Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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vine Jan 1, 2022 @ 5:01pm
Hunting game with dollmaker arrows?
Has anyone done that? Have you ever been .. Caponed by a boar, or a deer, that shrug off our arrows and zip away?
Why have I not thought of it earlier? like .. almost 4 years earlier? Has any one of you?
Somehow I feel like I'll play some more KCD soon.

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DargonBlak Jan 1, 2022 @ 5:03pm 
i've never thought of it either - hm.

it could be helpful in early game for hunters with low damage bows, if it works
kris.aalst Jan 1, 2022 @ 5:18pm 
I'm not sure why you'd want to use dollmaker arrows to hunt game but feel free to do so, of course :yazdsmile: My Henry is usually the sneaky type but if a difficult combat situation is unavoidable (think Band of Bastards), dollmaker is a blessing. If there's some distance between you and the opponents, use the potion on arrows. And/or use it on your melee weapon. Slight exaggeration but it almost seems like you're fighting in slow motion, being able to see the moves the enemies perform and reacting to them accordingly.

For game, with a good bow, good arrows and good bow skill you can one-shot everything.
DargonBlak Jan 1, 2022 @ 5:57pm 
My curiosity is whether the animal animation will be altered by the addition of Dollmaker. We know Dollmaker only allows humans to walk - and it would be real nice if the often manic deer could also be made to simply walk (those Roe deer are so skittish)

And, if it works, would show the coding was designed to handle this. Which would be cool imo
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Cinus Jan 2, 2022 @ 6:03am 
i don't know what dollmaker is at this point 100Hplayed but... with 10lvl bow i hunt evrything with pierce arrows and even viper nest etc are easy.... im sneaky guy with some clothes that's all :) edit: i goodled it and woow that's pretty good idea not gonna lie :D thanks
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vine Jan 2, 2022 @ 8:04am 
so one of the reasons why i don't 1hit kill boar or deer is because i usually pack hundreds of normal or hunting arrows and i don't wanna waste the solid precious armor piercing ones on game.. that's why i don't kill a deer or boar in single hit. and i chase them through forests and meadows :)
that's why i will use dollmaker. to make the animals limp instead of running away
MacSuibhne Jan 2, 2022 @ 8:36am 
vine,

Not telling you anything new, I'm sure...but for the sake of the other interested parties in this thread--there is such a thing as "Better Hunting" arrows. They're probably not gonna do much good against well armoured opponents (although historically even "Better Piercing" arrows didn't either) but once I get my bow skills up a bit, short of a complete miss I have never wounded an animal with them. Never had to track a wounded animal. Didn't even know that was a thing.

The point of all this is not to say how great an archer I am... at best I am adequate... but simply to say that if I can do it, anyone can.

I have never tried Dollmaker on arrows, but to each his own.

That said, for myself, I've always thought it was an answer to a question that never needed to be asked.

[shrug]

FWIW, IMO, YMMV...
vine Jan 2, 2022 @ 8:42am 
Mac i know what you're saying, i appreciate it, i.. for some reason i never ever wanted to use better quality arrows for hunting.. dunno why.. i will try now, you have my word!
Philippe_at_bay Jan 2, 2022 @ 11:34am 
I always loot better hunting arrows from bandits, and have more of them in my trunk than I know what to do with. That's probably why I don't mind wasting them on difficult shots.

It never occurred to me to hunt with the dollmaker potion. Just getting your archery skills to a decent level (above ten) seems so much simpler. I suppose it gives you an excuse to practice your alchemy, but there are lots of other useful potions you can make.

I find that rabbits are tricky to hunt even with a dozen or so archery skill levels under your belt. Full grown deer, boars, and even roe (more of a challenge because they're very jumpy and skittish) make much easier targets. Repeat visits to good hunting spots with large, slow game can quickly build up an industrial strength warchest that will make you wonder why people who need money waste time on bandits and burglary.

My current favorite weapon is a decent quality Cuman bow that I've been learning to shoot from horseback. Once you get good at hunting from horseback, going up against six or seven opponents in heavy plate armor is easy if you remember to fight like a steppe nomad. The game gives you a glimpse of mounted steppe warfare during the escape from Skalitz, in case you've forgotten what that looks like. Having said that, I only use my better hunting arrows on heavily armored opponents when I run out of piercing arrows because they work better on soft targets (think AP and HE in a modern tank).


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Wolfr13 Jan 2, 2022 @ 11:59am 
I haven't experienced with poison and hunting, because i use arrows depending on bow and skill, that is sufficient for one hit kills.

I see your point, that potion can be used for the missing force, but after Pryb. you can have thousands of better hunting arrows and better long distance arrows and for me it's impossible to use up the better long distance arrows in the normal gameplay.

Last, when going for the realism route, your prices for the poisoned meat should not be great.
Also I'm using only arrows with the same power modifier, that the trajectory is the same.
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Date Posted: Jan 1, 2022 @ 5:01pm
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