CD Projekt RED has just announced that it will release a free mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. This mod editor will be coming exclusively to the PC, and it will become available in 2024.
CDPR claims that this mod editor will allow you to create your own experiences in the game. Modders will be able to create new quests and content for the game. Additionally, they will be able to edit existing quests and change them.
We're thrilled to announce that we're working on a mod editor for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt! ⚔️
It will allow you to create your own experiences in the game by making something completely new or editing existing quests and content. We’re planning on releasing it for free in 2024.… pic.twitter.com/e2kvXRqegZ
— The Witcher (@witchergame) November 15, 2023
CD Projekt RED will share more news about this free mod editor next year. But here’s the thing – they didn’t say if it’s just for the Next-Gen Version or if it will work with the Legacy Version too. So, we’ll have to wait and see.
Speaking of The Witcher 3 Next-Gen, there are some other cool mods you might want to check out. Like, there’s this awesome first-person mod you can grab. And get this – the Characters Reworked Project makes over 100 characters look way better. Oh, and don’t forget about the mod that lets you go on a wild NPC-killing spree. Back in the summer, we talked about a mod that brings back stuff cut from the older Witcher games. And there’s more – the HD Reworked Project NextGen Edition is another must-have mod. There’s also a mod to improve the game’s combat. Last but not least, there are 8K Texture Packs for Ciri, Triss Merigold, Geralt and Yennefer.
Stay tuned for more!
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That’s CDPR, encouraging mods and PC community for years. Then, there’s R*…
It’s damn pitiful the way CDPR is wallowing around regret. Just make a great game again. You know that you can do it. You’ve done it before. Just do it.
Also, stop abusing the hell out of your staff or you will possibly lose your government aid package.
90% of the original polish devs are no longer working there.
This is not the same studio anymore.
cpdur buys ip’s and so they need to just buy another one that fits their hermetic pov, they’re not an originator studio of anything but making a game and they took 2 witcher swings to get to the home run with 3 which was also almost unplayabe until a bunch of patches when it released, crashed every 20mins for me. As others have said here the talent is long gone there, the cyberpunk game that was promised might have actually made it in cp2 or 3 if they had kept the core team there and not switched to UE5 but it’s all just a shyster earnings and forecasts game so we’ll get shallow junk which is given 10s by AI bots and paid shills for 80$+ that need a 6090 to play smoothly lol
You actually think the same people are working there?
Witcher 1 to Witcher 3 had a ton of people fired replaced.
Post Cyberpunk, the remnants of the old crew that made Witcher 1 are all gone including the founder and the staff they hired for Witcher 3 are gone as well.
Most of the og devs have left while at the same a lot of ubis#t rejects was hired at cd projekt
The guy that did side quest design and the choice system in Witcher 3, including the infamous Geralt gets chained to a bed scene if he tries to romance both Yen and Triss and the entire questline where you help Triss get all the mages out of Novigrad but left after Witcher 3 was complete and then got hired on by Ubisoft as a side quest designer and designed the choice system in AC Odyssey. He wrote the side quest where if you choose to save a family then you unleash a plague that nearly wipes out Kephallonia later in the game. He also wrote the Kyra questline which was a major side quest in the game.
Holy smokes. I remember the founder and CEO (Marcin Iwinski) promising this feature on their forums a while before was Witcher 3 released, but eventually only some simple tools were released to edit game files.
Witcher 2 had better mod tools than Witcher 3.
It’s not too far fetched that they could also release Cyberpunk 2077 version, since it’s basically the same engine.
yeah a creation kit would be nice for cp77, the modder deceptious over on nexus has done some great work on actually adding quests to that game, but they’re just simple stuff as anything more would not be feasible by just one modder’s limited time. TW3 prob hit a sales plateau so then supporting more complex modding makes sense from that pov, you need to have the game to use the mods obviously. However likely nothing will come from this, vague “next year” wording means little but a puff of air.
Better mod tools in Witcher 2? For cripes sakes to use multiple mods that touch the same file (And most scripted mods used the same file) you had to extract the script and manually merge them with the mod scripts in Notepad++ or similar text editor then put it back together. It’s a royal pain in the a*s and often times you wouldn’t find out you had a bad merge until several hours into the game. With Witcher 3 they set the game up differently by introducing a “compile at runtime” scripting engine which made it a lot easier to edit and automate merges
That left most users with not being able to use multiple mods or having to use some prebundled mods but those always include things you don’t want and are missing other things you do want ….. Proof of that is there are 6,288 mods for Witcher 3 but only 535 for Witcher 2
Better late than ever I guess
But it’s been 8 years, why now?
Pretty much what I was thinking.
Simple the Red Engine is officially retired with the release of Phantom Liberty so I and other asked them nicely to release some of the development tools since it was going to be retired anyway.
Did you ask Joe for it?
As far as I know Joe Pesci isn’t into PC gaming ….. But Joe bless you for asking …..
9 years later
They must want to get some press to boost sales maybe for some earnings report or some other reason because it’s not because cpdurtards care too much about gamers, how so many eat that turd sandwich still is fubar. It took them a long time after release of cp77 to just come out with redmod a mod manager, which most major mods for that game don’t use, not to mention there was no need with nexus mod manager, but it’s always better to manually mod imo. And the UE5 switch is going to cut mods way back.
Better late than never.
There could potentially be some interesting story mods now that AI is able to voice lines of dialog in the same voice as the Geralt’s voice actor. However, the core gameplay is still pretty basic.
Something that I pushed for since Witcher 3 Next Gen came out. I have asked a few times that since they are retiring the Red Engine after the Phantom Liberty they should open up some of the development tools for modders to work with and extend the life of Witcher 3 until Witcher 4 comes out.
Looks like they actually listened
Hope modders go crazy with this.
Some of you people must just wake up and eat cornflakes and piss for breakfast every morning. I bet your kids disappoint you too, assuming you’re actually old enough to have them. I’ve never seen a group of more grumpy, cynical, airbags in one place outside of DSO but then, I don’t go looking for it either.
Don’t let the door hit your a$s on the way out.
Who the f*k told you I’m leaving? I assume since you took offense, you’re “some of you people”.
Nailed it ……
ESG investment is starting to crash and burn, but CDP had already gone all in.
I fully expect SweetBaby Inc to be all up in there “massaging” the writing for their next game. It’ll be super pozzed.