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EatChildren · Apr 25, 2015

Rather than have these buried in other threads.

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SolVanderlyn · Apr 25, 2015

Loving that copper autumn aesthetic.

Hypron · Apr 25, 2015

Great looking pictures.

I shouldn't have read those quest goals though. One of them sounds like a pretty big spoiler.

Turin Turambar · Apr 25, 2015

Looks great, and in particular I think the vegetation seems sharper now [in the first image] ? Sharpen filter or ultra settings?
Or maybe it's just depending of the location, time of day, etc.

I was reading the Gamestar preview, which is very positive. It also said that quests marks and place of interest marks can be toggled on and off in options.
And those question marks in the map? They are locations that Geralt heard or read about it but he still hadn't visited, so they aren't all the PoI in the game.

edit: another good tidbit: you won't regenerate health in hard or dark dificulty.

His Majesty · Apr 25, 2015

Hypron said:
Great looking pictures.

I shouldn't have read those quest goals though. One of them sounds like a pretty big spoiler.

Some journalists talked about it already, it involves the

Skellige succession crisis.

It is one of the major side quests I think.

UnrealEck · Apr 25, 2015

Looks good, nothing spectacular though by any stretch. These would honestly pass for console screenshots. Maybe they are and they're keeping tight-lipped. Or maybe it's just high settings.

Leatherface · Apr 25, 2015

I need to stop buying so many games this year. :'(

Damn you Witcher!

Hypron · Apr 25, 2015

UnrealEck said:
Looks good, nothing spectacular though by any stretch. These would honestly pass for console screenshots. Maybe they are and they're keeping tight-lipped. Or maybe it's just high settings.

Come on, they're obviously downsampled.

UrbanRats · Apr 25, 2015

Looks great.
That hud though.. want to cram some other shit in there?

Original Famous Ray · Apr 25, 2015

My 7850 weeps. I'm totally pumped (for the game not my card crying)! Where is that May 19th vampire gif? lol

tait269 · Apr 25, 2015

This is the PC version right?

SneakyStephan · Apr 25, 2015

No l'oreal horse in these screenshots, just regular horse

Durante · Apr 25, 2015

Turin Turambar said:
Looks great, and in particular I think the vegetation seems sharper now [in the first image] ? Sharpen filter or ultra settings?
Or maybe it's just depending of the location, time of day, etc.

There's no sharpening filter in these shots.

Foliage has been improved in the shots and clips we've seen recently (past few weeks) over what we saw since the initial reveal (the "donwgrade" phase). I think we're now seeing higher settings.

UnrealEck · Apr 25, 2015

Hypron said:
Come on, they're obviously downsampled.

You really think that? Or is it sarcasm?
I honestly think they look upscaled rather than down. They look kinda low quality/blurry. The image quality is pretty low looking.

Loris146 · Apr 25, 2015

tait269 said:
This is the PC version right?

Yes.

Durante · Apr 25, 2015

UnrealEck said:
You really think that? Or is it sarcasm?
I honestly think they look upscaled rather than down. They look kinda low quality/blurry. The image quality is pretty low looking.

Is this sarcasm?

Lunar15 · Apr 25, 2015

Uh, that last pic is pretty wild. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Geralt was on a different planet.

tcrunch · Apr 25, 2015

EatChildren said:

This is objectively the best one because it has a new enemy in it, also people are launching missiles at Geralt from the mountain and the moon is falling.

UnrealEck · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
Is this sarcasm?

You don't think those shots look blurry or low quality? They definitely don't look downsampled.

misho8723 · Apr 25, 2015

Yep, still looks fantastic.. so nothing new

Hypron · Apr 25, 2015

UnrealEck said:
You really think that? Or is it sarcasm?
I honestly think they look upscaled rather than down. They look kinda low quality/blurry. The image quality is pretty low looking.

Are you kidding me? There's 0 aliasing. They are downsampled.

Durante · Apr 25, 2015

UnrealEck said:
You don't think those shots look blurry or low quality? They definitely don't look downsampled.

You are off your rocker sir.

I mean, just look at any of the high-frequency sub-pixel detail in any of these shots!

Edit: I still feel like I'm being made fun of. A single glance at something like the fine-grained PBR highlights on any metal surface in these shots shows the amazing IQ (and most likely the amount of resources thrown at it).

Skilotonn · Apr 25, 2015

Man, this all looks amazing. No other way for me to put it really.

Didn't read any of the quest names other than the first one, although I don't think it'll be any problem looking at them.

I guess I better hop to it with actually playing a Witcher game, in my case, either opening my sealed Witcher 2 X360 version, or playing the free digital 360 version I have. I have The Witcher 2 for free through GOG.com as well too, but I doubt my laptop can run it the way I'd like even though it's a Win8 laptop.

KainXVIII · Apr 25, 2015

Strange, i don't know that cyclops belongs to Witcher mythology..

Randy Monk · Apr 25, 2015

I can't afford to upgrade my PC at the moment from i5 2500k and 560ti so I hope the PS4 version is up to scratch

taybul · Apr 25, 2015

I'm pretty sure my GPUs fans just whirred a little bit.

