NPC Spawning

[LordEurope]

NPC Spawning

After the 1.03 patch I'm noticing that NPC's don't spawn at the numbers they used to/at all.

This leads to places like Novigrad and Oxenfurt to seem lifeless in comparison to what they were before. The fish market for example now only has a couple of NPC's when it before had dozens. This even affects the number of NPC's indoors, inns are completely empty when I walk in.

Weirdly enough the games audio still plays as if there were loads of people around even if there are none. The market is busy as always but there aren't any NPC's there.

I've decided to stop playing until this is fixed as it completely ruins immersion.

 

[Wah_Gwaan]

Yep there are a couple of other threads about exactly the same issue. It's most noticeable in the two major cities but is a bug that is present everywhere, to a greater or lesser degree. The worst part is unless you had visited these areas prior to the patch, you wouldn't easily recognise what is missing.

Like you say it completely destroys immersion and has made me stop playing the game also, at least in it's 1.03 form. I've started the game again after reinstalling and not patching it at all. I hope that when I reach Novigrad it is as populated as it was in version 1.02.