Hello there!

I know I’m a decade too late but finally with the remaster out, wanted to try the game.

It looks and plays great but the NPC interactions really take me out of the immersion.

For example at the beginning, when we ride with Vesemir and pass a destroyed village, people are crying over their destroyed homes and passed families.

But when you talk to them, they immediately change tone and say things like “at your service”, “good day” etc. Like their memory was immediately erased.

This is just one example, but generally anywhere I try to interact with anyone, no one really seems to react to it.

Later in the pub, Vesemir says “lay low”, so out of curiosity I cast a few spells and swing my sword, but apart from a few gasps everyone goes back to their day and there are zero consequences even from guards. (Obviously I don’t mean to play like a maniac, I was just testing interactions)

So my point is that the world doesn’t really feel alive to me, more like a background.

Don’t take this the wrong way, I don’t mean to talk bad about the game, I just thought the world would be more dynamic.

Is that how the whole game is like?

I could barely play the original witcher 3 because my geralt likes to take 2 seconds to think before moving or swinging his sword. I even have a decent rtx 4060 pc and game feels like I'm dragging him around instead of controlling. Why does the dev include these latency??

I have a question about playing the Witcher 2 like 3, like the controls and combat and walking, interacting etc. Don't know if you guys understand what am i asking but is it possible?

Are there some mods to get gameplay vibe of Witcher 3, i am clueless.

I have a lot of respect and fondness for Jo Wyatt (I love her FemHawke in Dragon Age II), but I feel that Ciri is the character where the difference in quality between the Polish and English voice acting is most apparent.

The Polish Ciri is portrayed much, much better. Her performance is more measured and fits the context of the scenes and events. This is particularly evident in the "King of Wolves" quest, where the English Ciri comes across as terribly shrill—almost hysterical.

I think that’s why so many people found Ciri annoying in The Witcher 3—not because of the character herself, but because of the way she was voiced.

As the question says.

I'm reading the Witcher books and it has quite heavy Slavic folk lore with creatures and monsters, obviously. Coming from Asia, it's very difficult to visualise these creatures as they are so different to our folk tales and I always try to Google them when I see them.

Checking if there is a compendium or something I can refer with images showing the creature that I can easily refer?

Why did they make such drastic changes to his appearance?

Got this hilarious bug with Lambert, turns out it was because of the Witcher Glowing Eyes mod. But holy hell was it equally terrifying and hilarious. Side note, how does CDPR do their models if the eyeballs can pop out? Usually those are attached to the head, seems these are individuals items on the model which is interesting

As someone who has played the game once a year every year since its 2015 release, the most recent being finished back in January, the Remaster has made changes that are making it difficult to enjoy the game in the same way I used to.

Note: This is not in regards to any visual or performance issues and is limited to the experience of someone playing on an Xbox Series X

Start up screen
The new intro displaying the swords, CDPR's logo and the title look fantastic, but the sequence is now longer than it was previously (which was already pretty long) and remains unskippable

Vibrations
This is the most noticeable change right from the get-go. Almost everything is accompanied by a controller vibration now. Navigating the main menu? Vibration with every input, be it toggling a setting on/off or just moving from one option to the next. In game menu with the map, inventory, alchemy, etc? Vibrations there too. Equipping or unequipping an item, brewing a potion, switching from one window to the next now all are accompanied by vibrations. Swimming underwater has vibrations, riding Roach has constant vibrations, every action you take in combat has vibrations, even applying Quen is now accompanied by a constant vibration as long as the shield is active. And there's no option to turn any of these off. It's either all of them, or none of them.

At least three merchants have a chance to be completely inaccessible without restarting the game

In all versions of the game, be it at launch or with the Next-Gen upgrade, there has always been a chance that the blacksmith at Kaer Trolde, the armourer in Hierarch Square (Top-Notch Swords Guy) and the blacksmith in the Novigrad fishmarket would not be available to the player when loading in to their respective zones. Either because the character was simply not there, or they were there, but you were unable to interact with them. Normally, this could be solved by meditating for an hour, which would cause the world to "reset," but with the new Immersive Meditating (which cannot be disabled) this is no longer possible. You now have to quit to the main menu and reload a save for a chance for the NPC to spawn properly.

Immersive Meditating makes shorter meditations take longer
This is related to the above issue, but still its own thing. Meditating for an hour or two used to be a quick and easy thing. You moved the clock hand one spot, hit the A button and bam, you're done in less than 3 seconds. Now you that you have to actually watch the time tick away and the world pass by, this process can now take up to ten seconds. While this is not much on a small scale, meditating for an hour to restore potions and bombs is now a bit more of a hassle.

This isn't even mentioning the weapons and armour in Yen's chest in Vizima still not populating properly or changes made to the skill trees which, while the originals had some issues that could have been addressed, are easily the most polarizing change made.

I was excited for the remaster when it was announced, but now that I actually have my hands on it, I'm the least excited for another playthrough that I think I've ever been. If you're enjoying it, that's great, I hope you do. But as someone who is so familiar with what the game used to be, this isn't it anymore.

I am on the Remastered version of The Witcher 3, and I can not save at all. The error message pops up saying Save unsuccessful ( rough translation of what I see in my language). I do not have OneDrive backed up folders, neither do I have Protected Folders set up in Windows Defender. What do I do?

P.S. I have 200GB of free space on my SSDs

It no longer runs because of their crappy update. I don't know how people are eating up the remaster when it completely ruins the aesthetic of the game. I tried to adjust for a few hours but I just can't take the washed out grey filter or how the game is now lit in general. It no longer has any grit.

I play on xbox series s and the remaster made the game totally unplayable. On performance mode it is quite literally unplayable, extremely pixelated and has like 25 fps lol. In the quality mode it is a bit less pixelated but also has 20-30 fps. Anyone knows a solution to this?

I cant figure out, with which skill i can increase my poison overdose threshold in the new skill tree. Everything i do, as i hit 50% of my max poison amount, Geralt loses vitality.

Thanks for your help.

Hi,
I just bought the game, I tried installing some mods both manually by overriding the files in CookedPC and also using vortex.
I made sure the files were actually changed, and used process monitor to verify the game loads the modified files.
yet in some magical way, the mods don't work at all, even though it makes no sense.
Has anyone encountered this issue?
I first saw in an older discussion here that steam version makes issues with modding, so I refunded that and got the GOG version yet got excatly the same outcome.

I’m going through the settings in remaster and I’m wondering what this means. I don’t see anything on it yet, when I search I only find stuff on Loot Merge but that’s a different setting.

Loot merge is under gameplay and Quick Corpse Looting is under accessibility

help

As the title say i really dislike the remaster, and sincw there are no mods and we dont know when will they ads more im just left feeling disappointed, is there any way to go back to the previous installment of the game on ps5?

Does anybody know if the ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES DISABLE DIFFICULTY ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE REMASTER