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I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« on: August 03, 2014, 07:36:39 pm »

I want to go on quests again- but I cannot figure out where the vampires are, where the necromancers,bandits, hill titans etc are! Can  i reenable the little "tsk" in the compass thing to find where i need to go somehow? :(
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2014, 07:42:35 pm »

Ask about troubles first, then ask for directions to the site. Go to your quest log and go to sites, and then find the site they mentioned and press 'z' to find the location.
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2014, 08:12:11 pm »

Thanks!!!
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2014, 08:16:10 pm »

Ask about troubles first, then ask for directions to the site. Go to your quest log and go to sites, and then find the site they mentioned and press 'z' to find the location.

Yeah but the compass made those very hard-to-see entrances easier to find.

Slightly off topic: It would be nice if you did not have a ridiculously crowded Q log at  the start of the game. Presumably you are playing a fresh young/naive/doomed adventurer that does not know much about the outside world.

At least that is how I would like to start out my character.
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2014, 09:08:39 pm »

Ask about troubles first, then ask for directions to the site. Go to your quest log and go to sites, and then find the site they mentioned and press 'z' to find the location.

Yeah but the compass made those very hard-to-see entrances easier to fin.

The compass will still show you where the entrances are. They just don't have a TSK next to them in the list of places any more. The list is sorted nearest-first, so when you exit fast travel your destination would be at the top of the list, assuming you exit as close to your destination as possible.
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2014, 09:32:22 pm »

For me it's like a 50/50 chance that any large human hamlet is going to have vampires skulking around out in the open.
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2014, 11:47:02 pm »

Side note: fighting a vampire in the middle of town is very surreal. No one but some random child is reacting at all; he's trying to stab me while the vampire himself is not even defending himself. I drank his blood, so hopefully this will work out :/
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2014, 08:50:17 am »

Assuming you know in which places those people / beasts are, what I usually do is take companions with me, move into the direction I was pointed to in the first place, stop fast travel, talk to the companions and ask them where the place is again.

This works perfect for me. In fact, the only thing I use companions for is for guiding myself through the map. They even perfectly know the location of the lairs.  :)
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2014, 09:09:41 pm »

It would be really, really nice if a) the filters actually worked in the questlog, and b) it would log useful things so I don't have to write down literally anything I want to find on an IRL piece of paper like it's Bard's Tale all over again. XD
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Re: I can't figure out where the heck things are any more :/
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2014, 01:48:15 pm »

Ask about troubles first, then ask for directions to the site. Go to your quest log and go to sites, and then find the site they mentioned and press 'z' to find the location.

Yeah but the compass made those very hard-to-see entrances easier to find.

Slightly off topic: It would be nice if you did not have a ridiculously crowded Q log at  the start of the game. Presumably you are playing a fresh young/naive/doomed adventurer that does not know much about the outside world.

At least that is how I would like to start out my character.
If you want to play that way, play as an outsider, they're basically created when you start the game with no info about anything.
A normal character will be plucked from your starting area, and thus will have memories about what they've heard about from others in the settlement they live in.
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