The Witcher 3 Designer Recalls the ‘Mistake’ the Team Made With a Key Feature
CD Projekt Red admits that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s Skellige map contains some interesting points, but also explains why so many question marks appeared on the screen in the first place.
Speak inside Developer’s 20th Anniversary StreamPhilip Weber, then junior quest designer and director of The Witcher 4 campaign, introduced the cash of various smugglers (the dozens of underwater chests scattered throughout the skeleton’s ocean) as a point of real interest. I said I didn’t.
Given the extraordinary size of The Witcher 3’s map, CD Projekt decided that it needed more than just a quest to fill it.
“I’m free to admit that I’m one of the people who actually put these question marks in the world,” Weber said. “It was already in late 2014, so it wasn’t too long before it was released. [in May 2015] Basically when the world is filled with them.
The Witcher 3 scale has dozens of tricky features to reach smugglers’ cash.
“I had a lot of fun because I didn’t have much time.’Okay, we have to do it and we can’t do it perfectly.’ But I have defenses,” he continues. rice field. “I did a lot of those terrible things — I can say terrible things because I did — smuggler cash. But originally we put them in the world and put some seagulls, I made it possible for you to see them swirling, but it wasn’t. I’m actually going to show the icons on the map. “
Instead, Weber explained that the smuggler’s cash was intended to be a treat that players randomly come across, rather than a collectible that the completionists took hours to check.
“I would fully agree that it was a mistake,” he laughed. “I will never do that again.”
Future Witcher games don’t seem to contain that many question marks on the map, but at least not so many annoying ones. However, The Witcher 4 (because it doesn’t have an official name) just entered the prototype stage in May and is likely to be several years away, so it will take some time before it becomes known.
CD Projekt Red has only published one teaser image of the game, but the very small ones have stimulated countless fan theories. CD Projekt later saw an image featuring the Lynx medallion, but it’s still controversial whether it’s the new Witcher school.
I don’t know much about this game, except that CD Projekt Red has partnered with Epic Games to build the game on Unreal Engine 5 and its director hasn’t promised a crunch on the watch.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He talks about The Witcher all day long.
