ESR Overhaul Old Gen

The aims of ESR Overhaul are:

1) Smooth gameplay in terms of difficulty, so that the game keeps stay challenging with a slow increase of the player’s power relative to the world around. This is achieved by the changes in levelup scaling system of Geralt and his enemies.

2) Balance between different battle tactics and skill builds. Achieved by the introduction of new combat mechanics and adjusting old ones. These changes allow to choose a gameplay style that feats you the best, and switch between different builds.

3) New features, that extend gameplay and make it more complicated and diverse (including alchemy/crafting, resources gathering and survival element). Significant difference between opponents' (monsters') abilities and characteristics forces the player to choose the most appropriate tactics/weapons/skills/alchemy to fight specific opponent type.

This overhaul is a combination of works of other talented moders, united with my own work

Soon after I have started my work on this mod (around 1. 5 years ago), I’ve realized that it is pointless and foolish to ignore the amazing work done by other people. Skilled Witcher 3 moders have created a lot of interesting stuff for the game, way better than I would do it myself. So I’ve combined all I’ve done with some of the other people’s work. Now it is impossible to separate my own work, which is, perhaps, not even the main part of the final overhaul.

The list of other works combined and included into this overhaul

1) “Ghost Mode” created by wghost81 – a brilliant overhaul itself, which provides a lot of bug fixes and a set of new mechanics. Some of these mechanics are included in ESR overhaul (note: the Ghost Mode is regularly updated by its author, so features from newer versions of this mod are not included, unfortunately).

2) “Combat Speed Mod” a unique work of acbatchelor, allows to speed up Geralt animations.

3) “EK Combat Jump” by euphoricknave included here to save your nerve cells.

4) “Lore-Friendly Economy” by stefan3372 is an extremely convenient tool to make the game lore-friendly and immersive in terms of economic system.

5) “Leveling Witcher and Relic gear” by katalysis is a very important addition to overall scaling system introduced in ESR Overhaul.

6) “Eating and Drinking animations” by erxv. This mod provided not just some new animations, but became an important part of gameplay – see alchemy section in the long description.

7) “Restoration Potion 'Fix'" by rfuzzo fixes an annoying original bug (or bad mechanics?).

8) “The Witcher 3 REDUX” by stellar7project provided additional riposte variants to expand combat system.

9) “Bashing Mechanics” by Reaperrz - now you can kick your annoyingly defensive opponent (see long description).

I express my gratitude to the listed authors f