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 assist, are actually dwell.
The Witcher 3 mods are plentiful already because of the discharge of Modkit in 2015. However Modkit is not REDkit: Whereas it allows customers to fiddle with what’s already within the recreation—flip Roach right into a unicorn, as an illustration—it would 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 may principally make your individual full-on enlargement.
“You’re about to get your palms on the identical set of instruments that RED builders used to create The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt nearly a decade in the past—refurbished and adjusted to the wants of modders!” CD Projekt mentioned within the launch announcement. “It’s an end-to-end answer that provides you larger freedom than ever earlier than in customising all components of the sport.”
To assist each mod makers and customers, the studio has additionally rolled out a devoted Witcher 3 REDkit web site and an in depth consumer information, and a sequence of video tutorials is on the way in which. The primary video, explaining the right way to set up Witcher 3 mods, is already dwell:
The addition of Steam Workshop assist 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 accessible and nothing adjustments for anybody who owns the sport on GOG and Epic. However something on Steam Workshop might be put in just by clicking a button and ready for the sport to replace.
A handful of mods are already accessible 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 fairly tough effort at this level. Extra important 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 in regards to the launch of REDkit for Witcher 3 and demonstrating a few of its capabilities—if making mods is your factor, you’ll be able to examine that out beneath.
