Err.. you missed the best strategy to max-up your stats and combat proficiencies in Skalitz and become filthy rich while at it: kill the sheep around the training arena. There are two things you will notice if you pay attention: the first is that the sheep that you see are not really individual sheep, but a flock that tends to moves towards the geometrical center of all its individuals. So you can control where they go by "anchoring" the flock using the corpses of the sheep you already killed. The second (and more useful observation) is that after killing the flock, it will respawn if you move farther enough. In this case, all you need to do is herd de ship towards the corner of the training arena, kill all of them, go back to your house to cook them (this removes the stolen tag), then sell the meat to the merchants (then run towards the palisade surrounding the town, then back and they will respawn). That means that you have unlimited number of sheep to kill and can use them to level up skills and weapon proficiency for all 4 types of weapons (you can steal a club in a chest right of the town entrance, buy a sword and axe from the merchant, and you can knock out a guard and steal a bow and 30 arrows that you can easily recover). Also, as a nice bonus, butchering sheep increases hunting proficiency, and you can unlock the perk that lets you obtain offal which satiates your hunger without making you tired, so you can stay there literally forever. This strategy is specially useful when you are doing the hardcore, all debuffs playthrough, since archery would be completely useless until you reach level 15 in bow proficiency, which is quite the a challenge if you can't aim for ** and only get half XP.
One thing about the "random" ambushes and brawls. They only appear in specific places. It may seem random as there are quite a lot of them but if you got ambushed in one location you now know that there is a chance to spawn an ambush when you get there next time. Normally you can see the enemies long before they are able to see you if you are prepared. So you can bypass or outmanouver them.
Tip 8.5 Pebbles, the free horse, isn't a horse. Pebbles is garbage and will betray you as soon as a bandit or Cuman even farts in her vicinity. The first time Pebbles throws you and runs, leaving you to be killed when you've forgotten to save and could've otherwise just ridden to safety, that 600 Groschens starts to look like an AMAZING bargain! Also, Miller Peshek keeps his stolen goods locked in an accessible chest in a locked door in the barn 5 feet from your bed. . . Sell to him, steal them back, and repeat. His money will replenish. And if you steal something, like high value armor, and the stolen indicator won't leave, sell it to him and then buy it back from him, that way "you bought it". Dumb, but it works.
Also leaving stolen items in your box for a week, I believe. Will mark them not stolen eventually. How I get a good armor set early on and necklace/ring etc.. for charisma!
I don't think the first time playing should revolve around minmaxing and going out of your way to skill up in Skalitz or get the best gear quick. Best take it slow, roleplay as Henry, get a feel for the world and your role in it. Leave the metagaming for later.
For leveling up sneak, next to the mill where u wake up after getting knocked out is a bath house u can enter at night, knock out all the sleeping people there and repeat. Easy sneak levels with almost no risk since they wont hear you, and you get the key for the house next door where some more of the girls sleep from the girls in the first house (left one if ur standing in front of the entrance to the bathhouse area)
A tip related to horses - steal one early. Extremely helpful if you put off the main quest early, especially in hardcore. I tend to grab the warhorse set from ancient maps ASAP and the mobility really is a godsend.
A stolen horse will always stay marked with 'stealing' and you can't get back on it when people are near. Sneak into the bandit camp SE of Rattay and borrow theirs, that one isn't marked as stealing to start with. There is another one SW of Ledetchko but that bandit camp usually has a dog and it can be a bit tricky to take that horse. Sometimes there's a bug and horses that are not actually your own just vanish the moment you get off, that's bad luck and you have to get it again. You can steal a horse from the tavern N of Rattay and then ride to one of those camps to get an unmarked one. If you want good armor early on I recommend one of the 'random' skirmishes, for example the one in Skalitz, you can just wait out the fight at a safe distance and when all survivors are gone you loot the dead, if you go North to that farm at the edge of the map and then return, the encounter should have respawned and you can look for things again. The ugly Warhorse stuff has the advantage of being cheap to repair ...but it's just so ugly.
