The Witcher 4 Deep Dive - Luke Reacts

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[@lpvrooom6714]

Itll be crazy if the next witcher beats the next elder scrolls. Which it probably will. Cause bethesda is seemingly incompetent

[@ChaseSchleich]

Gameplay wise and graphically it probably will. Release time? Maybe not. CDPR is learning a whole new state of the art engine. Bethesda is using their old beater that they've had for 20 years and know every inch of. If Witcher 4 launches before Elder Scrolls, then Bethesda needs to finally realize that the Creation Engine needs to be taken out back and shot.

[@m0rianne]

There is 0% chance ESV will be even slightly good.

[@childofvenus3781]

​@@m0rianneAre you sure? ESV was amazing 😂

[@btbarr16]

​@@ChaseSchleichtrue, but CDPR has switched methods of development from waterfall to agile and they're partnered with Epic on the use of UE5 instead of just licensing it. So, while they're learning a new engine it's a mature engine, that sounds more user friendly for devs, and they have the resources at Epic to assist. Elder Scrolls 6 probably will come out first since Bethesda says they have a playable version, how "playable" it is could vary depending on how they define it. That said, I think Elder Scrolls 6 will be a massive disappointment as long as Bethesda continues using Creation Engine. I believe we'll get a 4k textured Skyrim, and if it was 2017 I think everyone would be on board with that. However, it'll be more likely it's 2027 and the game will just feel outdated. I don't see them making a big leap in quality from Starfield to Elder Scrolls 6. Exploration will probably get better since they won't have to procedurally generate 1000 planets worth of map.

[@Venator2015]

Bethesda has always been incompetent. One of their best games took all the assets of a previous game, added ironsights, and a worse, bland desert setting. And it’s a fan favorite. Get over the hype start learning how to form your own media literate opinions and be a part of the movement to stop letting audiences get ass fucked when we just want to do the fucking ourselves

[@Mordeusz2K]

Night city, one of the most beautiful environments in games. CD Projekt Red: we can do better, let change engine for better one! Neon city in Starfield, very meh environment with lots of loading screens. Bethesda: we're good.

[@duke.]

it hurts how true this is

[@thegreat7878]

Went for the jugular with this one

[@vast634]

The Red Engine might have just ended up into a big mess of code salad and circumstantial hacks, making the engine not maintainable for another large project.

[@mordor1779]

They said developing cyberpunk on red engine was like " trying to run a train as the tracks were being layed at the same time " and it was basically why we never had more than 1 expansion so yeah it was an amazing engine for some things but seemed to limit them a lot on other areas

[@SolidSnake240]

I believe it. I got Cyberpunk on ps4 at launch and you could literally feel the game trying to hold itself together lol. Redengine just couldn't handle what they were trying to do.

[@Epiousios18]

It very clearly was. Idk why Luke pretends like it was some "sure thing" engine and it's a great mystery why they are switching. It looked beautiful and has great data streaming but very clearly could be hard to work with.

[@kylemelo6921]

​@@mordor1779 This statement came from Schreiber's article, am I right?

[@btbarr16]

​@@mordor1779 The expansion we got was about the size of two expansions. I mean workout the expansion my play through was 50 hrs and with it, it was over 80 hrs. Both the Witcher expansions combined were about 30 hrs worth of gameplay. It just made sense to do one large expansion vs two smaller ones after so much time had passed after the release of the game.

[@diligencehumility6971]

Half the work they did was mentaining their engine, thats why. They wanna focus on creating content

[@cipherbenchmarks]

Won't their developers have to learn ue5 tooling now, though?

[@anshgoel6661]

I mean they will learn it at a good pace. The main thing is that they develop rather than maintaining the engine​@@cipherbenchmarks

[@stereoflava2788]

@@cipherbenchmarks Yes and adapting it for their needs, BUT once that is done its a faster and easier process.

