Where are the NPC`s ?!

[~PoSyDoN~]

First off i must say I am enjoying this game to the fullest. I am almost end game in gearing and levelling but there is something bothering me. During the progress towards Kindle Waste I started noticing less and less NPC`s or more and less the same ones. It would do the game and lore a significant treat to add more NPC`s. Mabye wand and staff build are OP at the moment but its getting too easy and with less mobs its a bit of anti climax. I am looking forward to expansions !

[upuaut2]

yes it feels a bit of an empty world atm. it would be cool if you could add way more npc and make an actual village. cooler even if you still need to unlock them via quests and such.

[Nougat]

there was a bandit village I saved a man locked in a cage and... he attacked me. I was a bit disappointed. I thought he would be friendly or I don't know, not attack me xd

[Nougat]

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Originally posted by KOS-MOS:

there was a bandit village I saved a man locked in a cage and... he attacked me.

Sounds like it had PTSD from being locked in a cage and being presumably tortured.

You're right that's probably the case haha

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by ~PoSyDoN~:

First off i must say I am enjoying this game to the fullest. I am almost end game in gearing and levelling but there is something bothering me. During the progress towards Kindle Waste I started noticing less and less NPC`s or more and less the same ones. It would do the game and lore a significant treat to add more NPC`s. Mabye wand and staff build are OP at the moment but its getting too easy and with less mobs its a bit of anti climax. I am looking forward to expansions !

There are (or is) Lore-related reasons why the world is so empty.

[NiceGuy]

The world is empty for a reason and if you would have read the quest and book texts you would know.
You may be max level and max equip but you missed the whole game.

[Sasheria]

Lore wise, this will end up sad because if you read it correctly.

The "lava" is actually water turn deadly (in shroud) cause standing in it outside the shroud only reduce your shroud time.
There is no "body of water" anywhere because they are all "lava" (which is funny that people want to have water in game) the only source is wells and drops.
Lots of people died due to the shroud :( or mutate

[Lichbane]

You have looked at the lore, haven't you? They're all dead or corrupted. Only the 5 NPCs in you're base have survived.

[~PoSyDoN~]

Originally posted by Lichbane:

You have looked at the lore, haven't you? They're all dead or corrupted. Only the 5 NPCs in you're base have survived.

Yes i have, and i very much liked the way how to get the NPC`s in my base and operate them to upgrade gear and aquire mats. I am talking about NPC`s in the wild. Hostile ones that spawn or come from the ground that attack your base. a bit like the Valheim events. In the kindle wastes Huge Sandworms that survived just to name a few...

[Rednax]

Originally posted by ~PoSyDoN~:

Originally posted by Lichbane:

You have looked at the lore, haven't you? They're all dead or corrupted. Only the 5 NPCs in you're base have survived.

Yes i have, and i very much liked the way how to get the NPC`s in my base and operate them to upgrade gear and aquire mats. I am talking about NPC`s in the wild. Hostile ones that spawn or come from the ground that attack your base. a bit like the Valheim events. In the kindle wastes Huge Sandworms that survived just to name a few...

Yeah, that would be cool. Having to defend your base ( or this being an option if you so wish ). That would give some purpose to the castles people build.

[Syd]

I'm hoping that farther north into the mountains maybe the shroud has not fully spread yet, and we have water and such. I wonder this because in the mountains there is snow.

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by Vicious:

I'm hoping that farther north into the mountains maybe the shroud has not fully spread yet, and we have water and such. I wonder this because in the mountains there is snow.

There is a point (multiple actually), near the Eldemere Dam, as well as the Pike, where you can look North, and not only is there The Shroud, it's red at Level 6 Flame Shrine.

Not just patches, but huge swathes of The Shroud.

[Adrios]

Wouldn't mind an NPC companion you could equip. I usually do melee builds and would like a companion that does ranged attacks.

:Before anyone says play with friends, mine don't like sandbox/ survival games. usually play them by myself.:

[gerald2]

Originally posted by ~PoSyDoN~:

Originally posted by Lichbane:

You have looked at the lore, haven't you? They're all dead or corrupted. Only the 5 NPCs in you're base have survived.

Yes i have, and i very much liked the way how to get the NPC`s in my base and operate them to upgrade gear and aquire mats. I am talking about NPC`s in the wild. Hostile ones that spawn or come from the ground that attack your base. a bit like the Valheim events. In the kindle wastes Huge Sandworms that survived just to name a few...

if so then optional i hated vallheim raids im glad they gave us option to switch em off.

[Sgt.JESUS]

My theory is there will by other people alive in the frozen wastes to the north, i mean the shroud is the fungus right? The alchemist even warns you of it when you gather mycilium, i think thats the name, same s-h-i-t as the last of us.
Fungus cannot survive in the freezing temps up north so, there might be life there, i hope.

[bourland]

But wait for the expansion. There are gates in this game, at the borders that need to be opened !