We not too long ago acquired an opportunity to speak to CD Projekt Red about growth of The Witcher three for the game’s fifth anniversary, which is at present.
Happy fifth birthday, you lovely bastard.
During that chat, we requested concerning the issues that had been left on the reducing room ground. Among them was a playable sequence the place gamers ice skated whereas dancing, lunging, and dodging incoming enemies.
“We planned to have a sequence where Ciri fights enemies on a frozen lake, while skating – a reference to a similar scene in one of the books,” principal author Jakub Szamałek defined. “But preparing that sequence proved extremely complicated. For example, we couldn’t easily record the necessary gameplay animations – imagine recording motion capture for skating sword fighters.”
Elsewhere, the crew couldn’t initially determine on what number of islands Skellige needs to be composed of. Swimming underwater was added late into growth and retroactively added to quests. And initially gamers had been in a position to swap Roach for an additional horse, which might have been a catastrophe for the world of memes.
Ice skating Ciri isn’t the one factor Szamałek regrets, although. He additionally needs we might have seen extra of Ciri typically, which is one thing CD Projekt Red may revisit sooner or later.
