Witcher 3 glitch special pt. 3 - Painful muscle tics
3This video focuses on the ground variation of the bow glitch + some side effects.
Doing the glitch on ground, it looks quite different compared to the water version. Geralt is able to move normally and has all his ground abilities available for him. But on the other hand, his right arm is experiencing some really bad looking muscle tics which influence especially his arm animations a lot.
These bizarre tic symptoms or air bow firings are not visible when talking to NPCs. The NPCs shall never understand the discomfort Geralt is currently experiencing.
You can ride a horse with the glitch active. The horseback attacks look bizarre to say the least. Going swimming works too, although it is a little more difficult to dive than usual since Geralt sometimes starts shooting with the air bow instead of actually diving in this state.
Re-equipping the bow while on horse fixes the glitch but causes a pretty major side effect. Now Geralt will sink inside the horse the same way he did with the water bow glitch active. The bow itself is glitched indefinitely and causes the sinking effect every time you try to shoot with it (only on horse). Likewise, casting a sign on horse (or other actions, like sometimes switching to bombs) brings Geralt back on the saddle like nothing was wrong. This glitchiness lasts until you finally manage to reload the bow - easiest to do by trying to shoot underwater for instance.
(Re-equipping the bow on ground or in water so far hasn't caused other side effects. That just fixes the glitch.)
As another recurring side effect, Geralt's both arms go completely numb. He barely moves them outside normal attack animations, making for instance climbing, swimming and using gear look really strange. Trying to throw bombs on horse makes Geralt do so without any animations at all.
The glitch can become fixed by re-equipping the bow, but rarely it also fixes after some melee attacks. Maybe in other circumstances too. Left untreated, however, Geralt will resort to the most desperate of means to end the pain...
(To note, at least some cutscenes end the glitch, but I haven't tested too much with cutscenes yet. I think cutscenes won't be influenced too much by these glitches, though.)
Next video might focus on the horseback variation of this glitch.
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