Fancy a Witcher 3 10th anniversary playthrough with extra “classic RPG feel”? Well, this new mod gives it a totally revamped Witcher 1-style skill system

In case you missed it, The Witcher 3 is now a decade old. We’re all knee-deep in replays of previous video games proper now, but when all of the TW3 anniversary chat has you interested by firing it up once more, a brand new mod seems to be prefer it’ll provide an attention-grabbing twist for folk trying ahead to The Witcher Remake.

In spite of everything, how finest to switcher up your Witcher expertise than swapping one Witcher ability system for a special Witcher ability system from an older Witcher sport. That means, you possibly can see Witcher is best. All proper, I’ll cease mucking about.

The mod is Gerwant30’s Witcher 1 talent trees remake for The Witcher 3, with its creator having beforehand scored second place on one in all CD Projekt’s REDkit modding contests with a piece that allows you to explore a bit of Cintra.

Now, as a part of their ongoing “Tales of the Witcher” mission, they’ve had a go at including their very own model of first Witcher game’s ability system into TW3, with the objective of supplying you with “much more management” over Geralt’s improvement through “13 new expertise timber and over 200 new abilities”. “This mod makes an attempt to recreate that feeling and philosophy inside The Witcher 3,” Gerwant30 defined, “changing the usual ability timber with a extra layered and, hopefully, rewarding development system.”

As you possibly can see within the showcase video above, the mod sees you’re employed up and earn bronze, silver, and gold abilities throughout timber devoted to the likes of power and dexterity as you stage up. You’ll begin off by incomes bronzes early-game, then steadily transfer on the silvers and golds as you get more adept and steadily morph right into a grasp witcher.

There are 4 most important ability timber together with the 2 talked about earlier, every with 17 abilities, however that’s removed from it. The 5 Witcher indicators every have their very own 18 ability sturdy tree “permitting for deep specialization”, and there are 4 fight ability timber geared toward “sturdy” and “quick” assaults together with your metal and silver blades.

“Your energy comes largely from the way you construct your character,” the modder writes, “Abilities, abilities, and preparation outline your power, tools statistics are much less necessary.” Actually quite a bit to tweak if you happen to’re a fan of in-depth construct engineering, although it’s value noting that this being a beta, a good quantity of the talents and options are nonetheless very a lot a work-in-progress.

It’s additionally value noting that Gerwant30’s designed the mod to work completely with “a recent new sport within the base model of The Witcher 3 solely”, with them being very clear that current saves and standalone playthroughs of the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine DLC received’t work as supposed. In addition they intend for it for use with one other mod, SkylineR390’s ‘Alchemy’, so that you’ll have to seize that if you happen to fancy giving this ability tree mod a go.

PsychoCaki’s ‘SCAAR’ and a digital camera mod like TheMenxceX and ElementaryLewis’ ‘Immersive Camera for Next Gen’ are additionally on Gerwant30’s really useful checklist.

Did you favor the primary Witcher sport’s extra old-school method to abilities, or is how TW3 does issues second nature at this level and never one thing you’d need to tweak? Tell us under!