The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge – new adventures ersatz. The best mods for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – January 2017 Edition

January 27, 2017

The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge – new adventures ersatz

The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge:

Creator: smalldjo / AeroHD
Size: 1.4 MB
Release date: February 2016
Current version: 2.2.1 (July 2016 – requires an „unofficial” update)

We begin with a mod that will only add fuel to the burning passion of all the anti-witcherists who seem to regard The Wild Hunt as an MMO game… despite the mod itself being the closest thing to new adventure quests we can get (at least for now). As the name suggests, the mod introduces daily quests to the Witcher universe. Each day, at midnight, a random monster hunting contract will appear on one of the message boards across Velen, Novigrad or Skellige areas. Once you accept the task, Gaunter O’Dimm himself will appear before you and, after a short conversation, invite you to take part in his game.

Those one-day contracts come with a bit of gambling. As you accept the task, you also decide your reward – the stakes of a bet. If you hunt down the beast before midnight (its location is more or less marked on the map), you’ll get double the amount of money; otherwise, you get nothing. While not the most refined form of entertainment, the contracts can provide a decent amount of fun (and money), not to mention some sense of purpose after having cleared the map of “legitimate” quests. To be honest, installing this mod before you’ve cleared the game world is kind of pointless – mostly because, if you do, you can only keep guessing which of the yellow-glowing message boards features your new midnight contract.

Installation guide

Caution! I don’t recommend installing this one through Nexus Mod Manager. I ended up with damaged game files, so it’s better to copy the mod files manually.

As the mod is incompatible with the 1.31 version, it would be best to download it not from the official website but with the Unofficial 1.30-1.31 Mod Update Project package – find „Daily Monster Hunt – for patch 1.30.7z” on the files list and download it.
Place the contents of the archive inside your main Witcher 3 folder (not the „Mods” subfolder)

The Daily Monster Hunt Challenge tends to act up when paired with the mod Better Call Ciri (described in detail later on). If you intend to install both of them, remember that the daily contracts are generated separately (in different locations) for Geralt and Ciri, but only one of them can take part in the challenge at a given time. Additionally, Script Merger detects a script conflict between the mods, and it would be a good idea to get rid of it (even if it doesn’t prevent you from launching the game).