I hate it when people use "realistic" to simply mean "harder for the player."
I hate it when people use "realistic" to simply mean "harder for the player."
There is another version called "vanilla" that uses the same armor values but everything else in the mod stays the same, that will hopefully make it a lot more usable.
You know, I wasn't really looking forward to the hunting quest with sir Hans that much, as hunting wasn't really something I was interested, and I thought it would mostly be a tutorial quest introducing you to hunting, but holy shit, what an amazing quest!
Goddamn, this game is awesome. And it keeps making me like characters I decided to hate. How do they do that?
Goddamn, this game is awesome. And it keeps making me like characters I decided to hate. How do they do that?
Thought so. Dan does not like tutorials much, I guess.
Thanks a lot for the confirmation.
Had a thought regarding the treatment/lack of interesting female/foreign characters in this game.
Two characters, namely the Rattay executioner and the Uzhitz priest, are considered outsiders. The executioner is given a wide berth by everyone, to the extent that the widow of one of his victims is advised that if she keeps hanging around him she'll be spat on etc. There's no *historically accurate* reason that Henry should feel any different right? If he's a person 'of this time', then he too should be disgusted by this executioner, or offended by this drunken fornicator of a priest. And yet, in both cases, you're able to help these people out, even befriend them, even though the rest of the townsfolk would frown upon such actions.
Women and foreigners/refugees are treated similarly to the executioner and priest in this world, in particular any who overstep their bounds. A woman who wants to arm herself and fight bandits for example, or become a blacksmith. Or a travelling merchant who isn't allowed to sell his goods in the market square because he looks like the Cumans.
There is definitely room for these stories and I don't think anyone coming across the above examples would immediately think "well this is just unbelievable! Preposterous!" The rules of historical accuracy seem to be bent for white male outsiders, but there's no room for the same treatment for women or people of colour?
Two characters, namely the Rattay executioner and the Uzhitz priest, are considered outsiders. The executioner is given a wide berth by everyone, to the extent that the widow of one of his victims is advised that if she keeps hanging around him she'll be spat on etc. There's no *historically accurate* reason that Henry should feel any different right? If he's a person 'of this time', then he too should be disgusted by this executioner, or offended by this drunken fornicator of a priest. And yet, in both cases, you're able to help these people out, even befriend them, even though the rest of the townsfolk would frown upon such actions.
Women and foreigners/refugees are treated similarly to the executioner and priest in this world, in particular any who overstep their bounds. A woman who wants to arm herself and fight bandits for example, or become a blacksmith. Or a travelling merchant who isn't allowed to sell his goods in the market square because he looks like the Cumans.
There is definitely room for these stories and I don't think anyone coming across the above examples would immediately think "well this is just unbelievable! Preposterous!" The rules of historical accuracy seem to be bent for white male outsiders, but there's no room for the same treatment for women or people of colour?
The best part is Hans is actually the nicest/coolest bro a guy can ask for. He believes in brotherhood over status.
At first, I wanted punch Hans, but now: SUP BRAH? Bar tonight?
His voice actor is amazing in portraying Hans in all those funny scenes with Henry.
One of the most fun things I have done was take on that whole big camp of cuman bandits . running out of stamina is annoying, but tolerable and challenging . This mod makes it worse ?
About repairs..
Is there any other way to repair my armor other than by using the kit or service of an armorsmith? My skill is still too low to use the kit, and it's too pricey with the armorsmith. Repairing my swords is free, in comparison.
Is there any other way to repair my armor other than by using the kit or service of an armorsmith? My skill is still too low to use the kit, and it's too pricey with the armorsmith. Repairing my swords is free, in comparison.
Exactly! He was presented as a typical asshole nobleman who will oppose the good poor guy and become a rival figure. He may or may not change his views about you after some important event. But shortly after that we get his quest, and even before the biggest part of the quest he already bonds with you and you create a connection, and a mutual respect. He was offended that someone like you dared to treat you the way you did before, but it's clear that in some way he was also impressed, and that made him respect you more.
Yes, he's still an asshole, but that's just one part of who he is, he's also a pretty interesting guy who holds uncommon views for his status.
