For Whom the Bell tolls made me a cheater

[Dragow]

I mean it was the last drop, but a really huge one.
Basically i am at the end of chapter 1, as you can guess, and i am at my ropes end with this game and this quest.
I have already observed that his game is much more restrictive in the ways you can approach quests. Usually is shows in how certain quests enforce certain play style, i know it is supposed to be tutorial, but there are 2 problems.
1. In this game you have a set of mechanics you like and the other you hate, no middle ground due to how complicated and numbers dependent they are
2. The game has also another sin of disrespecting the role you are trying to play and player's time.
Not only the 1st chapter was completely over nothing (Henry even acknowledges it itself, i guess dev love mocking they players), not only my goody-two-shoes Henry was forced into that wedding debacle (not a spoiler you can see it coming a mile away), now i am stuck in quest that is virtually my every complaint distilled and cranked to eleven.
I mean everything above i would disregard as nit picking if not for this cursed quest.
In essence, it is forces you to stealth (a skill that imo sucks balls in this game) and do a lot of busy work, it can take more that an hour even if you have guide open, OR you can just run past the guard... i mean that is. Well you can really, because you have to spend around 40m of doing the most boring busy work to get your hand on a lock pick. The whole coal sacks, and horseshoes and other ♥♥♥♥ just so you can get a lockpick, and btw no saves, so i hope you guys love hauling those charcoal sacks, that is what we were waiting for, gripping 2025 gaming

Ffs, imo that quest can be safely remove from the game by a patch and the quality will go up ,because not playing this quest gives me more satisfaction than playing it. So i am just going to give myself this potion via a cheat and be done with it

I mean, what an amazing idea it was, to take everything people hated about Monastery and double down on it, because god forbid we are going to have an "oldschool" rpg without its own "severs section"

Rant out

[KOSOTA]

Skill issue. It was fun at least for me, you can throw stones and distract guards and other people. But hey, that's just me. Cheers.

[pr1mus]

Originally posted by Dragow:

I mean, what an amazing idea it was, to take everything people hated about Monastery and double down on it

i hope they triple down on the new monastery quest dlc.

[Dragow]

Originally posted by KOSOTA:

Skill issue. It was fun at least for me, you can throw stones and distract guards and other people. But hey, that's just me. Cheers.

What, pressing w to carry sacks for 20m?
And the only response i can get from npcs with stones happens only if i managed to lend it between their eyes, and then they will give "probably just a wind" reaction and go back to their business

[MaSeKind]

You're being punished, so you have to carry sacks. That's the whole point. It's supposed to not be fun.

EDIT: regarding the rest of the quest, I might have spent about 40 hours basically clearing the map, so by the time I got to this I had no issues really. Also helps if you can make your own save potions while in the alchemy lab.

[Hodwar]

Skill issue. Those quests were really easy. You can get extra lockpicks when smithing from a perk.

[SpeakFromYourSquanch]

This quest is borked unless you specifically skilled for it.

Knowing what I do now, I can skip a tremendous amount of bs tonight, but this was badly designed and should be discussed to force awareness and encourage fixes promptly.

[.:Viggo:.]

Get ready for the storm quest and Via argentum i get you bro 100

[Hodwar]

Originally posted by SpeakFromYourSquanch:

This quest is borked unless you specifically skilled for it.

Knowing what I do now, I can skip a tremendous amount of bs tonight, but this was badly designed and should be discussed to force awareness and encourage fixes promptly.

I think you're badly designed.

[Hodwar]

Originally posted by .:Viggo:.:

Get ready for the storm quest and Via argentum i get you bro 100

I made it through tha storm with ALL my loot from the castle. If you have problems with the quest, it's a skill issue.

[BushBandit]

skill issue lmao, i finished the quest in about 20 minutes and threw that rat piece of shiii out the mf window lmao. i thought it was great fun, sucks to suck hey pal.

[Dragow]

Originally posted by Cheddar Goblin:

skill issue lmao, i finished the quest in about 20 minutes and threw that rat piece of shiii out the mf window lmao. i thought it was great fun, sucks to suck hey pal.

You arent the smartest tool in the shed, are you? You are talking about completely different quest.
The one you are talking about is the last one in that chain and requires to simply walk from one end of the castle to the other, so i cant fathom how did it take you 20 minutes, but seeing you here, unable to spell even a simple sentence correctly, gives me some hints.

[makbthemf]

Some frustration bro, total bum in comparasing with KCD1