The Witcher 3 now has REDkit, a complete and superior modding instrument for PC that allows the creation of DLC-sized mods.
All who personal Witcher 3 on PC can now obtain REDkit via GOG, Epic Video games Retailer, and Steam. On Steam, it options Steam Workshop integration.
Right here’s the official blurb:
Developed and applied by Yigsoft with shut collaboration from the CD PROJEKT RED workforce, The Witcher 3 REDkit gives a plethora of superior options in addition to full Steam Workshop integration, making publishing — and utilizing — mods straightforward for each creators and informal gamers. As a repurposed, reworked, and prolonged codebase of REDengine 3, it offers modders unparalleled freedom in creating new quests, characters, places, and extra. Right now’s launch was accompanied by a trailer that options among the modding prospects contained inside the instrument in addition to an outline of its main options.
The Witcher 3 #REDkit is now obtainable without cost for all homeowners of the sport on PC!
As a participant, you’ll quickly be capable of enrich your time in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with a wealth of latest content material created by the neighborhood!
As a modder you’re about to get your palms on the identical set… pic.twitter.com/LQT6Ee4uCV
— The Witcher (@witchergame) May 21, 2024
The hope is these modding instruments will breathe new life into the nine-year-old Witcher 3, and should even spark a collaboration that leads to a DLC-sized mod akin to the Fallout London mod for Fallout 4. To coincide with the discharge of REDkit, Witcher 3 on PC will get an replace that enhances the modding expertise and helps Steam Workshop and DLC-style mods. The patch notes are beneath:
Witcher 3 REDkit replace patch notes:
- Enabled Steam Workshop. Handle your mods with ease on Steam! We’ve built-in the Steam Workshop help into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Whereas Steam customers can nonetheless use Nexus Mods or no matter modding platform they like, they now can set up any mod obtainable on the sport’s Steam Workshop with a single click on. Simply discover the mod you want, click on “Subscribe” and it’ll set up robotically!
- Added Steam Workshop help for DLC mods (mods that embody utterly new content material).
- Added help for a neater method so as to add new world IDs in mods.
- Added full help for loading DLC mods – mounted a problem that occurred when loading extra content material from mods.
CD Projekt introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it is going to help you create your personal experiences within the recreation by making one thing utterly new or modifying present quests and content material.”
The Witcher 3 obtained a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X replace in December 2022 however in any other case will not get any new official content material as CD Projekt focuses on its wealth of different incoming tasks. The extremely anticipated subsequent mainline Witcher recreation, codenamed Polaris, is at the moment in improvement however will not arrive till 2025 on the absolute earliest, and doubtless later. There are two different Witcher video games on the horizon too, together with a remake of the unique Witcher and a multiplayer spin-off.
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