There are so many bugs that in each play session in each day i play i create a giant list of things i notice and send it off to the team, i know they are hard at work to fix everything and eventually build on the base game adding more features which i respect. However, i can forgive most of the games bugs and visual downfalls but it’s the unresponsive NPC AI that is killing my experience the most. Often times if you shoot people with arrows they won’t even recognize you’re attacking them and you don’t even have to hide from guards, they’ll stand there and wait for you to kill them . No one seems to recognize any dead bodies around them or that you’re killing people even if you’re right in front of them. When someone flees combat they are dead silent and don’t make any pleas for help or begging you to spare them, people who are tied up don’t ask you for help as you clear a bandit camp. When a guard asks to search you for stolen goods you can drop all of them on the floor in front of them and they won’t “find” anything stolen on you. Many NPCs have dialogue that doesn’t fit the current event or place they are in. You can shoot someone with an arrow while they sleep and they will slowly wake up and tell you to leave as if you didn’t just shoot them. Someone could be running away from you and you can shoot them in the back, if it doesn’t kill them they will just stop running and turn around to look at you cross their arms and do nothing until you finish them off, never saying anything. NPCs will just walk right in to you when you’re locked in a dialogue scene and then berate you like you hit them. You can pull your weapon out almost anywhere and guards and people alike will tell you to put it away or you’ll be in trouble and you could keep your weapon out forever and they will never actually do anything. A guard will still try to peacefully “arrest” you even after he just witnessed you slaying someone right in front of him.
Honestly i love this game and i want to see it flourish, i just think the NPC intractability and AI needs work. That’s really the only thing keeping me from playing more. I’ve played over 60 hours and that’s just my opinion. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this, They are sure to patch in some smarter faster AI soon.