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The one that I feel better serves you is the one that has it so you generally win any clinches you're in. It's like a free "here, come bonk me in the head" button.
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Managed to beat the bandits out in the woods near the nightingales you have to try and cage for the Huntsman using my mace. Skilled it up to 2, sword at 9. I'm wondering about weapon combinations. Do I ever not want to be using a shield? I feel like I'd probably die more (somehow) without being able to block properly.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:21
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Frog Act posted:Managed to beat the bandits out in the woods near the nightingales you have to try and cage for the Huntsman using my mace. Skilled it up to 2, sword at 9. I'm wondering about weapon combinations. Do I ever not want to be using a shield? I feel like I'd probably die more (somehow) without being able to block properly. More than a few weapons are perfectly adequate for defense (can check their stats), and some (like longswords) do considerably more damage with two hands. From what I've seen, shields are most effective against archers, but they lost value once I got some good armor and learned the block/riposte timings.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:26
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Frog Act posted:Managed to beat the bandits out in the woods near the nightingales you have to try and cage for the Huntsman using my mace. Skilled it up to 2, sword at 9. I'm wondering about weapon combinations. Do I ever not want to be using a shield? I feel like I'd probably die more (somehow) without being able to block properly. If you're using an axe, mace, or one-handed sword, there's basically no reason not to take a shield. It makes blocking much more effective and also augments some of your combos. The only exception is the longsword, which needs you to have both hands free to be able to actually use all its fancy (and fairly powerful) combos.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:29
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Yeah I played the whole game through without a shield. Who needs em?
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Feb 23, 2018 19:29
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TjyvTompa posted:Yeah I know, but there were no markers for me despite activating the quest, only the marker for the start showed up. The race itself is a different quest than the deliver the horse/etc quest for some reason. I had to go to the quest log and manually select it once it started to get the markers to show up.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:47
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Frog Act posted:So should I invest a bunch of my hard earned Groschen in mace training and stuff because it seems like they make fights actually winnable, which currently I cannot seem to do with my sword. The enemy just blocks and slo-mo stabs me past my shield or something literally every time, and they aren't even badass, just random dudes with decent armor trying to rob me. Watch the videos below, you can win fights with swords/axes/etc and just need to practice. Knobb Manwich posted:general combat video, pretty helpful
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Feb 23, 2018 19:53
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I almost never use combos because the enemies that you would actually want to use them on always parry you. So I just stand in one place and riposte or abuse clinches.
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Feb 23, 2018 19:55
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Holy crap! That German Knight, Ulrich, is tough as nails! Barely survived the fight, a little surprised I didn't bleed to death during the conversation after the melee...
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Feb 23, 2018 20:00
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Holy crap! That German Knight, Ulrich, is tough as nails! Barely survived the fight, a little surprised I didn't bleed to death during the conversation after the melee... yeah he was. initially I tried macing him down with a warhammer and died. so on attempt number two I used my trusty Piercer and he easily went down with stabs to the face. the sword is kind of unbalanced and I think I'm going to stop using it. also, during the chase sequence right before, I decided to try to shoot some arrows at him to see if I could get a lucky shot off. I connected eventually and knocked him off his mount, but he just teleported way ahead of me and back onto his horse!
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Feb 23, 2018 20:27
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Anyone else on PC notice a 15fps dive today?
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Feb 23, 2018 20:28
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Holy crap! That German Knight, Ulrich, is tough as nails! Barely survived the fight, a little surprised I didn't bleed to death during the conversation after the melee... Hint: He can't block steel with his fists
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Feb 23, 2018 20:59
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Hmm that one monastery guard gets pissed if you don't return the bowl to the cave, but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually do that? There's no prompts in the cave and you can't drop it from your inventory
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Feb 23, 2018 21:51
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Mondian posted:Hmm that one monastery guard gets pissed if you don't return the bowl to the cave, but there doesn't seem to be a way to actually do that? There's no prompts in the cave and you can't drop it from your inventory Yeah, there's a "use" prompt if you really look carefully near the cross, but it doesn't actually do anything.
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Feb 23, 2018 21:54
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Coldforge posted:Yeah, there's a "use" prompt if you really look carefully near the cross, but it doesn't actually do anything. Doesn't do anything? I was able to put the bowl back. Or are you saying nothing happens whether you put it back?
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Feb 23, 2018 21:56
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Clanpot Shake posted:Doesn't do anything? I was able to put the bowl back. Or are you saying nothing happens whether you put it back? It literally did nothing when I used the prompt. Press X, prompt goes away but nothing happens (no bowl, no nothing).
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Feb 23, 2018 22:00
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It put the bowl back for me, but gave 0 feedback apart from the model suddenly appearing. No quest updates or anything. Then again I never spoke to any guard to get in, I used the hole in the roof.
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Feb 23, 2018 22:00
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Archery is pretty overpowered in this game because a lot of the named characters have open helms for artistic reasons, and you can just shoot them in the face. It's kind of disappointing because they don't seem capable of blocking arrows ever, even if they have a shield?
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Feb 23, 2018 22:04
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corn in the bible posted:Archery is pretty overpowered in this game because a lot of the named characters have open helms for artistic reasons, and you can just shoot them in the face. It's kind of disappointing because they don't seem capable of blocking arrows ever, even if they have a shield? 
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Feb 23, 2018 22:19
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corn in the bible posted:Archery is pretty overpowered in this game because a lot of the named characters have open helms for artistic reasons, and you can just shoot them in the face. It's kind of disappointing because they don't seem capable of blocking arrows ever, even if they have a shield? You're not supposed to have a crosshair, which balances it quite nicely.
