Witcher 3 map sizes talked about at GDC

[Legendoflore]

CD Projekt Red and Umbra Software had a presentation called“Solving Visibility and Streaming in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Umbra 3“ at the Game Developers Conference, and during that presentation they revealed some great news about the map in the game that so far calculations show that the map is 136,25 square km, which is about 52 square miles. Awesome

Witcher 3 map

 

[Railan]

I wonder what they'll introduce in terms of travelling. I mean, if two areas are 3.5 times larger than the Skyrim map, they're going to have to use fast-travelling of some sort. I'm not against that, but I wonder if that'll diminish the effect of having such a large playable area.

I guess if they can flesh the areas enough, or if they have procedural content of some sort, just travelling through them will be fun.

 

[Moberg]

There's an interesting material concerning The Witcher: Wild Hunt in a Polish games mag PSX. Guys from PSX visited CD Project RED in Warsaw and spoke about the upcoming game. When it comes to travelling, a journey ahorse from one side of the area to the other will take approximately 40 minutes they say. Geralt will be able to climb high mountains, sailing will also be included. Traveling time will be much dependant on weather conditions.