Some great tips there. I'm a veteran KCD player and I still learned a few things. Especially about the starting town. That said, if you're doing lockpicking (and stealing) in the starting town anyway, you can raise your stat high enough to eventually just steal the merchant's money right out of their chests, so there is no need to take the perk to sell your herbs for a higher price. The same is true later on. This is especially useful with miller Peshek. His merchant's chest is in the barn to the right of his house. If you have a lot of armor either from enemies killed in the wild or stolen goods from a town, simply break into his chest, put the stuff in there, and grab the cash. When the chest updates (a couple of times per week) the chest fills with coins based on how much gear you put in. If you don't have stuff to sell to him later on, simply break into the chest and grab the coins directly. You can also (ab)use this to remove the 'stolen' tag from anything you've acquired via questionable means by either selling it to him and buy it back, or simply put it in his chest and buy it out. Again if you need the cash back, simply go get it from his merchant chest. Oh yeah: and once the door to that chest is unlocked, it doesn't lock again, and Peshek doesn't even react to you going into that room, even if the area is marked as 'Trespassing'
Ambushes and skirmishes are the best way to make money for skirmish it’s usually very well armored bandits fighting with cumans or town guards wait for them to kill each other take out who’s left alive and usually it’s 15-20k groschen from all the armor and weapons
Leg day is the botany perk I'd go with, makes it so gathering gives you strength xp, so while a bit more groschen from herbs is nice, it's mostly unnecessary when you consider how much more valuable potions are
@@well-fedgaming It made the opening sections of the game so much more manageable. I'm still in the prologue, but I would have missed out on so much game knowledge even just this far in, so again, thank you!
One of my tips, raise vitality fast in the beginning. In Henry’s house, face and run toward corner, Henry will stuck from jumping, but he can still jump without air time. Keep jumping rapidly, exhausted and gain vitality xp fastly.
There are many spots can do this way. Any place can stuck Henry will do. Check my channel video to see this way. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GZd3P1eIYqA.html
Having repeated punch ups with kunesh had me laughing constantly on the first playthrough. I love this game. I just power level every single skill fairly quickly because they're all super fun and useful.
I know I heard it somewhere but for the marigold potion once you get to level 5 in alchemy get the trial and error perk cuz then you can just skip the boiling, put the ingredients in there and just make the potion. Hope this helps
If you didn't know the optimal result of a recipe done correctly is 3 potions without any perks.Further increased with a perk later on. If the recipe states "boil" use the bellows 3 times so the cauldron actually starts boiling.Then turn the hourglass. Using the Bellows once is a "lesser" mistake dropping the brewed potions down to two and if you just drop the nettles without using the bellows that counts as a major mistake and you get a single potion. Point being sometimes "PADFOOT POTION REEEE" it's worth following the exact recipe to get the most ouf of your time spent. I've probably spent an hour for each potion to see what counts and doesn't count as light or heavy hiccup.
A+ on your guide! I haven’t played this game in over a year and am starting back up, as someone ego has a few hundred hours put into this game, this guide is just what I needed for a fresh play through!
I just bought Kingdom Come Deliverance Royal Edition on sale in the ps store for like $3 bucks, and I'm about to get right into it! Thanks your for the pro tips!
Aqua Vitalis is more valuable and slightly easier to gather ingredients in mass for. 2 dandelions, 1 marigold. Add water, add dandelions, pull bellows like five times to boil if for two turns, grind the marigold while it boils, add the marigold and bottle immediately. Once you got routine 1 and 2, it is the easiest way to produce mass amounts of groschen easily and safely early game.
