The Nilfgaardian Connection - cellar ladder problem.

[Big Baloney]

Aight, so I'm in Hendrik's cellar, did the quest, tries to go back up, ladder bugs. Whenever I climb it, Geralt goes down again right away. I've tried loading a previous save, and it didn't work. Only me with this problem?

[Ahmad Dia]

Having similar problem myself, but I can't even begin climbing at all. I get the prompt to hit action button to climb, but nothing happens. Actually, I think I've had this same issue with all ladders throughout the game so far.

[Dave1029]

Jump before climbing. Does anyone actually try to fix these themselves anymore?

[Ahmad Dia]

Already tried that, spastically and repeatedly. No dice.

(interesting, steam does not like spasm-related words apparently)

[Castor Troy]

I figured out how to do it. Try jumping around a bit and then climbing. Somehow that fixed it for me. Or try getting on the ladder then getting off it again. Basically spam a bunch of buttons and it might fix it. Try spells too.

[Ahmad Dia]

whelp, nothing a few restarts couldn't fix apparently. I'm all good now and climbing ladders like a champion.

[StormWolf]

If anyone is still having this problem, I found out that using fiend decodation seems to make it impossible to climb ladders. I was in the middle of the quest "A Poet Under Pressure" when I got stuck in a basement I couldn't climb out of. Restarting didn't work. However, once I removed the effects of the decodation, I was able to climb like normal.

Unsure if this was specific to fiend decodation and the quest or if any decodation could cause it.

[jdefouw]

I had this same issue where I could not climb the ladder out of the cellar in Novigrad Dreaming. I actually knew there was an issue when I could not even climb down because the action key 'e' (default) was not working so I jumped down. I then found out that I could not use the ladder to get back up. What worked for me was saving the game, exiting to the desktop (PC Version here), and reloading the game. I was then able to use the ladder to get out. No idea what happened to cause the break in the use of the action key.

[cassiels]

There is another thread about this problem. I'll just add this in case anyone looks for help:
Apparently you cannot climb ladders when intoxicated. So if your green bar is still active you will have to meditate to wear off the effect. That would explain why reloading a save will not work.

[Skunkypaw]

Just got this on HoS....