CD Projekt Red has released a new update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that contains a bevy of tweaks and improvements.
Presumably in preparation for the game’s upcoming “Hearts of Stone” expansion, the update makes of 300 changes according to its patch notes.
Here’s a sampling of what’s been affected:
- Decreases chance of unwarranted screen blur occurring during play.
- Fixes rare infinite loading screen appearing upon loading of save made during Broken Flowers quest.
- Fixes performance issues near the Cave of Dreams in Skellige.
- Improves game performance during quest titled Practicum in Advanced Alchemy.
- Improves general game performance in location Whoreson’s Arena in Novigrad during quest titled Get Junior.
- Improves game performance throughout Swamps location in Velen.
- Improves game performance when bombs are used, especially with Cluster Bomb skill active.
- Improves game performance in areas with toxic clouds and when said clouds are ignited.
- Improves game performance in Novigrad Bathouse, especially during quest titled Blindingly Obvious.
- Improves overall game performance in Bald Mountain location.
- Improves game performance during quest titled The Battle of Kaer Morhen.
- Improves game performance in Kaer Trolde during quest titled King’s Gambit.
- Improves game [performance] during quest titled Family Matters.
- Improves game performance during burial and feast scenes in the quest titled The King is Dead – Long Live the King.
- Improves game performance in Keira’s hut during quest titled Wandering in the Dark.
- Improves game performance during ritual forming part of the quest titled Family Matters.
- Improves game performance during quest titled Pyres of Novigrad.
- Improves game performance during quest titled A Towerful of Mice.
- Improves game performance during quest titled A Favor for a Friend.
- Improves game performance during quest titled For the Advancement of Learning.
- Improves game performance and stability on Fyke Island.
- Improves game performance in scene featuring gwent croupier during quest titled A Matter of Life and Death.
- Improves game performance on close-ups in conversation between Geralt and Whoreson Junior during quest titled Get Junior.
- Improves game performance during combat in Ermion’s laboratory during quest titled The King is Dead – Long Live the King.
- Improves game performance at site of cataclysm on Skellige during quest titled Echoes of the Past.
- Improves game performance during necromancy ritual in quest titled Nameless.
- Improves game performance during quest titled The Calm Before the Storm.
- Improves game performance in Crookback Bog location.
- Improves game [performance] on lifting of curses in quests titled Soldier Statuette and Nobleman Statuette.
- Improves game performance in mountains surrounding Kaer Morhen.
- Improves game performance during fight against Fugas in quest titled Bald Mountain.
- Improves game performance for concert scene at Kingfisher Inn during quest titled Broken Flowers.
- Improves game performance on Temple Isle in Novigrad at night and in rain.
- Improves game performance in Dark Valley in quest titled Through Time and Space.
- Improves game performance when using torch near bodies of water.
- Improves game performance during conversation with Yennefer at Kaer Morhen.
- Improves game performance during conversation with Eskel (katakan dissection sequence).
- Improves game performance during quest titled Va Fail, Elaine.
- Improves game performance upon ignition of explosive toxic clouds.
- Improves game performance when using Northern Wind bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
- Improves game performance when using Devils Puffball bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
- Improves game performance when using Dragon’s Dream bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
- Improves game performance following scene with Josta on Skellige.
- Improves game performance in sauna pool during quest titled The Calm Before the Storm.
- Improves game performance in selected Velen locations.
- Improves game performance during quest titled Ciri’s Story: The King of the Wolves.
“Hearts of Stone” drops next week on Windows PC, Xbox One and PS4.
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