I found a bug that makes lycans disapear completely during the "red chimney house" part

[My King Is Dead]

Today I was on my second run on hardcore difficulty, during the second visit to the village, on the way to the red chimney house, the part you push aside a shelf and find a lycan just sitting on the right, I got killed by that lycan and before he finishes me I hit restart to save time. Then, the lycans completely disapear, all of them, including the ones spying on you on the roofs and the claw lycan supposed to eats half of your armor just before the tractor on a lift. all gone. they didnt reappear until I meet the duke and save the game.

Has anyone experienced the same bug?

[Seraphim]

I don't know what you're talking about exactly. At this point there are no other lycans, as far as I know. You push the shelf aside and there's only this one lycan who killed you, the others are spawning after you went past the "Do not enter" gate and grabbed the jack handle. Also I don't know what you mean when you say "claw lycan", I never saw a special one before lifting the tractor. There's an armored lycan (or two on VoS) at the opposite of the Luthier's house gate, but this is after that point, too.

The only thing I know: You can despawn a bunch of lycans when you shoot the lock at the little house next to the house with the red chimney from the other side of the fence, lift the tractor, make your way to that house, jump through its window and go into the house with the red chimney.

[DAVE]

I know this post is ancient, but I had the same bug just now and your post was one of the top Google results. It's such a creepy bug.

[Seraphim]

I still don't know the exact situation the OP was talking about, but there are in fact strange mechanics in the game. Most of people see them as a feature because it makes the game slightly easier and faster :D

For example:
When you get out of the castle getting down from the ceremony site you can just run past the lycans spawning on/after the bridge, push the gate open, go through the gate, immediately turn around, go through the gate again and all the lycans are gone.
Or later in the stronghold... after a typewriter you go ahead until you see the autosave triggering, restart the checkpoint and this will despawn the first pack of lycans there.

There are many things like that. And they never fixed any of it. I played the game again around two weeks ago and all of this was still there. So I wouldn't expect it will ever get fixed.