The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

This Witcher 3 mod restores drowners to their E3 2014 style

Taking The Witcher 3 and tweaking parts of it to get it closer to the version of the RPG game shown at E3 2014 - the year before its launch - is something fans have had fun with for a while. Now, a modder has decided to target the game's swampy zones (and its scaly inhabitants) to restore the game's retro - well, pre-launch - look.

If you remember the gameplay shown on the floor at the 2014 videogame show, you'll recall the swamp area and its peskiest beasties, drowners, had a bit of a different style compared to the versions that shipped with the final game (don't worry, we've included it below if you need another look). The drowners in particular seemed to have had a darker, more muted colour to their scaly skins, making them blend more easily with the - equally darker - backdrop of the early demo's misty swamps. The final ones in The Witcher 3 appear to have more brightly coloured skins than the demo's, with stronger tones of pink and blue, and different textures overall.

Modder WT3WD's new 'E3 Drowners' Witcher 3 mod uses "high-quality 3D models" to bring the critters closer to the E3 2014 gameplay versions, and the effect is noticeably different.

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The Witcher 3 new patch helps keep things stable

Witcher 3 players, that stability patch you've been demanding is here. Just two days after launch, CD Projekt Red have released patch 1.03 to help keep The Witcher 3 completely stable and free it from some of its launch bugs.

If you had problem with Nvidia Hairworks, post-process settings, or the UI, these and many more issues are addressed in this patch.

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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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