Ciri´s Quest "Breakneck Speed" Problem.

[kratos]

Im currently replaying The Witcher 3 and now I face a huge problem.
In the quest "Breakneck Speed" where you have to flee with dandelion you get to a point where you have to fight 15 men to get through a door. My Problem is that these 15 men have something like 10.000 HP and the can 1 or 2 hit me.Ciris sword only deals 300 dmg.....
I have no chance of killing them all.
Juniors men who are located downhill have 1.000 HP and they CANT one hit me. Is this some weird joke? I cant finish this quest when i have to fight 15 OP men at the same time with ciris cheap 300 DMG walmart sword.

[tigerpoetry]

I've always had problems with this quest.

Sometimes I fight the lot of them, including dismounting half way up the hill to have a go at the ones in the side street to the right.

At the top of the hill, I sometimes get it right, sometimes not. What seems to work for me is to use Ciri's ability to 'fast travel' past them and open the door behind them. It's hit and miss though. If they are close enough to Ciri the option to open the door isn't there.

Likewise, getting on the horse in the first place can be problematical. Ignoring the Redanian guards and going straight for the horse is best, however much you'd like to wipe out Whoreson Junior's thugs. If not, you're stuck fighting them off while your mount rears and whinneys.

I don't think this quest was well done, but I hope what I've said works for you...you have my empathy!

Also I agree with you about Ciri's Walmart sword! I'm from the UK, so our equivalent would be a sword from Lidl...probably a plastic one that you'd buy for your child.

[kratos]

Originally posted by tigerpoetry:

I've always had problems with this quest.

Sometimes I fight the lot of them, including dismounting half way up the hill to have a go at the ones in the side street to the right.

At the top of the hill, I sometimes get it right, sometimes not. What seems to work for me is to use Ciri's ability to 'fast travel' past them and open the door behind them. It's hit and miss though. If they are close enough to Ciri the option to open the door isn't there.

Likewise, getting on the horse in the first place can be problematical. Ignoring the Redanian guards and going straight for the horse is best, however much you'd like to wipe out Whoreson Junior's thugs. If not, you're stuck fighting them off while your mount rears and whinneys.

I don't think this quest was well done, but I hope what I've said works for you...you have my empathy!

Also I agree with you about Ciri's Walmart sword! I'm from the UK, so our equivalent would be a sword from Lidl...probably a plastic one that you'd buy for your child.

I somehow cant open the door if Juniors men are still there so basically I need to kill all "Door Guards" to be able to open the door...

[v0]

Can you lure them away? I only found archers annoying because afaict Ciri doesnt block arrows...

[kratos]

Originally posted by v0:

Can you lure them away? I only found archers annoying because afaict Ciri doesnt block arrows...

I can lure half of them away but the archers seem stationary.

[Mehfisto]

I've just done it but encountered no problem tbh. Some of them I just ignored, some of them i kept dodging and using her blink skill.
Only time I died was to crossbow bandits but I think there's just one or two of them for bandit group so it's easy to take them out first.

[v0]

Originally posted by _|_|_|_:

Originally posted by v0:

Can you lure them away? I only found archers annoying because afaict Ciri doesnt block arrows...

I can lure half of them away but the archers seem stationary.

Good so that's what I did then blink to archers cut into them and rinse and repeat until they're all dead. Ciri just has to keep blinking every two secs or so during lure because arrows can come even from outside screen area.

[kratos]

Originally posted by v0:

Originally posted by _|_|_|_:

I can lure half of them away but the archers seem stationary.

Good so that's what I did then blink to archers cut into them and rinse and repeat until they're all dead. Ciri just has to keep blinking every two secs or so during lure because arrows can come even from outside screen area.

The problem is that I need to hit them like 30-40 times to kill them while they can one hit me....

I´m afraid that I have to start a new game because I finished all side quests and Witcher Jobs in Velen and Wihite Orchard. It would suck to do all of them again.

[v0]

are you making sure you're attacking from behind? I dont remember having to hit any near 30 times per person.

[PDK]

Try toggling enemy auto scaling on or off.

[kratos]

Originally posted by PDK:

Try toggling enemy auto scaling on or off.

I´ll try.

[sand0r]

I'm necro-ing the hell out of this thread but this quest ng+ is horse sheet. Junior's lackies jump from lvl 66 to 86 at the top of the hill then the door won't open. I've loved this game up until this point.

[deidian]

Originally posted by sand0r:

I'm necro-ing the hell out of this thread but this quest ng+ is horse sheet. Junior's lackies jump from lvl 66 to 86 at the top of the hill then the door won't open. I've loved this game up until this point.

Disable mods if you have them, they may affect. Try loading a save before the quest started.

Junior lackeys lvl doesn't matter, Ciri doesn't has level nor penalizers due to lvl difference, what matters if if they take damage when they get hit.
The door only opens when all the lackeys in front of the door are dead, usually if doesn't open is because there is some lackey alive somewhere. It could happened that a lackey fall below the ground(in any instance an enemy can fall below ground level due to a bad collision detection) or just some lackey may have falled from the clift to the left. Retrying it should solve it providing another lackey doesn't go out of your reach alive.

[el.steinert]

Had the same problem, very frustrating. Today I tried and switched on/off (no matter if it is on or off, just switch it one time) Opponent Scaling and switched to the easiest mode. Et voila, it was a cakewalk.

[Sleepless™]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

You really aren't meant to fight any of them. BREAKNECK SPEED! Get it? Get on the damn horse and follow Dandelion to the cutscene. That's it.

If it was this easy we would have all passed this!

[Sleepless™]

Only way for me is to put the difficulty level back to easiest attack and dodge until there is nobody left