My random ones are usually near a camp or something, outside. I've not seen one yet "in" a town.

I was level 81, done with all main quests anyway (when dawnguard was released.)

It would be irritating if you haven't, since someone like LOD tends to get killed by a dragon the first time you
enter town (as he did for me, then I noticed I needed him for the daedric achievement like 35 levels later, so I won't
be getting that EVER.) So how much more likely would that be to happen, with vampire attacks going on as well? Lols.


The real bug fix would be:

Quest/achievement guy, like Lod, should be essential.

IF the attacks are problematic for you, I might have a little tip:

Try reverse pickpocketing a dagger that's enchanted with paralysis (kind of a tough enchantment to come by though) onto either the civilians that are in the greatest danger for the towns you enter (like the ones that hang out by the gate), or certain ones that hang out on various regions. The dagger itself doesn't have to be strong, but try to max out on the strength of the enchantments (don't worry about how many uses it has). Steel or Iron ones should be fine and won't look out of place on random civilians.

Now this won't be an end-all fix since higher level vampires can still 1-shot the civilians, but it's useful because if a vampire attacks the town (especially if it's not by the gate), at least one of the civilians will have a chance to paralyze it and buy you precious time to get there.

At the same time you can go further and start giving people rings/amulets to boost their health or something (maybe even boost your smithing/enchanting in the process), but that can still be time consuming and annoying if you fail the pickpocket.

Im uninstalling Dawngaurd until this is fixed. I'm really tired of NPCs dying because of this.

They need to
1. have NPCs run inside, so they dont die.
2. Remove the fights from cities.
3. Give us an encounter when we enter a city (Vampires start a conversation with us.Persuade them to leave, or intimidate them to leave, or fight)

Everyday, more and more people that haven't been here before are coming to the forums to join these topics. I'm wondering how much more will join before people start realizing that this problem will not be within a minority of players any longer.

And for everyone that joins and comments there are dozens more who are upset and don't.....

I reckon that the majority of players hate this feature. I mean, if in just two days people make countless topics about these random vampire attacks that all hit the post limit, you know instantly that there's a serious issue.

Exactly, there are 8-9 threads that reached full post limits. That is 2115 posts about just one issue.

I LOVE random vampire attacks. But it lacks immersion and danger, I demand Beth buff the quantity of attacks, and make it 10 vamps instead.

A measley 3 is too weaksauce for me. And can we make Nazeem an essential as well?

Lol....if they'd ALWAYS kill Nazeem, I might be persuaded to agree with you

I just spent 3 hours fast traveling city to city, town to town and have had 0 attacks. It obviously happens, Im not arguing that. My question is how this game mechanic functions. How can some people have endless attacks that are unavoidable and some of us cant even instigate an attack? Is there something some players are doing in game that somehow conflicts with the game's random attack generation pattern? After a few days of this being out and all the playtime across everyone's consoles it would be logical that the rate of these attacks would show a uniform rate instead of this wildly different experience. I have yet to have a wild werewolf encounter for that matter. i walk almost everywhere aside from trying to provoke a vamp attack, and nothing.

That doesn't mean anything. It's the same people posting over and over...

I think level is important (maybe difficulty). It's like Dragon attacks inside the cities.

If your making a poll, can you add my poll as well that got locked? What it said was:

Do you think vampire attacks should stay or get taken out?

1. They should stay, there is no problem with them.
2. They should go, they are ruining my game experience.
3. They should stay, but non-guard npcs should run away from combat.

Since we can't go into the console and find the exact scripts, I'm starting to speculate that the people that have tons of attacks may have run into a bug that causes the attacks to occur everytime.

I've only ran into that problem on one character, my pure mage, but once was enough. I really feel sorry for the people that are having the repeated attacks and are unable to do anything about them. Not to mention the reception they usually get from the people on this forum that have never run into the problem.

Actually, in my recent experience, it's best to fast travel at midnight. During that time, most if not all NPC's besides guards are inside their homes, and away from the Vampire attacks occuring in the town squares etc. I've had 5 attacks at midnight now without any casualties besides guards. (Who respawn) I think I may have found a solution to my dead city problem. Although it's too late for Whiterun, Riverwood and Markarth though...

Well, at least now i have a reason to replay oblivion, considering I'm trying not to play skyrim until something is done about the attacks.

Okay, then 105 votes against 24 are proving that these aren't the same people like us who are posting over and over. Post or not, there aren't 105 people posting here all the time, but they did have their vote.

I'm done discussing this issue. 9 threads is enough for me... I'll now wait for my PC version and mod the feature out if it gets out of hand. But PS3 users will join if they experience this issue a hundred people want changing.

I wonder if it has something to do with what level you play on because I play on Novice and the vampire attacks haven't been that bad only end up with a few dead people sometimes but if the attacks continue it will slowly whittle away at the population in the game they should just remove the vamp attacks in cities all together to keep the world from being destroyed I've been lucky that no quest giver or shop keeper has died yet

It's still a minority when held against the people who actually like the feature. People who like it are far less inclined to say something than people who don't.

That's just simple high-school level Psychology. If a majority of the people actually didn't like it, then the Forums would be awash with new, temporary accounts from people who would come here, give their two cents about how crappy it is, and then leave again.

But the advice I read earlier still makes very good sense.

If the attacks ruin the DLC that much, simply delete it and play vanilla Skyrim. No one would look at you twice for taking that route, and it's probably send a stronger message as well.

But as I've said before, I'm not going to seriously argue the point. It's your game, do what you do. The advantage to playing a single player game vs. a multiplayer game is that the only idiot I have to deal with is myself.

I heard from a reliable source (a forum member actually) that there was a quest to end the vampire attacks, but sadly it was cut....

I've done the same thing before on one of my characters trying to get dragon souls....I couldn't buy a random dragon attack, but then with other characters I couldn't turn around without one....so idk how it works

I'm glad we have such a calm discussing community here... and yes, multiplayer games have become so unbearable with all the idiots roaming around. You should just check the Diablo 3 forums. Such trolls and morrons are not present anywhere else

College level psycholgy (specifically social psychology) would indicate that the minority can affect the majority, and in some cases can even INFLUENCE the majority...imagine that...Then again, we also have to remember that those that report the problematic vampire attacks are generally ridiculed by those that have not experienced them. So it is also possible that they are not posting simply because they do not feel like getting attacked for posting. Then again, we are also only viewing the sampling of this specific forum, there could be even more people complaining about it on other forums, and we would not know about it as they are not here. Eventually a few people from those forums will come over here and decide to post (ideally). Either way they would still be in this "minority" that you speak of.

Simply deleting the DLC does nothing if you've already purchased it...



You'd be surprised...

I freaked when a rouge fireball from the mage challenger took out a merchant in Riften. I think I shall be holding off purchase until this problem is addressed .

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