The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt has dropped its first story hints for the sport’s upcoming third growth, Songs of the Previous.
Formally confirmed yesterday, Songs of the Previous will arrive for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S in 2027 and as soon as once more permit gamers to tackle the position of legendary monster slayer Geralt.
The growth will launch 12 years after The Witcher 3’s unique debut in 2015, and 11 years after the sport’s second growth, Blood and Wine, launched in 2016. Followers anticipate its story to additionally act as one thing of a bridge to the upcoming The Witcher 4, which nonetheless lacks a launch date.
“We cannot give an excessive amount of away proper now as a result of we would like you to expertise it as you play,” senior group and social media supervisor Laura Beitzel teased as we speak throughout a 10th anniversary livestream designed to have fun Blood and Wine.
“However as just a few eagle-eyed folks have already seen over the previous 24 hours, there are some hints ready for you on an important night in Witcher lore, Belleteyn Night time, in our Belleteyn celebration that we shared just a few weeks in the past. So… preserve on the lookout for clues.”
Right here, Beitzel is referencing a bit of art work and a poem it sneakily posted on social media a month in the past. It exhibits Geralt resting by a bonfire as Dandelion performs the lute whereas villagers dance. Extra importantly, although, it exhibits Geralt with a mysterious new sword — the identical sword he is additionally holding in Songs of the Previous’s reveal art work, which sports activities an uncommon ornate curved crossguard.
Belleteyn has been referenced in The Witcher earlier than, and is a fertility pageant that takes place every spring. Right here is the picture’s accompanying poem, in case you wish to scour it for additional clues:
“So sure, Geralt is holding a sword,” CD Projekt’s Amelia Korzycka continued, referencing Songs of the Previous’s key art work. “It’s a crucial sword for the story and you’re going to get to comprehend it when the sport comes out. So just a few extra streams earlier than that when [we] reveal it.”
Beitzel additionally mentioned the dimensions of the growth — and as we heard beforehand, Songs of the Previous is an growth somewhat than a smaller DLC or add-on.
“Songs of the Previous shall be aligned with what you are acquainted with in Blood and Wine, and what you’ve got come to expertise and anticipate from us once we do our expansions,” Beitzel defined. “It is an growth, let’s make it clear.”
At this time’s livestream additionally included affirmation that Songs of the Previous will embrace extra Gwent playing cards, and that CD Projekt was nonetheless engaged on cross-platform mod help for The Witcher 3, to launch in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.
Lastly, CD Projekt’s newest monetary outcomes have as we speak confirmed a brand new total gross sales whole for The Witcher 3, which now stands at 65 million copies offered, up 5 million from its final rely. That quantity appears more likely to rise even additional when Songs of the Previous launches in some unspecified time in the future in 2027.
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