CD Projekt Purple scrapped a popularity system throughout growth of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt however one fan has modded it again in.
Nexus Mods person FreakVIp created the Popularity System mod for The Witcher 3, which “restores the popularity idea that was lower by CDPR from the sport.” Whereas the sport is already stuffed with laborious decisions and butterfly impact penalties, this mod will see NPCs reply to Geralt in several areas relying on his conduct.
Finishing witcher contracts, profitable horse races, clearing monsters from deserted villages, and extra will all reward Geralt with Popularity Factors, whereas stealing and attacking guards will see Geralt lose factors. Actions in quests additionally have an effect on popularity.
5 ranks of popularity exist: Revered, Favored, Impartial, Disliked, and Hated. These “could have many influences to all types of actions” all through The Witcher 3, together with its economic system. If Geralt is revered in Skellige, he can get higher offers in outlets, extra gold for promoting gadgets, and so forth whereas there. If he is hated in Temeria, he’ll be charged extra for gadgets, see much less return on bets, and extra.
This mod comes after the discharge of REDkit: an official modding device for The Witcher 3 launched by CD Projekt in Might 2024. The developer introduced REDkit in November 2023, saying “it would help you create your personal experiences within the sport by making one thing utterly new or modifying present quests and content material.”
REDkit has thus far been used to create some wild and wacky mods for The Witcher 3, together with one which lets Geralt trip an unlimited fiend as a substitute of Roach and one other that recreates the unique sport in The Witcher 3’s engine forward of an official remake. Essentially the most thrilling addition thus far maybe comes by way of the invention of a scrapped ending sequence, which was revived utilizing the toolkit.
Mods would be the solely new content material coming to The Witcher 3 going ahead, in fact, as whereas the sport acquired a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S replace in December 2022, it in any other case will not get any extra official content material as CD Projekt focuses on its wealth of different incoming tasks.
The extremely anticipated subsequent mainline Witcher sport, codenamed Polaris, is at present in growth however will not arrive till 2025 on the absolute earliest, and possibly later. There are two different Witcher video games on the horizon too, together with the aforementioned remake of the unique The Witcher and a multiplayer spin-off.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
