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Next The Witcher 3 Patch Rolling Out In Europe On PS4, Text Size Remains Unchanged
The good news is that a new patch for The Witcher 3, 1.03, is rolling out in Europe and a number of other countries on PlayStation 4. North America isn't included yet, but if it's an increase in the text size you're looking for, you still have some time to wait.
Patch 1.03 includes many of the same things that the recent PC patch did. It improves the game's performance in some areas, corrects the ability to shoot bolts at friendlies, and deals with an infinite loading bug during the Wandering the Dark quest. It also corrects a problem in which gas clouds could spontaneously combust (a little known Witcher problem).
Here's the full list:
- Corrects a bug where the player was able to shoot bolts at friendly NPCs.
- Corrects an issue related to Stamina regeneration while sprinting.
- Corrects a bug that could cause spontaneous combustion of gas clouds.
- Reduces spawn times for certain groups of NPCs.
- Blood particles will now properly appear on water surfaces after foes are killed.
- Corrects a visual effect in the Wandering in the Dark quest.
- Improves foliage behavior in scenes.
- Reduces foliage shadow popping.
- "Melltith" sword is visible again.
- Fixes some minor graphics bugs in gwent.
- Corrects some missing translations in localized versions.
- Improves performance, especially in cutscenes and during gameplay.
- Introduces a number of minor improvements in SFX.
- Fixes an issue that could have caused an infinite loading screen in certain circumstances in Wandering in the Dark quest.
- Corrects an issue in the dialogue system that might have caused rare instances of dialogue looping in certain scenes.
- Improves stability in gameplay and the UI, especially during games of gwent.
- Upgrading items included in gear sets no longer destroys rune sockets on said items.
- Fixes an occasional bug in the Journal in the Fake Papers quest.
- Enlarges the loot pop-up window in the UI.
The patch is in certification for Xbox One, according to community lead Marcin Momot. Whether that version will include the save problem that executive editor Andrew Reiner wrote about last week is still unknown. With no mention of the text problem or when the next patch might be arriving, your eyes are just going to have to take the hit for a little while longer.
[Source: CD Projekt Red Forums, Marcin Momot on Twitter via GameSpot]
Our Take
The eyes of America's youth are in your hands, CD Projekt Red. Well, not literally. That would be disgusting.
What I mean is, please fix the text problem. Your game is quite lovely. We would still like to be able to see it after playing The Witcher 3 for 200 hours.
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