Okay so the day starts off great, me and my friends in a party of 3; farming bosses, exploring dark sea, trading, etc. We were getting pretty bored when we decided to raid Fort Castrum.
We haven’t touched the fort since it came out and and figured why not? People say it’s worth and the loot is great. When we started everything was going well! We were shocked by how fast the cannon balls was raining down on us but we broke the defenses in less than 7 mins, then the raid strated.
First 3 rounds were super easy no problem. But then on raid 4 with 2 enemies remaining we couldn’t find them no matter how hard we tried. One of my friend used a revaling potion cause maybe they were stuck somehwere. Nope nothing. The enemy literally vanished and the fort recovered.
Okay since it was out first time we thought nothing of it and chalked it up to a one time bug. Boy were we wrong. We try it again and we make it to wave 7. The same bug again. To be fair one of us did die so we started to think maybe its a mechanism in game where you must survive and if you die its over.
Okay thats fine we tried again but another player who wanted to do the raid joined us. We made it to wave 9 and there was 1 enemy remaining. We were all locked in and so excited to finally get this overwith and yk what happened? The last enemy was gone and the fort recovered. Okay what the fuck?? Everytime we couldn’t find an enemy we’d used a reveling potion and everytime they were gone. I asked the discord server if this was normal and nobody really gave a clear answer and thought id see if anyone else experienced this on the forum.
Additionally after wave 3 the influx of enemies start to get overwheling with them ganging up on you along withbthe constant spell casting making your frame rate drop and lag going crazy. It amazes me how people are able to do this solo they must have a NASA pc
happened to me once, shouldn’t be that common tho
it’s much easier solo cus the npcs are a lot lower level
We must be really unlucky for it to happen 4 times in a row then 
i wanna try solo but idk if i can trust the same thing wont happen again
if you cant find the npcs
check:
in the water around the entire castle (yes they do end up there for some reason)
the wooden shelves with pots (or whatever), sometimes they blend in perfectly
inside of the base, and break the walls inside (they maybe got stuck because it regened on them)
last resort, walk around everywhere on the island, particularly around walls, maybe it will trigger the npc to attack and give a clue to where they are
We did do that, we were breaking everything cause we refused to belive that the LADT enemy on the second to kast round just poofed like that we even saw it just dissappear (i wish i was recording) we all used revaling potions too but nothing it was genuinely gone
I hate fort castrum so much
why even make it a line of sight thing for the enemies to get damaged? they just wander into the cracks in the ground and your fully charged attack just does no damage because there was a 1 mm wall between it and the enemy
then they sometimes get stuck for no reason and you have to wonkily try to get someone who is IN THE FRICKING GROUND to come out of the ground to be able to hit them, meanwhile they can just hit you like normal
like come on, most of these enemies already have piercing attacks like flying phoenix or cannon. what’s the point in having the line of sight thing?
Because vetex doesn’t want people to cheese merlot
Use flying phoenix yourself
merlot isn’t in fort castrum
also gunpowder barrels
what? pretty sure flying phoenix doesn’t bypass the line of sight thing anyways. but even then, if you can use flying phoenix, they can hit you too.
Pain.
I know the feeling
(especially while doing a castrum raid)
yea RIP. honestly i dont get why vetex doesnt why make the last 2-3 npcs highlighted through walls. they are soldiers defending the castle, not playing hide and seek. they shouldnt win from just hiding
because vetex hates us
he removed the line of sight rule from atlanteans because it was janky and awful and added it to castrum npcs for some reason
This has happened to me plenty of times. Apparently, if the leader of the raid leaves the game, sails away, or lags for more than like 4 seconds, all the NPCs vanish and the raid needs to reset. At least that’s what I heard.
Somebody lied.
castrum is such a pain to do
especially as a solo player
god does it take forever, and theres literally a deadline for the challenge too
Might just be my pve dna making me weak af but its such a sluggish experience
I practically have 0 chance of getting the fort castrum egg now because pretty much nobody else does castrum