The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

This new Witcher 3 mod makes relic weapons worth hunting down

The Witcher 3, for everything it does right, has always been a little lacking when it comes to the loot department. "Here is my family's ancestral sword. Take it Geralt, for you have saved us all," someone would say. A few levels later, it's useless and you're forced to sell it for booze money. No more, says modder Zowbaid. "The Essential Weapon Rework Mod" makes special weapons actually feel special.

"Now, when you find a Relic out in the world, you'll actually feel that level of excitement you're meant to feel discovering a high-tier piece of gear in an RPG," says Zowbaid. Each Relic feels "unique and different" the modder goes on to explain. Some have boosted stats, whereas others are tailored towards specific flavours of Geralt build. It's not all serious, though, as Zowbaid explains some of them are "just all-out crazy and fun combinations". Sounds like a good time. Much like this comically large spoon.

Relic weapons, in case you needed a refresher, are those shiny brown-coloured doodads with unique names. The mod also makes changes to the Witcher school weapons, and scales with NG+.

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This Witcher 3 retexture mod has been updated to look even better, again

Given how gorgeous The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is out of the box, it's amazing to see how much effort modders have devoted to making it look even better. Modder Halk Hogan PL has been working on his HD textures mod since 2015, and the latest version gives the Witcher 3's environmental textures and models a remarkable amount of extra pop and depth, while staying faithful to the original design.

Hogan has gone back through and added additional fidelity to just about all 3D rocks and stones in the game, and done an "Ultra HD" pass on power stones, palisades, bricks, thatched roofs and stone walls, metal cages, torches, cobblestones, and more.

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In Toussaint, the area featured in the Blood & Wine DLC, he's also improved the look of water in sewers, puddles, and brooks.

It's an impressive achievement: the Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project really does make a big difference in the Witcher 3's environments. Stones genuinely look, well, stonier. You can see other improvements in the before-and-after comparison video (below), such as increased detail on pine boughs, and metal textures looking less like battered chrome and more like real iron tools.

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The Witcher 3 is getting an upgraded next-gen version - free if you own it already

CD Projekt Red's 2015 RPG masterpiece The Witcher 3 is getting an "enhanced" version which will launch on next-gen consoles, the studio has announced. And the good news is players based on our home platform won't be left behind - the RPG game's upgraded version is also coming to PC, and it'll be completely free if you already own the game.

"The Witcher 3 is coming to the next generation!" CDPR's post on Twitter announces. "A visually and technically enhanced version of the game will be available for purchase for PC and next-gen consoles", it says, adding that it'll come as a "free update" for owners of the game across PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

As for what the enhanced version entails, the developer reveals in a post on the open-world game's site that it's been developed to "take advantage of the most powerful gaming hardware". It will feature "a range of visual and technical improvements", for example the addition of ray tracing and quicker loading times, which apply across not only The Witcher 3 base game, but its two DLC expansions - Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine - and "all extra content".

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is coming to the next generation!

We’re working on the next generation edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt!

Developed to take advantage of the most powerful gaming hardware, the next-gen edition of the game will feature a range of visual and technical improvements — including ray tracing, HDR and faster loading times — across the base game, both expansions, and all extra content.

The next generation edition of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will release as a standalone purchase, as well as a free update for everyone who already owns the game.

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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