[@Velly2g]

@@cipherbenchmarks That would probably take 2 months to learn and 18 months to master. That's a one time thing vs upgrading your engine every time a game comes out. There's really no downside to switching. I've been through this at my company.

[@Tigerhearty]

they wanna focus on making the witcher very blackened and dei esg

[@Varthismal]

I dont get how Bethesda did NOT get excited by this Unreal demo

[@mcgruber]

Because Unreal can not handle that many assets and interactable objects. As much as the engine they use is severely limited, it's built for what they do. If it was as easy as just moving to a new engine, they would have done it.

[@Tokena14]

@@mcgruber not only that, every unreal engine game looks a like. they all look the same.

[@MDXZFR]

@@mcgruber What? You're surely don't know what u're talking about

[@MisterTonyG]

The Unreal Demo does not have 16 times the detail.

[@Arystoteli]

Exactly why Bethesda don't change the engine and still use the old one? They have some reason I don't think that they don't see how advanced the unreal engine is. Maybe the future will bring some light but I'm wondering. In my opinion it's a good thing that creation engine still is developed and create an alternative graphical experience. This creates some kind of various.

[@Dr_Bille]

I don't want them to show anything. ANYTHING, about the witcher until they are at most 1.5-2 years away from launch. They showed Cyberpunk WAY too early, and it's a trend in the industry that I despise. I don't want to be excited for something 5+ years in the future

[@whyisthisathingnow...]

I think Witcher 3 was more gold than cyberpunk but to each their own. I'd say they can reach a larger auidience with the witcher franchise anyways.

[@greggeiger7532]

It seems like the Witcher 3 is even more famous than the books and the show

[@ralphtavarez6083]

The Witcher 3 also had the benefit of 2 previous installments worth of research data. Cyberpunk made huge strides from launch until now, imagine what the next 2 cyberpunk games could look like.

[@mikemoore5270]

@@greggeiger7532the books are better

[@mustplay7212]

@@mikemoore5270 not rly

[@HuntressGamer]

As long as we can still play Gwent I don't mind Geralt not being the main character. That card game is highly addictive .

[@Jacks_Raging_Bile_Duct]

*nods*😌

[@nathandrake9737]

I just don't want a customizable character. The reason Im still playing The Witcher 3 is Geralt and his character.

[@HuntressGamer]

@@nathandrake9737 underatandable. I never got attached to his character to be honest. But I se your point

[@nathandrake9737]

@@HuntressGamer I just compare Geralt to V from Cyberpunk. One is a character that will live on forever and is highly recognizable, and the other is completely replaceable and forgettable. If anyone managed to play 150+ hours of The Witcher 3, then they must have gotten attached to his character a little bit.

[@HuntressGamer]

@@nathandrake9737 Well,I put tons of hours in it ,plusbought all dlcs. Never played cyberpunk though,not my kind of game

[@theoutsiderjess4869]

I still feel like cyberpunk has at least one more massive story that can be told

[@gabrielwilliams8827]

Exactly we’ll have to wait to see what they do with cyberpunk’s sequel. Project Orion.

[@sweetbabyrayso5262]

thats why its getting a sequel

[@kidnamedfinger2840]

Something related to the blackwall would make me orgasm

[@JStack]

The move to unreal doesn't mean they won't use RED for cyberpunk games

[@thegreat7878]

Cyberpunk has plenty, it's a tabletop setting like Forgotten Realms in DND, a literal infinite number of stories can be told

[@Hoigwai]

REDengine 3 was specifically built for The Witcher 3. Then it was modified for Cyberpunk. The core design of Red Engine was for open-world games. I think the reason they swapped to Unreal 5 is the tools. The environmental tools from what I've seen have got to be some of the best there are. Not just for creating but the modification tools are bonkers. REDengine 2 was more of a middleware engine.

[@eminencerain848]

I think you're forgetting all the development problem they had with working with the Red Engine they made for Cyberpunk 2077. One of the biggest cause of delays is getting people to learn their own engine and then get to work on working on the game. Unreal Engine has tons of people already familiar with it, so there's very little startup time after hiring a new developer to work on your game.

