If you prefer air travel to mountain climbing or horseback riding, and you’re keen to try out one of the cool Witcher 3 add-ons made with the REDkit modding tool, you seem to be in luck. As part of a massive new quest mod releasing open quests early, you can take Geralt on a hot air balloon ride to a mysterious island.
As far as I know – unless there’s some pre-REDkit mod that I’ve somehow forgotten about and the search hasn’t come up yet, in which case I’ll happily raise my silver sword-wielding hand – this is the first time anyone Successfully lets you ride such a vehicle in TW3. Given that REDkit has allowed others to make sailing full-size boats possible, among other things, this looks to be the latest one that will blow your mind.
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However, this balloon is only part of modder RoiJean’s project “Windsong”, in which “Geralt continues to search for the Isle of Whispers, a place that no one seems to know about…”. Its name is Whispering Island, a name that definitely ticks all the boxes for a mysterious island.
RoiJean writes that the mod is “designed as a new mini ‘extension'” and currently “only the first two missions are available” as the modder hopes to upload it before the deadline for the currently ongoing CD Projekt mod contest project, which challenges people to “tell their own story and create an adventure consisting of 2-3 interconnected missions.”
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As you can hear in the trailer above – or check out the full reveal of the two missions currently available, which I’m only linking to if you want to avoid spoilers – Windsong according to its creators A mixture of custom voices were used for its new NPCs, and lines from the base game were spliced together to form Geralt’s dialogue. Yeah, because of the world we live in now, when I saw this, my first thought was “Oh my god, please don’t tell me this otherwise cool thing was ruined by some crappy AI voice”, but Thankfully, this does not appear to be the case.
As of now, once you complete the mod’s second mission, which sees Geralt flying with a professor to a mysterious island in a balloon (dubbed a “sailboat” by medieval fantasy scientists), you’ll be teleported back Novigrad, where this is the beginning of a level 50 mini-adventure.
Of course, this is not the ideal ending in RoiJean’s mind. They wrote in the review: “I didn’t have time to finish the end of the story because this was my entry for the Redkit modding competition and I already had the whole story in my head, but I had to cut it too short to finish it in time… …I hope I’ll have time to finish it one day. They added in another comment: “I can’t guarantee dates for the rest of it, I’ve been working on this mod full time for 3 months and now I have to put development on hold. “
So even if you don’t like viewing it in its current state, it might be worth paying attention to see if it’s fully fleshed out. Do you think Geralt will find a way to hate hot air balloon rides more than he hates portals? Let us find out below.
