MAJOR BUG in Menhard's TOURNAMENT arena - Ruining the Experience

[KOSOTA]

Hey everyone!

I've been really enjoying the game, the atmosphere, the combat, and the immersion are all top-notch. However, I ran into a major issue that's seriously affecting my experience: the Menhard's Tournament is completely broken in several ways.

Here's what I've encountered:

Opponent Pathfinding Issues: The first fight usually goes smoothly, but from the second fight onwards, things go downhill. Sometimes, the opponent doesn't even show up because they got stuck somewhere outside the arena.

Unbalanced Equipment Bugs: In the round where you're not supposed to use a shield, I don't have one, but my opponent does. That makes it weird.

Weapon & Armor Glitches: In the heavy armor duel, I get full armor and a longsword, but the opponent comes in without a weapon and starts a fistfight. Obviously, it’s over in one hit, which completely kills the challenge.

Arena Entry Problems: In some rounds, the opponent can’t even reach the arena. They try to jump the fence near the announcer, get stuck, and I have to awkwardly hit them through the fence while they jump non-stop.

Multiple Opponents Glitch: Sometimes, there are two opponents standing still in the arena. After a while, the announcer says one is disqualified, and both just walk out like nothing happened.

Frozen Opponents: There are cases where opponents just stand there like statues, not reacting at all.

The only workaround I've found is pressing T to skip time for less than an hour, then cancelling it in hopes that it resets something. But that’s obviously not how it's supposed to work.

The cheering crowd and overall atmosphere in the tournament are fantastic, and I love the concept of these fights, it adds so much to the game. But right now, it’s a buggy mess, and it really needs fixing. I hope the devs address this soon because the tournament could be one of the game’s highlights if it worked properly.

Anyone else running into the same issues? Any other fixes besides the time-skip trick?

[upuaut2]

yes is very glitchy i managed to do it once but will avoid it for now untill it gets improved

[Amokeus Rotasch]

Yeah, the recurring tournaments are quite buggy, sometimes I need to wait for an in-game hour before my opponent finds their way into the arena. I think I know why it happens, as well.

You can see that the NPCs go to the bath wench to heal themselves for the next fight, or to the armorer to change into their new gear, but they seem to get stuck in their interaction and just idly stand there for literal minutes. I've also had the issue like you where I'd suddenly have an opponent get stuck hopping the fence trying to fistfight me while the ongoing tourney had longswords as the weapon of choice.

I've also had a funny moment where we were fighting in shields and swords, and I somehow managed to disarm my opponent and he resorted to trying to punch me for the remainder of the fight. Needless to say, it didn't go well for them.

[XIVersus]

same exp got me annoyed so i leave the tournament for now i hope they fix it.

[KOSOTA]

Originally posted by XIVersus:

same exp got me annoyed so i leave the tournament for now i hope they fix it.

I managed to finish it by pressing T for like 50 times and cancel it to not skip actual time, but yeah... it's very annoying and should be fixed in a patch I hope so.

[Boomerix]

Hi,
I have a different bug, the game won't allow me to climb the fence into the arena.
I can easily climb over the other fences, but I when trying to get into the arena I get the climbing animation and then just land outside again.
The little gab in the fence is also not an option as it is an invisible wall.

I tried to skip time with T just in case that it might help but then I get a text pop up that says the stakes are too high to be procrastinating.
If no one knows a fix or workaround then I guess I just won't finish the quest until a patch comes out that addresses this.

Edit: One day after my post I loaded that auto save again in which the tournament starts and the invisible wall was gone. I could finish the tournament this time with no issue.

[Tevepaugh]

Throw a stone at frozen opponents. Ezpz

[KnightyMeli]

I cant even get the sword or armor to equip themselves

[Devorta]

Got the same: Oppenent got a pathfinding issue. I went up to him, punched him, got him into combat, and than slowy walked away. It fixed it forme, IDK why.

[umud.xg]

As a very bright part of medieval culture, i believe developers will give some extra attention to tournaments

[Testicular manslaughter]

Any time I go against Arne, he just stands there. The announcer will not say "fight" and when I skip time I get disqualified. I'm going to kill Arne in his sleep.

[hateredblast]

All went fine, but I cant exit the arena. Trapped by a 1m fence. Really stoopid programing!

[Roaming Zombie]

You can add being harassed by a guard for brandishing a weapon. Fight had not even started yet....

But honestly, this is actually the worst bug I encountered so all in all I am still very happy with the game.

[ＳｅｅｌｅＶｅｎ]

In my first tournament the following happened to me:
-Rivals did not appear
-In the open category my rival appeared without a weapon
Now in my second tournament I picked up the borrowed equipment. But I'm waiting for my turn... there are 3 female NPCs stuck in the center of the arena...

[ColdburnMaster]

I cant even get into the arena ring, and npcs cannot get out either . Quest broken

[heartnetsky]

Same issue here,
there're times when during longsword tournament the opponent fought me with sword and shield. There're also times when the opponent didn't show up even if I advance time until 5pm so I gotta reload to earlier save before tourney. Hope the devs patches it.