[@yukihirasoma2774]

i maybe in the minority here but i really hope they don't go "make your own charcter route" i hope it's a pre set charcter with a backstory which we can customize to a certain extent like geralt (like changing his armor hair style beard..) and i feel like having a set protagnist will make us connect with the charcter a lot more also if we all share the same protag i feel like as a community we can connect in the same way we do when talking about geralt or arthur from rdr2..etc i love these charcters like if they make us create our own char it'll feel like idk more about the game and not the protag ig ? and i'm someone who LOVES charcters so i really wanna see a new charcter they'll focus on but that's just my opinion

[@sillylittlesheepjax6009]

Yeah it should be set character prob a male witcher one. I hope they will add some kind of party dynamic though. So you have adventures with a small fantasy group.

[@Hartcher_]

Hopefully a young Vesimir

[@sleepyjoe1298]

@@Hartcher_ that would be fire but I'd rather they not, I trust project red and I trust them to make a new character that's very incaptivating

[@MrHazz111]

I hope we get to go to different lands in the Next Witcher game. We could go to Nilfgard, which would look like a late medieval Gothic city much larger than Novigrad. We could go to Ofier, the Middle Eastern part of the Witcher world. Imagine traveling around a AC Origins or Mirage world doing Witcher contracts hunting Djinn, etc. Having a variety of lands to explore would be a feature I would look forward to.

[@ControllerCritic]

1. Let me create my own Witcher 2. Put Geralt in the game and make him an interactable NPC

[@chaoxfhy2552]

geralts confirmed to be in tw4 but not confirmed to be a protagonist

[@johnlopez5230]

It would be epic if geralt was the antagonist

[@user-zd1oc3pz8s]

YES YES YES. if geralt is in this i will buy it in a heartbeat but they wont. im gonna stick with 3 until i see something new.

[@TheMETALICA40]

This!!!

[@zuriyel5368]

What Geralt becomes a mentor like Vesemir?

[@chika4275]

dude that game is at least 6 years away! 😂

[@Samherbe954]

4 at most

[@vishnudev4826]

True. 4 at most.

[@dossie7944]

Makes sense to start a new trilogy as in my playthrough of the Witcher 3, Geralt retired in Touissant with Yennefer and Ciri became a Witcher so that works out but we’ll see!

[@xperiuscastello8613]

Can you let me know which mouse and keyboard you are using for your setup? They look awesome apparently and I am looking to upgrade my mouse and keyboard. Thank you.

[@marcthenarc868]

Couldn't it also be because the release on Cyberpunk on console was disastrous? Having to think about how your PC code can also run on console is a big chunk of work that's offloaded to the engine. Epic has showcased 2 targeted UE5 demos, one for Playstation (Echo) and one for XBox (Matrix) to show how the engine performs on them. If they want to go cross platform, UE5 does the job because is the same gameplay code with almost no changes when it comes to port it to a specific devices --- (Full disclosure: I've worked on apps with UE4, and I didn't have to change one bit of code between Apple and Android, all while testing it on PC).

[@francistein8409]

what we know is that cdpr is aiming for a high esg score for witcher 4 😂😂😂

[@mikemoore5270]

Unfortunately, probably so.

[@TonyFapioni]

How do we know this? I understand DEI/ESG has been plaguing the gaming industry, but nothing indicates that CDPR has been rotten by this yet.

[@notnero5280]

Do you people do anything but cry about minorities in media? Go touch some grass

[@NickConant10]

I remember hearing something to the effect that with Unreal Engine they can get the game out sooner than if they stayed on their own Red Engine which I think Unreal Engine has always been like that so it’s pretty easy for developers to work with but at the end of the day I would hope that Witcher 4 comes out generally similar to Witcher 3 because sure each Witcher game is vastly different but Witcher 3 was a major success & appealed to many people so I would imagine CDPR wouldn’t mess with that formula too much.

