The witch curse

[Wout]

I just finished a map where my whole army was cursed by a witch ( 15% more chance to die), because I didn't return a runaway girl (a wolfmother).

I thought it would be only on that map, but when I finished is still say's that my units are cursed!

So is there any chanse te get rid of it later?

[primetide_dev]

Not currently, no, but we are thinking it is a little harsh, so we may change it

[Wout]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I think I will replay the map then, because 1 unit extra is not worth that curse.

[Thunderborn]

Make a quest that links to the curse where you have to hunt the witch down or do something that cures the curse.

[primetide_dev]

That is my intention

[FlashXAron ☕ (Alex)]

so even my hero say let's find another solution THERE IS AT THE MOMENT none ...

so that game loves to punish good decisions like ...

not killing - women and children, you are punished with a moral -2 the whole game
not giving the maiden back - punished with curse

and there are some others ...

congratulations devs, you learn video players that it is better to be evil !
and even, when you do the evil path, you are rewarded ...

at least don't punish players, when they chose the good decision !

Whoow what sick gamedesigner was in charge of that game

[Eeree]

Originally posted by FlashXAron:

congratulations devs, you learn video players that it is better to be evil !
and even, when you do the evil path, you are rewarded ...

at least don't punish players, when they chose the good decision !

Evil should be more rewarding than good. If I can feel good and have all the shinies I have no incentive to be evil (i think the witch curse is too punishing).
Also the main character not being evil sailed during the first mission when you pillage 3 villages...
(Seriously how many town have I sacked in this game? Wish I could play an empire campaign, raising the dead and desecrating the earth seems milder compared to the constant slaughter)

[Baron HotTub]

I have no idea where to find this child. It's two hours now I have been sweeping every inch of this map,

Is this mission broken?

[Ichthyic]

for me, she was just outside the edge of where the woods meet the swamp in the NE portion of the map (about 10 squares north and slightly E of where you take out the undead around the mana pool).

I did not get a quest to kill the witch when i told the girl I would not return her to them, but the malus is 10% instead of 15% now at least, and you need to take the daughter back to the witch anyway. THEN you get a choice to kill the witch or return the daughter. Alternatively, you can just not go to the witch hut ever, and just find the daughter and get her out of there. My game had a bug where there were two of the same witch huts, and if I went to one, it corrupted any save I made after that... so I went with the alternate route of just finding the daughter without ever visiting the witch hut.

nice job of the devs to change this, though I also see why they originally left it the way it was. Not everything has a happy ending. sometimes you must sacrifice in order to do what you think is the right thing. Yeah yeah, I know... it's just a game.