Witcher 3 - Interview @ The Sixth Axis

The Sixth Axis has a new interview with The Witcher 3's Lead Producer Piotr Krzywonosiuk from E3 , and talk about the games challenges & open world.

TSA: What can you tell us about the plot of Wild Hunt? Does it follow on directly from The Witcher 2 or is it a separate story?

Piotr: The game starts roughly six or so months after the events of The Witcher 2, and basically that’s all I can tell you…

Not without spoiling it, anyway… this time it’s small, close and personal, and all about Geralt. In The Witcher 2 it was all about events, war was about to happen, and that’s basically how we leave the game. And in Wild Hunt it’s more about Geralt and his personal story, about the search for his loved ones.

TSA: And this takes place on the backdrop of war, which is ravaging this land?

Piotr: That’s right.

TSA: Is the world going to be fully open world – no load times?

Piotr: No load times when you’re travelling normally.

TSA: So no barriers, nothing?

Piotr: That’s what we’re working on right now, it’s again a challenge, but that’s the foundation of our open world: no barriers, no loading times and so on.

TSA: Part of the presentation we saw was centred on a new sense of freedom with getting around the world. Is it literally a case of anywhere you see you can go?

Piotr: Basically, yes. You can climb mountains, you can jump on things if it makes sense for you, horse riding, sailing boats, swimming, diving as well – that’s it.