Kingdom Come: The only game that required me to cheat just so that i could finish the tutorial

[ianandfionamorrison]

to be clear, i'm not bad at video games by any means, i play plenty of different types everyday and its not that i'm just bad, because its the horse riding section of the escape from the original town.

I hold down W and shift yet i still can't escape the horseback archers, i've tried attacking them too and you can't, you have to run away and i've tried dodging the arrows, but to do that you more or less have to jink like you're in a fighter, slowing your horse making you even easier to hit and also making the entire thing take 10 times longer.

The furthest I got before I just said "Screw it" and started using cheats, was the cross in the road after the stream...

this is on the easiest difficulty.

did anybody else have this problem?

[gr1nie]

Yes, we're all stuck in the tutorial still. Hope the second game manages to squeeze a few more hours into its story cause this sucks.

[AfLIcTeD]

I think I failed like once or twice when i first started. Once I got used to the horse controls it's been easy ever since.

[SympliKrazi]

I had difficulty adjusting to the horse riding, as a newb and got an auto run mod because of this. If that's a cheat, then, when playing Hardcore, I cheated.

In normal difficulty before i modded, i did manage to get away after what seemed like 20 reloads. But half the time my goal wasnt to get away, my goal was to try to avoid as much damage as possible while getting away, which turned out to be not as vital as i initially thought.

If im not mistaken, you may have missed that double tapping Shift key (tap, tap hold) puts the horse into a full gallop, while single tap is only a canter. Canter does not drain stamina, a full gallop does drain stamina, both Henry's and the mount's. Trying to get away using only canter will not work.

[JudgeMental1337]

yeah quit the game after getting killed for 12 times. Tried It again some years later and played for like 20 hours but it became more and more boring somehow.

[Razmir]

It's strange. I played on normal and hardcore and never had a problem with that sequence.
Maybe bad luck.
You can press shift twice for a double sprint.

[wjpower2003]

I don't understand what's so difficult about the horseback escape from Skalitz. I think I failed it the first time on my first play through but then I've succeeded at it ever time afterwards.

I think that Razmir might be right. It's likely that you just pressed shift once and were therefore cantering rather than galloping. On horseback, there are three paces: trot, canter and gallop.

[MinaBros]

you have to press twice times shift for faster horseriding, the archers are meant to hit you in that section btw

[Master.Constructor]

I found that section was like a timed challenge and quite frustrating. It took several attempts but I did finally figure it out. I think the save game mod would be helpful.

[DargonBlak]

if you have continual difficulty with out-racing the cumans...

and you have completely given up on learning how to succeed...

then after mounting the horse, go into "Inventory" and then "Sidekicks" and unequip the horse's saddle - Horse Speed increases like 5 points and you should now have no difficulty

however, you should know that the "Run" quest is setting the pace for the game,

and your frustration will likely continue to mount

[EricHVela]

First two times, yes. Henry died. 3rd time and after, no. If something doesn't work, you have to forget what you expected to happen and try something else even if you don't think it should work. What works in other games won't necessarily work here and vice versa.

There's a learning curve, and for someone who refuses to look at tutorials until finishing a game once, it's a tough curve. (I learned about the master strike cheesing only after finishing the game.)

Play KCD for KCD, not for some other game. It's a different experience.

[Shrinkshooter]

Originally posted by ianandfionamorrison:

I hold down W and shift yet i still can't escape the horseback archers

Because that's a canter. You need to hold W and hit shift twice to gallop.

And no you're not going to outrun them, they will keep pace with you, but that's not a big deal. You push your horse to gallop until stamina gets really low, drop it to canter, and then gallop again and by that time you should be at Talmberg.

I got this on my first try and that was including a 10-second stretch where my horse refused to gallop for some reason and kept rearing its head (I assume scared by proximity of an enemy, but idk). So if I could get it first shot with that hiccup in my way, you should be able to clear it no problem.

[fmlstudios]

Originally posted by EricHVela:

First two times, yes. Henry died. 3rd time and after, no. If something doesn't work, you have to forget what you expected to happen and try something else even if you don't think it should work. What works in other games won't necessarily work here and vice versa.

There's a learning curve, and for someone who refuses to look at tutorials until finishing a game once, it's a tough curve. (I learned about the master strike cheesing only after finishing the game.)

Play KCD for KCD, not for some other game. It's a different experience.

Yeah. I died a few times in this section each time ive played the game. Ive found that experimenting helps. The best thing ive found to help is riding through the stream that runs the road. Causes them to mostly ride in a line behind you. Makes it so they can only fire one arrow at a time

[Ntt]

You are runing from the people that want to kill you, why would you follow the road? Run on the left next to forest and jump over the stream when it comes and you will never see them again.