CD Projekt Pink has revealed to IGN how sure NSFW textures made their approach into The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen replace, and why it should take away them.
The prolific Witcher 3 PC modding group is chargeable for making a dizzying array of modifications to the legendary RPG, starting from graphical and texture enhancements to numerous high quality of life and stock administration enhancements.
At some stage, a modder additionally determined to create anatomically right genitals for feminine characters, and people modifications someway made it into the next-gen replace for The Witcher 3 alongside the vary of different mods that have been formally adopted by the studio.
“As was understood by CD PROJEKT RED till very not too long ago, the vulva textures in query have been part of the ‘HD Monsters Reworked’ (HDMR) mod, not the ‘Vaginas for Everybody’ mod,” stated a studio spokesperson in a press release to IGN.
“In 2021, on the time of signing the copyright switch settlement, the HDMR mod writer confirmed to CDPR that they have been the only real writer of the mod in query. The HDMR mod writer granted CD PROJEKT RED rights to make use of the mod and was credited & compensated for his or her work.”
CD Projekt Pink additionally re-iterated that it was “dedicated” to eradicating the textures from the sport in a future replace. “We wish to additionally add that the elimination of those parts shouldn’t be meant as a press release towards nudity or mature themes, however reasonably an try to keep up visible coherence throughout all character fashions — together with these textures within the recreation was not one thing we deliberate from the beginning.”
The studio has reached out to the unique creator of the HDMR mod with questions for clarification.
In our evaluation of the sport, IGN awarded The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a 9.3/10 for its glorious fight and exploration gameplay, which assist elevate it “to a airplane few different RPGs inhabit”.
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