The next-gen edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt premiered in December last year. The game met with a positive reception, although it was not without technical problems, which mainly concerned the PC version.
CD Projekt consistently fixed the problems reported by players. The result of this work is another big update, which premiered on Monday evening. Patch numbered 4.02 introduces a lot of changes. Suffice it to say that the “patch” takes about 20 gigabytes.
Below is the full list of new features that came with the update.
pc:
- Improved CPU core usage in DX 12.
- Horizon-based ambient occlusion has been restored. Players who previously disabled ambient occlusion will need to do so again. You can do this by going to Options › Video › Graphics.
- Fixed an issue where the “My Rewards” section was not localized in REDlauncher.
- Fixed a flickering landscape issue in Toussaint that occurred when NVIDIA HairWorks was disabled.
- Fixed a particle optimization issue that could cause the game to freeze intermittently.
PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles:
- Improved performance mode on next-gen consoles.
- Fixed an issue where characters could be slightly blurred during dialogue and cutscenes on PlayStation 5.
- Fixed a ray tracing memory usage issue that could cause crashes on Xbox Series X consoles.
- He who sows his field in time… – The game will no longer freeze on next-gen consoles if Geralt runs away from Shania after starting a conversation.
- Fixed an issue where quick saves could not be loaded when using cross-platform progression on Xbox One.
- Fixed an issue with overwriting manual saves where in some cases the oldest game save was deleted on PlayStation 5.
- Fixed performance issues in Beauclair and Novigrad after loading a save game.
Visual Effects (PC & Next Generation Consoles):
- Preparing for Battle – Fixed an issue where the dialogue option to progress the quest during the “Tell Avallac’h that everything is ready” objective was missing.
- Reason of State – Fixed an issue where the warehouse door could be permanently closed if the player knocked, entered the building, and then left immediately.
- Scavenger Hunt: Cat School I Gear Upgrade Blueprints – Fixed an issue where the quest could remain active even after the blueprints were collected.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to enable New Game+ mode on an incompatible save would block the player from launching expansions in standalone mode until the game was restarted.
Quests and gameplay (PC & old/next gen consoles):
- Preparing for Battle – Fixed an issue where the dialogue option to progress the quest during the “Tell Avallac’h that everything is ready” objective was missing.
- Reason of State – Fixed an issue where the warehouse door could be permanently closed if the player knocked, entered the building, and then left immediately.
- Scavenger Hunt: Cat School I Gear Upgrade Blueprints – Fixed an issue where the quest could remain active even after the blueprints were collected.
- Fixed an issue where attempting to enable New Game+ mode on an incompatible save would block the player from launching expansions in standalone mode until the game was restarted.
Localization (PC & old/next gen consoles):
- Corrected the Korean localization of the Ciri and Geralt thread card descriptions.
- Fixed punctuation errors in Arabic localization.
- Updated font for Traditional Chinese.
The game update is now available on all platforms.
Source: Gazeta
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