Warning: This article contains some NSFW references.
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that certain NSFW community mods were accidentally added to The Witcher 3’s next-gen update and that it is working to remove them from the game.
As reported by Kotaku, Reddit users and other players began noticing that certain characters, including the “crones from Crookback Bog and the bruxas (the only women NPCs that regularly do full-frontal without any obscuring shots or panties) have landing strip-styled pubic hair and visible labia.”
Also noted by Kotaku, the original version of The Witcher 3 had the same nudity, but the women had “no visible genitals, just a sort of smoothed over, Barbie doll area.”
CD Projekt Red commented on the matter and stated this was a byproduct of bringing in a ton of community-sourced mods not created by the studio into The Witcher 3 and was “unintended.”
“The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt features several community-sourced mods not created by CD PROJEKT RED, on top of numerous enhancements created and implemented by the studio internally,” CD Projekt Red said. “Merging everything together was a complex process and the textures in question are an unintended result present in the release version. This is something we are working to address.”
The team followed up and said the mods in question will be removed in the future as “these textures were not meant to be present in the release version of the game.”
For more on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s next-gen update, check out why we believe its changes signal good things for the series’ future, the biggest changes in the update, and our full PS5 vs Xbox Series X/S vs PS4 performance review.
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