Lettuce be cereal gents, how bad are the "Ghost towns&#3 : V

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:41 pm

Are people being butthurt for no reason or is it actually a problem?

yes I know....82 posts in 6 years.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:09 pm

Are people being butthurt for no reason or is it actually a problem?

I think you can handle it..

I'll mod the hell out of Dawnguard anyway so it doesn't matter.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:46 pm

I've played with dawnguard from level 10 to level 31, beaten the dawnguard storyline, and had a grand total of one vampire attack on Riverwood... No NPC's died, the guards wiped the floor with the vampire... so that's been my experience so far.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:27 pm

What do you mean by "Ghost towns"?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:44 am

What do you mean by "Ghost towns"?

When Vampires attack cities , that's happening after the DLC released.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:29 pm

What do you mean by "Ghost towns"?

Vampires attacking and wiping out cities of NPC's.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:39 am

It's okay if you take precautions like fast traveling near a city or saving before going fast traveling and NEVER going at night but it does get bad sometimes,I remember as soon as I first entered Riften right after I downloaded the DLC everyone in the market was killed by master vampires and I failed 3 radiant quests also I was level 81 making them defenseless children compared to the master vampires.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:17 pm

They actually get INSIDE the cities ?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:56 am

They actually get INSIDE the cities ?

Yup.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:22 am

I have been playing for 8+ hours now and haven't experienced one yet, gone into pretty much every town. Dragons have no problem popping up all the time although. Even then I feel like this may be more of a problem with people that have characters that have trouble with crowd control.

It can be tough for a sneak character that primarily uses archery.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:35 pm

Short answer: sometimes. Sometimes the guards can handle it quickly enough, sometimes NPCs stupidly jump into the foray and are quickly slaughtered. The attacks occur so often that it becomes a chore to constantly do a city sweep upon fast travelling.

If the attacks occurred less, or the vampires were weaker, or if ANY change was made, they'd be much more acceptable. It's not like dragon attacks, where you have one dragon you can easily focus on. The vampires often have started hurting townspeople before you're even in their area of the city.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:39 am

Ive had 3 attacks in 24 hours played. 1 dead guard, 0 dead NPC's.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:13 am

Short answer: sometimes. Sometimes the guards can handle it quickly enough, sometimes NPCs stupidly jump into the foray and are quickly slaughtered. The attacks occur so often that it becomes a chore to constantly do a city sweep upon fast travelling.

If the attacks occurred less, or the vampires were weaker, or if ANY change was made, they'd be much more acceptable. It's not like dragon attacks, where you have one dragon you can easily focus on. The vampires often have started hurting townspeople before you're even in their area of the city.

Even dragons are a problem. I can't even count how many times with my various characters that Alvor decides he is Dragonborn, and so tries to slay the dragon. What happens? He gets his ass killed. Every. Single. Time. I wish Bethesda would make only guards attack them, and make them along with vampire attacks less frequent.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:34 am

Short answer: sometimes. Sometimes the guards can handle it quickly enough, sometimes NPCs stupidly jump into the foray and are quickly slaughtered. The attacks occur so often that it becomes a chore to constantly do a city sweep upon fast travelling.

Fast. Traveling.

That's the whole problem.

Well I guess I won't have any problems if so.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:12 am

I lost both shop keepers from Winterhold to those damn magic anomalies. Purposely got the altmer b!tch from Radiant Raiments smoked by a dragon though.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 8:58 pm

Fast. Traveling.

That's the whole problem.

Well I guess I won't have any problems if so.

Random combat definitely seems to be increased upon fast travelling.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:30 pm

It's only happened to me once, in 2 playthroughs. I fast traveled to Dragon Bridge and they spawned. They only killed one NPC who was useless. I'm level 70 too, so they were high level vampires.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:19 pm

Apparently Dawnguard goes on Massacres too. So yeah, both sides are evil, one side has no excuse. 1 point for Team Harkon! :banana:

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:54 pm

Never had a Ghost Town, when I loaded up the DLC for the first time a Vampire and Hellhounds (Or whatever they are called) attacked Riften but were swiftly defeated, by me and the Town guards.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 5:38 am

Apparently Dawnguard goes on Massacres too. So yeah, both sides are evil, one side has no excuse. 1 point for Team Harkon! :banana:

O_O Screenshot/video or it didn't happen!

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 11:24 am

Apparently Dawnguard goes on Massacres too. So yeah, both sides are evil, one side has no excuse. 1 point for Team Harkon! :banana:

Massacres on the evil.
That's really good !

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 7:33 pm

I've had one vampire attack since I downloaded the DLC, and it was as soon as I started the game with it installed.
Fast travelling definitetly seems to cause it, as I never fast travel and haven't seen any since.
Maybe fast travelling to the stables instead of into the cities would prevent this?

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:22 am

Apparently Dawnguard goes on Massacres too. So yeah, both sides are evil, one side has no excuse. 1 point for Team Harkon! :banana:

Massacres of vampires.

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:42 am

O_O Screenshot/video or it didn't happen!

Massacres on the evil.
That's really good !

Massacres of vampires.

Well, someone made a topic about it. And two of them complained... Find them and ask them for the Screenshots, I threw an "apparently" in for a reason ya know. :shifty:

» Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:10 am

I've had one vampire attack since I downloaded the DLC, and it was as soon as I started the game with it installed.
Fast travelling definitetly seems to cause it, as I never fast travel and haven't seen any since.
Maybe fast travelling to the stables instead of into the cities would prevent this?

I generally fast travel to dungeons close to the cities before I enter them now just to be safe. As far as I can tell, vampires only spawn randomly in the cities if you fast travel DIRECTLY into the city. So far no vampire attacks since becoming a Vampire Lord on my Vampire, and about six on my Dawnguard character.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v80gUzq6Ec8&feature=BFa&list=ULVEWKVNQwou8

It's a video about a vampire attack on Riverwood, with the death of Gerdur only. I have yet to do a full search for any other videos showing a more wide scale slaughter, but it does highlight the problems with the NPC AI dealing with threats.

Lettuce be cereal gents, how bad are the &#34;Ghost towns&#3

Lettuce be cereal gents, how bad are the "Ghost towns&#3