Time sensitive quests? When it's safe to explore?

[Molda22]

Hi guys, i im currently doing quite a long main quest chain that started with hunting with Hans Capone and progresses to neuhof masacre and ginger in the pickle etc. Since this game has time sensitive quest and these quest seems so urgent and very linked i am afraid to just go away somewhere and start exploring, trading, training, killing bandits etc etc.
Can someone tell me if its ok to just abandon the main quest for a few hours so i can explore and do other stuff if i am in above mentioned quests?
I had time before i started the Capone hunt quest, but since then i am afraid to stop progressing the main quests.

[Craig [K.A.O.S.]]

I took time before viper's nest finished and it worked fine, but later I did the same thing before the second-to-last mission and it failed. Just save a lot, because you may need to reload a lot.

[Molda22]

i dont want to ruin the quests somehow by going away and doing other stuff and taking my time

[Molda22]

Originally posted by 5009craig:

I took time before viper's nest finished and it worked fine, but later I did the same thing before the second-to-last mission and it failed. Just save a lot, because you may need to reload a lot.

vipers nest is the second to last mission, so what was the first one you were talking about that was fine if you did other stuff?

[meatloaf]

minor spoilers, there's a part in the main quest where you have to do a bit of scouting. i was able to safely spend at least two days doing what i wanted. it may have been more than two. after the scouting, there was another quest, which i did right away, but after that, i again, took some time off. it didn't seem to affect anything. hope that wasn't too vague

[CromX]

Well you can take a break after the Neuhof massacre. I could not find ginger for some time and decided to do side quests until I got curious and looked online for where to get back on track for main quest.

Top be honest the main quest can't "fail" due to time. There is one part where if you don't do something fast enough some NPCs will die, but it doesn't change much, just an achievement. It's also pretty obvious that this will happen too.

Most of the time you can stop doing the main quest whenever you like. Just use logic, the developers can't code in alternate paths for the main quest based on how long the player waits. There is one quest line with very little variation in how it gets done, at least as far as I have gotten anyways.

[Rhazer]

After Ginger you're supposed to go to Uzhitz for something (avoiding spoilers). The only thing I did at that point is go there to learn to read. After that, I've spent weeks (in game) doing side quests, hunting, reading, etc etc. Haven't missed anything and picked right back up in Uzhitz when I wanted to proceed the main quest again with no problems.

[Ivraas]

Hare hunt quest has a limit? It's so bugged that every route of this quest has some werid things going on.
Once i can't dig the grave, second some important NPC just fall before my eyes and die, cutscenes and other things don't want to pop out. This quest is one hell of a buggy mess, beware.

[Molda22]

ok thanks for the answers. i really love how alive this game is and i love most of the realistic aspects but i have this "fear" inside me always that i will miss or fail some thing or some quest or some dialogue etc. Even minor little things.
like i needed at least few minutes before we ride to investigate the neuhof massacre and before i blinked the eye, everyone already left without me and i barely catched them in time and i guess i missed some dialogues on the road with Bernard or something :D

But i guess you are right with the fact that the main quest line cannot be altered much in this way and it should be safe mostly to go away from it for a while.

So i guess i will try to leave Ginger wherever he is right now and not go after him and i hope that after few days once i return from my travels he will be alive and still on the same place :D

[Molda22]

Originally posted by Rhazer:

After Ginger you're supposed to go to Uzhitz for something (avoiding spoilers). The only thing I did at that point is go there to learn to read. After that, I've spent weeks (in game) doing side quests, hunting, reading, etc etc. Haven't missed anything and picked right back up in Uzhitz when I wanted to proceed the main quest again with no problems.

ok thanks for the info :) iam actually getting near to this point in the story so its great to hear this and i will also use this time to go and eplore and do sidequests etc :)

[Freygea]

I took weeks in game after Ginger (not too far from where you are in main quest) with no problem. I then did a few main quests and have now stopped the main quest again. Doing side quests and have not scouted a certain camp. (you will know when you get that order)

So far, the timed quests are those that tell you within the quest. (meet someone at a certain time, like meeting Hans at dawn to go hunting. If the quest giver tells you to do it in a certain time then do it. Noted any sayings like Come back as soon as you can..have not messed up any main quests for me.

[Molda22]

Originally posted by Freygea:

I took weeks in game after Ginger (not too far from where you are in main quest) with no problem. I then did a few main quests and have now stopped the main quest again. Doing side quests and have not scouted a certain camp. (you will know when you get that order)

So far, the timed quests are those that tell you within the quest. (meet someone at a certain time, like meeting Hans at dawn to go hunting. If the quest giver tells you to do it in a certain time then do it. Noted any sayings like Come back as soon as you can..have not messed up any main quests for me.

thanks for the answer :)
poor hans, this was the point where i left him waiting each day and i was doing lots of other stuff and it was ok. He just waited there every day.

[Freygea]

Cool Beans. So it may be pretty hard to break a main quest.

[Commodore]

You will never fail a quest for taking too long, but sometimes getting there faster makes it easier/bonus dialogue, etc. It's hard to tell you without spoiling quests for you but generally it's pretty clear.

Also, an interesting fact, sometimes your mission is to find a location and the quest says you must interrogate people to find it, but you can also follow people, or even just stumble upon the place while exploring.

For example, instead of interrogating everyone at the Neuhof farm, you could directly go to where the bandits are, then directly go to Ginger without having to ask for help about where he is.

[Hathur]

Originally posted by Molda22:

Originally posted by 5009craig:

I took time before viper's nest finished and it worked fine, but later I did the same thing before the second-to-last mission and it failed. Just save a lot, because you may need to reload a lot.

vipers nest is the second to last mission, so what was the first one you were talking about that was fine if you did other stuff?

Um, no, Viper's nest is far from the 2nd last mission in the game. There are many many more main quests after that one.

[Tempered]

Originally posted by Freygea:

I took weeks in game after Ginger (not too far from where you are in main quest) with no problem. I then did a few main quests and have now stopped the main quest again. Doing side quests and have not scouted a certain camp. (you will know when you get that order)

So far, the timed quests are those that tell you within the quest. (meet someone at a certain time, like meeting Hans at dawn to go hunting. If the quest giver tells you to do it in a certain time then do it. Noted any sayings like Come back as soon as you can..have not messed up any main quests for me.

I waited three days before I met Hans in the morning to go hunting. There are quests that have a boundary. If you leave the boundary the quest will fail. The hunting quest with Hans is like that. If you look at your quest map, it clearly shows the boundary.