Essays 27 January 2017, 15:03

The best mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – January 2017 Edition

Although mod support is not the biggest asset of The Witcher 3, there’s still an active modder community surrounding the game by CD Projekt RED. Check out the best fan-made mods that came out since the release of The Wild Hunt.

Skilled Humans – the bandits learn how to handle a sword

Skilled Humans:

Creator: WonDoe
Size: 1.1 MB
Release date: September 2016
Current version: 1.4 (October 2016)

As the old saying goes, “nec Hercules contra plures”, which – freely interpreted by Sheldon Skaggs – means that “every swordsman’s an arse when the enemy’s not sparse”. However, there is no empirical evidence supporting this maxim in The Witcher 3 – in fact, more appropriate saying seems to go along the lines of “every swordsman’s and arse, period”. Fortunately, this aspect of the game is already under the modders’ scrutiny: Skilled Humans revamps the combat algorithms of human and anthropomorphic opponents that use melee weapons (bandits, guards, soldiers, giants etc.), hence making them much more challenging.

How does it work exactly? With this mod, the enemies block and counter much more often, don’t open their guard so foolishly and are quicker and more aggressive. In addition to that, they can also use some of the moves, which thus far were available only to the player: dodging, strong or quick strikes, and a modified version of rend, which can break Geralt’s guard). Bottom line – Skilled Humans is for everyone who is bothered by human folly (and low difficulty) in The Witcher 3.