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
Witcher 2 Gear – so classy!
- Creator: Holgar96 / Valas991
- Size: 143.2 MB
- Release date: February 2016
- Current version: 3.0 (March 2016 – requires an “unofficial” update)
I wouldn’t dare say there’s anything wrong with the wicked armors in The Witcher 3, but the mods adding more gear for Geralt are so abundant that I felt obliged to mention at least one of these. I chose to write about a particularly bulky and interesting project – The Witcher 2 Gear. The name is rather self-explanatory: it introduces gear from The Witcher 2 into The Witcher 3. More precisely – it swaps selected armors from the vanilla game. If you’re afraid this mod will delete your favorite stuff from the game, don’t worry – the author chose 40 most common (least effective) items; the mod keeps away from the witcher gear and other unique pieces of inventory.
In my opinion, however, that wouldn’t be a huge problem, since the inventory from Assassins of Kings wasn’t bad at all. Mind you that the armors aren’t 100% identical as the originals – they have been revamped as to match the level of detail of The Wild Hunt. As for thee downsides, there are two: first, the choice of armors to be replaced in the vanilla seems rather random, and second, the vanilla statistics remain unchanged. In the most radical case, an elegant outfit was replaced with the Vran Armor, which, despite of its cool looks, adds only 1 damage resistance point. Last but not least, let’s also mention this mod includes armors, trousers, gloves and shoes, but only those worn by Geralt – NPCs are not affected.
Installation guide
- The author’s support for this mod ended before the 1.31 version, so you will have to download it from here – it’s an unofficial version prepared by another Nexus Mods user.
- Extract the archive to the “Mods” folder, in the game’s directory, or use the Nexus Mod Manager.
