A Music Addition Project - Next Gen

"Finally - some good fucking next gen music mod!" - Gordon Ramsey, if he was playing modded Witcher 3, probably.

Due to the way REDKit and WWise handle the music in the game - as of now - I can't produce seperate modules as in Old Gen. Meaning:

Ambience is the only seperate module. Once the Combat Module releases, it will probably include the ambient module as well. When afterwards the Quest-& Cutscene module releases, it will include ambience + combat as well. So, now you know why I can't make the mod as picky as I'd like it to be but honestly, I'd recommend you to use all or most of it anyway.

If someone knows a way to do it, however, please let me know. Thank you for your support.

Ever since Next Gen was announced, I wanted to overhaul the music in the game once again. I really like the OST of Witcher 3 but personally, I was really missing Adam Skorupa's darker, closer-to-books style which was still used for the game's promotional material (and some internal builds) up until 2013 somewhere.

Now, with the highly anticipated REDKit, it's finally possible to edit music again and even add on top of existing layers of music, therefore expanding the playlists the game has and even editing quest-or cutscene-specific music. And of course REDKit allows for much, much more which will also be very exciting.

After my release of the replacer version (though this is technically just the third music mod for next gen), here you go, a non-replacer version!

The idea is to bring back some real bangers from Witcher 1 and 2 and also utilize some unused tracks in the game files of Witcher 3 (which were most likely composed by Adam Skorupa when he was still working on the project but don't quote me on that) and when the game had a vastly different feel and even story written for it (just look at the trailers from that time and you'll notice what I mean).

The atmosphere is to create a darker, more mature tone that fits the style of the Witcher books and previous games and what CDPR had originally envisioned for Witcher 3 before rewriting and redoing the game in all its aspects until we came to the released product we know today.

Additionally, aside from the new music, this mod also fixes a few issues with the vanilla playlists (namely in Skellige). Thanks to Ferroxius and glassfish!

(As reference:

Thorn OST, Nyghtfall and Lorkhan OST are referring to soundtracks that were made to replace Skyrim's OST and

that surprisingly fit into Witcher 3 very well - at least parts of it.)

The tracks added are:

KAER MORHEN:

Exploration Day - Returning to the Fortress (Witcher 1), Kaer Morhen & Castle music (Witcher 1)