

Still, there's always room to tweak, tune and expand.

Beyond a round of free DLC and two excellent expansions, Geralt Of Rivia's grand quest to become a cool step-dad and maybe settle down at a vineyard in the south of fantasy France remains largely timeless. There's suddenly a stiff skill curve here, and not one primarily dictated by what level I am compared to my enemies.Every other Monday, Dominic gives you a reason to dust off one of your old games and dive into its mods with Modder Superior.Īlmost five years and a surprisingly good TV series later, and The Witcher 3 is still going strong a surprising turn of events given how static the game has remained these past few years. But I liked the feel of pressing Ctrl or Alt to modify an attack's distance, helping me close gaps and dance behind an enemy to slash them without taking damage. A pack of random nekkers posed a real threat. The simple lack of magnetism on attacks meant most of my early swings sliced through the air in front of me. It looks like the same game, but a few seconds into combat and it feels very different. That's just a portion of the many changes Enhanced Edition makes, like adding different size enemies and giving enemies armor and more aggressive AI, and giving every alchemy ingredient a set of base components that can be used interchangeably.īut you get the idea. Higher poise means a higher chance to resist stagger from an incoming light attack (and possibly heavy attacks too, later on)." It is calculated based on armor worn, available health, red mutagens, toxicity, etc. "Poise: Poise is the stat which dictates resistance to stagger.

As you'd expect from a mod this big, signs, inventory, and especially alchemy have been radically changed as well. Every item, enemy, everything out there in the world has a set level from the get-go. What makes Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition a really interesting mod, even if you were fine with the original combat system like I was, is that it completely removes the concept of leveling from the game. Let me take a crack at it: W3EE comes from a team of modders who couldn't stand the vanilla game's combat, and so they set out to fix it by removing autotargeting, adding new animations, new ways to parry attacks, the ability to control the distance of every swing, inflicting and taking injuries to body parts like the head and legs, and a whole slew of new stats that affect damage, speed, etc. Here's the pitch for The Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition, from the mod page: "" Okay, well, that doesn't help us at all.
