The Witcher 3: One Deadly Bug That Will End Your Game

PSXE has stumbled across a terrible bug that essentially forces you to start the game over. No way to fix it, but you might take a precautionary measure.

[Sharius]

i don't even getting pass the intro loading bug to play this game, just throw it to my backlog now and will try it again when the new patch go live

PS: it's PS4 version and this is my first game of CDPR studio, going to take note at that one and never get thier game day 1 again, sadly

[Rob_Ko]

You mean the endless loading? I had that one too, the fix was to restart ps4, it works fine since then.

[Sharius]

yes that one, it's take me 1 day just tried to find the way to fix it but nothing work, so i gave up

[uptownsoul]

Thats why I always create multiple saves in these open world games that allow for instant manual saves. Always allow yourself to pick up from a recent save point

[nveenio]

Are these bugs you all mention for PS4? I haven't had any on PC. (Not saying PC is better, just that my experience with the game has been bug free so far.)

[RedDevils]

@inveni0 Ps4 here don't have any bug playing the game perfectly :)

[gatormatt80]

What's interesting is CDPR said they thought about implementing an "Insanity" mode where when the player dies their save data gets deleted.

http://www.destructoid.com/...

http://www.gameinformer.com...

[Irishguy95]

That was in Witcher 2 as well mate^^

[Skate-AK]

I would say delete and re-install the game. Shouldn't be hitting a bug that makes you not even able to begin the game.

[Pastorfuzz]

I am playing the disc version on the PS4 and it's not so bad. A friend of mine downloaded his and he says he has run into many problems

[ChronoJoe]

I've run into a lot of problems with the disc based version (I don't think it matters if it's disc based or not, they both run the same lines of code at the end of the day).

No game breaking bugs for me, but once the game crashed while playing gwent, on other occasions animations have glitched out, not displaying what they're supposed to. I had some cutscenes where characters would not be present in scene at the correct time, not have their textures, and sometimes slide across the floor without animation.

Lots of little things that don't break the game, but do break immersion somewhat.

[Wii_nes_007]

My Ps4 copy is so laggy and studders so bad that its unplayable. I got 30 minutes and had to stop. I too put my game in backlog until/if they fix it. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[Snookies12]

That's weird, mine runs perfectly. Been playing for 20 hours on the PS4 version. Haven't run into any lag or stuttering outside of some cut scenes.

[iistuii]

yeah it is rather laggy but its not unplayable. But remember the people who say its smooth are either in denial or just not bothered. Even the likes of Digital Foundry & even the dev's themselves have said its got issues, thats why theres a patch on the way.

[poor_cus_of_games]

You still flogging that same old dead horse. My copy is running perfectly. Same as all my friends copies. Your ps4 (if you have one) is clearly broken. Or you haven't downloaded the patch. Or clean the disc.

[d0x360]

Nice try bud but that "lag" is you stopping pushing the stick. Its pretty damn obvious since the water is still moving at the same pace the entire video as are any trees you can see

[ChronoJoe]

Same for everyone I think, it's not actually lagging there it's the way the camera moves. Notice how the boy running in the background doesn't stutter, despite the camera stuttering as if it were dropping frames.

Turn your camera sensitivity down, and it makes it a lot better.

[d0x360]

Not a single issue on PC except one desktop crash which was likely my fault. It was the second time I booted the game and I overclocked my 290x to see how far I could push it. I boosted the core clock by 500mhz and the memory clock by 500mhz. I started playing, did a quest, paused and when I came back the game was gone. No issues at all since.

Best off all since I'm playing on a 6 core i7@ 4.4ghz and a pcie SSD the game loads in about 15-20 seconds. Fantastic.

As for this article the guy starts off by saying the game should have been delayed to fix the bug he's talking about. A bug he even admits no other person online has mentioned even once. Chances are there was no bug and it was user error.

Yes delay a game for a bug experienced by 1 out of a million players a week after launch...how did you not find this bug in testing!?

Seriously... Out of every game launched in the last YEAR witcher 3 is by far the most stable and bug free of them all. Bravo to the dev team. No game is ever going to launch bug free, they are just too complex and no amount of in house testing will find what 500k users can find in a week. Thats called reality. If you want bigger and bigger games that dont cost $100 then you are going to need to deal with some bugs at launch

[ChronoJoe]

Hm, multiple friends of mine playing on the PC version seem to be encountering very similar bugs to the console iterations. Obviously their performance is better (rig dependent) but still reporting occasional crashes and lots of buggy animations.

[1nsomniac]

In my play through on PS4 so far there have been many issues like this. People in states that they shouldn't be in I.e what the guy says about people being sat down doing nothing but if you talk to them they respond as if they're in a fight.

I've also had my horse become invisible except for his tail many times which is irritating when you're trying to escape but can't find your horse properly. Also all fire within the game being invisible which generally leads to me getting hurt or dying because I didn't notice it was there.

With all these problems though at least in my play through it seems to have broken the game because if you load an old save the problem is still there & won't go away. But if you shutdown the game & reload it, it seems to fix it. At least it has for me so far anyway.

[Dfooster]

Tip: The rest of the horse is in front of the tail

[nix]

Tip 2: If there's smoke, there's fire.

