SWTOR: Disturbing Bug
So because EA/BW is being really extra with this patch, there are reports of a very disturbing visual bug affecting female characters. The bug makes the character’s neck stretch and their head falls to the side, as though they have been beheaded. It has shown up in cut scenes and gameplay. Someone on YouTube documented it with several characters on Ord Mantell. This is not my video and I will warn that it shows the bug in all its gruesome glory several times. But this person demonstrated the bug occurring several times with different female toons, but not male ones doing the same content. Another YouTuber (again, not me) documented the bug with a toon who appeared to be clicking a mission objective. I only play women characters, and I have been through through various areas, such as the Imperial Onderon quests, Section X on both sides and numerous heroics without encountering it. However, it hit SorcSuvia (Sith Inquisitor BT4, Sorcerer) on Ziost so I can confirm it exists. The bug hit her every single time she scanned the human ashes, but did not affect the other mission tasks at all. I’ll put the screencaps behind a cut because it’s kind of awful.
I don’t even know how to tell people how to avoid this, and I don’t think anyone has been able to document every single place it happens. I could say that I’m extremely creeped out that this sort of bug, which seems to depict violence against the character and only affects women (or has only been documented to occur with female characters this far) is in the game.
If this sort of image would be upsetting or triggering to you, please be forewarned that it’s happening in-game right now.
If you do see the bug, please send a Bug Report to SWTOR, either by using /bug or the customer service window. If you are Preferred or F2P you can let EA/BW know about this by emailing them at [email protected].