I am on Xbox One and have had no problem with random encounters…I literally passed up on an attack last night. I will say I spend a lot of time right now just hunting and staying close to Talmberg just sanboxing it up but still…fought a mercenary not too long ago, avoided an attack last night. Have not seen this problem personally.
As for master strikes I’m not sure, have not fought anyone since Pribyslavitz right before I started my Huntsman questline…but I’ll try it out tonight.
What I was saying is, and this conversation points it out nicely, that bugs differ largely from platform to platform and from hardware of said platforms to harder/user to user…you say you have no random encounters, but I do…people say PS4 lock picking was/is bugged…my buddy plays on PS4 and said it was tough at first, but with practice like every said to those who complained about a “bug”, he got it down…
There are definitely bugs. But there are definitely not as many bugs as this forum would make someone believe.
The most time I even lost was probably a couple of hours or however long it took me to do Robber Barron a few times, finally finish it and get dialogue with Bernard and then my saves would not load from then on out…all I had to do was load a save from an hour or two ago and not do those quests…didn’t really ruin anything.
Again, there are bugs, but if you’re a die hard fan of a realistic, hard, medieval game than you’ll be able to get over them…especially considering how steady WH is working on them; we get like a patch every week and a half that not only fixes bugs but introduces new features too.