Nest of Vipers -- FAILED

[Pissed Ol' Pete]

I killed all the bandits and cumans in the village that they live in and poisoned their food and burned their arrows. I then talked to radzig about scouting the place and told him there was some people there and he said to ask sir robard for reinforcements. But when I get out of the dialogue screen it says i failed nest of vipers and failed alking to sir robar

[Pissed Ol' Pete]

bump. please help.

[SticksItInCrazy]

I ran around doing a whole lot of side quests and exploring, found the bandit/cuman fort and slowly killed them all since I was already lv19 at this point, then went and did a few story quests, got told to go scout this place (that I'd already cleared out) and instantly failed Nest of Vipers as soon as I started it lol, not sure if it is even fixable without starting over.

[Max and Omnis]

I'm having the same issue and I've progressed too far to go back to before I killed all the cumans and bandits in the camp... WTF am I supposed to do??

[joxertm22]

A question before I step on that t*rd...
Is Nest of Vipers the main story quest? Because I have already sidequests to kill coman bosses and another to get 3 cuman disguises from their camps.
If it's main, I'll push the main story instead od exploration.

[Max and Omnis]

Originally posted by joxertm22:

A question before I step on that t*rd...
Is Nest of Vipers the main story quest? Because I have already sidequests to kill coman bosses and another to get 3 cuman disguises from their camps.
If it's main, I'll push the main story instead od exploration.

Yes, it is the main story quest...

[SticksItInCrazy]

bump

[Bastila Shan]

Wait so if you fail that, can you actually still progress the story or are you stuck?

[Cajun Rabbit]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Wait so if you fail that, can you actually still progress the story or are you stuck?

id say youre pretty much screwed.


why would you ignore the main story?

[SticksItInCrazy]

Originally posted by Hoboslayer:

Wait so if you fail that, can you actually still progress the story or are you stuck?

You get stuck and can't move on, if you go talk to Sir Radzig he'll just constantly tell you to go scout the camp which you can't do since it is empty, the quest itself is listed under the mainstory tab as failed and you have no way to reset it or move past it.

[AngerIsAnEnergy]

You can pretty much leave all the killing to Sir Radzhig and Sir Bernard. They are tanks that will not die - but you can get a fail for "losing too many men".

There is one thing you could do to help a lot
light the haybale that is below the wall where archers are shooting from. They are neutralised
There is a cheesy way to kill Runt involving arrows but I didn't need to use that as I was able to headbut him to the ground!!! Just make sure you have 70% health before you get to Runt

[SticksItInCrazy]

Originally posted by AngerIsAnEnergy:

You can pretty much leave all the killing to Sir Radzhig and Sir Bernard. They are tanks that will not die - but you can get a fail for "losing too many men".

There is one thing you could do to help a lot
light the haybale that is below the wall where archers are shooting from. They are neutralised
There is a cheesy way to kill Runt involving arrows but I didn't need to use that as I was able to headbut him to the ground!!! Just make sure you have 70% health before you get to Runt

This has nothing to do with that, all the enemies in the camp are already dead, in my case I killed them before the story even asked me to go there.

[AngerIsAnEnergy]

Originally posted by SticksItInCrazy:

This has nothing to do with that, all the enemies in the camp are already dead, in my case I killed them before the story even asked me to go there.

sorry

[Gunny]

Had the same happen to me, but not the first time!

I give my input to this:

When I scouted out the camp I also took the opportunity to kill every last one of them, thought that would might even get a special dialogue with Radzig or something. So I went back and reported to him, saved in front of him, said "there are very few" because I already killed all of them, and he answered "ah ok, then it's going to be easy".

From this point on everything worked like intended. Buuuut... when the mission started I saw how it works: they spawn all the enemies. The fact that I killed about 40 of them the night before didn't matter, there were plenty of enemies to defend against our tiny force. So I thought I should reload and tell Radzig that there are more enemies, so we get a bigger unit to attack them.

When I finished talking to him this time, I had happen to me exactly what you described. After the dialogue the main quest fails and you are stuck.

I tried different things, like reloading earlier from within the camp, leaving some of them alive, using fast travel, don't use fast travel etc. nothing. Everytime failed. Spent about 2 hours on this ♥♥♥♥.

Finally I gave up, loaded up the autosave from the start of the battle with our tiny force and funny enough, it was pretty easy still (thank god).

Sadly I got no clue why it worked the first time, and why it didn't work afterwards.

[madsh959]

Originally posted by SticksItInCrazy:

I ran around doing a whole lot of side quests and exploring, found the bandit/cuman fort and slowly killed them all since I was already lv19 at this point, then went and did a few story quests, got told to go scout this place (that I'd already cleared out) and instantly failed Nest of Vipers as soon as I started it lol, not sure if it is even fixable without starting over.

I did the same thing and the quest didn't fail for me.

I found the camp and killed everyone in it before I ever got the quest. When I eventually got it and went back there everyone there had just respawned

[Zink0481]

I'm in the same boat, killed everyone, now I fail as soon as I finish reporting to Radiz. Never gives me the chance to get reinforcements from Divish and the enemies are not re-spawning, now their bodies have completely disapeared and the camp is a ghost town.

I've done other quests and came back to this after a week, didn't help, still fails immediately, I think I'm screwed since there's no way for me to go all the way back now and do the spy job proper and not just kill everyone.