vrmpsy: I've had this happen a couple of times but not enough for it to warrant a discussion but now on my second playthrough and speccing to have stun trigger a lot I am starting to notice it a fair bit more now.

Essentially the enemy ai is still maneuvering in combat whilst you are dealing a finishing blow and when you come out of the animation they are all behind you and backstab the crap out of you.

I assume this is not an intended feature and that the enemy posistion should be frozen when you are performing a move so you can reposistion afterwards. I mean it does make sense for enemy's to continue moving but not for you to die instantly because you finished one of them off and stopped paying attention leaving your back wide open for a pile of critical damage.

vrmpsy: I suspect where I am up to may be a bug or something.

Escorting Saskia and Stennis you fight draug along the way the second time he spawns if I use a finisher on him I die instantly after the animation is over.

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Just figured it out....

If you do a finishing move TW2 places you in a preset environment to control the animation + camera.

In the wraith battle this just happens to be outside the protective barrier and the enviromental effect is still active so the entire time you are doing the animation the enviromental effect is killing you - so when you get back in you have zero health and die.

FFS the amount of small stupid things like this in the game there are honestly sometimes I don't think they did much QA - I picked up on this with 2 runs through this area.

vrmpsy: I suspect where I am up to may be a bug or something.

Escorting Saskia and Stennis you fight draug along the way the second time he spawns if I use a finisher on him I die instantly after the animation is over.

-edit-
Just figured it out....

If you do a finishing move TW2 places you in a preset environment to control the animation + camera.

In the wraith battle this just happens to be outside the protective barrier and the enviromental effect is still active so the entire time you are doing the animation the enviromental effect is killing you - so when you get back in you have zero health and die.

FFS the amount of small stupid things like this in the game there are honestly sometimes I don't think they did much QA - I picked up on this with 2 runs through this area.

Ren02: Yeah this happened to me too. I finally stopped attacking the draug altogether and just concentrated on the wraiths because as soon as they're dead the owl descends and disintegrates the draug as well. This meant no draug loot tho...