Fighting Ulrich: No one reacts

Gameplay
#1

Fighting Ulrich the knight was a really bad experience for me:

Met Ulrich in the evening.
He says: You going to die now.
Ooook, so I fight him, and while I fight I retreat backwards towards town.

2 Guards walk past us: ZERO reaction. Civilians walk past us (they even collide with us, no flee reaction at all). And all they say: “Hu? Whats there?”

This was already a total dealbreaker for me in a game like this.

Then I fled, called my horse, and rode away. After reaching the forest, I unmounted, drank some potions and went back.
There he was, Ulrich, moving along the roadside. I approached him, and he didnt even react. So I started attacking him, and I got the game notification that told me, that people will notice if I do crimes like that. Hu?

Ulrich was already nearly dead from the first fight. But now he ran like a bunny, full speed and I had to tackle him a dozen times some kilometer long before, as after each tackle my sword arm was so slow, I often diden even hit him before he went back up and ran again. The serious inuries didnt even seem to bother him.
Finally I made it, and killed him.

Overall, so far, the worst moment for me in the game. Don’t know if any bugs where involved.

#2

Not supposed to fight him to the death. If you talk to him i don’t think its even a speech check. Even still if you do fight him, he surrenders pretty fast if you win a little. I am sure there is a problem with how you fought him or whatever, but i don’t think you can kill him, or maybe you can. I only killed him once in 7 play throughs, but that was part of the overall story, not by the tree.

#3

my first playthrough. he lit me up. and, i had to chain or die. and it just so happened that i chained one hit too many :frowning: he died.

#4

if you are really strong & have a poisoned mace and combat perks you can kill him even on the horse case.
I did and rather unintentionally quick

#5

Yeah he is a knight, pretty tough one too, even though he looks old. I think though the story parts he talks to you about really improve the game, especially if you do a little extra on the mission. He got my respect, and the first time i played, pre 1.3 atrocity, i was able to speech check through his entire mission, which was 100% the best outcome.

#6

It is a speech check. He asks you to come to that place, then reveals he is there to kill you. Speech check failed, and he attacks.

#7

Yeah, i guess if you aren’t good at combat that would be tough. You just have to take him to 1/2 though i think and he will surrender or talk to you. It sucks though its a speech check because after 1.5/1.6 when they nerfed the mot fk out of xp you rarely can get speech above 16 after full game play through and all the side quests. In the first game i could speech check pretty well because xp was easier to get. Donkeys that complained about you getting to good to fast ruin a huge part of the game for people.

#8

On that side: How do you even get speech up? Through what specifially?

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