first tournament

[Trane01]

im on normal difficulty and the bots are crazy strong with infinite stamina destroying me on first tournament what is the problem? also i hit like 5 times and hes almoust full hp

[wjpower2003]

Dude, you've been playing KCD for 9.4 hours.... relax. I've played over 1925 hours of KCD on multiple hardcore mode playthroughs, and even I wouldn't go balls-deep on the Rattay Tourney at 9.4 hours unless I'd been grinding my skills at the practice arena with Captain Bernard.

You are new to this, and that's okay, we were all new once. Know your limitations.

[Trane01]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

Dude, you've been playing KCD for 9.4 hours.... relax. I've played over 1925 hours of KCD on multiple hardcore mode playthroughs, and even I wouldn't go balls-deep on the Rattay Tourney at 9.4 hours unless I'd been grinding my skills at the practice arena with Captain Bernard.

You are new to this, and that's okay, we were all new once. Know your limitations.

i see thnx

[Bandy]

KCD is a slow burn, as mentioned, relax and enjoy the world. Try not to fast travel.
Do not be concerned about missing something, the tourney repeats, come back mid-game when you can beat a host of bandits.

That said, you certainly got the result that an overconfident Henry would have received :D

[Khalunka]

Originally posted by Trane01:

im on normal difficulty and the bots are crazy strong with infinite stamina destroying me on first tournament what is the problem? also i hit like 5 times and hes almoust full hp

You are able to win it without much problem in that playtime IF you had trained a little bit with Bernard enough to learn masterstrikes. Which in my opinion is broken in this game. But dont worry, next week you will be a monster and win all tournaments.

[Pomp And Circumstance]

the tournament repeats itself, its like a radiant quest in skyrim, so dont feel bad if you lose it, you wont die or get a game over and you'll probably get some combat skill xp, you have to win it 26 times to go through the entire list of rewards for it and after that it repeats, so you dont even really have to do it since there is no ending, also you can talk do the herald dude there to skip time till the next one if you wanna fast track through them all

[KennySus]

I was on the same boat 🤣

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by wjpower2003:

Dude, you've been playing KCD for 9.4 hours.... relax. I've played over 1925 hours of KCD on multiple hardcore mode playthroughs, and even I wouldn't go balls-deep on the Rattay Tourney at 9.4 hours unless I'd been grinding my skills at the practice arena with Captain Bernard.

You are new to this, and that's okay, we were all new once. Know your limitations.

Glad you stuck in for so long - and before i forget, i raise a glass to Mac in memory

I sometimes miss him in these forums - he always had a way with new players :))

[DargonBlak]

Originally posted by Trane01:

im on normal difficulty and the bots are crazy strong with infinite stamina destroying me on first tournament what is the problem? also i hit like 5 times and hes almoust full hp

the NPCs in game do not scale, only the player character (Henry) will scale

so, as other have mentioned, and Bernard has already told you, "You must Train"

an adequate level to win the Tournament as a Peer is around Level 10 in your combat and Warfare skills - multiple weapons too, as you may have discovered

prior to Level 10 peerage, we can rely on Master Strikes ftw - Master Strikes allow you to do damage while only defending - combining "back step often" with "always defend", and it's not hard to win (it just makes combat absolutely boring)

the good news is that once you train up your Henry, and manage to learn the game, then the level of satisfaction and pride in your successes will match your current frustration

i had this same conversation with an old timer years ago - and he ended up loving the game