Bounty problem

thigh997

Hi everyone,

This has happened to me numerous times, i get caught stealing and become wanted so, i wait for the timer to run out until it gives me the message that i am upstanding again only to run outside and get stopped by the guard who then wants me to pay 0 gold in bounty as i obviously don't have a bounty on me anymore.

Does anyone else has this problem on the ps4?

Thanks

KaylynT

That happened to me once. No bounty but I had stolen items on me. I got stopped by a guard that demanded that I pay for a bounty I didn't have, next thing I know guard attacks and then another guard rushes up and starts attacking. Next thing I know i'm dead. I was in Hews bane on PS4.

thigh997

Thanks for your reply KaylynT.

Today it happened again and i waited 5 minutes before going outside but still got stopped but this time did a runner and got away somehow, i let the timer expire, once i was upstanding again instead than waiting like before i logged out and logged in and somehow it seemed to have worked so, if anyone has this problem try logging out and in and see if that work you

Nestor

There was a recent fix on the PC surrounding this issue. I don't think the fix has reached the consoles yet.

Basically, you have to wait a bit longer than getting the game indication that you have dropped the bounty. Relogging maybe faster than waiting, I think traveling to another zone would be enough to get the game to recognize your Upstandingness. However, even during the time this issue was on the PC, it never hit me, but I was not dashing out of the refuge or forest immediately after it going to 0.

UrQuan

The actual bug (which has been fixed on PC) is that the client-side timer for bounty decay isn't quite in sync with the server-side timer, and the client-side timer goes very slightly faster. Each time you go through a loading screen the client-side timer syncs up with the server-side timer, so you could be displaying a bounty of 0 gold, go through a loading screen and then suddenly be displaying a bounty of 12 gold - the 12 gold is what the server was recognizing, and any guards will act accordingly.

So until a fix comes to your platform, always give yourself more time for a bounty to decay than what your screen tells you. When in doubt relog or go to another zone or something to resync your bounty and see what it's actually at. This hit me a number of times on PC right after the bug was introduced with the Thieves Guild update, and I reported it right away - all of my info in this post on how the bug works comes from what ZOS said in a thread I started back then, after they had investigated to figure out what was happening.

thigh997

Thank you Nestor and UrQuan, the server/client timer not being in sync is actually what i thought was happening. Traveling to another zone instead of re-logging maybe an alternative option. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.