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Holy cow, Almost all of the arcs in the game are so incredible that the Snotinghamschire one is horrible by comparison. From the very start of this arc I encountered strange behavior after strange behavior, and I just know it wasn't intended to be experienced this way.
For example, in the beginning when you set off with Hemming and a group of raiders to meet Vili at the siege of a fort. At first everyone is one horseback, until the first Pict attack on the way, then everyone's horses run off and from that point everyone is on foot, very strange. I can tell Hemming was going to fill Eivor in on some back story before they were cut off when the Picts attack you on the road, afterwards Hemming doesn't continue what he was saying leaving me to feel like i probably missed out on some dialogue because of some activation error. Hemming suddenly departs by the time you reach a bridge where there was evidence of an attack (which is already sort of strange area to leave anyways) directly next to where you meet Ryce of the Sherwood merry band. It just feels like an odd place for one quest to run smack into the start of another. When the siege starts Vili is trying to tell you something as he sprints off with the soldiers to attack and literally cuts himself off as he runs away from you, then continues to say what he wanted to say while in the midst of combat starting over from the beginning. The seige itself is one of the weaker ones in the entire game, although it is just a fort attack and not necessarily a full on siege event, it feels like the NPC AI doesn't know how to proceed on both sides. I found multiple groups of Pict warriors standing around as if nothing was happening (and even found a remaining Pict inside the fort just curiously looking at something even after the siege was over.) Once you kill the Pict leader a cutscene starts immediately even though there were at least 5 or 6 more Picts surrounding me and they just disappear. After the fight, Vili wants to take Eivor somewhere and we ride off on horseback, only his giant two handed axe begins to flail around with the reigns of his horse as he holds onto it with one hand as he rides, it just looks goofy.
Some of this might be opinion but I just feel like all the dialogue and moments this story was trying to land felt really glitchy and not as intended, might be worth looking into.