Offering tips: how to survive and thrive

[Hermit]

1. Move your cursor and point it at the body part you want to hit (I know, many people seems not to know that), master the overhead slashes, i.e the CTRL+LMB and ALT+LMB.

2. Forget about two-handed weapons early on especially in 1 vs 1 or 1 vs many.

3. Use the Flail, so overpowered, kills anyone in 2-5 head shots and smashes their shields in few hits, I used 1 handed sword as backup when repairing my flail. ALWAYS HIM FOR HEAD !

3. Train your stamina and movement early on using the trainer function.

4. Pick your fights very very very cautiously, don't try 1 vs many matches unless you are 95% sure you can win them.

5. Upgrade your auxiliary slots, empty your hands and pick the "Keep any equipment after match" matches, especially when it is Many vs 1, pick the most expensive weapon/shield and sell it after you repair it.

6. Create two sets, one with high fame % and one with high damage absorption for the very hard matches, Fame will be your main source of income.

7. Upgrade your healer/doctor and the blacksmith.

I played 14 hours in less than two days and after losing 10 gladiators finally was able to get my latest one to 120+ kills, I picked the thrill-seeker backstory which is a very good one for beginners. Hope you find this helpful.

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Update: more tips after I won 3 different backgrounds:

* Keep the Lionhead Helm (golden helmet) as an Heirloom, one of the best items to start with.

* The 2-handed Heavy Hammer is my new favorite weapon, very easy to hit heads and can smash most armors very easily, doesn't consume a lot of stamina,c only down side is that it gets damaged easily, so I have two hammers that I keep switching around.

[Kosmodisk]

soak314님이 먼저 게시:

-Thrill seeker seems simple, but if you don't get your killcount up earlier on it can start to be more challenging. Lategame opponents have much better gear. You'll need to do lots of Many v Many matches with this background. LEGACY PASSIVE: Fame multiplier unlocked up to 3x is great, potentially letting you clock in huge fame bonuses. Remember that fame can build up in excess and is a great source of money. Another potential candidate for first finish.

The thrillseeker has the best legacy bonus, because its the only one that isn't irrelevant after a few weeks. The fame bar doesn't really change. You just start with 1.5x fame instead of 1.0x and I'm pretty sure you need the same amount of work to get to 3.0x as the 2.0x max before getting the legacy passive.

If we assume a fight gives you 5000 fame. And you get 20 gold for 100 fame. And you end on a neutral fame bar (1.0 and 1.5 with passive). Youll get 1000 gold worth of fame without the bonus and 1500 gold with it. So 500 extra gold in that scenario. If we include early and late game fights I'd guess it gives you 100-1000 EXTRA gold per fight. Thats assuming you end on a neutral bar, so the potential gold gain is even higher.

[GFG thank_you]

I have a particularly tough time with spear and shield enemies for some reason. I don't think their thrust animations are clear, so sometimes it seems like you get clipped for a lot of damage by something that appeared to have no windup. Is it a strong combo or am I missing something?

[pitunavia]

Shield Lance is by far the most OP combo in terms of reward/risk. Simply launch three or four thrusts, testing the right angle and height to slip through the opponent's shield. Left click to death (taking care of resistance and distance) Also the attack animation provides a solid defense with the shield up. My first successful run was with them. Now playing shield is boring for me.

[maxxslack]

I struggled with them 1 V 1, and almost out of desperation found a tactic that works for me. Although I use the heavy 2 hand hammer, and your results will vary predictably to the better result than I get.

Here is what I found with shielded up spear men that are hard hitters with good stuff, I have found that if you are very strict on stamina watch, get in as close as possible and more wrestle with them and zoom in a little bit. Get as close as possible you can wear them down and they will make a break for space. At that point you have to have enough stamina to cover every step they take immediately. Keeping that distance very tight.

Do not let them open up distance.

Basically W key them to death and sprint on em when they sprint.

[TM0914]

Generally I've had the most luck with the bigger 1H axe + shield. Makes it a lot easier to take down their shield. I am a big fan of press F to disorient them then immediately slash them. Can repeat this over and over until your stamina goes down, then just back up and stay out of range till your stamina goes back. If you let your guard down your stamina regenerates a lot faster so it's best to get out of range of the enemy and then let your guard down to regenerate.

[pitunavia]

Also keep in mind that the spear is the easiest weapon to block as it only has one type of attack when it is accompanied by a shield. If you play it easy, it's almost impossible for them to connect since you'll always be getting green blocks. They usually do combos of two thrusts, after that they are punishable. Unless they have a tower shield, there will always be room at the feet or head to connect. Tower shields don't have much resistance compared to others. If you touch that combination, you will touch to split them in two first.

[Sakaban Bus Spice]

Politician is overpowered. I have literally become un-killable.

[yukipon3133]

I love that 1-handed axe glove.

[BuNNiFuFu]

How do you get greater swing speed?

[Gankmeister]

Okey님이 먼저 게시:

But when you do have an OP weapon, is that consistently fun? Or do you just feel like you're cheesing the game without a sense of accomplishment... There seems to be a huge lack of balance here, it's either a death simulator/cheese simulator.

I agree the balancing still needs looking at a year later, still EA though, so hopefully it gets tweaked a bit

[KondaBuddy (Live)]

If anyone wants to see how I won with the Blacksmith apprentice you can check out my Twitch channel. Im not trying to promote im offering sincere help for people that are visual learners.