Even on Easy too hard - what can i do ?

[fouty]

I've been playing for almost 5 hours now and I'm having a lot of trouble with this game.

Yes, I have one weapon for each hand and leveled them, and yes, I have leveled my melee and my health, but I still keep dying. I am now lv. 8 and all enemies I can't avoid are Lv. 11 to 14 and always 3 or 5. I can win a few fights but then my health is almost zero so I die. Evasion is also very buggy and the enemies keep hitting me and interrupting my own attacks. Blood sucking only works in very rare cases anyway.

Also, the Ki ignores all other enemies so everyone focuses ONLY on me, vampire hunters, gangs, skals and werewolves all attack ONLY me at the same time. I also cant make Health Items because i dont have the items for that

[Cursed Life]

Suck people

[fouty]

@Charmed Life i want to play friendly for the first run

[Cursed Life]

Then suffer

[fouty]

hab dich gemeldet, spar dir deine trollbeiträge

[Ash]

Try to fight (and evade) without a target lock. The game will still have target lock for a melee to a certain degree, but evading without locking is much easier, at least for me. You'll definitely need target lock for shooting and some skills, but that's it.

Invest in stamina, that's your bread and butter in no-embrace run. Familiarize yourself with enemy attack patterns. Use a 2h weapon with Parry ability (scythe or barbed cudgel). Even if you don't make a perfect parry (which knocks enemy down instantly), you'll interrupt most of the enemy attacks. Parrying requires a lot of stamina, so that's one more reason to put XP in it.
Important note: if you knock down an enemy first time and don't bite them, their stun meter will fill only halfway after they get up again. You can use this make an attack chain of sorts: hit enemy with a couple of attacks - stun - wait for them to get back up and for your stamina to regenerate, rinse and repeat.

Rats do respawn if you run from their location 10-20 meters. Exploit that if you're low on blood.

AI will focus on you if you attack them, so you have to rush past the faction which should serve as a meatshield (high stamina helps there too).

[virtualmatrix258]

Originally posted by Ash:

Try to fight (and evade) without a target lock. The game will still have target lock for a melee to a certain degree, but evading without locking is much easier, at least for me. You'll definitely need target lock for shooting and some skills, but that's it.

Invest in stamina, that's your bread and butter in no-embrace run. Familiarize yourself with enemy attack patterns. Use a 2h weapon with Parry ability (scythe or barbed cudgel). Even if you don't make a perfect parry (which knocks enemy down instantly), you'll interrupt most of the enemy attacks. Parrying requires a lot of stamina, so that's one more reason to put XP in it.
Important note: if you knock down an enemy first time and don't bite them, their stun meter will fill only halfway after they get up again. You can use this make an attack chain of sorts: hit enemy with a couple of attacks - stun - wait for them to get back up and for your stamina to regenerate, rinse and repeat.

Rats do respawn if you run from their location 10-20 meters. Exploit that if you're low on blood.

AI will focus on you if you attack them, so you have to rush past the faction which should serve as a meatshield (high stamina helps there too).

Thank you for the tips. I'm also playing on Normal being a nice vamp. It's difficult but I think with these tips I'll be able to pull it off. I haven't been investing in stamina like I should be and have only been using 1H weapons, the DLC sword as a matter of fact. I do have the scythe so I'm going to see if I can upgrade it a bit, as well as my stam and hopefully that helps. Thanks a ton!

[Admod, the Equivocal]

The game is really designed to make people struggle on a 'good' path. This is the first game I've ever played where being good was truly much much harder than the evil path.

[Sputnik]

Couple things I'd add:

Find routes across the map that allow you to evade combat when you want to.

Most young fledglings have trouble with the bosses. My advice of those is to embrace your death a couple times, figure out why, and then adjust your build and tactics. e.g. If you're getting flanked by jumping enemies fight from a niche or corner that covers your ass. If a boss hammers you up close, invest in guns and attacks you can sustain from a distance
etc. etc.