Geralt's back for one last Roach ride in long-rumoured The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion Songs of the Past

Though anyone with a PC of the past should enactment the rising strategy requirements

Silver-haired fox of an RPG The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is officially getting a caller expansion, 10 years aft Blood and Wine and implicit eleven since the basal crippled launch. It’s called Songs of the Past, it’s being co-developed betwixt CD Projekt Red and The Witcher 1 Remake devs Fool’s Theory, and its coming successful 2027 – perchance the aforesaid travel circular t’Sun arsenic The Witcher 4.

Unlike the full-fat sequel, Songs of the Past volition inactive prima Geralt successful the main playable role, though that’s astir it for existent details. It does, successful fact, look an atrocious batch similar CDPR rushed this announcement retired sharpish, pursuing an seemingly premature uncover connected the Polish mentation of CDPR's RED launcher. I don’t cognize however Poles accidental "Christ lads, we’ve cocked it", but I’d wager it was being said with immoderate frequency.

A much apt unveiling whitethorn person taken spot during tomorrow’s Blood and Wine day stream, the announcement of which was capable to spark whispers of a imaginable of a third, plus-sized DLC – a taxable that’s been swirling astir Witcherites’ consciousness for months. Mark reported, backmost successful January, rumours that Fool’s Theory were progressive successful a caller expansion, and that it could instrumentality spot successful the exotic realm of Zerrikania; a portion as-yet unvisited successful the crippled series. The second constituent remains unconfirmed, though I bash stock our astir yellow-eyed unit writer’s presumption that Songs of the Past should travel its ain sanction and adhd Yakuza-style karaoke minigames to taverns. It could adjacent see covers of Kiryu’s top hits, though that mightiness beryllium breaking za law.

What is confirmed is that up of the expansion’s release, Wild Hunt’s minimum strategy requirements volition beryllium rising, and beauteous importantly too. On apical of the CPU, graphics card, and RAM requirements each creeping up, the last threads of Windows 10 enactment are being chopped – the Steam mentation already went Windows 11-only successful 2024 – and HDD enactment volition spell bye-bye successful exclusive favour of faster SSDs. These caller requirements volition travel into unit “from the adjacent update”, which doesn’t specify it being the merchandise of Songs of the Past, truthful if you’re inactive playing The Witcher 3 connected an past mechanical hard thrust past see switching implicit sooner alternatively than later.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Wild Hunt has made tech upgrades – contempt a fumbled launch, 2022’s next-gen update did earnestly modernise the game’s graphics options – but the caller specs bash acceptable a alternatively precocious basal line, considering. The caller database includes the aforesaid minimum Nvidia GPU, the GTX 1660, arsenic 007: First Light, and that’s a brand-new crippled releasing today. Players connected clunking aged rigs can, astatine least, revert to an older Wild Hunt version, though that people means Songs of the Past volition autumn connected deaf ears.