The Witcher III Blood & Wine Showcased in Ten New Gorgeous Screenshots

Nosotros're less than two weeks away from the release of Claret & Vino, the biggest and last expansion pack for The Witcher Three: Wild Hunt, the game that ready a new record for GOTY awards last year.

Today, CD Projekt RED released a bunch of new astonishing screenshots that showcase once again the incredible graphics quality of The Witcher III, which has been really enhanced for Claret & Wine.

However, a few more than screenshots were inadvertently released on the Internet. CDPR took them downwardly, only they were already being shared on various forums. The gallery below includes them; in that location are no huge spoilers, simply hither's a warning just in example.

The expansion, which will vary in size between x and 15 GB co-ordinate to the chosen platform, will add together 30 hours of gameplay to Geralt of Rivia'southward last take a chance.

Here's a recap on the biggest additions and tweaks y'all'll discover in Claret & Vino. The expansion, gratis for Flavour Pass holders, is priced at nineteen.99€ on Steam with a ten% pre-launch discount bringing the price downward to 17.99€.

The Numbers:
• 30+ hour adventure.
• Over xc new quests.
• Over twoscore new points of interest.
• Dynamic points of interest system. Killing bandits in their main hideout volition touch the number of enemies in surrounding camps.
• 14000 lines of dialogue (Hearts of Stone had 6000).
• 100 private pieces of armour (including new Witcher sets).
• More 20 new monsters.
• New Game + maximum level increased to 100.

Armour and Weapons:
• New Witcher armour class 'Grandmaster'.
• New armour merchant who is the only one able to arts and crafts this level of Witcher gear.
• Can become blue, hooded armour from Witcher 2, armour from Witcher 1, Ursine Witcher armour with hirsuite pauldron that was in the artbook simply cut from the main game.
• More than 30 new weapons.
• Can now dye armour. Dyes can exist bought from a merchant, crafted or looted. Only obtainable in Toussaint. Pinkish is among the colours.
• You can acquire the gilded, plumed armour of the Touissant knights, and the aforementioned goes for Roach!

New Mutation Arrangement:
• Mutations. 12 new abilities. Mechanic is unlocked through a quest started by a letter of the alphabet from Yennefer. Examples: Signs can accept disquisitional hits causing the enemy to explode, instead of dying Geralt is healed and has damage immunity, opponents knocked downwards by AARD freeze and die instantly. Can only utilise 1 at a time.
• The UI resembles Witcher ii'southward graphic symbol customization screen. Basically they're super strong abilities/stat boosts that require mutagens and skill points to unlock. Can only pick ane at a time but you have to unlock earlier ones to get the others.
• Despite unlocking information technology at level 34+ (recommended level to venture to Touissant) the organization and annihilation you've unlocked carries over to New Game+ and so you won't have to unlock it once again.

UI Changes:
• Greatly redesigned User Interface.
• Tin now rotate Geralt in stats screen.
• Books moved to glossary.
• Upon looting a readable detail a picayune notification pops upward in bottom left of screen. Upon clicking in the correct stick (on Xbox One controller), you lot tin can read the text of recently looted books, letters, notes etc without having to go to the menu, inventory, finding the right book and and so on.
• Option to remove fish-heart effect from witcher sense.

Home Base:
• Geralt gets his own motherfucking vineyard.
• It's called Corvo Bianco.
• Y'all can renovate it with big sums of coin, the option I saw was for 5000 Orens.
• You tin can add together a greenhouse of sorts where y'all can grow herbs for all your witcher potion needs, an armourer'southward tabular array, a stable for Roach (with its ain stat bonuses), upgrade your bed, renovated interior and outside, secret lab, guest room.
• Guest room where former friends will come to stay. They said the names Triss and Yennefer, just were reluctant to reveal the names of anyone else who might visit. Surprise Iorveth/Saskia visit??
• Scaffolding and workers will announced after you choose to build something. Each change takes a certain amount of in-game time to complete, but you can but meditate til everything's done.
• Can display your armour, weapons, paintings and books.
• Some paintings tin be bought, or peculiarly fabricated, others are obtained through quests.

Music:
• Over 2 hours of new musical content in the game.
• The title screen vocal is a reworked version of the Bruxa song from the CGI trailer.

Other Tidbits:
• Tin can enter Geralt in a tournament, creating his ain logo and squad colours.
• Can enter under a simulated proper name, although you may not fool everyone.
• You can of form race horses, but other events involve crossbow shooting and a grand melee. Seems like there will be more but they didn't want to say.
• No new unique weather effects, only the lighting has been prepared specially to reflect the feeling of Southern Europe.
• No new hairstyles.
• As of the preview event (3/5/16) they were still working on the final boss fight.
• Grass has been optimised, more than of it but less expensive.
• Improvements to fabric tech (see interview for more than detail).
• New sword sheathing option. With this new option Geralt no longer automatically unsheathes his sword at the start of combat. Likewise, he no longer switches weapons to lucifer the opponent. The player has to exercise it on their own.
• CDPR staff were given a sheet that says "We do not talk nigh Cyberpunk" for this press tour.
• Bioware staff apparently cheered when Witcher iii was delayed out of 2022.
• Nilfgaard and Northern Kingdoms physical Gwents cards exist, unsure if they're being packaged with this expansion.