I like how 90% of the comments are people who already know the game like the back of their hand... literally just showing up to see if they can "correct" you and boost their ego lmao Thank you for the tips, I'm starting the game for the first time to get prepared for KC:D2
A note when it comes ot combat and protection, if you are wearing something lets say plate leg pieces, you dont need to wear the mail leggings. Plus its always wise to work on your speech and have a mace on hand as a secondary weapon, you may say "swords are a real man's weapon" but getting poked by an armor bandit will get really annoying.
@@well-fedgaming I thought it was needed to explain as in my younger years I am like "nah, one weapon", but as I got older, its always good to have something on hand just in case.
Just download the game a few days ago...wish me luck gents. It's a steeeeep curve. Gotten my ass handed to me a lot but the game seems pretty linear even though it's open world. Idk maybe I need to advance some more but just got past the prolog. Definitely seems to steer in the direction they want you to play unless I'm missing something.
@@well-fedgaming there would be no refugees in Rattay but all of them would be wealthy citizens, just from picking herbs, I would buy all from them to boil potions and sell it to the merchants.
Since its easy to level strength with the tips in this guide, would it be a waste to select that skill focus at character creation and instead pick something harder to level?
Possibly but strength allows you to really take advantage of Skalitz as you can choke everyone out to level stealth, but you could play around with it and see how you go 👍
Hi, I’m new to the game. I made it to Talmberg and missed the opportunity for a lot of this. Do you recommend restarting or will there be additional opportunities to level up these skills? I assume I don’t want to battle/sneak attack anyone in Talmberg?
Here is a tip. Get good at lock picking and you get rich by sneaking into merchants homes while they sleep and taking everything. Especially the sword and amor guys in rattay
Quick question, was the Best moment to stop doing the Main quest and focus on exploring the wolrd? I asked this cause of the invisible clock around some missions
Just got into this game and it's so in depth compared to other games in the genre I love it I'm addicted and thanks for all the info in the vid and comment need all the help I can get
The amount of times I delete and come back to this game is crazy and it’s not because it’s a bad game but it’s so difficult for me to kill peoples and shit. But that’s my skill issues of course 😂 I don’t play much rpg games besides Skyrim sometimes and fallout but yeah 😂 ima download and actually give this game a proper try 😂😊
You know the game is a nightmare to understand, when 5 years after his released you still have people publishing tips video haha. Back in the day it took me almost a year to start playing the game...lock picking almost made me lost my mind
A blacksmith in a game with no forging, a young inexperienced man who’s frequently expected to take on 2-3 opponents at a time, why no companions? Why can’t you ask for support once you have position? Wtf?
I loved this game but the combat system killed it for me. I was pretty far right after relase, best weapons, armour and so on but then got bored and tried again about two years later. But it just didn't "click" anymore, it felt awkward and forced and that was it - every now and then i think about finishing it but i know the first combat will kill it again, literally. The idea of making combat "realistic" is fine but the approach is counterintuitive, at least for me. So sadly i'll never see the end...
As much as I like getting tips on levelling, I don't think it makes sense to go around attacking my neighbors or their animals. It just destroys the gaming experience.
This game is not bad and I see the appeal of it but Jesus Christ they need to tone down the realism and the colossal amount of mechanics, I wanna like this game but it feels so overwhelming
I think Botanist is one of those useless perks. Herbs sell for little to none and later in the game its much more profitable to sell potions instead. Other tips are helpful
10 hours in and hated the game ......... its so dam linear and out of nowhere i stop plaing with henry and now im playing with a boring AF girl wtf when the game gets good? or i may have to restart and grind more? bc 100% im avoiding that girl quest/dlc
@@well-fedgaming yeah i dont like linear non action non openworld games that its sold as one ... and i though i was gonna play aas henry but nope you ended up playing as boring girl with no equipment but yeah maybe that kind of gameplay its not for me
@@reterni799 non open world? Playing as a girl? I think you started the DLC "a woman's lot" where you play as Theresa, I found this boring too. You have to get through it, finish it as fast as you can and play the real game. Give it a chance It's actually good. That's just one little mission compared to the whole game
