School of the Roach for 1.3

The Witcher 3 - Wild Hunt: School of the Roach Edition is a complete overhaul of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, covering everything from weapons, armor, combat and skills, to alchemy, meditation, potions, bombs, and oils, to re-balancing the economy and adding new craft-able armor, stopping at every little place we could think of along the way. School of the Roach is a very, very big mod - with dozens of new meshes and textures, thousands of lines of code (in over 60 files), and more XML edits than we have thus far been able to shake multiple sticks at (and they were big sticks, too). Please understand that a full list of how all of our features work is impossible on a single Nexus page. We will go over them all briefly.

[]Greatly increased difficulty: Let's face it, the vanilla game was too easy and pretty unbalanced. We've spent a very long time increasing the difficulty in many ways while retaining a fun, balanced, lore-friendly game that rewards strategy and smarts in combat. Difficulty levels do what they say on the box. You will get bloodied and broken on Blood and Broken Bones, and you will continually march to your death on Death March. []All enemies are possible to kill: We've removed the ridiculous buffs and vitality of monsters well above your level. Now, if you have the skill to kill it, it's possible. []Improved swordsmanship: Remember how heavy attack and other stuff used to be pretty much useless? Well, now it's not. Heavy attacks have been balanced to fit in well as a part of your combat, as have counter-attacks (which will hurt a lot now), and everything else. Your best bet is to use all of Geralt's skills and resources in tandem - the way a true Witcher would. []Economy overhauled: Like in the books, Geralt will always be poor. You want that new custom armor you just found a schematic for? Sure, but prepare to have it cost you. Things cost a lot more now, and crafting new armor isn't a simple matter of 30 gold. []Brand new "Encumbrance System": Gone are the days when Roach's saddlebags magically allowed Geralt to carry around a dozen suits of armor in his pockets. Every object in your inventory will weigh you down, slowing your movements and making it harder to swing your sword, use your Witchers' signs, etc. But don't worry, because we have... []Real, working saddlebags: That's right! You can store all that loot in your saddlebags, attached to Roach. Simply press a hotkey when you're close to your stalwart, equine companion and it will bring up your Stash/Saddlebags. Put all those goodies in there and let Roach do the carrying. [*]Realistic horse-whistling: You will only be able to call Roach