Monsters in The Witcher 3

[wichat]

Why is that important? Monsters in the witcher world are special and rather rare....

I guess we are a little confused....

I for once hope that there also will be "normal" animals like deer, boars, rabbits, foxes and stuff. Real monsters should only be met on rare occasions.

Yes to that!

 

[Fallout_Wanderer]

Why is that important? Monsters in the witcher world are special and rather rare...

I for once hope that there also will be "normal" animals like deer, boars, rabbits, foxes and stuff. Real monsters should only be met on rare occasions.

I'd like to see a good amount of animals as well. I can confirm deer and what appears to be either rabbits or another kind of smaller animal,possibly a fox or raccoon? in the Microsoft demo,this version with Mamais commentating has better quality -

Pause between 0:28-0:30 you will see a deer and also watch/pause around 1:17-1:22 - You will also notice the white witcher sense audible blips. A little off-topic - Another detail during this video that I thought was interesting was after Geralt leaves meditation, it appears he is able to reuse that campfire site. Minor detail but considering the recent talks about alchemy, I thought it was a nice catch that could have deeper implications.

On-topic - My viewpoint on monsters - More the merrier! I am assuming we will have variants of certain creatures but I do not think they will count as 'unique' monsters. Nekker warrior for example. I could see a drowned dead considered unique. I might be wrong and particular variants will be considered apart of the 80 or so monsters.I guess we will see.

I am hoping that the variants within a species are separate to the total unique monsters we are all hoping for and expecting. The key here is quality and not quantity. It'd be great to have the best of both worlds.

 

[tr3buh]

64

 

[nakachoko]

64

How many monsters did have Skyrim or Oblivion? No, I know Witcher is indefinitely better than these games, I'm just curious so I can get a feeling how much 64 monsters is actually. Or if you like this question more: How many did TW1 or 2 have?

Edited:
Found a list on UESP, they had 61 creatures in Skyrim with DLCs, including animals and automatons.

 

[1337Smithy]

Yeah, I noticed a white blip for neutral critters, and red for hostiles. You see a rabbit sets it off when he first enters the sense.

 

[bigb131999]

Monsters

Will ALL monsters be unique, or will there be and indefinite, respawning system with monsters, and only certain ones be unique? For example if you kill all the trolls in a troll lair, will those be the only trolls in the world, or will you find others, and then go back to the original and find more trolls in it again?

Will most monsters be an indefinite respawning kinda deal?

 

[gregski]

@bigb131999 threads merged, please don't spam new ones

 

[bigb131999]

Sorry didn't see this one. Wasn't really spamming either, it was one thread.

 

[dragonbird]

They said around 80, I think, in the Angry Joe video just posted. I need to go and watch it again to be sure...

 

[StaGiors]

They said around 80, I think, in the Angry Joe video just posted. I need to go and watch it again to be sure...

Yes they have said so many times before that, and they did it again in the Angry Joe video. Now how different these 80 species will be from each other, remains to be seen.

I have a feeling that, it will be like I said, 80 different species. Some will look somewhat similar, drowners and nekkers for example, but I think that they have also said that there will be different variations of the same monster. Like drowner A will be somewhat different from drowner B, and so on.

Taking into consideration the size of the world that CDPR has made, I'd say that number of monsters is quite likely.

 

[BlueOne]

1 - Leshen / Leshy
2 - Baba Yaga
3 - Ice Giant
4 - Drowner
5 - Griffon
6 - Kraken
7 - Warewolf
8 - Cockatrice
9 - Manticore
10 - Striga
11 - Wraith
12 - Wyvern
13 - Echinops (animals not plant like)
14 Zmey (three headed slavic Dragon)
15 - Alp
16 - Bruxa
17 - Ghoul/Alghoul
18 - Kikimore
19 - Afreet/Ifrit (fire Genie)
20 - Maride (Water Genie)
21 - Djinn (Air Genie)
22 - D'ao (Earth Genie)
23 - Cemetaur
24 - Bloedzuiger
25 - Archespore
26 - Vodyanoy / Vodnik
27 - Night Witch / Devourer
28 - Basillisk
29 - Golem
30 - Koschey
31 - Harpy
32 - Troll
33 - Nekker
34 - Arachnid
35 - Endrega
36 - Rarog
37 - Zduhac
38 - Drekavac
39 - German
40 - Psoglav
41 - Sirin
42 - Stuhac
43 - Rusalka (Water Nymph)
44 - Firebird
45 - Bannik
46 - Karzelek
47 - Blud
48 - Skrzak
49 - Ala
50 - Chuhaister (Forest Giant)
51 - Mavka (Forest Nymph)
52 - Mora
53 - Polevik
54 - Poludnica
55 - Domovoi
56 - Likho
57 - Indrik
58 - Fext
59 - Fiery serpent
60 - Bolotianyk
61 - Chimera
62 - Turtle Dragon
63 - Dermoptera
64 - Diploures Giant
65 - Spriggan
66 - Degen / Fenger
67 - Slyzard
68 - Ornitodracon
69 - Forktail
70 - Flying drake
71 - Dracolizard
72 - Red Dragon
73 - Green Dragon
74 - Black Dragon
75 - White Dragon
76 - Rock Dragon
77 - Golden Dragon
78 - Sea Witch
79 - Siren
80 - Kelpie
81 - Hydra
82 - Barbegazi
83 - Zeugl
84 - Amphisbaena
85 - Neocorise
86 - Arkenor
87 - Aeschna
88 - Ilyocoris
89 - Brukolak
90 - Fogler
91 - Vypper
92 - Lamia (just found it cool and mention it but 99% wont be present since they live in desert like areas south)
93 - Eyehead
94 - Giant centipede
95 - The Tree creature
96 - "Cloud / Water / Wind Sprites" - pest / monster
97 - Korred
98 - Knocker
99 - Roc
100 - Shrike


There..., only some of them either from the books, Slavic mythology... Number 80 is a problem? Take your pick

 

[ReptilePZ]

39 - German

 

[randyrhoads]

92 - Lamia (just found it cool and mention it but 99% wont be present since they live in desert like areas south)

The lamia is a 3 or 9 headed female serpent that lives either in forests or on the bottom of a lake or a sea.

 

[BlueOne]

Nope that's a Greek mythology lamia daughter of Poseidon. We are in the witcher's world now, where lamia is

http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/Lamia_(creature)

 

[nakachoko]

@blue-san
I don't know where I got that, but I miss succubus on that list. Was sure this time we would be able to fight them if we cannot make love to them.

 

[BlueOne]

Sure many more are missing on that list, that was just a short example of many "monsters" which witcher 3 could use/have

 

[Luxorek]

It's deeply rooted in Polish tradition :lol:

 

[StaGiors]

It's deeply rooted in Polish tradition :lol:

Shush you! Oh lordie..

 

[misho8723]

1 - Leshen / Leshy
2 - Baba Yaga
...
100 - Shrike


There..., only some of them either from the books, Slavic mythology... Number 80 is a problem? Take your pick

Ok, do we know if this is a official list? or where it comes from?

 

[ReptilePZ]

No, it's just a bunch of random creatures from the PnP RPG, the books, the previous games (and a few monsters that have been officially announced for TW3) and Slavic mythology in general.