Huge Witcher 3 mod offering custom characters with new combat styles and quests predates CD Projekt’s own modding tools
An enormous new Witcher 3 mod permits you to create custom characters with all-new combat techniques and questlines, nevertheless it’s truly been within the works since lengthy earlier than CD Projekt launched its official modding tools.
Earlier this yr, CD Projekt launched REDkit for The Witcher 3, official modding tools permitting for gamers to create new characters, animations, objects, total questlines, and rather more. You’d suppose this is able to naturally open the floodgates for a lot of new, spectacular mods for The Witcher 3, which is nearing a decade previous at this level, however nonetheless going sturdy.
You’d be mistaken for assuming that is the case with ‘Custom Player Characters,’ a model new mod launched final week for The Witcher 3 (by way of VG247). This mod permits you to create your very own protagonist from scratch, switching out Geralt for the likes of a sorceress with their very own questlines, nevertheless it’s truly been within the works for over two and a half years.
“I spent 2.5+ years on making this mod, there were a bunch of tools which I used, including some which I had to write myself,” the mod’s creator, nikich340, writes on NexusMods. They won’t have used REDkit from scratch, however the modder provides that “Redkit was helpful in fixing some animation bugs on last development stages,” so it was nonetheless made good use of.
So what’s the large new mod able to? Besides from creating your own protagonist from scratch, you may select whether or not they’re a Witcher, giving them Geralt’s gear and quests, or a sorceress, offering new voice performing, objects, weapons, spells, and a full questline within the course of. It’s “made on the edge of modding possibilities,” nikich340 claims, and I’m not about to problem them on that.
You can see a whole introductory trailer for Custom Player Characters slightly below, through which present characters like Eskel and Philippa Eilhart are made playable, in addition to model new characters utilizing the creation tools the mod has arrange. There’s additionally an illustration of the new spell-based combat system for sorceresses, which seems nothing wanting chic.
Unfortunately, an non-obligatory a part of the mod – known as ‘Custom Player Characters – Female Voices for Geralt‘ – makes use of AI to generate new voices for protagonists by combining Geralt’s voice with that of Ciri, Triss, and Yen. The mod’s creator has disabled donations by way of this mod, as a result of they do not wish to be accused of monetization of actor’s voices.
Voice actors have spent years talking out in opposition to the risks of using AI expertise to generate voice strains. Earlier this yr, actors from Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher 3, and Final Fantasy 16 spoke out in opposition to AI stealing the voices of actors, and the studio behind Smite walked again a contract that may let it replicate the voices of deceased actors after a robust public outcry.
Another Witcher 3 mod provides lower content material again into the RPG, and this time it is boat races which were lurking within the recreation recordsdata for almost 10 years.