[@King-O-Hell]

I've just started playing Witcher 3 again. It looks great after the last graphics upgrade and runs awesome with frame gen. Looking forward to 4, whenever that arrives👍

[@mikemoore5270]

The first two games are better.

[@AttilaTheGreat1]

@@mikemoore5270 There is always some rage baiter

[@uuuudddiit]

honestly i'm bored and tired of "character creation" and stuff.. i would love a named character that I play as who has a backstory and life we take over... add customisation to him/her ofc but... having nameless face less protagonists is fkn boring.

[@ChocolateEffigy]

We already have plenty of those. Witcher 3 was literally a named character 😂😂😂

[@randomperson7408]

I don't understand people that want to create their one character in the Witcher it will be bland from a narrative point of view so the story would be worse from the get go,just play the countless others like that.

[@zuriyel5368]

It'd be nice if they'd at least allow you to choose between either one, so with a set protagonist option that allows for a backstory, more nuance, proper facial animation etc. and a customized protagonist where things aren't as polished. Although I do hope that AI in game development can eventually fix some of these issues.

[@uuuudddiit]

@@zuriyel5368 yea that can work as well. after posting the comment I was thinking of V in cyberpunk and how it had fixed story and stuff with character customisation... and if they go that route.. i wish they give us Multiple witchers or non witcher character's to choose from different starting points of their story, maybe even take it a step further the other choices we left behind come back as a side character's (giving up mission or guiding us), let us get used to that character and gives more incentive to go back and play as a new character we already know in the game. They can all have different paths, while staying on the same missions. Then it might be fun. But i don't think any rpg has achieved it yet but I can only hope for this from CDPR. so, here's hoping.

[@alecanthony2897]

It's a RPG and your surprised people want to role play??

[@mzergcampos1684]

Yeah I think part of the issue with red engine was the issues with updating the code and files without causing more problems in the game which on every update release additional issues were present. Not to mention the cost in updating and changing the engine for new projects

[@Kyrkis]

Didn't they have an investors call or something of the sorts like 2-3 days ago where it was shown that Polaris is still in pre-production and aiming to start full production later this year?

[@Tetsuo_88]

After playing a lot of cyberpunk 2077 it’s clear that visually speaking the engine is fantastic also it shines with rendering highly detailed character model + it loads the map really fast however it also has a lot of issues. The biggest offender is that it doesn’t handle streaming of asset very well so it creates a lot of pop in or worst sometimes a ground texture won’t load fast enough cause you are moving too fast with your car and you’ll fall to the chaos realm lol (happened a lot during launch, not so much now tho), it also struggles with rag doll physics and npc randomisation (even on my 2.0 run I still see instances of the same npc model close to each others). If moving to UE5 allow then to deal with those aspect of their game better than RedEngine while fully utilising nanite and lumen for highly detailed environnement then I’m all for it honestly.

[@valliyarnl]

I feel like research can also be in reference to lore. They truly continued the story of the books so well by picking up threads that just got lost in the greater narrative and used them as the seeds for the trilogy😊

[@ezio7252]

i think a prequel would be really nice like maybe an origin of the Witcher

[@ssduo5574]

Can they actually optimize games on UE5?

[@ahatheaeon]

they were evolving and working on the red engine WHILE WORKING ON CYBERPUNK. it's actually insane just how hard and chaotic Cyberpunk 2077 development was. as one of the devs said "it's like a train moving while you build tracks in front of it at the same time." at the end of the day YES. cyberpunk turned out to be one of the best looking games ever. it's gonna be a benchmark for pc graphics for decades. but i don't think they want a repeat of that. going for a ready made engine is probably a better choice. they can just focus on the game itself and systems instead of graphics. in my humble opinion, making a medieval world is just easier than something like night city with all it's verticality and the insane amount of light sources and geometry at play in that city.

