Need help with Mountain Bandits

[Graufalke]

Took on this mission and been looking for Mountain bandits in the area for nearly 20 days. Have not found 1 party, let alone 8.

[Miggy]

Wait, you mean hunting mountain bandit parties quest? Don't the nearest mountain bandits flock to the city as soon as you take the quest?

[Graufalke]

Supposedly and not a single one showed up.

[Miggy]

Huh... maybe the hideout was not close enough. I noticed that the quest only summons the bandits in question within a certain range of the city. Weird considering that there should be loads of bandits in your area to spawn the quest in the 1st place

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

I'm having a problem with this quest too. Initially, 3 mountain bandit parties were running towards the city that gave me the quest, but nothing after that.
I'm on day 18 roaming around the area but no more parties.....lots of looters and sea raiders, but no mountain bandits.
Very annoying.

At this point, I'm tempted to not even accept any quests, b/c almost all have been bugged or incomplete in some manner.

[Miggy]

Originally posted by Captain Fancy Pants:

I'm having a problem with this quest too. Initially, 3 mountain bandit parties were running towards the city that gave me the quest, but nothing after that.
I'm on day 18 roaming around the area but no more parties.....lots of looters and sea raiders, but no mountain bandits.
Very annoying.

At this point, I'm tempted to not even accept any quests, b/c almost all have been bugged or incomplete in some manner.

Try hunting mountain bandits on the mountains behind Galend (city at the far west of Vlandia). Mountain Bandits and Sea Raiders are just overflowing there. I don't think the area where you hunt mountain bandits matter for as long as you are hunting them in the open. From what I can tell, bandit parties you kill in hideouts don't count.

[Odium_Apollyon]

Originally posted by Miggy:

Originally posted by Captain Fancy Pants:

I'm having a problem with this quest too. Initially, 3 mountain bandit parties were running towards the city that gave me the quest, but nothing after that.
I'm on day 18 roaming around the area but no more parties.....lots of looters and sea raiders, but no mountain bandits.
Very annoying.

At this point, I'm tempted to not even accept any quests, b/c almost all have been bugged or incomplete in some manner.

Try hunting mountain bandits on the mountains behind Galend (city at the far west of Vlandia). Mountain Bandits and Sea Raiders are just overflowing there. I don't think the area where you hunt mountain bandits matter for as long as you are hunting them in the open. From what I can tell, bandit parties you kill in hideouts don't count.

Yeah, because why would killing bandits in their hideout count. Hmmm? /s

[Miggy]

Originally posted by Odium_Apollyon:

Originally posted by Miggy:

Try hunting mountain bandits on the mountains behind Galend (city at the far west of Vlandia). Mountain Bandits and Sea Raiders are just overflowing there. I don't think the area where you hunt mountain bandits matter for as long as you are hunting them in the open. From what I can tell, bandit parties you kill in hideouts don't count.

Yeah, because why would killing bandits in their hideout count. Hmmm? /s

I know. I was just as frustrated when I discovered that. All that work for nothing D:

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

Originally posted by Miggy:

Originally posted by Captain Fancy Pants:

I'm having a problem with this quest too. Initially, 3 mountain bandit parties were running towards the city that gave me the quest, but nothing after that.
I'm on day 18 roaming around the area but no more parties.....lots of looters and sea raiders, but no mountain bandits.
Very annoying.

At this point, I'm tempted to not even accept any quests, b/c almost all have been bugged or incomplete in some manner.

Try hunting mountain bandits on the mountains behind Galend (city at the far west of Vlandia). Mountain Bandits and Sea Raiders are just overflowing there. I don't think the area where you hunt mountain bandits matter for as long as you are hunting them in the open. From what I can tell, bandit parties you kill in hideouts don't count.

Killing the bandits in the hideout counted for me (+1 killed party). Weird it didn't for any of you.

OK, I'll try hunting elsewhere....based on the mission text, it seem like I had to kill them around that particular town. Grrrr....

Thanks for the info.

Edit: Also, when I attacked the hideout, it went straight to the Boss scene. I didn't have to slug through waves of enemy like usual. Not sure if that's normal or not??

[Graufalke]

So the bandits only count if they are "blue marked" I think. When I hunted around any bandit I came across was white text only and did not count.

If you hover over a hideout, you can see how many bandits are there. I think if you only see one group, that is the boss group and as soon as you move they show as there are no other groups to kill.

[Miggy]

Originally posted by Graufalke:

So the bandits only count if they are "blue marked" I think. When I hunted around any bandit I came across was white text only and did not count.

If you hover over a hideout, you can see how many bandits are there. I think if you only see one group, that is the boss group and as soon as you move they show as there are no other groups to kill.

Does it not count? For me, the moment I get the quest every bandit specified in the quest get a blue exclamation mark even the ones not near the town.

[Graufalke]

It did not count for me.

The quest failed with 0 parties killed even though I found a hideout and some bandits further away near another city.

[.]

The bandits must be in that region else they do not count. I stopped accepting this quest as it is impossible.

[Miggy]

Originally posted by .:

The bandits must be in that region else they do not count. I stopped accepting this quest as it is impossible.

Huh. Is that so? Maybe the blue marked parties I saw was still within the region despite not being sucked into the town's vicinity?

[Gray Matter Guerrilla]

I just tried killing another Mountain Bandity party - was not in region and did not have the blue indicator - it did not count for me. :(

I'm wondering if the # of blue marked groups spawn correctly, but some scatter in different directions?? That would mean they'd need to be tracked - a bit difficult depending on how many groups wondered away (and how far) and also if the tracking skill is even leveled enough.
Just a guess...

Edit: the cheat that enables every party on map to be visible would be very helpful to verify this.

[Miggy]

Originally posted by Captain Fancy Pants:

I just tried killing another Mountain Bandity party - was not in region and did not have the blue indicator - it did not count for me. :(

I'm wondering if the # of blue marked groups spawn correctly, but some scatter in different directions?? That would mean they'd need to be tracked - a bit difficult depending on how many groups wondered away (and how far) and also if the tracking skill is even leveled enough.
Just a guess...

Edit: the cheat that enables every party on map to be visible would be very helpful to verify this.

I remember that the cheat was available in warband. Is it not available in bannerlord via dev console?