With The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt patch 1.04 due to be available for download this week on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, players will be glad to learn that numerous issues will be fixed to improve stability and performance.
One of the major changes will be to the size of the text. Having to squint to read what’s on screen should be eliminated thanks to a more prominent and legible font. Other tweaks include improvements to camera smoothness, quest fixes and performance improvements during cutscenes.
Here’s the changelog, though this isn’t the complete list.
– Geralt will not longer interact with candles near chests and other interactive elements.
– General stability and performance improvements
– Significantly Enlarged GUI and HUD elements (including fonts) on consoles and slightly on PC.
– Improved camera smoothness
– Performance improvements during some cutscenes.
– Fixed case where game was crashing on loading a save in certain situations
– Various bug fixes and user experience improvements in GUI panels.
– Fixed issue where some players were unable to run after Wandering in the Dark quest
– Fixed issue where players were unable to talk to Eight after the Lord of Undvik quest
– Too many wild hunt minions were spawned during Ciri’s Story: Fleeing the Bog quest.
– Fixed issue where Keira could sometimes fall under terrain during Wandering in the Dark quest
– Fixed issue where Player was unable to move freely during Blindingly Obvious quest
– Fixed issue where Player was unable to activate portal during Wandering in the Dark quest
– Fixed issue where Player could get trapped in Turseach castle ruins
– Fixed issue where Roche was not present at Hanged Man’s tree during Eye for an Eye quest
– Fixed issue where Player was unable to talk or interact with certain NPCs
– Fixed issue where Sirens in quest Lord of Undvik could be invulnerable.
– Fixed issue where player was unable to use certain actions after Carnal Sins quest
– Fixed issue where Geralt was sometimes unable to mount Roach
– Fixed issue where some players where experiencing infinite loading screen during King’s Gambit quest.
– Fixed issue where Simun was not properly spawned in An Unpaid Debt quest
– Fixed issue where player might have had a progression break after choosing certain dialogue option when talking to Dijkstra in Count Reuven’s Treasure quest
An exact launch date for the patch hasn’t been confirmed, but it’s expected to be available before Wednesday.
Check out The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review on PS4.