Amusement for Nobles issues

[Nikanoru]

So... I have no idea what I'm doing wrong here... I'm in the Hunting Grounds and I scoured the entire map. I didn't wait between the lodge and the grounds and I have checked every inch of this map. There are no caves. There is no secondary map. And there are a handful of dire beasts, but I've killed everything possible to kill including the three goblins that run away from the wyvern and nothing gives me a quest item to loot. The three quest mobs simply are not here...

To say nothing of the wizard for Guiding Beacon simply vanishing and being knowhere to be found...

To say nothing about I think I somehow failed to loot the Mudleaf which simply keeps an unfinished Swamp Boutique in my quest log... Which, I think also keeps me from completing Ancient Formula.

I love this game and I'm devouring it, but did nobody playtest this game?

[xkuripuri]

That's odd. Did you run into a dire bear thing being fought by the two sisters? There should also have been a hydra that gave (a) head. There was a wyvern being attacked by the Hunters as well, but they killed it on my playthrough.

[Nikanoru]

No. There was no hydra that dropped a head. There was no encounter with a dire bear and two sisters.

[Nikanoru]

I systematically scoured the entire map. I didn't zigzag around.

[xkuripuri]

Hmm, that's unusual, it sounds like to me that the quest simply didn't activate. Do you have a prior save? I was able to do the quest without any problem, but with the nature of bugs, there's no telling what could've happened.

Could you try to explain what you did prior to entering the Hunting Ground?

[Nikanoru]

I didn't do anything. I went to the Hunting Lodge. I talked to the quest NPC. I found a chest, picked the lock, looted it. I went to the hunting grounds. Went East initially, accepted a drink from the lazy hunters. They left. Then I proceeded to scour the rest of the map. Did accepting a drink make the quest mobs disappear somehow?

[Nikanoru]

Then afterwards I was thinking it had a hidden tally of the mobs I killed and somehow the ones I had killed (since the way I read the quest text I thought I was looking for 3 dire beasts, and I killed plenty of dire beasts) had included the three special mobs mentioned. I went back to the lodge and called the competition over. At which time the quest NPC told me nobody found any of the three special mobs and I used a chaotic dialogue option to declare myself winner regardless.

The three quest mobs still just weren't there.

[easterngames]

you stole the prize loot and broke the quest

[Nikanoru]

Wrong chest. The game gave me several thousand pieces of gold and 12 pearls as a reward. This chest just gave me a potion and a couple hundred gold. It wasn't the chest the NPC spoke of.

[Nikanoru]

And even then... if there is an option to steal out of the prize chest... the mobs should still be there. The game should adjust for that possibility if the prize chest is even lootable.

[xkuripuri]

If I had to hazard a guess, by taking the time to drink with the Pitax nobles, you may have picked a branch of the quest where just none of the monsters were found. After all, that option is called (I think), "[Abandon the hunt and have a drink]" and it mentions a lot of time passes.

Perhaps by drinking with them first, and not finding any of the other groups or monsters, that the monsters weren't there, and thus no one was able to kill any.

[Nikanoru]

Heh, then I misinterpreted that option greatly. I saved immediately before picking it and it was not apparent how much time had passed so I thought I could just carry on with the hunt. Wasn't aware it had simply just warped the universe around me. Good times...

[xkuripuri]

Originally posted by Nikanoru:

Heh, then I misinterpreted that option greatly. I saved immediately before picking it and it was not apparent how much time had passed so I thought I could just carry on with the hunt. Wasn't aware it had simply just warped the universe around me. Good times...

I'm just guessing, as I found them last after already finding the other two groups, and killing the hydra.

[Nikanoru]

Well, this is definitely a game I plan to replay in the future... I'll find out on my next playthrough. Still kind of frustrating. This game is amazing, but there are some threads that just... simply unravel or go nowhere.

[xkuripuri]

Originally posted by Nikanoru:

Well, this is definitely a game I plan to replay in the future... I'll find out on my next playthrough. Still kind of frustrating. This game is amazing, but there are some threads that just... simply unravel or go nowhere.

I mean, I think the only purpose of that quest is to see what happens after the hunt is over... the hunt itself is basically just an optional thing with a decent reward.
You know, and sweet XP.

[Nikanoru]

Yeah, that's what I was hoping for. The exp from killing the big, giant special bads.

Wow... Ancient Curse part 2 just triggered 22 days before it said it was supposed to, but none of my followers capable of taking care of it were available for 2 weeks. Just decimated my kingdom stats. Come ON! Who PLAYTESTED THIS GAME?!?!