In case you missed it, The Witcher 3 is now a decade old. We’re all knee-deep in replays of previous video games proper now, but when all of the TW3 anniversary chat has you fascinated about firing it up once more, a brand new mod seems prefer it’ll supply an attention-grabbing twist for folk wanting ahead to The Witcher Remake.
In spite of everything, how greatest to switcher up your Witcher expertise than swapping one Witcher talent system for a unique Witcher talent system from an older Witcher sport. That method, you possibly can see Witcher is healthier. All proper, I’ll cease mucking about.
The mod is Gerwant30’s Witcher 1 talent trees remake for The Witcher 3, with its creator having beforehand scored second place on one among CD Projekt’s REDkit modding contests with a piece that permits you to explore a bit of Cintra.
Now, as a part of their ongoing “Tales of the Witcher” undertaking, they’ve had a go at including their very own model of first Witcher game’s talent system into TW3, with the aim of providing you with “much more management” over Geralt’s growth through “13 new expertise bushes and over 200 new expertise”. “This mod makes an attempt to recreate that feeling and philosophy inside The Witcher 3,” Gerwant30 defined, “changing the usual talent bushes with a extra layered and, hopefully, rewarding development system.”
As you possibly can see within the showcase video above, the mod sees you’re employed up and earn bronze, silver, and gold abilities throughout bushes devoted to the likes of energy and dexterity as you stage up. You’ll begin off by incomes bronzes early-game, then regularly transfer on the silvers and golds as you get more adept and regularly morph right into a grasp witcher.
There are 4 important talent bushes together with the 2 talked about earlier, every with 17 expertise, however that’s removed from it. The 5 Witcher indicators every have their very own 18 talent robust tree “permitting for deep specialization”, and there are 4 fight talent bushes geared toward “robust” and “quick” assaults together with your metal and silver blades.
“Your energy comes principally from the way you construct your character,” the modder writes, “Expertise, abilities, and preparation outline your energy, tools statistics are much less essential.” Actually so much to tweak for those who’re a fan of in-depth construct engineering, although it’s value noting that this being a beta, a good quantity of the talents and options are nonetheless very a lot a work-in-progress.
It’s additionally value noting that Gerwant30’s designed the mod to work solely with “a contemporary new sport within the base model of The Witcher 3 solely”, with them being very clear that present saves and standalone playthroughs of the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine DLC received’t work as supposed. Additionally they intend for it for use with one other mod, SkylineR390’s ‘Alchemy’, so that you’ll have to seize that for those who fancy giving this talent tree mod a go.
PsychoCaki’s ‘SCAAR’ and a digital camera mod like TheMenxceX and ElementaryLewis’ ‘Immersive Camera for Next Gen’ are additionally on Gerwant30’s beneficial record.
Did you like the primary Witcher sport’s extra old-school strategy to expertise, or is how TW3 does issues second nature at this level and never one thing you’d need to tweak? Tell us under!