The Witcher 4 Cinematic + Gameplay on Unreal Engine 5.6 Tech Demo

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At the State of Unreal 2025 to show an early development Unreal Engine 5 tech demo for The Witcher 4 — showcasing some of the innovative technology and features that will help bring the game’s open world to life. Keep in mind this isn’t gameplay of The Witcher 4 itself, but a deep dive into the technological foundation of the new Witcher saga.  Learn more at https://www.thewitcher.com  JOIN THE XBOXVIEWTV COMMUNITY Twitter ► https://twitter.com/xboxviewtv Facebook ► https://facebook.com/xboxviewtv YouTube ► http://www.youtube.com/xboxviewtv Dailymotion ► https://dailymotion.com/xboxviewtv Twitch ► https://twitch.tv/xboxviewtv Website ► https://xboxviewtv.com  Note: The #TheWitcher4 #UnrealEngine5 Tech Demo #Trailer is courtesy of CD PROJEKT RED and Epic Games. All Rights Reserved. The https://amzo.in are with a purchase nothing changes for you, but you support our work. #XboxViewTV publishes game news and about Xbox and PC games and hardware.

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00:00Transcribed by ESO, translated by —

00:30Sleep, Izzy, the plowing plonker.

00:39Break me pearlies on this blasted pit-ridden tract.

00:53Where's Veera's eye-roof?

00:56Aye, the devil's out of here!

00:58Don't!

00:59This brought it from!

01:11The brother killed us.

01:28I'm gonna go!

01:30Let's go!

01:31Let's go!

01:32Let's go!

01:33Oh, my God.

02:03Salt.

02:18Almost had me fooled, Fruin.

02:33Thank you, thank you everyone, and welcome to the State of

03:03Unreal at Unreal Fest Orlando.

03:05We're here to show you what's next with Unreal Engine

03:08and so much more.

03:10We are thrilled that you're able to join us.

03:14But first things first, I'm here with Sebastian and Kai-Tec

03:18from CD Projekt Red.

03:20We have a lot to talk about.

03:22Hey, guys.

03:23SEBASTIAN KAYTECKI- Hey.

03:24Thank you, Wyatt.

03:28Thank you, Wyatt, and hello, everyone.

03:31With The Witcher 4, we are stepping things up.

03:33And to do that, we needed the right partner,

03:36one that truly understands that great open-world games are all

03:39about art and technology coming together.

03:42SEBASTIAN KAYTECKI- Yeah.

03:43And look, our goals are completely aligned here.

03:46And around the launch of UE5, your awesome team at CD Projekt Red

03:50announced a collaboration to make open-world development

03:53in Unreal even better.

03:55And it's an opportunity.

03:57We just couldn't pass it up.

03:58So we've been working on a technical demo together

04:01to achieve just that.

04:02I think we should take a look at it.

04:04You guys ready?

04:05BORN READY.

04:06Kai-Tec is going to play the build for us.

04:08SEBASTIAN KAYTECKI- Sure.

04:09Let's do it.

04:16This is a technological showcase set

04:18in the world of The Witcher 4.

04:21What you just saw and are going to see now

04:24is running on a standard PlayStation 5 at 60 FPS

04:28with ray tracing.

04:30So in the game, you'll be playing as Siri,

04:33a professional monster slayer, a Witcher.

04:36She explores the world and hunts down

04:38monster for coin.

04:40The region we are in is called Covier,

04:43and you'll get to explore it in a game.

04:46Right now, Siri is investigating the monster,

04:48and after gathering new clues, she is heading back

04:51to a nearby village.

04:57All right, everyone, meet Kelpie.

05:02Let weeds be weeds, Kelpie.

05:05So just like Geralthead Roach,

05:07Siri has her own loyal companion.

05:12We return to town.

05:15These two characters needs to feel like one.

05:17Since you're going to explore the world on horseback,

05:19riding these two feel seamless, natural, and just fun.

05:23Yeah, and to support that, we're

05:24introducing multi-character motion matching in Unreal.

05:28So Siri and Kelpie, they're perfectly synchronized when

05:31mounting from any angle and speed.

05:34And we also support root motion movement on Kelpie.

05:38So controlling her feels realistic and grounded.

05:42And there are also some really nice improvements

05:44to our Unreal Chaos Flesh Solver, and these machine

05:48learned deformations.

05:49So you've got realistic muscles moving and stretching

05:51under Kelpie's skin without compromising

05:53the performance there.

05:54So let's leave Siri behind for a second and talk

06:05about the world itself.

06:07So much of the Witcher world is natural, organic, especially

06:12Kovir with its dense forest and wild nature.

06:15Yeah, and wild nature is hard.

06:18And with Nanite Geometry, we've freed artists from so many

06:21of their old constraints, but we don't want to rest until everything

06:24we do in Unreal has that same spirit of freedom.

06:27There's always more work to do.

06:28And foliage is a huge piece of that puzzle.

06:31So we are excited to introduce Nanite Foliage.

