CD Projekt Purple has introduced The Witcher 3 Remastered, coming as a free improve to all homeowners on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X|S subsequent month on September 29.
In a shocking conclusion to Gamescom’s Opening Night time Stay, the developer confirmed an inventory of further options coming to the sport’s Remastered model in addition to notably enhanced visuals, which we have listed out beneath.
There isn’t any improve to the sport’s present Change 1 model, although a separate Change 2-native model of The Witcher 3 Remastered can be bought, and homeowners of the Change 1 model will be capable to declare this free. The remastered sport can even be bought on PC by way of Battle.web for the primary time, the place it’s going to unlock a Geralt-themed pores and skin in Diablo 4.
The Witcher 3 Remastered — and the present sport, as of as we speak — can even embrace entry to the sport’s first two expansions at no further price. After all, all of this precedes the arrival of the upcoming Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3’s third enlargement, due in 2027. For a detailed look at what we saw of that this evening, we have you covered right here.
Every thing new coming to The Witcher 3 Remastered
Main options embrace tweaked fight, improved traversal and motion, revamped mount dealing with, enhanced monster behaviors, a talent tree revamp, armor transmog, an expanded picture mode, new finishers and rather more.
Different additions embrace the long-awaited cross-platform mod help, new quest monitoring, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI enhancements, a looting rework, refreshed movement blur, new accessibility options, a tutorial modernization, HDR enhancements, a foliage shading rework, ray-tracing enhancements, a world lighting reork, new shading mannequin, subsurface scattering, and a brand new tone mapper.
PlayStation 5 Professional help, plus Xbox Play Wherever and unspecified Nintendo Change 2 “unique options” have been additionally talked about, as have been Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, Intel XESS 2.0, path tracing and ray reconstruction on PC, native DX12 and rendering parallelization. There’ll even be ray-traced hair.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Songs of the Past will contain more Gwent, the franchise’s compulsive card sport.
As beforehand confirmed, there was no signal of The Witcher 4 tonight — although none was anticipated. Yesterday, we gained affirmation that the highly-anticipated Ciri-starring sequel is concentrating on a 2028 launch window, and was very a lot nonetheless within the oven at current.
“Our crew right here at CD Projekt Purple HQ is tough at work on a model new saga, one with Ciri on the helm,” CD Projekt Purple joint CEO Michał Nowakowski mentioned beforehand. “We now have greater than 500 extremely proficient builders working to create one thing actually particular for you. The Witcher 4 options an enormous and immersive open world, intense and action-packed gameplay, and a deep, impactful story that we hope will stick with you for a very long time. Merely put, that is our largest, boldest, and most bold sport so far.
“Now I do know you are wanting to study when it is coming. That is the query we’re listening to from you on a regular basis. So whereas we’re not exhibiting The Witcher 4 on the occasion, and we’re not able to share an actual date, I can inform you this: The Witcher 4 is concentrating on a 2028 launch window.
“I do know it’s kind of of a wait and also you’d like to play it sooner, however let the crew prepare dinner. Will probably be well worth the wait. Till then, there can be lots extra of The Witcher to come back, together with Songs of the Previous when it launches in 2027. And you may make sure gamescom can also be in our plans for the approaching years.”
Atone for all of tonight’s bulletins in our roundup of everything revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026.
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