From December 14, immoderate subordinate that owns The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt volition beryllium treated with a free, next-generation update. This update gives players entree to improved graphics arsenic good caller quests, cosmetics, and more, each for escaped if you already ain the game. Those who bash not ain the crippled volition beryllium capable to bargain The Witcher 3: Complete Edition, which includes the next-gen update arsenic good arsenic some of the game's communicative expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. In summation to each of that content, developer CD Projekt RED has besides implemented a caller online diagnostic successful The Witcher 3. This diagnostic gives players entree to cross-progression and cross-saves. Essentially, this means that players volition beryllium capable to entree their Witcher 3 saves connected antithetic platforms from the 1 they initially played on. Below, you tin spot precisely however to instrumentality vantage of the caller cross-save strategy successful The Witcher 3.

Cross-saves successful The Witcher 3

CD Projekt RED has fundamentally ported implicit the cross-save strategy from Cyberpunk 2077 to The Witcher 3. Players tin store their auto-saves, astir caller manual save, and quicksaves successful the cloud, which tin past beryllium accessed connected antithetic platforms. The caveat is that players tin lone person 1 cross-save progressive connected immoderate platform, truthful you couldn't transport antithetic saves with plans to save-scrub crossed platforms. Of course, this caller diagnostic besides lone applies to the current-gen consoles, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and PC, arsenic those are the platforms that are receiving the next-gen update.

In bid to usage the cross-save functionality successful The Witcher 3, you volition request to simply alteration the "cross-progression" enactment wrong the settings of the game. To bash this, intermission The Witcher 3 and past unfastened the "save" oregon "load" menu. From here, you volition beryllium capable to alteration cross-progression, which volition past necessitate you to log into your GoG account, which is CDPR's integer video crippled marketplace.

If you don't person a GoG account, you tin marque 1 utilizing a valid email. Once you've either signed successful oregon made a GoG account, you tin instrumentality to The Witcher 3. Now, each of your saves volition beryllium uploaded to the cloud. To entree your saves connected a antithetic platform, repetition the aforesaid steps arsenic earlier to alteration cross-progression.

After that's done, you tin past spot each of your unreality saves done the "Load Game" menu, which tin beryllium accessed in-game oregon astatine the opening surface for The Witcher 3. Simply prime which prevention you privation to load, and you volition past beryllium taken to immoderate constituent that prevention was on. The lone quality present is you volition beryllium connected a antithetic platform.

Cross-progression betwixt platforms

The next-gen update for The Witcher 3 volition present ray-tracing for consoles and graphical improvements connected PC, among different updates

While you volition beryllium capable to entree antithetic saves crossed astir platforms, determination are immoderate caveats you volition request to beryllium alert of erstwhile playing The Witcher 3's next-gen update.

To interruption it down, you tin entree your cross-progression saves careless of what level you're on. Xbox Series X|S prevention files tin beryllium transferred to PlayStation 5 oregon Nintendo Switch, and vice versa, for example. Similarly, PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series X|S prevention files tin beryllium transferred to PC and PC prevention files tin beryllium transferred betwixt antithetic PCs and PC accounts (Steam to GoG).

For example, if you started a prevention record connected Steam oregon GoG and privation to entree that connected PS5, you volition not beryllium capable to. Although, you tin transportation a prevention record that originated connected PS5 to Steam oregon GoG connected PC. It's unclear wherefore PC prevention files request to stay connected PC, but that's presently the mode the cross-progression diagnostic is acceptable up successful The Witcher 3.

The next-gen update for The Witcher 3 goes unrecorded connected Wednesday, Dec. 14 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

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