The Witcher 3 next-gen update includes some tweaks and disables others

The good news is that The Witcher 3It’s already a very pretty game, which is about to get even sweeter when you are The next generation update has been released. The bad news is that for anyone who plays the game on PC, a lot of your favorite mods from the past seven years are going wrong. work more.

Like CDPR Explanation in a blog post, “Updating a game means we’re changing different files, so mods that change exactly those files will stop working.” And when it came to making these updates, CDPR has prioritized changes that improve the core game, rather than keeping old stuff intact for mods.

Acknowledging that it’s been six years since the last major update to the PC version of the game, CDPR says it’s “time to get used to its favorite mods,” and so in an effort to make “this transition as smooth as possible” it compiled a list of some of the community’s favorite mods, and tested them out. , and share which ones work with the next-gen update and which ones don’t.

Some of them work! Unfortunately Many of them, especially those that rely on scripts, don’t. As CDPR says, “Because we change scripts in an update due to the addition of a new task, most script-based modifications will throw an error.” For depositors affected by this, a team of “modification experts” from CDPR will be on hand to “provide assistance and advice to depositors in post-release forums when possible.”

However, to mitigate this somewhat, the accompanying announcement indicates that the next-gen update will come with fan-made tweaks built-in at launch:

In addition, we include several popular mods in the update (they will be available depending on the platform). We have obtained permission from the creators, have refunded them, and they will appear in the updated game credits. Mods have been reworked and improved on assets as needed, and the game has been tweaked to work with it. There was even a case where a developer got so caught up in tinkering when including a mod that they ended up redoing that particular aspect of the game. So, in a way, the game comes with some mods already built in.

Nice ! Especially the recovery part.