Talk about Polish hospitality — I’ve never heard tell of a game developer who takes as good care of their customers as Eastern Europe’s CD Projekt. While we don’t have the unprecedented complete re-localization of The Witcher quite yet, Patch 1.3 should more than keep us busy.
In addition to fixing a host of random crashes, bugs and pathfinding issues (finally!) the patch actually adds additional gameplay in the form of a two-hour quest called “The Price of Neutrality” that features interaction with other Witchers:
Populated with new NPC’s and other new graphical assets, the adventure takes the player into the little explored outskirts of Kaer Morhen in a compelling story with tough decisions and more than one possible ending.
If that’s not enough, how about creating your own adventure? CD Projekt also made a beta version of the D’jinni Adventure Editor downloadable today, and if this press release is to be believed it’s more than just a level editor.
The English language D’jinni beta adventure editor will let fans craft complete new adventures for Geralt using the existing graphical assets, maps and environments in the game. By creating new stories, cut-scenes, graphical effects, dialogue and gameplay actions, users of the adventure editor can let their imaginations run wild predicting the turmoil and tests waiting in Geralt’s future, or even filling in the missing years between the close of Andrzej Sapkowski’s last Witcher novel and the start of the game.
While “existing graphical assets” turns us off a little bit, the prospects for machinima in particular are exciting.
Now for the bad news — you can kiss your save games goodbye. Buried in the patch release notes is the following warning:
WARNING! The Witcher 1.3 Module Edition is only partially compatible with saved games from previous versions (1.0, 1.1a, 1.2). Loading older saved games is still possible but may lead to unexpected behavior and other problems. The players are advised to restart the game from the beginning using The Witcher 1.3 Module Edition.
I’d planned to restart the game anyhow once proper localization had allowed me to re-suspend my disbelief… but I just can’t see myself playing through the game a third time. Bring it on, 1.4!
Tags: Andrzej Sapkowski, CD Projekt, Patch, The Witcher
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