u/geckothesteve

I’m Australian. I work in gardens. I get spiders all over me. I’m in an area with funnelwebs. I respect them. I am incapable of understanding arachnophobia.

Duels. There’s only a couple of 1v1 that I’ve found so far, both linked to DLC. Each time the participants agree that the friends will stand back and not participate, only for it to become an 8v1 when the opponent loses.
Is this a bug or intended?

An update on this.

Okay so it has been a day since I’ve posted that thread and I’m feeling pretty weird. I’ve managed to get all 5 ancient maps done and Hans is still kicking stones waiting for me to go hunting with him.

I’m not feeling good about it. I don’t like power gaming and I’m fairly strict about using prior knowledge for my own advantage, for example in 2 I don’t go for the klappvisor helmet at the wolf hunting spot until I’ve spoken to the Zhelehov innkeeper. I don’t feel guilty about seeing Nightingale until late, because the mission says before 7pm.

I’m considering just going ahead reloading my save from after I did the nightingale mission and just going from there, especially because I learned you can learn alchemy recipes you purchase without even knowing how to read, which was the reason I delayed the hunt. Plus learning what the blood writing says in Limpy’s house.

I’ve also encountered an annoying bug where holding w for more that 10 seconds results in the key “sticking” even though the keyboard works perfectly fine outside of KCD1. I tried a different keyboard and it worked. I play on a good laptop.

I finished 1 a year before 2 came out, then got 2 this year. I played about 300 hours of 2 in 2 months and after completing it I decided to try a hardcore run. I checked my steam achievements too and it turns out I didn’t get the achievement for completing the main story.
So I selected tapeworm and brittle bones as they seem like the easiest ones to work around, then I worked my way to Baptism By Fire, completing it and then just doing side quests and activities for ages. I became the bailiff and master huntsman, then completed band of bastards (hated it - the final battle I tried several times to keep everyone alive and gave up).
But I messed up and I accidentally killed two talmberg guards who were fighting bandits in the forest. Then a third tried to arrest me and I couldn’t talk my way out of it, so it became 3. On top of some other really stupid mistakes like tanking my Neuhof reputation and doing the old whore’s quests (I forgot how messed up she was).
So I started again, this time I delayed talking to Nightingale until 6pm, which gave me some time to practice swordplay to get master strikes (only takes level 3!) and completing the first stage of the Rattay Tournament (literally on my 2nd day in Rattay!). So now I have Schwartzpiet sitting outside the Mill waiting for me to go for a stroll.

Now my issues with KCD1. I don’t mind the controls or combat and the lack of auto saves in 1 compared to 2 takes getting used to. My issue is the graphical optimisation. My laptop can run 2 on high at 1080 locked to 48fps (60fps on my TV - it’s a 144hz laptop but it gets a bit weird if I unlock the fps). It’s buttery smooth with very rare frame drops. I’ve only seen it go below 40 once.
1 however, I’m running it on what nVidia recommends and with the fos unlocked, it’ll go to 120+ in some interiors, will usually be 60-80 in the fields and forests and in Rattay, it’ll randomly tank to 28. Just walking down the street. On medium-high settings. It’s not just the random frame dropping which is annoying but the fact that it gets laggy randomly when I’m riding Pebbles. Coming down the roads from Neuhof to Rattay it’ll hover around 60-70, but occasionally slow down and speed up. I’ve messed around with my settings and it happens on higher and lower settings.
I don’t remember this type of performance issue happening prior to the next gen update but I do remember the game feeling smoother.

Maybe if you had paid Pa back for the nails and axe you wouldn't be performing autofellatio. Loser.

It took my nearly 8 years to finally get around to doing it, but rather than just sneaking in at night and getting the scouting done, I took the effort to enter in disguise, poison all pots and burn all arrows.
I am playing on hardcore and I used a savior schnapps outside of Pribyslavitz - just in case. I ended up completing the objectives a few times but I struggled getting everything poisoned and burned. Up until I realised that all I had to do was poison all the food and wait until everyone woke up and had breakfast. Then it was just a case of taking out all the wanderers and burning the arrows.
Now I did the cuman camp first, starting at the back of the camp and working my way forward, then I went up to the bandit camp. I did the further pot first, got spotted and then raced to the one closer to the gate, poisoned it and then ran away as fast as I could. Quite easy in light armour. I hid, then using poisoned arrows took out the few guys who bothered to chase me. Then at around 6am, I snuck back into the camp and could hear cries of “ALERT ALERT” but I couldn’t see anyone coming to get me. I thought it was strange too because the sentries weren’t outside the respective camps. I looked in the cuman camp first. All dead clustered around the food pots. I burned the arrows and made my way up to the bandit camp. All dead clustered around the food pots. I burned the arrows, looted the bodies and left.

