A mod for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has added not only a totally customizable major character but additionally the choice to play as a sorceress, which comes with its personal quest line, fight system, and extra.
NexusMods user nikich340 created the Custom Player Characters mod, which lets gamers step away from role-playing Geralt of Rivia and as a substitute create their very own distinctive protagonist. Every character mannequin within the sport will be pulled from, with gamers in a position to combine and match physique elements to create their splendid monster slayer.
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.
Instead of swinging swords at baddies, gamers as a substitute wield spells similar to blasting lightning, summoning tornadoes, and even turning right into a cat. Abilities exterior of fight permit portals to be made or lights to be forged in darkish areas. A customized quest line walks gamers via 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 May 2024. The developer introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it can will let you create your individual experiences within the sport by making one thing fully new or enhancing current 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 experience an unlimited 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. The most fun addition thus far maybe comes via 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, in fact, as whereas the sport obtained a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series 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 the moment 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 the aforementioned remake of the unique The Witcher and a multiplayer spin-off.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
