CD Projeckt Red - Long Term Product Outlook

They're moving to Unreal Engine going forward. Part of the idea is to be able to hire more developers quickly without having them learn an old proprietary engine.

Massive heaping of salt, but I'm excited about the (possibly) leaked release date of the Witcher 3 next gen update of December 9: LINK /

I'm really hoping that you can bring over a NG+, or even ++ to the new version. I know a lot of game designers bristle at NG+ because it interferes with "gameplay progression", but if there is any game in which that shouldn't matter, it's the Witcher. It's not a start from nothing traditional hero's journey, going from helpless to badass along the way. You're a (nearly) hundred year old witcher, whose training was decades ago. Can you pick up a new trick or two along the path? Of course. But having the player character get orders of magnitude stronger as the game progresses makes very little narrative sense. Let me start the game maxed out, with my favorite weapons and armor. I don't even want them to level from there. Let me be a witcher, never feeling I need to go "get stronger" before I can face an opponent or region. After several playthroughs, I feel like I've earned that

But anyway, along with fixing the remaining bugs (the amount of graphical clipping in this game...), I really hope they blow out the graphics, go full RT, etc, etc. I hope it brings my high end rig to its knees, so it stays fresh for another decade. It's such a special game, and it deserves to be played for a long time to come.

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introducing multiplayer to most of our new games to enrich the singleplayer experience

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This makes no sense.

No single player game has ever been “enriched” by fricking multiplayer. In fact, 10/10 times it ruins games.

The only thing it enriches is their pocketbook through micro transactions.

I went back and forced myself to play 1 & 2 during the 2020 shutdown. Janky combat but once I got used to it, I didn't have a problem with it. I specifically forced myself to play for the backstory.

Even though I am not in fan of most remakes ( looking at you Horizon) Witcher 1 would be a perfect game to update with some Quality of Life combat changes. They could sell a lot of copies of 1 & 2 if they update the graphics and combat.

And fix the tutorial in 2. I think a ton of people quit 2 before starting the game because they tried to beat the tutorial and the whole point was to play up to your skill so the game could select the appropriate difficulty. Dying simply meant you shouldn't be playing at the hardest difficulty.

1 can be rough, particularly with combat. I’ve said it a host of times, but: combat in TW1 is basically rhythm based. Think if it more of a dance than a fight. If your attacks are too early or too late, it will break your combo, which you don’t want, because each attack in the combo is stronger than the one before. Once you get used to it, it’s easy.

And then TW2 throws that entirely out the window and almost goes Souls-like with combat

The romance cards? If they don’t, I feel like there might be a (very small) riot