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The Witcher 3 writer reveals a segment cut from the final game

Insight into what almost was
by rawmeatcowboy
19 May 2020
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The Witcher 3 is an absolutely enormous game, offering up hundreds of hours of content to explore. Believe it or not, there were even more things the team wanted to do, but they had to be scrapped for various reasons. We learn about one of those segments in a VG247 interview with principal writer Jakub Szamałek.

We planned to have a sequence where Ciri fights enemies on a frozen lake, while skating – a reference to a similar scene in one of the books. But preparing that sequence proved extremely complicated. For example, we couldn’t easily record the necessary gameplay animations – imagine recording motion capture for skating sword fighters.

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