bandits feb 2023

[fancypants]

Is anyone else having this problem?? I'm in year 8 and there are noooo bandits. My game says I should be getting them. Why are there none? Do i have to do something to make them come or is it because the game is winding down now that it's close to wild west dynasty and sengoku? Just a question, I can't figure it out.

[Wizard of Woz]

Have you traveled around looking for them? They don't come to you.

[TheMole]

And to add Sengoku and wild west dynasty have nothing to do with medieval dynasty other than the publisher and dynasty title, they're being made by completely different developers

[Morri]

Even if it had been the same devs, it still wouldn't have affected the bandits. Do you think devs need to be present and active to keep an existing game mechanic from happening? Maybe sitting at a desk somewhere and press a "bandit" button every day? xD

But y, bandits are meant to be rare, and can be found in the bandit camps that can spawn all over the map. They stay there ready to ambush the people (aka you) who get close enough, so you'll actively have to look for them. I think there can be at max 2-3 groups in the map per season.
(Tip: they are easier to spot at night when you can see the glow from their campfire.)

[Antika60]

Ich habe keine Probleme mit Banditen, aber ich spiele auch nur 1 Tag und habe so manchmal das Gefühl, dass sie recht oft erscheinen.

Manchmal finde ich jedoch (zumindest empfinde ich persönlich es so) auch schon mal keine Banditen, obwohl ich den ganzen Tag über herumgelaufen bin.

Im großen und ganzen jedoch sind irgendwo auf der Map immer welche vorhanden. Manchmal nur 2 Banditen und des öfteren gleich 5 Banditen auf einmal.

Auch in meinem kürzlich neu angefangenen Spielstand begegne ich Banditen immer wieder mal. (Manchmal gleich drei mal hintereinander und ein anderes mal lange Zeit überhaupt keine.)

[bigsolder]

If I remember correctly, there are about 50 possible locations where bandits can spawn, so it can take some time to find them. In my latest playthrough (it was second year) I checked the bandit spawn locations map and went through all off them and found bandits in 4 of these locations, almost all of them were deep in the woods where I usually go on very rare occasions. If you want, you can check this map divided into north and south locations https://preview.redd.it/ao04ad0h995a1.jpeg?width=2449&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=ca15add510f445ca66caf736b55d7ab36fbf7a73
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[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by Morri:

Even if it had been the same devs, it still wouldn't have affected the bandits. Do you think devs need to be present and active to keep an existing game mechanic from happening? Maybe sitting at a desk somewhere and press a "bandit" button every day? xD

But y, bandits are meant to be rare, and can be found in the bandit camps that can spawn all over the map. They stay there ready to ambush the people (aka you) who get close enough, so you'll actively have to look for them. I think there can be at max 2-3 groups in the map per season.
(Tip: they are easier to spot at night when you can see the glow from their campfire.)

There are definitely more than that per season. I think I ran into about 8 groups once while travelling around the map questing and looking for abandoned camps. I'm now in year 5 or 6 and they seem a lot more frequent.

[hubbemattsson]

Max number is 10 / season. Should start happend in year 10.

[AdvancedFollower]

I have the opposite problem. On my current playthrough I was getting bandits even in the first year. One group spawned right next to the road between my village and Gustovia in Summer of the first year so I had to take a big detour or run like a madman.... Then in Winter of the same year I got a group close to Rolnica... Fun times.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by AdvancedFollower:

I have the opposite problem. On my current playthrough I was getting bandits even in the first year. One group spawned right next to the road between my village and Gustovia in Summer of the first year so I had to take a big detour or run like a madman.... Then in Winter of the same year I got a group close to Rolnica... Fun times.

i've had several years where they've set up within sight of my walls.

i'll never forget the first time i encountered them, i had a quest to go to that one town way to the south of gustova (jezerica?) and on the road there, i saw a pair of overturned carts blocking the road. as i was going in blind, i didnt even know bandits were a thing, but i thought to myself "this sure seems like a great place for an ambush," as i walked up, and was indeed ambushed.

[Antika60]

In einem meiner anderen älteren Spielstände bin ich im ersten Jahr auch schon gleich auf Banditen gestoßen. Und dann auch noch gleich auf 5.

Also kaum im Spiel drin gewesen schon endete die Dynastie. :D

Habe es dann in zwei anderen Spielständen auch noch mal gehabt, aber bin da dann nicht gestorben weil ich ja nun "vorbereitet" war und da erst mal mit mehr Vorsicht unterwegs war.

[Wizard of Woz]

How are people dying from bandits? Get a bow, shoot at them, when they charge run away. They only follow for a certain distance. When they turn around shoot them again.

[Antika60]

Wenn man das Spiel gerade zum ersten mal betritt, hat man in den meisten Fällen noch keinen Bogen. Und während man auf dem Weg ist sich erst mal umzuschauen wo man bauen möchte, und man dann regelrecht aus dem Hinterhalt gleich von 2 Bogenschützen beschossen wird (die sich auch noch hinter zwei Bäumen versteckt halten), dann kann man nicht mehr großartig flüchten. ;)

[Morri]

Originally posted by hubbemattsson:

Max number is 10 / season. Should start happend in year 10.

That explains it then. My restartitis...

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

How are people dying from bandits? Get a bow, shoot at them, when they charge run away. They only follow for a certain distance. When they turn around shoot them again.

They can have bows too. And on 200% damage they can one-shot if they hit you with a crossbow in the right spot.

[Thundercracker]

Originally posted by Wizard of Woz:

How are people dying from bandits? Get a bow, shoot at them, when they charge run away. They only follow for a certain distance. When they turn around shoot them again.

bandit archers, especially with crossbows, have taken me out several times. most often when i dont get a headcount of the camp before combat starts, so i'm not aware there's a ranged unit until it's too late.

[Eternie]

In one of my encounters on a road late at night they had 2 carts blocking the road and a bandit with a crossbow in the thick forested area on each side as well as 3 melee bandits. Was way too hard to even see the bandits in the forest areas and got hit twice by crossbow bolts not seeing where it was coming from ... So ran away marked the site and returned during daylight sneaking up to take them out carefully, but came close to dying from the crossbows.