The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has been getting immense amounts of attention over the last days, and with its release drawing nearer, anticipation among fans of the franchise grows even larger. Senior Game Designer, Damien Monnier, answered a lot of questions from fans on Twitter, revealing many more details for The Witcher 3.
A fan asked whether Andrzej Sapkowski, who was the original author, had any involvement in The Witcher 3, to which Monnier replied:
@FarbodSchariat He was involved at the beginning but since W3 is set after the books our writers took over.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
The Tattoo found in The Witcher 2 can be transferred to The Witcher 3 with PC Saves
@Thesamp yes with pc saves.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier was asked to share his thought on Dark Souls combat system, and whether it would work with the Witcher, to which he responded that combat in the Witcher is similar and that Dark Souls has been a big influence.
@AdeptuAstarte I love it, ours is similar in fact. Responsive, fast. Big influence for sure.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
He then goes on to explain that the game will be divided into acts and that quests will span between them.
@robertus54 we have acts,we don't specifically show which one you're in (just internal use for writers) & yes quests will spam between them.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
The free DLC that will be available for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, will not be small at all and will feature quests.
@Spike_Gold @fabiandoehla there will be quests too so not small at all 🙂
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier was asked to share the hardest technological challenge in the development of Witcher 3, to which he revealed that it was the amount of different NPCs being displayed on-screen.
@micha probably the amount of unique npcs being displayed on screen, all doing there own thing. That's a lot of thinking power.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
There will be some camera options, like zoom, but more could be added.
@SlaviaConsesiao you can play with the camera
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
@Rustine_C yeah zoom basically but we want to add more options last time I spoke to our guys.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
The armor sets in the Witcher 3 feature multiple tiers.
@charliezockt sets are, for the lack of better word, set. However they come in tiers. The 3 best armors in the game have 5 tiers each.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier goes on to reveal that Geralt's hair can also be customised.
@charliezockt hair too.beard growing is old (year old feature) and we actually forgot about it until somebody pointed it out.... 🙂
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Players will be able to use signs on horseback sa well.
@Sasha81466010 same. Wouldn't work to have a different system or keys. It works great right now as it is 🙂
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
There will be some fighting while on the boat, which is also destructible.
@charliezockt yes and yes and then storms will come and then you cry a little bit. Also boat is destructible so rocks are bad...
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier then assures one the fans that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, will be uncut in Germany.
@SteffenEfa 100% uncut
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
He then shares a lot of information on Ciri and her role in the game.
@charliezockt oh man she's bad ass. Faster, weaker but with some magic moves and abilities unique to her.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
@charliezockt yes she's different. Still 3rd person but she's faaaaaaast and I mean it. If you blink you'll miss her.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
@charliezockt specific moments in her story
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
@ozymandias8 they're not flash backs, sometimes you see (and play) her struggle as it happens.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
For newcomers to the franchise, The Witcher 3 will be very accessible.
@Spargelstecher2 very. We spent a lot of time making sure that new comers would be up to speed super quickly. Lot of play testing.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
A fan asks whether Yennefer's appearance from the Sword of Destiny trailer might be published as DLC to which he answers:
@Rustine_C it can, everything is possible when you do free dlc 🙂
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
The game could take over 200 hours for full completion.
@Ryldux mmmm hard to say, if you do everything I d say 200+ hours.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
NPCs will be affected by environments l conditions.
@charliezockt yes and yes at night - storms don't scare people.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
He states that the alchemy system in the game is cool and that more information will be revealed next week
@Shasserix alchemy system is cool, I'll talk about it more next week on the forum . No gnomes for you!
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier then talks about screenshot options for consoles and PC:
@Snacze mmm on consoles that's covered and pc you can bind key to take screen or did you mean moving camera as well + pause game?
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
@Snacze not without our devs only debugmode. let me bring this up with the team OK? You're not the 1st to ask so it must be important 🙂
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Some smaller objects in the Witcher 3 will move when hit.
@yeahh_28 yes some unless they're massive
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
Monnier then states that the January build that we saw in the demonstration is old and certain aspects have been improved.
@alibabcia111 January build is old. New stuff had been improved especially stormy seas.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
The PS4 version is doing great and Monnier assured fans not to worry.
@MadYarpen sometimes our fans understand us more than we can say. Don't worry about a thing. You have my word.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
When a fan asks whether it's better to play on a PC meeting the minimum requirements or on the Xbox One, he responds that he would choose the PC regardless of the settings , just for the higher resolution alone.
@wimonsehr @fabiandoehla mmmm tricky I'd need to compare both, even though xbox >minimum, but I'd say PC for the resolution alone.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
A fan asks when can we expect some information on Cyberpunk, for which CD Projekt have already mentioned that it won't be making an appearance at E3 2015, as they plan to focus on the Witcher 3 for the year. He replies:
@micha don't know to be honest, we want to focus on witcher right now and talk about cyberpunk later and yes he's been on board since day 1.
— Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015
These are some very exciting details, and I'm sure many more will be coming in the following days. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt releases on May 19 2015, for the Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC. We will bring any new information as soon as we get it. Be sure to check our previous coverage for a lot more inforamation on the game, here and here.
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