I was wondering if anyone knew of any map or list of the various locations where random encounters trigger. There are some encounters I’ve never seen in my 300+ hours of play possibly due to the fact that I tend to always travel a certain way. With a map or a list of locations, I could plan my trips to be “more fun”.
For example, I’ve only ever met one trader and one beggar and no riddlers or gamekeepers. Anyone knows where these tend to occur? And any more fun places to ride through?
They tend to be on main roads only.
Yes, but which ones?
One of my most frequent spawns for hold-ups and attacks occurs between Sasau and Rovna by a crossroads
Same and between Neuhof and Pribyslavitz
Thanks guys for the effort, but Neuhof and Pribyslavitz are pretty much at the opposite sides of the map. I’m more interested in the actual points where the spawns occur. I’m playing in hardcore now, so the detail is a lot more relevant. (I don’t want to have to ride around all day.)
Near Pribyslavitz to south were the road twists like this )
Near Rovna to south behind bridge under the hills, there is house nearby and sparsely forested road, I guess there is also a cross.
Another one is north of Merhojed. Road goes right - left - right - left. At the end of it.
Thanks, that is helpful. However, it looks like these are all attacks. Anyone knows where traders, beggars and gamekeepers occur?
I have 31 hours on the game and haven’t had any random encounters since my 4th hour playing. My friend has like 50 hours and he gets them all the time. It’s probably just a bug or something.
Possibly. Are you playing in normal mode or hardcore mode? Try repeatedly fast-travelling between different locations - still nothing? There should be a hold-up between The Inn in the Glade and Merhojed - I get it approximately 25% of the times. Or I’ve discovered that there is a Riddler (type of wayfarer) between Rattay and Ledetchko. If you get nothing, then it might be worth contacting the official support about it because this issue was supposed to be fixed several updates ago.
Back when I last played the game (sometime around March) there was a ton of random encounters as you traversed the world. After reinstalling the game and starting a new game under the most recent PS4 patch I have seen a dramatic reduction in all random encounters.
What I have seen:
-Bandit attacks. One or two bandits who jump you from the bushes.
-Bandits put a tree in the road to block your horse.
-One or two Cumans attack.
-Cumans put a loot chest in the road, and attack after you’ve searched it.
Note that these are the only encounters I have seen and they all have happened around either of the Millers outside of Rattay. I have traveled to Skallitz, Talmenberg, Uzhitz, Neuhoff and seen no other events.
What I haven’t seen that I used to see a lot of.
-Unsure Knight. This guy usually waits outside of town. He wears a really nice armor set and reluctantly challenges you to a duel. You can either partake or talk him down. He showed up A LOT, and was a nice sparring partner to try out your sword combos on.
-Mercenary, he showed up quite often too, but not as much as the unsure knight. He too, would challenge you to a duel, and if you won, he’d award you a strong piece of armor.
-Shady merchants. These guys could either be friend or foe. Sometimes they’d sell you a treasure map or loaded die. Other times they’d lure you in and then call for their bandit friends to attack you.
-Murdered body in the road. After approaching the body a person would run up to you and accuse you of murdering or looting corpses. What happened next was determined by your speech skill.
-Random battles. Sometimes it was Guards vs Bandits, sometimes it was Guards vs Cumans, and sometimes it was Bandits vs Cumans. These usually happened in forested areas and provided quite a hefty amount of goods for you to collect and sell.
I don’t know if Warhorse’s intention was for these events to be more rare so the lowered their chances of happening, but the world feels extremely empty without seeing them. I’m hoping there’s some in game trigger I haven’t hit yet, or a level threshold I need to be at to make them occur.
Thanks. I get loads of encounters when I go to my tried and tested “hunting” spots. A few places that almost always have a hold-up (random battle - sometimes, there are also traders in the mix):
1/ Between Rattay and Neuhof when travelling along the woods on the left side.
2/ Just outside the Inn in the Glade when travelling towards the Merhojed windmill (that one helps with Merhojed reputation and it’s there only maybe 25% of the time).
3/ When travelling between Talmberg and Pribyslavitz, at the second left turn after the woodcutters’ camp - very high level opponents and the battle is almost always there.
4/ Just after the little bridge half way when travelling north from Sassau and then east towards Rovna.
And beginners’ low-level bandit attacks:
1/ Travel from Peshek along the river to the north-east. They tend to wait for you behind the big rock.
2/ Travel from Peshek along the road to the west and then at the shrine turn south into the woods as if going to see the executioner. There tends to be a few of them there.
3/ Travel from the lower gate at the east side of Rattay along the road that goes east towards the river (where you would turn to get to the first bandit camp in Ruin). Halfway there tend to be some armed village yokels.