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Feb 23, 2018 22:30
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So Highborn v Lowborn, any opinions on this?
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Feb 23, 2018 22:34
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:You're not supposed to have a crosshair, which balances it quite nicely. I think it would be preferable if Henry's arm we're centered so that the knuckle was the point of aim and you sighted down the arrow as.with real worldarchery. As it is the visual aim point is way off from actual aim point and it's.messed.up.
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Feb 23, 2018 22:34
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I'm pretty sure 15 year old me was better at archery in real life that one time I did archery at a camp than I am in this game without the corsshair. The combination of vague aim point, moving aim point, your aim point going away as soon as you shoot (aka you can't leave your bow and hand there to see how the trajectory compares and learn from it) and savage arrow drop makes it so hard to hit anything accurately. I put on the crosshair cause gently caress it. You have so much more awareness of how everything is lined up when shooting or throwing something in real life. Video games need good reference points because you lack the entire awareness of your body that real life gives you.
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Feb 23, 2018 22:40
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Unzip and Attack posted:So Highborn v Lowborn, any opinions on this? I went with lowborn because it makes more narrative sense for Henry, but I feel that it doesn't really matter once you have a high speech skill and good charisma buffs from gear.
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Feb 23, 2018 22:48
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Futuresight posted:. Video games need good reference points because you lack the entire awareness of your body that real life gives you. Yeah, they need to move the bow over to the left so your hand serves as the "iron sights" as with real world archery. Till then, reticle is life
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Feb 23, 2018 23:10
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Turns out you can't turn in the quest with the nightingales if you've loaded a game since picking up the last cage and you'll just get stuck in conversation with the huntsman forever and can't get out. so uh, watch out for that
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Feb 23, 2018 23:41
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think it would be preferable if Henry's arm we're centered so that the knuckle was the point of aim and you sighted down the arrow as.with real worldarchery. As it is the visual aim point is way off from actual aim point and it's.messed.up. Yeah, that's the thing that took me the longest to get over and why it took so long for me to ~get~ archery. I just assumed it worked like that and thought my Henry just sucked and couldn't shoot where he was aiming. Eventually I just realized it was poorly designed and the arrows all went to the center of the screen.  Unzip and Attack posted:So Highborn v Lowborn, any opinions on this? High Born: you don't need the speech buff with yokels.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:High Born: you don't need the speech buff with yokels. Related to this, as a Henry who bathes and does laundry regularly (no charisma buff, thank you), I am constantly disgusted talking to all of these filthy peasants. FFS, dude, there is a trough right outside your house. At least rub your face off. 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:High Born: you don't need the speech buff with yokels. Especially when you're trying to elevate your stature.
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Feb 23, 2018 23:47
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Yeah, that's the thing that took me the longest to get over and why it took so long for me to ~get~ archery. I just assumed it worked like that and thought my Henry just sucked and couldn't shoot where he was aiming. Eventually I just realized it was poorly designed and the arrows all went to the center of the screen. what what what also lmao the head cracker perk can proc on unarmed attacks
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Guessing alchemy recipes can be fun, and frustrating, but you can certainly get a few of them by the descriptions of the herbs. Including two which don’t seem to do anything, mind endeeblement potion and another. They don’t even have icons. Once you guess the base liquid and ratio of herbs, the game starts giving you the next step to pwrfect the recipe each time you brew it. This system is somewhat bypassed by the bug(?) people have noticed where all steps relating to heating over time can be safely ignored, which means any recipe which only uses different heats and times will be instantly solved by just getting the right stuff in the pot first time. I mean I’m guessing that all heating errors are lumped into the one mistake you’re allowed to make? Can’t complain when it comes to cold-brewing Savior schnapps, saves a lot of time.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:16
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I suspect that the heating times aren't critical so players can discover recipes on their own. If you had to trial and error the heating steps you'd go insane. It'd be cool though if it only told you the heating was right when you got it right. You also don't really need to guess the base liquid, if you look in the herb part of the book each herb will have the triangle icon for the base.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:40
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Knobb Manwich posted:also lmao the head cracker perk can proc on unarmed attacks And arrows.
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Feb 24, 2018 00:46
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Note to self; Apparently bludgeoning people with a warhammer makes them go to sleep, not die. I was fighting a cuman camp, and took out two of the guys with my warhammer, however while fighting the last guy, two more showed up seemingly out of nowhere, and it continued like this for a little while until i realized what was going on. What I thought was reinforcements were actually the guys i smacked down earlier.
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GyverMac posted:Note to self; Apparently bludgeoning people with a warhammer makes them go to sleep, not die. I was fighting a cuman camp, and took out two of the guys with my warhammer, however while fighting the last guy, two more showed up seemingly out of nowhere, and it continued like this for a little while until i realized what was going on. What I thought was reinforcements were actually the guys i smacked down earlier. You probably have the knockout perk. You can execute knocked out folks with a f hold face smash. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Feb 24, 2018 |
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Feb 24, 2018 00:57
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How far am I through the main plot? I just met Ulrich the Knight, who was investigating the counterfeit coins.
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Feb 24, 2018 01:11
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Anyone doing a stealth and light armor try at this? What are you wearing?
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Feb 24, 2018 01:28
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Anyone doing a stealth and light armor try at this? What are you wearing? You basically need the maintenance perks in order to make full effective use of light armor, otherwise you're going to be going through it very quickly.
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Somebody repost that location of an unlocked chest with nice gear somewhere in the woods or something, where was it?
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Palpek posted:Somebody repost that location of an unlocked chest with nice gear somewhere in the woods or something, where was it? It got patched. I suggest knocking out the faint hearted knight that got me some initial stuff. I'm incredibly bat at this game though
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