** Kingdom Come : Deliverance 2 **

Goose said:
Could someone explain how to successfully stealth kill people? I’ve got the necessary perk and a dagger but every time I try it they successfully defend against it and we end up in a fight.
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I think you have to press a button when you see a blue icon come up on the screen.

Not sure what button that is though, just something I heard in a combat video on YouTube.
 
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Another mistake I am currently doing is I am using a weapon that I don't really have the strength and agility to wield properly meaning one strike and I run out of stamina.
 
No, it’s the reverse of the age old trope that the protagonist fell and hit his head and forgets his name and what he does. Only Henry remembers all his personal life details but forgets all the skills he learned. It’s laughably poor writing.

Got a bit more into this and still think it’s bang average. Some areas are nice and some very good side quests, but most of the quests are terrible. The nomad quest is easily the worst I have ever experienced in 40 years of gaming. It was literally the epitome of every terrible long winded boring RPG fetch quest ever devised.

I completed it but decided to kill everyone in the camp because by the end of it I hated every man and woman there. I did enjoy chasing all the defenceless men women and chopping them down with a sword.

Similarly the quest where you learn pickpocketing and takedowns was utterly terrible. Not the quest itself but the awful mechanics of performing a takedown, or pickpocketing. I decided these and the terrible blacksmithing, alchemy and dice mini “games” are just not worth doing. Let’s hope I don’t get soft locked behind one again like the alchemy during the terrible tutorial.

If you can make something convoluted and unintuitive, these devs seem to have it nailed.

Despite all that there are genuinely good RPG elements and exploring can be worth it. Unfortunately you have to spend hours doing the tutorial/intro area.
 
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Goose said:
Could someone explain how to successfully stealth kill people? I’ve got the necessary perk and a dagger but every time I try it they successfully defend against it and we end up in a fight.
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The fact you are getting multiple responses on this and all of them are wrong, shows how bad this mechanic is. The fact it has high RNG aspects makes it extremely frustrating.

Choose the “knock out” option and be ready for an RNG fest of frustration that happens very rapidly. First watch for the blue crossed swords icon and press attack “left button”, you need to be very quick here and I had some luck with just spamming attack.

Now here is where the terrible RNG rears its ugly head. Only very rarely does the “takedown” happen smoothly. Far more often than not (even if you level up) the NPC will get an RNG opportunity to defend themselves. This means they do an elbow attack that flashes a green shield icon for a very VERY split second. You may be able to get better results if you react as soon as their elbow moves, rather than waiting for the green shield icon. If you miss this green shield (and even when you do think you got it), then you are suddenly faced with a fight and in many cases the NPC calls for reinforcements.

So now the entire town knows who attacked a guard and you will be lucky if you end up with just a fine. In fact most times I ended up in a fight to the death and was considered a murderer of course.

Take a save potion before hand is my advice. In that point, it’s funny they wanted a realistic medieval RPG but made actual working potions that magically give special powers. We’ve obviously forgotten the long lost skills of magical potion making over the past 5 or 6 centuries. Or maybe like Henry we all fell down and hit our heads. ;)
 
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Neil79 said:
I'm getting bored! :(
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Gameplay or story related?

I’m finding the very long exposition very tiring in all the side quest dialogues. I’m just clicking through it all, it turns already mundane and over the top fetch quests into boring long winded stories about people and events I have no interest in.

I have lost count of the number of side “quests” that revolved aground lost loves and spurned jealous lovers. Go get special old broken sword for the special steel. Ah but you can’t get the sword until you speak to the hermit. Ah but you can’t speak to the hermit until you speak to the innkeeper and the rest of the villagers to give you a rough location you have to run around and hope to get lucky… then when you find the hermit he asks you to give a special item to an old woman at the graveyard… who asked you to find her old former love interests body and bury it on consecrated ground and so on and so on.

Yet the appeal for me is the times it gets a quest line and story right and you meet a genuinely interesting character.
 
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This is a handy tutorial video in that it doesn’t just show how to cheese the master strikes ability. Having said that it also showed how janky and unresponsive the combat can be… even when you do try to play it “right”.

So often I find myself losing lock completely, or a strike click doesn’t register at all and I’m left exposed (yes I had stamina). Ultimately I just end up doing riposte or master strikes cheese out of sheer frustration at the very poor combo system.

Despite the master strikes being confined to swords in this game, I still feel the sheer blunt force of a mace or hammer will be a much better combat style. Frankly you don’t lose out much by decided to just go with a Mace and ripostes.
 
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ICDP said:
This is a handy tutorial video in that it doesn’t just show how to cheese the master strikes ability. Having said that it also showed how janky and unresponsive the combat can be… even when you do try to play it “right”.

So often I find myself losing lock completely, or a strike click doesn’t register at all and I’m left exposed (yes I had stamina). Ultimately I just end up doing riposte or master strikes cheese out of sheer frustration at the very poor combo system.

Despite the master strikes being confined to swords in this game, I still feel the sheer blunt force of a mace or hammer will be a much better combat style. Frankly you don’t lose out much by decided to just go with a Mace and ripostes.
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Yea the combat is very frustrating. But I think I need to just practice and adjust.
 
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