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

ArchAngel

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What archery skill level do I need to reach before he stops waving the bow like crazy? At lvl 4 and half now.
At level 5 you should get a bit better (you stop hurting yourself at the very least). Other than that:

1) Are you using a bow that isn't above the requirements?
2) Don't pull the arrow for too long, it will only make the sway worse.
3) Use left point of the arrow to aim.
4) Fire between breaths.
5) Git gud. That's it. There is no substitute for learning by doing (and I don't mean that as purely in-game).
1) I am not
2) whole pulling mechanic is the worst offender and is what I want the skill level to fix. Sometimes when pulling he moves the bow to left, sometimes to right. You basically have to guess while pulling where it is going to end up and be compensating. And if you wait until he pulls it the whole way then he starts swaying like crazy so. This game went way into stupid and unfun territory. It is why I am asking at what skill level can I expect one (pulling) or other (holding) to become useable. I am 5 now and it is still bad.
3) nah, it shoots all over the place as bow never stops. He is moving it left or right while pulling and arrow goes that way if you release and while holding it is swaying and can go anywhere. Vs stationary targets in archery tournament I kind of made it work by seeing when he is moving left while pulling so I release when hand gets over target and arrow flies to left but later vs moving deer it was impossible to hit it, at least with a controller.
4) didn't notice there is option to hold a breath or hear breathing
5) If I wanted to learn archery I would enlist myself into it and not play a stupid game

So is there an Archery skill level where Henry stops being retarded and can pull or hold a bow steady?
 
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5) If I wanted to learn archery I would enlist myself into it and not play a stupid game

It's a simulation, which part of that are you still struggling with?

It's like saying "if i wanted to learn how to fly a plane i'd go to flight school" when discussing a Flight Simulator.

Kingdom Come doesn't go as far as Operation Flashpoint or the Arma game but there's a lot of the same lifeblood running through it.

Just get Drinking Habit and take a six pack with you when you go hunting, like any self-respecting man.
 

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Also if you want to level archery easily, just do the early hunting quest with Capon and just hunt in the forest. You get way more skill for hitting rabbits and deer etc.

Just make sure you are switching to more difficult bows as your str, agility and archery skill increases.

I always really liked that training archery in KCD also trains your physical stats quite significantly.
 

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Also if you want to level archery easily, just do the early hunting quest with Capon and just hunt in the forest. You get way more skill for hitting rabbits and deer etc.

Just make sure you are switching to more difficult bows as your str, agility and archery skill increases.

I always really liked that training archery in KCD also trains your physical stats quite significantly.
You didn't read anything I wrote? I've been complaining about rabbits as early training since start. I switched to archery tournament because hitting rabbits was next to impossible and I was just wasting my limited arrows.
And I tried to hunt deer after I got skill to lvl 5, and Henry is still useless with a bow vs a moving target. Reasons for I explained in detail in my previous post.
Maybe I should just give up trying to do archery in this game with a controller when game expect me to have CounterStrike level sniper skills (those are when you do not use scope so you also do not have crosshair and everyone in that game jumps around so you are supposed to guess all the time where to aim) to hit shit..
 
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Also if you want to level archery easily, just do the early hunting quest with Capon and just hunt in the forest. You get way more skill for hitting rabbits and deer etc.

Just make sure you are switching to more difficult bows as your str, agility and archery skill increases.

I always really liked that training archery in KCD also trains your physical stats quite significantly.
You didn't read anything I wrote? I've been complaining about rabbits as early training since start. I switched to archery tournament because hitting rabbits was next to impossible and I was just wasting my limited arrows.
And I tried to hunt deer after I got skill to lvl 5, Henry is still useless with a bow vs a moving target. Reasons for I explained in detail in my previous post.

Git gud.

Rabbits are easy once you get used to them.
 

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Archery is my pet peeve to see if it is possible to do with controller in this stupid design, I managed to level up houndmaster to good enough level so Mutt can now hunt rabbits and deer and I do not really plan to use stupid archery for that.
But what is really stupid is the save system. If I was not told about the Save and Quit thing and how to abuse it I would have probably quit the game yesterday. I went to Usitch to find the limp guy, did the investigation part, talked to people, found out about the priest, went to him, then went to bar, did the whole drunken crazy scenes stuff and got to "Do the sermon part". I didn't know it was timed and you had like 1 minute to go do it before it fails so it failed.. wanted to load a previous save so I can do it right and it was at morning when I got up at Teresa house... WTF game?! Wasn't it supposed to save at start of quests and mid quest and shit?!
Two reasons I didn't quit is that I did save and quit at entrance of Usitch near the house of the limp guy and that I paid 10 Euro for this shit. If this was pirated game like most of my life I would have deleted this shit right there..

