u/-Kikume-

Good News #1: Rejoice! UbiSoft's gaming servers are now fully operational after more 30 hours of unexplained outage.

Good News #2: If you completed the weekly Animus missions during the outage period, you will find that you received ALL points from completed Animus missions.

So stop reading this and log in to continue the wholesale slaughterfest.

For the past 8 hours, I've been trying really hard to complete this animus mission. And I've reached the limit of my patience.

Trying to find a shinobi on the world map via random encounters has been very unfruitful - 7 hours of unfruitful - an effort well beyond any normal person.

Next, I tried to encounter one via main/side quests, Godai Shinobi questline, for instance. Except Shotei is nowhere to be found. Not in the Sakamoto Castle. Maybe I did not complete the Showdown at Sakamoto first? Did I complete Showdown at Sakamoto? Hell if I know. The last time I played this was a few weeks ago so I don't remember the details.

So I had zero luck with random shinobi encounters, and zero luck with guaranteed spawns from quests. There is the tournament, but that animus quest is not active at the moment.

I really want the 700 pts, but the "Kill shinobi" mission continues to elude me no matter what I do. Maybe someone from this forum can chip in with some useful info?

See screenshots below to get an idea whereabouts I am in the game.

Harima province, just past the bridge by the river, inside the circle shown on the map. If no shinobi enocunter, then I scout the road to the south.

If no shinobi encounter in the Harima region, then I fast travel to Otsu Kakurega in the Omi province to scout the road to the north where the circle is. If still nothing, then I fast travel back to Harima and repeat over, and over, and over, and over...

People of Omi - Shotei is not there. Nor anywhere in Omi. WTF is he??

Currently in Ch.11: The Fall of Shinbakufu. I am sure that's far enough of progress for random shinobi encounters on the world map.