Just a quick question.

Finally decided to commit to W3 after buying the expansion pass. Started this today and haven't gotten very far but noticed decent amount of compression in the opening CG video.

Didn't expect this from a game this size so wondering if this is normal. Not a huge deal. Don't remember W2 having a ton of FMV so I'm guessing W3 doesn't either.

I haven't beaten the game yet (I'm at the end but I'm doing the DLC) but I would venture to guess that there are no more then 5 of these types of cut-scenes in the game.

It is quite jarring to go from amazing graphics with a lot of clarity to those cut-scenes. I'm on PC and it's night and day, the same I'm assuming for the PS4.

I'm not certain there are even five of these cutscenes in the game...

In fact... are there even two?

I remember the opening cutscene... and I think maybe the last one has CG? Do the expansions have new CG? Kinda scratching my head over this!

So it's normal, yeah?

I remember the intro CG having that issue on PC, but I don't think there are any other CG movies.

But yeah, that's normal.

@liquiddragon: Yea it's normal. Same deal as Deus Ex HR.

Cool, thanks everyone.

Wait, there's FMV in Witcher 3? Like actual pre-recorded video files? Or just CG?

@onemanarmyy: Not live action. Pre-rendered.

Ah, I got all excited for a second thinking they'd patched in FMV to the Witcher. That'd be fucking great!

99.9 percent of the game is in engine, not prerendered. Every game in the series has a prerendered intro cinematic, and that's it.

Ehhhhhhhh

@dudeglove: No, the first one of those is shown before the main menu. I'm referring to the CG opening. The W2 CG cutscene was pretty crisp as I recall but the W3 one is pretty compressed. This is the video in question:

@liquiddragon: Apart from the CG opening and the animated shorts, there are also [cut]scenes that were captured in-engine, but for one reason another, don't play in real-time. Fortunately though, these are few and very far between. And yes, these too have video artifacts.

@vierastalo: :) Thanks dude! You've made me very happy.

I played it on PC and didn't notice it, but it might be compressed there as well. Having played the games several times, I can say it's the only video of its kind in the game.