Atm for me this is between 6/10 and 7/10 game which is barely playable in my book as I do not waste time playing games with lower scores. It is still possible I give up on this shit, as I have been playing this my urge to play a much much better game like Mount and Blade 2 again has been rising.
 

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
But what is really stupid is the save system.
Sorry bro, not the game's fault, your butthurt is on you. You played for an hour or more blissfully relying on an autosave system without knowing when exactly it kicks in. Saving in this game is a complex and well thought-out ecosystem, the devs knew precisely what they were doing.

Using the save-anytime mod in KCD or abusing the Save&Quit feature is like doing it in Dark Souls - it totally undermines a huge part of what the game's trying to do. Just buy or steal some schnapps (or learn to brew it yourself) or sleep in pubs or go have a wash in a bathhouse now and then, there are tons of in-game saving options.
 

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If anything, hunting in this game is way too easy. Rabbits let you walk right up to them for you to shoot them or even whack them with a melee weapon. In most other games with hunting mechanics I can think of they act more realistic - i.e bolt as soon as they hear the tiniest sound. I do use keyboard & mouse though for shooting.

The animals could also pose some form of threat. I'm not aware if the boars charge you or anything but so far they seem like walking meat dispensers as well. Implementing more predatory animals would be cool, but maybe in KCD2.
 

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1) I am not
2) whole pulling mechanic is the worst offender and is what I want the skill level to fix. Sometimes when pulling he moves the bow to left, sometimes to right. You basically have to guess while pulling where it is going to end up and be compensating. And if you wait until he pulls it the whole way then he starts swaying like crazy so. This game went way into stupid and unfun territory. It is why I am asking at what skill level can I expect one (pulling) or other (holding) to become useable. I am 5 now and it is still bad.
3) nah, it shoots all over the place as bow never stops. He is moving it left or right while pulling and arrow goes that way if you release and while holding it is swaying and can go anywhere. Vs stationary targets in archery tournament I kind of made it work by seeing when he is moving left while pulling so I release when hand gets over target and arrow flies to left but later vs moving deer it was impossible to hit it, at least with a controller.
4) didn't notice there is option to hold a breath or hear breathing
5) If I wanted to learn archery I would enlist myself into it and not play a stupid game
Here is a good guide how to be a successful archer:



That's the best I can offer you (most of which is a presentation of what I've already told you, but maybe seeing the footage will help).

So is there an Archery skill level where Henry stops being retarded and can pull or hold a bow steady?
No. You have to know where to aim and when to fire. No amount of in-game skill is going to change that.
 

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I started playing this again since I never actually beat it. The archery is actually way easier than I remembered since the crosshair drifts slowly and evenly to the left and right, you only have to actually aim on the y axis. The enemies seem to just run at you in a straight line so you can usually pelt them twice before they get to you, even in the face sometimes with 1 skill in bows and the basic peasant hunting bow.

I've been terrorizing the countryside around Rattay at night to train my thievery skills. Shooting their dogs before they can bark at me, then sneaking into their homes and pickpocketing everything they have. Got caught quite a few times, so I'd run over to a neighbor's house and rob them before circling back. I made like $3,000 and got my pickpocketing up to 10, but I have 0 reputation with the people of Rattay now and I dunno how high the bounty is gonna be. Oh well, I'm sure they'll get over it.
 

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Yes, I still maintain that Kingdom Come: Deliverance is the best medieval crime simulator ever created, and Warhorse missed an excellent opportunity to either develop their own thief game or at least license their engine to a third-party developer to create one.

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Well it seems there is one problem with the crime simulation, in that it doesn't count repeat offences. So I robbed everyone around the outskirts and had the guards called on me for pick-pocketing and stealing about 20 times, but when I finally turned myself in the next day after cashing out, the fine was only 60g. Thats a profit of 2940g, guess crime really does pay after all.
 