[@TemplePate01]

Wish there was an entire song for the outra, no idea why it keeps getting stuck in my head.. lol

[@mroffensive4092]

My hype for a create your own Witcher is through the roof. Imagine if you could port your character into the next games as a continuation of that characters story. That would be sweet almost like the port of dd2s character creator onto the actual game. Would love that!

[@0o-0o694]

Aren't all Geralt's horses named Roach

[@denniston85]

Just concerned a lot of games being somewhat normalized, too similar in some parts visual and functionality. Brings all sorts of advantages in the development process. There's still somewhat of a signature with a developer's own in-house built engine that gives their game series a sense of, technical, maturation.

[@facundomartincaggianocuerd6285]

I think CDPR talked about going from their graphic motor to UE5, they said it was because it was a constant "place and create". They had to constantly add and create functions on their motor to keep going with the project, so it was a big time consuming thing on the development of Cyberpunk2077

[@Glowbox3D]

Nanite, in particular, seems like it would be a game-changer for an open-world RPG as vast as The Witcher. This system essentially removes polygon constraints, allowing for amazingly detailed scenes and objects without the usual performance hits. Every blade of grass, brick in a city wall, and stitch in Geralt's armor could be rendered with phenomenal fidelity. Then you have Lumen, UE5's fully dynamic global illumination solution. This would ensure that lighting and reflections look stunningly realistic and respond accurately to changing conditions. The glow of a fireplace, play of shadows under a stormy sky - all illuminated naturally. But the benefits could go beyond just pure graphical prowess. UE5's World Partition system could be a major asset for developing and streaming in a massive open-world seamlessly. It divides the world into a grid and streams in only visible cells, optimizing performance. Ultimately, these flagship technologies feel tailored for taking a gorgeous fantasy world like The Witcher and rendering it with unparalleled graphical quality and fidelity without compromising open-world scope. For a developer like CDPR who prides themselves on world-building, that's potentially revolutionary.

[@chrisperry4014]

5:23 it will still be called roach. It’s kind of the convention that Geralt follows-naming all his horses Roach so he doesn’t get too attached.

[@omok2]

I'm not opposed to a early access of the game similar to Baulders Gate 3, release the first act or a small area to just fine tune the shit out of the game.

[@JohnSmith-ls3um]

Agreed-and they make money while they’re at it. The Witcher 3 sold 50 million copies. I’d bet an early access/Act 1 Witcher 4 would sell 5-10 million units. That’s potentially the entire game’s production cost. I’ve never understood devs’ resistance to trying the Larian model. You can get product to market quicker, get players to effectively be your QA/QC (and paying for the privilege), and make money in the bargain. Triple win.

[@omok2]

@JohnSmith-ls3um I understand the hesitancy from companies cause for a while there it was a bad look, cause games would go early access then start selling micro transactions before the game was released. But like you said if they did the larian approach where they openly communicate with players ask for feed back and showcase changes to the game I think it would work wonderfully

[@Sensenoi6]

My guess is that the new trilogy will be set in the past, when there were plenty more witchers and monsters. And I think and totally hope that you can create your own witcher. Would be very cool if you could then import that character into later games like in Mass Effect.

[@AndyDarkKnight]

CD Projekt Red should take their time with Witcher Polaris and not rush it like they did with Cyberpunk 2077 back in 2020. I don't mind if they take a decade with this franchise which is so beloved to me and fans all over the globe.

