A new expansion DLC will be coming to the award-winning role-playing game “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” which shall have a new area that would be as big as all the islands of Skellige combined, reveals Polish game developer CD Projekt Red.
Reports have it that the expansion pack to the game shall be released by CD Projekt Red before the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2016 to be held in California this coming June, reports We Got This Covered.
The new DLC shall have the title “Blood and Wine” and it 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 to have sex on, notes the Game Debate.
Based on initial reports, “Blood and Wine” would take about 20 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.
A Game of the Year edition
It has been the strategy of some game developers to come up with remastered versions of its past games in order to refresh gamers or give them a collectors’ edition 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 it deserves such.
Accordingly, the remastered version of “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” shall be called as the Game of the Year Edition.
In the meantime, gamers are more excited about the upcoming release of the expansion of the game ahead of its remastered version which would likely come out later this year.
No experience pass after the release
Meanwhile, reports also have it that when the “Blood and Wine” DLC is released, CD Projekt Red does not plan to go on sale with the experience pass right after the release.
It is possible that the developer is working on putting the finishing touches on the upcoming expansion pack for “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” and it still has about a month and a half to do so since the E3 2016 is slated to begin on June 14, which means that CD Projekt Red will release the DLC either on June 12 or June 13.
While “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” has drawn praises and acclaim, one reader appears unimpressed with the role-playing game and believes there are plenty of things that are wrong in the game, other than its controversial combat.
The reader, who happens to be a gamer and a critic too, believes that “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is frustrating because it could even be a better game.
The critic thinks that the role-playing game has a fundamentally-flawed exploration, combat, and story that he finds it surprising that the reviews for “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” were generally so good.