The Witcher 3 just got a huge update, requiring 13 pages of patch notes

CD Projekt Red released a new update for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt today — version 1.10 — giving players a long, long list of tweaks, performance improvements, bug fixes and gameplay changes. The notes for the patch are so extensive that it's 13-pages long in PDF form and required a five-part changelog on Steam.

The developer promises hundreds of improvements — more than 300 are listed in the patch notes — in version 1.10. The update weighs in at a hefty 15 GB on consoles, according to Witcher community manager Marcin Momot, and between 6-15 GB on PC, depending on platform.

Here's a sampling of just the performance-related improvements in the patch:

• Decreases chance of unwarranted screen blur occurring during play.
• Fixes rare infinite loading screen appearing upon loading of save made during Broken Flowers quest.
• Fixes performance issues near the Cave of Dreams in Skellige.
• Improves game performance during quest titled Practicum in Advanced Alchemy.
• Improves general game performance in location Whoreson's Arena in Novigrad during quest titled Get Junior.
• Improves game performance throughout Swamps location in Velen.
• Improves game performance when bombs are used, especially with Cluster Bomb skill active.
• Improves game performance in areas with toxic clouds and when said clouds are ignited.
• Improves game performance in Novigrad Bathouse, especially during quest titled Blindingly Obvious.
• Improves overall game performance in Bald Mountain location.
• Improves game performance during quest titled The Battle of Kaer Morhen.
• Improves game performance in Kaer Trolde during quest titled King's Gambit.
• Improves game [performance] during quest titled Family Matters.
• Improves game performance during burial and feast scenes in the quest titled The King is Dead - Long Live the King.
• Improves game performance in Keira's hut during quest titled Wandering in the Dark.
• Improves game performance during ritual forming part of the quest titled Family Matters.
• Improves game performance during quest titled Pyres of Novigrad.
• Improves game performance during quest titled A Towerful of Mice.
• Improves game performance during quest titled A Favor for a Friend.
• Improves game performance during quest titled For the Advancement of Learning.
• Improves game performance and stability on Fyke Island.
• Improves game performance in scene featuring gwent croupier during quest titled A Matter of Life and Death.
• Improves game performance on close-ups in conversation between Geralt and Whoreson Junior during quest titled Get Junior.
• Improves game performance during combat in Ermion's laboratory during quest titled The King is Dead - Long Live the King.
• Improves game performance at site of cataclysm on Skellige during quest titled Echoes of the Past.
• Improves game performance during necromancy ritual in quest titled Nameless.
• Improves game performance during quest titled The Calm Before the Storm.
• Improves game performance in Crookback Bog location.
• Improves game [performance] on lifting of curses in quests titled Soldier Statuette and Nobleman Statuette.
• Improves game performance in mountains surrounding Kaer Morhen.
• Improves game performance during fight against Fugas in quest titled Bald Mountain.
• Improves game performance for concert scene at Kingfisher Inn during quest titled Broken Flowers.
• Improves game performance on Temple Isle in Novigrad at night and in rain.
• Improves game performance in Dark Valley in quest titled Through Time and Space.
• Improves game performance when using torch near bodies of water.
• Improves game performance during conversation with Yennefer at Kaer Morhen.
• Improves game performance during conversation with Eskel (katakan dissection sequence).
• Improves game performance during quest titled Va Fail, Elaine.
• Improves game performance upon ignition of explosive toxic clouds.
• Improves game performance when using Northern Wind bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
• Improves game performance when using Devils Puffball bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
• Improves game performance when using Dragon's Dream bomb with Cluster Bomb skill active.
• Improves game performance following scene with Josta on Skellige.
• Improves game performance in sauna pool during quest titled The Calm Before the Storm.
• Improves game performance in selected Velen locations.
• Improves game performance during quest titled Ciri's Story: The King of the Wolves.

Next week, CD Projekt Red will release the first expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, titled Hearts of Stone.