fenisnad said:
Hate to necro, but came across this while having the same question. Turned Truesight cheat on, no mountain bandit camp anywhere.
Geezus, how did you even find this thread... anyway... using the truesight cheat doesn't reveal bandit camps, it's pretty much the only thing it doesn't reveal.
Finding the camps isn't really that difficult either. The person that gave you that quest is without a doubt the owner of a town. Look up what town he owns, and the bandit camp will be near that town.
Also, the locations of these camps tend to make a lot of sense. What I mean by that is that Forest Bandit camps tend to be located inside forests... so what you should do is ride through all the areas with trees near that town. Likewise if you are trying to find a sea raider camp... you should be riding along the coast to find it... since you know... they are 'sea' raiders. Mountain Bandit camps are found up in mountains, but they are actually pretty annoying to try to find since the only time you will be given that quest is in Rhodok Territory, and it's full of mountains.
The really hard ones to find are steppe bandit camps, dessert bandit camps, and tundra bandit camps, since those can literally be anywhere near the town... though... from my experience... dessert bandit camps tend to be in very open areas of dessert far away from any cities or villages. Same with tundra bandits... though usually I have a lot of luck finding them in the forests just like forest bandits.
As far as steppe bandits go, I'm not really sure, I always avoid being near khergits since battling them takes soooooooooooooooooo long since they are all mounted and are always running away from my nord army. Though the same basic principle applies to all bandit camps, the bandits will always circle around their camp, and if you get lucky, maybe you will catch one of them with their travelling message saying "Patrolling around camp" (or something like that) and that gives a you a good indication where you are close or not.
If you are dead set on using cheats for this mission, then just teleport to areas near the town and ride around a little and see if you find anything, if not just rinse and repeat. (Also teleport is ctrl + click, but you probably already know that you dirty little cheater
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