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I find all the thief stuff boring in most games. And combat UI is mostly unmanagable when fighting vs 2 or more. So far just riding along exploring nothingness of woods and fields.. until I get jumped by 4 cumans and killed fast lol
M&B2 has a superior combat and UI and horse combat over this game. Hopefully they go more in that direction in the sequel.
 

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During a routine break in, a villager awoke while Henry was pickpocketing him and started raising a ruckus. Thinking quickly, Henry sliced him across the chest and then ran over to the wife who was now beginning to shriek. While Henry was busy stabbing her to death, her husband, apparently not slowed down at all by the grievous wound, ran outside and started shouting for the guards. Though Henry was able to catch up and mutilate the man after a brief footchase, he had already woken the whole neighborhood and cries for the guards could be heard all over the place.

With a weary sigh, Henry ran over to the mill and stashed all his stolen goods, including a milanese brigandine which he found in a trunk in some guy's house. Time to turn himself in and face the consequences for his unfathomably horrible crimes... 10 days in jail.

With his harsh sentence served, Henry is now on his way to get some formal training so that he can join the town guards and start maintaining law and order. By any means necessary.
 

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I finally level up a bit and got myself some real armor and a Heavy Shield (too bad you cannot go to armorsmith and change the symbol on the shield to one of your design). Then I decided to try out my skills on a bandit camp. I opened with arrows and managed to pull 5 or 6 of them on me :D
It was early in morning and two were still out of armor but they still overwhelmed me due to how confusing the UI is in group fights.. what FoV do you guys play this game on. Henry has terrible side vision on FoV 90..
Ok I reloaded the save and decide to shoot arrows and run away and try to come back and do same right after to maybe take some down that way.. but bandit camp leader kept following me when others gave up so I fought him 1v1 and he has best gear and died.
Then I managed to 1v1 others using same tactics while some others went back to sleep like nothing was happening (shit like this is why this is eurojank).
Camp cleared and looted and I continued on my way to Ushitz to tell some Vicar to go away. On the way I see two armored groups fighting each other, 7 guys in total, some looked like Cumans. My first instinct was to run away but then I saved and decided to use advanced combat tactics I just learned of seperating enemy abusing eurojank AI and fighting them "1v1" (actually 2vs1 because Mutt is as useful as me as all I need to do is block until he distracts them so I can get a couple of free heavy attacks on them). So I shoot some arrows and yea, one guy charges me and follows me away from others and dies to 2v1. Same is repeated for others until only archers are there. Shield block gets me to them and as soon as I hit they surrender and then die. I find out other group was Bandits and they all got killed by Cumans so more free loot for me.
10/10 eurojank game, would abuse again..
 

ArchAngel

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Oh yea, I also found old witch in the forest who showed me how resurrect myself when I die.
 

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And yeah generally I try to avoid melee combat in this game. It's good on paper but in practice it's shit. Arrows all the way and kiting.
 

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Enjoy the Revolution! Another revolution around the sun that is.
too bad you cannot go to armorsmith and change the symbol on the shield to one of your design
Like what, arse-n-balls wreathed with piss stains? This is not Larian where you can customize everything including the shape and size of your dong, all heraldry in the game is authentic.

some others went back to sleep like nothing was happening (shit like this is why this is eurojank).
Yes, that's how you can tell eurojank, NPCs have complex routines. In prestigious non-eurojank games NPCs just neatly stand around with a question mark above their heads.
 

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too bad you cannot go to armorsmith and change the symbol on the shield to one of your design
Like what, arse-n-balls wreathed with piss stains? This is not Larian where you can customize everything including the shape and size of your dong, all heraldry in the game is authentic.

some others went back to sleep like nothing was happening (shit like this is why this is eurojank).
Yes, that's how you can tell eurojank, NPCs have complex routines. In prestigious non-eurojank games NPCs just neatly stand around with a question mark above their heads.
1. I found empty Heavy Shield on a bandit boss that I am using. Game should at least let me put Sir Radzig's emblem on it since I am his soldier now
2. Complex routines like lets let our boss go alone to fight unknown number of attackers and hey boss is not back in 5 minutes, I am sure it is all OK so I can go back to sleep like nothing happened.
Can you lick Vavra's ass any harder gay boy?
 

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