The Witcher 3 Player Finds Easter Egg Hidden Under Novigrad
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was released in 2015 but players are still discovering new secrets, this time in an Easter egg hidden by developer CD Projekt Red below Novigrad.
YouTuber xLetalis uploaded a video of the Easter egg which can only actually be seen by glitching through the map. But if players can force protagonist Geralt under the cobbles of Novigrad they can enter a crevice which contains artwork referencing CD Projekt Red itself.
Drawn in the style of a classic war recruitment poster, this artwork on the side of a cliff face reads “CDPR needs you”, with CDPR of course being CD Projekt Red.
The text runs across the bottom of a larger picture of a soldier of Temeria — one of the countries in the world of The Witcher and one of the first to go in the contemporary Nilfgaard invasions — identifiable by the coat of arms across his chest: three silver lilies on a black field.
CD Projekt Red hid myriad Easter eggs across The Witcher 3, some of which are perhaps still to be found. Another discovered years after launch was that Vivienne, a character players encounter in the Blood and Wine expansion, has a tragic but poetic end.
The Witcher 3’s PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X version also included a wild Easter egg which ties into an incredibly complex mystery from Cyberpunk 2077.
CD Projekt Red is currently working on the next mainline Witcher game, codenamed Polaris, now that work on Cyberpunk 2077 is all but concluded. This will be the first of a new trilogy but details are still slim seeing it won’t be released until 2025 at the absolute earliest (and probably later).
A multiplayer Witcher game is in development at CD Projekt Red-owned studio The Molasses Flood too, alongside a remake of the first Witcher game which is in development at Fool’s Theory.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
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