One On The Back

In the books, Gwynbleidd used silver only for rare, special occassions, he carried around only his steel sword, with the silver one stored by his horse usually. Naturally, CDPR had to overcome a certain technical problem in the first game, so our character had to carry both swords at the same time somehow. It's all understandable.

But I never truly 'liked' it myself, I simply understood the gameplay necessity for it in the first game. In the following sequels, the studio continued it, creating some sort of a new image for the witcher, with two swords on the back. Alright, but it creates an issue if one wants to see a more book-like image of Geralt.

@blackrave404 suggested to me in the Sword Stats Rebalance comments to look into changing the way silver swords are sheathed. I liked the idea, and finally managed to make it, as optimal as possible in the first game. The player will still carry the silver sword around, but it's less visible now, creating a more lore-friendly look with only one weapon on the back - the steel one.

Update 2. 0 is an ultimate version of this idea:

1) no longer incompatible with mods changing .uti files - compatible both with vanilla and modded swords

2) added some flexibility - let's say, we find a better steel sword and want to sell our previous weapon, but first we need to get to a merchant. Now, you can equip the silver sword on its old slot that is left back for the time being. At any moment, you can swap between carrying it on the hip or the vanilla way

3) a very significant change - with 2. 0, the mod is going to work on existing saves as well

The in-game cutscenes will still be showing the two weapons on the back, it would require another kind of edit to change that.

The . 2da file is compatible with Project Mersey - remove the identical file from that mod.

Installation:

Data/Override

Uninstallation:

Remove from the folder