Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Technical & Gameplay Problems Throwing Weapon inflincting Self-damage

Seems like sometimes (not always) and usually underground (like where we find Withers or owlbear), when we throw spears or handaxes etc, it seems to be doing "crushing damage" on the user before it is throw and then it does the normal damage + crushing damage to the target as well. This damage is significant and can kill the player characters immediately.

Tried throwing with companions, they don't have this issue, only PCs, also if an item is thrown own and it has inflicted damage, if picked up and throw again it does not self-inflict in the future.

I am not sure how this is coded in but it is possible that when we load into the game the items are "loaded into on demand" and maybe the Z-axis is not correct and the items are literally falling into our hands from a distance and causing damage.

Never had this issue in patch 8, maybe this is something introduced in patch 9.

I received 22 Crushing damage from throwing a dagger when fighting the Harpies...........

Had the same issue, and yes, was underground at the time. Took 11 damage. Particularly weirdly it appeared to say I missed the target but the target died anyway (possibly also from this damage?).

A character died from throwing a spear. Pretty bag bug . So up you go.

Found a solution. Drop the item that is causing the damage when thrown then pick it back up again. The weapon/item should no longer cause the bludgeoning damage when thrown after being picked up again.

Same yesterday in the underdark versus the druergar at the beach.
crushing damages for me and for the druergar (that also took the "normal" damages).