I've had a few bugs over the weeks I have been playing. I'm a 'completist; for want of a better term. I check behind every building, wall, rock, whatever. If there are ruins I will spend inordinate amounts of ways to see if I can search it or not (the overgrown siege tower in the middle of nowhere on one of the Skellige islands for example) and if I can explore it, I will! I have also been to the top of some mountains I doubt you are meant to get to the top of after countless slope surfing in an effort to find that one toe hold that will get me a further jump up the slope... Needless to say, I have spent far more time on this game than for the quests I've actually completed - I'm level 26 and have played almost daily since release day! Sad I know...
Anyway, my point is that I have forgotten mpre glitches than I can remember (ironically enough) as I fooleshly don't document them as they happen. The few Ihave posted in the past were:-
1) There is a 'bandit camp' on the west coast of Valen in the slope down from the road occupied by cannibals. Most were killed by Muckluckers (or whatever) and I can clean up the last cannibal and all of the monsters myself and collect the treasure. The location however remains on my map as not done (the symbol remains pure white instead of changing to grey.
2) There are some ruins on the same coastline with a pirate camp in and beside. It is possible to climb up to the top of what's left of the ruined tower to see what you are dealing with. You can also enter through the section of missing floor boards (nothing of interest in there) but not be able to get back out.
3) Many paths and roads on the map just don't exist. To be honest, I liked that - real maps are like that but it is somewhat annoying when you are attempting to go somewhere so you ride your faithful steed, follow the road that leads to a steep mountain side or a body of water deep enough to stop Roach.
4) Gangs of New York... Errrm sorry, you know what I mean. Searched Junior out myself, now I speak to Cleaver and only options I get are, "I don't want to be involved in their squabbles" - quest neither completes nor fails, but I still have an open quest telling me to "Consider Cleaver's offer..." that I can't do. I NEED RESOLUTION ON THESE THINGS!!! Please...
5) Apiarian Phantom Quest - can't open the basement door!
6) Runes still showing 0% Attack Power... I thought I read that it was to be fixed in the last patch, I may be wrong?
7) I sometimes have a flying horse! Good for travel in a straight line towards a marker, but once I get off, I can't get back on. Mostly east of Novigrad. In game fix is to run until the horse marker is off the minimap and whistle for Roach who is once again on the ground.
8)
On the west coast with all the shipwrecks - I managed to get inside one of the sunken wrecks to kill two drowners inside. I found they were trapped inside 'cages'(?), there was no treasures inside, but also, once in, you can't get back out!
Just recently a few more would be in no particular order:-
9) Exploring an desert island somewhere in a cluster of small rocks with snow and trees in Skellige near some question marks, jumping back in my little sail boat after finding nothing and falling through the bottom of the boat
into the sky far above and freefalling for several seconds and splatting to death on the beach next to the boat!
Reloading the last save option was fine...
10) Getting out of a boat in Skellige to fight Drowners on a beach only to fall under the water with nothing but water in every direction, no features, breathing just fine, but unable to go up or down or exit the water in any way.
11) Several times I have climbed off of Roach or jumped out of a boat and the camera sits just behind Geralt's eyes. Looking in any direction other than where Geralt's eyes are looking (no camera rotating) would blind you in light grey inner skull and Geralt's clipping hair. Rebooting the game required to get back on track.
12) Heart of the woods: Find the marked villager. I ran around and around and around using my witcher's senses, spoke to EVERYONE and entered every building I could. I even searched outside of the village and the orange circle. Not even the tiniest of clues or markings. Travelled to the next village, headed of to do a side quest, came back and searched for the marked villager again but to no avail. Closed down, searched a walkthrough to see what I was missing (nothing I could see - off topic, that walkthrough was nothing like the experience I had in my game??). Turned off the computer and headed out to do some things for two hours. Upon reloading the game, witcher senses tingling and search commenced - far canal! The washerwoman (or whatever she was, Hilde?) didn't have any small easy to miss but looked like she was on fire!!!! I had passed her several times and spoken to them all every time during my search!
13) Killing wraiths in the basement of the burnt out building (was it a pub?) saw their loot jump outside of the building in the grass outside the ruined walls!? They have respawned a couple of times.
14) Still in Skellige somewhere, a coast road atop a cliff was about four 'pirates' (below the Iron Maiden encounter). Killed em all with ease. Walked up the coast a few metres to have a look and came back to kill two more. Move back some, moved forward again and killed two more over and over and over. Bodies were piling up into a macabre blending together of parts. Not sure I got
any XP, know I didn't get any loot. Will go back again later to see if they are still there.
15) Same island; got Treasure in the Depths, read the clue, got the quest, then "Quest Complete"! What? Super Glowing Endrega still alive in the cave with it's horde of evil bug minions... and I assume when I come back to it later, so is the treasure? Nearly killed my level 26 Geralt with one hit and ensuing poison, so I'll wait and go back later.
And I have forgotten anything else I had in mind to mention; it's how it works innit?
I have, regardless of these issues (no quests actually broken in the long run by these glitches), had a shirt load of fun playing this game. It is still very pretty to look at, the NPCs are often something quite impressive to look at with not all (a few merchants and witch hunters perhaps) looking alike (my other favourite game is of course Dragon Age in all issues and every Ferelden looks like a blood relative to every other Ferelden!) and even little things like differing body shapes impress me - of which, if you look, there are many. And I have taken down several monsters out of my league (the red skull ones) when I have had room to dodge and Quen and otherwise buff. Lots of options are possible. Love the (as buggy as it seems - but nothing breaking) game.
I run a i7-4790 at 3.60GHz
8 GB memory
Windows 7
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750.
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The Roc
