I have a question - is it normal to have that many bandit ambushes within the city walls?
I just got into this game and I really like it, but my recent playthroughs (about 10 of them) ended prematurely because of bandit ambushes in Noer. Maybe it's just a steak of bad luck or something, but I can't get around it in any way. I play on Doom mode. I tried changing builds, different approaches, nothing helps. They ambush you even during the day. Even with 20 in survival, it only seems that the number of ambushes increase. I do get "lucky" from time to time and manage to outrun them to the border of the location, but that has like, 5% success rate. Plus there are always 5-6 of them in a narrow street and they are literally unkillable even 1v1. Which is never 1v1, and once they surround you its over. At some point I managed to get to level 30 and got some mage stuff before that happened. After 30 seconds of battle and when all my potions were gone they sustained literally zero damage and proceeded to do their dirty job anyway. At this point I even realized that outside of town is actually safer, as there are many other encounters and even bandits can be avoided, there are chances at least. While in the city it is almost always a "game over" event.
I know and understand that this game is hardcore of the hardcore, especially on doom mode, and I'm not complaining. I like it this way. But I literally ran out of options here, as this problem doesn't seem to have a solution. Aside from surrendering and getting properly "used". So I wanted to ask - how do you guys get around this?