[@EasyModeKing]

Seen a few people mentioned they’re concerned they’re not following books but they never have. Apart from the characters that are in the book the stories themselves are completely original and in some cases exceed their source material especially some of the side quests in Witcher 3. I imagine too that even if the protagonist is original, we’ll still be encountering the likes of Ciri, Geralt, Yennefer, maybe even Dykstra or Dandelion. I’m extremely confident that CDPR can build an original story with original characters set in this world

[@JaySee-sr1yj]

I think there are situations when having your own engine makes sense, some good examples are dice with the frostbite engine which is specifically designed for battlefield and another would be the warscape engine used by creative assembly to make total war. Unreal seems to be focused on being an engine mainly (based on the advertising) for open world action/ adventure games, so the witcher makes a lot of sense to switch to unreal 5, however, I tend to be against studios switch to UE5 because I notice there is sort of a uniformity between games made to the point that I can tell immediately that is an unreal game. This is a the reason I am against bethesda going to unreal as their games have a look and feel to them that no other games have which would be lost in a switch to unreal (I believe most of the issues that bethesda has more comes down to competency/ complacency, Bruce Nesmith (skyrim lead designer) said that bethesda become full of themselves after morrowind and oblivion success and has led to complacency at the studio).

[@mystic4576]

Luke what mouse are you using btw?

[@mikemoore5270]

That friend appears to be a Logitech G 502 X wireless yw

[@Agiranto]

Thank you based x2 speed

[@denisbegaj5970]

Witcher 3,Cyber Punk and witcher 4 are all together one big family.🎉

[@Schrsmnymkr]

The Witcher 3 wild hunt was my introduction to the series and I fell in love with that game. I can't wait to see CDPR continue that series along with what they'll have in store with cyberpunk.

[@alexworm1707]

Im with cdpr since they showed witcher 1 in e3 i don't know what caught my eyes then, but that was rough. I love all witcher games.

[@mikemoore5270]

The first two games are better, so are the books.

[@Kevlar49]

Wonder Woman game not being a live service game and having nemesis system and being on all platforms is the craziest news I’ve heard in a while

[@Anon-tt9rz]

they didn't struck gold or mine with their current engine, you're clueless if you think they did, as a developer it was obvious to me the majority of problems they had like unplayable release, massive amount of bugs, inability to deliver features like verticality without struggling forever etc and many more is all engine related, they had to modify engine alot, if they didn't have to spend so much effort on engine the game would've been completely different, 100%

[@cursedmonkey1033]

Wonder what "different" from Witcher 3 means. Different how? Different tone? Characters different? Less story focussed? Not third person? What?

[@jimmylander2089]

I think Witcher 3 looks fantastic. The colors and everything are spot on, such a strong atmosphere. Hopefully the art direction doesn’t change much in the Witcher 4.

[@LotusEater14]

They're also moving over to UE5 for the next Cyberpunk game

[@gauthamiyer2998]

They said that witcher 4 will enter production later this year, it hasn't entered production yet...

[@paintballJohn2]

I wonder if you will create your own Witcher or start with a new character or maybe a young Vesemir.

[@zVampiirePlatypus]

God I hope it's a named protagonist from a different witcher school.

[@heroic_daz]

2027 - 2028 is so far man I want to see what CD project red can cook up with the help of Epic games with Unreal engine 5

[@endlesspivots1307]

Even if the environment has less reflective surfaces that doesn't mean the game could not make use of similar number of light sources like in cyberpunk. Imagine a village in fire, mobs with torches, a lot of mages spamming firebolts, and more. Dynamic lighting baby!

[@Natec_k]

I hope its all hand made content by cdpr rather then some bought assets cuz unrreal makes it very enticing and easy to buy assets

[@Kevlar49]

Ain’t nothing left in there mine

[@TerryHoskin]

The Witcher and cyberpunk will hopefully be great franchises for the foreseeable future. Barring the blip of how cyberpunk launched, they’re a really good studio.

[@doombringer335]

Yeah that's my guess too. To make our own character👍

[@justinp_]

Since Luke didn't mention it, but probably the biggest reason for them going to Unreal is the built-in multiplayer functionality. Perhaps Witcher 4 being a single player game with optional Co-op multi?

[@heroicmythos8002]

God I hope not!