MatrixMan.EXE · Apr 25, 2015

So hyped for May 19th! I've got to ask though, that last picture...isn't that of a completely new area we haven't been shown before? I don't recognise it from any of the media released so far. Almost like a desert.

Mass Effect · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
Is this sarcasm?

Nah, the quality of the images is pretty bad. Despite that, the game itself looks great.

I really wish devs would use pngs instead of jpgs.

Slixshot · Apr 25, 2015

:O Looks great! I know nothing about The Witcher Series... but this is making me want to give the game a try next month.

Makareu · Apr 25, 2015

The first one seems a bit rough quality wise.
The last one is 100% downsampled, just look at the sword's hilt.

That being said I dont really want to see anything more, I just need to play it now.

Rivitur · Apr 25, 2015

You can't hide!

tcrunch · Apr 25, 2015

So there's a quest where Geralt wears Yennefer's clothes.

toastyToast · Apr 25, 2015

so many tooltips. must be the setup for demoing or something because thats nuts

Durante · Apr 25, 2015

Mass Effect said:
Nah, the quality of the images is pretty bad.

I don't know how much you know about image quality, but I'm an expert, and I tell you that IQ in these shots is fantastic.

(unless you are purely talking about the jpg compression, which is rather ugly on these. But the base rendering IQ is great)

Dr Dogg · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
Edit: I still feel like I'm being made fun of. A single glance at something like the fine-grained PBR highlights on any metal surface in these shots shows the amazing IQ (and most likely the amount of resources thrown at it).

I'm on my phone at the mo so having a hard time finding it but I think the January gameplay vid really highlights that. When you see the hilt and handle of Geralt's swords as he's chatting to someone you can see the metal sections aren't using something like a specular map but actually reflecting the geometry behind him and certainly not a low res cube map you often find in open world games.

pestul · Apr 25, 2015

I'd like to believe that last one is 100% honest.. I really want to. The game looks great.

Mad Season · Apr 25, 2015

Randy Monk said:
I can't afford to upgrade my PC at the moment from i5 2500k and 560ti so I hope the PS4 version is up to scratch

You don't need a new cpu. That 2500k is an oc beast

ironcreed · Apr 25, 2015

I love this shot. That mountainside entrance looks so majestic.

RedAssedApe · Apr 25, 2015

sexy sleeveless geralt

Kenzodielocke · Apr 25, 2015

Can you play without any armour ? Naked like in the Souls games ? I hate that beginning armour.

tuxfool · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
I don't know how much you know about image quality, but I'm an expert, and I tell you that IQ in these shots is fantastic.

(unless you are purely talking about the jpg compression, which is rather ugly on these. But the base rendering IQ is great)

He is talking about .jpg compression artifacts. There are versions of some of these screens that are far cleaner.

TokiDoki · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
I don't know how much you know about image quality, but I'm an expert, and I tell you that IQ in these shots is fantastic.

(unless you are purely talking about the jpg compression, which is rather ugly on these. But the base rendering IQ is great)

Agreed , even if I intentionally zoom in a notch or two with my browser , it still looks fairly sharp . I don't get the blurry complain , is it being viewed on a low res laptop screen or mobile .

aravuus · Apr 25, 2015

I assume Geralt is fighting here in this pic? Looks more like he's told a terribly shitty joke only he found funny

He's even got that knee-slapping pose

Auctopus said:
this one looks like Geralt just delivered the punchline to a joke and it's just killed the other guy.

Nice

Auctopus · Apr 25, 2015

this one looks like Geralt just delivered the punchline to a joke and it's just killed the other guy.

GifGafIsTheBestGaf · Apr 25, 2015

it looks great, specially the first one

Stahsky · Apr 25, 2015

these images are making me hella moist, man.

IAmRandom31 · Apr 25, 2015

Gotta love how the text in the first pic says " hits Cyclops for 132.99 " and the on screen displayed damage is 133 lol.

Sure they will have that resolved to where the text rounds up like the damage display does.

Better looking pics then in the past.

Hypron · Apr 25, 2015

Muntu said:
I assume Geralt is fighting here in this pic? Looks more like he's told a terribly shitty joke only he found funny

He's even got that knee-slapping pose

Auctopus said:
this one looks like Geralt just delivered the punchline to a joke and it's just killed the other guy.

SJRB · Apr 25, 2015

Muntu said:
I assume Geralt is fighting here in this pic? Looks more like he's told a terribly shitty joke only he found funny

He's even got that knee-slapping pose

Geralt's like "That's not what your mom said last night"

Soldier's like:

Dictator93 · Apr 25, 2015

Durante said:
I don't know how much you know about image quality, but I'm an expert, and I tell you that IQ in these shots is fantastic.

lol

These shots look great, although I hope that higher settings or .ini tweaks enable shadow casting grass. Seeing all these great high quality cascades is jarring in comparison to the grass tufts which do not cast shadows.

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