Followers trying ahead to CD Projekt Purple and Idiot’s Idea’s remake of The Witcher can take pleasure in a small style of what’s to return due to a mod that ports the unique recreation’s maps to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
NexusMods person AngryCatster uploaded The Witcher 1 Maps mod as one of the primary initiatives created by way of RedKit, CD Projekt Purple’s official modding device launched for The Witcher 3 on Could 21, 2024.
The mod brings ahead a number of maps from The Witcher together with those who made up Vizima, the capital of Temeria, which briefly options in The Witcher 3 when gamers go to Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis at its citadel.
AngryCatster has modded over the Vizima Dike, Temple Quarter, Commerce Quarter, and Outdated Vizima and mixed them into one seamless degree, that means gamers can discover them absolutely with out the loading screens or different restrictions of 2007’s The Witcher.
The maps are additionally introduced ahead with Witcher 3 textures, lighting, and controls, respiration contemporary life into the close to two decade-old recreation. Whereas AngryCatster admits there are a number of points with the port, comparable to some “funky” geometry, imperfect terrain textures, and the chance of falling off the map, it is maybe step one in a full recreation of The Witcher inside The Witcher 3.
Idiot’s Idea is recreating the sport in Unreal Engine 5, of course, however that will probably be a full reimagining as a substitute of simply a straight port like this mod. Creating a full copy of the primary recreation inside The Witcher 3 may show standard by giving gamers a contemporary solution to play it so a few years later.
These on PC can discover Vizima themselves by visiting AngryCatster’s web page, although a video tour of town was additionally shared on YouTube.
RedKit is obtainable without spending a dime 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 recreation maker Bethesda bringing mod assist to console via the likes of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim.
As for The Witcher Remake, followers will nonetheless be ready a whereas as it is not due till after Polaris, the following mainline Witcher recreation, which is not due itself till 2025 on the absolute earliest (and doubtless a lot later). The remake seems very bold too, as Idiot’s Idea is keen to deal with facets of the unique that are “unhealthy, outdated, and have to be remade.”
The Witcher Remake can even make the unique recreation open-world and due to this fact much more in-line with The Witcher 3, although even this will probably be greater than a decade previous by the point the remake launches. Little else is understood about it, however longtime Geralt voice actor Doug Cockle is keen to return.
Picture Credit score: AngryCatster on NexusMods (qwerthjhjky on YouTube)
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.