As rumors continue to swirl about the potential of a brand new thriller DLC for The Witcher 3, modders have overwhelmed CD Projekt RED to the punch with a brand new fan-made Ciri story quest. It’s even set in the identical area as The Witcher 4: the mountainous kingdom of Kovir and Poviss. “We got The Witcher 4 before The Witcher 4,” as one Nexus Mods consumer places it.
As followers watch for information of CD Projekt Pink’s subsequent open-world RPG, modder Alexander Fandera-Maslov was in a position to end the unofficial The Witcher 4 tie-in mission known as Dawn over Kovir (through Rock Paper Shotgun). The mod was “inspired by The Witcher 4’s Cinematic Reveal Trailer” and thus places gamers into the sneakers of Geralt’s surrogate daughter as she embarks on her personal world-weary monster-hunting journey.
Based on Fandera, the mod will take roughly “between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours to complete,” and duties gamers with a brand new custom-made quest within the mountainous Northern kingdom stuffed with mines. Daybreak over Kovir doesn’t characteristic English voice performing, however English subtitles can be found. Fandera says that an upcoming 1.0 replace “will refine animations and gameplay components, and add voice acting.” Hopefully it doesn’t use generative AI to make that occur.
It might be a pleasant distraction to tide followers over till CD Projekt Pink releases one thing new on the earth of The Witcher. Noble Securities analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski claimed on January 7 through Eurogamer that he’s “100 percent certain CDPR will release significant new content this year” so as to shut the hole in its present gross sales incentive program. Hypothesis based mostly on these claims and different alleged leads have prompt {that a} DLC, if it finally ends up present, may function a kind of bridge between the occasions of the final sport and The Witcher 4.
That sport doesn’t sound set to return out for another year or two at the earliest. In the meantime, CD Projekt Pink is presently engaged on bringing mods to the console variations of The Witcher 3. Even when the alleged thriller DLC doesn’t turn into actual, gamers will nonetheless have the ability to give Daybreak over Kovir a attempt for themselves on console quickly sufficient.
