Beyond manticores and kayrans and Dagon, one near-mythical monster in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt continues to hang-out gamers above all else: just 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 an issue 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 consumer Idratherhikeout introduced it to followers’ consideration as soon as once more this week once they posted a picture of Geralt with the notorious hammer. “I acquired 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. Walking. Under roach. Under me swimming. Weirdly it switched to Uma throughout their scenes at Kaer Morhen. Any identified repair?”
The quick reply isn’t any. CD Projekt is now deep in improvement on the subsequent Witcher recreation so has lengthy since moved on from The Witcher 3, and instructed IGN there aren’t any plans to handle the hammer bug. Some contaminated gamers have allegedly discovered success by shifting again just a few saves and deleting all of the contaminated ones, however there is no assured repair.
Every participant who does come throughout the bug seemingly spawns just a few dozen who merely discover it hilarious although. “Why is that this so humorous,” stated one consumer within the feedback. “I fairly take pleasure in this,” stated one other.
This comes regardless of the hammer bug being round for years. “Help. 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 PaschalisG16 in 2023. “There is a continuing floating hammer between my Geralt’s toes,” stated Divexz in 2017.
It was even there at launch, evidenced by tgat’s submit on June 4, 2015, barely two weeks after The Witcher 3 launched. “What’s the floating hammer underneath Geralt?” they requested, innocently.
“So, for a pair recreation hours now I have not been ready 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 will be within the shot, however not underneath Geralt, it is at all times the place he finally finally ends up. So it looks as if some form of character mark. Anyone have any concept?” But 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 Next-Gen Update 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 the whole lot from a morality and repute system that provides much more penalties to Geralt’s actions to a completely 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 can star a brand new protagonist, and an entry with extra mass enchantment is being developed at The Molasses Flood too. Fool’s Theory can be creating a remake of the unique The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5.
Image Credit: PaschalisG16 on Reddit
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
