Confirmed Witcher 3 Remastered Changes

Available September 29, 2026 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2; Battle.net is included among the PC storefronts.

Store, account and disc edge cases still belong with first-party support.

Check your upgrade path

The launch post describes a free Remastered upgrade and includes Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine for owners on supported storefronts and platforms.

A same-ecosystem upgrade is not a cross-store ownership transfer.

The launch notes list updated models and textures, foliage lighting, tone mapping, GTAO, ray-traced local shadows, material rendering, image-based lighting and bloom.

The notes do not establish measured FPS gains on every supported device.

Review performance evidence

The shipped notes include revised non-boss monster behavior, new finishers, smoother gap closing, improved target switching and new exploration and dynamic combat cameras.

Complete damage, stamina and animation-frame values are not published.

Read the combat changes

Geralt climbing, vaulting and jumping animations were refined; Roach collision and mounting were polished, and horse input sensitivity was added.

The public notes do not provide numerical movement or input-latency measurements.

Sign and skill visual effects were updated, while many non-boss monsters received behavior, movement, reaction and effect-application work.

The notes do not provide new Sign formulas or an enemy-by-enemy data table.

Skills now use prerequisite paths and three ranks; bonuses, effects and synergies were rebalanced, and some skills were renamed.

One complete official node table with every prerequisite and final numerical value is not published.

Check confirmed skill changes

CDPR says current saves should work; skills and settings reset, with immediate skill reallocation.

The support statement is not an exhaustive cross-platform transfer matrix.

Prepare your save transfer

Remastered shares the current achievement and trophy sets; unlocked awards stay unlocked.

Do not infer every cross-store or cross-platform account case from this statement.

The official product page lists cross-platform mod support as a Remastered feature.

A complete platform catalog and mod-by-mod compatibility matrix are not established.

Check mod support limits

Joana and Hattori can change equipment appearance without changing stats; appearances unlock from gear and diagrams, and applied Blood and Wine dyes carry over.

A complete item-by-item appearance database is not published in the notes.

Meditation uses a timelapse, the skill and map screens were reorganized, loot and HUD behavior changed, and the official product page lists expanded photo-mode support.

Platform-specific option parity still needs direct release-build verification.