Qua'nith Psionic Detector - spoilers

[Octarin]

Has anyone managed to find out how the qua'nith psionic detector the general gives you works? I've got in in the inventory, it isn't interactable, and I got jumped by a lovely set of really tough Vlaakith Gith seeking out venegance in the Graveyeard. It's supposed to warn you when their portals open, but it didn't do anything like that for me.

[高天原]

Your character will comment that the detector is vibrating to warn you of an ambush.

[Blackfrost]

If you have in your inventory, the character holding it will comment that it's activating shortly before an ambush.

I've seen it happen at least twice: once at the end of Act 2, once in Act 3.

[Octarin]

Well then I can only presume the gith on the bridge weren't an ambush? Looked seriously ambushy to me though. I'll go reload before the combat and see if I get any chit chat I might have missed.

[Octarin]

Yeah I just checked it, it pops up a message saying "Qua'nith alert active" the same time as the Gith appear. Not much use at that point.

[Blackfrost]

Originally posted by Octarin:

Well then I can only presume the gith on the bridge weren't an ambush? Looked seriously ambushy to me though. I'll go reload before the combat and see if I get any chit chat I might have missed.

When you say "on the bridge", do you mean...
The very end of Act 2, on the Road to Baldur's Gate?

If yes, that should have notified you before the fight.

[orthostatic]

You get some non-interactive dialog and a little on-screen indicator. It's not terribly frequent in a play-through, but it is somewhat memorable when it occurs.

[Octarin]

Originally posted by Blackfrost:

Originally posted by Octarin:

Well then I can only presume the gith on the bridge weren't an ambush? Looked seriously ambushy to me though. I'll go reload before the combat and see if I get any chit chat I might have missed.

When you say "on the bridge", do you mean...
The very end of Act 2, on the Road to Baldur's Gate?

If yes, that should have notified you before the fight.

Yes, that's the one. I tried sneaking and it still popped up the minute they appear and insta-aggro.

[Blackfrost]

Originally posted by Octarin:

Originally posted by Blackfrost:

When you say "on the bridge", do you mean...
The very end of Act 2, on the Road to Baldur's Gate?

If yes, that should have notified you before the fight.

Yes, that's the one. I tried sneaking and it still popped up the minute they appear and insta-aggro.

Sounds like a bug then!

[Octarin]

Originally posted by Blackfrost:

Originally posted by Octarin:

Yes, that's the one. I tried sneaking and it still popped up the minute they appear and insta-aggro.

Sounds like a bug then!

Thanks, I'll head over to the bug forum and report it.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by Blackfrost:

Originally posted by Octarin:

Yes, that's the one. I tried sneaking and it still popped up the minute they appear and insta-aggro.

Sounds like a bug then!

Funny thing it seems it only warns if you are coming from a certain path, then it gives a warning from a decent range. If you come from another path it will only give warning too late.

[IndiGrimm]

Originally posted by Octarin:

Yeah I just checked it, it pops up a message saying "Qua'nith alert active" the same time as the Gith appear. Not much use at that point.

That isn't a notification - it's a buff. IIRC, I think it gives you advantage for one round, as you were warned ahead of time.

The issue you might've run into is exactly what happened to me - I clicked so far into the distance that, instead of stopping and waiting for direction, my party continued on. This meant that the time between Lae'zel sounding the alarm and rolling for initiative was basically nonexistent.