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Spawn towns in The Witcher 3 and why there’s more male nudity

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Topless Geralt

The Witcher 3 is exciting. It features some of the deepest story-telling that you can get in gaming. For some, it’s too complex; for others, it’s a dream come true. Whatever your stance, there are some very cool things that are nuanced and considered. I like games made by smart people and CD Projekt Red are obviously a highly intelligent bunch.

Game designer Damien Monnier chatted about the game during a podcast with GameTrailers and the awesome people of Dualshockers mined it for information. He talked about the lack of fetch quests (except used as a character development tool) and why ice skating was removed from the game. But this bit about town spawning was particularly intriguing to me:

In some cases when you kill the monsters in an area, humans will settle it. In the prologue there’s actually a cutscene that shows is as it happens so that the players understand the mechanic. It’s not always so simple, and there are different states. Whenever you go into an area the game will check what you have and what you haven’t done, who you helped, who you killed, the decisions you made during quests and dialogue. That can change a lot of things, including the people that spawn in a village. The mechanic is simple, but it can get complex because of all the branching.

Plenty of games have had mechanics with towns spawning after you get rid of the dangers, but this is so much more complex. There is nuance to it – you can’t just run in and kill all the things and expect a new village to appear. Your decisions will impact the world in so many ways.

Monster levels don’t scale, so you’ll need to make sure you’re powerful enough to take on the various opponents in the game. The bestiary sounds like an important source of information and gear has recently been rebalanced. It’s quite interesting in fact – you won’t be carrying around gear that you can’t use because you’re too low level. Gear immediately scales down to your level if it’s too high for you. However, once you pick up that item, its stats are set so it won’t scale back up to its original stats. Still, you’ll continue getting better loot as you move forward anyway, so no need to mourn if the stats aren’t as high as they could have been.

Finally, there was a big conversation within the team about Geralt’s nudity. Apparently it involved the extra polygons and animations for his penis while running. Some in the team felt that because there was a lot of female nudity in the game, there should be male nudity as well – even if an animated penis is tricky. The result? There’s a lot more male nudity than in previous games, but Geralt still normally wears his underwear. Just imagine what mutations did to his man-bits…

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It’s painful waiting for this game now. One more month to go – we can make it. This game has so many elements that feel designed to make me happy… I’m becoming far to afraid that it will fail to live up to hype and expectations.

Last Updated: April 17, 2015

38 Comments

  1. Blood Emperor Trevor

    April 17, 2015 at 13:43

    But Ubi said it takes too much work to animate a woman, now CDPR say it’s more for the twig & berries? I’m so confused. And honestly, the thought of naked monster fighting has a certain appeal even though technically the silver sword should be used for monsters.

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    • Pariah

      April 17, 2015 at 13:51

      Well, considering your references we now all know you have small junk.

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      • Blood Emperor Trevor

        April 17, 2015 at 13:54

        I wish I had a small junk, I’d go sailing every weekend.

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        • Pariah

          April 17, 2015 at 13:56

          You can’t pitch a tent with a twig, so how the hell are you going to hoist a sail? 😛

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          • Blood Emperor Trevor

            April 17, 2015 at 13:58

            Block & tackle, obviously.

    • BacchusZA

      April 17, 2015 at 17:56

      Well, we can thank the DOA guys and others for doing all the research into BouncyBoobs ™ physics over the years, so the data is there to be used, and adapted to whatever game you’re making without too much drama & engine overhead. I mean, those physics are probably hard coded onto GPUs by now they’re that well established.

      BouncyTackle ™ physics, on the other hand? Not nearly so much – or any? – work has been done on that, so you’ve got to go out there and crunch the numbers yourself, attach shiny reflective pingpong balls to a models Johnson & have him run and jump and climb and do handstands and shit. And you probably have to pay that model a *lot* of money to do it, ’cause I don’t know about you, but glue and my little fireman are two things I *NEVER* want to have in contact with each other.

      And then, on top of that, you have to factor in the, uh, “stretch factor”, to account for different times of day, different temperatures, your character going for a swim, the random whiff of an ex girlfriends perfume, and character interactions with the previously mentioned and coded BouncyBoobs ™ physics, and a whole *host* of other variables. And that’s all shit that needs to be coded into your engine, and processed in realtime according to the environment your character is in, or it’s just going to look funny or wrong, leading to gamebreaking dislocation of disbelief.

