Karolina found dead

[Zing]

Exited Rattay and thought I visit the bath's when I came across a corpse in the middle of the road. Turns out to belong to Karolina and she even got a quest item on her body. I know I did not kill her. Is this normal to find NPC's randomly dead for no apparent reason?

[vine]

maybe? i had a strange experience too recently. hc playthrough, one morning going through rattay up on the right wall and at the first pub some random bandit somehow got in? appeared? and managed to kill tavern master and the maid.. there's nobody serving anything now.. we can sit across table with Capon, sigh in our dry throats..

i wonder what other people have seen in their games. and for both yours, Zing, and my game i am wondering if/when the NPCs will respawn. Karolina has role in Capon's dlc, if you haven't done it yet.. you may have to wait.. dunno

[wjpower2003]

I recently noticed that KCD has updated a couple of times when I start it up but I don't see any change logs on Steam. That said, I use SteamPlay for Linux so maybe it's related to that.

It might be that Warhorse have been releasing crafty secret updates to keep the game interesting and fresh - nothing fresher than never-before-seen random NPC murders.

[vine]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

I recently noticed that KCD has updated a couple of times when I start it up but I don't see any change logs on Steam. That said, I use SteamPlay for Linux so maybe it's related to that.

It might be that Warhorse have been releasing crafty secret updates to keep the game interesting and fresh - nothing fresher than never-before-seen random NPC murders.

i don't believe in secret updates behind the screen for a second.. anyway i am certain i haven't seen kcd update since what steam tells me
App id 379430
build id 5981448
installed content updated dec 18 2020

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by vine:

i don't believe in secret updates behind the screen for a second.. anyway i am certain i haven't seen kcd update since what steam tells me
App id 379430
build id 5981448
installed content updated dec 18 2020

Where do you find that information?

[vine]

Originally posted by MacSuibhne:

Originally posted by vine:

i don't believe in secret updates behind the screen for a second.. anyway i am certain i haven't seen kcd update since what steam tells me
App id 379430
build id 5981448
installed content updated dec 18 2020

Where do you find that information?

properties of KCD from library - right click.. updates..

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by vine:

Originally posted by MacSuibhne:

Where do you find that information?

properties of KCD from library - right click.. updates..

Thanks, @vine.

My update is the same except for the date of installed content--(about three weeks later than yours/

[Oberst]

If you're fast-riding your horse, you can accidentally kill NPC's if you bump into them. I found that out the hard way when guards started chasing me through Rattay.

[vine]

Originally posted by Oberst:

If you're fast-riding your horse, you can accidentally kill NPC's if you bump into them. I found that out the hard way when guards started chasing me through Rattay.

oh yea :D i used to have low rep with rattay guards for exactly that reason :D not killing anyone but just hitting them, when they complain, you hurt them already :D

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by vine:

oh yea :D i used to have low rep with rattay guards for exactly that reason :D not killing anyone but just hitting them, when they complain, you hurt them already :D

It's unfortunate... personally, I understand and accept that if you ride down an NPC they are gonna get hurt and complain. It stands to reason. I ride down bandits and Cumans deliberately.

That said, I can't count the number of times I have halted my horse a little off to the side of a walking guard or pedestrian and then they bump into me (into my horse). At which point they roundly curse me and question my horsemanship.

Yesterday I was riding (at a walk) through Rattay and two peds converged on me. I stopped immediately but I had no where to turn. I just had to let it happen.

It's not a game-breaking issue or even very significant but it does undermine the whole notion of reputation a bit.

[wjpower2003]

Originally posted by vine:

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

I recently noticed that KCD has updated a couple of times when I start it up but I don't see any change logs on Steam. That said, I use SteamPlay for Linux so maybe it's related to that.

It might be that Warhorse have been releasing crafty secret updates to keep the game interesting and fresh - nothing fresher than never-before-seen random NPC murders.

i don't believe in secret updates behind the screen for a second.. anyway i am certain i haven't seen kcd update since what steam tells me
App id 379430
build id 5981448
installed content updated dec 18 2020

It's strange, I've recently started to notice NPCs on roads that I've never seen them before and NPCs behaving differently.

[Lieste]

Originally posted by MacSuibhne:

That said, I can't count the number of times I have halted my horse a little off to the side of a walking guard or pedestrian and then they bump into me (into my horse). At which point they roundly curse me and question my horsemanship.

Yesterday I was riding (at a walk) through Rattay and two peds converged on me. I stopped immediately but I had no where to turn. I just had to let it happen.

It's not a game-breaking issue or even very significant but it does undermine the whole notion of reputation a bit.

Hey! I'm walking here. I'm walking here... Get outta here...

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by Lieste:

Hey! I'm walking here. I'm walking here... Get outta here...

xD

[MF]

Originally posted by vine:

maybe? i had a strange experience too recently. hc playthrough, one morning going through rattay up on the right wall and at the first pub some random bandit somehow got in? appeared? and managed to kill tavern master and the maid.. there's nobody serving anything now.. we can sit across table with Capon, sigh in our dry throats..

i wonder what other people have seen in their games. and for both yours, Zing, and my game i am wondering if/when the NPCs will respawn. Karolina has role in Capon's dlc, if you haven't done it yet.. you may have to wait.. dunno

I can top that story for weirdness. I watched nearly all the guys from BoB die in fights, only to respawn later. In fact the damn captain seemed ok, but then evidently ran off and bled to death. A few weeks later I saw him running down the road near the giant windmill. I followed him and he was running to his horse. This was some freaky sh*t. He eventually rode back to the camp, and there everyone was. Including the young guy I'd killed myself. W.T.F.

And they all just stare at you with those dead eyes...............

[MF]

Originally posted by Lieste:

Originally posted by MacSuibhne:

That said, I can't count the number of times I have halted my horse a little off to the side of a walking guard or pedestrian and then they bump into me (into my horse). At which point they roundly curse me and question my horsemanship.

Yesterday I was riding (at a walk) through Rattay and two peds converged on me. I stopped immediately but I had no where to turn. I just had to let it happen.

It's not a game-breaking issue or even very significant but it does undermine the whole notion of reputation a bit.

Hey! I'm walking here. I'm walking here... Get outta here...

I gave a beggar out on the road a pair of shoes. He thanked me profusely, then cursed me out when he walked into my horse. I felt like putting an arrow between his eyes, seriously.

[MacSuibhne]

Originally posted by MF:

I can top that story for weirdness. I watched nearly all the guys from BoB die in fights, only to respawn later.

I have a somewhat similar experience... strange but not really a problem. After the fight with Zoul where we lost Kuno, Stone and one of the Bearmans, Henry said a little prayer for their souls and went on about his business.

But after about a week I came through Kuno's camp (it's on the way to a safer shorter route to Sassau) and lo and behold there they were standing in the road.

Trouble is they were all merged together like some unholy trinity. They don't talk, they don't move and are in the same place every time I come through. It's creepy in a way. Spirits, I guess.

I tried a number of things to knock them apart hoping to perhaps take advantage of that respawn thing and reconstitute "that old gang of mine."

Only thing that worked was attacking them, then suddenly they break apart and the whole gang attacks me.

Since then I just let them be. Maybe they have some ghostly attachment to the camp and their comrades... and each other.

It pleases me to think that, anyway.