Most definitely, it feels almost impossible to regenerate your stamina. So with the mod the random bandits that will attack you when you fast travel are now about 6 enemies and about 4 of them are heavily armored. So you have to deal with the usual bit where they perfect block most attacks you throw out and when you actually manage to hit them if you're using a sword you're very unlikely to do any damage anyway. When walking backwards you do not regenerate stamina either so you're getting multiple enemies constantly trying to circle around your flank while dealing with the wonky targeting system having all of your attacks thwarted, it's a disaster if you want to use a sword at all. With a mace it's easier because it just does so much more damage, and I get why but with the way the game is designed swords have a lot more moves not to mention I just like swords a lot more. Longswords were definitely OP in the vanilla version of the game but the mod goes too far the other way that it feels far too punishing.
I feel you. I would have quit this game long ago if I didn't install that unrestricted save game mod. The game is just not polished and stable enough to trust it with anything over 30 minutes of gameplay/progress.
I've been dropping merigold decotions and saviour schnaps in cooking pots I encounter.
I don't think it does anything, but it would be nice if the effects of those potions were applied to eating from the pot. Like, after eating from that particular pot it would heal me and save my game.
I don't think it does anything, but it would be nice if the effects of those potions were applied to eating from the pot. Like, after eating from that particular pot it would heal me and save my game.
Yeah man that's just how it goes with this game. Just gotta decide how much it bothers you.
Yeah, there's really no defense for the "historically accurate" approach considering how absolutely preposterous and outlandish the exploits of the main character are in this game. Going from a poor illiterate blacksmith to a badass knight that can slaughter armored foes by the dozen and read books from front to back in hours while becoming a master of alchemy and all other manner of skills all in the span of a couple of months is just nonsensical if historical accuracy was the biggest priority for developing the game.
Well actually historical inaccuracy is only a problem when it involves representing and/or empowering women and/or minorities. An illiterate peasant living in a rigidly hierarchical feudal society rapidly becoming a superpowered badass who beds noblewomen and singlehandedly clears out bandit camps may be a bit of a stretch, but that's nowhere near as ridiculous as women having agency or ethnic minorities existing. Power fantasies starring white men are just the requirements of game design and why are you taking it so seriously it's just a game jeez.
Game is amazing at this, at first I didn't like Father Godwin either....oh how that changed.
Hans is bro, bro is Hans.
I keep thinking about this game whilst at my desk here at work...it's killing me slowly, I'm a faint-hearted knight right now.
Yeah, I hope this kind of discussion isn't banned at this point (I'm a bit unclear), but after playing the game for 30+ hours, it's pretty clear that historical accuracy was not a terribly huge priority here given how the story pans out. I'm enjoying the game quite a bit, but it's definitely a bit of a power fantasy for white men and it's only more suspect given the views the director has espoused.
"Hey, it's Henry! Henry's come to visit us!" says random peasant in a town you've never visited before.
Yeah, the shit is janky as hell when it comes to non-scripted NPC interactions.
I feel like I'm very ready to finish the game. I love it, but I just finished (read: murdered) the Monastery and the game's just sort of lost all variety for about 4-5 hours now. Knocking out all the good side quests so early on and powering myself up really fucked me over.
Mid-story minor spoiler:
Also yes this game's a shameless white male power fantasy. Anyone who tried to defend it as something else is probably arguing in bad faith tbh. Honestly, if I'd known earlier I might have skipped out on things or at least waited for a sale, but I already owned the game before learning Vavra's views, so, eh.
Mid-story minor spoiler:
One-shotting Runt made me realize I might have overdone it
Also yes this game's a shameless white male power fantasy. Anyone who tried to defend it as something else is probably arguing in bad faith tbh. Honestly, if I'd known earlier I might have skipped out on things or at least waited for a sale, but I already owned the game before learning Vavra's views, so, eh.
Yeah, people start calling me a knight too recently. It's one of the game's mechanics. People judge you by your appearance.
Yeah, just realized you can definitely get away with certain crimes if you just dress nicely (not just armor). Interesting.
i've been looking at this rebalance mod. It's pretty extensive. Calling it simply a rebalance mod is definitely doing it injustice.
