The Witcher 4's game world will be based on Part 3. (Bonus points if you guess which area the map section shows)
Since the Game Awards the cat has been out of the bag. The new Witcher will actually be called The Witcher 4 and Geralt's foster daughter Ciri will take over the silver sword as a monster hunter. In part 3 you were already able to slip into the role of the lion cub from Cintra in some passages.
But you won't have to get used to the map size, as CD Projekt Red recently revealed in an interview.
»Quality over quantity«
Im Interview with SkillUp CDPR's game director Sebastian Kalemba and executive producer Gosia Mitrega revealed the first details about the size of the game world and the number of quests in The Witcher 4.
According to Kalemba you can approximately expect the same number of quests and a similar size of the game world as in The Witcher 3. In this way, CDPR resists the trend of making an open world get bigger and bigger with every additional game in a series.
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However, he prefaces this statement with the fact that: “no slaves to numbers” want to be. The game director remembers the planning of the expansions for The Witcher 3 and the associated game length:
When we talked about the numbers, maybe five to ten hours [für Heart of Stone]and Blood and Wine, maybe 10 to 15, then we ended up with 30 hours.
With this, Kalemba wants to express that she is now cannot yet determine exact details and, as in his example, a lot can still change about the duration of the expansion from planning to completion.
“The game's going to be pretty big, isn't it? Compare with everything we have prepared so far, but I can't tell you if it's 90%, 85% or [100 % der Größe von The Witcher 3] will be «Kalemba explains further.
He only wants to commit to one thing, and that is with the promisen that during development »Quality over quantity« will stand.
But you don't have to do without Geralt completely in The Witcher 4, the White Wolf will at least be part of the game in some form. The same applies to his English voice, Doug Cockle. With Ciri, however, you will be able to get used to a new voice in both English and Europe. You can find out more about this in the articles in the link box above.
