The Witcher 3 Next Gen Update Adds New Side Quest

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen replace brings new content material to get pleasure from, which features a model new facet quest titled In The Everlasting Hearth’s Shadow, graphical updates, new appearances, and extra. This replace will go stay on December 14, 2022. 

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was initially launched on Could 18, 2015, and solely grew in recognition as soon as the tv adaption of the franchise was launched in 2019. The primary protagonist within the collection is known as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter that has been mutated by magic. Those that endure from this mutation and bear intense coaching change into often known as Witchers, and spend their days searching essentially the most magnificent beasts and horrendous monsters identified to humankind. Although Geralt is ready for even essentially the most terrifying of beasts, he isn’t ready for individuals who look like much more horrible than any beasts he has encountered, making it exhausting for him to search out his place on the planet. 

With the newest replace to the sport comes new content material for followers of the franchise to get pleasure from. We first realized about this replace again in 2020 for launch in 2021. It then got here out that it could be delayed as soon as extra to 2022, however now we now have an official launch date for the elusive replace in addition to a full checklist of options. One characteristic that was included was really fairly stunning; a brand new facet quest. As of proper now, there aren’t many particulars about this facet quest obtainable, however we do know that you’ll want to enterprise to Velen to begin the brand new quest as soon as the replace goes stay. The rewards that you may acquire for finishing this new quest are impressed by the Netflix tv collection, The Witcher. 

On prime of the brand new facet quest, new appearances have been added, which had been additionally impressed by the Netflix collection. This consists of an alternate look for Dandelion and an different Nilfgaardian Armor set. Each of those appearances could be toggled on and off within the “Choices” menu, the place you’ll choose “Gameplay” to allow them.

There have additionally been a couple of updates to the sport’s graphics, for each PC and Console. Ray-traced international illumination and ambient occlusion have been added to each platforms, in addition to community-made and community-inspired mods to convey the gameplay up a notch. The mods that will probably be included within the replace are The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Mission by HalkHogan, HD Monsters Reworked by Denroth, Immersive Actual-time Cutscenes by teiji25, and World Map Fixes by Terg500. There are extra mods to return with the replace, however as of proper now they haven’t been talked about. 

There have been a number of wonderful options added for ambiance and immersion, together with environmental enhancements, 4k graphic optimization and so many extra we will not checklist all of them right here. To learn the complete checklist of options which have been added, head to the official Witcher web site.