Patryk Mortgage has been engaged on a VR model of the unique Witcher sport for not less than a few years now. Final time we checked in, you would stroll round Kaer Morhen, however that was it. The present model, obtainable on NexusMods (opens in new tab), helps you to play via all the prologue, full with fight and dialogue decisions.
“Each element, each single prop was recovered, rigorously transferred from the unique sport,” Patryk says, “reworked and retextured, then positioned the place they precisely needs to be with detailed analyses and love.” Many of the textures have been upscaled to 4K, and objects will be interacted with, together with drinks. (Although not meals, furnishings, or weapons which might be presently being wielded by NPCs.)
Fairly than attempt to switch The Witcher’s frankly horrible OG fight mechanics into VR, Patryk changed it with a battle system he describes succinctly: “Simply swing the sword to assault your enemies”. You possibly can draw Geralt’s blade from a scabbard in your again, and even throw it at enemies. (When you expertise a bug the place the weapon would not trigger harm, Patryk suggests dropping and instantly catching your sword (opens in new tab) to repair it.)
Whereas all the dialogue is introduced in first-person, solely among the cutscenes are as every one needed to be utterly remade. Patryk notes, “you’ve the power to rotate your head in every single place at any time, so I added some additional lore-based content material for nearly each cutscene, and by that, I promise that even in case you performed the unique sport, the expertise nonetheless could be new and refreshing.” He additionally restored some strains of dialogue that had been reduce.
The Witcher in VR (opens in new tab) helps quite a lot of headsets, together with the HTC Vive, Valve Index, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest by way of Oculus Hyperlink. When you’ve bought Oculus Contact controllers you need to use their triggers to seize stuff, together with your sword. To play it you may have to personal the unique sport, then it is a matter of downloading the principle package deal (opens in new tab), working setup.bat, then lastly downloading and putting in the voice over package deal.
The primary entry within the FAQ solutions the obvious query: “Does this mod have nude scenes? – Sure, it does”.
