The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

• Fixes a possible exploit by preventing certain drowners from respawning infinitely.
• Improves the distribution of experience points gained by completing quests with recommended levels lower than the player character level.
• Merchants now offer more weapon types.
• Rebalances the prices of maps that can be purchased from merchants.
• Clarifies a number of crafting diagrams.
• Fixes an exploit whereby players could buy sea shells and sell the pearls inside them at a higher price.
• Increases the variety of loot dropped throughout the game.
• Increases the variety of items available in shops.
• Shops now only offer weapons with levels matching or exceeding the player character level.
• Slightly reduces the amount of coin dropped from chests and monsters.
• Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.
• Fixes an issue where runestones could not be upgraded to greater runestones.
• Reduces the spawn time of selected groups of NPCs.
• Geralt no longer interacts with candles placed near chests and other openable objects.
• Improves the smoothness of camera movement.
• Fixes a number of issues related to horseback riding.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not deflect arrows/bolts at longer distances.
• Introduces a number of fixes in in-game communities.
• Introduces a number of fixes related to combat.
• Vitality begins to drop if Toxicity exceeds 80%, as originally intended.
• Fixes an issue where Geralt was sometimes unable to mount Roach.
• Improves Geralt's movement, especially when he swims.
• Fixes an issue whereby Geralt could be attached to a sinking boat while aiming his crossbow.
• Fixes a number of issues related to Vitality regeneration.
• Fixes an issue whereby certain actions could be randomly blocked during gameplay.
• Fixes a rare issue whereby Geralt could not mount Roach after fast travelling between points.
• Fixes a number of minor tooltip and wording bugs.
• Adds a series of color-blind friendly features. Improves visibility of tracks, marks, footprints and scent clues. Color-blind friendly features can be enabled in the OptionsGamplay submenu.
• Introduces a number of additional fixes to alt + tabbing.
• Fixes an issue where The Witcher 3 process did not close properly if the user did not have XAUDIO installed.
• Introduces a number of general stability and performance improvements.
• Fixes an issue where in certain situations the game could crash while a save was being loaded.
• Adds some missing translations in localized versions.
• Ciri can no longer unlock fast travel points.
• Improves the behavior of sails when viewed from longer distances.
• Improves performance in selected scenes and cutscenes.
• Fixes an issue where clouds and fog could flicker on some hardware configurations.
• Fixes an issue where Geralt could pass through walls in the fish market in Novigrad.
• Removes repeated sound cues on entry into GUI panels a second time.
• Adds a collision near Kaer Gelen that could cause the player to be blocked inside the building.
• Improves the scale of selected elements of the GUI and HUD.
• Introduces a number of bug fixes and user experience improvements in the GUI panels.
• Introduces a number of small changes in the UI for gwent.
• Improves the alignment of the HUD for the 21:9, 4:3 and 5:4 screen ratios.
• Disables "Input device changed" messages and adds options to disable on-screen combat feedback and floating tags above NPCs.
• Adds an information prompt and Journal entries related to new DLC packages.
• Fixes an issue where some formulae were not displayed in the Alchemy panel when the player possessed level 1 of said formulae.
• Introduces a number of fixes in key bindings.
• Introduces new filters for the Alchemy and Crafting panels.
• Fixes a number of minor issues where music tracks were not triggered in their designated locations.
• Fixes an issue where some players could not interact with an object during the Pyres of Novigrad quest.
• Fixes an issue where some players could not make Geralt run after the Wandering in the Dark quest.
• Fixes an issue where players could not talk to Octo after the Lord of Undvik quest.
• Reduces the number of Wild Hunt minions spawned during the Ciri's Story: Fleeing the Bog quest.
• Fixes an issue where Keira could sometimes fall beneath the terrain during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
• Fixes an issue where certain actions were blocked during the Blindingly Obvious quest.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not activate a portal during the Wandering in the Dark quest.
• Fixes an issue where the player could get trapped in the ruins of Tuirseach Castle.
• Geralt can now always play gwent with Madame Serenity.
• Fixes an issue where Vernon Roche would not appear at the Hanged Man's Tree during the Eye for an Eye quest.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not talk or otherwise interact with certain NPCs.
• Fixes an issue where the sirens in the Lord of Undvik quest could be invincible.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions after the Carnal Sins quest.
• Fixes an issue where some players experienced an infinite loading screen during the King's Gambit quest.
• Fixes an issue where the player could experience a progression break after choosing a certain dialogue option when talking to Dijkstra in the Count Reuven's Treasure quest.
• Fixes an issue where Simun did not spawn properly during the Unpaid Debt quest.
• Fixes an issue in the Contract: The Oxenfurt Drunk quest where the katakan was not hostile after being lured.
• Fixes an issue in the Contract: Shrieker quest where the shrieker was not hostile in certain situations.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not perform certain actions in the Master of the Arena quest.
• Fixes an issue where wolves were not visible in the Contract: Mysterious Tracks quest.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not fast travel under certain rare circumstances.
• Fixes an issue where the player could not interact with Hattori during the Swords and Dumplings quest.
• The player can no longer take on the Apiarian Phantom contract multiple times.
• Fixes an issue where some players could not progress during the Broken Flowers quest.
• Fixes an issue whereby the "Novigrad, Closed City" entry might have remained in the Journal indefinitely.
• Fixes an issue in the Return to Crookback Bog quest where monsters were spawned inside a building.
• Players can no longer prematurely obtain a key from a halfling, thus blocking the Contract: The Apiarian Phantom quest.
• Fixes an issue in the Greedy God quest where the player could kill a monster twice.
• Adds fail-safes for players being unable to obtain gwent cards after Dijkstra or Lambert can no longer be found in the game.
• Fixes an issue whereby Triss could get stuck on a set of stairs after a scene during the Now or Never quest.
• Fixes an issue where Ermion could not leave Lugos' area during the Sunstone quest.

