The Witcher 3 Gets A Huge 15GB Patch Ahead Of Hearts Of Stone DLC

The Witcher 3’s first major expansion pack is just around the corner, with Hearts of Stone set to arrive next week on October 13th, but CD Projekt Red are paving the way to its release with a patch 1.10, a huge update that will contain 600 changes to the game. It will be roughly 15GB in size on consoles, but between 6GB and 15GB on PC.

Though you can pour over the full change list, Community Lead Marcin Momot summed it up by saying:

Patch 1.10 – pretty portentous as numbers go. And rightly so, because it’s the largest collection of fixes, improvements and various enhancements we’ve brought to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to date. All told, it packs a pretty impressive six hundred changes, including fixes for a load of quests, optimizations that’ll make things smoother on PC and consoles, over one hundred fifty stability improvements to iron out hiccups, additional conversations with key characters that will enhance your relationships with them as well as the story as a whole, and a major and much-awaited fix that should take a good bit of the pain out of dealing with items in the Inventory by improving how items are ordered and sorted. A list of fixes and changes can be found here, and though detailed, it’s hardly exhaustive. In any case, it’s you, the members of The Witcher community, who in no small part made Patch 1.10 possible. The update itself is right around the corner and should be here in a matter of days.

However, it appears that this entire patch is dedicated purely to the main game and existing points of DLC. Momot followed up with Eurogamer to say that the Hearts of Stone download will be “considerably smaller”, which points to it being a second and separate download.

Either way, if you have The Witcher 3 and a slow internet connection, make sure to send your ISP a letter to give them a heads up that you’ll be downloading for a long, long time.

Source: CD Projekt Red [1, 2], Eurogamer

20 Comments

  1. Kind of glad I haven’t made it past the first griffin yet given the amount of tweaks that have been rolled out.

    • I played it from Start and honestly had no issues at all, every patch I read fixed small issues that people wanted rather than major issues, no game breakers deffo

    • Have to agree with Mick, if I was outside looking in it would sound like this is such a broken game. I’ve played it for over 100 hours and honestly didn’t notice anything game breaking. The frame rate always hovered around 20-30 and at first was jarring, but I got used to it.
      Other than that, this is a fantastic game and my favourite game of this generation. Maybe of the last as well.
      I’ve bought the witcher novels, the world of the witcher compendium and now just bought the hearts of stone expansion from Game, with the Gwent card set.
      I’m loving the world of the witcher.

      • Not belittling the game, just glad I’ve been sucked into other titles so will get the Director’s Cut when I do properly spend time on it.

  2. Whew, that’s a large patch. Inventory improvement will be welcome. Star Wars beta downloaded for me in around two hours last night i expect this will take four to five hours.

    • It took me nearly three hours to get the PS4 beta of Battlefront, but only 8 minutes to get the PC version…. I think I’ll leave the download of the Witcher 3 on PS4 to be an overnight job :)

      • 8 minutes for the 11GB PC version? That’s fast!

        The Witcher PS4 patch is live now apparently.

  3. Wow, big patch. The little I’ve played of the PS4 version so far was full of performance issues, so hopefully things are noticeably better after this update.

  4. Although I applaud CD Projekt RED for supporting the game so well after launch, it’s a sad indictment of the industry when a game requires 600 changes, four months after release – I know not all of them will be bug fixes, but still. Either way, it’s enough to make me happy that I’m yet to make any major progress on the game!

    • It’s annoying when they add “additional conversations with key characters that will enhance your relationships with them as well as the story as a whole”.

      Thanks for that, so what have I missed out on because I sure as hell won’t be replaying the game any time soon? (if ever) And since I’m probably a good third to half way through it I’m not going to restart now after the hours that have already been invested.

      Starting to think I really need to reign in the temptation to buy these games and wait for a GOTY edition when hopefully development will actually have been finished.

      • I completely agree – it does seem a bit cheeky. It almost seems like the game wasn’t 100% finished when it was released.

        Like I said, it’s a sad indictment.

      • I don’t think this is really a case of it needing 600 changes. There might have been flaws, but this feels more akin to Lucas constantly returning to and making changes to the Star Wars films. That’s a bad example, but it rings true when you think of the famous quote of an artist’s work never being finished, only abandoned, and yet here we have a medium that no longer needs to be abandoned if there are aspects of it that developers feel could be tweaked further and improved upon (and they have the time, money and resources to do so).

  5. I have put well over 100 hours into this and I intend to start new game + after I have done heart of stone. In all that time I have encountered one bug that has caused annoyance.

    The game has been perfectly playable since day one and when you consider the size and scope of the game and compare it to something like thps5 or Skyrim on ps3 cd projekt red should be applauded.

    • Definitely. Poured hundreds of hours into it and not had a single issue of note.

      Great game. I’m starting to think it has no end though just seems to keep going and going to.

    • The game has been ‘playable’ from day one, that is true. BUT, some very major parts of the storytelling in the main storyline are, excuse my drastic words, but I cannot really say that any differently: plain bullshit. I’m glad you probably didn’t have to experience this due to your decisions in the game, getting a rubbish ending after 100h of playtime and really feeling let down by the developers and their game.
      There IS an awful lot they definitely needed to patch with this game, very much hope they finally did that, but I doubt it. Anyway, for me this was much too late, I’m more than done with the game and CD Projekt Red.

      • Could you describe loosely what the “bad Ending” was? I’ll look it up in the guide as all of them didn’t seem too bad to me.
        I know it’s each to their own, but for the admiration I feel for Cd Project Red, I’m intrigued to see it from another persons point of view who doesn’t feel the same.
        I’m playing metal Gear at the moment and all I can think about it going back to the witcher (and rocket league of course).

      • Not quite sure how ‘loosly’ you want this, but it’s somehow difficult without spoilers.

        SPOILERs on
        With a bad ending, I don’t mean a sad ending as such, as I really generally appreciate horrible game endings, if they make sense given the story.
        With a bad ending in the case of Witcher 3, I mean a thoroughly unfair outcome of the main storyline, which punishes you for taking utterly unimportant decisions throughout the game in a way which this developer seems to have defined as being ‘wrong’. E.g. in my case, at some point you don’t take part in a snowball fight, and for that reason the whole world goes bust, and before that, most main characters not just die, but they die a most horrible death.
        That, in my view, is really bad storytelling, especially more so as the exact wording of these utterly unimportant decisions is sometimes misleading. E.g. going with her to this meeting sounded in the dialogue options clearly like joining means supporting. And, if you find out far too many hours later, that this was ‘wrong’, it’s not only incomprehensible, but irreversible.
        SPOILERs off

        I agree that they did get a lot right with their game. That’s why I spent about 100h playing it.
        But, there’s core stuff they absolutely messed up, which, in my view, is inexcusable, because it punishes the player for playing their game.

      • Ahh I see what you mean.

        SPOILERS:
        For myself I chose to not partake in the stealing of the horse towards the end and that was deemed “bad” that I didn’t just do what Ciri wanted. Same as messing up that elf guy’s lair.

        I see where you’re coming from in that sense.
        I suppose it’s a mass Effect 3 scenario where the ending will “mess up” for a few people. But I suppose you’re right that choosing to not have a snow fight, shouldn’t mean it impacts Ciri’s decision on whether to save the world…

  6. I’m guessing a large portion of those 15 gb overwrite previous (or current) files, so it won’t bloat the harddrive. But that’s still a ridiculously massive filesize for what’s primarily bug-fixing.

  7. I thought this patch was bad, then I tried to play World of Tanks today and that had a 25gb update, which is the same size as the entire game! These patches are getting ridiculous.

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