Run! On Hardcore

[Tacticus Winter]

First let me say that I'm not nitpicking here and I do absolutely adore this game. This is just one of the very few gripes I have.

So following the initial prologue you have to gallop away towards Talmberg to escape the invading Sigismund army.

In Hardcore, your waypoints are disabled and you instead have to rely upon your sense of direction. However, in this quest, hardcore mode becomes a bit of a nuisance.

If you stray a little too far from the Talmberg path, you are hit with the "Hit with a Stray Cuman Arrow" game over screen. Well, what path is the Talmberg path? In this playthrough, I just followed the road on the horse. Yes, I was zigzagging.

I feel like for this quest, they overlooked it. They needed to tell you how to get to Talmberg, what road to follow or what direction. Because obviously with it on Hardcore, you have no clue and you have to guess. What's worse, it doesn't save upon the quest start so you either have to use your Saviour Schnapps (rare in the early game) or restart the ENTIRE prologue over again.

[Grubbs008]

First off, get Unlimited Saves on Nexusmods.com as it fixes the need for the Schnapps. Secondly, at the fork you turn left and keep going until the cutscene you will see people on the road running.

[Delta_BOSS]

Henry says before the fork: "Left. Talmberg is to the left." Listen. He talks to the horse, but you're in control.


Tips: If you restart game (if you feel like it), do gardening by picking all herbs BEFORE the raid. You'll need to eat more often, keep some food, sell the flowers and weed when you're about to be overloaded and keep going 'til you cleared the town of all the herbs.

You can practice sneaking too and knocking down few NPCs. But don't over do it, don't kill them, or game over before you even start the game, when you get caught.

Get training right after you wake up at the mill (follow story quest), and as fast as you can the advanced training with Bernard, after you deal with the 2 bandits near charcoal burners (the quest after the hunt with Capon)

If you don't do the advanced training on Hardcore mode, you're screwed.

[Tacticus Winter]

Originally posted by Grubbs008:

First off, get Unlimited Saves on Nexusmods.com as it fixes the need for the Schnapps. Secondly, at the fork you turn left and keep going until the cutscene you will see people on the road running.

I played the original game when there were no saves on exit, so I can deal with the Schnapps XD

[Tacticus Winter]

Originally posted by Delta_BOSS:

Henry says before the fork: "Left. Talmberg is to the left." Listen. He talks to the horse, but you're in control.


Tips: If you restart game (if you feel like it), do gardening by picking all herbs BEFORE the raid. You'll need to eat more often, keep some food, sell the flowers and weed when you're about to be overloaded and keep going 'til you cleared the town of all the herbs.

You can practice sneaking too and knocking down few NPCs. But don't over do it, don't kill them, or game over before you even start the game, when you get caught.

Get training right after you wake up at the mill (follow story quest), and as fast as you can the advanced training with Bernard, after you deal with the 2 bandits near charcoal burners (the quest after the hunt with Capon)

If you don't do the advanced training on Hardcore mode, you're screwed.

I dont remember Henry ever saying that, I don't think I ever even got to that point, but at least now I know to go to the left.

Thank you for the pointers tho, much appreciated :)

[CloudSeeker]

Originally posted by Tacticus Winter:

Originally posted by Delta_BOSS:

Henry says before the fork: "Left. Talmberg is to the left." Listen. He talks to the horse, but you're in control.


Tips: If you restart game (if you feel like it), do gardening by picking all herbs BEFORE the raid. You'll need to eat more often, keep some food, sell the flowers and weed when you're about to be overloaded and keep going 'til you cleared the town of all the herbs.

You can practice sneaking too and knocking down few NPCs. But don't over do it, don't kill them, or game over before you even start the game, when you get caught.

Get training right after you wake up at the mill (follow story quest), and as fast as you can the advanced training with Bernard, after you deal with the 2 bandits near charcoal burners (the quest after the hunt with Capon)

If you don't do the advanced training on Hardcore mode, you're screwed.

