The final expansion for the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful role-playing game “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” will be arriving on May 31 on the gaming consoles and PC versions of the game.
Officially called as “Blood and Wine” DLC, the expansion pack is designed as a stand-alone experience independent of the base game. More importantly, it shall also serve as the final adventure for the series’ protagonist Geralt of Rivia, reports The Bitbag.
The expansion pack shall weigh about 13GB, which means that it is going to be several times larger than the first DLC of the game entitled “Hearts of Stone.”
As the final adventure for the game’s main protagonist, it comes as rather a bittersweet moment for the longtime fans of “The Witcher” franchise who have known and played Geralt of Rivia for a long time.
Polish game developer CD Projekt Red has previously said that it is open to developing more “The Witcher” games in the future but those shall already feature a new main character.
An anticipated expansion pack
The “Blood and Wine” DLC is certainly one of the most anticipated releases in the gaming community this month.
Reports have it that CD Projekt Red has gone beyond what fans of the popular RPG were expecting so all the excitement with regards to the release of the new expansion to “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” are definitely justified, notes WCCF Tech.
Incidentally, a preview of the new music of the “Blood and Wine” DLC has been shared on Twitter by Marcin Przybylowicz recently. He has worked on the main game’s soundtrack and his work on the final DLC looks quite stellar as well.
It is also expected that some new gameplay footage of the “Blood and Wine” DLC shall be making it to the internet soon enough.
CD Projekt Red reportedly invited a group of popular online streamers in Italy for a closed door play session recently. The embargo for the event has ended which means that attendees to the occasion are already free to share whatever footage they were able to shoot during their time with the game.
Based on initial information, the final expansion DLC of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” will be massive. Accordingly, the main questline is about 30 hours long with over 90 total quests to complete.
Reports also have it that “Blood and Wine” are filled to the brim in terms of gameplay with additions like new weapons, armor abilities, and mutations.
A beast when it comes to content
“Blood and Wine” shall reportedly be a beast in terms of content. In addition to having its new Toussaint region being as large as the entire Skellige Isles combined, the expansion shall also bump up the graphical fidelity of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.”
The expansion pack will surely give gamers some serious landmass to explore and it will also be filled with quests, strange places to explore, and unicorns too.
Based on initial reports, “Blood and Wine” would take about 30 hours to complete for gamers as per CD Projekt Red but critics believe that it is more of a conservative estimate rather than a norm.
What is also guaranteed with the DLC is the across-the-board visual improvement right down to the foliage detail. But it would not affect the original areas of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” like White Orchard and Velen. Only Toussaint would experience the improvements.
It has been the strategy of some game developers to come up with remastered versions of its past games in order to refresh gamers, especially if a sequel is in the works.
However, CD Projekt Red confirms that it has no plans to remaster “The Witcher” and “The Witcher 2” anytime soon. But the game developer is looking at coming up with a remastered edition of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” not because a sequel is about to come out soon but because it is the 2015 Game of the Year and deserves such.