Although a lot of the best Witcher 3 mods were added to the game with the next-gen update by CD Projekt Red, such as Immersive Real-time Cutscenes, World Map Fixes and HD Monsters Reworked, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t go one step further.
You could either want to find more mods that will even out some of the improvements made, since the overlooked areas will stand out as being in need of an upgrade, or you could just want mods for a more personal selection of upgrades to suit your own taste.
The good thing for you that are looking to mod this game is that modding The Witcher 3 has been made easier than ever. This is because in the past you;d need to have a Mod Limit Fix installed first if you wanted to have more than 10 mods but now in this present time, with the next-gen version, you’ll be able to handle up to 200 mods easily.
It’s always a good idea for you to first read the description page of any mod that you are thinking about downloading and getting, however more often than not all you’ll need to do is extract a folder into the “Mods” subdirectory of your Witcher 3 install, or into the dlc subdirectory. So now when you launch the Witcher 3 game next time your mods will also run.
If you are having a bit of trouble with your mods then a good idea would be to install “Script Merger”, once you have this installed you’ll just have to run it everytime you download a new mod and it’ll spot any confusion and basically merge the scripts that are trying to alter the same thing for you.
Best Quality of Life Mod
No Chatterboxes
Where to download: No Chatterboxes
Although you may not want to remove everything that the NPCs in this game tend to say, there are definitely a few things that you do hear them repeating over and over again in the background of The Witcher 3. For example, very often you’ll overhear two peasants having the exact same conversation every time you leave the White Orchard inn or as simple as hearing the same shouts and insults on the streets. What the No Chatterboxes mod will do is turn off all of this repeating dialogue and give your ears a rest. The mod doesn’t go as far as to remove every single background NPC noise thankfully, so you will still hear strumpets on the streets of Novigrad asking if you want to “dip your dingle”.
Best Beautification Mod
Disable Hairworks on Geralt
Where to download: Disable hairworks on Geralt
When this game initially came out, the Hairworks in the game was ahead of its time for a lot of gaming PCs out there and even to this day, the feature that is able to give everyone swishy physics-enabled hair and fur, is still just within the grasp of many decent gaming PCs. This is definitely an awesome feature that many people enjoy having turned on but Hairworks does tend to turn Geralt’s beard black in some of the cutscenes and make his hair look noodly. When you look in the in-game settings you’ll find that there are options to enable this feature for everyone or for only Geralt alone, but there is no option to give everyone this feature except for Geralt. This mod is simply the solution for this problem.
Best Gwent Mod
The Gwent Card Dealer
Where to download: Gwent Card Dealer
If you are a gamer who enjoys a good round of Gwent in The Witcher 3, but is too lazy to track down every single generic merchant to earn a card from, then this mod will save you a lot of your valuable time. What this mod will essentially do for you is turn the Bloody Baron’s quartermaster, at Crow’s Perch, into a card shop with all the cards you desire. So now not only will he be selling his usual items, he’ll also be selling almost every single non-unique Gwent card that you can get in this game. In order for you to obtain the unique cards you’ll still have to do the quests, such as Dandelion and Eredin: Bringer of Death, to do so.
Best Fun Mods
A Minecraft Sword
Where to download: A minecraft sword
So you’ll use steel for humans and silver for the monsters, but what will you be slaying with a minecraft diamond sword? At least with this mod you’ll just be replacing your silver sword that’s used for slaying monsters. The diamond Minecraft sword is quite a decent weapon and actually gives you bonuses to armour piercing, sign intensity, xp from monsters, crit chance and damage as well as a chance to cause burning. Once you have this mod installed on your game you’ll also need to purchase the weapon from Eibhear Hattori in Novigrad.
Final words
So, there you have just the tip of the iceberg of awesome mods that you can add to The Witcher 3 in order to make your game more fun. There are thousands of mods out there that are just as fun, if not even more fun, to use than these ones. So, try and do your own research as well and then download the ones that you think will either be the most fun or make your gaming experience just overall more pleasurable.
