Some characters in The Witcher 3 remaster lose their faces

About a week after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered launched, players started hitting a new visual fault. In some conversations the face and body textures drop off a character, leaving eyes, teeth, and strands of hair hanging in the air.

Reports on Reddit place it in all sorts of spots, from Novigrad taverns to merchants in Velen. One player said an innkeeper's body came back on its own after they left for another quest and returned. Others say the game ran fine for about fifteen hours before jaws started floating free of the skull.

People immediately compared it to the 2014 launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, where NPC faces also fell apart. For now it is being treated as another oddity, in the same drawer as the low-poly pigeons the remaster still has.