It’s no secret that The Witcher 3 was also made next-gen compatible with the help of some fan mods. Among them, however, were apparently some who did not want to put up with the neutrally kept lower regions of some female non-player characters. So it turns out Witcher 3, in its most technically beautiful form, had realistic female genitals and pubic hair on some NPCs for a while, but they’re now supposed to be phased out.
kotaku had corresponding in a Reddit thread NSFW images discovered in which the Crooks from Humpback Swamp and the Bruxa left too little to the imagination and developer CD Projekt asked about the explicit depiction. According to CD Projekt’s response, it was by mistake.
That’s what CD Projekt Red says about the bare facts
“The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt includes numerous internally developed and implemented improvements as well as various community mods that were not created by CD PROJEKT RED. Putting it all together was a complex process, and an unintended result of this was the presence of the textures in question in the released version. That’s something we’re working on.”
When asked if they meant that the textures would be removed, CD Projekt said yes, because they should never have been part of the final version.
CD Projekt itself hasn’t been stingy with (female) nudity in the past, and since the mod in question isn’t exactly obscure with over 180,000 downloads, one wonders how that could have happened. Then again, the rapid reaction indicates that CD Projekt does not want to see these characters represented in the game in this way.
Let’s book it as a curiosity of the digital age, and let’s look forward to it being safe for work again to play The Witcher 3 during office hours.
