BEST POSSIBLE START - Kingdom Come Deliverance - OP Early - Good Henry Style 

NEW VERSION IS UP! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FEGuLFG7QsA.html * Unlock every chest in Skalitz and get every groschen, Saviour Schnapps, armorer / blacksmith / tailor / cobbler kit, or anything else you want there. * Power level your Main Level, Strength, Agility, Vitality, Warfare, and weapons of your choosing to 20 (maximum) in under an hour. * Kill every Cuman outside of Theresa's house while escaping Skalitz. * Store all of your loot once you get to Talmberg, so that you can come back for it after you finish the prologue. * Keep the horse that you rode from Skalitz to Talmberg on until you get Pebbles. * Easily steal some of the best loot from Talmberg with no risk. * Get the absolute best weapons in the game directly after the prologue. * Get a very good set of early game armor. * Make well over 10,000 groschen very early by selling your unwanted gear and stolen loot. ...and much more! Thank you everyone for your support, comments, suggestions, and feedback!

I've played as good boy Henry and just take gear from bandits and cumin I beat in fair open combat. It's the only good Christian way to play, god save you.

You don't have to steal a horse in Talmberg. You can take the one you rode into town with.

Dumping at Rovna no longer works this guide is now obsolete (On PC) Upvote for visiblity

This is mostly great advice. Just a few alterations/suggestions of my own: 1) You're better off losing to Kunesh, sneaking inside his house, and looking at is locked chest. Fritz will then give you 4 lockpicks for free. After trashing the Deutsch's house, you can then have your friends join you in beating Kunesh, giving some extra fight experience. 2) Since you want to lose to Kunesh the first time you face him, follow the advice in the video until Kunesh's face starts looking banged up. At that point, simply Block attacks for as long as you can. 3) There are two guards in Skalitz (at the northern and southern gates) that you can knock out and loot. They are equipped with decent armor and weaponry, and make killing the first Cumans during the escape easier. In particular, the bow and arrows make killing the first Cuman easy via the backpedal and shoot kiting strategy. 4) Upon arriving in Talmberg, you normally walk down the stairs to speak with Robard. Instead, you should drop all your equipment in the room behind you (so that you can move full speed), and then go upstairs and across the wooden walkway into the guard tower and then enter sneak mode. There will be a lone guard in that tower, and he's asleep. Knock him out, and you get some terrific equipment (Aachen Dark Brigandine, Silver Spurs, etc). Kill him and hide the body, and then there's no witnesses to the theft and no bounty. Addendum to 3 & 4: The gear taken from the knocked out guards will be flagged as stolen, but the stolen flag will be gone upon waking in Rattay. 5) If you leave Talmberg on the horse you arrived with, it's not theft and you'll have no bounty there. 6) When you're in Skalitz to bury your parents, both Zbyshek and Runt will be flagged as immortal. Thus, you can train on them arbitrarily long to level your combat attributes. 7) After selling everything you looted during the prologue (including all your equipped gear, except for the Silver Spurs, Savior Schnapps, and Bianca's Ring), talk to the alchemist/apothecary in Rattay. Get the first level of training, and ask him about learning to read. Also, make sure you grab the shovel from the miller's house. Then go to Neuhof, follow the road north of the stable towards the north-east. There will be a camp along the road with excellent armor and equipment, generally better than what was sold. Then go to Uzhitz. North of the town, there is a long field. There is a lone tree just to the south-east of the field, and beneath the tree is a grave. Dig it up, and there is some great chest armor and large sum of Groschen. Then head back to Uzhitz, learn to read, and then buy Kanthaka at the Uzhitz stable (unless you prefer Pegasus or Sleipnir). At this point, you'll be almost out of money... but you've got end-game level armor and weapons, a great horse, and can both read and brew potions. All without any extra combat, dialogue checks, etc.

You don't have to drop everything in Rovna .When escaping Talmberg, there is a inn nearby, tell the innkeeper that you want to sleep for one night for 2 gold, near your bed is a chest that you can open, you can store everything there and it will somehow teleport to your chest in Rattay mill.

"Alchemy is really not that great" that is if you want to spend all your money on savior schnapps or use the unlimited save mod.

Wanderer, I can tell you how to power level. 1. Choke out a guard and loot him. Kill him so he doesn't report you. 2. Choke out Kunesh. 3. Carry Kunesh to a area that's out of the way 4. Stab and/or shoot him with your weapon. Kunesh is essential so he can't​ die. You can level just by poking him and/or shooting him.

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Not sure if you mentioned this, but picking the herbs in Skalitz will give you the Resistance perk for free (permanent +2 to Vitality) due to the quantity of nettles that are around the town to pluck.

