[MOD Request] Upward Scaling Enemies.

[wonszlol]

If there's one thing that bothered me in The Witcher 3 more than anything it'd have to be the lack of enemy/quest scaling. I think the decision to not scale enemies was a bad one becuase it's counterproductive to the whole choice-driven, open world concept of the game. Non-scaling enemies 'force' players to do quests, explore the world in a specific order to prevent 'outleveling' the content. Outleveling the content leads to boring and anticlimactic encounters which was especially prevalent in the later parts of the game.

That being said I also don't want to the game to 'downscale' encounters that are supposed to be tough or impossible so I think the best solution would be a hybrid, 'upward' scaling. What do I mean by that? Well, it's quite a simple concept.

 

Say Geralt is level 30 and he comes across a pack of level 5 Wolves, with the 'upward scaling mod' the pack of Wolves would scale up to Geralt's level, more or less, it doesn't have to be perfect scaling. The Wolves could 'scale cap' @ level 25 which would make them weaker than Geralt but not a one-shot pushover that's no threat. (each enemy type could have a 'hard cap', a max level to which it would scale, it could also be slightly randomized, I mean, not every single Wolf in a pack has to be the same level, there's room for variation)

 

Now, imagine a level 10 Geralt running of into the susnset as soon as he enters Velen and he comes across a level 35 Basilisk, with the mod the Basilisk won't scale down, he will remain just as he is in Vanilla,level 35 and deadly.

 

This is what I meant by 'upward scaling'. Enemies only scale UP, not DOWN. Think about it, such mod would allow you to freely explore the world without worrying about outleveling the content. This would make, in my eyes, The Witcher 3, a truly choice-driven, open world experience.

 

 

Thank you for reading!

 

NOTE: I am not even sure if such mod is possible with our current modding tools so please forgive my ignorance.

[SoloCreep]

Yeah a mod like that would be perfect. Also we need the loot that drops to be our level or maybe even 2 levels higher at the most. That way the wolf potion can be used if needed. I am so sick and tired of getting relics and and other loot that are 5 levels below me. They are useless!