The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has confirmed you’ll use your current save recordsdata with the game’s generous upcoming Remastered edition — and offered element on Achievements and Trophies, too.
Writing at the moment by way of a post on X/Twitter, the studio mentioned it had seen quite a lot of fan questions over the sport’s forthcoming new version, which will likely be awarded to current homeowners of the sport. That is even the case for Nintendo Swap homeowners upgrading to a duplicate of Remastered on Nintendo Swap 2, and free on all platforms.
“Excellent news: your present saves will work with the improve, so you may get again on the Path proper the place you left off,” CD Projekt wrote. That is nice information for lapsed followers who nonetheless have not seen every thing The Witcher 3 has to supply (and there’s a lot on provide).
And, in fact, it is price remembering that the bottom recreation now contains entry to its two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. You may need to play each of these earlier than the RPG’s belated third growth, Songs of the Previous, launches in 2027.
There’s extra excellent news for achievement (and trophy) hunters, as progress towards any award unlocked to date will likely be tracked and continued within the recreation’s Remastered version. That is maybe much less of a shock, if the upgraded recreation is handled merely as an replace on supported platforms. Nonetheless, it is good to have confirmed.
CD Projekt Pink introduced The Witcher 3 Remastered final week with a long list of additional features and technical improvements set to be included, such because the long-awaited cross-platform mod help, new quest monitoring, immersive meditation, refined animations, UI enhancements, a looting rework, and far, far more. Launching on September 29, the sport’s Remastered model will quickly turn out to be its default providing, although there’s also been a slight increase in price (presumably to replicate the truth that its expansions are actually included).
For more on Songs of the Past, IGN has also taken a peek at one of its quests — and you may learn extra proper now on what Geralt has in retailer subsequent 12 months.
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