River Rats and missing barrels? (humans 1-1)

[walkerredeye]

i posted this in bug report earlier but was advised to stick iit in gneeral so heer goes again

In the first mercenary campaign scenario "river rats" you need to find 10 barels of explosive to blow up the skaven tunnels, this is an actual criteria "locate dwarfen powder barrels" and has a out of 10 rating, I have done this and gotten that criteria marked off, the problem being, there are only actually 6 (or sometimes 7) barrels that can be picked up! So where are the other 3/4 barrels? In an earlier release of this scenario ! seem to remember that some barrels were on the wrecked ship on the other side of the wharf, this I checked, and theer are no barrels on it anymore (indeed ifn there ever were...) I have a nicely developing gang so obviosuly do not want to "abandon game" for risk of looseing them.

so in conclusion;

1 Are the barrels actually there somewhere?
2 Ifn the barrels are theer how do i get them?

or

3 Is the scenario corrupt and i have to risk teh abandon game option?

[Stardustfire]

u are aware that some of the barrels include 2 or even 3 explosive charges? and u must collect them all.

[walkerredeye]

yup, and indeed i ahve emptied them all, still 3 barrels missing

[dohc4907]

Did you check upstairs in the building as well?

[Grim]

I had this problem the first time i did the mission. I had to loose and start it again, then i had all barrels i needed. In retrospective, i thought i might have missed a few barrels in spots were there are many stacked (as said above). Maybe the spots would disappear if you picked only one barrel from it. Anyway i searched the whole map and didn't find all barrels during that first attempt.

I guess you have searched everywhere too, but anyway, have a look at the buildings and their upper levels (east from spawn), and the whole sewers (there are many in there, stacked, and near the enemy's wagon)

[MrPyro]

All of the barrels are in or near the same building on the Mercs version of this mission.

A small group (might even be just one) just outside the building on the corner of the raised wharf.

Two groups on the ground floor of the building; one underneath the stairs and one in a corner.

2-3 groups upstairs.

[walkerredeye]

yup, 1 (and then anotehr one appeared after i left the building and came back) in the near side corner, 2 under the stairs, Upstairs; 1 almost at the top of the stairs, through a door 1 barrel and then 2 barrels, 2 chests ustaits with gold in. Grim did you say there are barrels actually in the sewers?

well i saved it off m'b ill go look again....

[MrPyro]

There's no barrels in the sewers; they're all in or around that building. The sewers are where you plant them.

[walkerredeye]

what had happened was that the 3 barrels outside the building had not been deployed (I know they had not appeared to start with because i had walked over where they evntually ahowed up)! On the second load fomo a save they finally did arrive so was able to complete.

[SubtleAmbition]

How many years after this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game has been released is this bug still present!? Focus is a JOKE and should be shuttered.

[Reaver79]

What bug ?

[Meuhoua]

Not really a bug, just a container interaction marker which is barely visible due to a pile of rocks/bricks (outside the building, on the corner north west). I got the same problem on my last mercenary run, that took me 4 turns searching everywhere before i see it.

[Reaver79]

Oh been there done that, spendt like 15 turns before i remembered perception.. But the tools are there.

[darkgritty]

the barrels are missing, went through all the map, killed the ogre, but no barrels to be found except 3 near deployment zone

[Reaver79]

Did you use perception ?
Or did you buy a different version of the game from everybody else ?

[darkgritty]

The first two spots I found without perception. as they were clearly visible - I got three barrels from those. Then I went around the city and yes I did use it - not one barrel.

It is clearly an example of misleading design made specifically to mess with players. Before this mission all the interactibles were clearly marked on the map with icons. And here suddenly they have no icon. Why? Because ♥♥♥♥ you that's why, it's a hardcore game, we suddenly decided your main objective should be invisible. Then I figured out I should probably use perception, although tutorial clearly tells you it is used to find traps, not primary mission objectives.

Was it impossible to mark those spots on the map? No. All the loot containers and wyrdstone are marked on it. Why the ♥♥♥♥ would you hide the barrels? Was it difficult at least to make those markers ingame as visible as every other marker? I don't think so.

This is simply a question of quality of the game.

Quality of the games from Rogue Factor is crap. Especially the UI part. And no, crappy UI doesn't mean it's hardcore.