When most of us experience an error, we can alleviate our worries simply by reloading our game or perhaps searching online for a solution. But PaschalisG16 has already tried that, and much more. Whatever that is Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Players however, their Geralt walks around with a floating hammer between his legs.
It goes everywhere Geralt goes. cutscene? Hammer. Tearing down a monster? Hammer. And so ended PaschalisG16 Creating a Reddit thread Wondering what the heck was going on and more importantly, could anyone help? You can probably guess what happened next: an endless series of dick jokes. Oh no. Perhaps the funniest part is that amid dozens and dozens of answers such as “That’s the most powerful of all man-mallets” and “Giggity,” the OP once again has no effect and urges people to stay on topic.
“Does anyone really want to help? It’s not THAT funny,” PaschalisG16 wrote if you scrolled down far enough to see it.
Speak with my city, PaschalisG16 admits that the oddly stubborn hammer isn’t such a big deal, but that “I kinda hate it because of my OCD,” so they want to get rid of it, although it doesn’t affect gameplay at all. As a matter of fact, PaschalisG16 has gone ahead and done things like rescuing Dandelion from the soldiers in Novigrad with the hammer in tow. What makes this whole ordeal so amusing is how ubiquitous the damn hammer has become. You have started a new game. You have loaded a new save game. The hammer won’t go away. Worse, the answers show that other players are suffering the same fate.
The issue isn’t new, based on various internet threads over the years of bewildered gamers who, much like the image above suggests, always strip Geralt naked to clear the hammer. Reading the debugger is kind of hilarious: yes, Geralt tried to meditate away the hammer. No, your suggestion will not work.
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“Unfortunately, when I realized that, I couldn’t play with him [the hammer] was with me forever now,” reads a thread from almost four years ago. “It destroyed the atmosphere of the game, constantly haunted me, I couldn’t take my eyes off it [the hammer] almost all the time. I couldn’t forget that, I started going crazy with this hammer,” they said, visibly traumatized by the whole thing.
While meditating in the game didn’t get rid of the pesky hammer, the embodiment of its teachings did so in a roundabout way.
“However, the time has come and I’ve calmed down,” the Hammer patient of 2019 continued, before sharing a picture of Hammer, Geralt and Ciri sitting around a campfire like a happy family. They had accepted their fate and were now sharing what resembled a photo album dedicated to the hammer. “I was able to complete the game, one of the DLCS. This is my new brother now, mate, like Roach. I realized there was no point in paying attention to him and continuing to play as if nothing had happened. And it’s good that I was able to get there because the game deserved to have passed.”
But, uh, seriously, if someone knows how to fix this, you can strike PaschalisG16 high?