There’s no way this can be spoiler territory as it is literally right at the beginning.
Anyway, my normal method was to do The Jaunt so I’d have a reason to get to Semine. But last night I thought “fuck it”. Horses being available in Semine is mentioned by Bara, so our Henry has a perfectly valid reason to wander down there. Stop by Semine Pond for some free fish and something else.
Now on the way back from Semine I’ve always seen a sack by the side of the road with a beer. I’ve thought “I’ll get it next time”, but I’ve always been on horseback and in the middle of something else. Last night on the way to Semine I decided to actually explore. Imagine the James Woods “ooh piece of candy” clip from Family Guy as I find 1, 2, 3 then 4 beers along the path. To a bandit camp. Oh shit. One is facing away from me, so I sneak in, the second guy alerts the first who just annihilates me. Mind you I haven’t done anything except brew potions in Troskowitz at this point, and this was supposed to be permadeath hardcore, but this early in the game? Fuck it we ball.
So I try again. This time approaching from a slightly oblique angle so the second bandit can’t see me. The first guy has a beaked kettlehelm and a shield. I can’t see the rest of his equipment. So I come in, sneak kill, accidentally left click and pick up the body, quickly drop it before his mate comes at me. Second guy only has a gambeson and a hunting sword. I parry his attack and counter with a natural combo, he immediately gives up and gives me everything except the clothes on his back, only to bleed out after 10 paces.
So that is how I accidentally got a tier 2 beaked kettlehelm, laminate arms and half plate legs at main level 7 basically out of the gate.

I’ve been doing a no poaching run and only relying on fish, rabbits, wolves and dogs for meat. Rather than wasting arrows on rabbits, I found an extremely efficient way to hunt them…
Just run over them. On foot, on horseback, naked or in armour. Just run over the bastards. Aiming at the moonwalking, evil eyed gits while they teleport around defying the laws of logic, reason and gravity is a lesson on frustration. But running over them? Guaranteed meat.

So I like DLC to feel like an organic part of then game rather then tacked on. I’ve never enjoyed armour packs because they just feel like a cash grab. The first DLC I played was Legacy of the Forge and it is exactly what I want out of a DLC. It doesn’t feel tacked on and it not only gives you a permanent house in town, but it feels like it has always been there. I’ve just started the one in sedletz, and I just finished brushes with death.
Firstly, the pacing. The Trosky section is great. It starts after the wedding and you get a mediocre sword and a good helmet from it. Painting the shields is whatever, I don’t care that much about it when the only shield patterns I like are the Leipa shield and the Radzig shield.
The Kuttenberg section though… hmm. It was over so quickly it was a bit disappointing. The longsword is okay - but weaker than reforged radzig’s sword so what the point of it? The armour is good enough, and it would be nice to have more covered cuirasses, but it ended so abruptly. “Oh hey thanks for finding and cleaning the grave, now return the skull”. That was it.
I got the DLCs in the bundle so I’m not going to gripe about the price, I just feel a bit let down by it. I specifically started this playthrough with the goal of doing Brushes with Death and the monastery DLC because I accidentally missed BWD in my first completed playthrough and ignored the other one.

I finished the main story on the weekend and there were a few things which I missed in my play through and I didn’t want to go back to Trosky if I could avoid it. So rather than continuing my story - in which I did the Theresa ending, I decided I’d take a different route and do all the things I missed.
At Bozhenas hut I picked all the herbs and using my prior knowledge about alchemy, brewed up a tonne of potions. Not just chamomile decoction which she teaches you, but a lot of marigold decoction and bucks blood too (I believe they’re the only ones you can make with the ingredients at her hut and the meadow).
By the time I got to Troskowitz my alchemy was already high enough to get 4 perk points. Not only that, because I had mixed potions that normally you’d need a recipe for - because I raided the herb garden and made a shitload of lion perfume - I had a stupid amount of money really early.
It felt really, really bad. Especially because I’d dumped my 1403 groschen in the chest in the cave behind the camp.
So, what I’m going to do is reload my save from first waking up and only make one chamomile decoction. I’m going to pick every single herb around the hut and in the field, but I won’t spam potions until I’m at troskowitz. Then I’ll buy the recipes.
So why buy the recipes? Because reading them gives scholarship points and that’s a skill worth levelling up early. Money becomes basically pointless after a certain point, but abusing meta knowledge to power game just feels weird.

Born a peasant in a village, turns out to be the bastard child of a noble. Man-at-arms to the lords of Leipa, independently wealthy forge master. Is Henry a Burgher?

