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.
Table of Contents
- The best mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – January 2017 Edition
- Preparations – before you start downloading
- The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge – new adventures ersatz
- Witcher Book Collection – more books to read
- Forgotten Worlds – revisit fantastical worlds
- Random Encounters – even more dangerous trail
- Better Call Ciri – second playable character
- Gwent Plus Plus, or Gwent: Enhanced Edition
- Skilled Humans – the bandits learn how to handle a sword
- The Gwent Card Dealer – buy ‘em all!
- All Quest Objectives on Map – the most useful small mod
- Extra Animations – not very useful but utterly awesome
- Witcher 2 Gear – so classy!
- Lore-friendly Witchers – Less-friendly (looking) Witchers
- Immersive Cam – The Witcher 3 in FPP, and all your camera might wish for
- The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project – textures sharp as a witcher’s sword
The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge – new adventures ersatz
- Creator: smalldjo / AeroHD
- Size: 1.4 MB
- Release date: February 2016
- Current version: 2.2.1 (July 2016 – requires an „unofficial” update)
We begin with a mod that will only add fuel to the burning passion of all the anti-witcherists who seem to regard The Wild Hunt as an MMO game… despite the mod itself being the closest thing to new adventure quests we can get (at least for now). As the name suggests, the mod introduces daily quests to the Witcher universe. Each day, at midnight, a random monster hunting contract will appear on one of the message boards across Velen, Novigrad or Skellige areas. Once you accept the task, Gaunter O’Dimm himself will appear before you and, after a short conversation, invite you to take part in his game.
Those one-day contracts come with a bit of gambling. As you accept the task, you also decide your reward – the stakes of a bet. If you hunt down the beast before midnight (its location is more or less marked on the map), you’ll get double the amount of money; otherwise, you get nothing. While not the most refined form of entertainment, the contracts can provide a decent amount of fun (and money), not to mention some sense of purpose after having cleared the map of “legitimate” quests. To be honest, installing this mod before you’ve cleared the game world is kind of pointless – mostly because, if you do, you can only keep guessing which of the yellow-glowing message boards features your new midnight contract.
- The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge on Nexus Mods
- Updated mod version included in Unofficial 1.30–1.31 Mod Update Project
- Download this mod from Gamepressure.com
Installation guide
Caution! I don’t recommend installing this one through Nexus Mod Manager. I ended up with damaged game files, so it’s better to copy the mod files manually.
- As the mod is incompatible with the 1.31 version, it would be best to download it not from the official website but with the Unofficial 1.30-1.31 Mod Update Project package – find „Daily Monster Hunt – for patch 1.30.7z” on the files list and download it.
- Place the contents of the archive inside your main Witcher 3 folder (not the „Mods” subfolder)
The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge tends to act up when paired with the mod Better Call Ciri (described in detail later on). If you intend to install both of them, remember that the daily contracts are generated separately (in different locations) for Geralt and Ciri, but only one of them can take part in the challenge at a given time. Additionally, Script Merger detects a script conflict between the mods, and it would be a good idea to get rid of it (even if it doesn’t prevent you from launching the game).
