People complaining about combat, you should try to train fighting, lots of peeps are saying that when you get more moves fights are easier. Makes sense, right? You are just a country boy after all, and seemingly a little goofy one. Try to lose the "fight everyone everytime"-mentality, I doubt it is going to work.
Lockpicking, I'd say that it has something to do with frame rates or some other technical hijinks. Some people do it like water (I guess they have PC with good fps), and some other are having shittiest of times. But is lockpicking even that necessary? I mean, every place people have been stuck in this thread have been cleared by others with some other means. I very much think that this game will reward creativity and willingness to go round instead of just following instructions.
(Not defending the lockpicking, it is a sorry thing if it really is all about fluidness of the game and not skill per se)
Fighting though, git gud (by playing the story until you get more techniques and skills to do them). It honestly seems like some people are inpatient and try to force the game instead of going wiht the flow.
And the save scumming, I know that many do that (I at least tend to save all the time) but this game is clearly not meant for that. They want you to suffer if you make wrong choices. It is a valid mechanic, imo. One should always keep the schnaps for sudden need for save. That's the reason they are in game. Also, saving when quitting, when it comes, should remove rest of the unnecessary complaints. I understand if you don't like the base mechanics and like to choose the best option always by realoading if you don't succeed, but this is a game that has different ambitions. Have some respect for it. It is like opinions, you can respect that people have different opinions even if you don't agree. Some of the "critique" has been way too aggressive imo.
I started thinking about guards randomly stopping you, do you have dirty/messed up clothes when they stop you? Or other ways suspicious? I think that someone said that people react to your clothing. Also one would think that if you have way better clothes than your status would imply it could be suspicious. But surely it isn't that fleshed out?
And I love the glitches like the dropkick-guard or the guy falling from the sky. They are always fun.
