[BUG][BLOCKER][QUEST] Invincible Water Hags - Ladies of the Wood - GOG 1.08.4

[Magyxk]

[BUG][BLOCKER][QUEST] Invincible Water Hags - Ladies of the Wood - GOG 1.08.4

Hey,

so first of: My problem is not that I am to bad/suck to kill the water hag.

The problem is that the water hags in the bog for the quest Ladies of The Wood are not killable for me. They spawn with 2 drowners that are normal (killable) but the water hag seems to have no health and I cannot inflict damage on it. During the quest, the first time you have to inspect Johnny´s footsteps and you have to fight against the first water hag, I drew her away from the inspect radius stunned her and came back inspected the footprints. That way I was able to circumvent the bug. The second time you have to kill a water hag (when you escort Johnny back) I cannot finish the quest phase since the water hag is unkillable.

TLDR:
bugged out water hag, cannot inflict damage

Further Info (did some tests);
spawns with no/little health, water hag inflicts 1 damage to Geralt, Roach (Horse) not scared by it, I can stun it with Aard and then do the finisher, but I won´t break combat, the hag will rag-doll though,
if Aarded against a structure, the model might split from its hitbox, it will continue attacking, until finished off, won´t stop combat as before

Things I tried:
reloading save, restarting game, doing other quests, fast-traveling, meditating, deactivating all mods, installing the debug mod and using the "killall" command, using forcefinisher, using dismemberment kills
The Bugged Water Hags seems to be just the model/texture even though they inflict damage, well 1 damage.
I reloaded saves until the start of the quest, fast forwarded through the dialogue, still the same problem.
Restarted PC
For now I will continue the other quest line, Bloody Baron.

I hope someone can help me, thanks for even reading this bulk of text

PC specs:
Windows 10 64bit
16GB Ram
i7 4770K, Hyperthreading active
AMD Radeon MSI 8GB D5 X R9 290X
ASUS Phoebus Soundcard
Retail version of Witcher 3 (Collecters Edition, had to download from GOG since the CD´s were from a bad batch)
DxDiag debug file attached

 

[trotter2]

I have exactly the same problem, and I tried all the same remedies. I cannot progress this quest.

I cannot kill the water hag in the Ladies of the Wood quest. She has no health at the beginning of combat. I hit her for 5 minutes and she never registers damage. I cannot advance the quest.

 

[Magyxk]

Okay so I found the cause of the Bug:
A mod called "Witcher 3 total overhaul" nexus link: http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/633/?
I contacted the mod author and have not gotten a response yet, but it seems the bug is known. As far as I can tell, the water hags in this quest have some special spawning rules that conflict with the level scaling changes of the mod.
You will have to deactivate the mod and revert to a save that is before you encountered the first water hag. That fixed it for me, after I killed both hags I activated the mod again and everythings working well.

 

[trotter2]

I am not using "Witcher 3 total overhaul" but I am using "Better Combat enhanced", which hasn't been reported having this bug. When you say "going back to a save before you encountered the first water hag", do you mean in the "Ladies of the Wood" quest or in the game overall? (I think the first hag I encountered was in the dungeon with Keira Metz.)

 

[Magyxk]

The first in the quest.
I don´t know "Better Combat enhanced" from personal experience, but if it changes NPC scaling there is a high chance that It will have the same problem.
As a rule of thumb I would just deactivate all mods, and load a save before you encounter the first hag, to be a 100% sure before you start the first phase of the quest.

 

[trotter2]

My first attempt at resolving my issue was uninstalling all the mods and reinstalling the game from scratch. I then loaded a save from before starting "Ladies of the Woods" (the problem quest) without any mods. I still had the no health water hag problem. I then reinstalled a few mods just for playing around a bit. Just for the sake of it I started uninstalling mods again one by one and then reloading the game directly at the water hag fight at the "find Johnny" sections of "Ladies of the Woods". Well, uninstalling the mod "Lore-friendly Silver Swords" solved the problem (I am happy to report that "Better combat enhanced" is safe).

I don't why I had to uninstall the mod twice before seeing an effect, but this suggests that CDPR has some work to do if the game has to be robust to modding.

I suggest that this thread be marked as "SOLVED".

 

[mdspanther]

I would beg to differ regarding the 'solved' status, as I'm playing a new game + version now with absolutely no mods and I have this issue now.

 

[hwoarang5]

i have this bug the game is stuck now!! for goodness sake how to solves this??

 

[Lim3zer0]

try and see if the killall command works.

Open the console, and type

killall

that will kill all hostile creatures in a radius around you.