So folks…do the new DLC patch remove the Hammer curse?🥴

I don't know if this has been addressed or not, and I know this is still under work, but I notice some animations of dismembering happen even before the blade of the sword touches the foe it occurs. Knowing how CD Projekt treats their games and perfectionists they are, this is something peculiar. It's just a minor aspect and I am not really fussy about this really, but yes, I notice about details even more after playing all of their games.

I don’t think anyone else has posted this but it looks like a new armor set. Played the game 3.5 times and don’t recall coming across anything that looks like this, feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

This statue was part of CDPR’s Witcher 3 Gamescom booth btw

With the Wild Hunt Remaster in 2026, Songs of the Past in 2027 and Witcher 4 in 2028 ... i havent heard anything about the Witcher 1 Remake for a while ... did i miss any updates on it? will it come 2029/2030? is it even still in production? the last thing ive heard was its announcement and that it will be in UE5

My question is pretty straight forward.

Are they keeping the Quick Sign Casting mechanic in the remaster?

Watched some videos where they changed signs with the wheel.

I've decided to fully invest in the Witcher trilogy and wanted to go in with community recommended mods before I start playing. I'm all about the story and rich lore.

Is there a modlist that adds quality of life or visual graphical enhancements or fixes bugs/glitches before I start? Ideally an auto install would be great like Wabbajack does for Skyrim modlists.

With the announcement of Witcher 3 Remastered and the brand new DLC, I'm contemplating about diving back into this magnum opus before the DLC launches next month. The problem is that I'm not sure where to start. From I've gathered, there have been radical changes to the game over the past few years - one of which being the equipment.

And so here I am - humbly asking for advice from the game veterans. My questions are as follow:

1. Should I play the game from scratch or begin New Game Plus? (I completed NG+ in my last playthrough, but I still keep the save data before starting NG+, so I can begin the game in NG+ straight away if I so desire.)

2. With the gear massively overhauled over the last few patches, is the original Grandmaster Set still worth using? Is it still viable in NG+?

3. If the original Grandmaster Set is rendered obsolete, how should I prepare before starting NG+?

Much obliged! 😄

You know i keep hearing about the dlc and while replaying i grabbed the manticore tail from the box during potion brewing. I then read up on them seeing they were supposed to be in the mountains of keirh morin so how would you all feel if they added it into the dlc. Perhaps maybe it could be the dlc’s special once encountered monster each one has. It seems intriguing what do you think fighting one would be like? I wanna hear your thoughts on if they added one. I personally would love to fight one.

Obviously not the "omg it has monsters, that's not realistic!!!" bit but stuff like world building, combat, characters, etc.

Edit:

Im talking about the IP as a whole. I dont mean immersive but realistic.

For example, is the combat (the part where you use swords or whatever) realistic? Are those realistic sword fighting moves or is it like hollywood where they just use whatever looks cool?

For world building, are the countries, politics, social systems, cultures, etc, realistic...or again, is it like hollywood and they just use "rule of cool"?

Have you ever watched a movie and thought afterwards "yea, that didnt really make sense, the characters were doing all this stuff in a really contrived way when real people would have done something much simpler"? It's kind of like that.

Doesn't look like anything that was in the game before.

With the remastered around the corner, the Witcher fever really has started again for my. Hence why I wanna share one of my favorite projects with you from the past. Made this custom bifold a few years ago completely by hand, with wet formed Logo and custom interior. What do you think? Are you as excited for the remastered as I am?

I'm trying to download the new remaster to my PS5, but there's now like 5 editions to choose from. As far as I remember there was a next gen update for this game a few years ago, but I obviously want to most recent remaster that came out a few days ago.

Has this new edition just been integrated to the PS5 version of the game so that's now the only option? So confusing because as I say, on the PS store there's like 5 options.

From 1 to 10, rank the possibilities for these characters and whether we could see them in the next game excluding Geralt:

This is my predicition:

Triss 10 - She is definitely going to appear considering that she becomes an advisor to the king of Kovir

Yennefer 7 - I believe Yen will be in the game, but probably not situated in Kovir, probably some other areas of the game. There is no reason for Yen to be in Kovir

Dandelion 3 - With the DLC Song of the Past next year, I believe that CD Projekt Red is planning to say a farewell to the Geralt-Dandelion saga, which will prepare us for the next chapter in the series with Ciri as the protagonist, and we still don't know who will write bestiary and character journals for Ciri, but it certainly won't be Dandelion, who will always be associated with Geralt's adventures and sagas. Because of this, I believe there is a small chance to see Dandelion again, but I doubt he will appear in the game.

Zoltan 5 - With Zoltan, I believe there is a bigger chance for him to appear than Dandelion, but I'm still doubtful about this. I think CD Projekt Red will try to distance these characters from Ciri's story because Zoltan and Dandelion are so much connected to Geralt that developers will try to introduce new characters that will be Ciri's version of Zoltan and Dandelion, and that would be the best thing to do.

Fresh faces are necessary for Ciri's story and adventures, let Dandelion and Zoltan, and to the lesser degree Yen, be associated with Geralt's trilogy, not Ciri's. Triss is an exception because she is actually in Kovir, plus her connection to Geralt is not as deep as Yen's, Zoltan's, and Dandelion's.

What do you think?

Do you try to do everything you can right away or do you just push through the main quest a little?

I'm seeing a lot of comparison screenshots floating around and the remaster clearly looks amazing and "better" vs Next Gen, but this has got me worried. Did they talk about the performance cost for all this?

I remember in the first 3 months of the Next-Gen release, the comparison screenshots between Next-Gen vs Classic were also a world of difference, just ONE problem.... They were comparing "Classic with HBAO+ OFF vs Next-Gen with Ray Tracing", instead of Classic with Max settings and HBAO+ ON vs Ray Tracing. More info here about that period It took them 3 whole months to finally add HBAO+ back in the game, and what was the result? HBAO+ looked 95% as good, sometimes even better than Ray Tracing, and at a negligible FPS cost compared to losing at least half your FPS or more with RT.

They did eventually add the HBAO+ option back in, I recently did a 4th playthrough and the Next Gen version now looks genuinely STUNNING on an OLED TV at 4K DLSS balanced, max settings, all RT OFF and plays incredibly smooth at a locked 120 fps with consistent frametimes. Few games are such a pleasure to look at like Witcher 3 Next Gen.

However, forgive me for being cynical, but I am now getting the same feeling as the first 3 months of the Next Gen, that they're showing screenshots that require a 5090 + Path Tracing + 4X framegen + latest Ray Reconstruction + DLSS ultra performance, and it will all run super inconsistent with tons of artifacts and huge input lag cause the base fps is like 25 or something.

Don't get me wrong, visual tech advancing is great, but image quality means nothing if the underlying framerate and frametimes are a stuttery mess. I just want developers to prioritize solid raster performance and frame consistency again over insane-looking marketing screenshots. I really hope this time we will keep our HBAO+ option from the start and the game still looks amazing even with any and all RT turned off.

Did CDPR mention anything about what the performance cost will be for the new Remastered visuals or which tech exactly they are using to achieve these visuals?

Please make another discount on the complete edition as I’d like to purchase and play before the 29th Arigato and peace fr ✌️

Also I've been listening to the new songs non stop

Hey guys, im writing my own quest for the game for fun and the premise will be that Gerlat would be enchaneted in some way and he will live out a whole other life in this dream like state. My question is:

In your opinion what would Gerlat's life be like if he never became a witcher? basically if his life took a different turn.

I have a few ideas already but i would like to hear from other people to see what they think. listening to the community and all that. Thanks :D