So I’ve started KCD2 again, I have played 76 hours so far and I wasn’t happy with some of my story decisions. Mostly, I wanted to stay loyal to Theresa, because Theresa is bae.
Anyway, my six year old son was watching me play dice in Troskowitz, as I was absolutely cleaning house against the dice player there. I literally got all his money, twice! As a 40K player with Orks, I also literally have over 120 D6. So I suggested to my son that I show him how to play. First to 2000 points.
The dice gods smiled upon my son, as even though I beat him in the only game we played so far, he scored 1700. I was on 1850 and got a 1 and a 5, so called it there.

Was not doing the Cuman’s quest earlier. Best laugh I’ve had in ages. Including a certain accent.

After rescuing Pavlena and refusing to kill the farmer whose son died, one day returning to Troskowitz I saw a body hanging from a tree. Curiously I investigated and there was Pavlena and a ladder kicked away. I felt pretty damn upset about that. Then, after the wedding and sneaking around Trosky castle I decided to finally get mutt and do some of the side quests.
So I finally give the lute to George and Michael, then get the gamekeeper to turn Poor Ignatius’ gut into new strings, and make my way to rock tower pond after having a song that sounds strangely like the flintstones theme song sung to me. I needed to make more Marigold Concoction, so off to Bozhena’s hut.
Strange, she wasn’t outside. I go inside. Darkness. The buzzing of flies. Oh shit.

I don’t like save scumming, especially when 15 hours have passed since doing quests, but this absolutely devastated me. She was such a nice old lady who saved Henry’s and Hans’ lives. She helped me fine Miralka. I saved her daughter and just because I refused to murder someone, Pavlena necked herself and out of grief her mother did the same. I’m 100% certain I’ve missed out on some sort of quest reward. But I don’t know. I’m just bummed out.

I went from laughing my head off at the wedding (I’ve had better HA!) to having a stupid song sung about me, to this…

After reloading my save from when hans storms off, I spent 3 in game days collecting ingredients and making potions. To the point that I now have level 20 in alchemy. I went to pay back Bozhena and pick up the bad blood quest, as well as start looking for Mutt. All good, except I overloaded myself on herbs and making potions really wasnt an option. Being the loot goblin I am, I spent the night in the herbalist's house and left at 4am to walk back to the starting village. Well, it just so happened that two bandits were mugging some poor guy. Fair enough. I loaded my crossbow, crept into position where I shouldnt miss... and I missed. Shit. I can't run away. One of them is in plate armour... and i'm dead.

Okay i'll load the save, sleep until morning and go. Same spot, two different bandits. This time the heavy has a brigantine and kettlehelm. I take him out, and his lightly armoured ally finishes me off. Dammit.

Rinse and repeat for 30 minutes, including shooting the archer bandit in the face with the crossbow multiple times.

So I'm getting pretty annoyed by this stage and start tilting a bit. Until the final attempt. I had downed a savior's schnapps just before the encounter, crept up close again, shoot the archer in the face and drop him like a sack of potatoes. Then his mate. Open face basicent, blackened breastplate, mail hood and hauberk, plate legs, steel gauntlets. Me, in my different levels of gambeson with a knights shield and basic hunting knife (bronze). I perfect parry, riposte, hit him, hit again on the same side before he recovers. He counter attacks, I parry, riposte, parry, riposte, parry, riposte..... and he ends up fucking killing me again.

OH MY GOD!

Still the same encounter due to the schnapps, and I finally won the figh by shooting the heavy guy with the crossbow, running off the path, reloading and shooting the archer in the face, then 1v1-ing the heavy guy who was wounded by the crossbow.

Was it frustrating, yes. Am I better at fighting after that encounter? Debatable. Do I have early game plate armour and maille? Yes. The frustration was worth it.

I played KCD1 for maybe 100 hours, completing the main storyline once and not really paying much attention to the DLCs even though I got them.

So I went into 2 knowing what to expect - a narrative way to drop skills and lose equipment. I’m loving it so far.

However, due to me being Skyrim and fallout brained, I went exploring and forwent the main quest for a bit, instead looking for mutt. With no proper equipment. With no money. Getting killed maybe 10 times by the same pack of bandits because of aforementioned lack of gear.

Because of how I like to consume media, I think I’m going to reload to the point where Hans storms off in a hissy fit and actually do what blacksmiths do - make things and sell them for money to get better equipment. >If you’re curious as to how far I am, I still haven’t gotten mutt yet, naughty pig man arrested, black horse retrieved and only just forged my first axe and messer. <

JCBP.