The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is due to officially launch on 19 May. While this can’t be making the devs happy, CD Projekt RED are happy to announce that they’ve got a million pre-orders worldwide. Extreme caution is recommended when Googling for the game. That actually ties into the pre-loads, too the GOG Galaxy client apparently lists the game’s achievements, including the “hidden” ones that contain spoilers. While Twitch are trying to shut down any streams of the game, and while CD Projekt RED are locking threads on their forums and taking down YouTube videos, you might want to be careful when searching for The Witcher 3 info lest you come across spoilers. Meanwhile, retailers in the UAE have apparently broken street date on the game, with eager players in that region already able to play it. Sizeable, but hardly the biggest thing we’ve seen lately. The pre-load apparently clocks in at a 26GB download, with the game requiring 35GB of hard drive space to install.
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In The Witcher, you play as a professional monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, tasked with finding a child of prophecy in a vast open world rich with merchant cities, pirate islands, dangerous mountain passes, and forgotten caverns to explore.
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If you’ve purchased The Witcher 3 via that particular service, pre-loads should have begun by now. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game set in a visually stunning fantasy universe full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. What do you need to be prepared First comes brushing up on. Even if you’ve played the first two games, it’s a quick, focused refresher.Two bits of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt news courtesy of a reader: GOG preloads have begun, while lucky types in the UAE are able to play the game already. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a daunting game: a huge, open world RPG and the end of a trilogy starring monster hunter Geralt of Rivia. Players control Geralt of Rivia, a monster slayer for hire known as a Witcher. The second half of the infographic briefly recaps the major story events of The Witcher and The Witcher 2 that will tie into the third game. The game takes place in a fictional fantasy world based on Slavonic mythology. It’s an easy way to grasp the basics of the political factions like the non-human Scoia’tael freedom fighters, the Northern Kingdoms and the Nilfgaardian Empire. It doesn’t pull on wiki resources or Sapkowski’s novels, instead recounting information you can pick up from playing the first two games. This great infographic from NeoGAF member EatChildern intentionally keeps things simple. An infographic overview of the world of The Witcher and Geralt’s journey The Wild Hunt’s ability to appear and disappear as spectral riders seems to be connected to the parallel worlds alluded to at the beginning of The Witcher 3. As Geralt says, all witchers know that wraiths cannot be killed, only driven away, but it seems that at times they take physical form, as Geralt, Letho, and other witchers killed some of the riders before Geralt agreed to ride with them. In the first Witcher game, the King of the Wild Hunt appears to Geralt multiple times as a spectre, and Geralt fights him for the soul of Jacques de Aldersberg, Grand Master of the Order of the Flaming Rose.Īt one time, Geralt rode with the Hunt after giving his soul for Yennefer’s. The Wild Hunt is in search of Ciri, who has escaped their clutches before. They kill and take some mortals to become new wraith riders. Like the horsemen of the apocalypse, the Wild Hunt are a group of spectral riders who appear as an omen of war. For more background, look up Roche and Iorveth from The Witcher 2, King Radovid of Redania, and Vesemir of the witchers.
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These are some of the major players in The Witcher 3 and the Witcher series in general, but they're hardly the only ones. Important characters and their backgrounds There’s already someone out there who could do it better than we ever could, so let the savviest Witcher 3 superfans help fill you in on everything you need to know.
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We’ll cover the basics below, but we’re also assembling some of our favorite recaps and lore resources from around the web. If you want to go into The Witcher 3 knowing more about, well, everything, we’re here to help.
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CD Projekt RED’s financial director Piotr Nielubowicz said that the pre-orders of the game that will be available this month are more than The Witcher games that have been released to date. But Wild Hunt does pull in characters from those books, and reading a bit about Geralt’s relationships with them will help you hit the ground running in Wild Hunt. Cyberpunk 2077’s pre-orders surpass the Witcher 3. You don’t have to be well-versed in the Witcher novels to understand what’s going on in Wild Hunt: the games are spin-offs, and thus don’t tie directly into the events of the books.