With just a matter of hours to go before The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's release, developer CD Projekt Red has released the official patch notes for the open-world RPG's day-one update.
Featured are stability fixes and "overall performance improvements" such as thereduction of instances of texture pop-in.
There are also changes to quests, improvements to AI, and UI optimizations, among other things. What's more, the Xbox One edition will be updated to support dynamic 1080p scaling.
The full Witcher 3 day-one patch notes are printed below, via wccftech.com.
The Witcher 3's official release date is May 19. The game unlocks at 1 AM CET tomorrow, which actually is 4 PM PDT / 7 PM EDT today, May 18.
Even though The Witcher 3 is not even released yet, the game is already off to a strong start. It reached 1 million pre-orders last week, while reviews across the board are praising the game. GameSpot awarded The Witcher 3 a 10/10, only the ninth title in our site's history to receive a perfect score.
Major changes:
  • Support for DLCs
  • Multiple stability issues fixed
  • Overall performance improvements
Quests and game:
  • Variety of cosmetic quest improvements
  • Journal objective fixes
  • Quest mapping fixes
  • Dialogue flag fixes
  • Quest balancing issues
  • Scene triggering improvements
Gameplay systems:
  • Boat behavior
  • AI improvements
  • NPC spawn strategy improvements
  • Combat balancing
  • UI optimizations