Jail Icon Bug?

[TheRefining]

I am running into a problem with this game that is really starting to make it unplayable and frustrating. That problem is that I keep randomly getting the jail icon (when I go to check reputation it appears next to Skalitz, Rattay, and Miller) and when I go talk to a guard the only option I have is to serve jail time because I was "seen carrying a lifeless body around".

Now the only thing I am aware of is when I was doing the fist fights at the start of Rattay I accidentally picked up one of the unconscious guys instead of looting. No one was around to see me pick him up and I didn't even walk around with him. I dropped the guy immediately. Nothing indicated that I had committed a crime. The only other crimes I have committed is robbing people at night by knocking them out when sleeping and looting their bodies/homes. I was never caught for any of this and thought that maybe this was the trigger, that someone saw me or something, but it doesn't match the reason the guards want me to be put in jail because I was carrying a dead body. The people I knocked out I never picked up their bodies.

So I am playing the game, the first time the Jail icon appeared was after I looted the Rattay executioner for the quest and went to sleep and save. Nothing indicated I had committed a crime but once I woke up the Jail icon appeared. I reload a prior save do this quest again, sleep and save, no jail icon. I play the game a few more hours and go and start the main mission. Talk to the Baliff then all of the sudden, after the cutscene, Jail icon. I reload another save and do this all again. Get to the point where I am training with Captain Bernard for the first time. After the noble shows up, I get a jail icon in the middle of training. I reload a save again, do this all over and no jail icon. Proceed to be able to play for a few hours and get some tasks done. I go back to the Captain to train in sword. Trained with him no problem, then choose the option to train Master Strikes, then all of the sudden after the short cutscene I get the jail icon. Reload the last save, able to do all this over again and train in master strikes without getting the jail icon. I then go and do the patrol quest in Rattay. No problems until the short cutscene passes after playing the gambling game. Once this cutscene passes, I get the jail icon. So now I have to reload the save, do all the quest again and hope that this stupid jail icon wont randomly show up.

I am pretty sure this is a bug. I have searched and searched on this but everything I find it is some idiot responding that the game is working just fine and that it is a crime to carry a body. That I should just do the jail time. My answer to this though, why is the game randomly choosing when to give me the jail icon? It is obvious that I can reload a save, play a hour, then I randomly get the jail icon. Each time I reload, I make it a little bit further into the game before the jail icon shows up. Why am I getting a jail icon after cutscenes to quest? Why am I getting a jail icon when there was absolutely no indication I had ever committed a crime? Why after each time I reload a save am I able to get a little bit further then all of the sudden the jail icon appears? There is no rhyme or reason to this and I do not want to serve the jail time when I was never caught for the stupid picking up a body.

Making this thread to see if there is any insight to this. If this is a known bug or if there is anything I can do to fix this issue without restarting the game. Is there a certain amount of days in game that pass and no longer have to worry about a jail icon? I like the game and trying to get into it, but is really frustrating when I keep having to repeat quest and each time I make it a little further to just get this dumb jail icon and be told I have been seen carrying a body around whenever in-game at least a couple days have passed since I had accidentally picked up one of the unconscious guys I fought.

[Kayhan]

Well you obviously did a Crime recently. Maybe killing wayfarers and such while they witnessed their own deaths perhaps? Btw, if they saw you while getting knocked out, they will report it. So not a bug but intended. Btw did you kill the Executioner? If you want to fix that, you will eventually need to serve a jailtime or wait out for it to dissapear (maybe 1 week or 2 weeks).

[TheRefining]

Thanks for the response. I have not killed anyone and the only crimes I am getting told I committed is "carrying a dead body" when I get the jail icon. The only body I have ever picked up was one of those guys I knocked out.

It still doesn't explain the fact that if I load a save, I can play for a little bit and not have the jail icon at all. I can walk around in Rattay just fine, says I have no crimes committed. The jail icon will just show up randomly. I would think if I was actually caught committing the crime, it would immediately notify me that I have been caught and the jail icon would appear immediately. This is not the case. The only time the jail icon seems to appear is after a cutscene or loading screen.

[TheRefining]

So I reloaded the save and was able to make it past the gambling part and the next part with the noble at the tavern. Was able to get a save game for the next mission. I had no jail icon this time. I go back to the miller home to save and sleep. What do you know... when I wake up there is a jail icon. It literally makes no sense. Has been a few in-game days since I picked up the unconscious body. I am fairly confident that no one reported it because I have been having to do these work around and a few in-game days have passed. When I am stopped by guards to get searched there is no mention of any crime. It is all of the sudden after some cutscene or loading scene that the jail icon will appear.

It sounds like the whole crime/punishment system in this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ and does not work very well.

[noego]

Having this bug too. Plz halp!

[ΛLIΣП IПSIDΞ]

same bug for me...

realy the game is UnPlayable at this level, cause the Jail Icon appears and the guards tells you "carrying a dead body" when nothing... I tried to redone the mission 4 times with differents ideas, like Carry the body to other part and let him and killing but the same... after Sleep or after the day past the Jail Icon appears for Rattay, I can not pass the mission ... Annoying

[coqball]

Same.

Saved some Traders from bandits and they just sat there afterwards so I left walking (overbudened) and a few minutes later, no matter what I get this Jail icon.

Save, reload, doesn't matter, I'm wanted everywhere now.

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by coqball:

Same.

Saved some Traders from bandits and they just sat there afterwards so I left walking (overbudened) and a few minutes later, no matter what I get this Jail icon.

Save, reload, doesn't matter, I'm wanted everywhere now.

Skirmish locations with traders and guards can become buggy.

Often in these situations, someone from one side, either bandit or trader, will surrender to the opposing side.

A "surrender" actually causes that individual to become a "non-combatant" and almost friendly to the other side, however, the surrendered party may still not be on Henry's side.

If the surrendered party is a bandit, then killing this bandit is viewed as a crime because they already surrendered (and were considered friendly with guards or traders)

One bug occurs when this surrendered bandit attacks Henry, and Henry is still viewed as committing a crime when he defends himself.

Another bug occurs when a surrendered Trader or Guard views the Bandits as friends, and thus Henry's attack and killing of the bandits is viewed as a crime (by the surrendered "good guy"), even if Henry saves other guards or traders. It's bugged

And the delay, from the skirmish event to the crime being reported, was just the game giving the traders time to get to a guard to report the crime.

Basically, just another reason to install a save mod, and save early and often:
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/380

And sorry to others for supporting a necro post. Hopefully this new post is answered.