[BUG] In the Heart of the Woods quest, Can't kill Sven.

[bankwittavin]

[BUG] In the Heart of the Woods quest, Can't kill Sven.

In the last part of this quest when i decided to save Herald, which means i had to kill sven and his friend.
The problem is when i killed them all, all of them lay on the ground as a corpse full of blood but not for Sven, Sven just died without any blood spilled.
So then i decided to walking out of the village and what i saw is Sven come back from death and killed Herald.
I've tried to see what's going on by look at where Sven died and walked out while still looking at his death place, when im going far enough from him Sven will wake up and come back to life again and then everytime i come back to that village i have to kill him everytime.
Sorry for bad english.

 

[AVMC]

I just experienced this last nite as well. I want to also note that I've tried reloading and killing him in different ways. I can save the ealdorman, but no matter what, if I get involved and kill Sven and his men, he respawns. I could deal with this, but there's one horrible additional problem. After he "dies" and does his animation the first time, the game runs with stutters in animations, including Geralt's. Every so many steps, the screen jerks backwards and he resets. If you run, it happens slower, so I'm pretty sure it's linked to the animations.
For now, I'm going to have to go back and do the ending I didn't want because otherwise the game is completely unplayable. It's literally sickening to watch, it's like jerking your head forward and back constantly. I love this game, and CDPR, but I've spent as many hours troubleshooting, reading forums, fixing .ini files, and crashing and reloading as I have actually playing the game.

EDIT: I went back and did the other ending and continued on. Soon after I ran into more animation glitches and characters not dying properly. I remembered I had recently switched on CPU PhysX instead of GPU. Once I swapped it back, everything was fine. I didn't go back and retry the quest fully, but thought I'd update this in case anyone else has an issue. I don't know if it was the PhysX, the quest itself, or a combination. My best guess is that it's PhysX related as every time I try the Sven fight from a save, he falls into a weird, leg's spread arms at sides posture. The physics animation never happens for me.

 

[danaimforthehead]

Sort of the same issue here. I finished the quest by killing Sven, but after a while, when I returned to Sven's village, he was back. Killed him again, but npcs are freaking out everywhere. I traveled by Roach to another town on Skellige and people still freak out. I reloaded an earlier save and that seemed to calm them but I fear of goin to check if Sven is alive again.

 

[HarelMor]

Have the same bug killed him 3 times already, each times he respawn near his house.

 

[lonewolf1976]

I also killed Sven in the battle to save Herald. I was then wandering around the village and saw Sven in the distance close to where the battle took place and saw Herald dead. Seems like Sven took a queue from the Leshen and comes back from the dead.

 

[dunadan5]

I've had the exact same thing happen to me. This was annoying enough in fact, that i decided to make an account to report the bug.
I've always done the quest Harold's way. At the end, we all know what happens, and you can either walk away or kill Sven.
At this point i choose to kill the arrogant sod who'd just bravely admitted to killing others. I dispatch him and his men and save Harold.|
But soon enough, even after a few hours' meditation, sven has respawned and attacks.
This is annoying on two fronts. One is that he will sooner or later end up killing harold, and you won't be able to stop him because the fast travel sign is too far.
This does a wonderful job of ruining immersion for what otherwise would have been one of the more interesting quests.
And then there is the fact that sven's resurrection is usually accompanied by the annoying yells of the whole village. Especially bad if you've just come weighed down by loot you wanted to sell and aren't able to run up and stop him.

Is there ANY way to prevent this bug? Other than playing against character and walking away or just ignoring the quest?

 

[IlluminatiEyes]

Yeah he keeps perma-respawning everytime i go to that village for me too.

 

[CroAlnor]

Having the same problem

 

[skeletonbow]

I am experiencing the "Sven infinite respawn" bug here too. I did the quest, went through with the ritual with the Leshen successfully, returned to get my reward and had some dipshits try to kill me. I killed both of them, I think one of them was Sven. Anyhow I completed that quest. Now when I go back to Fayrlund Sven is alive again and soon as he sees me he comes running at me and attacks with vengeance. I have no option except to defend myself and when I fight him the guards freak out and tell me to sheath my sword so I did and they didn't bother me. Then I step outside of town briefly and come back and... Sven is alive again and attacks me again! This time the guards come after me and almost kill me until I fall off a rock cliff where they can't get to me. I had like 1 hit point left, potioned up, meditated, then climbed up and got on Roach and took off. There's at least 6+ guards and they're all level 37 while I'm level 23. I'd kill them if I was powerful enough but I'm not so I just run like hell. Tell me this isn't a bug! I hope there are no more actual missions or important things to do in Fayrlund because I basically can't go back there now without getting my head cut off.

Additional info: This is with 1.05 patch and all DLC installed just as a data point.

 

[MK1980Germany]

Also - no more music in the wood of the Ancient Leshen when it is killed for the remainder of the game.

 

[Houmi]

I have same problem like others but I want to add something new. I was trying kill Sven by different ways but I noticed that in some causes my energy was stopped regenerating ... pernamently. This additional bug I noticed only in this quest. Load previous gamesave fix that problem but (if thats not only my personal problem) so I hope it could give developers some clue to fix this quest.

 

[MasterDassJennir]

Same problem here. Sven keeps reviving no matter how many times i kill him.

i7 3770 win 7 64
8gm ram geforce gtx 750Ti

 

[Krook]

Same problem here and it's a major one as it stalls as being in combat and thus I can't save even if I travel elsewhere. Why isn't this fixed yet?

 

[dane90]

The problem for me is the combat music , when you do this quest every fight you start have no combat music, included the fight against sven. I have to load a previous save and not do this quest for now

 

[jimaslan]

The solution for respawning is that, when you deside to protect harald and kill sven, you have to manage to keep harald alive! Because sven and his bodyguards attempt to kill harald during the fight. If harald died (and you kill sven as well) , then the game have to keep someone alive (of these 2 guys) so respawns Sven . Its a little tricky to protect Harald while have to face 4 hunters , just stand by Harlad and just dont let anyone to touch him , because harald would die even if take 1 simple hit. Sorry for my english!

 

[Infiltrait0r]

Keeping Harald alive doesn't solve anything. As others mentioned above they saved Harald but Sven wakes up from the dead again and again after a short time and if you are not there, he kills Harald (you can't stay there to protect the old guy till the end of times).
I have the same issue.
Also can't get the achievement associated with this quest (Woodland Spirit) no matter wich way i finish the quest (Sven's or Harald's way).
ps.: btw i have the same problem with "The Doppler Effect" achievement as well.

 

[Wolfgrim]

Running version 1.08.4 - Sven keeps respawning. Also I do not get the achievement.

 

[guilherme22]

sven you bastard

 

[lif_andi]

Confirmed still bugged version 1.11.

 

[VictorNeyoy]

Confirmed still bugged version 1.11.

yup. also, i had managed to keep the elder alive, also he has killed sven too but he dont really die at all hehe :/