Divine Messenger - Defeat the rebels and defend Nebakov quest is impossible to complete

[HeyoJayoMayo]

Was enjoying the game tons up until now, and I ended up figuring out that all the guards at Nebakov were (very obviously) bandits. I killed them all, save for the lord, who you don't get to see at all in the quest, and found the real lord. Since I got a Steam achievement for it, I figured I'd done the quest correctly, atleast one way. Fastforward more than a dozen hours, I've significantly progressed through the game and now I'm doing the ambush mission. I see that some bandits I definitely killed (Namely, Michael and the crossbowman) are in cutscenes, so I figure that they were just respawned- no big deal. Fastforward further and I'm Godfrey, here's where the issue lies.

In the "Defeat the rebels and defend Nebakov!" quest, you only have 2-3 allies, that being the Captain himself and some random footmen. You are meant to have 10-12. It's legitimately impossible to defeat all of the enemies within the time you're given, considering they all have more armor than you and you only have a basic sword.

I suggest to do one (or more) of the following

A) Just make the bandit characters respawn later in the game! No big deal.
B) If some of the characters are dead already, replace them in this quest with more NPC footmen to aid you. You can also replace them in the cutscenes they're included in.
C) Remove the time limit on the quest. While it is 100% impossible to complete with both requirements, taking away this one would mean the player can actually take them out one by one until it's completed.

I genuinely am stuck and cannot progress further in the story nor do... literally anything because I'm also locked to Godfrey. Please just do one of these things, and it'd save the game. I don't want to lose 10+ hours of work.

[76561199817011537]

That's kinda funny ngl. I did the same thing but hans came running out and I realized this wasn't how they wanted it to go. Honestly the bandits don't help that much you just need to get better before you do the raid.

[HeyoJayoMayo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af 76561199817011537:

That's kinda funny ngl. I did the same thing but hans came running out and I realized this wasn't how they wanted it to go. Honestly the bandits don't help that much you just need to get better before you do the raid.

Can you even progress as Godfrey? You cant change his equipment, and either way I’m going up against 5 or more enemies at a time and I don’t even get so much as chainmail

[Rev]

I litterally just got here and i can take down like 3-5 of them but time limit always ends before i can finish them off. That damn wood cutter told me they were all bandits so i killed them and found the nebrok guy in jail.. couldnt save him either which sucks after fighting all those gaurds. - Just just alt-f4 the game and will wait for a fix before picking it up again.

[TheRolfgar]

I'm also stuck here, i guess I'll reload to an old save and replay a bunch and not kill everyone.

I had killed everyone except the girl, who i knocked out.

I was kinda confused there was no point I could mention the castle was empty due to my sneaky stabbing.

They shouldn't be kill able if they are going to show up in cut scenes later

[Pepsi the Sprite]

Did you figure out how to do this? I'm stuck at the same point.

[ramondunker]

Used a cheatcode to get through this bug.

[HeyoJayoMayo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af ramondunker:

Used a cheatcode to get through this bug.

Does this disable future achievements if you use it? And could you send it, please?

[Patrician Pete]

So I just got through this, took me about 30 minutes of dying and retrying. I only had the Captain as help, no footmen.

First thing I did was drink a painkiller potion I picked up off one of the bandits who attacked in the previous scene, to help with survivability. Then I let the captain engage the rebels and sprinted past/through them, through the gate, past the dude with the gun and up the stairs to the archer platform. On the way I drank a marigold potion so I'd slowly heal through the fight (I'd put both in my pouch earlier).

They almost always left the Captain alone to chase me, so that solves the issue of failing the mission because the rebels win. Then I tried to hold the top of the staircase so they couldn't surround me, and picked off one at a time. There's a bit of luck involved, I did much better when lightly armoured dudes reached me first because it usually only took one or two hits to kill them.

Eventually they broke through and I couldn't keep them all in front of me, so I ran down the stairs and tried to repeat the strategy at the bottom, which didn't work as well, so soon we were fighting on open ground, but at least you can move around more and maintain a good position.

At one point my health was low and I got scared so I ran away until we were in the 'chasing' combat phase and I could chug a couple drinks to recover a tiny bit of health, and get a stat boost thanks to the perks you have at this point.

Then it was just a bit of frantic fighting and the rest were dead. I will say, I couldn't see where the Captain had gone so I might've gotten lucky with a glitch and he disappeared, or got stuck somewhere safe.

tl;dr pull the rebels away from the captain, use chokepoints, focus the squishy ones first, try really hard not to get hit, make use of potions/booze/food

[LongshipOarperator793]

The easy way is to climb the ladder in Klara's hut to the little attic and then poke at them one by one as they climb up, just don't overextend your combos or you will fall down the ladder. For some reason when you climb the hut, the gun guy also rushes for you instead of Zizka so you don't have to worry for the time to run out. It's actually not hard to do at all.

[HeyoJayoMayo]

Oprindeligt skrevet af LongshipOarperator793:

The easy way is to climb the ladder in Klara's hut to the little attic and then poke at them one by one as they climb up, just don't overextend your combos or you will fall down the ladder. For some reason when you climb the hut, the gun guy also rushes for you instead of Zizka so you don't have to worry for the time to run out. It's actually not hard to do at all.

Thanks a ton, man! This worked out!

[Assassin_S2]

Playing on PS5 and I'm stuck too. No console command option for me. I get teamed up on by 5 (at least) enemies, no allies at all, and this stupid "priest" won't kill them. Their health keeps making back out and after draining it 3 or 4 times, they just get knocked out. I'm good at fighting, but this is impossible! Definitely need Warhorse to fix this. No way I'm going back. I have 80hrs in it so far.

[Dballoons1]

Took me an hour to do but in the herbs lady cabin

[MrMinMax]

You can make this much easier with a Bane poison aka "lore friendly cheat mode". Aranka sells the recipe in the nomads camp.

[Tuscaen]

I got stuck in the same place. I ended up beating it after about 10 tries, I figured out if you back up into the narrow spot with the rock on the right and the wooden wall on the left you can basically fight them one on one, used both marigold decoctions in the inventory and barely made it through. Still saved more time than reloading previous save, but definitely frustrating.

[freddebw2]

Attack npcs that are already stuck in combat with someone else. Dont engage anyone else. You can kill them really fast, and just go on to the next target