Wow, this is just insane. The amount of information for the best start possible in the game is tremendous. Big thanks! You have earned a sub

After getting lockpicks in Skallitz, it's important to take "luck of the drunk" perk, it will allow you to pick very hard chests, which in Skallitz contain almost all traders stash. Virtually every trader in the game has his trade stash behind a hard or very hard chest nearby. This way you can get all of their stock *and* money, or you can buy the stock first and only steal money if you're bothered by the stolen tag. As pointed out, you can choke out guards in Skallitz to get their armor and bows/arrows. If you get bad reputation, and the guard starts chasing just run away leading that guard to a secluded area, pay the fine, then as soon as the guard turns around sneak behind him, knock him out and get your money back. Guards sometimes respawn with shields, that's the only way to get Skallitz shield early on. 2 guards usually are equipped with bows and arrows, you level up bow/agility/hunting by killing cows and sheep (i've even had sheep respawn once). You can store all your stuff in any of the two chests in Henry's house, if you don't want to be encumbered much for the runaway part, you'll retain access to these 2 chests(and only these) when you return to Skallitz. After the "arrow to the thigh" cutscene, your horse will have a "noble saddle (4 saddlebags)" - the best saddle in the game (?), which you can take out of it's inventory before reaching Talmberg. The scribe of Talmberg has a very good quartered outer jacket with 12 defence. The horse trader in Uzhitz has a horse for 150~170 Groschen, which you can get early on even without min-maxing.

I knocked out the Executioner at Rattay and the sword he has is amazing. I'm 11 hours in and I'm still using it.

At 10:22 you can take the horse you took to rattay, so you don't have to steal a horse :)

Also, when you leave Talmburg to sneak back to Skalitz, you can rent a room at the inn and get access to the storage chest, just dump all your stuff in there rather than all over the road (and avoid the trip back to get it). Honestly the 2 silver is worth it.

I never bought/made savior schnapps. I simply sleep in between missions.

You don't *have* to disguise yourself as a guard to get out of Talmberg. You can simply jump the drawbridge chain and run for it, but it's hard to avoid getting recaptured, or you can do what Lady Lilia did in her playthrough, which was to get a horse and jump the drawbridge chain with it, then book it for Skalitz as fast as possible.

No need to steal the horse, use the one you 'own' from the prologue when you flee. You still lose it in the cut-scene but it means no fine.

Excellent vid, no time wasting nattering and really useful tips. Thank you, I've subbed.

You can get 4 lockpicks while you're still in skalitz and use them to break into chests. The tavern chests have a lot of loot in them especially. To do this you just need to say you'll tell your dad about Kunesh refusing to pay the debt, walk into Kunesh's house and look at his chest, then meet up with your friend later. It'll take a bit of practicing and luck but once you get your first level in lockpicking you can grind your lockpicking until you can open hard chests in Skalitz. You also don't need to steal a horse in Talmberg, mounting the horse you rode in on isn't a crime.

This is the type of early game cheese that makes the game too easy though -- so I wouldn't do it. Once you get the head start and start scaling Henry's stats the NPC/AI have no way to deal with it. Nice to be aware of stuff like this but if you want a challenge I wouldn't do it.

Alchemy isn't that great? It's the fastest way to make money once you have auto brew

Very well done. Many thanks for the time and effort you put into this video for us all

GLAD YOU PUT THIS ON YOU TUBE I JUST GOT THIS AND WAS STUCK THROUGHOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME AND HAD VERY LITTLE STRENGTH.

I read about this technique on the reddit the other day. Excellent video as always sir.

One thing I think is worth mentioning, is that before you forge the sword (but after you pillage the town and save) you should try to knock out Deutsch and steal his clothes (and pillage his house). He's got really nice clothes (on him and in the house), and he's wearing a gold ring, which is the best ring in the game, and I haven't found another one yet so its really really valuable.

Nice Video man, it was really helpful. You just earned yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the good work :)

Thank you so much for this video! My first playthrough is just total garbage. I'm going to restart and try your methods out. You are the best, seriously!

Dropped everything in Rovna like you said, went back and it was all gone. balls.

There is no reason to have best possible start, the slow start is the best part of the game, after there, you are in a god mod and game becomes kinda dull, so why ruin the most fun part.

There is also a way to abuse Kunesh to raise your stealth skill. If you progress his quest to "find another way to get the axe and hammer" you can then repeatedly sneak up on him and knock him out. If you fail, it briefly instigates combat but due to the quest he doesn't run to the guards and will drop combat. Once you knock him out, pick him up and drop him near a guard for a quick revive then rinse / repeat to build stealth. After getting a horse and escaping Talmberg, ride straight out eastward. Its the fastest way to the cutsceen and you can recover the horse later. It will always be right at the spot you are when the cutsceen happens and you can use it till you get Pebbles later on.

Youre a god sir, thank you, the prologue pissed me off so much with the half-tutorials

Level _15_ in herbalism after picking Skalitz clean? Tell me whatever you did differently, because that only got me to level 5 or 6. It also took me _hours_ of gameplay.

Ended up looting all the herbs etc, then read the comments and decided to kill a guard with stealth... I died without saving :( RIP herb grind

You my friend have just earned yourself another sub

Also pick up a tonne of nettles, this gives you a permanent 2 to vitality through a hidden perk which says you have gotten a natural resistance to poison.

Who's ERB?

How to kill first encounter cuman. crouch thrust, press circle, walk backwards. Repeat. There...

