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Witcher 3 team on downgrade accusations: 'Maybe we shouldn't have shown that trailer'

Despite garnering almost universal praise, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been catching some heat about the PC version and whether it was downgraded since its initial 2013 trailer.

The game was graphically downgraded on PC, members of the company tell Eurogamer. But that original video wasn't all smoke and mirrors, it was captured PC footage, it just showed a game that it turned out the developers couldn't deliver.

"Maybe it was our bad decision to change the rendering system," company co-founder Marcin Iwinski told Eurogamer, "because the rendering system after VGX was changed."

It turns out that the one used to create the video for the VGX show couldn't deliver the same look across the entire world both in the day and at night.

"Maybe we shouldn't have shown that [trailer], I don't know, but we didn't know that it wasn't going to work, so it's not a lie or a bad will — that's why we didn't comment actively," Iwinski said. "We don't agree there is a downgrade but it's our opinion, and gamers' feeling can be different. If they made their purchasing decision based on the 2013 materials, I'm deeply sorry for that, and we are discussing how we can make it up to them because that's not fair.

"It's very important to stress: we are continuously working on the PC version, and we will be adding a lot of stuff, and there is more to come. We've proven it in the past that we support our games and we will be looking at the feedback and trying to make it better."

The Eurogamer article adds that a massive PC patch is planned for the game, which will fix a slew of issues and deliver much more control in terms of settings to the player. You can read the full article right here.
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I still think the PC version has kick ass graphics. And they are full of surprises. Remember when the EE version was released.
 
.QQ. said:
CPR said yesterday there's a big patch with over 600 changes coming for PC, and will have more graphical elements that we can tweak like draw distance and so on.

They really did themselves a disservice with the downgrade, the game itself is fantastic.
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Ah a reason to start playing later. Was looking for one.
 
So can someone explain to me how patching with the galaxy client works? It downloaded the update in the background, but it doesn't want to apply it for some reason. When I launch the game again it still says 1.02.
 
Zewp said:
So can someone explain to me how patching with the galaxy client works? It downloaded the update in the background, but it doesn't want to apply it for some reason. When I launch the game again it still says 1.02.
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I've been using the existing gog launcher, seems galaxy is still a bit buggy. Does it not download the patch to a folder, which you then need to run?
 
Verify/repair seems to have done the trick. I would have expected it to queue the update for once I stopped playing, but I guess that's to be expected with the client still being in alpha.

Anyway, new update increased performance a bit for me.

Edit: Significantly improved performance. I'm probably hitting 60FPS now on my midrange PC.
 
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Zewp said:
Verify/repair seems to have done the trick. I would have expected it to queue the update for once I stopped playing, but I guess that's to be expected with the client still being in alpha.

Anyway, new update increased performance a bit for me.

Edit: Significantly improved performance. I'm probably hitting 60FPS now on my midrange PC.
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Did they downgrade the visuals?
Hahaha
 
I seem to have a little problem, the does not want to install from the discs,
It starts the setup then a window pops up requesting to select SETUP_TH-1
there is no such file on any of the discs... please help:(

EDIT: someone at CPR fscked up the naming of the file on the CDs, now I have to flippen copy everything to my HDD first...ffs
 
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jacodebeer said:
I seem to have a little problem, the does not want to install from the discs,
It starts the setup then a window pops up requesting to select SETUP_TH-1
there is no such file on any of the discs... please help:(

EDIT: someone at CPR fscked up the naming of the file on the CDs, now I have to flippen copy everything to my HDD first...ffs
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wow rookie dev mistake
 
gregmcc said:
I still think the PC version has kick ass graphics. And they are full of surprises. Remember when the EE version was released.
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+1
Yeah, I have just completed The Witcher 2 when the EE was released. (I was a bit disappointed it was released so late, but it was still an awesome game without the EE)
 
The game was developed in English. The Polish translation is apparently ***.
 
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