Restored Content - Additional Perks - Next-Gen

FULLY COMPATIBLE WITH 4. 04

This mod restores five cut perks(yellow branch skills). Like all of the other perks in game these skills only have 1 level that can be obtained and don't require spending a certain number of ability points to unlock. If you have my Restored Content - Yellow Mutagens mod then these skills will synergize with yellow mutagens just like the vanilla yellow skills. The fifth row of yellow skill tree was left empty so these skills can slot in without any compatibility problem inducing redswf file edits!

Four of these skills were originally intended to be included in the Hearts of Stone expansion and one skill was cut from the base game. The skill cut from the base game, Predatory Instinct, is actually still fully implemented in the game. It just needed to be uncommented from xml definition file and switched to a more appropriate icon and it was good to go. The four skills cut from Hearts of Stone have a stranger story that was shared with me by user Flipper444. Apparently, HoS was supposed to come with 10 additional perks but this was cut down to five. One of these made it back in as part of Blood and Wine but the rest were lost. The strings which revealed their existence and functionality could be found in Patch 1. 10 but were shortly removed. Two of these cut perks had all of their code removed from the game's scripts while the other two only had vague references left. The latter two also had their icons leftover in the Blood and Wine files indicating that CDPR might have tried to bring them back there but didn't. In either case I had to re-implement them with my own code which fortunately worked well.

The five included skills and their functionality are as follows

Predatory Instinct("Hot Hacker") - Increases the chance of dismemberment by 10% and increases the chance of Incineration when using Igni by 10%.

Does exactly what it says when equipped. This skill was still fully implement in the code and just needed its xml entry uncommented to work. I have no clue why they just left this one there while the tried so hard to scrub the other four from existence. It's back now though. Icon was chosen from the many leftover perk icons in the game.

Huntsman - Doubles the effect of the currently equipped trophy.

Does exactly what it says when equipped. I think this skill was quite interesting and was disappointed that they cut it and didn't bring it back. The only remnants of this one were two declarations of the horseManager and a trophy variable in the PlayerAbilityManager. No comments on it were made by the devs in the old commented version of thegame scripts. Restoring this one required understanding the mess that is/was the horse inventory. Th