Bird in the Cage Quest

[Emperor Pupienus]

Is it common for the traps to disappear upon dropping?

[Echolecter]

Check horse inventory, they might be in there. Could be bugged but I never had issues with dropping them. Don't press the button for to long, then they're moved to the horse.

[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by Echolecter:

Check horse inventory, they might be in there. Could be bugged but I never had issues with dropping them. Don't press the button for to long, then they're moved to the horse.

I thought holding the button drops them and pressing puts them into the horse inventory? I can't remember now.

[SympliKrazi]

did this quest in normal and in hardcore difficulty. worked fine each time.
Though as a newb, i couldnt see the cage and what it was supposed to look like when on the ground. it's not very big, maybe the size of a basket ball.

Agree with both earlier replies. the same button that allows dropping items from the inventory is also used to transfer items to the horse's saddlebags.

a tap makes the transfer to the horse
a push and hold drops the item.

[danilo.schoeneberg]

There are two ways in which a cage can 'disappear'. At least on the PC you have to press and hold X to drop an item. If you only press X, you actually transfer it to your horse. I once bambozzled the hell out of myself doing that.

The second is a very rare bug in the cryengine, so not the game itself. The cage falls down and 'sinks' below the surface of the 3D world. In that case you're buggered and can only hope to have a recent save. But that is extremely rare. In 4.200 hours of playing time that happened to me once.

[Old Surehand]

Yes, it can fall under the world. There are still many issues and bugs which have not been fixed to this day. Save before dropping a cage. Reload until it's okay.

[danilo.schoeneberg]

Originally posted by Old Surehand:

Yes, it can fall under the world. There are still many issues and bugs which have not been fixed to this day. Save before dropping a cage. Reload until it's okay.

Thise are bugs in the externally made game engine though, so there is only so much Warhorse can do about that.

[SympliKrazi]

Originally posted by danilo.schoeneberg:

There are two ways in which a cage can 'disappear'. At least on the PC you have to press and hold X to drop an item. If you only press X, you actually transfer it to your horse. I once bambozzled the hell out of myself doing that.

The second is a very rare bug in the cryengine, so not the game itself. The cage falls down and 'sinks' below the surface of the 3D world. In that case you're buggered and can only hope to have a recent save. But that is extremely rare. In 4.200 hours of playing time that happened to me once.

Perhaps this is what happened to me when i couldnt see the cage that i dropped at first?
But i can say for certain that, once the bird was caught, I found the box quite easily and had no trouble picking it up.