The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt modding neighborhood is embracing spooky season by releasing a slew of Halloween-themed mods for the beloved role-playing sport.
October is now upon us and NexusMods customers are preparing for All Hallow’s Eve by turning the nine-year-old The Witcher 3 right into a fall wonderland full with pumpkin patches and black cats, with assist from developer CD Projekt Purple’s official modding device REDkit.
Setting the scene is ShapranArt’s Fall Is Coming mod, which predictably turns the inexperienced timber of The Continent into hues of orange and brown. Farmers’ fields throughout Temeria and Redania may also sprout pumpkins as an alternative of their traditional crops.
NexusMods person lisembart97 has paid specific consideration to the well-known Inn on the Crossroads of their aptly titled Halloween at Crossroads Inn mod. It turns the enduring location, basically the place The Witcher 3 gamers start their journey as protagonist Geralt after finishing the White Orchard prologue, into a very spooky spot with carved pumpkins, black cats, and scattered bones.
One thing comparable has even reached the brilliant and sunny Toussaint, as regardless that this nation would not maintain the identical darkish and dreary spookiness as Temeria, the Pumpkin Patch at Corvo Bianco mod from TrickArrant brings, properly, a pumpkin patch to Geralt’s house of Corvo Bianco.
“Pumpkin patches have all the time been one in all my favourite elements of fall, so I made this mod to carry that signature fall expertise into the sport, full with the compulsory flannel shirt,” TrickArrant wrote.
This all provides a splendidly spooky ambiance to The Witcher 3 however, past simply taking all of it in, NexusMods person dingchavez666 even introduced gamers a Halloween themed quest. The Saovine in Skellige mod provides a quest of the identical identify that duties Geralt with lighting the Saovine bonfire in Skellige forward of its individuals’s celebrations.
This being The Witcher 3, nonetheless, not the whole lot is so simple as it appears. Geralt should fend off harmful wraiths whereas doing so and even comes throughout a spirit wolf.
These mods are only a handful of the myriad gamers are creating, with content material creation boosted by the discharge of the aforementioned REDkit. This offers modders entry to official belongings utilized by CD Projekt Purple and therfore permits the creation of latest characters, quests, places, and extra.
Current mods have seen gamers restore content material minimize by CD Projekt Purple, add a morality and fame system that provides much more penalties to Geralt’s actions, and even launch a totally customizable character creator that lets gamers tackle the position of a sorceress.
These have breathed extra life into the sport whereas CD Projekt Purple focuses on its many upcoming Witcher initiatives. The following mainline sport is codenamed Polaris and can star a brand new protagonist, and an entry with extra mass attraction is being developed at The Molasses Flood too. Idiot’s Concept can also be creating a remake of the unique The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.