CD Projekt Crimson scrapped a status system throughout growth of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt however one fan has modded it again in.
Nexus Mods person FreakVIp created the Fame System mod for The Witcher 3, which “restores the status idea that was lower by CDPR from the sport.” Whereas the sport is already stuffed with exhausting decisions and butterfly impact penalties, this mod will see NPCs reply to Geralt in several areas relying on his conduct.
Finishing witcher contracts, profitable horse races, clearing monsters from deserted villages, and extra will all reward Geralt with Fame Factors, whereas stealing and attacking guards will see Geralt lose factors. Actions in quests additionally have an effect on status.
5 ranks of status exist: Revered, Favored, Impartial, Disliked, and Hated. These “can have many influences to all types of actions” all through The Witcher 3, together with its economic system. If Geralt is revered in Skellige, he can get higher offers in outlets, extra gold for promoting gadgets, and so forth whereas there. If he is hated in Temeria, he’ll be charged extra for gadgets, see much less return on bets, and extra.
This mod comes after the discharge of REDkit: an official modding instrument for The Witcher 3 launched by CD Projekt in Might 2024. The developer introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it’s going to assist you to create your personal experiences within the recreation by making one thing utterly new or modifying current quests and content material.”
REDkit has to date been used to create some wild and wacky mods for The Witcher 3, together with one which lets Geralt trip an infinite fiend as an alternative of Roach and one other that recreates the unique recreation in The Witcher 3’s engine forward of an official remake. Essentially the most thrilling addition to date maybe comes by means of 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 acquired a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection 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 initiatives.
The extremely anticipated subsequent mainline Witcher recreation, codenamed Polaris, is at present in growth however will not arrive till 2025 on the absolute earliest, and doubtless 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.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.