As promised earlier this month—and commemorated forever by information author Joshua Wolens, who noticed match to mark the second with a haunting picture of Bathtub Zoltan Chivay—the REDkit modding instruments for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and full Steam Workshop help, at the moment are stay.
The Witcher 3 mods are plentiful already because of the discharge of Modkit in 2015. However Modkit is not REDkit: Whereas it permits customers to fiddle with what’s already within the sport—flip Roach right into a unicorn, for example—it does not allow the creation of solely new content material. REDkit does, together with quests, cutscenes, environments, and extra, which is what makes the rollout such an enormous deal: Throw Doug Cockle a couple of bucks and you can mainly make your personal full-on enlargement.
“You’re about to get your arms on the identical set of instruments that RED builders used to create The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt virtually a decade in the past—refurbished and adjusted to the wants of modders!” CD Projekt stated within the launch announcement. “It’s an end-to-end answer that provides you greater freedom than ever earlier than in customising all components of the sport.”
To help each mod makers and customers, the studio has additionally rolled out a devoted Witcher 3 REDkit web site and an in depth person information, and a collection of video tutorials is on the best way. The primary video, explaining learn how to set up Witcher 3 mods, is already stay:
The addition of Steam Workshop help in The Witcher 3 is separate from the REDkit launch however clearly very complementary as a result of it dramatically simplifies the method of putting in and utilizing them. It is nonetheless doable to obtain and set up mods manually from platforms like Nexus Mods, so they continue to be out there and nothing modifications for anybody who owns the sport on GOG and Epic. However something on Steam Workshop will be put in just by clicking a button and ready for the sport to replace.
A handful of mods are already out there on Steam, though nothing too main at this level: One provides blood spatter to fight, whereas one other provides Geralt glowing Witcher eyes; there’s one which provides Triss’ Witcher 2 outfit as her default look, and one other that brings again the boat design that was apparently seen in pre-release Witcher 3 promo supplies. Over on Nexus Mods, there is a REDkit-made mod that brings a number of Witcher 1 maps into The Witcher 3, though it is apparently a reasonably tough effort at this level. Extra vital mods will naturally take extra time, however I’ve little question we’ll be seeing them quickly sufficient.
CD Projekt additionally held a livestream yesterday speaking concerning the launch of REDkit for Witcher 3 and demonstrating a few of its capabilities—if making mods is your factor, you may examine that out beneath.
