F off Rat

[Dirty Jack]

How are you supposed to kill the rat in the first village when he does 15 attacks and kills you in his turn which he starts for some BS reason? Even though you lured him into a trap.
Wtf is this

[Ruinous]

Ah you got knocked down eh? You don't actually have to open the dialogue with him to kill him, just open up with an attack on him if you are struggling. But yeh, getting knocked down or ko'ed is rough as it'll give opponents a round or two of free damage on you.

[Something completely different]

Yeah, don't talk to him and shove a knife in his gut straightaways.

[Agito]

I'd be nice if there was a way to deal with him at all if I cant pass any of the strength/gambling/speech checks. I cant get him to walk to the house and I cant attack him in town since everyone in town then becomes aggressive. Essentially a dead end.

[Óðinn]

All my normal attacks on the Rat show as having 0% chance to hit, or 11% if aimed. WTF? Attacking from behind, with surprise...and I have no chance to hit an NPC at the very start of the campaign. Seems legit.

[Something completely different]

What's your melee skill? What's the required melee skill of the weapon you use?

[Gregor Clegane]

I can't kill him either ..Trying to find a gun and coming back for him but I cant even find a knife after almost 5 hours played lol. Just punching critters to death so far.

[Dirty Jack]

Ok, I managed to kill him by equipping a knife above my skill set xD
Got a lucky 17 damage after about 5 reloads. I suc xD

[Aphex]

When do you get a companion? I have to run from every single fight. What's the point in even having a combat system when all you do is run away? Dogs, Muggers every encounter consists of you getting massively overwhelmed by critters and people with more health and more damage. You have to reload guns after every shot and you do 5 damage to stuff with 50hp, meanwhile you get killed/knocked down in one or two turns.

Hard difficulty is one thing, making the game impossible to beat is another.

[Something completely different]

It's quite doable once you get the hang of it actually.

You can find a companion on the outskirts of the big city (Listen to the intro, they say where he is and show a photo of the building he's in) and you pick up a potential second soon after if you have some survival skill (30-40 ish.)

[Tchey]

Hi,

I killed "the rat" with a weak fighting character level 2.
My Str and Endu are 4, but dex and alert are better, so i have 8AP per turn.
And Luck is 8.

I crafted a zip gun (my main combat is 50 Pistol), shot him in the head before combat (4AP), then reloaded (2AP), walked back (2AP), took the beating (one or two hits, lucky enough to dodge several times), and repeated i think 2 times. Then finished him with a knife, 2AP per hit at 70% to end his life. I was left with 15HP, not bad.

[ricardo_binharra]

I am still trying to lure him out of the vilage, every option fails to me

[beluga25]

if you haven't harvested the old man's corn yet, do so (it's right behind his house)
and when he says oops he has nothing to give you, ask him to look around some
more. when i did that he found a rusty shotgun (it was actually a rifle) and gave
it to me (only had one bullet). i also found a shovel somewhere not to far from
his house in the north end of town.

it took a few reloads but i finally got a 26 hp on my shot at the rat--w/o talking
to him first--and then kited him around for a while, hitting him with the shovel
a few turns til he went down (i made sue to count the squares he was away from me so he had just enough AP to wind up next to me with his attack but couldn't hit me). like i say, this all took a few re-loads but even though i didn't have a high enough rifle skill it still worked.

[Happy Doggu]

When you get the quest to kill the rat, you can get a gun from the vendor across the street for free. Take it, buy some ammo from him or the guards, and shoot him from range. Simple! I killed him on the hardest difficulty and didn't get stabbed once.

[Dirty Jack]

Yeah, so now I'm stuck in the bunker. Can't open the computer or any of the doors and it's impossible to defeat the muggers outside with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ knife.

[atomRPGmod]

Hi! Well if the fight seems hard to you, you can get a few followers, or complete other quests to gain exp and level up, or do some quests that will get you money or good firearms! There are at least 5 ways of dealing with the man :)