CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher 3 Remastered, coming as a free upgrade to all owners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S next month on September 29.
In a stunning conclusion to Gamescom's Opening Night Live, the developer confirmed a list of additional features coming to the game's Remastered version as well as notably enhanced visuals, which we've listed out below.
There's no upgrade to the game's current Switch 1 version, though a separate Switch 2-native version of The Witcher 3 Remastered will be sold, and owners of the Switch 1 version will be able to claim this free. The remastered game will also be sold on PC via Battle.net for the first time, where it will unlock a Geralt-themed skin in Diablo 4.
The Witcher 3 Remastered — and the current game, as of today — will also include access to the game's first two expansions at no additional cost. Of course, all of this precedes the arrival of the upcoming Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3's third expansion, due in 2027. For a detailed look at what we saw of that this evening, we have you covered right here.
Major features include tweaked combat, improved traversal and movement, revamped mount handling, enhanced monster behaviors, a skill tree revamp, armor transmog, an expanded photo mode, new finishers and much more.
Other additions include the long-awaited cross-platform mod support, new quest tracking, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI improvements, a looting rework, refreshed motion blur, new accessibility features, a tutorial modernization, HDR improvements, a foliage shading rework, ray-tracing improvements, a global lighting reork, new shading model, subsurface scattering, and a new tone mapper.
PlayStation 5 Pro support, plus Xbox Play Anywhere and unspecified Nintendo Switch 2 "exclusive features" were also mentioned, as were Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XESS 2.0, path tracing and ray reconstruction on PC, native DX12 and rendering parallelization. There will even be ray-traced hair.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Songs of the Past will contain more Gwent, the franchise's compulsive card game.
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