Hogwarts Legacy Player Character Suddenly Has Bizarre Pattern on Their Face

gamerant.com:

A Hogwarts Legacy player has encountered a strange bug that caused a bizarre pattern to appear all over their character's face, promptly heading online to share their unsettling discovery. Their account arrives days after another fan discovered a game-breaking Hogwarts Legacy glitch that traps players inside a table.

Bug incidence tends to be exponentially proportional to software complexity, and a massive open-world RPG in the vein of the latest Harry Potter game is arguably as complex as interactive entertainment gets. There's consequently been no shortage of reports detailing weird Hogwarts Legacy glitches ever since the game hit the store shelves on February 10.

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And while many of those issues tend to be minor and even entertaining, few are as bizarre as the glitch encountered by Reddit user d3vourm3nt, who recently went online to share a screenshot of their Hogwarts Legacy character who somehow ended up with a weird, chainmail-like pattern embedded into her face and neck. Making matters even worse is the fact that this unsettling model kept rendering even after the player restarted the game and reloaded their save.

While there are currently no other online reports detailing this exact issue that are substantiated with screenshots, it would appear d3vourm3nt is not the only player who encountered problems of this category. A search of Hogwarts Legacy's open-source bug reporting platform reveals plenty of complaints about «checkerboard» patterns and other kinds of distortions appearing on the playable character's face at seemingly random times. A March 7 review of over a dozen latest reports of this nature suggests that most of the affected fans are playing the game on the Xbox