Why Fast Travel?

[Kabob]

Knowing I needed to use the mount to level the associated skill while also needing to put skill points into the scouting perk - I just rode everywhere. Horsemanship became the first 20. Now without any 'benefit' beyond roleplay/etc. I began to use it occasionally.

I have 'discovered' the random encounters which don't seem to occur in any other way and find them both immersive or entertaining. I like to discover things for myself so every game doesn't become some checklist I can zip through to get to the next game.

Thought I'd share this game mechanic with anyone like myself.

[HunZolka]

You should still get those random encounters while travelling around, just easy to miss the occasional beggar or shady seller when you are in a hurry, Pay a bit more attantion at crossroads, they are more common there.

It is also quite random. I recall in my first playthrough I constantly ran into the 'body on the road' events where you get accused of being the killer, while I haven't seen it once during my latest run.

[Dregora]

You get those events regularely too.

[armageddon]

I rode around more than fast travel to avoid bandit ambushes because I end up killing them and destroying my pacifist run.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by armageddon:

I rode around more than fast travel to avoid bandit ambushes because I end up killing them and destroying my pacifist run.

You can just.. ride away? It's essentially the same thing you'd do if you encounter them manually.

[armageddon]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by armageddon:

I rode around more than fast travel to avoid bandit ambushes because I end up killing them and destroying my pacifist run.

You can just.. ride away? It's essentially the same thing you'd do if you encounter them manually.

Not all the time. Sometimes you are fast traveling you can't escape an encounter and you're thrown off your horse and bandits come after you. Running just gets you tackled or they catch up.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by armageddon:

Originally posted by Dregora:

You can just.. ride away? It's essentially the same thing you'd do if you encounter them manually.

Not all the time. Sometimes you are fast traveling you can't escape an encounter and you're thrown off your horse and bandits come after you. Running just gets you tackled or they catch up.

Couldn't you get back on your horse? I haven't encountered this myself though so if that's true then that sucks

[armageddon]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by armageddon:

Not all the time. Sometimes you are fast traveling you can't escape an encounter and you're thrown off your horse and bandits come after you. Running just gets you tackled or they catch up.

Couldn't you get back on your horse? I haven't encountered this myself though so if that's true then that sucks

First time playing I was dismounted off a patch of hot embers they put on the road that my horse stepped on through fast travel and was forced to fight. I haven't encountered the hot coal patch trap again but it was interesting. They sometimes put a cart on the road that stops your horse during fast travel too.

[Rufert]

Fast travel is fine unless you're doing a low rep/prick run.

Then you'll get an unavoidable "ENEMY ON THE ROAD" encounter that's just a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Wayfarer that'll walk up to you go "AH!" and run for his life.

This happens every time you pass one of those.

It'll also have guards take offense if you fast travel through towns at night without a torch out. It rarely makes itself known, but there are scenarios where I've had a guard chase me down just as I came out of fast travel having followed me from a town I passed through.

I'm pretty sure fast travelling calculates every thing on the road as if you are actually riding it in the game world. If you say get the carcass encounter, run backwards instead of engaging with it, and start fast travel again, Henor will walk right back into the same carcass/event.

[HaleTheFreeVoice]

Originally posted by Kabob:

Knowing I needed to use the mount to level the associated skill while also needing to put skill points into the scouting perk - I just rode everywhere. Horsemanship became the first 20. Now without any 'benefit' beyond roleplay/etc. I began to use it occasionally.

I have 'discovered' the random encounters which don't seem to occur in any other way and find them both immersive or entertaining. I like to discover things for myself so every game doesn't become some checklist I can zip through to get to the next game.

Thought I'd share this game mechanic with anyone like myself.

so don't fast travel lol

[Vegan Friendly Rolling Papers]

Play on Hardcore difficulty with no Fast Travel and no map indicators then?

I think its the first and only game ive ever played that doesnt show the player location on the map. You have to navigate every single path in the game manually using the shrines and other reference points and crossroads, accidents etc.

If you get lost in a forest or turned around when travelling it can be a serious problem and its a humbling experience. Its not for the feint of heart tho I find it very realistic and refreshing to get lost in a video game others may absolutely hate that lol.

[I am a girl btw]

Originally posted by Heresy:

Play on Hardcore difficulty with no Fast Travel and no map indicators then?

I think its the first and only game ive ever played that doesnt show the player location on the map. You have to navigate every single path in the game manually using the shrines and other reference points and crossroads, accidents etc.

If you get lost in a forest or turned around when travelling it can be a serious problem and its a humbling experience. Its not for the feint of heart tho I find it very realistic and refreshing to get lost in a video game others may absolutely hate that lol.

This. I'd suggest to everyone to play hardcore on the first playthrough. Humbling is the right word here. I was struggling for hours in the womans lot DLC to find the bandages in a pitch dark night. That was terrible but most of the time coordinating through the wild using your brain and finding things without quest markers is very very rewarding. Probably only entertaining for the more mature audience, zoomers love their quest markers and dumbed down gameplay.