Witcher 3 Will get A Ciri Fan Mod To Bridge The Hole With Witcher 4 – Gameplay, Leaks & Tech

As rumors proceed to swirl about the opportunity of a brand new thriller DLC for The Witcher 3, modders have crushed CD Projekt RED to the punch with a brand new fan-made Ciri story quest. It’s even set in the identical area as The Witcher 4: the mountainous kingdom of Kovir and Poviss. “We received The Witcher 4 earlier than The Witcher 4,” as one Nexus Mods person places it.

As followers look ahead to information of CD Projekt Crimson’s subsequent open-world RPG, modder Alexander Fandera-Maslov was capable of end the unofficial The Witcher 4 tie-in mission referred to as Daybreak over Kovir (through Rock Paper Shotgun). The mod was “impressed by The Witcher 4’s Cinematic Reveal Trailer” and thus places gamers into the footwear of Geralt’s surrogate daughter as she embarks on her personal world-weary monster-hunting journey. 

In keeping with Fandera, the mod will take roughly “between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours to finish,” and duties gamers with a brand new custom-made quest within the mountainous Northern kingdom filled with mines. Daybreak over Kovir doesn’t function English voice appearing, however English subtitles can be found. Fandera says that an upcoming 1.0 replace “will refine animations and gameplay parts, and add voice appearing.” Hopefully it doesn’t use generative AI to make that occur. 

It may very well be a pleasant distraction to tide followers over till CD Projekt Crimson releases one thing new on the planet of The Witcher. Noble Securities analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski claimed on January 7 through Eurogamer that he’s “100% sure CDPR will launch vital new content material this yr” with the intention to shut the hole in its present gross sales incentive program. Hypothesis based mostly on these claims and different alleged leads have advised {that a} DLC, if it finally ends up current, might function a kind of bridge between the occasions of the final sport and The Witcher 4.

That sport doesn’t sound set to return out for one more yr or two on the earliest. In the meantime, CD Projekt Crimson is at present engaged on bringing mods to the console variations of The Witcher 3. Even when the alleged thriller DLC doesn’t grow to be actual, gamers will nonetheless be capable to give Daybreak over Kovir a strive for themselves on console quickly sufficient.