» Wed May 23, 2012 2:24 am
I believe one of the recent patches messed up creature respawns. Areas are supposed to repopulate if you stay away from the game 'cell' for 10 days or so, but now if you visit that area after the corpses have disappeared, but before the 10 days for reset, the cell won't ever respawn creatures/enemies. I've noticed this with giant camps and certain outer areas I frequent a lot, and I've got the same issue with a dragon bounty quest.
These are suggestions I've seen, but haven't tried them myself so I can't say if they work or not:
- Stay far away from that game area for at least 30 game days, and hope the area resets
- If you are on 360 and play with the game installed, delete the game from your hard disk, clear the cache, and play for a while off DVD.
I'd also suggest keeping a few more manual game saves. It probably wouldn't have helped with this issue, but there are still a lot of bugs with this game that being able to roll back an hour can save you some grief. I just keep three saves that I cycle through for my characters.