Patch 1.05 for PC now available!

Find the complete list of changes below:

• Fixes a possible exploit by preventing certain drowners from respawning infinitely.

• Improves the distribution of experience points gained by completing quests with recommended levels lower than the player character level.

• Merchants now offer more weapon types.

• Rebalances the prices of maps that can be purchased from merchants.

• Clarifies a number of crafting diagrams.

• Fixes an exploit whereby players could buy sea shells and sell the pearls inside them at a higher price.

• Increases the variety of loot dropped throughout the game.

• Increases the variety of items available in shops.

• Shops now only offer weapons with levels matching or exceeding the player character level.

• Slightly reduces the amount of coin dropped from chests and monsters.

• Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative.

• Fixes an issue where runestones could not be upgraded to greater runestones.

• Reduces the spawn time of selected groups of NPCs.

• Geralt no longer interacts with candles placed near chests and other openable objects.

• Improves the smoothness of camera movement.

• Fixes a number of issues related to horseback riding.

• Fixes an issue where the player could not deflect arrows/bolts at longer distances.

• Introduces a number of fixes in in-game communities.

• Introduces a number of fixes related to combat.

• Vitality begins to drop if Toxicity exceeds 80%, as originally intended.

• Fixes an issue where Geralt was sometimes unable to mount Roach.

• Improves Geralt's movement, especially when he swims.

• Fixes an issue whereby Geralt could be attached to a sinking boat while aiming his crossbow.

• Fixes a number of issues related to Vitality regeneration.

• Fixes an issue whereby certain actions could be randomly blocked during gameplay.

• Fixes a rare issue whereby Geralt could not mount Roach after fast travelling between points.

• Fixes a number of minor tooltip and wording bugs.

• Adds a series of color-blind friendly features. Improves visibility of tracks, marks, footprints and scent clues. Color-blind friendly features can be enabled in the Options\Gamplay submenu.

• Introduces a number of additional fixes to alt + tabbing.

• Fixes an issue where The Witcher 3 process did not close properly if the user did not have XAUDIO installed.

• Introduces a number of general stability and performance improvements.

• Fixes an issue where in certain situations the game could crash while a save was being loaded.

• Adds some missing translations in localized versions.

• Ciri can no longer unlock fast travel points.

• Improves the behavior of sails when viewed from longer distances.

• Improves performance in selected scenes and cutscenes.

• Fixes an issue where clouds and fog could flicker on some hardware configurations.

• Fixes an issue where Geralt could pass through walls in the fish market in Novigrad.

• Removes repeated sound cues on entry into GUI panels a second time.

• Adds a collision near Kaer Gelen that could cause the player to be blocked inside the building.

• Improves the scale of selected elements of the GUI and HUD.

• Introduces a number of bug fixes and user experience improvements in the GUI panels.

• Introduces a number of small changes in the UI for gwent.

• Improves the alignment of the HUD for the 21:9, 4:3 and 5:4 screen ratios.

• Disables "Input device changed" messages and adds options to disable on-screen combat feedback and floating tags above NPCs.

• Adds an information prompt and Journal entries related to new DLC packages.

• Fixes an issue where some formulae were not displayed in the Alchemy panel when the player possessed level 1 of said formulae.

• Introduces a number of fixes in key bindings.

• Introduces new filters for the Alchemy and Crafting panels.

• Fixes a number of