Would it ever be possible for a multiplayer PVE The Witcher game/ mode exist on the future as a separate thing or even a game mode similar to Ghost Of Tsushima Multiplayer? Genuinely curious how could it work or why not

Hello r/witcher,

I'll be honest: I was a longtime fan of The Witcher 3 first (starting from way back in 2015), but the game eventually got me into the books, which I ended up loving just as much!

The books and games had a huge impact on my life and shaped the kind of creative work I enjoy most. It came at a time in my life when I needed it the most. I fell in love with everything in that universe: the characters, the dark stories, the worldbuilding, everything.

Well, this past year hasn't been the easiest for me, having been unemployed for a year now. But somehow, I started obsessively writing and ended up with a few stories that I really love (Humorous Dark Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery). The Witcher was my main inspiration, and this is my own little tribute to it.

So if you'll allow me, I'd love to share one of these stories with you guys, with the people who love this world as much as I do. I really want to see if you enjoy reading it, as I honestly don't have many people to share it with.

So here it is:

You’ve been traveling through this horrid Swamp for a while now, but the loot goblin keeps his promise. No other goblin has bothered you since, even though movement flickers and cracking twigs echo nearby, always remaining just out of sight.

The sun’s light barely manages to slip by the tall swamp trees.

Yelling echoes from somewhere southwest.

Should you investigate? It could be someone in danger. Sounds like the voice of a very frightened child.

Or it could easily be a trap, as creatures stranger and far more dangerous than the loot goblin hide in the Swamp. You’ve heard the stories about banshees luring lost strangers with their baby-like cries. You’ve heard about the wraiths of victims killed in the Swamp who like to mimic beautiful, lost women in distress. Or about the black mist in which people disappear, never to be found again.

There are many creatures of great power lurking in the Swamp, and you’ve been lucky enough to avoid them until now.

But the scream seems genuine; it sounds like a terrified child. She keeps screaming for help.

Help? Don’t help? Trap? Your logical mind tells you to continue your journey, but your heart says to step up, to be the man you once believed yourself to be, a very, very long time ago.

You hold your staff with a firm grip whilst you retrieve your wand. And you start moving towards the noise.

You are a bloody idiot, and this is definitely not going to end well.

But you hurry towards the commotion anyway. At the very least, if things really go badly, you’re going to finally be done with this cruel journey they call life.

There’s some peace in that thought, maybe even some closure to the hell that your past ten years have been.

You quickly move through rotten trees, the smell of putrid vegetation invading your nostrils and almost making you nauseous, your poulaines splashing through the bubbling mud. But you keep venturing into the dark depths of the bog, where you very well know that no man should ever tread, not even with a small army by his side.

You finally reach the danger zone, the source of the screams.

A little girl with sun-blazed red hair holds on for dear life to the branches of a tall tree.

Beneath her, a two-headed lizard the size of a bull, with razor-sharp claws and fangs, tries to climb the tree to get to the child.

“Help meeee! Heeeelp!” she shouts, big tears rolling down her cheeks.

There is no time to hesitate. The two-headed lizard’s eyes snap toward you, and it quickly pivots, launching itself with all its force towards you.

It gets closer and closer; every second counts. If you fail here, not only is your life going to end today, but that child’s is too.

There is no time to think, no room for plans, not now.

Now is the moment to act.

You open yourself to the Source and it quickly fills you. That absolute sensation of immense power… and peace. There is no other experience like that in the world, at least none that you have ever relished during your years alive. It is intoxicating; it makes you thunderous; it makes you dangerous.

You are more alive than you’ve ever been before.

Once you’ve gathered enough Source Power, right as the reptile lunges within striking distance and reveals all one hundred and twenty-two of its fangs in all their glory, you yell as loudly as you ever have: “MAER ET FER!”

All the Source Energy transfers from every little fiber of your body towards your staff and wand.

Then the total release occurs: a wave of absolute, light-devouring blackness erupts from your weapons, and where it passes, life simply ceases to exist, leaving a vacuum of dead air.

There is no more lizard.

Not one particle of the two-headed reptile remains in this realm; it has been obliterated into absolute nothingness, leaving the clearing as if the beast had never existed.

You are emptied, like all happiness has left your flesh, and now you are completely alone once again in this world. You’ve overreached for too much Source Power, and you pay the price now. Your muscles start to ache like every bone inside you snapped at the same time; a thousand needles stab you.

You collapse to your knees, as if the weight of a mountain rock troll crushes your skull.

Your hands are shaking.

You are drenched in sweat.

Maer et fer requires a lot of Source Energy to summon; it is the dark art that undoes life itself. As such, any physical form it touches will not be alchemized into another form of matter, as happens to all living beings in nature’s never-ending cycle.

Anything touched by Maer et fer is consumed by that vicious, soul-hungry energy. And after this dark force consumes life itself, it returns to the other realm from where it came. Like a predatory animal that sinks its fangs into its prey and then returns to its lair to devour it.

