The Witcher 3 Gets Tons of New Info: “Don’t Worry” About the PS4 Version; Could Last Over 200 Hours

The Witcher 3 Gets Tons of New Info: “Don’t Worry” About the PS4 Version; Could Last Over 200 Hours

Giuseppe Nelva March 29, 2015 6:17 PM EST

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is getting closer and closer to its massively anticipated release, and Senior Game Designer Damien Monnier answered a lot of questions from the fans on Twitter, giving quite a lot of interesting information, which you can see below:

Monnier begun by explaining Andrzej Sapkowski’s (the original author of the IP) involvement in the project:

@FarbodSchariat He was involved at the beginning but since W3 is set after the books our writers took over. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

We also learn that a certain tattoo will carry over from The Witcher 2 if you play both games on PC.

@Thesamp yes with pc saves. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Interestingly, Monnier mentions that Dark Souls‘ combat system had a relevant influence on the game:

@AdeptuAstarte I love it, ours is similar in fact. Responsive, fast. Big influence for sure. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

The game’s story will still be divided in acts, even if they aren’t displayed, while quests will span between different acts:

@robertus54 we have acts,we don’t specifically show which one you’re in (just internal use for writers) & yes quests will spam between them. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

The game’s free DLC won’t be small and will include quests:

@Spike_Gold @fabiandoehla there will be quests too so not small at all 🙂 — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

The most challenging aspect of development was something many might not expect:

@micha probably the amount of unique npcs being displayed on screen, all doing there own thing. That’s a lot of thinking power. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

There will be some camera options to play with. For now it’s mostly zoom, but more might be added:

@SlaviaConsesiao you can play with the camera — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

@Rustine_C yeah zoom basically but we want to add more options last time I spoke to our guys. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Armor sets cannot be customized, but they have different tiers:

@charliezockt sets are, for the lack of better word, set. However they come in tiers. The 3 best armors in the game have 5 tiers each. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Geralt’s hair can be customized:

@charliezockt hair too.beard growing is old (year old feature) and we actually forgot about it until somebody pointed it out…. 🙂 — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

We’ll be able to use signs on horseback in the same way we’ll do on foot:

@Sasha81466010 same. Wouldn’t work to have a different system or keys. It works great right now as it is 🙂 — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

We get more info on boating as well:

@charliezockt yes and yes and then storms will come and then you cry a little bit. Also boat is destructible so rocks are bad… — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

If you’re worried about the German version being censored, worry no more:

Want to know more about Ciri? Here you go:

@charliezockt oh man she’s bad ass. Faster, weaker but with some magic moves and abilities unique to her. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

@charliezockt yes she’s different. Still 3rd person but she’s faaaaaaast and I mean it. If you blink you’ll miss her. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

@charliezockt specific moments in her story — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

@ozymandias8 they’re not flash backs, sometimes you see (and play) her struggle as it happens. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

If you’re a newcomer to The Witcher series, don’t worry too much, the game is quite accessible:

@Spargelstecher2 very. We spent a lot of time making sure that new comers would be up to speed super quickly. Lot of play testing. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Yennefer’s looks from the Sword of Destiny trailer might appear among the DLC:

@Rustine_C it can, everything is possible when you do free dlc 🙂 — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

The game is rather massive in terms of duration:

@Ryldux mmmm hard to say, if you do everything I d say 200+ hours. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Weather will affect the behavior of NPCs:

@charliezockt yes and yes at night – storms don’t scare people. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

We’re gonna get more info about alchemy next week:

@Shasserix alchemy system is cool, I’ll talk about it more next week on the forum . No gnomes for you! — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

We also got more info on screenshot options:

@Snacze mmm on consoles that’s covered and pc you can bind key to take screen or did you mean moving camera as well + pause game? — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

@Snacze not without our devs only debugmode. let me bring this up with the team OK? You’re not the 1st to ask so it must be important 🙂 — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Items will still fly when you hit it with the Aard sign:

@yeahh_28 yes some unless they’re massive — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Water has been improved since the January build:

@alibabcia111 January build is old. New stuff had been improved especially stormy seas. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

If you’re worrying about the PS4 version, which hasn’t exactly been shown that much, worry no more:

@MadYarpen sometimes our fans understand us more than we can say. Don’t worry about a thing. You have my word. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

Monnier was also asked to express his preference between the PC version at minimum specs and Xbox One version:

@wimonsehr @fabiandoehla mmmm tricky I’d need to compare both, even though xbox >minimum, but I’d say PC for the resolution alone. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

If you’re wondering about Cyberpunk 2077, you’ll have to wait after The Witcher 3‘s release.

@micha don’t know to be honest, we want to focus on witcher right now and talk about cyberpunk later and yes he’s been on board since day 1. — Damien Monnier (@Bacon_is_life) March 29, 2015

And there you have it, straight from the lion’s mouth. Stay tuned on DualShockers for more info on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Monnier is currently in Milan for a press event, and that’s exactly where I’ll be tomorrow morning.