The Witcher is one of the most well-known RPG series of all time. All 3 games have been loved by the gaming community for great reasons: Amazing characters and story, great gameplay and believable world. And the latest entry, The Witcher 3, is no different.
When it came out, The Witcher 3 took the gaming industry by storm. An amazing story, living characters, an astonishing and huge world, fun quests and great gameplay combined to form one of the best video games to date. Even though it was close to being perfect, we cannot say that there weren’t small areas that were open to improvement. And as always, modding communities are here just for that, to tweak the game and to create a lot of crazy, unneeded-but-fun mods. So we decided to put together some of the best The Witcher 3 mods for you. You can also check games like Witcher 3.
The Debug Console Enabler mod is essential in making sure all future Witcher 3 mods function properly. Grab it from Nexus Mod Manager first! Lastly is the icing on the cake to make extra sure your computer is happy with the added load of snazzy mods. A compilation of mods for The Witcher 3. In this Modpack, i've tried to bring together and modified, what I find to be the most interesting mods to be used together. I hope you'll like this ^^ This modpack doesn't need to start a new game (but it's better.
How to Install Witcher 3 Mods
- In there, create a new folder called Mods. Place all the files of the downloaded modifications in the newly created folder. The manual above is just a set of general steps. Very often, installing modifications for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is much more complex - in such cases, we have added proper tips to the mod description.
- Apr 09, 2020 How to Install Witcher 3 Mods. There are several ways you can go about modding your PC copy of The Witcher 3. Method 1 - Just The Story (Easy) - Just use the Workshop mods on Steam.
- Apr 10, 2020 Visual Enhancement Mods The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project by HalkHogan. This is the classic visual overhaul mod, in three parts, that every PC Witcher player should have installed.
If you do not want to deal with Nexus Mod Manager, you are in luck since installing The Witcher 3 mods manually is really easy.
1. Find the installation path of your game. For Steam users, it should be C:Program Files(x86)SteamsteamappscommonThe Witcher 3.
2. In there, create a new folder and name it “mods”.
3. Place your mod’s file inside the newly created “mods” folder. Be sure it is just one big folder instead of multiple different folders.
Nexus Mod Manager
First and foremost, you need Nexus Mod Manager if you are planning on modding The Witcher 3. Since all of the mods are in Nexus, this tool makes it a lot easier to download, install, update and manage your mods. Some mods can be incompatible with each other or may require certain installing orders, and this software makes it all easier.
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13 Best Witcher 3 Mods
Debug Console Enabler
Like the first one, this is one is another must. It enables you to use the debug console to use hundreds of different console commands to fix stuff and do various different tasks like changing settings, freezing time or spawning enemies to take cool videos or screenshots.
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Enemies of Rivia
While The Witcher 3 has a great combat, it can get repetitive after hundreds of hours of gameplay -like every game- and even on the hardest difficulty, you can master it pretty quickly. This mod makes each encounter much more exciting and challenging: enemies are smarter and faster and do different attacks as they level up instead of just hitting harder. Perfect for a second playthrough and can even be great for your first time if you love challenging combat.
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AutoLoot
As its name suggests, AutoLoot does the looting for you after each fight and you can customize what you want to loot from your enemies’ bodies with filters. It also does not steal while auto-looting, so you do not have to worry.
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More Shadows
The Witcher 3 has great graphics and lighting but for optimization sake, developers did not add shadows to every light source. This mod adds shadows to every light source you can imagine: torches on walls, torches that guards carry, large braziers in cities, candles, lamps and also tweaks shadow fade and autohide distances for all adjusted light sources. If you have a strong PC, this is one of the best mods to improve immersion.
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More Blood
The Witcher 3 is an adult game from every perspective: brutal combat, grown-up characters and adult themes in its characters’ relationships. What it lacks is more blood. If you like gore like me in your melee combat, More Blood adds different blood trails for different enemy types and now Geralt can be covered in blood. Like the creator of this mod says it, “Tarantino Directors Cut”. Combine this with mod below, and you are in for a more cinematic combat.
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Critical Slow Motion Combat Mod
This mod slows time every time Geralt lands a critical strike on an enemy, adding a more cinematic feeling to combat and making each critical hit feel more satisfying. Not a huge change, but definitely makes combat more fun.
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HD Reworked
This mod reworks the textures and models to higher resolutions and brightness. It improves a lot of environmental textures like stones, rocks, bricks, roofs, walls etc. and adds new reflections and effects on water. It does not change the art style but even though it is optimized well to not cause any unnecessary VRAM losses, it can still add quite a bit of extra load on your computer so be sure that you have a strong PC.
