In case you missed it, The Witcher 3 is now a decade old. We’re all knee-deep in replays of outdated video games proper now, but when all of the TW3 anniversary chat has you fascinated with firing it up once more, a brand new mod seems to be prefer it’ll provide an attention-grabbing twist for people trying ahead to The Witcher Remake.
In any case, how greatest to switcher up your Witcher expertise than swapping one Witcher ability system for a distinct Witcher ability system from an older Witcher sport. That approach, you possibly can see Witcher is best. 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 in every of CD Projekt’s REDkit modding contests with a piece that allows 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 ability system into TW3, with the purpose of supplying you with “much more management” over Geralt’s improvement 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 ability 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 steadily transfer on the silvers and golds as you get more adept and steadily morph right into a grasp witcher.
There are 4 predominant ability 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 ability robust tree “permitting for deep specialization”, and there are 4 fight ability bushes aimed 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, gear statistics are much less necessary.” Actually lots to tweak in the event you’re a fan of in-depth construct engineering, although it’s value noting that this being a beta, a good quantity of the abilities and options are nonetheless very a lot a work-in-progress.
It’s additionally value noting that Gerwant30’s designed the mod to work completely with “a recent 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 gained’t work as meant. Additionally they intend for it for use with one other mod, SkylineR390’s ‘Alchemy’, so that you’ll have to seize that in the event you fancy giving this ability 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 advisable listing.
Did you favor the primary Witcher sport’s extra old-school method to expertise, or is how TW3 does issues second nature at this level and never one thing you’d need to tweak? Tell us beneath!
