The scale of settlements in RPGs has always been fascinating෴ to me. Developers have always been beholden to the power of consoles, and have often had to compromise on scale to ensure everything runs smoothly. If any of these bustling cities from RPGs were to scale, the game would never be able to run at a consistent frame rate.
The result can often be humorous; a so-called city may end up havღing a couple of buildings. You have to suspend your disbelief in these moments — Skyrim's Solitude has to be one of the least-populated capital cities around.
Novigrad is described as one of the largest cities in the North, in The Witcher, and although The Witcher 3 does quite a 🤪good job at cheating scale with the city, you can still tell it's not quite the size it should be.
Dense, Bustling Settlements
Well, CD Projekt Red is looking to address this in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 4, harnessing new technology to more accurately capture the scale of the g🍎ame's settlements. In the game's recently released tech demo, we saw Valdrest, a "busꦰtling port town" in Kovir.
Despite Valdrest not being anywhere near the size of Novigrad in-unive⛎rse, the small town in The Witcher 4 has over 300 NPCs, a scale comparable to Novigrad. In an interview with , engineering production manager Jan Hermanowicz spoke about the generational gap ಌbetween The Witcher 3 and The Witcher 4.
"That generational shift, we want to ♌do it right," he said. "Our ambition is to take full advantage of it and really deliver the next-gen ex💝perience."
To find the density that CDPR is trying to capture with The Witcher 4's smallest settlements, they studied Novigrad, the largest settlement in The Witcher 𝓀3.
"We actually looked at what we did in the past, what was cool abou𒁏t that, and what we couldn't do at ไthe time," he explained.
If Valdrest is an example of a small town in The Witc🐻her 4, then I'm very excited to see what the big cities will look like. The tech demo was a proof of concept, so there's no predicting what technical challenges CDPR may run into in the future, but the early signs are very promising.
The Witcher 4's release date hasn't been announced, butꦇ it isn't expected before 2027 at the earliest.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网: The Witcher 4
- Developer(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
- Publisher(s)
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:CD Projekt Red
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher
