'Witcher 3' Release Date Details: German Magazine Reveals New Info, Including Geralt's Growing Beard

By Dondi Tiples, Christian Post Contributor Thursday, March 26, 2015

New details have emerged on the upcoming "Witcher" title, with new information for fans awaiting the third installment of the action role playing game.

CD Projeckt Red has released new information via a German gaming magazine on their upcoming "Witcher 3" video game, set for launch in May 19 this year for Windows, PS4 and Xbox One.

Fans of the series eagerly awaiting the third installment received news from German publication, Gamestar.de that the new video game will feature four difficulty levels, have different sizes for cities, and more sequences involving the Ciri character.

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Among some of the surprise details included Geralt's beard, which will be growing over time as players progress into the game.

"The beard grows as time passes and when Geralt moves between locations." Michal Platkow-Gilewski, the Polish developer's communications head told Eurogamer. "The beard has several 'states' and these states determine its length - the longest is really long but it's not Gandalf-long."

This kind of realism depicting the passage of time has fans eagerly anticipating actual gameplay to experience the effect for themselves. However, they will still be able to set Geralt's usual unchanged look without the growing beard, should they choose to set this option with the DLC.

This is a rare occurrence in video game history, where a character actually exhibits hair growth to portray the passage of time within the game environment.

Other details include the addition of 25 smaller towns and two big and heavily populated cities – Novigrad and Oxenfurt, where the game characters will see plenty of action.

The character Ciri will have around five to 10 linear-action type of adventures, with no inventory or skill tree, but with more heavy action adventures compared to Geralt's own quests.

Other smaller details will be added, such as Roach eating apples from a basket, powerful mutagens inflicting as much as 40 percent damage, RDR-like horse races with options to buy upgraded equine equipment, a shorter game loading time for PC, and a fully customizable heads-up display.