Nicholas fight - rats won't respond

[GreyWolf]

So I get to the Nicholas fight. I put out his flame for the 3rd time. All bon fires and torches are out. I focus the rats on him and the rats ignore me. I tried like a dozen times. After a bit, he starts his fire. The rats just will not do what I say. I try and restart from checkpoint and I get the same result.

I read allot of people got through it this way - just not me. Guess I must have hit a bug.

Any advice?

[⚔ Kassandra ⚔]

Originally posted by HoraceDude:

So I get to the Nicholas fight. I put out his flame for the 3rd time. All bon fires and torches are out. I focus the rats on him and the rats ignore me. I tried like a dozen times. After a bit, he starts his fire. The rats just will not do what I say. I try and restart from checkpoint and I get the same result.

I read allot of people got through it this way - just not me. Guess I must have hit a bug.

Any advice?

check around maybe fires near him there are also those spears ...i just did if few hours ago and had no issue for me ..just make sure all fires including his swords arent on fire

[GreyWolf]

Originally posted by Kassandra ⚔:

Originally posted by HoraceDude:

So I get to the Nicholas fight. I put out his flame for the 3rd time. All bon fires and torches are out. I focus the rats on him and the rats ignore me. I tried like a dozen times. After a bit, he starts his fire. The rats just will not do what I say. I try and restart from checkpoint and I get the same result.

I read allot of people got through it this way - just not me. Guess I must have hit a bug.

Any advice?

check around maybe fires near him there are also those spears ...i just did if few hours ago and had no issue for me ..just make sure all fires including his swords arent on fire

Yeah, I wandered around the area many times thinking there must be a fire somewhere but I don't see one. Guess I'll try and restart the chapter. I am very disappointed in this battle as it feels very fragile like it is easy to get the game confused and stuck. There should be multiple ways through it.

[GreyWolf]

Second time through the chapter it worked fine.

[VojNov]

There are occasional bugs. Like in Chapter 4 Lucas went into the barn and jumped the fence right into the rats and died. You must have gotten one of them as well.

Restarting the game fixes most of these. Had only one happen in the whole playthrough so it hopefully isn't very common.

[SlipperyPete]

I'm having this same problem. Is there something you have to do to trigger the rats to attack Nicholas?

[Francis Underwood]

For anyone having this problem - just use "Odoris" on Nicholas instead of focusing rats on him.

[Yggdrasil]

Originally posted by Francis Underwood:

For anyone having this problem - just use "Odoris" on Nicholas instead of focusing rats on him.

Thanks very much, Francis :-) This works very well :-)
Like SlipperyPete and HoraceDude, I could not get the Rat weapon to work or get Hugo to direct them either, but with your tip I was able at last to get through the round successfully.
I should just like to add that I tried to use this method from the tower on the right-hand side of the one where the rats are assembled, by extinguishing the fire next to them to lure Nicholas to it to relight it, then extinguishing his fire, then shooting him with Odoris, but my position was too close to him there and he overcame me before the rats had time to overwhelm him. So I tried the same trick, coming round rightwards from the back of the left-hand tower instead, and this provided enough distance from Nicholas for the rats to engulf him before he could reach us.

[dim.bon.uk]

Originally posted by Francis Underwood:

For anyone having this problem - just use "Odoris" on Nicholas instead of focusing rats on him.

Thanks a lot for this tip. I was about to abandon the game after numerous attempts to pass through the 3rd stage of this fight.

[Deveraux]

Legend, the Odoris thing worked

[Zombus]

Originally posted by Francis Underwood:

For anyone having this problem - just use "Odoris" on Nicholas instead of focusing rats on him.

Absolute lifesaver, thank you sir!