Treat The Wild Hunt With Steel

Silver swords are rare and unique weapons, introduced in the very first short story about the witcher - "Wiedźmin" (The Witcher) from 1986, which was later added in the first short stories collection - "Ostatnie Życzenie" (The Last Wish). Seeing for years these swords used against heavily armoured Wild Hunt warriors has been... peculiar for a book reader. Fortunately, there are mods that fix it in the gameplay, for example Fixed and improved enemy categories.

My mod is supposed to make this lore-friendly fix (possiblity to fight the elves with steel) complete - I edited all the (if I missed a cutscene, it's not going to be a problem to add later) cutscenes where the Wild Hunt are fought against by Geralt and other witchers. The change was applied for our character and his Kaer Morhen friends in the cutscenes. In a few battles, I also disabled the automatic draw of the silver sword that had been set by default.

Some more details about the edited scenes (in-game spoilers):

- Fight against Imlerith at the Bald Mountain: originally, this had been the one cutscene I wanted to tweak, then I thought why not go further

- Battle against Nithral: the dialogue leading up the fight makes Geralt draw the silver sword automatically. Edited

- Battle of Kaer Morhen: quite a few dramatic cinematics of various characters fighting off the Wild Hunt warriors. Instances of using silver against them in cutscenes were tweaked to steel

- Caranthir: again, the witcher draws the silver sword in the cutscene during the fight on ice. Edited, now he draws steel

- Duel with Eredin: a satisfying end to the scoundrel (lightly speaking), now with steel used against him in the related cinematics and at the start of the fight

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- Battle of Kaer Morhen: added every remaining Kaer Morhen cutscene that required an edit, plus tweaks to make the witchers draw steel in some gameplay parts (in cases where it was possible)

On a side note, the Sword of Destiny trailer for the fhird game showed a correct usage of steel against Caranthir in one of its scenes, it wasn't so in the final version.

Stick them with the steely end.

(...)Ale wiedźmin nie myślał tracić sił na zaklęcia, ani tym bardziej narażać srebrnej klingi na zetknięcie się z brzeszczotem Ostrita. Zanurkował pod młynkującym ostrzem i nasadą pięści, srebrnymi ćwiekami mankietu, uderzył wielmożę w skroń.(...) ~ Andrzej Sapkowski, opowiadanie "Wiedźmin" ze zbioru "Ostatnie Życzenie"

(...)But the witcher didn't plan to waste his energy on magic, let alone expose the silver blade to contact with Ostrit's sword. He ducked under the twirling weapon and, using his wrist, struck the nobleman with the silver studs of his cuff in the temple.