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CD Projekt announce free Witcher 3 mod editor for release in 2024It’s PC only
It’s PC only
Image credit:CD Projekt
Image credit:CD Projekt
CD Projekt have announced that they’re working on a free mod editor forThe Witcher 3, allowing you to write entire new quests for grizzly Geralt, or just make him walk around with no trousers on, which he spends every other cutscene doing anyway. There are already many mods for the venerable fantasyRPG, of course - the options range frommods that give you Henry Cavill’s faceto mods thatsimulate the effects of long Covid to raise awareness- but the editor should make life easier for the internet’s Geralt-whisperers.
CD Projekt added mod tools to The Witcher 3way back in 2015, but as Alice0 informs me, these were fairly limited in scope. The developers have, however, been keeping an eye on the game’s modding community over the years: when they released Witcher 3’s “next gen” update last year, theypublished a breakdown of how existing mods would be affected.
As for what this bodes for The Witcher in general: in March last year, CD Projekt announceda multi-year partnership with Epic to make games using the Unreal Engine. Thenext Witcher and Cyberpunk games will run on Unreal, rather than CD Projekt’s own in-house REDengine. While this doesn’t necessarily mean that CD Projekt will stop supporting their old REDengine projects, you could read the announcement of a proper mod editor as the start of a process of leaving The Witcher 3 in the hands of the community.
The fan reaction so far seems… positive?
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