Update 1.2 includes full translations for all 17 languages of the game and full audio dubbing with original voice actors for English, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Polish and Russian localizations.
Please note boats have fast sailing speed (Left Shift by default or double tap and hold A on the controller). You will need to use it if you want to stand a chance at winning.
This mod is for the Next-Gen version of the game only.
Please create a manual save before attempting each race, just to be safe if something unforseen happens.
thank you for the mod , fun to see cut content and i wonder what would this game be like if devs had little more time to spend.
BTW cant you edit the speed of opponents it seems they are atleast 50% faster than me , i use faster boat mod, which kinda increases speed of boat and i want it to apply only to player not npc. Any idea how to make it?
I'm sorry, I have no idea how faster boat movement mod would affect this mod. This mod was made with vanilla boat speeds in mind. With that said, make sure you know how to use the "fast sailing" of the boat. Which is holding LShift on keyboard or doulbe tap and hold A on an Xbox controller.
hey actually i can 100% win if i use bug/feature listed below, if i press W during transition i can get ahead of npc and win. TY for all your work , especially lore collection (i have sh**ton of books in glossary so ill read them all after i beat the game)
After reading posts, i tried to break the myth of "impossible" and i did! All 4 boat races are dirty in their own way, especially the part with AI having very strict pathing and nearly nothing can stop them. But if the AI can be dirty, so can you! And here are my few tips to win them, relatively easy if you can handle the boat. 1) Don't hold any direction key during entering the helm, it can and WILL disable your acceleration button, making it nearly impossible to win as you go slowly. 2) When the race is starting, before the game loads, you can hold W+Shift to get ahead. Ahead enough for the AI to not catch-up unless you mess up. 3) In 2 races, 1 Novigrad and 1 Skellige, 1 boat is faster then the other. In Novigrad you can choose the boat, if you choose fast one you autowin. 4) For the 1 unfair race in Skellige, i used 2) and then stuck my boat to front of the opponent's. This way, he pushed me all the way to the finish and i won. Can be used in any race, but it might be tricky to pull. 5) Other way to win both Skellige races is to stay behind a bit, as AI tends to wait for you on checkpoint if it's too far ahead. This can lead to Sirens destroying their boat, but keep in mind in races they are nearly 0 aggresive compared to openworld. They often just fly around, "attacking" but they do nothing.
Thank you for the detailed information on every race. As the author and having tested this runs when I built the mod a hundred times, maybe I'm a bit biased towards the races not actually being that hard, as I know exactly the path to take in each race to win without any exploits. But I understand that for someone who hasn't done hundred runs, it might be a bit too hard. Maybe in the future update I can think on implementing the easy mode or something.
I always have my boat extremely slow, and maybe I've triggered this. I'm using a gamepad if it is relevant. What exactly should I NOT do to be able to accelerate?
"This mod is for the Next-Gen version of the game only." hmmm i installed it on game version 1.31 GOTY and it works (I took part in a race in Novigrad), but without voices and after winning the race there is an animation of Geralt arriving on roach. ¦¬]
Yeah, it works mostly, but you might seen some weird stuff like that when playing on Classic. Also some debris near the shore where spectators are might not be fully removed and I don't know if the flaming buoys work properly either. And you won't get sound for dialogues, because CDPR changed audio format for Next-Gen.
Hi, not sure if it has anything to do with this mod, bu my boat moves much faster when using keyboard controls than on controller. On controller just moving the stick barely makes the boat move while holding a makes it move faster. On keyboard just holding w moves it almost as fast as the 'fast' controller movement and shift is just another level. Anyone having difficulty with the races, this might be the reason
The mod was mostly tested with keyboard/mouse. But if I remember correctly, on controller you have to double click and hold the acceleration button and boat should also go to fast speed. On Xbox controller it's the A button by default.
I very much appreciate this content being restored and all the work you're doing but f*#@ me, the AI in this mod cheats like no AI I've ever seen in my life. any collision with the opponent's boat results in your boat coming to a standstill but the rules do not apply to the AI, and since the AI has a propensity for ramming you it makes winning the race nigh on impossible. This needs addressing to make this content viable, rules must be consistent across the board. If a collision slows me it must slow them.
There's a bit of dialogue in Novigrad, between two of the spectators, which suggests that, perhaps, an in-game path was intended to improve the player's chances of winning: the spectators discuss how Vivaldi once sponsored one of the competitors so they could improve their boat. This sounds somewhat like how, if you are not that good at the horse racing mini-game, you can improve your chances of winning by getting a saddle that improves the horse's stamina.
