I have played this game for probably well over 200 hours and am finishing up my second playthrough. I just raided a bandit camp north of Talmberg and picked up a longsword off a dead bandit simply called “bastard sword.” I thought it was awesome because I have been hoping and looking to find a sword with these aesthetics to no avail. It looks like a later period longsword with a tapering blade and a scent stopper pommel with a waisted grip. UNFORTUNATELY the stats are utter garbage. 13 stab, 13 slash, 1 durability…seriously? Why? Why even add it to the game? Is it some sort of Easter Egg that’s going way over my head or is it some oversight that could potentially be buffed? I gave up on finding a sword like this and now that I’ve found it I wish I could make it my go to sword but it takes multiple hits to kill even poorly armored foes so its just completely impractical. Cool find that I thought I’d share though
It’s from the alpha. It was the only sword in the game.
It wasn’t in the first release version. Later patches added more gear on random NPCs. This was likely put in accidentally.
Pic from alpha sword tutorial.
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can edit stats if on pc
if this game would ever be finished it would be done by modders and not this joke called wh.
WH has 80 employees if Wikipedia is to be believed, and this is the first game they ever made. A company like Ubisoft has literally hundreds of people working on their main lines of games, Far Cry and AssCreed, and they’ve made the same game at least 16 times if you only count those two series. Constructive criticism is certainly warranted, if only to keep WH from getting complacent 
but you can’t expect the same level of time efficiency and polish that only comes with piles of money, thus manpower, and experience. I think the game needed another 6 months before release, but publishers will be publishers and it was not to be. At least they’re trying to fix it after release instead of just knocking off and letting the modders do their work like other companies I could Bethes…I mean mention.
I found it to it was on a bandits invitory
There is already a mod for that, which add also a scabbard for it. I love this sword 
During the beta you may have found it in the merchant chest in samopesh. Also several quests are missing in this area too from the beta.
Just thought I’d add that for people looking for a sword like this the St Michaels sword looks very similar but has good stats. Is found in a treasure chest I wanna say number 12
I got it as a reward for doing the heretic quest for Lord Hannish and successfully getting rid of the vicar by not killing him but chasing off the heretics
Huh. I completed that quest the same way but I’m pretty sure all I got was coin. Also don’t tell him you let the heretics escape I did that in a second play through and he was MAD lol
It was that quest or Robber Baron where I did manage to talk the guy into to leaving, give back all the stolen loot and pay three score( 60) Groshen in reparations. ( can’t rightly remember now. thought it was the heretics.)
I didn’t tell Hannish that I let the heretics go( Tho I did convince them to leave.).
I told him the place was empty and they must have left with the vicar on their trail.
THAT was good enough for him.