Even in single-player games, players often try to make life easier for themselves. A common topic is often money. In The Witcher 3, players terrorized many cows for this, but the developers found a creative solution to reimburse the players.
How did cows help with making money? Early in the game, there is a trick to quickly and easily get money. You just have to kill cows in a pasture, collect their hides, and then sell them. If you meditate for an hour, the cows respawn, and you can then attack the animals again.
Relatively early after the game’s release in 2015, this was a good way to fill the Witcher’s wallet. The developers also realized this. Instead of directly nerfing this method by reducing values or spawn rates, the developers added a secret boss.
The cows got a bodyguard
What kind of boss was that? In June 2015, CD Projekt RED released Patch 1.05 on PC (Source: GameStar). Among various standard changes, there was the phrase Deploys the Bovine Defense Force Initiative
(translated roughly: Deployment of the Bovine Defense Forces Initiative
).
This rather cryptic phrase provided the cows with a defender. If players killed 6 cows, a cow monster spawned at level 27, which would be quite difficult for players in the early game to kill. And even if one manages to defeat it, a new monster spawns immediately. You can see what that looks like in this post on x.com:
According to Polygon , high-level players developed a different trick as a result. They simply kept killing the monster to farm.
In the 1st DLC for the game, Hearts of Stone, the developers honored the monster with 2 Gwent cards. One was the Cow
and the other was the Horned Defense Force
. The cow is a pretty weak card, but it can summon the Horned Defense Force, a card with 8 strength.
Throughout The Witcher 3, you have to face many different monsters with various abilities as Geralt. There are also some pretty powerful beings that even witchers cannot handle. You can find 10 of them in our ranking: The Witcher 3: The 10 most dangerous monsters in the Power Ranking, which even Geralt respects
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