As rumors proceed to swirl about the opportunity of a brand new thriller DLC for The Witcher 3, modders have crushed 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 received The Witcher 4 earlier than The Witcher 4,” as one Nexus Mods person places it. As followers look ahead to information of CD Projekt Purple’s subsequent open-world RPG, modder Alexander Fandera-Maslov was capable of end the unofficial The Witcher 4 tie-in challenge known as Daybreak over Kovir (through Rock Paper Shotgun). The mod was “impressed by The Witcher 4’s Cinematic Reveal Trailer” and thus places gamers into the footwear of Geralt’s surrogate daughter as she embarks on her personal world-weary monster-hunting journey.
In line with Fandera, the mod will take roughly “between 45 minutes and 1.5 hours to finish,” and duties gamers with a brand new custom-made quest within the mountainous Northern kingdom filled with mines. Daybreak over Kovir doesn’t characteristic English voice appearing, however English subtitles can be found. Fandera says that an upcoming 1.0 replace “will refine animations and gameplay parts, and add voice appearing.” Hopefully it doesn’t use generative AI to make that occur. It may very well be a pleasant distraction to tide followers over till CD Projekt Purple releases one thing new on this planet of The Witcher. Noble Securities analyst Mateusz Chrzanowski claimed on January 7 through Eurogamer that he’s “one hundred pc sure CDPR will launch vital new content material this yr” with a view to shut the hole in its present gross sales incentive program. Hypothesis primarily based on these claims and different alleged leads have recommended {that a} DLC, if it finally ends up current, may function a form of bridge between the occasions of the final recreation and The Witcher 4.
That recreation doesn’t sound set to return out for an additional yr or two on the earliest. In the meantime, CD Projekt Purple is at present engaged on bringing mods to the console variations of The Witcher 3. Even when the alleged thriller DLC doesn’t become actual, gamers will nonetheless have the ability to give Daybreak over Kovir a attempt for themselves on console quickly sufficient.
