Assassin's Creed Valhalla keeps sending players to assassinate training dummies

Earlier this week, mid-way through one of my Valhalla sessions, I got a bit of a shock when one of my daily assassination targets popped up right next to me in Ravensthorpe. My blood ran cold. A dangerous thief in the settlement? Right here, next to the frolicking children? Things could be about to get messy.

I peeked out of the longhouse – expecting an armoured contingent of soldiers to be wreaking havoc – and instead spied a lone figure, which the game told me was the Duke of Burgundy. I summoned all my powers of stealth, and shot the target down from a distance.

It was at this point I realised my assassination target was actually a training dummy.

I wasn’t the only person to be affected by this amusing bug, however, as a number of other players reported experiencing the same thing. “I had this exact glitch nearby in the camp,” freelance writer Jordan Oloman told me on Twitter. “Reda told me there was a drunk guy causing hassle, turned out to be the straw bloke out the front of the bureau. Amazing bug!”