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Digital Foundry analysis of the Switch trailer:

 

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-the-witcher-3-switch-trailer-analysis

 

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On Twitter, the studio says that the game operates at a dynamic 720p while docked and 540p while handheld. Analysis of the small amount of footage released to date shows a native 1280x720 at the top-end, dropping to 896x504 at the minimum. Remarkably though, from the small amount of footage seen so far, native 720p is a surprisingly common result from pixel counting tests.

 

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I get that it's useful information, and interesting to a degree, but I do think things have gone a little OTT when folks are pixel counting individual frames from a trailer and deciding if a game will be worth their time or not that way. This culture of 'it's not 4k in every single frame, unplayable soup lol' is a bit toxic IMO. It's like 16bit vs 32bit vs 64-bit for millennials I guess :lol:

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1 hour ago, GamesGamesGames said:

It's daft for sure. Toxic is pushing it though.

 

Perhaps not so much on here, thankfully, but if you glance at places like ERA or Twitter you have folks screaming anything under 1080p is "totally unplayable", "disgusting in 2019", "will make me ill", "is totally compromised", "blurry soup" etc etc.

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7 minutes ago, rgraves said:

 

Perhaps not so much on here, thankfully, but if you glance at places like ERA or Twitter you have folks screaming anything under 1080p is "totally unplayable", "disgusting in 2019", "will make me ill", "is totally compromised", "blurry soup" etc etc.

 

Bonkers isn't it? I've not got a Switch, but my brother occasionally brings the handheld portion with him when he comes to visit, and I've never been anything less than wholly impressed with the visual quality of the thing. 

 

I'm guessing this comes from years spent squinting at an old CRT whilst kicking gonads and throwing fools in Renegade on my trusty Spectrum.

 

 

 

 

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Ok, so I’ve finished the white orchard bit of the main quest and played the first section as Ciri, but I’m in a bit of a weird place. I can’t find anymore quests in white orchard, but I’m still not quite level 5 and all of the quests I have available, and a lot of the gear I’m finding, are much higher level than that. Have I missed a bit? I left the place where I spoke to the emperor pretty quickly. I want to continue the main plot but the combat sections in the quests I’m doing are getting pretty tough, I assume because I’m underlevelled. I know I could knock it down to the easiest setting but I was just wondering if I’d missed something.

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I was wondering why the video I saw in one of the comparison videos for Witcher on switch had no hanging bodies on the tree - it's obviously because the video isn't rated so anything not suitable for kids is edited out.  I saw the original video from CDPROJEKT and there's definitely bodies swinging from the tree. 

 

 

I think this is going to be pretty massive.

 

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I don’t know how much time I’d spend with it on Switch & definitely have no desire to play this version docked (I’ve finished the main game and Hearts of Stone on PS4, and have been diving in and out of the complete edition on XB1X over the last year and a bit) but unless it’s a complete shit-show of a port, which it doesn’t look like it will be, I’ll probably buy it further down the line just for the fact that The Witcher 3 handheld has been brought into existence.

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1 hour ago, rgraves said:

 

Perhaps not so much on here, thankfully, but if you glance at places like ERA or Twitter you have folks screaming anything under 1080p is "totally unplayable", "disgusting in 2019", "will make me ill", "is totally compromised", "blurry soup" etc etc.

 

Anyone would think you don't have other options for playing it at 1080p etc.

 

The thing that always gets me with people like this is that why should you expect every machine to output exactly the same. It's like buying 2 machines, a printer and an engraver and expecting the exact same result from the both. Despite them being designed for different purposes, different clients, a different audience and with completely different parts, components and specs.

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1 hour ago, Broker said:

Ok, so I’ve finished the white orchard bit of the main quest and played the first section as Ciri, but I’m in a bit of a weird place. I can’t find anymore quests in white orchard, but I’m still not quite level 5 and all of the quests I have available, and a lot of the gear I’m finding, are much higher level than that. Have I missed a bit? I left the place where I spoke to the emperor pretty quickly. I want to continue the main plot but the combat sections in the quests I’m doing are getting pretty tough, I assume because I’m underlevelled. I know I could knock it down to the easiest setting but I was just wondering if I’d missed something.

 

What is your main quest at the moment?

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5 hours ago, rgraves said:

I get that it's useful information, and interesting to a degree, but I do think things have gone a little OTT when folks are pixel counting individual frames from a trailer and deciding if a game will be worth their time or not that way. This culture of 'it's not 4k in every single frame, unplayable soup lol' is a bit toxic IMO. It's like 16bit vs 32bit vs 64-bit for millennials I guess :lol:

You do realise that Digital Foundry do analysis not reviews?

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40 minutes ago, Hitcher said:

You do realise that Digital Foundry do analysis not reviews?

 

Yes. My comment was on the way that some people take that data and interpret it almost as if it were a review - the way that some people take their analysis and basically use it as a stick to beat a game with - a 2 second frame drop is suddenly game-breaking, a dynamic resolution drop that's almost unnoticeable is suddenly ruinous. It's pointing out some things I doubt many people would ever notice on their own, but get all hung-up about once they do.

 

As I said, it's useful and interesting information - I just think it gets blown way out of proportion by some people.

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Crisis averted guys, there’s a level 5 main quest :lol:

 

I was doing side stuff and for some reason when I finished them all it’s defaulted to a level 17 main quest. 

 

Went to Novigrad. It’s beautiful and I love it.

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6 minutes ago, Broker said:

Crisis averted guys, there’s a level 5 main quest :lol:

 

I was doing side stuff and for some reason when I finished them all it’s defaulted to a level 17 main quest. 

 

Went to Novigrad. It’s beautiful and I love it.

 

You'll be grand now, there are a million quests to do on that whole map all over Velen. I've got a ton of quests open that are way higher level than me as well so I'll be back later on, as the main quest is about to take me to Skellige I think. Not put it on for a week or too but I'll be back on it soon enough.

 

Get ready for running into high level mobs/bandit camps etc and beating a hasty retreat, all part of the fun.

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41 minutes ago, GamesGamesGames said:

I'm a little bothered about the UI and menus for this on handheld. Hopefully it's not a Darkest Dungeon job.

 

It’s hard to say for sure and it doesn’t shed any light on the menus, but this picture makes the HUD scaling look promising to me, so I can’t imagine they’d drop the ball horribly elsewhere.

 

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