The first expansion, Heart of Stone, takes place in the wilds of No Man's Land, near Novigrad and Oxenfurt, and involves a contract with a mysterious chap called the Man of Glass. "All the side-quests you didn't do you can finish playing, aside from those connected to the main storyline." "After the credits roll you end up in Kaer Morhen and you can continue playing," he explained. You can play on in The Witcher 3 after you finish the main quest. "But taking into consideration it's an expansion pack, we will probably go with this approach." "We didn't decide on this yet," Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, lead quest designer - and Konrad's brother - told me. "No, no, we just say to them 'create another story plot' and it's from scratch."īoth expansions will be standalone - exist separately to the main story of The Witcher 3 - and "probably" for high level characters. The Witcher Wild Hunt is super-huge but we didn't cut off anything," he added to be clear. "We hired the Krakow team and we gave them this - the story for the new locations - a long time ago," CD Projekt Red head of studio, Adam Badowski, told me. But work on the expansions originally began 200km away in Krakow, where CDPR opened a smaller studio in 2013.
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Konrad Tomaszkiewicz will direct the expansions, and they are keeping the bulky Witcher 3 team busy post-release - as are patching and the free dollops of DLC. It's hard to plan actually because you're adding stuff - adding, adding, adding to fill the world." It's like in The Witcher 3: we plan the main story for 50 hours and the side activities for 50 hours. "But from my experience," Tomaszkiewicz added, "it always grows.
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The second expansion, Blood & Wine, arrives first-quarter 2016, and is around 20 hours in length. The first expansion, Heart of Stone, arrives October. Those are really big, with different locations, different characters, different stories, different items, cut-scenes, everything." "If you summarise these two expansions, probably the length of the two expansions will be like the length of The Witcher 2. The two planned Witcher 3 expansions will, combined, "be like the length of The Witcher 2", game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz told me when I visited the studio in May.