I dont remember Henry ever saying that, I don't think I ever even got to that point, but at least now I know to go to the left.

Thank you for the pointers tho, much appreciated :)

He has said that from the very launch of the game.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Tacticus Winter:

First let me say that I'm not nitpicking here and I do absolutely adore this game. This is just one of the very few gripes I have.

So following the initial prologue you have to gallop away towards Talmberg to escape the invading Sigismund army.

In Hardcore, your waypoints are disabled and you instead have to rely upon your sense of direction. However, in this quest, hardcore mode becomes a bit of a nuisance.

If you stray a little too far from the Talmberg path, you are hit with the "Hit with a Stray Cuman Arrow" game over screen. Well, what path is the Talmberg path? In this playthrough, I just followed the road on the horse. Yes, I was zigzagging.

I feel like for this quest, they overlooked it. They needed to tell you how to get to Talmberg, what road to follow or what direction. Because obviously with it on Hardcore, you have no clue and you have to guess. What's worse, it doesn't save upon the quest start so you either have to use your Saviour Schnapps (rare in the early game) or restart the ENTIRE prologue over again.

I replayed the game again from the start on normal and at the start of run, enemies on horseback doesn't start shooting you like their AI isn't started yet... So i took out my sword on horseback and whacked them off their horses then I rode off, they never did return to me (I spend a bit of time hitting civilians and other soldiers for XP in hit and runs, then notice enemy soldiers chasing me on foot miles away).

Also, did you first play this game on hardcore? Because without prior knowledge of the game you won't get by without a insane level of frustration on the conditions and reactions of the game's scripts.

[pks]

Originally posted by Tacticus Winter:

They needed to tell you how to get to Talmberg, what road to follow or what direction. Because obviously with it on Hardcore, you have no clue and you have to guess.

Hardcore presumes you already familiar with the game mechanics and know terrain.

If you don't know terrain, you should familiarize yourself with it in normal mode to the appropriate level before going hardcore.

[Delta_BOSS]

Originally posted by Tacticus Winter:

Originally posted by Delta_BOSS:

Henry says before the fork: "Left. Talmberg is to the left." Listen. He talks to the horse, but you're in control.


Tips: If you restart game (if you feel like it), do gardening by picking all herbs BEFORE the raid. You'll need to eat more often, keep some food, sell the flowers and weed when you're about to be overloaded and keep going 'til you cleared the town of all the herbs.

You can practice sneaking too and knocking down few NPCs. But don't over do it, don't kill them, or game over before you even start the game, when you get caught.

Get training right after you wake up at the mill (follow story quest), and as fast as you can the advanced training with Bernard, after you deal with the 2 bandits near charcoal burners (the quest after the hunt with Capon)

If you don't do the advanced training on Hardcore mode, you're screwed.

I dont remember Henry ever saying that, I don't think I ever even got to that point, but at least now I know to go to the left.

Thank you for the pointers tho, much appreciated :)

I know saviour shnapps aren't much popular, but try to make use of them on hardcore mode by
1) drinking shnapps (to save) levels up drinking skills without getting drunk (unless you drink 10 in a row...)
2) brewing shnapps increases alchemy skills, which means the more you brew, the more you have, the more skills you get (the more saves you can do too)

That's why herb picking at beginning of game is important (but tedious a bit)
1) increases herbalism
1.1) followed with leveling up Strength once you get the perk in Herbalism
2) more advanced you are in herbalism, easier and faster to pick more herbs when it comes to do alchemy
3) alchemy is important, especially for "night eye" potion that allows you to see in the dark, useful in many cases during game like ambushes during night
4) alchemy/brewing potions gets easier as you level up
5) no need to think of leveling up herbalism anymore (if you got it done most of it at the beginning)
6) buy some potion recipe books in Rattay early in game so, when you learn to read (can do that quest in Uzhitz during the Hunt with Capon, saves time) you can start brewing many potions!

Tip: Sell herbs (but keep some) or sell early loot to get money for the books.