Question regarding archery

[31Gridmore03]

Will hitting an archery target (those round ones you can find at every archery range) in free roam actually increase your marksmanship or not? Or do you have to enter a competition with NPCs?

[DargonBlak]

You need to enter the competition to increase Bow Skill.

Hunting (animals, Cumans, Bandits, Citizens, etc.) is also a good way to increase Bow Skill as well as Vitality (with each kill)

[Lieste]

You (personally, the player) can get better at archery by plinking at a log, a target etc. but you only get xp and develop *Henry's* archery skill in competition or by hitting a living target (animal, cuman, bandit (probably also civilian, but I don't tend to do that so can't speak to it)).

Chumps is a more 'realistic' game than at the Butts, and will help your archery development more, but either is usable.

For competition shooting, using a lighter bow makes for an easier time. For all purposes I tended to use the Capon bow, as it is heavy enough for target effect and light enough for rapid shooting. I can use the Sinew bow, but don't like it, and the villager's bow is a little too weak to be useful on anything larger than a hare.

Point the whole screen, the draw and loose as the hand 'drops' just a fraction at the end of the draw, but before any swaying starts. Don't attempt to aim, either loose that one and take another shot if it misses, or use (iirc RMB) the command to relax the draw and have another go, much faster and more reliable and accurate than trying to 'aim' a moderately heavy bow when at full draw. (The Villager's bow is light enough to point freely, but I still prefer an 'instinctive' shot rather than an aimed one because it suits my shooting with the heavier bows much better).

In competition I can routinely (if not quite on every occasion) land all 21 arrows in the centre and score the first finish bonus for the master competition from pretty soon after "Train Hard, Fight Easy", without undue prior training outside that single quest. (Though I as a player do have nearly a thousand hours in Beta and release, which makes Henry's life a bit easier overall as I fumble his decisions and actions a bit less often than a new player would).

[Pieshaman]

Yes I really like lord Capon bow.
Is there anyone who did beat expert competition?
I tried it but with my bowskill of 6 I think it is now and agility of 5 that one is really hard, cause they all shoot so fast and almost perfect.
Advanced I win easy now, just did that 2x and won both.
and I did got 17 arrows hit in the chumps game so I felt pretty awesome about my Henry there lol.

[GrannYgraine]

I go to the inn in Sasau and go to the pasture just north of the inn. I go at night and use Nighthawk potion so I can see the 6-7 cows there. The lay on the ground so you can walk right up to them and use whatever weapon you want to level up. If you shot your bow the cow may walk away but return seconds later to the same spot so you can shot them again. Just to the east of the pasture is a pen with 2 cows and 6-7 pigs you can shoot. They will respawn each night.
Between these 2 locations I get 8-9 cows and the 6-7 pigs, Each kill gets 14 xp. This means 168 to nearly 200 xp per night. Watch out for wayfarers who will call the guards.
In addition you get 1.2K to 1.5K beef and nearly 500 lbs pork to sell.

[VernonKun]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ygraineogf:

I go to the inn in Sasau and go to the pasture just north of the inn. I go at night and use Nighthawk potion so I can see the 6-7 cows there. The lay on the ground so you can walk right up to them and use whatever weapon you want to level up. If you shot your bow the cow may walk away but return seconds later to the same spot so you can shot them again. Just to the east of the pasture is a pen with 2 cows and 6-7 pigs you can shoot. They will respawn each night.
Between these 2 locations I get 8-9 cows and the 6-7 pigs, Each kill gets 14 xp. This means 168 to nearly 200 xp per night. Watch out for wayfarers who will call the guards.
In addition you get 1.2K to 1.5K beef and nearly 500 lbs pork to sell.

"Kingdom Come designed to be a realistic game"

[Yuz]

Other location is at Rattay executioner's field, you will find sheeps and no guard or anyone around.

You can trigger the respawn if you move far enough, just going until conciliation cross at west then return to the spot where sheeps respawn. You can do this alll day.

[PafunaMT]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Pieshaman:

Yes I really like lord Capon bow.
Is there anyone who did beat expert competition?
I tried it but with my bowskill of 6 I think it is now and agility of 5 that one is really hard, cause they all shoot so fast and almost perfect.
Advanced I win easy now, just did that 2x and won both.
and I did got 17 arrows hit in the chumps game so I felt pretty awesome about my Henry there lol.

I concur that Capon's hunting bow is probably the best for tournaments; the arrow doesn't drop too much at distance as with the less powerful hunting bows, and the draw speed beats almost anything out there.

I've won every archery tournament at expert with the Capon bow. You don't need terribly high skill for Henry, just your own 'finger/mouse' skill for accuracy. The expert tourney opponents are pretty good, so if you shoot with a slower bow, you'll just end up tying or losing. With the extra speed, you draw faster, therefore you finish your quiver first and gain the extra 3 points for early finish. If you're accurate with your bow, that 3 point buffer is your advantage.

Hope this helps others, enjoy.

[chriscase26]

It's not hard to beat the expert archery contest in Rattay with some practice as a player. Capon's bow is fine as a starting point if you manage to win it during the opening quest series (I forget what it's called but you have to finish getting shown around the Rattay combat training area before you can join the archery contest at the archery range.) However you will definitely want to upgrade as your strength and agility level up. I wouldn't plan on leveling strength via archery though - unarmed combat with Bernard is much better for that.

When he is talking you through your first archery contest, Bernard says something vague like, "you have to find a rhythm." That turns out to be good advice for juicing the archery contest. Depending on some combination of factors (I'd guess the bow, your stats, and some initial conditions of your stance maybe), as you draw the bow it goes through some fairly predictable trajectory. As long as you continue to draw and release arrows smoothly, that trajectory doesn't change much. So, if you can sort of nudge the bow movements to the point where you are hitting the bull's eye, once you have "dialed in" your movement to that position, all you have to do is keep the movements smooth and similar, and you can hit nothing but bull's eyes for the rest of the contest. Plus shooting like this is usually faster than everybody else so you get that bonus too.

I usually pull a couple thousand groshen a day from the archery contest in Rattay like this - and it's good to get your archery to the point where you can take out opponents with it too.