Modder remakes scrapped alternate ending for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Alternate online game endings are all the time enjoyable to see. If a proficient modder remakes an alternate ending beforehand scrapped by the sport’s developer, it’s even higher. Somebody did simply that, placing collectively an alternate ending for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt utilizing footage that was initially discarded by CD Projekt Pink.

YouTuber xLetalis shared a video detailing the restorations that modder Glassfish added to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt after the tip of the sport’s authentic storyline. (Observe that some spoilers for the sport comply with!) The sport ends with Geralt being pulled out of his combat with Eredin by Yennefer, his potential accomplice and sorceress. Nevertheless, the remade cutscene reveals Geralt waking up in a tent and receiving care from two docs betting on his survival price. From there, he leaves the hospital and talks to Yennefer, whose dialogue varies relying on whether or not he’s romancing her or one other sorceress, Triss. No matter who Geralt was relationship within the authentic recreation, you possibly can ask the place Ciri is or who received the struggle.

The prolonged ending continues with extra deleted content material, together with Geralt attending Crach’s funeral, him assembly the Lodge of Sorceresses, and Yennefer betraying the Lodge to avoid wasting Ciri. xLetalis speculated in the direction of the tip of the video that CD Projekt Pink modified their minds about together with Yennefer’s betrayal within the remaining recreation for artistic causes such as prioritizing matching the player’s motivations with the beat of the story, as they don’t have any insider or PR connections inside the firm to substantiate it.

The restoration of the deleted content material by Glassfish was made doable by CD Projekt Pink releasing the REDkit modding tool for the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in Might. The corporate introduced the modding device final 12 months to permit PC gamers to breathe new life into the sport in any manner they want. REDkit was previously released for The Witcher 2, however so far as we all know it wasn’t used to insert previously-scrapped scenes into the sport as we’re seeing now. As for the origin of the deleted content material, Glassfish pulled it from content material that was reduce from the primary recreation however continues to be within the recreation’s recordsdata.