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Discover more of Olgierd von Everec's darkest side.
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After about 200 hours in The Witcher 3 and its DLCs, I can't say I was left thinking "There should have been more", but as it turns out we did all play a somewhat slimmed down version of Geralt's adventures.
In addition to an enormous number of bug fixes, the Brothers in Arms mod by Nexus Mods user MerseyRockoff (as well as a long list of collaborators) aims to restore and rebuild as much cut or inaccessible content as humanly possible. For the most part, we're talking about relatively minor elements: books, journal entries, item descriptions, and especially lines of dialogue that could be found in the game files but were never properly implemented by CD Projekt Red (though they certainly add up!).
There are a few cases, however, of full cutscenes and even gameplay sequences that the mod slots back into the game—and YouTuber xLetalis has made a great video breaking down some pretty key omissions from the excellent Hearts of Stone expansion that players can now experience.
The big headliner here is a scene that was cut from the Von Everec Estate section of the DLC. As you might remember, during this part of the adventure Geralt is able to witness visions of the past that reveal villain Olgierd's descent into evil and the occult, and the deterioration of his relationship with his wife. As it turns out, there was originally an extra scene, now partly restored by the mod.
It depicts a memory of Olgierd being confronted by a mob of local villagers who've grown sick of all the debauchery and violence and other assorted naughtiness. Naturally, he doesn't react well, and the implication is that he slaughtered them.
With the vision over, Geralt is attacked by the risen spirits of the dead villagers. Or rather… he isn't. They are enemies, and they do run at him, but when they reach him, they simply kneel down at his feet. Very unsettling and seemingly how they were intended to work, rather than a lingering bug.
From there, however, things do get too spotty for the mod to be able to fully restore the rest of the scene. A sequence in Olgierd's dungeons was supposed to play out next, including a vision of him murdering his wife's father, but as it stands none of that is playable—there simply wasn't enough original content to restore.
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After about 200 hours in The Witcher 3 and its DLCs, I can't say I was left thinking "There should have been more", but as it turns out we did all play a somewhat slimmed down version of Geralt's adventures.
In addition to an enormous number of bug fixes, the Brothers in Arms mod by Nexus Mods user MerseyRockoff (as well as a long list of collaborators) aims to restore and rebuild as much cut or inaccessible content as humanly possible. For the most part, we're talking about relatively minor elements: books, journal entries, item descriptions, and especially lines of dialogue that could be found in the game files but were never properly implemented by CD Projekt Red (though they certainly add up!).
There are a few cases, however, of full cutscenes and even gameplay sequences that the mod slots back into the game—and YouTuber xLetalis has made a great video breaking down some pretty key omissions from the excellent Hearts of Stone expansion that players can now experience.
The big headliner here is a scene that was cut from the Von Everec Estate section of the DLC. As you might remember, during this part of the adventure Geralt is able to witness visions of the past that reveal villain Olgierd's descent into evil and the occult, and the deterioration of his relationship with his wife. As it turns out, there was originally an extra scene, now partly restored by the mod.
It depicts a memory of Olgierd being confronted by a mob of local villagers who've grown sick of all the debauchery and violence and other assorted naughtiness. Naturally, he doesn't react well, and the implication is that he slaughtered them.
With the vision over, Geralt is attacked by the risen spirits of the dead villagers. Or rather… he isn't. They are enemies, and they do run at him, but when they reach him, they simply kneel down at his feet. Very unsettling and seemingly how they were intended to work, rather than a lingering bug.
From there, however, things do get too spotty for the mod to be able to fully restore the rest of the scene. A sequence in Olgierd's dungeons was supposed to play out next, including a vision of him murdering his wife's father, but as it stands none of that is playable—there simply wasn't enough original content to restore.
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