Unable to capture thralls

[Hurgaflurg]

Hello, i'm fairly new to this game and have never captured a thrall before.

Today I decided to give it a try and failed miserably.

It is my understanding that the grey bar above the thralls head is the one that should be depleted with a truncheon in order to render him unconscious and then capture him.

This bar always depletes way slower than the life bar and i always end up just killing them when trying to capture them.

Can anyone offer me some insight on what I might be doing wrong? Thank you.

[Firstborn-_-Unicorn]

Just a few questions. Are you playing SP or MP? Whats the "Damage to enemies" setting set at? If you have it way up, then you will do more damage then stun.

[Hurgaflurg]

Playing Single Player, i started the game without changing any settings at Normal difficulty.

Could that be the reason and can i check/change these settings in game or do i need to restart?

It takes me 20+ hits to kill an enemy with the truncheon.

[Firstborn-_-Unicorn]

Originally posted by Hurgaflurg:

Playing Single Player, i started the game without changing any settings at Normal difficulty.

Could that be the reason and can i check/change these settings in game or do i need to restart?

It takes me 20+ hits to kill an enemy with the truncheon.

Hmm, that is odd. You can change the settings in game. Just hit ESC and then goto server settings, click "Make Me Admin" and then change the settings. I was taking on thralls from town above the oasis with fiber level stuff, and moved up to highest quality now without issues. Also on SP. My damage to enemies is 1.5x

[Hurgaflurg]

Should the level of truncheon make any difference in regards to the enemy level?

I am currently using the wooden truncheon against level 2-3 enemies.

Also, how many hits does it normally take to render a thrall unconscious?

[Firstborn-_-Unicorn]

Not a lot. Ive taken on a named task master with the wooden one. It took a while to knock out, but the capture meter still went down faster then the hp bar. a normal lvl 2-3 thrall above oasis by werewolfs, I can knock out in less then a minute with 1st tier truncheon....

[Firstborn-_-Unicorn]

Was hoping by now someone else would have jumped into the conversation with a "Hey that happened to me, what you do is....." Cause at this point, im stumped. Was hoping you had cranked the damage to enemies up and that would solve it. Sorry m8 :(

[Fremduk]

Its weard one , my truncheon ( basic one ) works fine in SP unfortunately lost number of potential thrall because they literally sunken in to ground when they fainted ... Happened especially often with smelter thrall in Noob River

With truncheon you using ?

[Zouza]

Fremduk, if u lost unconcious thrall all u have to do is force server to reload this region. Go away for 100-200 meters and go back. Your thrall should be now visible. Just check what distance is enough... Always working well.

[Firstborn-_-Unicorn]

Originally posted by Fremduk:

Its weard one , my truncheon ( basic one ) works fine in SP unfortunately lost number of potential thrall because they literally sunken in to ground when they fainted ... Happened especially often with smelter thrall in Noob River

With truncheon you using ?

Yeah I have this issue on SP - just runaway and then back, they will reappear

[pjmuk]

There's a large degree of randomness as well. I've accidentelly killed an npc with the first blow from a basic trencheon, then the next time it was impossible to even affect that grey bar. If you need to hit it too many times it'll probably die. If the npc's health bar drops faster than it's capture bar, it might be worth backing off and trying again later :p

[RazzaQ]

Oh my, so this is why i cant get any thrall unconscious ( i even forced an NPC with lots of HP to spawn) even when bashing their skull 50 times with a knockback melee weapon.

[Hurgaflurg]

I've been using the basic truncheon.

It seems like it's completely impossible for me to capture thralls. When their hp bar is at 10% the grey bar is at 80%+.

[Dhaark Phyre]

Set your NPC Damage Multiplier to around 1.5 and you should have no problem capturing thralls.

[Dhaark Phyre]

I set my Player Damage Muliplier to 4. Since I did that, I have had no further problems capturing thralls.