Somebody has made a mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt which replaces beloved horse companion Roach with a vicious fiend for Geralt to trip round The Continent.
Nexus Mods consumer apokryphos created the Rideable Fiend Mount mod, which does precisely what it says on the tin, letting monster and monster hunter crew as much as tackle the world. What’s extra, the fiend even mimics Roach’s behaviour by backing Geralt up when not being ridden, and its savage swipes are a contact simpler than a horse kick.
Solely a handful of Fiends exist in The Witcher 3 naturally, and the large monsters are at all times a menace. “Fiends are strolling mountains of muscle capped with horned, tooth-filled heads,” reads the in-game bestiary entry. “When doable they keep away from people, however when not doable, they kill them, and with out a lot issue.”
The Witcher 3 has loved an inflow of inventive mods like this because of developer CD Projekt Crimson releasing official modding software program for the role-playing sport. REDkit is out there totally free on Steam, the Epic Video games Retailer, and GOG to anybody who owns The Witcher 3 however will stay a PC unique regardless of fellow role-playing sport makers Bethesda bringing mod assist to the likes of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim and Larian Studios bringing it to Baldur’s Gate 3.
CD Projekt Crimson introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it can mean you can create your individual experiences within the sport by making one thing utterly new or enhancing current quests and content material.” Followers are nonetheless attending to grips with the brand new instruments, and whereas full expansion-like mods are possible on the best way, smaller initiatives have to date seen the likes of this and a miniature remake of the unique Witcher sport launch.
Mods would be the solely new content material coming to The Witcher 3 going ahead, in fact, as whereas the sport obtained a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X replace in December 2022, it in any other case will not get any extra official content material as CD Projekt focuses on its wealth of different incoming initiatives.
The extremely anticipated subsequent mainline Witcher sport, codenamed Polaris, is presently in improvement however will not arrive till 2025 on the absolute earliest, and possibly 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.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.