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The Witcher News: a recap of everything in the works

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There's a lot going on with The Witcher right now. Four projects are in the works, and one of them has just been put on hold. Here's where everything stands, closest release first.

  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered - September 29th
    It's a free upgrade if you already own the game, and base game owners also get Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine for free. You also get reworked combat, new sign effects, better horse handling, transmog, a new skill tree and new finishers.
  • Songs of the Past - 2027
    This is the first new Witcher 3 expansion since Blood and Wine in 2016, and this one is paid. It takes place in a new region called Letten, and it adds new abilities and a chain weapon. It's being made mostly by Fool's Theory, not by CDPR. We only got a short first look at gamescom, so 2027 is all we know (no pricing announced yet either).
  • The Witcher 4 - 2028
    Ciri is the main character this time, and over 500 people are working on it. CDPR gave the 2028 window just before gamescom, and said in the same breath that the game wouldn't be shown there at all. It's the first of three games they want to release in six years. It's also the game that will set the standard for The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5, now that RED Engine is being dropped.
  • The Witcher 1 remake (Canis Majoris) - no date, and now on hold
    Announced in 2022 and given to Fool's Theory. CD Projekt told GameSpot yesterday that it's parked for now.

That last one is the real news of the week. Here's what CD Projekt said:

CD Projekt said:
Fool's Theory team is focused mainly on the development of Witcher 3: Songs of the Past, while a relatively small part of their team is supporting the development of The Witcher 4. As we have previously announced, the development on The Witcher Remake has been temporarily integrated with The Witcher 4 due to production process dependencies.
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So the remake is waiting on The Witcher 4 to sort the engine out. And the studio that's supposed to build it is busy with the expansion. There's still no release window, and if it comes after everything above, 2029 sounds optimistic.

Funnily enough, the guys who actually made The Witcher 3 left CDPR years ago and founded their own studio, Rebel Wolves. They released The Blood of Dawnwalker today, and it's sitting at 83 on Metacritic. They got a whole new RPG out before CDPR got its next Witcher out.

Which of these upcoming Witcher releases are you most excited about? Tell us in the comments!

:arrow: Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/t...ing-on-the-witcher-4-to-continue-development/
 
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Completely free for ALL owners of The Witcher 3 on any platform, which is why CDPR gets the benefit of the doubt from any gamer with a fcking clue even after screwups like the C2077 launch. The DLC is amazing, and the remaster is amazing.

CDPR is amazing.
 
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Unreal Engine is going to kill gaming. It is fast becoming CryEngine in regards to system resources.

Only Capcom is still using their own solution, I guess. And EA and Activision, but I don't know for sure.
 
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Kudos to CDPR. Their games might launch messy but they always come fix things and in the end we get great games.
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eyeliner said:
Unreal Engine is going to kill gaming. It is fast becoming CryEngine in regards to system resources.

Only Capcom is still using their own solution, I guess. And EA and Activision, but I don't know for sure.
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A lot of other companies use their in house engines: Capcom RE engine, Kojima productions and others use the Decima engine, ID software (id Tech), Bethesda ( Creation Engine), 4a Games and their 4a Engine, Ubicrap Dunia2 and Anvil engines, EA Frostbite engine and CDPR REDengine 4.
 
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Payne said:
May be the best time to jump into witcher series
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absolutely, starting with The Witcher 3 remastered.

I bought Dawnwalker yesterday and played it for about 1.5Hrs on the Xbox series X.
It's a beautiful game so far, nice visuals, but the gameplay and character movements feel really clunky, I hope they will patch this soon.
Also, clipping is a massive issue. This seems to be a recurring issue with Unreal 5 games unfortunately, so I'm not sure if this can ever be fixed.
Should have bought it on PC...
 
Definitely jumping back into the Witcher 3 😍 for sure, Witcher 4 like GTA-6 is unfortunately is gonna be "No Disk No Buy" but no biggie since Blood of Dawn Walker has 📀 physical release.

I already owned Witcher 3 on Ps4 & I probably wasted my money when I bought the GOTY Ps4 edition,

& aagain when I bought a 3rd copy when I bought the Complete Edition on Ps5 only for this Enhanced update to drop 😅

If they print a Complete Complete Enhanced Edition with the 3rd DLC I'll prolly buy a 4th copy 🤣🤣
 
Bought witcher 3 years ago, but only installed it once I got my steam machine. It's fine in all aspects, but those games aren't really my jam anymore (more precise: if a game goes "now do whatever you want! :D ", I'll just go and play something else).
 
Taleweaver said:
Bought witcher 3 years ago, but only installed it once I got my steam machine. It's fine in all aspects, but those games aren't really my jam anymore (more precise: if a game goes "now do whatever you want! :D ", I'll just go and play something else).
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"do whatever you want" means:
- go try to do the main quest
- realize you need to level up because the main quest is hard to do with starting level/skills
- go do secondary quests to level up or grind
- go back to the main quest

simple as that
 

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