ok so on my 1st play through everything went great with the random encounters. 2nd play through i lost all random encounters all together about a little more then halfway through. after finishing everything on my 2nd character side quests and all, with no random encounters there literally nothing to do anymore on that character its incredibly boring. i cant go travel around looking to find some fun fights . its just nothing’ness with a fully leveled toon with 85 hours into it lol. now heres where it really pisses me off and is even more weird. im now on my 3rd toon i started today.whole intro is done, i just got to the miller did the quest to get the ring for the miller, and i also did a part of the main where i beat hans with the bow and sword during your training session with bernard. thats how far into it i am . now on this new toon i still have ZERO random encounters and i spent 2 hours traveling from town to town discovering as much as i can. … i dont know, this really sucks . this game has been my favorite since i played it i love it. but i cant play it like this. please fix this.
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Random encounters seem to be so rare now, sometimes I get them but it’s too few between travels that I get paranoid that it got disabled by a quest. It’s hard to pinpoint what quests bugs these random encounters.
i use to think it was a quest , but on a brand new toon that did 2 quests ? that just makes it more confusing.
Not sure that any quests bug the encounters. Started a new game afer 1.3. Left the mill, went into Rattay and handed Kuneshes ass to him again, so I had to leave in a hurry. Wandered around a couple days just poaching and playing dice in Ledechko, Sasau, wherever and realized I had not seen a single begger, riddler, ambush… Nothing.
Starting a new playline but I’m not hopeful.
so like me did it start on one play through and carry on to the next?
Hmmm, so are wayfarer encounters like 0.1% chance of appearing now? I got a few of them on 1.3. Ambushes are common for me at certain dangerous travel routes.
May need to install a mod or increase the occurence by config tweaking just to see if it makes a difference.
i havent had a random encounter in about 6 days now man lol.
No , there’s nothing. When 1.3 came out, I deleted my default profile and all saves from 1.2.5 in favour of a fresh start. Now I wonder if that was a bad idea. May try using dark times to liven things up, but Henry is still pretty green for that kind of thrill. 
You need to use the mod/fix as posted by Hornet:
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Great. Missed that, somehow. Thanks much.
While random encounters were interesting to me initially, I eventually found them absurdly and irrationally repetitive.
Some of the encounters that repeat, don’t make sense that they do, and the ones that do make sense to repeat just became more of an annoyance than anything.
The only thing I use random encounters for now is when I am fast traveling to a point but I really wanted to go somewhere else that is between where I am and where I am fast traveling to.
For the love of god, the game is so boring an easy without people to fight.
What the hell are the devs doing?
They need to add a difficulty slider or something. I shouldn’t have to mod the hell out of the game just to make it somewhat challenging. At the moment I run from A to B, yay another quest done. Maybe in 2 hours I will run into someone to actually fight.
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Indeed. Seems the more enemies mod is still working so that’s something, had a few encounters this evening which were something like 5 bandits v 5 Cumans and then I showed up so they all attacked me, great fun! 
Hello Henrys
Just for some people that don’t get random events anymore I thought this might be helpful.
I was searching how to get my random events back and found this.
You can debug random events and increase their appearance.
All you need is restricted console variables unlocker mod ( nexus mods )
Replace whgame.dll in your data folder and type in console or create user.cfg
wh_pl_randomeventsdebug ( 0 default / 1 debug )
wh_pl_randomeventscooldownsenabled ( 1 default (my setting)
wh_pl_randomeventbasechancerunoffset ( 0 default / 1 chance increase )
Seriously these are the things that should be implemented in the game like random events increase/decrease I think debug too.
thx
I hope next patch they fix this and add more dangerous encounters. I’m not going to be upset by this once it releases on ps4, just because the lady who lives in the woods and the man who needs bandages for his feet or getting annoying. So here’s hoping when they do fix this they add more.
Since the 1.3 update on PC, there are no NPC random encounters. I agree that without them it makes the game very boring! Has anybody on this site emailed support about this problem besides me?
Perhaps they lowered its likelihood of occurring. But 12 hours in on a fresh game start since 1.3- and I have yet to see any at all.
They do review our complaints. But not on here!!! You have to email their support team.
So if enough people brought this to Supports attention, maybe they would make a statement regarding what happened. Or perhaps they took random encounters out entirely (which seems unlikely, but it’s possible).
And don’t listen to people telling you to debug your console. It’s not the “be all solution” to this problem. Although it may help-it’s not proven.
Just give support an email. They want you to! The team seems like a good group, and they’ve been very helpful with any issue I’ve had.
Still waiting on a response about this topic from them though. But generally they get back to you with 12 hours it seems.
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id like to point out that it happened to me a few days b4 that patch droped . i new there was going to be a patch so i figured 1.3 would fix it but no it did not . so i dont think the patch it self caused it. its the game it self cause its already happening to my 3rd toon and hes a few quests after u wake up at rattay
I had these only at start of game, maybe even before 1.2.5, later no more, maybe they should only show once, only one i really miss is that Knight which want to duel… and i saw in some video some riddles man…
Im getting only generic Wayfarers.
in my 1st play through it wasn’t bugged, they use to appear over and over again. pretty much every single time i traveled id encounter something rather then nothing every time.
well you can not hurt anything with what I wrote for example