[@justinp_]

@heroicmythos8002 not a fan of it either, but it's a very real possibility

[@SystemCrasher113]

It will be Roach.... Garald names every horse Roach

[@Brando_1212]

Polaris makes me think it will mostly be in Kovir or some of those other far north kingdoms

[@anthonyrobinson3514]

They are already switching engines yet Bethesda still wants to use that old out of date for ten years at least now pos called creation engine

[@user-zd1oc3pz8s]

they made it the same since 1984.

[@calebhall383]

Imagine Witcher 4 getting the red dead treatment, where Geralt is present as a npc like John, but like Arthur we completely fall in love with the new protagonist and prefer him to Geralt. 😮

[@gefx0164]

The Witcher, now with Unreal stuttering instead of ungodly amount of glitches. Lets start the hype!

[@SystemCrasher113]

Hopefully we get a story from a different witcher school, like the school of the cat or griffin or bear

[@julio1148]

3:00 they’re developing Orion (cyberpunk sequel) in parallel and with UE as well…

[@itscreedvi]

I'm hoping you can create your own witcher for the next game. And maybe you can transfer the decisions you've made to the next game, similar to how the Mass effect trilogy makes it work.

[@cernunnos_lives]

I wonder if someone will make a game out of elric of melnibone?

[@joseijosei]

I love how UE5 games look, but only because of the GPU I have (RTX 4080). Let's be honest: those games rarely don't have performance issues on consoles or low-end ("entry level" too) hardware, because they are way too GPU demanding, and not a lot of people talk about this. Pretty much every UE5 game I know uses sub-1080p resolutions on consoles, at least for Performance Mode, and they still have severe performance issues, with the exception of Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons Remake, because that one does run at native 1080p, but with lower settings (like lower quality shadows) and it rarely hits 60 fps anyways. The framerate is in the 40s most of the time, with drops to even the 20s, which is insane. We are talking about a short small game that doesn't have many things happening on screen. Then we have more extreme examples like Immortals Of Aveum or Lords Of The Fallen, which had a straight up bad console version. Imo, unplayable. Remnant II is another example, and I'm sure that game isn't badly optimized. We only had a few UE5 games and most of them, with the exception of Fornite, are really GPU demanding. The next The Witcher game isn't going to be another Fortnite, Brothers or Remnant. Chances are it's going to be an open world, like... a big game. I hope CDPR finds the way to make that run well on consoles.

[@PersianGamer36]

Didn’t they say they were don’t with witcher? I mean I know they gonna go where money goes but wasn’t that a thing?

[@orbit1894]

No? They didn't say that.

[@TheHiddenOne690]

Can't wait to play the witcher 4 at 25 fps with my 4090.. But hey, at least it'll look cool

[@ff7522]

I'm worried any time they want to branch off from the books or source material. Just waiting to see how bad it is with modern esg / dei / whatever like the netflix show was.

[@_Mehedi]

I am worried about the stylization of the graphics/art direction of witcher 4. Even though a lot of recent unreal engine games have graphical fidelity the style of the graphics are very generic. Witcher 3 has a certain charm to its art direction that I love and I really hope they just don't go with hyper-realistic art direction with witcher 4.

[@AB-fr2ei]

Make a game about a young Vesemir and it would be perfect

[@ryansarafin12]

Epic games helping make tools for The Witcher could also mean it'll be easier for other devs to make open world RPGs using unreal in the future

[@Natec_k]

Im a bit worried cuz almost all ue5 games that have came out that had kinda poop optimization, like that souls like one

[@julio1148]

7:35 dude, no…. If they do that people will be “is it done yet? Is it done yet? Is it done yet?” Every month.

[@Bobby-Dingers]

Just ditching the books and basically leaving the witcher behind makes me nervous, I reeeeealy hope they don't f#@% this up.

[@bob_ohms2low75]

The witcher 3 is one of the greatest games ever made. The story, the gameplay, searching out better armor sets. Incredible.

