At today's Gamescom Opening Night Live event, CDPR announced The Witcher 3: Remastered, bringing a series of improvements including upgrades to graphics, gameplay, and more.
The Witcher 3: Remastered will launch on September 29, and all players who have purchased it on GOG, Steam, Epic, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S can upgrade to the remastered version for free.
The Witcher 3: Remastered is also available for pre-order on Blizzard Battle.net and Switch 2.
But that's not all! All current owners of the base game will receive both expansion packs — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — for free! These two expansions will also be included directly in the base game of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered.
Subsequently, foreign player @Synth Potato compiled a list of every item added and changed for free in The Witcher 3: Remastered:
- Upgraded visual effects
- Enhanced combat system
- New adaptive camera in combat
- Optimized movement and exploration experience
- New Witcher Sign effects
- Redesigned horse controls
- Enhanced monster behavior
- Reworked skill tree
- New equipment transmogrification system
- Expanded Photo Mode
- New finisher moves
- Cross-platform mod support
- Immersive meditation system
- Optimized animation effects
- New quest tracking feature
- Optimized UI
- Reworked loot system
- Updated motion blur
- New accessibility features
- Upgraded textures
- Reworked vegetation shadows
- Modernized tutorial
- HDR improvements
- GTAO
- Improved menu navigation
- Ray tracing improvements
- Reworked global illumination system
- New shading models
- New subsurface scattering effects
- New tone mapper
- PS5 Pro enhanced support
- Xbox Play Anywhere support
- Nintendo Switch 2 version and exclusive features
- Nvidia DLSS 4.5
- FSR 4
- XESS 2.0
- PC path tracing
- PC ray reconstruction
- Ray-traced hair
- Native DX12
- Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine are now free for all owners of the base version of The Witcher 3