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So I was hanging out in the forest and the game spawned 2 bandits and a dead body. I had to run away but I believe that I encountered random event. Did you experience some too?
I saw it too. I assume it isn’t random though, looked pretty staged to me.
I almost saw them spawning just when I turned my camera. It was in the forest where that clapping sound is by the river stream…
Same place for me. 
ummm…all random encounters in every game is staged.
i got that one as well. there’s another one if you take the road through the silver mine, a bandit waylays and attempts to murder you.
My point is that its always right there, thus not random. Though I suppose that prompts the debate what counts as ‘random’.
It’s not random as much as it’s randomly placed. You’re in an area infested with bandits and brigands, so they dropped parties here and there to keep you on your toes. I’ve run into 5 small groups in the forest.
That’s not a random, it is a scripted part of a quest, following directions from A-B.
You can stumble on it without the quest active, but it is a reliable location for that encounter.
Fair enough, I have not played long enough to figure it out myself yet. But I know that devs were wanting some kind of random events so I assumed that there would be some in this beta…
Anyways, I dont want to see my topic becoming pointless, so what kind of “random” events (situations) would you like to see while you travel across long fields and forests in the game? It does not have to always include combat. Maybe some hard moral decisions or just witnessing some interesting medieval situation etc.?
Im hoping for some deep woods encounters with a shaman type character, eccentric old man that sends you on a quest to make a rare tincture or other alchemical concoction.
Or he can babble inanely to himself.