[@darqshark3506]

CD Projekt's rise, fall and re... rise? Is absolutely insane and well deserved. I hope they can deliver whatever they are envisioning with this game in UE5. Red Engine wasnt a slouch in the graphics department. Really hope they can push the boundaries on UE5

[@judahPetrov]

A masseffect like multiple game saga where you would make your own character and decide your own choices in a Witcher setting... That would be like the second coming of Jesus christ 🙏🙏🙏

[@luissosa320]

Witcher 4 will have come out and Elder Scrolls 6 will still be in production xD

[@rogu3_wo1f74]

Hopefully, when they show a trailer, it's in the same year because for me, I don't want to see something for this game and then wait a year or 2. I want a gameplay trailer and then bam! In 5-8 months before full release.

[@shadowhunter6391]

I'm starting to have PTSD from Unreal Engine 5 with the amount of games that launch and have TERRIBLE optimization.

[@DV_VG]

same here I hope they do their magic to make it work well

[@joeyh.5873]

Geralt's story came to an end with the DLC in the Witcher 3. I would really like to play as another character and still live in the same world in which Geralt lives

[@97carrera]

What? What happened to him? Can u spoil me?

[@martiananomaly]

Geralt in the thumbnail but not in the game 😞

[@woodwick4684]

If they're using UE5 they could potentially get a meta human model of Henry cavil he is a big time fan of the series

[@mac2312]

I'm just worried they won't capture the same magic as they did with the RED engine.

[@childofvenus3781]

I don't think even 10% of the magic of the Witcher 3 was due to the engine ('s color). Amazing Writing, great music and atmosphere unique to each area, super high quality side quests, well created open world with believeable lore and detail and characters you could identify/empathize with etc. Was the Magic. Fortunately; all of the above can be re-achieved in UE5, i would say easier actually, due to the tech; Especially the atmoshphere & lighting part.

[@thetrashcanman7537]

They NEED to do something about that combat and some of that absolutely boring storyline + black out screens in between things other wise should be good

[@andrositee]

I wonder if the witcher 4 will be like a 1st person BG3

[@kidnamedfinger2840]

Witcher has never been first person and I hope it never is

[@wizardtoben8612]

Bro, don’t make me puke

[@anaximander66]

Removing this title far from the previous one? Sounds like it might be made for a modern audience.

[@jerrypetrov6594]

Witcher 3 is still my goat and The next one is the only game I’ll preorder this decade

[@ezio7252]

I'm hopeful but skeptical

[@ericcarlton87]

The game has been moved to pre development in late 2022. Given development cycles and the size of CDPR the game should drop in 2027-28’. I cannot wait to see this game when it comes out. Who knows maybe I’ll join the master race by then….

[@TheRealBillix]

UE5 will reach it’s potential with trial and error, say… 5 years until we see next-gen from UE5?🤔

[@HeadbuttCzech]

CDPR if you fuck up this game up..........

[@laigstore]

I just hope they do a good combat system cause I love the word of The Witcher but the combat in the 3th game was bad

[@gst9325]

what you say it incorrect so the whole hypothesis is incorrect. ALL materials are reflective - car hood, glass, tree bark, ground, stone - it's all reflective but to a different degree. For the engine it doesn't really matter. As soon as some engine supports physically correct lighting and materials you can build medieval castle or a moon station with it with no changes in rendering needed. one thing tho - red engine has probably best streaming in the world, will be interesting to see comparison to unreal. also red engine supports like dozens and dozens of dynamic lights on the screen, while unreal like 6 or 10 ? anyway, it's all goes down to other aspect IMO. everybody knows unreal. nobody knows red engine. if they want to scale to 3 large IP's as they say, they will need tons and tons of developers. hot to make it happen ? switch to well known tech that will make your hiring easy and also the devs will have transferable skills (which would not be the case with red engine). it was business decision. i saw stuff like that in other companies...

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

it istill can be roach.... couse gerald calll all the horses he used as roach... ;)

[@hedonismbot-hp9ii]

anyone else who has had the word saga ruined for them by that ferrel movie?