trust Eurogamer....after posting a Eurogamer link. :lol:

Not sure how a console version of Witcher 3 is the best option given there's no 60fps settings there...yep you will be holding off to play this later CrackHED since you don't own any of the current consoles. Good luck with your Wii U version!

P.S this has to be GOTY so far....and by far. Fucking amazing.

:btw: the superior PC version looks incredible at 60fps. Made for console, best on PC :bow:
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Pfft stable 60fps. The best games I've ever played haven't been 60fps. ;)
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Candy Arse wrote:CrackHED doesn't trust Eurogamer....after posting a Eurogamer link. :lol:

Not sure how a console version of Witcher 3 is the best option given there's no 60fps settings there...yep you will be holding off to play this later CrackHED since you don't own any of the current consoles. Good luck with your Wii U version!

P.S this has to be GOTY so far....and by far. Fucking amazing.

:btw: the superior PC version looks incredible at 60fps. Made for console, best on PC :bow:
The interfaces for many games caters to us console fans since we are superior and get content first. The pc race is slowing us all down by paying so little money which means big budget titles cant be made.

CDProjekt Red should make all future rpg games as console exclusive. Then later do a pc-only rpg game from scratch for pc which uses the true power of pc. What pc gamers are getting now is sloppy seconds treatment. It happened with halo 1 and it is going to happen for all future pc games.

-First game in a series is low budget buggy mess for pc gamers to act as free bug testers.

-Second game is polished experience for console gamers who demand perfection and have high standards.

-All future games get bad ports to pc platform to encourae pc gamers to just buy the console to play the game. (microsoft and sony pay the company with moneyhats to make the pc version bad on purpose to increase console version sales)

That is why I keep saying pc is doomed. You say game industry is doomed because of preowned sales at ebgames, but nobody trades in good games because they are good enough for people to want to own forever and keep in thier collections. So only shit games by shit companies are hurt by that. It's more a case of people wasting too much mney upgrading hardware but not enough on games to keep them from being buggy and unfinished. This leads to games having low budget feel to them. Because you guys are like mobile gamers that buy loads of cheap games you'll never have time to play instead of few expensive games with loads of quality content. Porn is what the pc is for these days. Oculus rift is where future is for pc. Vr pornos.

Most pirates are the pc guys so you guys are to blame for gaming not progressing technologically. Artists need to eat too. These are the people to make the worlds feel lived-in and realistic. Having code that generates random towns can only go so far. (they tried that shit in daggerfall, it was shit hehe)
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In the screens above it looks like a totally different game on PC.

Loading times in white orchard are ok, but once you reach valen is over a minute, longer than Bloodborne pre patch.
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lestat wrote:Image
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I notice the Xbone doesn't even get compared. :lol:

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PS4 still looks good though :up:
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Some screens look very similar to that of ultra on PC. Just check out the console screenshot thread on gaf. It's just when you compare certain situations where difference is more obvious like the above.
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t0mby wrote:
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I notice the Xbone doesn't even get compared. :lol:

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PS4 still looks good though :up:
no reason to put another frame that looks identical in.
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lestat wrote:
t0mby wrote:
lestat wrote:Image
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I notice the Xbone doesn't even get compared. :lol:

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PS4 still looks good though :up:
no reason to put another frame that looks identical in.
Lower resolution means identical now? Ok, whatever. :lol:
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With consoles set to patch 1.01 and PC at the latest 1.03, it's fair to say only PS4 can compete with a mainstream gaming PC in terms of pixel-count. Rendering at a native 1920x1080, Sony's platform gives a far crisper looking image at every turn, flattering the game's foliage-heavy details at range. Meanwhile, the promised 'dynamic resolution' solution on Xbox One doesn't appear to hit the 1080p target in any of our samples. Instead, for the most part the game renders at 1600x900, with only video cut-scenes providing true 1080p output for any noticeable length of time.
Ground textures in almost every case lack PC's sharpness, and also fall short of its 16x anisotropic filtering. Xbox One gives the worst results here, and in Novigrad City's main plaza, PS4 hits a mid-point in filtering quality between the other two platforms
Having played all three versions extensively this week, it must be said PC is a must for its extras, as well as for its solid, multi-threaded optimisation across all setups tested. On the console front, as of update 1.01 the PS4 version is king thanks to a cleaner 1080p image and slightly smoother frame-pacing - though we hope its hitches are addressed soon in a patch.
Running through the game using our preferred budget PC set-up, featuring a Core i3 4130 and an Nvidia GTX 750 Ti, we found that we could achieve visual quality and frame-rates equivalent to the PS4 version of the game
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I thought you upgraded recently?
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Not me, built my PC in 2010. PS4 is King in my house with Xbone tying for second with my PC. ;)
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t0mby wrote:
lestat wrote:
t0mby wrote: I notice the Xbone doesn't even get compared. :lol:

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PS4 still looks good though :up:
no reason to put another frame that looks identical in.
Lower resolution means identical now? Ok, whatever. :lol:
PS4 version will look a bit sharper, the gif is there to illustrate the massive gulf in lighting that is missing on the console versions, but what ever makes you feel better about your inferior preferences. :lol:

No shadows, it looks good. /t0mby. :rollin:
t0mby wrote:Not me, built my PC in 2010. PS4 is King in my house with Xbone tying for second with my PC. ;)
I thought you upgraded recently too, no wonder you have a hard on for inferior console versions.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... t-face-off" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

PC>>>>>>>>>>PS4>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>XBONE

Poor CrackHED, another game that's best on PC. Shocking to no-one else of course!

I too thought tomby upgraded recently....
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