Bandit hideout spawning issue, either immediate respawn, or multiple spawning in same location.

[daishi5]

I cannot tell if the hideouts are spawning multiple or if the hideouts are just immediately respawning, but I suspect the former.

I received a quest to kill a bandit hideout. I killed the hideout, and I received a message that it was complete, but it was not removed from my quest log. My quest log was updated to note that I was thanked for defeating them. I went back to the village and noticed the bandit hideout was still there and also marked. I went back and killed the hideout again. My quest log remained the same but the hideout seemed to be gone.

Importantly, the bandit behavior still acted as if a hideout was there, bandits were attempting to return and patrol around the hideout, in a few hours I spotted another hideout in the same location. I killed the hideout again.

I repeated this process a number of times until finally, the hideout did not spawn. I didn't think to keep track of my attempts, but when I finished, I had 22 relationship with the notable who did not give me the quest. Also, the quest was silently removed from my quest log at some point.

I will attempt to find another instance of this so I can submit a save if needed.

 

[manekemaan]

+1 this is annoying. It makes all your bandit hunting efforts moot.

 

[Antoine42]

Hideouts gets respawned by nearby same type bandit parties in the area. So with the outrageous number of them roaming around, it's nearly impossible to wipe them out competely.

There's always at least one bandit party around that will try to get back to the hideout you just destroyed and thus will respawn it. It's annoying as hell but bandits are probably quite f*ckd right now, there are litteraly hundred of parties roaming the map

 

[daishi5]

It is unclear how they are supposed to spawn, but I was able to recreate the issue that I think I saw. There was a bandit base directly west of Vathea. I saved, cleared the base and then waited a day and a base was there again already full of bandits. I have a save directly before clearing it, and a save after seeing the second base.

Between killing the first base and spotting the second, bandits continued to behave as if a base was present, they both patrolled and returned to the hideout.

 

[Jyharl]

Did you try to take every survivors prisoners instead of letting them go?
I used to spend hours cleaning out bandits (but not taking then prisoners as the hassle wasn't worth it) and they kept coming back. Now I take the prisoners and I have the feeling there are less bandit parties around my villages.

 

[daishi5]

Yes I took everyone prisoner.

 

[noamchomsky]

+1 this is annoying. It makes all your bandit hunting efforts moot.

+1