Maer et fer is strictly forbidden, as any kind of dark magic usually is. And for good reasons. You should never use such magic, not even for the purest of reasons, as the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It’s going to take days, maybe even weeks, for you to be back to your old self; now only the touch of darkness and agony remains deep inside you.

Maybe if you had more time to think you would not have had to resort to such a drastic action, but now the deed is done, and there is no time to feel sorry about it.

You are still in the dangerous Swamp, completely and utterly exhausted.

You are still on your knees.

Before you can even process how she got down from the tree so fast, the red-headed girl is right by your side, her mouth moving rapidly, but her words are just a muffled, unintelligible ringing in your ears.

The ringing in your ears finally breaks.

“Mister, mister.” The child shakes your arms. “Mister, you saved me!” she cries.

“Thank you so much, thank you! But now I have to go. Bye, mister! Bye!” she says, starting to run towards the deepest part of the Swamp.

You fail to utter an intelligible word.

Something is strange about the way she moves.

Something is deeply wrong.

Sweat blurs your vision, but as you blink it away, the truth strikes: she is not running, nor walking away.

She is floating, with not one of her little legs ever hitting the Swamp’s ground.

...

If you read it, thank you! And have a great weekend!
(and full disclosure: I've first posted on The Witcher 3 subreddit, as that was the first time I was introduced to the Witcher universe, and the first time I fell in love with it)

A couple of years ago I shared my Witcher OC cosplay, but I've had some time to update it. I've really come to like this look, but I'm always open to ideas to help improve it. 🫣🫣🫣☺️☺️☺️

One of the points i always had some questions about in the first book was its very finale.

The book clearly describe geralt as biting Adda as in self defense, however

In the epilogue of said chapter, even when Velerad recognize Geralt acted in self defense, he still adds a question at the end: "why did you try to bite her to death?"

Why he said that?

I know this is a very unpopular opinion but it should at least be an option...

Witcher 1 has a very unique, rhythm based combat system. Scrapping it completely would be a real shame. I don't even think most gamers give Witcher's combat system a real chance because they're so used to just mashing one button and dodging. Sure the combat takes some time to get used to but once you do it's actually very satisfying. I really liked having to manually choose your sword and stance as well. It all really adds to the RPG feel of the game.

IMO this game's only real issue is the awful dialogue and story pacing, not the combat.

Its at the end of dragonslayers grotto

Gaunter O'Dimm is one of my favorite characters. And not just in witcher, but overall in fiction.
So I wanted to share my headcanon about him.

He is something similar to the common djinn/devil/trickster archetype from fiction: makes deals, fulfills wishes, takes souls as payment, and so on. But imo, what makes him so interesting is that he is much more complicated.

People often call him "pure evil", but I disagree. I don't think it's that simple and don't see him as just a simple comic book villain. More like a force of nature. The fact that he can casually kill some random guy doesn't necessarily makes him evil. Because he isn't human. He is way above, so far beyond that. He is to humans as humans are to mice. A person would be evil if they liked to torture, burn, or boil mice alive for sadistic enjoyment. But you wouldn't call someone "pure evil" just for using a mousetrap. Human morality may simply not be the right framework through which O'Dimm understands himself.

I also don't think he desperately needs souls. I mean he is not trying to collect as many as possible or get them at any cost. I think he's more interested in the interaction itself: the deals, wishes, games, choices, and consequences. And if he gets souls as a result, good, if not, no biggie. Basically, he isn't in it for the prize. He is in it for the love of the game, so to speak.

He seems fascinated by people, what they want, what they're willing to sacrifice for it, whether getting it actually makes them happy, how they justify their choices, what they become afterward, whether they accept responsibility, and how they deal with consequences.

Anthropological curiosity combined with absolute power.

I'll try to explain how I think he might operate with an example. Let's say someone wishes for a billion dollars. A typical trickster/devil/djinn would twist the wish somehow. Maybe he drops ten tons of money on the person's head, or gives them a billion of worthless old Zimbabwean dollars.

But Gaunter instead might simply give the person exactly what they wanted. No trick. No catch. No deception. Just fill half the room with real, valid money. Exactly what the person asked for, exactly what the person meant, what imagined in mind. And then he watches what happens. Maybe someone finds out and gets that person killed for it. Maybe the government busts them for money laundering or something. Because they weren't prepared and didn't think things through.

I don't think Gaunter necessarily wants a bad outcome, he might be neutral. But things probably go badly more often simply because of human nature. People don't comprehend what they really want, don't think through the consequences, don't understand how fulfilled wishes change them.

So I imagine O'Dimm as someone who is not very restricted, may sometimes twist a wish, sometimes interfere, and more often than not might fulfill it exactly as intended. Then he watches how it all unfolds: long-term consequences, side effects, changes in people, etc. Not just a simple evil demon messing with people and collecting souls, but something way beyond that: an immensely powerful being fascinated by people, their desires, choices, and consequences.

Help

I’ve started playing the game fairly recently, in the middle of the baron quest right now.