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The Witcher 3 Enhanced Edition
This is one of the biggest mods for this game. It completely reforms the combat in many areas with the aim of increasing realism and immersion while not ruining the fun. It removes auto-targeting, so you can attack your enemies from all angles and Gerald attacks where you point him to. Dodging does not make you invulnerable anymore, there are 2 new attacks, being the kick and a new heavy attack, you can jump in combat etc. You can check the full list on the mod page below. It is perfect for a new playthrough.
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Ghost Mode
This overhaul mod changes and rebalances a lot of stuff without taking away from the vanilla experience. The list is extremely long so you can check it on the mod page but some of the important changes are: quests levels and rewards are reworked, a lot of textual inconsistencies and typos are fixed, new damage formula and combat changes, reworked economy and ranged combat, difficulties are reworked etc. You can use it with an existing save file but it changes so much that it deserves its own playthrough.
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FCR3
Developed by a senior gameplay designer at CD Projekt Red, this mod doesn’t aim for any deep and intrusive changes like Ghost Mode or Enhanced Edition, instead, it is meant to maintain original feeling of the game, sometimes going closer to the original intention behind the designs. It focuses mainly on fixing immersion breakers, buffing underperforming skills and items, cosmetic changes and bug fixing. It rebalances some stuff and makes the world more dangerous. If you want small changes that won’t change your gameplay but will improve your experience, FCR3 is your mod.
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Increased Draw Distance
Another mod that describes what it does on its name perfectly. This mod increases your draw distance (duh). Since the world is huge and sometimes you can find yourself in wide open areas, the default maximum draw distance can seem a little bit underwhelming. Of course, this was done to optimize the game better, but if you have a monster PC, you can install this mod to see a lot more details in the faraway lands.
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Realistic Weather
This mod changes the way different weather conditions look like and adds extra weathers to all of the regions. It adds more snow weather to Skellige, adds foggy weathers to every region of the game, changes the way rain and storm look like and some other minor tweaks. It requires Blood and Wine expansion to work, but if you do not have that awesome DLC already, you should go and buy it before even attempting to mod the vanilla game.
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Fantasy Graphics
This is one of my personal mods; it doesn’t change a lot but it certainly adds a new layer of atmosphere by small tweaks. It rebalances the colors and removes the blue tint from the game and saturates most colors. Bloom effects are more expressive and interior lighting is better. All of these combine to create a more fantasy-like look which suits the game better in my opinion.
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Conclusion:
There you have it, some of the best The Witcher 3 mods to improve graphics, visual effects, balancing, combat and a few that completely overhauls the game. While the overhauls require new playthroughs and deliver a fresh experience, the others can be implemented to your existing save files to tweak minor stuff without any problems. Whatever you would like to change, there is probably a mod for it since the modding community for TW3 is quite big. If you enjoyed one of the mods listed here or think that we missed a great one, let us know below!
Modding The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an easy way to customize your experience with the game. The game has 'official' mod support through MODkit, though CDPR doesn't provide actual support for modded installs or modders. While limited in scope to The Witcher 2's REDkit, there is a broad range of modding options, with the community adding additional tools and functionalities to modify additional parts of the game.
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Installing Mods
Generally, mods are installed in the 'mods' folder in your Witcher 3 game directory. Mods may include additional steps to the installation process, such as:
- adding keybinds to
input.settingsin the'My DocumentsThe Witcher 3'folder - adding/modding a menu in the
'binconfigr4gameuser_config_matrixpc'folder - etc.
Because of limitations of the mod support, you will probably have to use a utility called Script Merger to merge conflicting parts of multiple mods. This is generally very painless, but sometimes includes some additional thought.
Witcher 3 Mod Merge Pack
Creating Your Own Mods
If you want to create a mod for the Witcher 3, welcome! A list of helpful articles to get you started is below.
Unpacking The Game
To unpack the game (where for example xml files where are) you need to use MODkit. Uncooking The Witcher 3
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Script Modding
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The game scripts, written in Witcher Script, control how the game acts; how the player moves and attacks, how stamina works, how signs work, etc.
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Adding/Modding Menus
Essential to easily configuring mods, menus are defined in XML with localization text through .w3strings. Their values are generally read through script and modify how that script works.
Adding/Modding Keybinds
Keybinds are exactly how the player tells the game what they want to do, they are defined in input.settings, are configured through the input.xml menu, and the actions that they call are defined in script.
Modding XML Data
The majority of the games data is stored in XML, this is where item price and loot is controlled, where skill costs and abilities are defined, where weapons and armor get their values.
Modding Models/Textures
Replacing models and textures is one of the easiest ways of changing how the game looks.
Modding the UI
The Witcher 3 uses Scaleform GFx for it's UI, which is Flash-based and it's data is stored in .redswf files. Embedded Action Script controls many of the functionality of the UI.
Adding Additional Content
While adding new content instead of modifying what already exists is difficult, it is possible. Community-based tools allow you to add your own DLC to the game.