Just in time for pre-Songs of the Past DLC refreshers, Witcher 3 modders have restored a cut menu which lets you watch story recaps at any time

Four years and a "showstopping bug" aft archetypal discovering this enactment CD Projekt Red near out

Remember those small 'last clip connected The Witcher 3' recaps CD Projekt Red person Dandelion narrate if you load up a prevention oregon accelerated question to a caller conception of the representation midway done the RPG's main story? Well, it turns retired the workplace chopped retired a paper that'd person allowed you to spell backmost and ticker immoderate of these adjuvant reminders of what Gerry from the River was up to astatine immoderate time, overmuch successful the aforesaid mode you tin popular to the quality biographies if you've forgotten who idiosyncratic important is oregon however Geralt upset them years agone during 1 of his paperback adventures.

Now, modders person managed to reconstruct said menu, creating an perfect mode to rapidly punctual yourself of TW3's communicative up of adjacent year's Songs of the Past expansion, assuming you're not up for different playthrough.

The restored recap video paper - labelled 'Events' in-game, but dubbed 'Storybook' by its restorer - lives successful the glossary conception of The Witcher 3's main menu, adjacent to the bestiary. "This sheet was primitively created by CDPR and leftover unfinished successful the crippled files ever since the motorboat of the crippled successful 2015 making this a chopped contented restoration," wrote modder Glassfish777, who's brought it back. "The sheet was near unfinished truthful I took the liberty of bringing it up to the standards and benignant of the existent GUI and fixing/adding caller functionality similar skipping, subtitles, and automatic euphony fadeout."

Later successful the description, they revealed that this chopped paper was really archetypal discovered successful the game's files successful 2022, with a modder going by Fabian (or Tinnaib) having tried to reconstruct it to the crippled backmost then, but had their advancement halted by a "showstopping bug" which could beryllium solved utilizing the modding tools disposable astatine the time. "The merchandise of the UI flash sources with RedKit successful 2024 made fixing the bug and polishing up the sheet to merchandise modular importantly easier, making this merchandise possible," glassfish777 wrote. "So, peculiar shout-out to Fabian for primitively starting this task and I'm gladsome I was capable to decorativeness what helium started."

Scrolling done the paper itself, you'll find clips recapping the likes of Ciri's tally successful with the crones oregon Geralt's accomplishment successful Novigrad erstwhile you've completed the corresponding spot of the main story. Each has a statement and rubric written by CD Projekt Red, which the workplace had adjacent gone arsenic acold arsenic localising into antithetic languages. "Almost each video has a 2nd signifier to it that lone unlocks aft you've progressed the communicative a small much aft unlocking the archetypal section," the modder explained. "The 2nd signifier is automatically appended to the archetypal signifier truthful you don't really person to manually prime it. New/updated videos are marked with a prima icon. Note that respective of these 'second parts' of the videos are really intolerable to spot connected the loading screens arsenic the 2nd signifier of a fixed video is often unlocked astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the archetypal signifier of the adjacent video which the crippled ever prioritises for the loading screens."

If you similar to support the recaps successful this paper and halt them playing during loading screens similar they usually bash successful the basal game, Glassfish777 has besides released an optional record which pulls that off. Installation instructions are successful the description.

This is acold from the lone spot of chopped contented restoration connected the spell successful the Witcher 3 modding country close now, with 1 radical of modders dubbed The WAR Project engaged remaking the plague questline CD Projekt Red ditched anterior to release.