Bugged Quest: The Stolen Heirloom

[Buddhasu]

Ran by the building in Skerninge where the guy yells "thief!" and tells me to run after some bandits. After chasing them down, and killing + looting their bodies ( key item was not present ), I went back to speak with the owner, who asked me to retrieve the heirloom from a bandit in blue. So I went back to battlegrounds, but all of their bodies had disappeared. I also went back to the farm afterwards, but he keeps asking if I found it yet.

[Paleale]

The Blue bandit is in a different location. I think North East. On a hill by a tree. I was also confused by this quest.

[Buddhasu]

Nevermind, I spoke too soon.

Seems like the guy in question was further east, on his own, on the other side of the map. I guess he broke off and ran a different direction during the initial chase?

[Buddhasu]

Thanks Paleale. Yeah I wasn't sure what was going on lol.

[sunsetclick]

I thought the design for this quest was a little confusing. It would make a lot more sense for the heirloom to be on one of the bandits you chase / get amubhsed by in the forest.

[Buddhasu]

Agreed.

[TectonicWafer]

I got this bug as well. It was rather confusing, but not cripplingly so.

[Bladeheart]

I do not mean to hijack this thread, but it does specifically concern this quest and, may well be a bug.

When I approached the 'ambush location' I saw the bandits and realised it was an ambush. However, when I tried to move around the bandits and take them by surprise I was unable to attack them (despite the red edged sword cursor). The only way I could enter combat was to literally shoulder them aside to walk into the middle of the ambush site!
May I suggest 'Devs' this needs to be addressed.

Cheers. :)

[Rakesh]

I'm confused, were you able to kill that group?

I tried to ambush them, but the game does not let me do it and as soon as the combat starts, the enemy goes first and their archers incapacitate at least one and injure a few of my hird!

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Rakesh:

I'm confused, were you able to kill that group?

I tried to ambush them, but the game does not let me do it and as soon as the combat starts, the enemy goes first and their archers incapacitate at least one and injure a few of my hird!

Attack them from behind you will be in contatc with their archer and you will wipe them in no time.

[Jonas]

Originally posted by Bladeheart:

When I approached the 'ambush location' I saw the bandits and realised it was an ambush. However, when I tried to move around the bandits and take them by surprise I was unable to attack them (despite the red edged sword cursor). The only way I could enter combat was to literally shoulder them aside to walk into the middle of the ambush site!
May I suggest 'Devs' this needs to be addressed.

Thank you for your suggestion. We've increased the radius of the encounter trigger for the next update.

As for the quest not making sense, it's... I admit you have to be particularly attentive to work this out, but the guy who shouts for you to catch the thieves initially is actually not the farmer you find beaten up inside later. That's the bandit leader pretending to be a farmer.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Jonas:

Originally posted by Bladeheart:

That's the bandit leader pretending to be a farmer.

Lol ^^
In this game the NPCs are lying, exaggerating and using you all the time in this game.

[Rakesh]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Originally posted by Rakesh:

I'm confused, were you able to kill that group?

I tried to ambush them, but the game does not let me do it and as soon as the combat starts, the enemy goes first and their archers incapacitate at least one and injure a few of my hird!

Attack them from behind you will be in contatc with their archer and you will wipe them in no time.

I see, I think I had tried that during the beta with the same result.
I'll try again.

[SpritzTheYapper]

I can't even leave the Cabin because it is stuck on a damn load screen >.<

[Buddhasu]

Originally posted by Jonas:

Originally posted by Bladeheart:

When I approached the 'ambush location' I saw the bandits and realised it was an ambush. However, when I tried to move around the bandits and take them by surprise I was unable to attack them (despite the red edged sword cursor). The only way I could enter combat was to literally shoulder them aside to walk into the middle of the ambush site!
May I suggest 'Devs' this needs to be addressed.

Thank you for your suggestion. We've increased the radius of the encounter trigger for the next update.

As for the quest not making sense, it's... I admit you have to be particularly attentive to work this out, but the guy who shouts for you to catch the thieves initially is actually not the farmer you find beaten up inside later. That's the bandit leader pretending to be a farmer.

I get the idea, but I think the execution needs a little adjustment. When you approach them and the guy yells at you to chase after them, your whole focus is on the bandits that run away. If he ran off afterwards, most likely he's off sceen and the player doesn't even notice. The player doesn't know that he is the bandit, only a quest giver asking for help, so they ignore him and focus on the objective.

Then after killing the bandits ( and speaking with the owners ) you really don't have any direction or clue that someone outside of that group ran off with it ( aside from a blue bandit reference - hence the confusion ). Though in all honesty I might have missed something when the owners mentioned about me "finishing the job". Which I thought was referencing the guys who ran away.

Personally I would just add a note on one of the bodies ( from the bandit leader ) telling them to meet up at their usual X location after any robbery, and skip the extra step speaking with the owners until you have the item in question. Or even better just have the item on one of the bandits you chase. In the end It's a simple kill and fetch quest, I wouldn't try to over complicate things.

[Rakesh]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Attack them from behind you will be in contatc with their archer and you will wipe them in no time.

I tried again yesterday and was able to beat them.
I lost my main character and Ketiil on the first turn to dead-eye archers, but was able to take out the group through some smart maneuvering and some dumb decisions on the part of the AI.