Anyone seen a way to unlock the 'My Rewards' items with out Galaxy?

I don't use Galaxy & so downloaded the installer version... did a quick look through the config files but nothing caught my eye.

You can't, they are gated behind Galaxy.

Taken from https://www.thewitcher.com/en/my-rewards

Is MY REWARDS also available on the local version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — which can be downloaded via GOG and installed separately from GOG GALAXY?

Because MY REWARDS requires an internet connection, the offline backup installer for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt that you can download via GOG will not support MY REWARDS.

They could and should have just made the new in game items available inside the game.

The GOG GALAXY 2.0 requirement is just a sad ploy to force more people to use their game launcher.

DRM
never used galaxy, fucking gog is so lame to make it a requirement to obtain those items.

I have to agree, if I wanted to use GOG Galaxy I would have installed it already. Now that I consider it, in this particular case to get the reward it is DRM as others have stated.

Unbelievable how CDPR has fallen since their "FCK DRM" times:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200317220045/https://fckdrm.com/

I wonder if they still remember they put an actual quest in The Witcher 3 whose very purpose was to mock DRM:

https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/The_Tower_Outta_Nowheres

CDPR of 2022 is a travesty of what they used to stand for only a couple of years ago. I don't think it's that simple. RewardsState= is not a Boolean flag. As far as I can tell, regardless of the login state, you always get the McDonald's livery armor (the red and yellow White Tiger) and the first letter from Yennefer. Then, once you reach the chest, the Dol Blathanna armor is either there or is not, and the second letter from Yennefer, also to be found there, differs accordingly.

All this logic is hard-coded in the witcher.exe file, so it's possible to (1) mod the executable to always grant the DRM-fenced items, or (2) redirect and spoof the JSON response from the HTTP server - the URL is: https://rewards.live.cdpred.services/v1/users/%llu/products/the_witcher_3_wild_hunt/rewards (where %llu is an ID number). (As for (2), since the new version of the game tries to connect to the Internet on every startup, even with no telemetry consent, it might be worth doing something about it anyway.)

But the easiest bypass is to (3) just give yourself the items using the console:

additem('Dol Blathanna Armor')
additem('Dol Blathanna Boots')
additem('Dol Blathanna Gloves')
additem('Dol Blathanna Pants')
additem('Dol Blathanna longsword')
additem('White Widow of Dol Blathanna') additem('gwint_card_roach')

Not that any of these are worth it anyway. But it's a matter of principle.

Between this and the lack of successor to GOG Downloader, CDPR is now making the experience worse for their most loyal customers. To download the new version without Galaxy, I just had to click 23 times in 3-4 minute intervals. If someone never bought it and gets it "elsewhere," I presume all it takes is 2 clicks at most. CDPR has completely lost the plot.

I did not realize there was a second set; I'll have to poke at it later tonight. Off hand it does seem to have only give the White Tiger set.
Thanks for pointing it out.

Yeah, the Dol Blathanna set is the better looking one. The stats on both are underwhelming though, so if you actually want to use them, you might want to check this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/7327

As someone who does use Galaxy (but I do also have backup installers of some of my favorite games) I still find this unforgiveable even though it doesn't directly affect me. This is unquestionably adding DRM-gated content to a purely single player game, and it being one published by CDPR and having an entire side quest in the game about the benefits of buying DRM-free content, that's just the icing and the cherry on top. This makes me think what happened with Hitman 2016, as glad as I was to see them remove it when IOI wouldn't allow for offline unlocks, wasn't any form of accident or misunderstanding of negotiations, but a deliberate testing of the waters. If that game was positively received on the platform, they'd know they can add as much online-only stuff as they want from now on. Fortunately that had a huge backlash, so they walked it back, but not all the way. Now this seems less egregious, both in absolute terms and by comparison. There is much less backlash, and with their new statement they just released about looking back on 2022 where they announced they'd be adding online-only multiplayer games because they "love games as much as you do" had me concerned, and the comments on that announcement is how I learned about DRM in this and Cyberpunk 2077.

This is something to be worried about, because they've also let online activations creep into other games, where before they would deflect criticism by saying they were "in discussions" with publishers, adding it to their own games shows they don't care and think this DRM is actually a good thing. It is not far from online unlocks to always online requirements, and then suddenly the horrid malware Denuvo that makes your games run like crap and makes them guaranteed rentals only starts looking like the friendly alternative to your game closing if your connection hiccups.

Only thing I can say though is while it's a HUGE blow to game preservation to lose the only major storefront that at least used to care about DRM, the fact the rest of the features on their platform is so bad compared to storefronts like Steam will spell their undoing if they abandon customers who care about DRM. I put up with constantly breaking wishlists and friend interactions, a terrible catalog experience, random CAPCHA checks, etc because I care about game preservation. Once GOG stops caring about that, then it's just worse Steam, and worse by a longshot.

Yep, today the "elsewhere found" games generally offer a better, offline-only-noDRM experience than GOG does for their paying customers. Smaller filesize downloads, single click, all DLCs unlocked.