{ QUESTION } about letting the last bandits flee

[Dies Fourth]

This has always bugged me.

When you let the last few bandits flee at the end of a battle I understand you wont get the exp from killing them and Im fine with that.

If 1 of the last bandits is the leader or an archer do you lose out on possibly getting their weapon ?
Is the drop totally random oe pre determined ?
what determines what the rewards are ? Is it total RNG ?

I know theres a perk to get more gold but how do you give yourself the best chance for other loot including weapons ?

[Stardustfire]

what i observed is that more death enemys at end of combat means more loot (easyist to check with ghost packs, kill first wave instant to end the encounter fast, and you see you get alot less loot than when you wait with killing after the third wave with the horror. another good example are rat nests) . that one of the main reasons that ppl who play free mode ever deny that there is a money or food problem with big groups. because there enemy stacks ever scale to there own party sice, means they ever get an equivalent big mass of loot for there party sice and level, thnx to more killable enemys.

[happy]

You will never get the escapees' loot. If youy want heavy armour, don't let a heavy armour dude run.

[drake_hound]

The game was build with FREE mode in Mind, and ever scaling enemies.. even those ever scaling enemies in the endgame are boring ... do not provide adequate challenge.

Infact that prisoner nerf has broken a lot of stuff even in Gosenberg, the two bandit lairs group are totally trash.

One random bounty mission with a Assassin not wearing any amor or equipment. (but this could be that I was too high level for Gosenberg)

DEV made region locked for those people who couldn't stand scaling enemies.
Same way they are making COOP for those people who request it ..

Both the above I find a waste of time, but am happy to those who wants it.
What do you expect with Region Locked ? that you can level faster and safer then FREE mode and get the FREE mode endgame grind content and loot ?

[Dies Fourth]

Originally posted by drake_hound:

The game was build with FREE mode in Mind, and ever scaling enemies.. even those ever scaling enemies in the endgame are boring ... do not provide adequate challenge.

Infact that prisoner nerf has broken a lot of stuff even in Gosenberg, the two bandit lairs group are totally trash.

One random bounty mission with a Assassin not wearing any amor or equipment. (but this could be that I was too high level for Gosenberg)

DEV made region locked for those people who couldn't stand scaling enemies.
Same way they are making COOP for those people who request it ..

Both the above I find a waste of time, but am happy to those who wants it.
What do you expect with Region Locked ? that you can level faster and safer then FREE mode and get the FREE mode endgame grind content and loot ?

Overall i respect your opinion. I'm a lil confused what this statement has to do with my question though. Am i missing some sort of tie in message ?

[drake_hound]

No was addressed to stardust fire.

Your question depend on what mode you play, in Free mode if you let prisoners go, they have a small chance to drop their loot.. but loot in my testing is strange.
if you savescum for example, things get fixed in a different way , then if you didn't save scum.

[Kruppe]

Originally posted by Dies Fourth:

This has always bugged me.

When you let the last few bandits flee at the end of a battle I understand you wont get the exp from killing them and Im fine with that.

If 1 of the last bandits is the leader or an archer do you lose out on possibly getting their weapon ?
Is the drop totally random oe pre determined ?
what determines what the rewards are ? Is it total RNG ?

I know theres a perk to get more gold but how do you give yourself the best chance for other loot including weapons ?

In short - YES - you will lose out on the best armour or weapon if you let the leader of the enemy escape. tactically - you should kill the leader of the enemy group as early as possible in the battle.
Drops are random - and scarce. the is NO BEST CHANCE :) other than making sure you kill the leader... and it doesn't matter whether you play Free Mode OR Region Locked.... your tactics should be the same - kill the leader as early as possible AND drops are purely random and scarce.

[Dies Fourth]

Thank you all !

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by Dies Fourth:

Thank you all !

As a note, there is a title that you unlock if you dont let them escape:) so it's just better to never let them escape, you would just lose loot. The only reason to let them escape is when you are at endgame and bored