The bully quality is that The Witcher 3, already a precise good-looking game, is astir to get adjacent much good-looking erstwhile its next-gen update is released. The atrocious quality is that, for anyone playing the crippled connected PC, loads of your favourite mods from the past 7 years aren’t going to enactment anymore.

As CDPR explain successful a blog post, “updating a crippled means that we alteration assorted files, truthful the mods that modify those nonstop files halt working”. And erstwhile it comes to making those updates, CDPR person prioritised changes that marque the basal crippled better, implicit keeping older things the aforesaid for the involvement of mods.

Acknowledging that it has been six years since the past large update to the PC mentation of the game, though, CDPR accidental that’s “a agelong clip to get utilized to one’s favourite mods”, and truthful successful an effort to marque “this modulation to beryllium arsenic creaseless arsenic possible” person compiled a database of immoderate of the community’s favourite mods, tested them and shared which ones enactment with the next-gen update and which ones don’t.

Some of them work! Sadly loads of them, particularly the ones reliant connected scripting, don’t. As CDPR say, “Because we are changing scripts successful the update owed to the summation of a caller quest, astir of the mods that are based connected scripts volition mistake out”. For mod creators acrophobic astir this, a squad of “modding experts” from CDPR volition beryllium astir to “provide assistance and proposal to modders connected forums post-release erstwhile possible.”

Helping to alleviate this somewhat, though, is an accompanying announcement that the next-gen update volition beryllium shipping with immoderate fan-made mods baked into it astatine launch:

Additionally, we are including respective fashionable mods successful the update (they’ll beryllium disposable depending connected the platform). We obtained permissions from their creators, reimbursed them, and they’ll beryllium featured successful the credits of the updated game. The mods were reworked and assets optimised arsenic needed, and the crippled adjusted to tally with them. There was adjacent a lawsuit erstwhile a dev got truthful engrossed successful tinkering erstwhile including a mod that helium ended up simply remaking that peculiar facet of the game. So, successful a way, the crippled comes with immoderate mods already included.

That’s neat! Especially the reimbursement part.