The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

[Wolfsong]

Ok. We are looking at a new Witcher sneak peek patch on March 14th and a new Enhanced Edition release of the game on May 16th.

This is the new contents of the patch:

D'Jinni - MOD Editor
- Allows users to make own adventures in the Witcher World
- Does not allow user to modify the game itself
- Only in English

MOD: "The Price of Neutrality"
- 2 hour game time
- 1 main quest and 2 side quests
- Completely new Geralt's adventure with intriguing story
- Placed in the surroundings of the Kaer Morhen stronghold, in the location not used in the Witcher storyline
- New graphics assets: 2 NPC, 1 tent, 2 erotic cards, 2 flashbacks
- In Polish and English only


And this is the new contents of the Enhanced Edition:

All contents released in the 3 patches.

MOD: "Side Effects"
- 3 hour game time
- 5 quests
- Simple, yet amusing gameplay-oriented storyline
- Several ways to complete the MOD
- Shows how to create adventures exploiting various gameplay features
- No new graphics assets
- In Polish and English only

Fixes:
- Corrected English translations and voice work (over 5000 dialogue lines re-written and re-recorded)
- Corrected German translation and voice work
- Loading times reduced by 80%
- Improved game stability
- Improved combat responsivness
- Improved AI for Dice Poker mini-game
- Improved weather settings for locations
- Vitality indicator problem resolved (did not display at times)
- Inventory and map texture caching (accelerated map and inventory load/display)
- Animation improvements: Draw/sheath sword animation accelerated
- Animation improvements: Greater clarity of sequence failed animation
- Improved character model for Triss Merigold

New In-Game Features:
- Improved Inventory: Filtering of alchemy ingredients by content
- Improved Inventory: Auto-sorting of items in satchel
- Improved Inventory: Special slot area for sorting alchemy ingredients in satchel
- Auto-save option (on/off)
- Character differentiation mechanism (effectively generating approx 50 new appearances)
- Look-at feature (characters look at Geralt, deepening player immersion)
- Auto-looting of containers (player may collect all contents of a container without opening the container panel)
- 100 new gesture animations in dialogues and cut-scenes, giving more natural feel of conversation with NPC
- Improved facial expressions



Not bad. I may have to buy another copy of this game. 

[Wolfsong]

Also, Forbes lists The Witcher as one of last years "10 future classic games". Not bad.

And check this out:

Notice that they say in this video that a 5 hour long module made by a Canadian mod team will be included... I wonder if that is my old friends at DLA? I could bet money that it is actually...

[Wolfsong]

I got info now that the extra content for the Enhanced Edition will become available in another patch in May for the users who already own the game. So I guess I won't need to buy it again after all.

[SilentEdge]

I got info now that the extra content for the Enhanced Edition will become available in another patch in May for the users who already own the game. So I guess I won't need to buy it again after all.

I'm glad to hear this after the whole fiasco I had with buying Fable on XBox and The Lost Chapters on PC.

[MONOLITH]

They forgot a simple yet crucial thing the community's been asking for;

A walk/run toggle for OTS view.  Running all the time is freakin annoying.

By the way, if anyone is playing the US edition, and wants it uncensored, PM me.

[Wolfsong]

Apparently the Canadian mod will not be released with the Enhanced Edition. But I was also told by the project lead at DLA (a Canadian mod group) that they may be able to talk more about this at a later time... so at least we know another mod is in progress.

[SilentEdge]

By the way, if anyone is playing the US edition, and wants it uncensored, PM me.

This is the part of my country I love, where we can't decide for ourselves to buy a game because it has boobs and beheadings.[/sarcasm]

On a serious note, as I've said previously, this game is missing something without the "European" features.

I've also downloaded this mod to change Geralt's Jacket.

[Zoog]

- Corrected English translations and voice work (over 5000 dialogue lines re-written and re-recorded)
- Loading times reduced by 80%

Sure is nice to hear that!

[Lostroth]

since i finally got my video card to work properly i loaded up The Witcher and have been playing it the past few days. it's a really fun game. i just started questing in the Swamp. lasted a whole 5 minutes before some plant thing killed me

now off to search for some cheat codes!!! j/k