I suck at the game and I dont know what to do

[luigift]

ive had my game stuck at the same save file for 2 weeks right when im about to go into a tournament. im really bad at the game so I can never win the tournament, ive already tried practicing pvp and watching videos about the combat and I still cant get the hang of it. My characters are broke and I have no idea what to do

[Darth Revan]

you can leave the tournament at any time, improve your skills and gear and try another tournament at a later date.

[Action Man]

Practice fighting bandits. Tournaments got an AI update with the latest patch, so they're going to be harder.

You can bring even a handful of recruits to help cover you when fighting Looters. You probably don't even need to upgrade them. Use the fights to upgrade your skills to get more familiar with the combat flow.

[Philippe_at_bay]

If you're the average incompetent player (like me), you probably need about 50 or more points in most of the weapons that are going to get used to make any headway.

The main thing to understand is that you shouldn't commit yourself to every possible fight in the tournament. As long as it's not a Khuzait or an Aserai tournament, don't risk getting eliminated unless you really have to. So in four team fights, run away and keep running until the winning team has gotten rid of everyone else. If you start thinking along these lines, you'll realize that if you're careful, you can make it about halfway through a tournament without doing any serious fighting.

I suck at combat, but I win plenty of tournaments. When I have to fight, I make the other guy chase me, and make sure he's a little behind me and a little to my right. Then, while running, away I prepare to strike from the right and suddely spin around and release. Then I immediately turn left and keep running, and as often as not outdistance most if not all of his counter-blow. And because I'm moving when I release my strike, it hits a lot harder and faster than it has any business doing. If you get the timing right and keep running away, 1 vs. 2 is not a problem (vs. 3 can be kind of tough though).

Most people won't want to learn my weird way of winning single combats, and I don't blame them. I started doing it when I remembered a story from Roman mythology about the last surviving soldier in an arena duel with a bunch of enemies who had killed all of his team mates. He was a good runner so he started running, and after a few laps his enemies were winded and spread out. Then he turned and finished them off one by one.

The main thing, though, is to practice practice practice in the arena, and not when there's a tournament going on. By the way, before my old computer died, my character was no. 8 on the leader boards and closing in on no. 7.

[Arkew Von Greffer]

Just run logistic build bruh

[Clovis Sangrail]

We all sucked when we started, but now we are all sages.

You will be, too.

Set the difficulty as low as it will go, then save early and save often.

If you want to have babies, be sure to Enable Birth and Death at the start.

Play the campaign mode, but ignore the Neretzes' Folly main quest and play it like a sandbox. You do not need that banner for anything.

Rescue your family. Your siblings are the best companions in this game.

And this above all -- Keep Calm and Reload On!

[Pronoun Paladin ☯]

Sounds like you might want to restart. Take the knowledge you've learned and try to do better.

If you do restart I suggest heading to the desert kingdom to recruit 3-4 cavalry, and then head to a major city to goto the arena and learn what towns are having tournaments.

Spend your early game trying to learn at tournaments, how to fight. Just be aggressive if you're on foot. Block quickly when they attack, and otherwise mash the attack button and move around (often backwards) even if you repeatedly hit their shield eventually a hit will go through.

Cavalry it's about timing, holding your attack button down and letting it go much earlier then you'd think you should let go of the button because polearms are dreadfully slow.

There's no downside to losing at a tournament, the combat increases your skills, and if you win you usually get a very nice piece of gear.

Also check taverns for a good companion that is going to fit how you play the game. You'll get multiple companions. Sometimes they'll enter the tournament as well and while you won't get the gold you'll get the gear if they win.

IF you're a bandit I recommend going to the Steppe to fight the horsed Steppe Bandits, you can recruit them as prisoners if you don't mind having bandit troops. They're actually pretty good, and on horses so it'll increase your speed. If not then grow your force however you want. But typically I pick a country that I want to become a vassal of and start doing their quests and hunting their bandits.

Pledging your service to one of the Kingdoms might help you learn. And dont' be afraid to restart.

For making money. So far it seems like becoming your own trader is one of the best ways to build-up money. Look for trade rumors of really cheap goods that you can later take to another areas and make alot...kind of like tools that you pickup for 50 and can sell for 230. Or Velvet that you can pickup for 60 and sell for 800 (the trade rumor said 1000)

There's 3 passive ways of income.

Taking over alleys in major cities. Look for a guide on how to do that.

Caravan which is going to cost you 10-20k in gold

And workshops which can cost about as much as a Caravan.

Of the three taking over alley's doesn't cost anything. It requires a companion with 30 rogue skill and no mercy trait.

