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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hasn’t been out long so it’s getting little updates still that tweak performance and make things look better. The latest one is no different.
The latest patch improves high-end textures and boosts Nvidia Hairworks performance. Also standard for a patch, bugs and fixes have been put into this patch as well as adding keyboard remapping and the Prologue area now offers a few new cards for Gwent, a card-game within the game itself.
The full breakdown of the 1.04 patch is on Steam as below:
Rebinding of all keys is now available after switching on the ‘Unlock Bindings’ option in the Options\Key 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.
I love good mysterious teasers for games, because they often show how creative the developers are with their games. It’s fun too for the players who are waiting for the game. So the latest development with Soma is interesting to say the least.
The studio behind the upcoming psychological horror game, Frictional Games, retweeted a partial URL that was originally posted by the PathosII Twitter account.
The link when completed leads to a terminal that seems to be hiding some secrets, although a little knowledge of DOS is needed. Using the “help” command should give you enough knowledge to help you navigate though. So far a couple of videos have been found, along with distorted imagery and a block of what appears to be encoded text. That’s not yet been decoded and there are two further folders that are currently inaccessible. Whether they will be unlocked later is unknown.
Frictional is responsible for Amnesia: The Dark Descent and hope to use what they learned from that game to make Soma an even better horror game. Soma entered beta last month and they hope to have it on full release sometime later this year.
Right now, news of release delays isn’t really all that strange. Quite a few games are delaying their releases for one reason or another, mainly to do with the need to make sure the game’s coded well enough to not fall apart when the players at last get their hands on it. Most succeed, a few still manage to make the headlines for the wrong reasons.
However, of all the games I’d expect to see delayed, one of the ‘annual sport titles’ really wasn’t one of them. The 2015 edition of the F1 games has been delayed from its June release date, being pushed back a month to July. The announcement wasn’t given a big fanfare though or even really announced in the usual way over social media. No, seems that Codemasters chose to let the gaming public know by… slipping the new date into a very brief teaser trailer.
If you’re a Minecrafter who likes to check out the latest apps, beware when checking the Google Play store. Reports are coming in of a number of scareware apps disguised as legitimate apps are hiding in the store to try and fool the unwary.
The apps themselves promise access to a number of cheats for the popular blocky game. In reality the apps will scare the user into downloading malicious programs mascarading as anti-virus software using banner advertising. The malware will then charge the victim €4.80 by SMS per weekly if they activate the “anti-virus program”.
Currently its estimated that over 30 of the apps are in the Store, and all seem to have been made by the same person due to similarities shared between them all. They all seem to have somehow bypassed Google’s Bouncer screener program and have therefore been downloaded by unsuspecting Minecraft fans an estimated 660,000 and 2.8 million times over the past nine months.
As always, be careful what you’re downloading people. This just proves that even stringent security processes won’t end up catching everything.
One of the most popular and well-known torrent distribution sites in the world, EZTV, has closed down. Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with the cops, or lawyers.
As TorrentFreak report, the site—which has served up TV show downloads for a decade—has been brought down by scammers, who took over EZTV’s domain name in what’s being calling a “hostile takeover”.
The scammers are still trying to operate EZTV, but given the nature of their takeover—company names were impersonated, and even the personal domains of EZTV’s founder Novaking have been seized—many other major torrent sites like KickassTorrents have banned EZTV uploads, and everyone’s being urged to avoid the site like the plague.
EZTV rose to prominence over the years due to its simple design and clear goal: to host episodes of every major (Western) TV show on the air. By only linking trusted and quality torrents, it developed a reputation as the place to go to get hold of a TV show.
As sad as it is for the site to get hit like this, maybe it’s a good time to go out. Ten years ago getting hold of TV shows in a timely manner was a pain in the ass! These days, between Apple, Google, Amazon and cable streaming services there’s really not many excuses left for not being able to pay for a show.
