The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

This "excessively vast" Witcher 3 mod adds a ton of new enemies and armour

The Witcher 3 has many mods that help bring small measures of joy to players, such as making Dandelion "younger and cuter", and allowing Yennefer to barge her way into Geralt's sex scenes. But few mods bring such "excessively vast" amounts of content to the game as the new Shades of Iron content pack.

Modders Amasiuncula, Ard Carraigh, Menschfeind, and Kayjay spent five months creating the mod which has 542 brand-new items and 125 formidable new enemies. Of the 542 new items, 18 are exotic armour sets for Geralt and eight are new armour sets for female characters that you can use to fight against the brand-new enemies. Each piece of armour has newly-introduced mechanics which greatly mix up character customisation options and playstyles.

Currently, the new enemies aren't placed in the world due to balance issues. "In time, the enemies included in Shades of Iron will roam the world. Maliciously. Waiting for your arrival," the developers let people know in a recent article. You can find full details of the enemies you can expect to see soon in the same post.

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Netflix's The Witcher pauses filming on Season 2 due to COVID-19 outbreak on-set

Filming has been halted on Season 2 of Netflix's The Witcher after several crew-members tested positive for COVID-19. This is the second time production has been affected by the ongoing pandemic.

Per Deadline, four people involved on-set have been diagnosed with the virus. As such, cameras have been packed away for the time-being so everyone can be appropriately tested. Nobody on the lead cast was among the four whose tests came back positive, and filming won't resume until Netflix believes the set is completely safe.

The second season of the TV show based on the RPG games is being produced in Arborfield Studios in London, where filming was paused once before, in March. That break ended up running into August due to prolonged lockdown restrictions in the UK. The stop-start schedule has led to further complications, as the actor originally cast to play Eskel, Thue Ersted Rasmussen, had to step away due to a scheduling conflict, replaced by Basil Eidenbenz. Hopefully that was the first and last casting swap the series needs to make.

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This Witcher 3 mod makes Dandelion "younger and cuter"

The Witcher 3's Dandelion is, to put it lightly, an acquired taste. A philanderer, schemer, and a ruddy poet to boot, it's a miracle that CD Projekt Red was able to make him tolerable, let alone likeable. He's in his 40s by the time Wild Hunt rolls around, and his growing maturity is a large part of his character arc. Now, however, you'll have the option to significantly de-age the boisterous bard using a simple mod.

Creator Dia's retextured Dandelion strips him of his wrinkles and aims to make him appear "younger and cuter". Whatever you think of his smoothed-out face, surely we can all agree that the missing moustache is no great loss?

What you're seeing in the screenshot below is a combination of several mods. There's the facial retexture mod mentioned above, UncleArtr's beardless Dandelion mod, and fenutus' recoloured outfit. He now resembles a man half his age, which might not make a ton of sense in the context of the game's story but might work well on a second, third, or - if you're me - fourth playthrough.

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This Witcher 2 mod lets Geralt and Yennefer get married in a series epilogue

Regardless of what happens in the rest of The Witcher games, one modder has decided Geralt and Yennefer will get a happy ending. This mod for The Witcher 2 will give an epilogue to the whole series, that lets Geralt of Rivia settle down, once and for all.

Called The Witcher: Farewell of the White Wolf, the mod acts as a piece of story DLC, with three days of questing for Geralt and Yennefer's wedding. Friends and guests from through-out the RPG game's storied history will pop in to see the two find a quiet life together. "It tells about a wedding of Geralt of Rivia and Yennefer of Vengerberg, two people destined to each other, who finally found a little peace," the description on Nexus reads. "During three days (and even more than that) of adventures, you're going to see the returns of Geralt's closest friends, unexpected guests, interesting stories, and more than just one romance."

Scripting and development has been going on since 2015, three main developers, Konrad Chlasta, Kamil Leniart, and Patryk Adamkiewicz, working with several other contributors for the translations, music, and design. Six languages are available, and the Nexus page lists some known bugs in case something goes wrong.

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The best RPG games on PC

What are the best RPG games on PC? And yes, we're aware that RPG already stands for role-playing games, but apparently the wider internet isn't. Either way, it's not an easy question to answer, especially given the number of them out there and the hours required to beat them - we're talking 50+ hours most of the time...

Plus, as a stalwart PC genre that came into existence in the '70s, videogame RPGs have changed a lot over the years, with their upgrade trees and rulesets branching out into practically every other genre. Their scale and scope is massive like never before, with tech finally starting to catch up to the ambitions of developers, allowing for huge worlds and entirely new RPG experiences.

The diversity of the RPG nowadays is hard to express. Just in our selection below we've got interplanetary exploration, lightsaber duels, bloodthirsty vampires, irradiated mutants who need to be beaten with golf clubs, lizards who can talk to cats, and a whole lot of dice rolling if that's your jam.

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