Is there really no way to retreat?

[AlterEgo45]

First battle, I killed the first guy who was about as good as I was and now I've got a second guy who is completely fresh and uninjured rolling up on me. I'm going to get killed.

I can't just back off, having won a fight? Is this stuff random?

[AlterEgo45]

Never mind, the game just crashed. At least I didn't get killed, right?

Yeah, I'm out. I can tell this game just isn't gonna work for me.

[Slav Mcgopnik]

If you’re on HWR mode, on your first runs, you’re going to die very easily.

Focus on fighting for survival, don’t kill an opponent unless you are set up to kill another. As you accumulate profile levels, you can start playing more aggressive and even start outright slaughtering enemies with ease, especially early on.

If you are on lower difficulties, just reload your save and try again.

[jasta85]

Originally posted by Slav Mcgopnik:

If you’re on HWR mode, on your first runs, you’re going to die very easily.

Focus on fighting for survival, don’t kill an opponent unless you are set up to kill another. As you accumulate profile levels, you can start playing more aggressive and even start outright slaughtering enemies with ease, especially early on.

If you are on lower difficulties, just reload your save and try again.

When you roll a random character on HWR mode, do they get stronger the more points you have from previous runs or will they always be at roughly the same level?

[Slav Mcgopnik]

Originally posted by jasta85:

Originally posted by Slav Mcgopnik:

If you’re on HWR mode, on your first runs, you’re going to die very easily.

Focus on fighting for survival, don’t kill an opponent unless you are set up to kill another. As you accumulate profile levels, you can start playing more aggressive and even start outright slaughtering enemies with ease, especially early on.

If you are on lower difficulties, just reload your save and try again.

When you roll a random character on HWR mode, do they get stronger the more points you have from previous runs or will they always be at roughly the same level?

Random characters do not get stronger with Profile level on HWR, you only get more points for manual generation.

When you’re around profile level 20, you can start pretty consistently making a better character manually than trying to roll one.

[FatMonke]

There are some opportunities to not take extra fights, or to retreat in certain fights, like late game if you return to England with the Earl and Prince, but it takes 5 turns to withdraw. My best run ended because every time I killed someone, a new guy would pop in and shoot me with an arbalest and I didn't retreat in time.

[Centipede]

Thanks for the thread, I was thinking of impulse buying this but I'm not into games that push you in unintuitive situations because the game wants you to play some meta mechanics so I'll look more closely.

[Johnny 5]

I have to admit some decent runs are completely destroyed by random encounters where you meet 2 combatants early on...It's a bit head rolling now and the first 15 mins is quite grindy...I like rogue like, but sometimes its completely and utterly unwinnable...

[gasivahtar]

In the first fight, the enemies retreat after set number of turns (20 I think), you get ''battle is about to end'' message before it happens.

[ELDYLO]

Originally posted by Slav Mcgopnik:

If you’re on HWR mode, on your first runs, you’re going to die very easily.

Focus on fighting for survival, don’t kill an opponent unless you are set up to kill another. As you accumulate profile levels, you can start playing more aggressive and even start outright slaughtering enemies with ease, especially early on.

If you are on lower difficulties, just reload your save and try again.

Absolutely. I got to a point on my last run where i was just chopping heads off and getting fatigue back per kill.

[gasivahtar]

Black stone ring is awesome if you get it.