06:37And in order to achieve gorgeous foliage density everywhere,

06:41while still being memory efficient, fast to render,

06:44we believe that a new idea was needed.

06:46So instead of the same card approach

06:49we've been using for the past 20 years,

06:51artists should be free to take a Nanite approach

06:53to foliage, modeling every single leaf and pine needle.

06:58And the old LOD tricks of the past,

07:00they needed a complete rethink.

07:02And in their place, it's a new adaptive voxel representation

07:06in Nanite.

07:07It's volumetric, it's fully 3D, it is super fast to render.

07:12And these dense clusters of triangles turn into these cubes,

07:15which at a distance, they're no larger than a pixel.

07:17And they react to the changing light of our dynamic sun and our shadows.

07:21And they allow artists to render whatever amount of foliage is needed

07:25to achieve their vision without compromise.

07:28And no compromise means how ambitious we are when it comes to bringing our vision to life

07:34with incredible visuals.

07:36But more than that, together with Epic, we created faster whales throughout the world.

07:40We can now bring in more content, more quickly, for the smoothest possible experience

07:45as we fly down to catch up with Ciri.

07:49Welcome to Valgrist.

08:04So Valgrist is a port town, a hub for fishing, trade and mining.

08:09It's one of those places where you can meet shady characters or overhear gossip from other lands.

08:14It's also where Ciri took on her current contract.

08:19Hi-tech, let's leave Kelpie here and explore the marketplace and food.

08:23I'm so excited we can finally show you some of this stuff.

08:29Let's see what Valgrist has to offer.

08:31Valgrist has to offer.

08:32Ah, fuck it.

08:33Not her again.

08:34Ah, fuck it.

08:35Not her again.

08:36Ah, fuck it.

08:37Not even at the land exit or a bear.

08:39Now, when I die gazes, I present him with a wish.

08:44For the furry rascal will often wait.

08:47And a bear is waiting for grabs good fortune.

08:49Some new witchy here, eh?

08:50For this feat.

08:51Damn it, damn it.

08:52Damn it.

08:53Damn it.

08:54Damn it.

08:55Damn it.

08:56Damn it.

08:57Oh, buddy.

08:58Guys, notice how responsive the world is.

09:00Character actions directly affect what happens around you.

09:06Sometimes even setting off chain reactions.

09:09Everything is working together.

09:11Oh, look at this poor gentleman being taught how to fly by an angry innkeeper.

09:24That's what happens when you cheat at Gwen.

09:27So this is the guy who gave this series to his own.

09:28Like you probably suspect he has his own agenda in all of this.

09:36Okay, so this is the guy who gave the series quest his own, like you probably suspect he

09:47has his own agenda in all of this.

10:06No eternity is taking that damn salt to arrive.

10:09I found them.

10:11And, well, suffice to say, they'll not reach you.

10:17As for the salt, I found not one speck.

10:22I presume this comes as no surprise to you.

10:26No, no.

10:28Kvir's smuggling trade is of no concern to me.

10:32The manticore that flattened your cart and devoured your men?

10:38Quite the opposite.

10:40Manticore?

10:42No, no.

10:44Them winged hellspawn dwell in the arse end of Creighton.

10:47While Ciri decides what to do about that merchant, let's take a look at the character technology

10:52that powers this marketplace.

10:54Why don't we listen in on these fishmongers?

10:56They're selling their wares, chatting up customers.

10:59And there is tons of peck to play here.

11:16Even in this simple market stall.

11:18MetaHuman tools, improved Unreal smart objects, chaos cloth, and more.

11:22Yeah, and all of this exists to make sure that the gap in quality between Ciri and NPCs is as small as possible.

11:30Yeah, and closing that gap, it's not just about fidelity, right, but also authenticity.

11:35They should react to changes in the world around them.

11:39But the prisoner in Pylori isn't exciting enough for Valkyrest.

11:45Let's grab everyone's attention with the circus.

11:48But the great performance deserves a huge crowd though.

11:59Let's crank it up.

12:01So you are seeing tons of optimizations here to many of Unreal's systems.

12:15Including an entirely new Unreal animation framework.

12:19Allowing us to fit easily in our 60 FPS budget.

12:22Not just in rendering, but also with room to spare on the game thread.

12:26Over 300 animated skeletal mesh agents all going about their business.

12:32And the whole point, it's to leave breathing room for developers like you.

12:36To introduce the gameplay and the systems that your players expect.

12:40Empowering you to make your worlds come to life without Unreal standing in your way.

12:45You are right.

12:46That's the open world RPG that we are making.

12:49But before we wrap up, how about one final check-in with Ciri?

12:53We are making this game to be the most immersive and ambitious open world Witcher game ever.

13:05And we are making this a reality thanks to our work on Unreal with the team at Epic.

13:10I think what we are doing together is going to bring in a new generation of open world RPGs.

13:16And I'm so proud of what we accomplished so far.

13:21We are too.

13:24So we're almost done.

13:25But before we go, here's a small gift for all Witcher fans.

13:32A first look at Lan Exeter.

13:34Onward, Kelvin.

13:49With what?

13:50You

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