CD Project Red held another stream as part of the celebration of the anniversary of the studio. The last one was dedicated The Witcher 3: Wild Huntand the leading quest designer was invited to visit Philip Weber (Philip Weber). In the conversation, he touched on an aspect of the game that still terrifies fans – question marks on the Skellige map.
Touched by the third “The Witcher” certainly impressed by the huge number of marks around Skellige. And almost always they lead to underwater chests with contraband. And also these sirens who want to dismantle the boat for souvenirs!
According to Weber, the studio did not plan to add so many questions to the map. Moreover, such chests should not have been marked at all. The specialist shared that at the end of 2014, the studio did not have enough time to fill the vast location with something more meaningful.
I can openly admit that I was one of those who put question marks around the world, but I have something to say in my defense. I’ve placed a lot of horrible contraband chests. Initially, we added them along with a bunch of seagulls circling around so that gamers would pay attention. But we did not plan to mark such places on the map.
The designer agrees that placing so many points of interest in the world was a mistake. As planned, players should find several caches on the way to the current goal, but there was no need to explore them all. “Without icons, users would hardly have found all the chests, but no one demanded this”noted Weber.
Recall that currently CDPR working on the continuation of the witcher series. The next game does not have a four in the title, as its developers stubbornly insist. The cat wept for details about the project: it will get on the rails of Unreal Engine 5, and the game director was appointed its head GWENTA.
