The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo
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What does it matter what it was running on? This looks pre rendered and anything pre rendered will look good even on a potato. Case in point Blizzard’s old pre renders in warcraft and diablo.
Don’t get me wrong, i’m excited for new witcher, just be realistic on the requirements. I’d rather not have another cyberpunk ps4 fiasco.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 17:25 last edited byIt's running in real time.
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Good to know. Another cool nordic region.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 17:36 last edited bySkellige is celtic, not nordic. Think Ireland/Scotland rather than Norway/Sweden.
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Skellige is celtic, not nordic. Think Ireland/Scotland rather than Norway/Sweden.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 17:50 last edited byBut Skellige is known for the drakkar(longships), that's nordic no?
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But Skellige is known for the drakkar(longships), that's nordic no?
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 18:35 last edited byAye, but also Celtic because of Nordic influence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Helly_Aa
If you click this link and scroll down to the gallery you can see what are essentially Viking longships but in a Celtic nation.
Celtic and Nordic cultures have a lot of similarities because of geographic proximity but they're also distinctly their own.
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Skellige is celtic, not nordic. Think Ireland/Scotland rather than Norway/Sweden.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 18:36 last edited bySkellige is a combination of Celtic/Scottish and Viking culture
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Surely digital foundry will find improvements but to me this doesn't look that different than witcher 3. Better animations and hair looks better I think? Never noticed lod transitions myself. The promise of increaaed interactivity means nothing in a trailer neither. I only hope it has better multi core performance especially with ray tracing
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 18:38 last edited byHave you gone and looked at what W3 looks like recently? It's not a bad looking game by any stretch but this still looks significantly better imo. The vegetation density definitely looks way better, as well as the lighting.
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Have you gone and looked at what W3 looks like recently? It's not a bad looking game by any stretch but this still looks significantly better imo. The vegetation density definitely looks way better, as well as the lighting.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 19:07 last edited byI've been playing it the last week
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Skellige is celtic, not nordic. Think Ireland/Scotland rather than Norway/Sweden.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 19:20 last edited byIt's a mix, even if the names are more celtic, the culture is inspired by norse culture. CDPR initially considered having the people of Skellige speak Norwegian.
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Well damn I know it's just footage of a tech demo so there is a lot that can happen still and Ciri was definitely not controlled live (as they tried to make us believe if you watched the full event. Like seriously, who's going to believe you when you slice up a horse and voxelize trees? Holding the controller on stage was just corny, sorry guys) BUT it looks amazing! I especially loved how they showcased some of the technical details. I really didn't think it would impress me this much because they showed way more about a game that's probably years away from release than I ever anticipated. And again, a lot can still happen and go wrong but I would lie if I said I wasn't hyped already. Mission accomplished I guess.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 19:21 last edited byparts of the demo could be player controlled
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Have you gone and looked at what W3 looks like recently? It's not a bad looking game by any stretch but this still looks significantly better imo. The vegetation density definitely looks way better, as well as the lighting.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 21:00 last edited byI've been replaying W3 and I agree. This looks quite a bit better in terms of foliage density and character detail. W3 still looks great though.
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While this is definitely real-time and in-engine, it's so heavily scripted and such a small vertical slice of the game that it can't be used as a representation of the final game at all. CDPR have learned nothing from Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 launches, it seems.
ETA: CDPR have clarified that this isn't The Witcher 4 but the way they speak about the features demonstrated makes me think that wasn't their original intention when showing this on stage and that they're already trying to walk some of it back.
wrote on 3 Jun 2025, 21:50 last edited byCalling it a „tech Demo“ already made their initial intention pretty clear: this is not the game, this is some tech we‘ll be using.
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Calling it a „tech Demo“ already made their initial intention pretty clear: this is not the game, this is some tech we‘ll be using.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 02:05 last edited byBut here's the thing. People will interpret it that way, lose their shit and empty their wallets the moment they can based on media like this.
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But here's the thing. People will interpret it that way, lose their shit and empty their wallets the moment they can based on media like this.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 08:20 last edited by duchess@feddit.org 6 Apr 2025, 04:21So they should omit the tech demo because people can’t read? Nah. And what was wrong with the Witcher 3‘s launch? Is this about the color grading again?
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wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 09:03 last edited by
I believe it. I've had access to a ps5 devkit and UE5 in the past.
What I don't believe is that they can actually run a full-fledged game on the same hardware at the same level of fidelity
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Well damn I know it's just footage of a tech demo so there is a lot that can happen still and Ciri was definitely not controlled live (as they tried to make us believe if you watched the full event. Like seriously, who's going to believe you when you slice up a horse and voxelize trees? Holding the controller on stage was just corny, sorry guys) BUT it looks amazing! I especially loved how they showcased some of the technical details. I really didn't think it would impress me this much because they showed way more about a game that's probably years away from release than I ever anticipated. And again, a lot can still happen and go wrong but I would lie if I said I wasn't hyped already. Mission accomplished I guess.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 09:08 last edited byThat's not unbelievable. If the trees voxelization thing is just a visualisation mode in the engine, it's stupidly easy to "ship" it into a dev build and activate it with a shortcut. Hell the nanite visualisation thing they showed on foliage before that one is exactly that, and iirc enabled by default in dev, you just need to toggle a cvar to see it.
Source : have worked on UE5 games
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So they should omit the tech demo because people can’t read? Nah. And what was wrong with the Witcher 3‘s launch? Is this about the color grading again?
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 09:22 last edited byI'm not blaming CDPR on that fact but the user.
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I believe it. I've had access to a ps5 devkit and UE5 in the past.
What I don't believe is that they can actually run a full-fledged game on the same hardware at the same level of fidelity
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 10:20 last edited byInteresting thing is, they never claimed they can
I am not even sure how far along they are with the game, so maybe they aren't in a position to talk about performance and visual fidelity, but this is going to make people think this is how Witcher 4 will look and run.
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What does it matter what it was running on? This looks pre rendered and anything pre rendered will look good even on a potato. Case in point Blizzard’s old pre renders in warcraft and diablo.
Don’t get me wrong, i’m excited for new witcher, just be realistic on the requirements. I’d rather not have another cyberpunk ps4 fiasco.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 11:20 last edited byWell it is so you know you're going to get something similar if you own a ps5
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Interesting thing is, they never claimed they can
I am not even sure how far along they are with the game, so maybe they aren't in a position to talk about performance and visual fidelity, but this is going to make people think this is how Witcher 4 will look and run.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 12:02 last edited byNo one has been doing that kind of claims directly since... TW3 actually ? Or maybe Watch Dogs. Epic Games and CDPR know that every content creator under the sun will run with that and make these claims for them to start the hype machine.
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No one has been doing that kind of claims directly since... TW3 actually ? Or maybe Watch Dogs. Epic Games and CDPR know that every content creator under the sun will run with that and make these claims for them to start the hype machine.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 13:28 last edited byYeah... I was going to say this can blow up on their face if the game isn't that good, but even when it happened with Cyberpunk 2077, they still made tons of money, and everyone seems to have forgotten that it ever happened, so maybe it won't really matter to them.