KickStarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Dan Vavra's medieval chad simulator

[unfairlight]

As I said some 100 pages ago when the game first launched, the combat is largely underdesigned and badly implemented. There's no real way to break the defense of a high level enemy - that's what really makes it bad too, high level enemies. High level enemies will parry or master strike 100% of your attacks when you attack first, the game basically teaches you to not attack them first and just wait until they attack you and you perfect parry that attack, then master strike it. Or you can do what I did, and just clinch, spam m1, repeat, because there is no viable way to break their defense other than that.

 

[Funposter]

Sounds like shitty combat.

Combat with lopsided balance is a better assessment. It shines in the mid-game when a 1v1 fight with a heavily armored enemy (Wayfaring Knight) is a life or death situation, and landing proper combos can be difficult, but also worth going for as they are extremely effective in opening up your opponent to more damage. Towards the end you start doing too much damage for anything to be legitimately challenging, and early on it's often near-impossible to actually land hits on high level enemies, as has been discussed. I think part of the problem is that the game tries to fool people into thinking that they are i complete control, when it's quite often dice rolls that are doing all of the work. Of course there's a learning curve to it and you learn how to dance around enemies with enough experience. The Runt fight at the start of the game is a good example, as on my first playthrough I was immediately laid out. The second time through, I was able to hang in there for a while and was actually able to hit him a few times before accepting my fate and eating a blow to the face.

I will say that one thing that can be fairly effective against high level enemies, even in full plate, is to go for overhead strikes. You have about the same chance of getting through as with anything else, but the reward for actually landing the hit is far greater. That, and poking, as I said earlier. Conventional left-right chaining of hits is pretty useless.

 

[Anthedon]

If I hit or miss seems with an attack seems completely random

That's because it basically is. High level enemies will just constantly perfect block your attacks, meaning it will be absolutely pointless to try attacking them first and anything you learn early to mid game will be worthless.
You can basically ignore half the shit you learned in combat training. Feinting? Useless, it doesn't actually do anything. Combos? Don't bother, they take 3+ hits to execute and your enemy will either die or block one attack before it's fully completed.

Here is your guide to combat:
Step 1: Go walk up against your target in combat and force them in a clinch (that animation where you cross swords and the other guy then hits you back, the game never actually tells you that it is possible to win these)
Step 2: Spam M1, M2 or space as fast as possible.
Step 3: Once you won the clinch, hit your target as many times as your stamina allows because they are stunlocked for a good while.
Step 4: If the enemy did not die, walk back until your stamina is fully regenerated and then try again from Step 1.

This works surprisingly well, especially when compared to what the combat training tries to teach you. Bows are also pretty strong it seems, at least compared to melee.

 

[unfairlight]

Bows are good if you like cheesing the AI of the game. I don't like playing that way, so I stuck to swords.

 

[Quillon]

Master Stroke doesn't do shit to armored enemies; no damage to speak of, no causing an opening to successfully attack, winning a clinch is a lot more valuable which is retadred; should be the other way around.

 

[SlamDunk]

Is the Hans Capon DLC now worth the price?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Barbarian]

Any word on what will the 3rd dlc exactly be about? Aside from the title I don't remember any info about it.

 

[Jenkem]

Theresa being raped by Cumans.

 

[Barbarian]

Theresa being raped by Cumans.

I mean the "Band of Bastards" dlc. Women's lot is the last one, not the next.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Smejki]

Any word on what will the 3rd dlc exactly be about? Aside from the title I don't remember any info about it.

No official info yet. But don't worry, the trailer is in the workings and it will be pretty clear from it what the DLC is about.

 

[Haba]

Mÿstëriõus!

 

[aweigh]

ey yo peeps what are some mods for this shit ??

i put in insta-herbz and sectatorialtially lock picking

WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?

 

[Smejki]

We updated the artpiece so now by default it's easier to find you point of reference which is the same purpose the sectors in the mod serve as well. Use the sectorized lockpick mod only if it's still too hard for you.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

ey yo peeps what are some mods for this shit ??

i put in insta-herbz and sectatorialtially lock picking

WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?

The only mod needed for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one that allows you to save more freely, as described recently.

 

[Haba]

The mod that removes the picking up animation

 

[aweigh]

Smejki

not even joking when I say that Kingdom Come 2 needs full animation for taking a dump! Come on guys, be the first to break this new ground in immersiveness!!

 

[Baardhaas]

Smejki

not even joking when I say that Kingdom Come 2 needs full animation for taking a dump! Come on guys, be the first to break this new ground in immersiveness!!

For true realism they should make shitting a skill. You start out with sticky clay-like shits at lvl 0 and by lvl 20 you produce perfectly polished wipe-free turds. Successfully shitting in front of others gives you a boost in reputation.

 

[thesheeep]

Smejki

not even joking when I say that Kingdom Come 2 needs full animation for taking a dump! Come on guys, be the first to break this new ground in immersiveness!!

For true realism they should make shitting a skill. You start out with sticky clay-like shits at lvl 0 and by lvl 20 you produce perfectly polished wipe-free turds. Successfully shitting in front of others gives you a boost in reputation.

Plus you can use shit from lvl15 onwards as a mortar replacement to save money building your own house.

 

[Anthedon]

I finished the main story, some thoughts (in no particular order) follow.

- 15th century Bohemia as a setting is well realized
- my biggest gripe is the clunky combat system, even towards the end I had no fun with it (see a few posts above)
- aside from when a lot of NPCs are on screen, performance is good
- graphics are very pretty, not a whole lot of post-processing madness going on, the game looks very realistic
- the open world feels empty (a bit like Witcher 3), there's not a whole lot to discover unless you have the relevant quests for an area
- writing and VO is great (German), although the nobles use the wrong pronouns all the time, a capital offense these days
- I had trouble raising the lockpicking skill much despite a good number of robbing sprees, it didn't seem to matter since I still could pick hard locks even with a relatively low skill value
- the item based save system was an issue since I got (infrequent) crashes, which can cost you a lot of playtime if they occur at the wrong moment, there's a mod that lets you savescum all you want though
- I quickly took a liking to the principal characters you interact with throughout the game, just look at them!

 

[Smejki]

ey yo peeps what are some mods for this shit ??

i put in insta-herbz and sectatorialtially lock picking

WHAT ELSE DO I NEED?

The only mod needed for Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one that allows you to save more freely, as described recently.

Use at your own risk

 

[aweigh]

You guys should take a cue from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic for the sweet melee

 

[unfairlight]

The most retarded thing I have read all day by the most retarded poster on Codex.

 

[Anomander Rake]

Smejki any chance you could really add manual savegames? I'll be honest, gating them behind certain requisite reminds me of console checkpoints.