"The Witcher: Wild Hunt 3" may have a sprawling open-world environment with a panorama of activities waiting to unfold but the highly-anticipated action role-playing video game will not have loading screens, thus giving players a buttery smooth travel in the rambling milieu.
"No, there's no loading times," senior environment artist Jonas Mattsson told Gamespot about the loading times that detaches players from the game a bit. "Only when you actually start the game, when [you] die and load the game, or when you fast travel. That fast travel loading time depends on how far you have to travel of course. If you just fast travel a little bit, it's a really short loading time," he added.
This is especially impressive knowing that there is a lot more going on in a certain area and villages are not so far away from each other as they are in other games. Every region in "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" is noticeably busy and eventful and them having no loading times assures a rich experience.
"Well we wouldn't want the player to be bored, of course," Mattsson said, adding that there is always the need for space. He then said that there should be space for a farm to support food and that some villages sit next to a quarry or a river.
"We wanted to create an experience like: you ride on your horse, you stop, and you see something's over there. You want to go there. You want to explore and see what you can find there. Things just happen, and this is what we wanted to have with the game when you explore the open world," he went on to say.
Mattsson believes that the absence of loading times is a "really nice experience" and for the team to achieve that is very important for them as this gives players of "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" "one big experience" in terms of traversing the world "as fluid as possible."
"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" will be out on May 19.
