All 30+ upgrades coming to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered

It’s been over 11 years since The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt first launched, but CD Projekt Red is not done with it yet. While we wait for the Songs of the Past DLC – coming next year – the studio announced a remaster that will be available for free to those who already own the game. During the quick promo, a lot of changes were mentioned, so here’s a list of everything improved for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered.

During the presentation, CDPR gave an overview of what’s been enhanced. That included upgraded visuals, movement improvements, visual effects for signs, mount handling, monster behaviour, a revamped skill tree, expanded photo mode, and new finishers. On top of these, there are quite a few more improvements:

• Cross-platform mod support
• Immersive meditation
• Refined animations
• New quest tracking
• UI improvements
• Looting rework
• Refreshed motion blur
• New accessibility features
• Updated textures
• Foliage shading rework
• Tutorial modernization
• HDR improvements
• GTAO (Ground Truth Ambient Occlusion)
• Improved menu navigation
• Ray tracing improvements
• Global lighting rework
• New shading model
• Subsurface scattering
• New tone mapper
• PS5 Pro support
• Xbox Play Anywhere support
• Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive features
• Nvidia DLSS 4.5 support
• AMD FSR 4 support
• Intel XESS 2.0 support
• Path tracing on PC
• Ray reconstruction on PC
• Raytraced hair
• Native DX12
• Rendering parallelization

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered will launch September 29 and, as mentioned earlier, will be free for those who already own the game. Furthermore, owners will also get the two original expansions – Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine – for free. And those who purchase the remaster will get access to both expansions as well.