The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

The Witcher 3 crashes, bugs and fixes

The Witcher 3 launched this week, with CD Projekt Red opening up the gates of its intimidating, huge open world. Despite an extended period of bug stomping and a day one patch, it's not just monsters that plague the Northern Kingdoms; there are plenty of bugs as well.

We'll be posting major launch bugs here, and updating them with fixes as they crop up, so keep checking back if you find yourself beset with issues.

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Massive Witcher 3 mod overhauls just about every aspect of combat

With the exception of a few tough fights toward the end, you can get away with quite a bit of button-mashing in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. But that's not the case with a mod called The Enhanced Edition, which retools enemy stats and completely changes the way fighting happens in the game. The final version of the mod, 3.30, is available for download now.

Find out why The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is on our list of the best RPGs available on PC.

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This Witcher 3 mod improves "almost every graphic aspect of the game"

The Witcher 3 is already very pretty, but that hasn't stopped one modder from spending nearly four years giving the game a fresh lick of paint. The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project received its latest major update last night, making Geralt's adventures across the continent more beautiful than ever.

According to modder HalkHoganPL, the aim of the mod is "to improve the graphics by reworking models and textures," all while preserving both CDPR's original art style and the game's overall performance. The mod was first uploaded in November 2015, but yesterday, HalkHogan shipped update 10.0.

That new update reworked 1,000 new textures, and improved on 250 character models, and you can take a closer look at some of those changes in the video further down this article. All of the comparisons are impressive, but most striking is the increased quality of the Redanian guard's armor, and I'm excited to see some of the game's central characters get a similar treatment.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt system requirements will test even the biggest of rigs

You're going to need to find a nice cool place in your house, start packing the walls and ceiling with ice, and layer the floor with heatsinks and cooling trays. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt's system specs have been revealed and that game's going to make you computer run hot.

I'm looking through the minimum specs and the only thing my desktop can manage is the 40GB of hard drive space.

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This Witcher 3 mod adds a new standalone quest to wrap up Blood and Wine

If you've bested The Witcher 3 - and by Witcher 3, I mean the RPG game's full experience, two expansions and all - you'll have encountered Orianna's quest, Blood Simple. Featured as a possible main quest in the game's second DLC, Blood and Wine, it ends with something of a loose end - but now a new standalone quest mod aims to tell the tale to its end. Spoilers ahead, folks.

Nikich340's Witcher 3 new quest mod is called A Night To Remember, and it continues Orianna's questline beyond where Blood and Wine stops - so, after the point at which Geralt lets the vampire go, having vowed to deal with her should they ever cross paths again. It's described as a "completely new adventure featuring characters new and old", with "new writing, cutscenes, voice acting, assets, a special reward, and some difficult decisions..." Gulp.

What this new adventure - and these tricky new decisions - might bring exactly aren't detailed on the mod's page, but you can get a flavour of the quest in the clip below. Plus, the creator notes in the mod's comments that "after completing the quest you may try [...]other variants in main dialogue scenes to get another ending", so it sounds like there'll be different outcomes at its conclusion. Neat.

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