Witcher 3 modder resurrects the boat races CD Projekt cut from the base game, just in case you want to give Roach a break

Witcher 3 modder resurrects the boat races CD Projekt cut from the base game, just in case you want to give Roach a break

You remember The Witcher 3‘s horse races? You know, the ones you definitely didn’t fail a couple of times by getting stuck on a pole, tree, or low fence trying to cheekily cut a corner. Well, CD Projekt actually cut a number of boat races along the same lines from the game’s final release, and a modder’s now managed to restore them.

How? Well, with a bit of help from the game’s still relatively new REDkit modding tool, which gives folks access to a lot of the same stuff the studio originally used to create the game itself.

With the mod in question, which is matter-of-factly called ‘Boat Races‘, modder MerseyRockoff has ressurected the boat races that were originally worked on and planned out by CD Projekt during TW3’s development, but unlike the horse races and bare-knuckle brawls we know and love, didn’t make it into the final release.

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