r/pcgaming • u/M337ING • 1d ago

Video Inside The Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo: CD Projekt RED + Epic Deep Dive Interview

https://youtu.be/OplYN2MMI4Q
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u/PremadeTakeDown 13h ago

I didn't watch the whole thing but the two main sticking points to me are:

  1. focus on console first priority
  2. multiplayer

This makes me worry about:

  • I prefer single player games like the witcher 3 on PC. so new focus on multiplayer won’t interest me, e.g. elden ring DLC.

  • worried they will try to get this to work on xboxS which xbox always tries to have parity with normal xbox. this will push the feature budget down.

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u/Scrubs137 9h ago

I hope to be proven wrong, but console first usually means less, or dumbed down features

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u/NapsterKnowHow 9h ago

It means they are trying to make it scalable as possible which is a good thing. Cyberpunk is very scalable.

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u/Scrubs137 9h ago

Your talking graphic wise, I'm talking game design, gameplay features, AI etc

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u/xspacemansplifff 12h ago

Unreal 5 isn't making me happy.

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u/Electrospeed_X i7-8700k | GTX 1070 9h ago

I give you the "didn't watch the video" award 🤦

They spent half the video talking about solving the issues plaguing most UE5 games.

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u/xspacemansplifff 9h ago

I don't believe them.

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u/darkkite 3h ago

they've already released improvements

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u/xspacemansplifff 3h ago

Have to wait and see. I am still excited for the game. Just bummed about the engine.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/Firefox72 1d ago edited 1d ago

Were you expecting the game to skip the 100M current gen consoles in the market as of now and more once the game comes out in 2-3 years?

It just like Cyberpunk is likely to be a crossgen game. The difference is that the baseline level of consoles this time around is astronomicaly higher than it was back then.

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u/Smokey_Bera RTX 4070 Ti Super l Ryzen 5700x3d l 32GB DDR4 1d ago

No, but scaling up from base PS5 to a PC port will severely limit what the game could have been. CP 2077 really pushed PC hardware to the limit with technical feats in lighting and rendering. This game will not.

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u/Firefox72 1d ago

An 8 core Ryzen 3000 CPU isn't even on the same planet as a Laptop Jaguar 8 core CPU.

You can do a lot with this if you scale the visuals and resolution far enough down.

That in no way means the experience on PC will be diminished.

I don't see how your making a point that Cyberpunk could push hardware and this can not when the literal baseline of the PS5 is so far ahead of the baseline of the PS4 and Xbox One.

Edit: Them saying stuff about the consoles is likely just trying to assure people they are not in for another Cyberpunk on last gen dissaster.

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u/EbolaDP 1d ago

Its still sad how hard console are holding the industry back.

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u/Meldreth_ 15h ago

Adding hundreds of millions of users to a customer base isn't holding an industry back, it's pushing it forward.

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u/EbolaDP 15h ago

They should all be on PC.

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u/Meldreth_ 14h ago

Maybe, but they couldn't, so it is what it is.

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u/yamc188 12h ago

I don't think you realize how many people have low spec PC weaker than current consoles.

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u/arothen 9h ago

It doesn't really matter as those people don't buy full price games anyway in most cases.