The Witcher - v1.3, D'jinni & The Price of Neutrality Released
 

This is a long one, so just head to the bottom for the links if you just want to get under way. CD Projekt Red and Atari have released The Witcher's latest v1.3 update, the D'Jinni editor and a free module titled The Price of Neutrality. Here's the PR and links:
You can grab the patch notes on this page.
Thanks, Nevarion!
More information.

There is also a new wiki at Wikia, the Witcher Wiki's sister project dedicated exclusively to D'jinni:

http://djinni.wikia.com

Good news this..downloading now :O)

The Djinni toolset is a powerful piece of kit, here's a 5 minute video explaining some aspects of its use.

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTA_SEF2NI

Anyone know yet if this will require a game restart??… I hope not!

No luck, sorry.

Thanks for that, since I haven't yet finished the game, I won't load the update. I'm too close to the end to start all over again!! :)

How is the editor, and is there any possibility of Multiplayer or standalone serverness?

What about the special edition due next month. Will this yet again require restarting the game? In that case I don't see much purpose bothering with this patch, unless you want to try out the editor and the standalone adventure.

Confound it!! I just got through installing the patch before looking at the replies here! I just went into Chapter 3! ARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! I don't have time for this.

TW Enchanced Edition is for those who haven't bought TW already. Patch 1.3 (which includes Price of Neutrality module) is for those who have the game.

OK, so does this mean uncut dialog?

Depends on what do you mean by "uncut" I suppose. English dialogue as never censored as such but, according to devs, they have expanded dialogue a bit and fixed some of the more glaring translation issues.

If I remember correctly they would re-record the dialogue to reflect the original script which were cut the first time around due to budget restraints. This was to be part of the special edition (and of course in a patch for people who already bought the game). I just wasn't sure if this was the 'special edition' patch. I figured it would be released simultaneously with the special edition.

And what Stealth just said is probably why it requires a game restart. And for everyones' information, it really does. I just tried it out a few hours ago. Things seemed to be working fine in Chapter 3 until Thaler started babbling about something that made absolutely no sense. I am so peeved about having to restart, but oh well, guess it'll save me money from buying another RPG for six months.

Maybe I am misunderstanding you but this is not correct. This patch does not include the Enhanced Edition content (new English dialogues, new voice recordings, 50 new character models and so on). This patch adds compatibility for the editor and some miscellaneous fixes.

I would *guess* (and I'm only guessing) that the EE version would require a restart (different dialogues alone might change things), so I'm holding off on this one myself.

Every patch for a game that needs a total restart of that game is just the result of bad programming, IMHO. I just finished chapter 1 of this game (and will have to do it now again, bah, too much cutscenes, here I come), and I really don't understand why The Witcher would need a restart.

Thaler babbling something that doesn't make sense? That sounds like a feature of the original game ;). There was one dialog in chapter 3 where I tried both nonsensical answers to a nonsensical question, without getting the wiser from the procedure. This was with (the old) patch 1.2.

The announcement sounded more like the usual precaution sentence. I guess that they don't expect the patch to break much, but in case it does anyway, they can claim that they warned you.

Yeah, that is a translating issue which I wrote about at TW forums:

"Returning to Thaler's dialogue tree. I have finally installed Polish language with my UK game and now I can tell for sure that it's a case of bad translation:
In Polish, Thaler's first line is: "Jakies problemy?" which should have been translated as "Any problems"? If it was, Geralt first answer "Yes" and rest of the branch would make sense.

Geralt's second option: "Dziekuje, wszyscy zdrowi" is a Polish idom which translates most closely into ironic "Nobody died" rather than half-assed "They're all safe" but, since quite a few people have died, I would translate it into "Nothing I can't cope". Now the Thaler's aswer: "I am glad" as well as the rest of the dialogue in this branch makes sense too"

That makes sense. If I remember correctly, Thaler starts the dialog tree with saying "That problem." Which left me somewhat startled.

That's exactly the spot I was referring to Zahratustra. Thanks for bringing this out. So apparantly the weird dialogue (which sounded like a broken quest string) had nothing to do with installing the patch.

I'm still at a loss about what to do though… If the enhanced edition requires a restart then I don't want to waste more time in my current game. I think I'll just play the add-on adventure until the EE comes out for download - When is that again??

Middle of May according to the press releases. If PR will be ready bang on the time is another thing alltogether. But, like you Jabberwocky I am not planning to playing Witcher again (except for Price of Neutrality) until Enchanced Edition arrives!

And Dhruin, I got all mixed up about patch 1.3 and Enchanced Edition. Sorry guys. A bad case of wishfull thinking I guess :)

No Enhanced Edition i mid May