too tough for the average gamer

[Mooncatt]

never played the first game. then saw this.... looked epic! and it is, but my god is too hard. the combat system really sucks.... its like to slow for the commands im inputting. the controls while in combat NEVER do what im intending at all.
then while i escape some random bandits i end up being savaged by a pack of dogs.
the amount of times ive died is stupid. i give in... unless someone has any pointers...

[Raze]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Rekhyt:

I see you've got 6 hrs, it's not bad but there's very little controlled combat happening in 6 hrs.
Try to get some savious shnapps, doing some alchemy if necessary. Then save before battle, and get beaten until you beat them.
Eventually it'll click and you'll "git gud", in a similar spirit to Dark Souls.

In terms of specific best practices I can share:
- Don't spam click, attack when there's an opening
- Focus on parrying and riposting
- Then when you're going to attack, always feint, by holding attack in a direction, then quickly change direction and hit. Much higher hit chances then.
- Against a group, always fall back, trying to have at most 2 opponents facing you, so you can see their attacks coming and block everything before feinting in.

I would suggest that learning feinting as this person says above is very important.

I almost stopped perfect blocking/riposting because 99% of the time they always block the riposte. I still perfect block, but generally don't riposte unless I feel like they are a low skilled enemy.

[Jaeger Pilot]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Nats:

This worries me a lot. I wish I had read this before buying the game.

How did it go?
I love the combat system and don't find it that hard. I'm running around in fancy clothes, not even wearing armour, and I do pretty well in fights.
And I'm an old man with a full-time job.

[Thorstorm]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Johnny_B_80:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Joe Cool:

The average gamer finds most games to be too hard.

That's why most games these days are ridiculously easy or they include things that make it even easier for terrible players to progress. (Like the chicken hat for Metal Gear V, or skipping missions entirely after you fail 3 times like GTA V)

It's more like the average gamer has a job, a family, and not 12 hours a day to spend on learning an enemy's movement patterns or whatever. But congrats if you do, I guess.

Yea that's not the "average gamer"
These are the gamer dads and moms that think devs should cater to them because they can't play their hobby more than 5 hours a week, not gonna happen, find another hobby or tell your wifey she'll be fine without you for 2 hours.

[bylandt11]

I also had a rough time in my first run. I stopped after the wedding and started again. I promiss you the second run will be a lot easier.

I'm now doing a zero death run. Saving and reloading is allowed for everything else, but not for combat. Dead is dead. I'm now in Kuttemberg en no deaths yet. I'm not really very good in fast mouse and keybord reflexes, so it can't be that hard to survive.

Early archery contests were a game changer for me. Easy money and easy leveling of strength and agility. Now, I don't get into real fights until I'm fully trained and in complete armour.

[Tay of the Lor]

git gud

[Soondead]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย bylandt11:

Now, I don't get into real fights until I'm fully trained and in complete armour.

If you can get to the point where enemies have a hard time hitting you at all, try wearing lighter armor, starting with your head and legs, and see how much easier it becomes to dodge and move around. I'm not quite there yet in KCD2 but my third playthrough of KCD1 was with all negative perks and leather armor only, except for the real hairy moments where you take part in battles.

[Honey Bun]

I am currently on my second play though. This time I am speedrunning it for the Lent achievement to just get this achievement over with. I am playing with the 15 charisma clothing that I had to have for the wedding, no armor at all and I am having no issues at all with the combat. You just have to take the time to understand how the combat works and it gets to the point where there is no issue at all.

[Woolsheep]

What is hard about:

Right click to block and left click to attack ?

You need timing, games SHOWS you the exact moment to block


* visible confusion