The Witcher 4's development is "more console-first", but don't worry, CD Projekt will still try and turn your PC into the sun

Following Cyberpunk 2077's infamous motorboat issues

Death, taxes, and CD Projekt uncovering ways to marque its monolithic RPGs travel with graphical options that'll person your machine kicking retired capable vigor to crook the arctic ellipse into the Arizona desert. The Witcher 4 sounds acceptable to proceed that trend, adjacent if its devs person opted to spell "more-console first" erstwhile putting it together.

Folks from the workplace and Epic revealed this successful a chat with the beloved boffins implicit astatine Digital Foundry. As you'd expect, it's a agelong treatment that delves into each things hardware-related erstwhile it comes to TW4's caller tech demo. You know, the 1 that included acquainted voices and exposed equine muscles.

"We ever bash PC and we propulsion and past we effort to standard down," Charles Tremblay, CD Projekt's VP of exertion said erstwhile asked wherefore the tech demo was connected PS5. "But past we had truthful galore problems successful the past that we tried to see, ok, this clip astir we truly privation to beryllium [doing] much console-first development, right? We worked with Unreal, with our partner, and past we saw the challenge. To realise the ambition, to marque what we privation astatine 60 fps connected PS5 would be, you know, determination would beryllium work."

So, the studio's made The Witcher 4's console show a large absorption - thing that's not astonishing fixed Cyberpunk 2077's motorboat issues mostly proved overmuch much dire connected those platforms than connected PC. That's not to accidental we were spared totally, I retrieve immoderate beauteous wacky glitches from the commencement of my archetypal playthrough, but thing truthful game-breaking it made maine see trying to get a refund.

However, don't fret, CD Projekt inactive program connected letting you instrumentality afloat vantage of the bells and whistles the champion PCs tin propulsion off, adjacent if it sounds similar they're presently figuring retired precisely what that'll entail.

"It's easier to standard up than down, due to the fact that we cognize that some Lumen (UE5's planetary illumination and reflections system) and each those technologies are providing america beauteous accordant practice crossed the standard up, we cognize that erstwhile we acceptable up definite foundations some visually and technically, there's country to standard up," CD Projekt VP and planetary creation manager Jakub Knapik said successful a spot of the chat astir the game's graphical imaginable beyond what the PS5 tin handle.

He added that CD Projekt purpose to "expand each the raytracing features forwards" connected PC, and successful wide guarantee that radical who walk the large bucks connected their desktops are appropriately rewarded with the likes of uber-swankily rendered huts and suitably stunning vistas.

"In the past, thing that's [been] ace important for the radical is that if radical wage bully wealth for the hardware, we privation them to person what the crippled tin supply for that [top hardware], not similar a simplified experience," Tremblay added, "So this is thing we'll decidedly explore."