Would it be at all possible to create a system by which players could go to a boatwright to have their boat 'upgraded' (better rudder, better sails etc)?
I mean, it's nice and all, but pretty much impossible.
My boat runs into his boat, I get barged out of the way. His boat runs into me, I get barged out of the way. Basically any contact, he just keeps going regardless and I end up out of position and way behind. He gets the inside line and sticks to it, so I have to go the longer route. Boats go at the same speed. Even with Left-Shift.
I'm just not sure what skill or cleverness I am supposed to pull off to actually win a race so heavily rigged against me.
Edit: Having looked at the video, I can confirm my boat doesn't go that fast and NOT using W3EER. Deleting boatraces.ws gave me the headstart option. Not my first choice, but it gets it done I guess.
I dont know if this is only my problem, but my boat goes very slow, even when press lshift. Why opponents boats are so frigin fast? (I'm not using any speed boats mod)
I have the same problem. I am using the W3EE Redux mod and it looks like there is a conflict in the control of the boat. because the boat moves slowly only during racing. in normal use, it floats fast
Go the mod's folder to scripts/local and delete the boatraces.ws script from there. This will let you do a false start, but you can test if the boat speed during the race is normal.
I have the same problem, I also use W3EE Redux. The boat moves so slowly that it almost doesn't move at all. Holding the shift key, deleting the selected file, nothing helps. The problem only occurs during races.
so it seems its a recurring problem when playing with w3eer as the boat moves a tiny bit but the W Key doesn tdo anythiong at all it seems and deleting the boatraces.ws file doesnt do anything
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BTW cant you edit the speed of opponents it seems they are atleast 50% faster than me , i use faster boat mod, which kinda increases speed of boat and i want it to apply only to player not npc.
Any idea how to make it?
TY for all your work , especially lore collection (i have sh**ton of books in glossary so ill read them all after i beat the game)
1) Don't hold any direction key during entering the helm, it can and WILL disable your acceleration button, making it nearly impossible to win as you go slowly.
2) When the race is starting, before the game loads, you can hold W+Shift to get ahead. Ahead enough for the AI to not catch-up unless you mess up.
3) In 2 races, 1 Novigrad and 1 Skellige, 1 boat is faster then the other. In Novigrad you can choose the boat, if you choose fast one you autowin.
4) For the 1 unfair race in Skellige, i used 2) and then stuck my boat to front of the opponent's. This way, he pushed me all the way to the finish and i won. Can be used in any race, but it might be tricky to pull.
5) Other way to win both Skellige races is to stay behind a bit, as AI tends to wait for you on checkpoint if it's too far ahead. This can lead to Sirens destroying their boat, but keep in mind in races they are nearly 0 aggresive compared to openworld. They often just fly around, "attacking" but they do nothing.
I always have my boat extremely slow, and maybe I've triggered this. I'm using a gamepad if it is relevant.
What exactly should I NOT do to be able to accelerate?
hold A is not enough
to sail fast - double tap and hold A, similar to horse
hmmm
i installed it on game version 1.31 GOTY and it works (I took part in a race in Novigrad), but without voices and after winning the race there is an animation of Geralt arriving on roach. ¦¬]
Plans for the future:
Random routes for each race.
Repeatable races.
There's a bit of dialogue in Novigrad, between two of the spectators, which suggests that, perhaps, an in-game path was intended to improve the player's chances of winning: the spectators discuss how Vivaldi once sponsored one of the competitors so they could improve their boat. This sounds somewhat like how, if you are not that good at the horse racing mini-game, you can improve your chances of winning by getting a saddle that improves the horse's stamina.
Would it be at all possible to create a system by which players could go to a boatwright to have their boat 'upgraded' (better rudder, better sails etc)?
My boat runs into his boat, I get barged out of the way.
His boat runs into me, I get barged out of the way.
Basically any contact, he just keeps going regardless and I end up out of position and way behind.
He gets the inside line and sticks to it, so I have to go the longer route.
Boats go at the same speed. Even with Left-Shift.
I'm just not sure what skill or cleverness I am supposed to pull off to actually win a race so heavily rigged against me.
Edit: Having looked at the video, I can confirm my boat doesn't go that fast and NOT using W3EER. Deleting boatraces.ws gave me the headstart option. Not my first choice, but it gets it done I guess.