No bow skills?

[BennyRahma]

Sorry if there has been posts about this before but i was just curious if there was supposed to be skills for the bow or not or are they just passive because I noticed at higher level you kinda zoom in while drawing back at higher levels and are less shakey with shots and they shoot straighter. I was curious about the skills thing becausde the archer in Ledetchko (probabaly butchered that sorry lol) says he will teach you a trick if you do well enough in his game of Chumps. Does he just mean to increase you archery level or teach you an actual skill within archery?

[Bramborough]

Vladek's reward is just some Bow XP. Basically, a free Training. Luckily I had a recent save, so reloaded to do it again just to make sure it wasn't a bug or something.

I think it's weird there's no Bow perks. I guess because weapon perks are supposed to be those useless combos, and they couldn't think up anything equally worthless for Bows and Unarmed. shrug.

[General Income Tax]

Originally posted by Bennyrahma:

Sorry if there has been posts about this before but i was just curious if there was supposed to be skills for the bow or not or are they just passive because I noticed at higher level you kinda zoom in while drawing back at higher levels and are less shakey with shots and they shoot straighter. I was curious about the skills thing becausde the archer in Ledetchko (probabaly butchered that sorry lol) says he will teach you a trick if you do well enough in his game of Chumps. Does he just mean to increase you archery level or teach you an actual skill within archery?

Anytime an NPC "teaches you something" it's just an increase to the relevant skill EXP, sometimes it's not enough to actually give you a level.

There are no bow skills and I couldn't say for sure what increasing the skill actually does besides increasing the damage you can do with a bow. It might make things less "shaky" as well, but I can't confirm it.

[BennyRahma]

Ive noticed increasing the skill level makes your sight zoom in more and the aim alot better...Bramborough I agree most of those combos are useless for melee weapons considering you cant complete the full chain of them because either you WILL get blocked or parried or they die in 1 hit lol. Only combos ive pulled off are the 3 hit ones with slash n stabs.

[Shoebsy]

Who are you fighting that you can 1-shot? and why would you need a combo for them?

melee combos are hardly useless, it's reward damage for properly using them. I've used them regularly against anyone who isn't a barely dressed 'ruffian'.

[Bramborough]

Yes, bow skill steadies the arm, you gradually lose that low-skill sway. For me, I first noticed it was significantly better around level 12. It had probably been improving beforehand, but I didn't register because I was compensating so much for the darn sway, that I'd started swaying my aimpoint in rhythm. Then it hit me "wait a minute...that's not my arm waving the aimpoint wildly all over the visible horizon...that's ME doing that!". Lol, had to basically retrain myself in KCD archery.

Somewhere around 10 or 12 there's also a target zoom-in which increases a little bit each level as well. It's pretty robust at level 20.

[nut]

Originally posted by Kiroshi:

Who are you fighting that you can 1-shot? and why would you need a combo for them?

melee combos are hardly useless, it's reward damage for properly using them. I've used them regularly against anyone who isn't a barely dressed 'ruffian'.

Literally everyone. You get to a point in the game fairly fast where you utterly destroy and rape anyone who even looks at you funny. For instance, I saved my game, then proceeded to kill every single person in every single town (excluding the NPCs that can't die), just to see if I could, and I maybe got hit once or twice?

Gonna finish this playthrough then wait for mods that make the combat more difficult, or at the least, give opponents more health, before I go at it again.

[Grubbs008]

Id say get Perkaholic, but its actually broken, one or more of the perks from the mod cause drunk animations in conversations.

[BennyRahma]

Originally posted by Kiroshi:

Who are you fighting that you can 1-shot? and why would you need a combo for them?

melee combos are hardly useless, it's reward damage for properly using them. I've used them regularly against anyone who isn't a barely dressed 'ruffian'.

Pretty much anybody when I use my heavy warhammer. I use a longsword now because it isnt insta kill for the most part

[Shoebsy]

Originally posted by nut:

Originally posted by Kiroshi:

Who are you fighting that you can 1-shot? and why would you need a combo for them?

melee combos are hardly useless, it's reward damage for properly using them. I've used them regularly against anyone who isn't a barely dressed 'ruffian'.

Literally everyone. You get to a point in the game fairly fast where you utterly destroy and rape anyone who even looks at you funny. For instance, I saved my game, then proceeded to kill every single person in every single town (excluding the NPCs that can't die), just to see if I could, and I maybe got hit once or twice?

Gonna finish this playthrough then wait for mods that make the combat more difficult, or at the least, give opponents more health, before I go at it again.

So going from level 100, to fighting level 5s'. Nice~

[hammerinn]

Originally posted by Bramborough:

Vladek's reward is just some Bow XP. Basically, a free Training. Luckily I had a recent save, so reloaded to do it again just to make sure it wasn't a bug or something.

I think it's weird there's no Bow perks. I guess because weapon perks are supposed to be those useless combos, and they couldn't think up anything equally worthless for Bows and Unarmed. shrug.

The combos are good IF you don't rely on masterstrike.