• Rebinding of all keys is now available after switching on the ‘Unlock Bindings’ option in the OptionsKey • Bindings submenu.
• Corrects an issue in the dialogue system that might have caused dialogue looping in certain scenes.
• Fixes an issue with incorrect behavior of Wild Hunt warriors after they were affected by the Axii Sign.
• Corrects a bug that caused spontaneous combustion of gas clouds.
• 1280 x 720 resolution is now properly displayed as a valid resolution option.
• Fixes boat stuttering in cutscenes.
• Texture rendering quality for the high and ultra presets has been improved.
• Further improvements made in NVIDIA Hairworks performance.
• A few additional gwent cards are now available in the Prologue area.
• Fixes an issue where users with usernames incorporating non-Latin characters were unable to import saves from The Witcher 2.
• Includes a series of overall stability and performance improvements.
• Fixes issues related to alt + tabbing and minimizing the game window.
• Updates the game icon.
• Enlarges the loot pop-up window in the UI.
• Fixes an issue where, in certain circumstances, the comparison window could extend beyond the game borders in the UI.
• Upgrading items included in gear sets no longer destroys rune sockets on said items.
• Introduces small tweaks in the UI for gwent.
• Corrects some missing translations in localized versions.

• Improves stability in gameplay and the UI
• Improves performance especially in cutscenes and gameplay
• Fixes grass and foliage popping that could occur after density parameters were changed
• Improves Nvidia Hairworks performance
• Boosted texture anisotropy sampling to 16x on Ultra preset
• Sharpen Post-process settings extended from Off/On to Off/Low/High
• Blood particles will now properly appear after killing enemies on the water
• Corrects a bug where player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs
• Improves menu handling
• Corrects an issue with Stamina regeneration while sprinting
• Fixes a cursor lock issue that sometimes occcured when scrolling the map
• Generally improves world map focus
• Improves input responsiveness when using keyboard
• Corrects some missing translations in the UI
• Corrects an issue in dialogue selections
• Rostan Muggs is back
• Minor SFX improvements