A mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has added not only a absolutely customizable foremost character but in addition the choice to play as a sorceress, which comes with its personal quest line, fight system, and extra.
NexusMods user nikich340 created the Customized Participant Characters mod, which lets gamers step away from role-playing Geralt of Rivia and as a substitute create their very own distinctive protagonist. Each character mannequin within the sport might be pulled from, with gamers capable of combine and match physique elements to create their ultimate monster slayer.
Probably the most spectacular a part of the mod comes within the sorceress additions, nonetheless. Not solely can gamers, once more, pull from each mannequin within the sport to create a customized character, however the mod provides its personal fight system separate to how the primary sport performs.
As an alternative of swinging swords at baddies, gamers as a substitute wield spells such as blasting lightning, summoning tornadoes, and even turning right into a cat. Skills outdoors of fight permit portals to be made or lights to be forged in darkish areas. A customized quest line walks gamers by these spells and teaches them new ones too.
This mod comes after the discharge of REDkit: an official modding instrument for The Witcher 3 launched by CD Projekt in Could 2024. The developer introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it’s going to can help you create your personal experiences within the sport by making one thing utterly new or enhancing present quests and content material.”
REDkit has thus far been used to create some wild and wacky mods for The Witcher 3, together with one which lets Geralt trip an infinite fiend as a substitute of Roach and one other that recreates the unique sport in The Witcher 3’s engine forward of an official remake. Probably the most thrilling addition thus far maybe comes by the invention of a scrapped ending sequence, which was revived utilizing the toolkit.
Mods would be the solely new content material coming to The Witcher 3 going ahead, after all, as whereas the sport obtained a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X and S 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 tasks.
The extremely anticipated subsequent mainline Witcher sport, codenamed Polaris, is at present 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 the aforementioned remake of the unique The Witcher and a multiplayer spin-off.
Picture Credit score: (*3*)
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.