The Witcher website has word
that
the promised patch is now
available for
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, updating the RPG sequel to
version 1.05. For the past couple of hours the patch notes read "504 Gateway
Timeout," but
a reddit post is holding up much better under the load, and here are the
notes they offer:
Patch 1.05 has just gone LIVE for PC and should be
available for download everywhere now. Please find the complete list of changes
below:
- 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 Options\Gamplay 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.