Justout
Recruit
This is the single most frustrating/impossible/ridiculous quest in the entire game. I've never spent so long in a game trying to accomplish one straightforward quest.
What's wrong with it? Plenty. It's near impossible if your kingdom is at war with the other (which, it stands to reason that it would, seeing as that's why they have your prisoner), there's a great many serious bugs and glitches involved with it, and it's overall frustrating.
I don't know what factors contribute to how easily you can sneak into a town, but in my case, I get caught almost every single time. This puts you into a fight where you're equipped with virtually no armor, a quarterstaff, and throwing knives against 5 to 6 low tier enemies at one time. Tiers or not, no matter how good you are at blocking, if you want to do the fight fairly, you're quite simply going to get killed every time. 5-6 enemies at once just isn't possible. The only way to win is to separate or single out the enemies, which, in some cities (like the one I'm trying to work with, Tihr) it just isn't possible.
You can set fire to a nearby village's field, but this seems to have no impact on how well you can sneak into town.
Once in it becomes a great deal more possible until you have to deal with the bugs. Getting the lord to follow you makes them attack you as soon as you exit the prison. I've heard that sometimes he comes out and attacks you even if you tell him not to. Guards killing citizens and shopkeepers.
Really, what is this? This needs serious revision, this one quest is making my gaming experience a lot less enjoyable. I'm about to resort to lowering damage to me to 1/4 and using automatic blocking, and if that doesn't work, cheats.
/end rant
What's wrong with it? Plenty. It's near impossible if your kingdom is at war with the other (which, it stands to reason that it would, seeing as that's why they have your prisoner), there's a great many serious bugs and glitches involved with it, and it's overall frustrating.
I don't know what factors contribute to how easily you can sneak into a town, but in my case, I get caught almost every single time. This puts you into a fight where you're equipped with virtually no armor, a quarterstaff, and throwing knives against 5 to 6 low tier enemies at one time. Tiers or not, no matter how good you are at blocking, if you want to do the fight fairly, you're quite simply going to get killed every time. 5-6 enemies at once just isn't possible. The only way to win is to separate or single out the enemies, which, in some cities (like the one I'm trying to work with, Tihr) it just isn't possible.
You can set fire to a nearby village's field, but this seems to have no impact on how well you can sneak into town.
Once in it becomes a great deal more possible until you have to deal with the bugs. Getting the lord to follow you makes them attack you as soon as you exit the prison. I've heard that sometimes he comes out and attacks you even if you tell him not to. Guards killing citizens and shopkeepers.
Really, what is this? This needs serious revision, this one quest is making my gaming experience a lot less enjoyable. I'm about to resort to lowering damage to me to 1/4 and using automatic blocking, and if that doesn't work, cheats.
/end rant