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This is the best look you'll get right now of actual PC Ultra gameplay as of yesterday at decent youtube quality lol. This is before day 1 patch obviously. Skip to right over the 1 hour mark.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Was that a badly compressed video or does it just look like carp.
More fuel for the fire:
http://acutegaming.net/the-witcher-3-developers-assures-textures-remain-the-same-from-2013/2015/
http://acutegaming.net/the-witcher-3-developers-assures-textures-remain-the-same-from-2013/2015/
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I used to work for a flightsim developer doing freelance texturing work. I remember one of the 3D modellers telling me he would create extremely hi detailed versions of his work even though it would choke even future hardware.
Though that doesn't explain the perceived loss of quality on the water and on the wall/rock tessellation, or the fire particles, or the sky, or the fog.
Reddit - Dive into anything
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There's no way the perceived graphics downgrade is due to the removal of a sharpening filter 
What about all the other missing effects and the lighting completely changed. They keep digging themselves deeper into a hole by lying about it.
What about all the other missing effects and the lighting completely changed. They keep digging themselves deeper into a hole by lying about it.Reddit - Dive into anything
I have to be honest and say they all look pretty mediocre, they look nothing like the old screenshots before the lead up to the game launch which has raised so many questions.
I have this horrible feeling the Day 1 patch is going to do hardly anything or nothing to the obviously "altered" graphics we are seeing lately.
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In certain lighting conditions it looks stunning and in others, mainly dusk, it looks pretty crap. Sure it will look good enough to enjoy it though. Can't wait.
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One of the Visual Effects artists discussing Witcher 3.
"impossible to downgrade a game when there was no grade to downgrade"
"impossible to downgrade a game when there was no grade to downgrade"
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One of the Visual Effects artists discussing Witcher 3.
"impossible to downgrade a game when there was no grade to downgrade"
"No grade to downgrade"..... Except the gameplay footage that they previously showed us and sold the game on. It's like they've had a meeting at work and all agreed to just deny deny deny. They must take us for stupid. I would have more respect for them if they admitted having to remove some features due to performance and time restraints, assuming that is indeed the case.
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Yeah its a bit of a strange one. We were shown "gameplay" footage so we expected it to look like that. To say that it was uncomfortable on the eyes after prolonged periods is a pretty lame way to justify changing its look.
We might be proven wrong on release with a day 1 patch though.
This is what happens when game consoles are thrown into the mix, the developers spend more time optimizing performance on them, and PC gets a back seat.
To the point where enhancing the graphics on PC is no longer a justified expense, because they are only interested in selling the game to widest audience possible and the enthusiasts are only a small minority.
To the point where enhancing the graphics on PC is no longer a justified expense, because they are only interested in selling the game to widest audience possible and the enthusiasts are only a small minority.
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How do you know this is the case? Let's blame the consoles even though without them there probably wouldn't be any big budget games in the industry.
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Because CDPR have already stated this is the case?
Surely if the day 1 patch was going to restore the game to its previous graphical quality, they'd be shouting about it to try and keep people happy?
There's so much denial in this thread; "wait and see", "all the screenshots we've seen have been on low settings", "they're console screenshots", etc. but I think that if the PC version on max settings looked like the original shots/videos, or if the day 1 patch was to restore those settings, then we'd have seen some evidence of that by now.
If you had a product that had half of your customers up in arms about it's lack of quality, and you had an answer to those concerns, wouldn't you do everything in your power to alleviate them? Not flat out deny that there was a quality issue in the hope that everyone would just believe it despite all evidence to the contrary?
Given it's now less than 2 days to launch, the PC version must be finished, and the day 1 patch must be at least close to complete - all that would needed would be a video/couple of screenshots showing how the game looks in all it's glory, but instead we have simply a wall of silence punctuated by the occasional denial.
I hope I'll be pleasantly surprised, but due to the above, I have very little confidence in that happening.
I'm not by any means saying it will be a bad game, I'm sure it will be awesome, and I'm looking forward to it, but quite frankly, the responses from CDPR (or lack thereof) are very disappointing.
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If this looks mediocre, what open world games look better?
Maybe just GTA V.
It's not what we expected, but it's still great ._.