You could just lie about that!

Hmm. The thing I wanted to say for a few weeks that someone said on neoga.com.

- Visit new points of interest and set out on new side-quests in a realm rivaling No Man's Land or Novigrad in size.

One of the neogaf.com members said the city is bigger than Novigrad in the Blood and Wine expansion pack, Toussaint. I didn't want to say anything because I didn't believe it, but this seems to confirm it I guess?

I can't wait for CD Projekt RED to release Blood and Wine for sale so we can really see the size. Being bigger than Novigrad is going to be absolutely amazing to see a city that big in a video game.

This next one.

- Embark on over 20 hours of new adventures and discover a land unlike anything you've seen in Wild Hunt or Hearts of Stone.

Makes me believe CD Projekt RED will add more activities to do once we complete the main quests. Maybe adding infinite replayable quests sort of like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's Radiant Quest System? Will be interesting to see. Since CD Projekt RED said they don't like fetch quests.

More infinite horse races to do maybe? And other activities which will be confirmed or that we will get to see in the video game itself when we play it.

Nice find

I was thinking that too. I've seen a mod that changes the Griffin armor to black and it looks pretty good. I suppose this feature will allow you to better mix and match armor sets and make some cool combinations.

Novigrad is a major port city and I don't think Beauclair should be the same size. Last week, CDPR said the entire new region of Toussaint is the size of the combined Skellige archipelago and that's what I'm going by.


CDPR doesn't like generic Radiant quests and I don't expect to see any. What intrigues me are the type of activities you could possibly do in your own vineyard. I don't expect anything too Bethesda-like but it would be nice if you get to do more than managing your inventory with a storage chest.

There's a media embargo that lifts Tuesday, May 10, so keep a lookout for a trailer.

The teaser trailer for Blood and Wine has been released
https://www.gog.com/news/preorder_the_witcher_3_wild_hunt_blood_and_wine

7 things you need to know by PCWorld

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3067958/software/7-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-witcher-3s-massive-blood-and-wine-expansion.html

Three Hours With The Witcher 3's Final Expansion, Blood and Wine

http://kotaku.com/three-hours-with-the-witcher-3s-final-expansion-blood-1775723213

The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine - hands-on with Geralt's retirement plan

http://www.vg247.com/2016/05/10/the-witcher-3-blood-wine-hands-on/

IGN preview

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/05/10/the-witcher-3-blood-and-wine-preview

Gamespot preview

http://www.gamespot.com/videos/the-witcher-3-blood-and-wine-everything-you-need-t/2300-6432053/

Oh man, it looks so great. I can't wait to own my own vineyard estate. And 4 more skills slots and what sounds like a really powerful and versatile boon in the new "Mutation" slot. Excellent!

Edit: Oh yeah, and another Gwent deck. Sweeeeeeeet!

Thanks for sharing all those links.

THANKS FOR THOSE... http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?s=0fde1287dbeb6325915db133e61e9be7&&app=forums&module=extras§ion=legends#

::.THE WITCHER 3 BLOOD & WINE .::

Blood and Wine includes over 90 new quests and 40 new points of interest. It also introduces a dynamic system, where interacting with an area’s main POI affects adjacent points — for example, killing enemies in their main hideout lowers their numbers in surrounding camps.

Additionally, there will be 14,000 new lines of dialogue, which is 8,000 more than the previous expansion.

New gear and monsters include over 30 new weapons, 100 individual pieces of armor, and more than 20 new monsters. No specifics were announced.

12 new mutations were detailed, however, and players will be able to unlock them in New Game Plus.

The mutations include one that causes enemies to freeze and die instantly when knocked by Aard,

one that makes enemies to explode when they’re killed with a sign’s critical hit,

and another that heals and grants you damage immunity when you lose all of your health.

Other additions include the New Game Plus maximum level increasing to 100, a new “Skellige” Gwent deck, and a redesigned user interface.

Players will also be able to change the color of their gear with armor dyes that can be obtained through merchants, recipes or loot.

However, these can only be acquired in Toussaint.

A summary of all revealed information so far:

The Numbers

? 30+ hour adventure.

? Over 90 new quests.

? Over 40 new points of interest.

? Dynamic points of interest system. Killing bandits in their main hideout will affect the number of enemies in surrounding camps.

? 14000 lines of dialogue (Hearts of Stone had 6000).

? 100 individual pieces of armour (including new Witcher sets).

? More than 20 new monsters.

Armour and Weapons

? New Witcher armour class ‘Grandmaster’.

? New armour merchant who is the only one able to craft this level of Witcher gear.

? Can get blue, hooded armour from Witcher 2, armour from Witcher 1, Ursine Witcher armour with furry pauldron that was in the artbook but cut from the main game.

? More than 30 new weapons.

? Can now dye armour. Dyes can be bought from a merchant, crafted or looted. Only obtainable in Toussaint. Pink is among the colours.

? You can acquire the golden, plumed armour of the Touissant knights, and the same goes for Roach!

New Mutation System

? Mutations. 12 new abilities. Mechanic is unlocked through a quest started by a letter from Yennefer.

Examples:Signs can have critical hits causing the enemy to explode, instead of dying Geralt is healed and has damage immunity,

opponents knocked down by AARD freeze and die instantly. Can only utilise one at a time.

? The UI resembles Witcher 2’s character customization screen. Basically they’re super strong abilities/stat boosts that require mutagens and skill points to unlock.

Can only pick one at a time but you have to unlock earlier ones to get the others.

? Despite unlocking it at level 34+ (recommended level to venture to Touissant) the system and anything you’ve unlocked carries over to New Game+ so you won’t have to unlock it again.

UI Changes

? Greatly redesigned User Interface.

? Can now rotate Geralt in stats screen.

? Books moved to glossary.

? Upon looting a readable item a little notification pops up in bottom left of screen. Upon clicking in the right stick (on Xbox One controller),

you can read the text of recently looted books, letters, notes etc without having to go to the menu, inventory, finding the right book and so on.

? Option to remove fish-eye effect from witcher sense.

Home Base

? Geralt gets his own [censored] vineyard.

? It’s called Corvo Bianco.

? You can renovate it with large sums of money, the option I saw was for 5000 Orens.

? You can add a greenhouse of sorts where you can grow herbs for all your witcher potion needs, an armourer’s table, a stable for Roach

(with its own stat bonuses), upgrade your bed, renovated interior and exterior, secret lab, guest room.

? Guest room where old friends will come to stay. They said the names Triss and Yennefer, but were reluctant to reveal the names of anyone else who might visit.

? Scaffolding and workers will appear after you choose to build something. Each change takes a certain amount of in-game time to complete,

but you can just meditate til everything’s done.

? Can display your armour, weapons, paintings and books.

? Some paintings can be bought, or specially made, others are obtained through quests.

Music

? Over 2 hours of new musical content in the game.

? The title screen song is a reworked version of the Bruxa song from the CGI trailer.

Other Tidbits

? Can enter Geralt in a tournament, creating his own logo and team colours.

? You can of course 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, but the lighting has been prepared specially to reflect the feeling of Southern Europe.

? No new hairstyles.


? Grass has been optimised, more of it but less expensive.

? Improvements to cloth tech.

? New sword sheathing option. With this new option Geralt no longer automatically unsheathes his sword at the start of combat.

Also, he no longer switches weapons to match the opponent. The player has to do it on their own.

? Nilfgaard and Northern Kingdoms physical Gwents cards exist, unsure if they’re being packaged with this expansion.

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::.CREDITS GOES TO: Dmax3901.::