[1nsomniac]

It's finding the tail amongst all the trees that becomes the problem. Also it's the whole fire effect that becomes invisible fire & smoke. The illumination is still usually there though which helps if it's already a dimly lit area.

[nix]

1nsomniac, we were being sarcastic there.

[someOnecalled]

You killed they joke that was hilarious

[Vegamyster]

"I think we all have to accept that CD Projekt Red's game is simply too unstable and probably wasn't ready to launch."

Currently 16 hours in and haven't had any issues, the only bug i had was calling my horse and he popped up inside someones house lol.

[SunnyZ]

LOL!

Yeah I must have accidentally hit the call horse button and he ended up stranded inside the cave I was in.

Tried to ride him, be he refused to leave his little island as he was surrounded by water.

[SunnyZ]

Have not encountered a single bug yet on PC.

Well, the only major bug is my misses.
Keeps bugging me to get off the comp.

Go away you bug, I'm playing The Witcher!

[Snappy]

Funny i have being playing it since release day level 8 at the moment and no problems. Might wanna try reseting ps4.

[Tainted Gene]

Been playing for 15+ hours, lvl 4-5 and have experience TWO significant bugs.

- Game crashed (went to XMB homepage) when I tried to pass in Gwent (this was my 20th time playing the card game overall, never happened b4 or since that point)

- Game crashed outright during normal gameplay (went to XMB homepage)

Other than those two events, its been smooth sailing. **knock on wood**

[Silly Mammo]

I'm at level 5 with 7-8 hours in with not one bug on the physical PS4 version. Not sure if I have a lucky PS4 cause I didn't have many problems with AC Unity either.

[soul-assassin-]

Im on ps4 , played about 12 hours so far with no bugs as far as i can see. What does annoy me is you cant parry when an archer is firing at you from a distance!! you have to be close enough for the combat controls to take over. Geralt just goes into witcher's sense if im not close enough....dead :/

[davethedj]

Iam playing on ps4 ( 45) hours already and didnt have a single problem!!! This is for me game of the year so amazingggg

[Umbasa]

I am playing on PS4 as well and i can not find a time count for my play through, save file only shows me what time i saved at and not how long i have been playing. So how is it you know how many hours? I would like to know too.

[brainfart]

I've encountered one bug so far,even thou I completed dirty letter quest its still showing up as incomplete.I also have to say i'm surprised crossfire (7950) is working for me without a amd patch getting 60 fps all setting on high except foliage,post processing everything off except aa,vignetting,light shafts,and ao.Im hoping amd patch will take my crossfire in ultra territory close to 60 fps.
Edit:Nvidia hairworks off

[The_Noid]

I downloaded the digital version on PS4. Aside from minor framerate issues, I've only encountered one problem. I'm wondering if any of you have experienced it as well, as I haven't seen any posts about it online: when walking forward, the walking animation continues even when I try to stop. It makes interacting with people and trying to get loot really difficult. The only thing I can do is turn around, then back around again so Geralt will come to a full stop. Anyone else have this problem?

[Ricegum]

Yeah I get this too, but I just assumed that's how the game plays and it isn't a bug. Picking up loot can get rather frustrating.

Haha just found a nice bug/glitch. The sheep at Downwarren keep respawning at exactly the same place so it's nice farming spot for Raw Meat.

[The_Noid]

Thanks! I certainly hope they'll address this, but am a bit worried as I haven't seen anything posted about it by fellow gamers.

[BlackPhillip666]

I haven't brought the game yet, I'm buying a second PS4 for my house end off this month and it's in a deal with the system along with bloodborne ;) £215 add to this, I'll be throwing 2 terabyte HD into the system. I find when my other system gets nearer to being tied up for space games seem to have niggles maybe try freeing up some space on the PS4?.

[i8urCAKE]

How do these people get bugs? this guy talking about a bug after killing the griffin LOL im like 30 hours passed that

[kingdom18]

I have about 89 hours in, only experienced a few bugs: once in a while upon reaching an objective the game will crash, but normally it'll load right to where it crashed so I can continue on my merry way, also some items like torches sometimes will not be recognized by Geralt so I am unable to light them.

[tjsmoke63]

About 20 hours in, playing on the Xbox One with no real problems. Hit a little lag on occasion, and pop in once, but that's it. Otherwise the game has been running fairly smoothly for me. I manually save often, so haven't had to worry about being set back too far.

[OneLove]

Xbox one. About 25 hours in and had a bug where coming back to the game from an automatic save (I turn on Xbox and am immediately in game) had geralt glitch in to the the literal sky and drop like he was trying to skydive. Luckily I was in water so I didn't die from fall damage. Also had one where the camera zooms in on geralt as if in first person causing the A button to not work. As well as unlimited loading for home screen. These three bugs only happened once and a hard restart fixed it.

[Hold_It]

Just beat the PS4 copy took me awhile due to doing a s**ton of sidequests. Only had 4 game crashes, and the only issues I had aside from that was that the "hit detection" for interacting is very fidgety. Like they really need to patch it so when you look at a character or are in their proximity you can talk to them.

[aquaticDonut]

This sounds a lot deadlier if you don't mention that this is just in the prologue.