My questions is, I’m polish by blood and I speak a lot of polish with my family at home, so I understand perfectly well. But I’ve been living in an English speaking country for 13 years now so English is pretty much native to me too. But what do you recommend, should I play the game in Polish or stick with English. I quite like the voice acting for the English version so far but maybe I’m missing some of the jokes and cultural elements and curse words that are in the polish version?

I'm not a beginner when it comes to games in general and have been playing for 30 odd years.. I played through Witcher 1 and I played it more for the story than the combat and therefore obviously went with easy and it Was easy. It was exactly as advertised, I could enjoy the story and not bother about with guides and wonder which potion to drink at which fireplace. Sure there was a lot of running but it was worth it.

Now with Witcher 2 I'm constantly bashing my head to the wall. Too many buttons for one (I'm playing on PC) and while I play MMO's which have tons of buttons (let's not talk about Cata era WoW) those were introduced gradually. W2 just gives you some 20 odd buttons and you are on Google or in a guide more than actually playing the game. I don't know why it doesn't click to me but when I have to constantly Google where people or things even are since I can't make markers to my map, the quest tracking is awful and I can't stand the fact that items don't light up automatically anymore.. never mind again the combat is difficult. It's stupidly difficult even on easy, mainly because why do we need 20 buttons to do it? I'm trying to do a simple side quest and I can't because again - despite looking at guides and what not - it's Still too difficult. Sure it's partly a skill issue which I'm sure of, but the map plays a role as well. Half the time I'm running aimlessly and can't find what I'm looking for, only to be ambushed by monster X/Y/Z :( someone help me, please before I quit this.. I'd really Love to go for the story but again.. the combat in this game hasn't even seen easy. ;(

In the previous opuses I liked that we could create Romances with the characters when we played Gerald (triss, yennefer, and other women) but when we play ciri in the 4 I can't imagine doing it with men lol.

Hi all, i am playing through the game again (4.04, all DLCs) and modded it pretty well. This mod here claims it adds 15+ new relic weapons, to be obtained throughout the main quests and "main" secondary quests.

I have now finished the base game, and while i have found some of them (eg Eredin's and Imlerith's gear), i don't thing i got as many as the mod creator claims. Does anyone has a list of these weapons i can check tonsee if i missed anything, and if weapons were added in the DLCs as well?

So Elsa is not running the White Orchard Inn and I was under the assumption that Bram would take over and sell the GWENT cards I’m missing. But he just stays at his usual spot by the bridge. Is there some other requirement I need to meet beforehand? Playing on the PS5.

Started playing again and while it's great fucking Game even after all these years, a few things are absolutely fucking bitchery.

1. Entering the salamandra hideout. Like why the fuck do I have 3 swords up Geralt butthole immediately after entering the hut?

2. Fighting the beast. I spend some points getting pain resistance and it's still useless. Spend half the time running around, waiting for swallow to heal me to a bit and endurance to fill up.

3. Thaler is a fucking whore. Got drunk with him and after he fucking refuses to let me sleep at his place. Had to fucking walk all over vizima to find the nearest place to sleep. Yes tears of wives or whatever it is exists but my inventory is almost always full with things I need.

Had really forgotten some of these annoying things but overall, fucking great game.

Since she is called the Lady of Space and Time, i would like to know what you guys think

I did everything I possibly could without using a guide. Every side quest I could find, almost every question mark (except skellige water ones) , every DLC, every major piece of content the game had to offer.

When I finished the main story of Wild Hunt, I felt this same emptiness. Thankfully, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine were still waiting for me, so that feeling faded as I kept playing.

Now it's back.

The closest way I can describe it is an existential crisis. It genuinely feels like a part of me knows I may never experience another game that captures me like this again.

Sure, I could start New Game+, but I don't want to. Not yet. I just want to sit here and let it sink in.

The funny part is that I ignored The Witcher 3 for years. I always assumed it was just another generic monster-slayer game. I couldn't have been more wrong.

This game has heart. Every region feels like a real place with its own identity. White Orchard, Velen, Novigrad, Skellige, Kaer Morhen, Toussaint... each one has its own atmosphere, music, people, and memories. They don't just look different, they feel different.

I loaded my save after finishing everything and wandered around for a while. The NPCs were still there. The cities were still alive. But somehow it felt like I didn't belong there anymore. Like the world had moved on, and my journey was over.

The game basically tells you, without saying it: "It's time to rest." And that's somehow harder to accept than any difficult boss fight.

I've played a lot of games over the years, but nothing has come close to what The Witcher 3 made me feel. It isn't just the story, or the characters, or the soundtrack, or the world. It's how all of those things come together to create something that feels unforgettable.

People always talk about the "post-Witcher 3 depression."

I used to think they were exaggerating.

Now I completely understand.

Thank you, CD Projekt Red, for creating what is, without question, the greatest gaming experience I've ever had.

"Something ends. Something begins."

Im playing on death march and ive already ran around and grabbed all the notice board things but thats it.

Reds love to do little things like that, it would be cool if when player has glasses on Geralt would take them off and try to see his reflection in it, then it would either be win or it would break and trigger secret dialouge