Can't cast signs bug (Next Gen Edition)

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Hello recently I wanted to start my 3rd playthrough of Witcher 3 after 3 years. And I noticed yesterday when I was normally playing, that on the quest "Contract: Devil By The Well" I couldn't kill the Noonwraith because I couldn't cast signs. And now i realized i can't cast signs at all. I went to an older Save file from this playthrough and I just can't cast signs. It keeps saying "You cannot do that now". But when I go to an old save file where i am really far ahead (from my playthrough in 2020), i can cast signs just fine. Here is a clip of it that I recorded today. I tried everything from disabling mods, to throwing some Dimeritium Bomb at my feet, and nothing seems to fix it, i hope someone here can help me fix this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3auvxHBY0I

[worm_master]

I'm no expert, but i can see a reason.. I have personal experience of, as below.

I was in a village, and discovered i couldn't cast sign's, i'd just finished a fight, and signs were working.

Since my signs worked b4 I got to the village, i fast travelled away from the village, and tried my signs again.....

They worked just fine, so I go back to the village, try and cast my signs, no go, fast travel away, signs work, I never did find out what the issue was, I think it was "The Byways"

Sounds like they haven't fixed the issue in any update.

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I actually tried going somewhere else and fast travelling somewhere else but my signs didn't work anywhere. I also tried just loading a save from Kaer Morhen the first mission and i was actually just blocked from using signs even in the tutorial where you need to use them xd. Funny thing is when i started my playthrough everything worked just fine so I have no clue when and what broke the game. I'm so mad because I just wanted to play the game again and I have more problems now than I did 3 years ago when I was modding so much of the game.

[worm_master]

Hmm of it's not my bug, then it might very well be a broken script? can u do other things, like meditate for instance?

There's instances where u haven't been able to mediate, even when the fight music isint playing, It just keeps saying "You cant do that now"

Unrelated, but similar enough, occasionally when swimming the "dive" button stops working, the only fix I found is to save the game, close and restart.

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Hey, yes I can meditate just fine. Also I disabled all the mods like step by step removing them and tried the game like that and that also didn't help. I've read somewhere where some guy had this same problem 4 years ago and he edited some file called "geralt_stats" but I have no clue how to do that or where to find it so i'm really getting stuck here.

[worm_master]

It sounds like this is out of my league dude.

But ir's most likely a config/text file, these can be edited with notepad... I'm also guessing it's buried in the witcher 3 library some-where under "Meshes" or something. O did drag this up https://github.com/aschleg/witcher-3-enemy-scaling-and-other-changes/blob/master/mod/gameplay/abilities/geralt_stats.xml

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Yea i have no clue anymore what this could be. Thanks for the replies anyway, no one else has answered on any other forums, It just seems weird that it works on older save files where i'm a higher level but on this brand new one it just stopped working. Weird

[worm_master]

heres a thing, why not leave White orchard, and see if the signs work again.

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I would try it but since this is almost a brand new save file i'm not that far into the game to fast travel to any of the other ones.

[worm_master]

It's cool u can leave white orchard, once you killed the basilisk

[Draconifors]

In the video you are casting Axii on Roach (I can see the little white triangles floating around her head), so casting while on horseback is working.

Since you have modded the game, it's highly likely that one of the mods caused the problem.
Disabling mods does not necessarily fix a bugged save.

Try removing any and all traces of mods (you can simply move the folders and files out of the game directory, e.g. to your desktop), verifying the integrity of the game cache (or, ideally but possibly very time-consumingly, going the nuclear route by completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game), and then starting a new save from scratch.

If that new, 100% vanilla save does not have the problem, then it's pretty much certain some mod probably irreversibly damaged your current save.

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Well, I uninstalled the game and deleted every single file left in the Witcher 3 Directory. Then I downloaded it again and started it without any mods. Loaded the bugged savegame and yeah still had the bug. So I decided to just start a new playthrough and everything is working just fine right now, even with the same mods installed again. I hope the bug wont come back because it probably has something to do with mods. Thanks for the help everyone