Ransom and or rescue noble quest

[Dalmakator]

Asked " Lady " , Lords wife for way to gain favour.

Was given " Rescue or Pay Ransom " quest.

Went to city where character objective was located.
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Talked to gaurd outside of prison.

" I want to speak to prisoner " Me
" You need the lords permission " Gaurd

Options

" Bribe "  Works by the way.... 100 currency and he lets u in to speak to prisoner.
"I'll go do that " ..... end of conversation.

If i choose second option , i then goto lords hall.

NO OPTION to speak with lord regarding prisoner.
NO OPTION to pay ransom

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JAil brake.

Speaking to gaurd

" Give me the key for the prisoner "  Me
"Jail brake , alarm etc " Gaud.

Fight ensures ... i kill gaurds.
Enter prison.
Tell prisoner to follow me.

Exit prison into city proper

Screen loads some error scripting ( sorry havent taken screen shot and just finished work running night club security team in Albany , Western Australia ... and slightly too pissed to be bothered yet )

Prisoner DOES NOT ALLY WITH ME
Gaurds DO NOT ALLY WITH SHOP KEEPERS
Gaurds DO NOT ALLY WITH PEASANTS

Prisoner ATTACKS me ( Game Bug )
Prisoner ATTACKS gaurds ( Correct )
Gaurds ATTACKS peasants ( Game Bug )
Gaurds ATTACKS shopkeepers ( Game Bug )
Gaurds ATTACKS me ( Correct )

so in short

NO OPTION TO PAY RANSOM
PRISONER ATTACKS PLAYER
GAURDS ATTACK PEASANTS AND SHOPKEEPERS

Sorry about length of post. Tired , hung over .....
Game version : WARBAND 1.110

 

[Temuçin]

I was at similar situation with my one of my old saves. My companions were prisoned in a Swadian castle and when I try to rescue them they were all attacking me. However, with new patches I succesfully finished prison break. (Not sure if 1.110 or 1.111 patch fixed this )

 

[Zhaker]

I'd like to know how we're supposed to kill guards with a pole and a throwing knife, I cant deliver enough damage with the pole arm, and my Power Strike is 5, do I need 10?!?!?!

Also with 6 of them nipping on your ass its kinda tricky to win this.

I been lucky in 2 maps so far because there is enough room to fight and split the troops up, but currently at Reyvadin and struggling to rescue them, I can barely beat the 6 footman when I tried to enter in disguise, but when it comes to the actual rescue, I get overwhelmed, the bardiche range also reaches me despite that another AI is blocking the striking path.

Are there ways to smuggle in like an axe where I might stand a chance?

 

[morphwan]

hmm I'm on 1.111 or whatever and trying to do prisoner break but everytime i say give me the keys and the fight starts, the guards attack random people, ie guild master arms merchant, horse merchant etc, and then when I get in and get the prisoner to follow me, when I come out they go for me!

 

[baamonster]

I'd like to know how we're supposed to kill guards with a pole and a throwing knife, I cant deliver enough damage with the pole arm, and my Power Strike is 5, do I need 10?!?!?!

Also with 6 of them nipping on your ass its kinda tricky to win this.

I been lucky in 2 maps so far because there is enough room to fight and split the troops up, but currently at Reyvadin and struggling to rescue them, I can barely beat the 6 footman when I tried to enter in disguise, but when it comes to the actual rescue, I get overwhelmed, the bardiche range also reaches me despite that another AI is blocking the striking path.

Are there ways to smuggle in like an axe where I might stand a chance?

well if you kill the first guy take the guys shield and sword. that should make killing them easier.

 

[Zhaker]

baamonster: Again the problem is that I do about 10-20 damage on the guy, and in 3 hits, I'd be swarmed by all sorts of bad guys.

However, seems that the light fire trick on Farms is working. So I was able to do this dealing with just the guard, so it was quite simple.

And also when I was trying to break out with the prisoner only one guard stood in my way, made it alot simpler . Still wouldnt have a clue of how to take on 6 with the staff.

I wish they let you smuggle in other weapons too.

 

[HunterAlpha1]

you can use the throwing knives to lower the odds before you take the keys. simply go up to the guards and kill them and they won't fight back.  or once you've taken the keys from the prison guard, simply enter the prison, you don't need to kill all the guards to go in and release the prisoner.

 

[hruza]

You need to kill prison guard only to get key, you can then enter prison, no need to fight rest of the enemy troops, if you can avoid them. You have to fight all of them again once you emerge out of prison regardless if you killed them all or not before.

If you can persuade one of the towns villages to start fire on outskirts, there will be just prison guard and once you out of prison only one enemy at the gate. Makes this much easier. You probably need some positive relation with village (not sure about it).

In one of the previous patches I had my prisoner attack me once out of prison making quest impossible to finish but with latest patch I did rescue one lord successfully. Chance is however it works in some towns and castles and is buggy in others.

 

[Zhaker]

Ok I did this, and managed to win.

Basically throwing knives dont work, and they dont seem to do much. So now I tried this trick in regards to lighting a fire at midnight, and then going to town on midnight, and i only had to deal with the dungeon guard. Made it very simple getting him out after this.

 

[Apthorpe]

Prison breaks become 20x harder when two conditions are met.

a) Player is playing on normal damage to self, normal combat speed or higher, and good combat AI.

b) Player must sneak into the town/castle where the prisoners are being held. The sneak-in equipment is a huge handicap.

 

[stormwizzy]

Have a similar, yet different version of bugged Rescue prisoners.
The prisoner is in Curin Castle (nord), mission was from a Vaegir. My intent is to go in there and do a jailbreak.
With fire started in Kwynn:
I quickly enter, go into the courtyard (or hall of lord and exits to courtyard), talk to Prison Guard. I engage in conversation "certainly you must be boss" then "hand over the keys". Its a fight and I win and enter the jail. Talk to the one lord and to my luck another prisoner. I tell them to stay behind, but follow.
We exit and they just stand there outside the door. I go look for trouble, there is no other guards. I go to the gatehoutse and up in the tower and see a clicky thing that can be activated by the F key. However even if i click or hold the F key, nothing happens. The gate is not open. I'm stuck inside this keep with two prisoners that do nothing and a gate that cannot open.

Without fire in Kwynn:
A lot of more guards thats for sure (ouch )
Same prosedure like above, but I try two different approaches "Follow" is the first attempt then "get your gear and follow" for the second. Both ends with them standing near the prison exit like two guards. They cannot (as they could not in the with fire) be talked to or activated in any form. The guards are on the walls, so I guess it is kill all guards and escape.
However they made mincemeat of me so I was not able to see what happened. However even when using the clicky (open Gate) nothing happens.

Edit: Did find the problem with the first one. A guard had hid.. very well on the map. But mission could have been better if you could have opened the gate without killing the other guard.