How to run away from a fight ?

[Akatosh]

Hello

I'm at the beginning of the game and my chareacter isn't very good (and I'm not good in fight myself I think).

Bur I just can't escape a fight I can't win, ASAP I turn myself to escape, the lock system force my character to turn back and face the ennemies.

it's just awfull !

How am I suppose to escape ?

[PafunaMT]

Hold down your Left Shift key while running away, breaks the lock and you will sprint.

[embe]

in the beggining of the game, you're not really meant to attack other humans. this isn't skyrim. if you have this issue in combat, just don't fight anyone for now and get better gear until you don't have the problem anymore. a horse also helps and you get one for free at some point

[theo]

It's probably not the lock system itself, as it turns off when holding sprint. When chasing someone you can 'tackle' them and force to fight, the enemies can do the same to you, if you can't lose them (which means you just don't have enough speed and might want to try to glitch them into some obstacle).

[Akatosh]

Ok, thanks everyone.
I'm at the bennining of the gamr, just after I wake up in the mill and, as I usually do in games, I'm exploring and doing side quest before following the main quest.
I think I'll go back to the main quest until my chracter get some training.

[Jeza]

Originally posted by Akatosh:

Ok, thanks everyone.
I'm at the bennining of the gamr, just after I wake up in the mill and, as I usually do in games, I'm exploring and doing side quest before following the main quest.
I think I'll go back to the main quest until my chracter get some training.

You can absolutely go out and explore before starting the main quest, and seeing that at the start the main quest is very let's say intense, you won't have much time for sight seeing and side quests (you should take time in between each "chapter" of the main quest to go explore before being railoaded into another time sensitive event)

The only thing is that you won't be able to fight , even is your character was level 20 and you an experienced kcd player because you haven't unlocked the art of parrying or blocking attacks yet, so while you can hit your enemies with a sword you have absolutely no way to defend yourself and all their blows will land full force.

But most side quests can be done without frontal fighting,you can talk your way out of many issues, if you need to fight you can use archery if you buy or find a vambrace to protect your arms from the bowstring (you need it until you're level 5 in archery), you can wait for bandits and others to be asleep at night and use sneaking, steal from them, use a dagger to assassinate them or knock them out and wack at them with a weapon or shoot them while unconscious (remove all their armor before so it goes faster and you don't damage the loot), you can use potions and poisons too.
Just avoid ambushes and remember that using a sword, axe etc is not an option you have yet :)

[kage74]

Yeah, the game isn't letting me run away either -- and even if I do run away the enemy is usually 2 steps behind me the whole time and as soon as I stop they attack and kill me.

The combat system in this game is awful. The enemies use moves that seemingly cannot be blocked or countered and they cheese you to death, like when the town drunk blocks all of your attacks, repeatedly grabs you and knees you in the face and lands combos on you and you can't land a single one on him and you can't do anything to get away from him.



*This is honestly not the sort of game I wanted and if Steam would let me I'd demand a refund and trade it in for a better game in a heartbeat, but I'm more than 2hrs into the game and now it seems I'm stuck with it, but I seriously doubt I will ever have the patience to finish it.

[Eidolon]

Originally posted by kage74:

Yeah, the game isn't letting me run away either -- and even if I do run away the enemy is usually 2 steps behind me the whole time and as soon as I stop they attack and kill me.

The combat system in this game is awful. The enemies use moves that seemingly cannot be blocked or countered and they cheese you to death, like when the town drunk blocks all of your attacks, repeatedly grabs you and knees you in the face and lands combos on you and you can't land a single one on him and you can't do anything to get away from him.

The reason Kunesh (the drunk) always beats the crap out of you is because he's a grown man that often gets into drunken brawls. Henry simply doesn't have the strength or the knowledge (yet) to deal with something like that. Once you get to Rattay and unlock Captain Bernard's traing you can ask to do some hand to hand combat. Eventually you learn how to do those seemingly unblockable attacks yourself in addition to countering them.

[Akatosh]

I had the luck to watch a fight between friendly soldiers and invaders (Couman, I think ?) and luckily the soldiers won; so I coul loot the ennmies and now I have a complete couman armor.

The funny thing is that the full armor is so heavy I can't wear it completly without beeing in overweight :D

With that stuff I can handle fight against bandits just wearing regular clothes, but when I encounter armored ennmies, I just can't survive.

I'll continue exploring and doing what I can without fighting, but sometimes random encouters trie to kill me xd

I remember once I was walking to a camp, looking for a bed to save, and it was full of bandits ... I died and lost 2h of gameplay ù_ù

[Kudlaty]

I'm new to this myself and I totally agree that fleeing from fight is really hard. What works for me most is to avoid any fights ofcourse, but also keeping armor as light as possible.

If I get into fight that I know I won't win anyway I'm trying to clinch with oponnent to push him back and then run away. I think winning clinch is strength based. There's perk for it too, and you have to react with attack button in right moment (correct me if I'm wrong), so train with Cpt. Bernard in Rattay as much as you can. It's free, gives Henry strength, agility, defence and attack skills really quickly and you won't die from wooden sword :D

Imho combat system is one of best I've ever expirienced in any game. It is hard and complex but really rewarding and good looking. There are still some things in it that I don't understand but maybe that's because I went straight for hard mode, so learning timing in fights is hard.

Problems start when there are more than one enemy... Ambushes are impossible for me to escape.
I just had a thought right now, there's button for giving up, anyone knows if this actually works in situations like that ? It would suck if all bandits were murderers, there should be possibility to get robbed. (going to try that next time )

[theo]

Originally posted by Kudlaty:

I just had a thought right now, there's button for giving up, anyone knows if this actually works in situations like that ? It would suck if all bandits were murderers, there should be possibility to get robbed. (going to try that next time )

There are rare cases when you can surrender and negotiate with bandits BEFORE fight, but not after they started attacking. Usually you can't surrender and bandits are bloothirsty murderers. Possibly the worst flaw of this game, feels absolutely wrong and seems like devs intended it to be different but couldn't get it to work properly

[Stevepunk]

The flaw of having to hold shift to run away is if you let go of shift to catch your breath and regen stamina, enemies can turn you back around to face them. There are many broken systems in this game. This is one of them.

[Noeat]

Originally posted by Stevepunk:

The flaw of having to hold shift to run away is if you let go of shift to catch your breath and regen stamina, enemies can turn you back around to face them. There are many broken systems in this game. This is one of them.

what exactly is broken on sprinting with shift.. and stamina depleting sprint?
can u make that clear?

btw: who r u? necromant?

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by PafunaMT:

Hold down your Left Shift key while running away, breaks the lock and you will sprint.

Just have to thanks as well I could never run away will test that time but now they run away "grins"

[r3d834rd]

Be sure to get sprinter perk to run faster too. helps with running away or chasing.

[DMKI]

Originally posted by Eidolon:

The reason Kunesh (the drunk) always beats the crap out of you is because he's a grown man that often gets into drunken brawls. Henry simply doesn't have the strength or the knowledge

Nope. The reason Kunesh beats you is because it is scripted. I won the fight with him and still the fight ends with his "victory". The whole game is a set of badly laid rails.