Shattered Kingdoms

Is there some intent behind the fact that my character seems to switch to mode kill without my telling her to, and kill bounty hunters I've just stunned?

This doesn't make me happy when I'm playing a principled griffon and whacking away golden griffons over a party member's carelessness.

Turn auto assist off.

>principled
>griffon
>in a party of outlaws



I think you might have larger challenges than the fact that while engaging law enforcement you happened to strike to kill.

-Auto assist has never switched me to mode kill for any other reason.

-Yeah, like travelling with a stupid elf that goes and attacks a deep-elf while I'm in his party and sleeping in the inn.

I was mode stun (I thought), I stunned the first guard, then it said "You will aim to kill." or whatever, and I auto killed the first one. Then I intentionally entered mode stun, twice, stunned the second guard, and auto killed it, too.

Ah. Well, that sucks. And yeah. You'll auto assist your teammates to kill regardless of your own mode. That's how tribunal members skirt past the law code.

Prattle at your party mates, I guess?

I've noticed this a few times myself. Seems to have happened alot if someone behind me started casting a hostile spell toward something I had just stunned. Get forced into mode kill, a round of combat happens before the spell is ever finished.
Probably along the same lines as how barb NPCs that are attacking someone behind you get to counterstrike you when THEY were clearly the aggressor.

That's another flaw/feature(?) that even pc barbs can exploit.

Hm. More testing needs to be done with this, but I think that it might force you to mode kill even if you're the only party member in the room. I think this is what happened, but I'm not 100%. Stay alert.

I think its intentional to keep people from trying to avoid crimes while in a group with someone who is outlawed. Complain if you like, but the other side of the coin wasn't much better.

That's really debatable, considering how often our [PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL] law system forces people to fight guards they don't intend to kill.
I still don't know why banished people have legal rights, though I guess that belongs in another thread.