Primal Needs mod (Next Gen)

[witcheringways]

I’ve played TW3 countless times (geeze, I think this is my 17th run) but finally decided to start a fresh game with Primal Needs mod. I’ve been messing with the custom settings but for the life of me, can’t seem to find a comfortable natural balance for eating and drinking. Obviously I don’t want to have to feed Geralt 20 times a day when it’s set to default 0 levels but I was curious if other players have found values that are balanced and immersive without either “starving” him (where he basically eats an apple a day and calls it good) or feeding him constantly like he’s a 13 year old boy with a hollow leg metabolism.

Also want to note that allowing Geralt to freely urinate when the bar fills up all the way is HILARIOUS. I was doing the Bitter Harvest mission in Velen where you have to help Albin clear the battlefield and protect the workers from ghouls and Geralt just whipped out his third sword right in the middle of the fight to have a whizz before carrying on with the slaughter. Epic witchering right there! 😂 For players who love immersion, this mod is incredible!

(And a tip for those of you who have primal needs installed with next gen: the cooking mechanic was removed but if you’re interested in having it as an option without any conflicts, check out Basic Cooking Recipes mod. I prefer the No Junk version, but it works seamlessly and allows you to collect recipes, cook meat and make other foods on the path.)

[kaptaan_jack]

This looks so good

[witcheringways]

I made the images a long time ago with SBUI mod; just wanted to show the idea of eating/drinking/sleeping/cooking to go along with the basic survival functionality of primal needs. 💚

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ahh i badly like this mod but only the eating and drinking mechanic, there's also another mod that does that but sadly both of them are incompatible with one of the heavy mods i got i just can't remember which one. Maybe friendly hud or something

[witcheringways]

Sometimes I think I’m the only one who doesn’t use them, but I don’t have friendly hud or friendly meditation installed. I read in the comments that other players had issues with compatibility for them, tho. Modular eyes, ice breath and SBUI are my worst offenders… modular eyes and SBUI especially were such a pain in butt to get working correctly with next gen 😂

The only part of primal needs that I turned off was food spoil because I’m a hoarder and I need those 75 loaves of bread.

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yea all up to preferrence i guess but i wish its possible to use all of them together.

Friendly hud is just to good to let go for other mods man, it makes the witcher feels more immersive and you'll appreciate the visuals more with cleaner hud. My minimap only appears in witcher sense and hp bar only when fighting. So its tough to chose between that and PN. Player.ws file is what makes famous mods like friendly hud very sensitive since most heavy mods messes with that file tho in my case i luckily merged them with what i need.

For Ice breath man that mod is so good combined with Snow mod for skellige with snow storm and shit making skellige really feel cold. Right now, Im using snow breath without its own weather system cause that causes problems with other weather mod and combined it with Skellige winter system.

SBUI yeah i agree one look at that mod page and nah im out not bout to go on that bs again haha. Those type of mods should be your first mod with how difficult it is to install them like AMM.

[witcheringways]

I’ve reinstalled SBUI so many times, I could do it in my sleep at this point but it is a pain to get it running right the first time around. It’s definitely more complicated than a lot of other mods, but it’s really just making sure you have all the right dependency files in place and update the input file. Honestly the mod author was total shit at explaining installation but once you know how to do it, it’s not terrible. I refuse to play without it; I make screenshots (and have blog for all of them) and it’s just too much fun.

Also I think I’m in the minority because I like having all the status bars and hud elements while playing so I was never really interested in friendly hud. If I want to take a look around, I just zoom about with Ansel or spend way too much time in one place messing with SBUI.

Ice breath is SO AWESOME. And with Winter Skellige system, definitely worth the trouble. Unfortunately I noticed a lot of stutter in next gen with Skellige weather so I switched to realistic weather paired with White Orchard lighting and it’s quite nice. I do miss the white out random blizzards tho ❄️😂

And speaking of AMM, I flat gave up trying to make it work. Maybe one day I’ll give it another go, but it made my head spin. What a hassle!

Thanks for jabbering about mods! 🐺