      We’re talking high level stuff here, and you’ll probably need a seperate PhysX card just to crunch the numbers for the BouncyTackle ™ physics to make it feasible.

      Otherwise it’s likely you’re going to see a major hit on your FPS as your graphics card & GPU both choke on trying to manage what Geralts’ schlong is doing at any given moment.

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      • Blood Emperor Trevor

        April 17, 2015 at 19:17

        I’m honestly impressed you so much work into that 😀

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    • Tigerlily

      April 20, 2015 at 18:36

      Yeah I’m equally confused… If the twig and berries are coming out I better be seeing some flower mounds .

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  2. UltimateNinjaPandaDudeGuy

    April 17, 2015 at 13:44

    I personally would prefer bewbs to be honest… This is going to differ based on preference really.

    Also that town mechanic sounds AWESOME! Can’t wait! o/

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    • Mike Hugh-jass

      April 17, 2015 at 22:10

      I yearn for the day when boobs are a user customized menu setting.

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  3. Hammersteyn

    April 17, 2015 at 13:45

    • Admiral Chief asked for this

      April 17, 2015 at 13:46

      Nope

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    • Blood Emperor Trevor

      April 17, 2015 at 13:47

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  4. Ryanza

    April 17, 2015 at 13:51

    We don’t need to see all of Geralt but there will be a large number of female players and seeing as we were getting boobies since the start, it’s only fair that the girls get…. I can’t say it. If they going to show Geralt’s penis then it has to be the biggest cock ever seen in video games. That GTA 4 cock was tiny.

    I don’t think I can look at Geralt the same if I see the aard in his pants.

    Don’t Support DRM. Geralt’s penis is coming.

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  5. Greylingad

    April 17, 2015 at 13:56

    Whaaah? I think with the stats which show that there is an almost even divide between guys and girls,it’s about time they balance the nudity, though from a dude’s perspective,it could be uncomfortable having to sit through a scene where there’s a willy… Especially considering how it was portrayed in some of the gta games….

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    • Pariah

      April 17, 2015 at 13:57

      Now take that discomfort, and imagine how women feel. Fair is fair.

      The real question is “how did they do motion capture?”

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      • Greylingad

        April 17, 2015 at 14:00

        You have a good point, I agree fully, I can’t image having a piece of velcro stuck to your bits… Let alone little green balls on your balls…

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      • Blood Emperor Trevor

        April 17, 2015 at 14:11

        Claymation?

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      • geel slang

        April 17, 2015 at 14:38

        Its not the same, I have had this conversation before with men and women and it goes something like this: In real life nobody really minds seeing a nude female where most people, male or female do not want to see a nude man. Nude men can also have a threatening effect on women.

        One example is womens magazines, its full of naked woman.

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        • Blood Emperor Trevor

          April 17, 2015 at 14:40

          Walking up to strangers in your trench coat & saying, “hey… want to see something?” is technically not a conversation.

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          • Izzy

            April 17, 2015 at 14:42

            C-C-Combo hit! XD

  6. Ranting Raptor

    April 17, 2015 at 14:42

    I am upset that only 30% have wondered about the motion capture 0_0

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    • Ryanza

      April 17, 2015 at 15:00

      I’m sure the, equal opportunity, also wonders about the motion capture. But this is South Africa, we will always pick equal opportunity. It’s called 1994 elections.

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    • Pariah

      April 17, 2015 at 15:54

      I’m one of them.

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  7. DiegoZicoB

    April 17, 2015 at 22:49

    Guys will look at an endless amount of willys going into various positions and doing crazy things in the porn they watch but have an issue with it when a video game character flashes penis every now and then. Just doesn’t make any sense…

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  8. Lars Anderson

    April 20, 2015 at 14:39

    We really don’t need to see his dick. I don’t blame them for not doing it.

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  9. Timothy James

    April 20, 2015 at 22:32

    Ehh it’s only fair, it’s just a penis.

    Reply

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