I'll check it out and tell ya'll if it's worth it. Pretty huge changes
I'll check it out and tell ya'll if it's worth it. Pretty huge changes
What's the deal with your horse. Do you just leave him anywhere and go back to him or something else?
You can just leave it and do whatever if you need to. Then when you want it back press Y (Xbox controller) to whistle or (whatever the equivalent is on your control scheme) and the horse will spawn in your location.
Speaking of mods, this one seems promising.
Henry's face customization
Henry's face customization
It's like most open world games with horse. You call your horse by whistling and poof, it'll be there in an instant.
Millers sell them
Also i am pissed beyond words over this save system. I get what the devs were trying to do but ffs all these bugs are really ruining it.
Im locked out of the final hanz quest because the game wont register the flowers i picked in the previous mission. By the time i managed to get the game to register them the mission failed because it was morning. Last save was several hours ago.
Also lol at my commander talking to like im some noble cos i swiped some armor off of one of the guards.
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There are certain items/potions that you can eat that will also heal you over time, read the descriptions of the things in your inventory. You can also go to the baths if they are in a town that is close by and they offer healing, washing, clothes cleaning and some *ahem* other services.
It seems so.
I've been thinking about it as well. I guess bandages only heal bleeding, not minor (health) injury. I think I've came across a potion that heal wounds but they're kinda rare and probably pricey. I haven't ventured into herbalism and alchemy yet.
Some foods like fruit, dried fruit, dried mushrooms, etc will have Healing properties (usually 3-5 hp)
There is a marigold decoction that heals for 30 hp over a minute or so, and alchemy perks can double the effect. There is also a Lazurus Potion that heals you completely over a few minutes.
Marigold decoction is the bread and butter healing potion. Very easy to make and the materials needed are very common
I see.Do you know where he hangs out by any chance? I think I've met him before during the lockpicking tutorial.
To add to this, garlic has the strongest healing power of any of the more "regular" foods that I've come across and it doesn't go off. So if you find some hold on to it for times of need.
Damn, so foods are important. After knowing that foods decay so fast I never pick them up anymore. Like, at all.
I kept some dried fruit, dried meat, and dried mushrooms as they never decay in my horse saddlebags for a rainy hungry day.
Anyone did the "A friend indeed" quest? Is there anyway....
To find out what really happened to the miller's son? Doing this quest and talking to all of them leads you to suspect Old Thomas of having did something, especially when you hear about the missing scarf that his sister gave him and then if you pickpocket Thomas you find it on him.
However doing this and then talking to Thomas he doesn't admit to anything, he makes he sound like he took it just to remind me of his promise to run the mill. If you give it to the sister then she will confront him and run him off.
There's just no concrete resolution for finding out if he did anything or not that I can find yet. I went looking to see if you could find the accident site but no luck there either.
Anyone figure out anything more on this?
However doing this and then talking to Thomas he doesn't admit to anything, he makes he sound like he took it just to remind me of his promise to run the mill. If you give it to the sister then she will confront him and run him off.
There's just no concrete resolution for finding out if he did anything or not that I can find yet. I went looking to see if you could find the accident site but no luck there either.
Anyone figure out anything more on this?
Damn, I think I'm near the end of the game and I'm starting to lose interest. Just went through a couple of interesting (if not poorly executed) missions that appeared to be leading towards wrapping everything up and in the next quest I'm being dumped with like 10 boring errands that take me all around the map. I'm assuming each of these errands is going to be a mini quest in its own, because it's never as simple as just going to the destination in this game. Always need to solve someone's problem or do some investigating before being able to check the box.
Think it's in fairly short supply. Sold out in a few places. £55 on Amazon! I picked it up the day of release from Tesco direct for £39 on ps4 using a £5 off code.
Why not just hire a bed for 2 Groschen? I don't let it go over an hour without saving, not so much because of bugs, but because I'll accidentally pick pocket someone when I'm trying to talk to them again!
Bro, I would spoiler the horse' name as that is a deliberate design choice that might be a pretty annoying spoiler for most. I kind of wish I didn't read that too.
I've rented all the inns I came across permanently, just in case. 200 coins for each room is pretty cheap after a few hours.