You might also checkout smithing, its' a good way to make income

[Legiondorf]

EASIEST start 100% is no army (cashflow +ve) and looter fighting 5-10 looters on foot with S&B/2H/javvies to break them up PLUS and this is critically important... your surgeon and scout ON horse with bows/shield/polearm (you must have two followers in case your nerd doctor is looter rock one shotted - you never know). They are effectively your tanking pets so you don't get pitchfork bum rushed to death. If you must do horsey action don't have a literal donkey and bare minimum polearm is Reinforced Highland Spear so you have some distance from the falchion giga-looters if they spawn (they are easily worse then pitchfork bros). Once you get 2H up or big horsey polearm you will be a god trust me.

[Legiondorf]

Oh yeah to fund the followers just do trade between to neighbour cities while fight levelling its literally enough cash.

[luigift]

Originally posted by Action Man:

Practice fighting bandits. Tournaments got an AI update with the latest patch, so they're going to be harder.

You can bring even a handful of recruits to help cover you when fighting Looters. You probably don't even need to upgrade them. Use the fights to upgrade your skills to get more familiar with the combat flow.

ill try but every time I try chasing them down they get together with a stronger group of looters

[luigift]

Originally posted by Chunk Norris ☯:

Sounds like you might want to restart. Take the knowledge you've learned and try to do better.

If you do restart I suggest heading to the desert kingdom to recruit 3-4 cavalry, and then head to a major city to goto the arena and learn what towns are having tournaments.

Spend your early game trying to learn at tournaments, how to fight. Just be aggressive if you're on foot. Block quickly when they attack, and otherwise mash the attack button and move around (often backwards) even if you repeatedly hit their shield eventually a hit will go through.

Cavalry it's about timing, holding your attack button down and letting it go much earlier then you'd think you should let go of the button because polearms are dreadfully slow.

There's no downside to losing at a tournament, the combat increases your skills, and if you win you usually get a very nice piece of gear.

Also check taverns for a good companion that is going to fit how you play the game. You'll get multiple companions. Sometimes they'll enter the tournament as well and while you won't get the gold you'll get the gear if they win.

IF you're a bandit I recommend going to the Steppe to fight the horsed Steppe Bandits, you can recruit them as prisoners if you don't mind having bandit troops. They're actually pretty good, and on horses so it'll increase your speed. If not then grow your force however you want. But typically I pick a country that I want to become a vassal of and start doing their quests and hunting their bandits.

Pledging your service to one of the Kingdoms might help you learn. And dont' be afraid to restart.

For making money. So far it seems like becoming your own trader is one of the best ways to build-up money. Look for trade rumors of really cheap goods that you can later take to another areas and make alot...kind of like tools that you pickup for 50 and can sell for 230. Or Velvet that you can pickup for 60 and sell for 800 (the trade rumor said 1000)

There's 3 passive ways of income.

Taking over alleys in major cities. Look for a guide on how to do that.

Caravan which is going to cost you 10-20k in gold

And workshops which can cost about as much as a Caravan.

Of the three taking over alley's doesn't cost anything. It requires a companion with 30 rogue skill and no mercy trait.

You might also checkout smithing, its' a good way to make income

yeah im on my first restart and ill try get into trading.

[Narldevan]

Join just Vandia, auto win.

[Urmel]

dont play tournament, only on lowest difficult settings and with some basic game/fight experience.

you can increase / lower most difficult settings every time. change auto save to 5 min.

[Action Man]

Originally posted by luigift:

Originally posted by Action Man:

Practice fighting bandits. Tournaments got an AI update with the latest patch, so they're going to be harder.

You can bring even a handful of recruits to help cover you when fighting Looters. You probably don't even need to upgrade them. Use the fights to upgrade your skills to get more familiar with the combat flow.

ill try but every time I try chasing them down they get together with a stronger group of looters

You can reduce your number of troops so you're faster, or go into hideouts. The number of bandits is preset, so take a squad in and kill some bandits. They're pretty spread out so you tend to fight only a handful at a time.

Hideouts are also a great way to build clan member combat skills.

[luigift]

Originally posted by Action Man:

Originally posted by luigift:

ill try but every time I try chasing them down they get together with a stronger group of looters

You can reduce your number of troops so you're faster, or go into hideouts. The number of bandits is preset, so take a squad in and kill some bandits. They're pretty spread out so you tend to fight only a handful at a time.

Hideouts are also a great way to build clan member combat skills.

Kk thanks

[ShadowFox]

Originally posted by luigift:

ive had my game stuck at the same save file for 2 weeks right when im about to go into a tournament. im really bad at the game so I can never win the tournament, ive already tried practicing pvp and watching videos about the combat and I still cant get the hang of it. My characters are broke and I have no idea what to do

Try the arena part first so you can fight for lower stakes and level your one handed skill (this will be easiest one to fight with since you get a shield) it takes time but you got this!