Past manticores and kayrans and Dagon, one near-mythical monster in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt continues to hang-out gamers above all else: a little floating sledgehammer that pops up between Geralt’s legs.
The Witcher 3 is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in simply six months however a weird bug — a glitch, not an endrega — continues to be a downside for the uncommon participant who’s unfortunate sufficient to be cursed with it. It sees a small blacksmith’s hammer seem between Geralt’s ankles and keep there perpetually.
Reddit person Idratherhikeout introduced it to followers’ consideration as soon as once more this week after they posted a picture of Geralt with the notorious hammer. “I received contaminated by the sledgehammer bug,” they stated. “Is it nonetheless not fixable?
“I’m enjoying Witcher 3 for the Nth time and I now have a sledgehammer between my legs,” they continued. “It’s at all times there. Strolling. Below roach. Below me swimming. Weirdly it switched to Uma throughout their scenes at Kaer Morhen. Any identified repair?”
The brief reply is not any. CD Projekt is now deep in improvement on the subsequent Witcher recreation so has lengthy since moved on from The Witcher 3, and informed IGN there aren’t any plans to handle the hammer bug. Some contaminated gamers have allegedly discovered success by shifting again a few saves and deleting all of the contaminated ones, however there is not any assured repair.
Each participant who does come throughout the bug seemingly spawns a few dozen who merely discover it hilarious although. “Why is that this so humorous,” stated one person within the feedback. “I fairly take pleasure in this,” stated one other.
This comes regardless of the hammer bug being round for years. “Assist. Why is there a hammer underneath Geralt?” requested Zelter7 in July. “What the hell is that this hammer doing between his legs. It’s in every single place,” stated (*3*) in 2023. “There may be a fixed floating hammer between my Geralt’s toes,” stated Divexz in 2017.
It was even there at launch, evidenced by tgat’s put up on June 4, 2015, barely two weeks after The Witcher 3 launched. “What is the floating hammer underneath Geralt?” they requested, innocently.
“So, for a couple recreation hours now I have not been in a position to determine what this factor is. It seems like a small sledgehammer or blacksmiths hammer and its standing upright on the bottom between Geralt’s legs, and it strikes with him.
“Even in cutscenes, it’s going to be within the shot, however not underneath Geralt, it is at all times the place he ultimately finally ends up. So it looks as if some type of character mark. Anybody have any thought?” However nobody did then, and nobody does now.
This little bug has fortunately not impacted the general reception of The Witcher 3, which has in any other case gone down as one of the vital beloved video video games of all time. CD Projekt up to date it with the Subsequent-Gen Replace in December 2022 and extra just lately launched an official mod editor on PC referred to as REDkit.
Players have used it to develop The Witcher 3 much more, including every thing from a morality and fame system that provides much more penalties to Geralt’s actions to a totally customizable character creator that lets gamers tackle the function of a sorceress.
These have breathed extra life into the sport whereas CD Projekt focuses on its many upcoming Witcher initiatives. The subsequent mainline recreation is codenamed Polaris and will star a new protagonist, and an entry with extra mass enchantment is being developed at The Molasses Flood too. Idiot’s Concept can also be creating a remake of the unique The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.