The Witcher editor, add-on and patch

By Tom Bramwell Published 15 April, 2008

Busy day for monster-slayers.

CD Projekt has released a free downloadable adventure add-on, a game editor and a patch for The Witcher on PC, all available from www.thewitcher.com.

The Prince of Neutrality adventure add-on is the game's first official DLC, offering two hours of extra gameplay. The developer says you will get to visit the outskirts of Kaer Morhen and meet other witchers glimpsed in the main single-player campaign in more detail, and there is more than one possible outcome to the story.

On top of that, there are new NPCs and other "new graphical assets" at work, and the content has been localised into English, French, Italian, German and Spanish as well as the developer's native Polish.

Meanwhile, the D'jinni beta adventure editor uses existing graphics, maps and environments and is kind of a big deal. As CD Projekt RED CEO Adam Kicinski points out, "we made The Witcher with this tool", so it's not hard to believe his claim that it's "quite a demanding" undertaking. Good luck.

CD Projekt's quite interested to see how it's put to use, though, forecasting that its fans will "let their imaginations run wild predicting the turmoil and tests waiting in Geralt's future, or even filling in the missing years between the close of Andrzej Sapkowski's last Witcher novel and the start of the game".

Patch 1.3, finally, sorts out a few problems and enables the use of the additional content and game editor.

For more on The Witcher, check out our review.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 4 months ago

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  • anomagnus #1 4 years ago

    5 days late.....

    And this is NOT the enhanced edition patch, thats coming later.

    Great game though, but tough as hell sometimes, and a bitch to run on anything other than a top notch system

  • TheSnotGoblin #2 4 years ago

    It's the Price of Neutrality, not Prince. And it's actually pretty good even though there's not a huge amount to do in it.
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/08 @ 09:49

  • hiddenranbir #3 4 years ago

    Bless those folks. Hey look...DLC which is free!

  • QPRHOOPS81 #4 4 years ago

    It says its not totally compatable with old save. Being that im half way through the game i wasnt very happy. Took the plunge anyway and updated and (touches huge amount of wood) its working fine.

    Does anyone know what possible compatability issues there are and if anything may screw up later in the game?

    I updated last week and all ok still at the mo.

  • TheSnotGoblin #5 4 years ago

    The game is based off of Neverwinter Nights so I assume it has the same patch issues as that. Basically the module is stored in the saved file, once something is loaded into your current game then that's it, it's there for good. This means that if you've already been in an area then any changes to that area from the new patch won't take effect.

    So basically if you continue a game after patching, what you've already encountered will be the unpatched version and all the new stuff will be patched. Which could lead to some strange behaviour, but probably won't and if you make it to a new Act you should be good.

  • Barkotron #6 4 years ago

    So is the new content mixed in with the storyline of the game, or a completely separate module? Do characters move between them or is it a start-from-scratch, discard-after-two-hours-play thing?

    Waiting for the enhanced edition...

  • VMerken #7 4 years ago

    Completely separate module to play. It's fun, it's free, and keeps one occupied while other users create interesting web 2.0 (or are we at web 3.0 yet?) modules and the more than welcome enhanced edition comes along. Two thumbs upp for CD Projekt Red and their customer service, which actually is customer service.

    Me, I want to do something in D'jinni, have a nice idea for it, but don't think the time is there in
    any shape or form.

  • mike1234567 #8 4 months ago

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