One thing that got missed here is if you press X and whistle for your horse named Olena it will get the guards off Theresa & when you go back to talmberg you won't get charged with horse theft when you leave in disguise if you ride out on Olena and save yourself 70 groschen.

One other thing while you can't go past the fence as you auto die while fighting the cumans however, you can attack them with the bow. This will cause them to come after you. Move to where the bridge near the grey horse and the body of a servant are. That'll come running over. Additionally the horse mounted riders are on a loop, so if you shoot the horse it'll eventually bleed out. Which means you can shoot the cumans once they fall off the horse. It'll give you about 4 to 5 extra cumans to kill depending on how good you are with shooting the bow at long range targets.

Great guide, thanks. For a lot of the people commenting on glitch exploitation, the whole thing about this game I found great other than the immersion is that it's hard... it makes you earn your way. Grinding to have a good start is one thing, but powergaming and exploiting a glitches to become OP during the prologue is missing the point of a good gaming experience IMHO.

It's good advice but with a start like this you're gonna have to get some higher difficulty mods, as the game becomes trivial with full armor and one-hit kills.

When you go to 'get' a horse one of them is the one you rode in on (the one on the far right if your looking at their backs) and it won't count as stolen or treat it as stealing.

I have just started playing this yesterday and honestly, the flower picking is the best tip I have seen so far. Easy money starting off.

Ah they've patched the loot drop, once I travelled back it was all gone

So much powergaming my brain hurts

The game is downloading and I’m definitely going to do this! Thanks so much!!

When picking flowers in the beginning look for wormwood. Theres a decent amount and it goes for .9 and with the botanist perk, under herbalism, they sell for 1.5 groschens.

Well so basicly just vacuum everything

WTF, I dropped all of my stuf at Rovna but when I fast traveled back from Miller all of my stuf was gone, how tf is this possible bro, im glad I can still steal the guards weapons tho, I will try that now but I am dissapointed about the weapons and armor :( I only took the merchant sword and talmberg armor and left the good shit there ..

Because this game is especially realistically-difficult, it makes it so much more rewarding and more importantly, Satisfying to explore and strategize tricks like these. I always enjoy watching videos like these for this game.

Great content! Keep it coming

Could you please upload your save somewhere?

Is there a possibility to beat the big black guy

Awesome. Thank you 👍🏼

You don't have to steal a horse in Talmberg - the one you stole from the Cumans in Skalitz is there, and not marked with "steal" when you go to ride it.

Play with kumans armory? No thanks :D

Lol why steal a horse when u can just reuse the one you got early that way it's not stealing

yes, the horse thing is what i did too, and then i kept hitting the baker's mire, that thing trained everything to max lol half hour tops.

If you take flower power perk before you sell any herbs, (herbology 4) you get 0.6g as opposed to 0.5g for sage which adds up.

Herbalism herbalism herbalism.... "insert smoke weed everyday meme"

Wait wait wait, the stolen flag wears off? Literally no other RU-vid has said that that I've heard. Good tip if true.

Really wish I watched this a week and a half ago. Great video.

I love the dark souls reference in the thumbnail!

"erb" "erbelism" You may pronounce the h. It's not silent.

Wow every other RPG made us all thieving bastards, it really makes game less immersive.

A Couple of Things: - You can store stuff in the chests in the Talmberg Castle (the one to the left of where you sleep is best) so you dont need to be overencumbered. Go back later and get this shit. - Knock out a guard in skalitz to get armor ASAP - Get some High Charisma Gear and a Milanese chest plate from the trunk in Divish's room. Wait for the house keeper to start sweeping. Sneak in and hide in the window. Wait for Divish to come and go. Then close the door and pick the lock. Its a 20 Base Armor Chest plate IN THE PROLOGUE. You can also get some plate plaudrons or chausses by raiding chests in Talmberg.

Pro tip: win the fight with your First Cuman™️ by getting up on the rocky outcrop right next to you. Use elavation, constant headstrikes with your sword = profit

Why can’t some people pronounce the ‘H’ in HERB? The ‘H’ is what makes it a plant... an ‘Erb’ is nothing?

Urbs? Urbalism?

Why would i drop my stuff in rovna, doesnt everything show up in the chest by your bed?

Thanks for the guide. I must've picked every dam herb in that town, ended up with 17 herbalism and 6 strength just from picking

great guide on how to completely ruin the game for youself! Do "Best possible way to read a book: Read the ending first!" next!

You get knocked of the horse after the first hit. Your guide isn't very helpfull anymore.

Great Info!

Great guide. I did some of that last night before I learned of this. But yeah herbalism and alchemy is a great way to make money. You dont have to steal the horse. You have you own horse there.

How to not play Kingdom Come = Watch this video. Jesus ... KCD is about immersion, role play, and living your own experience... and here is a video about generic, un-personal min/maxing crap. But thanks for telling how to save Theresa, I was wondering if it was possible...

U can also whistle at them and they will stop and chase on so u can just whistle then wait on the to chase u

If you snuggle up to Vanyek in sword training, and get him in a corner, you'll be too close for him to block. This allows you to get more XP. Thrusting attacks are faster, and you wanna' keep your stamina under 50% so it regens faster. I was able to gain 2 levels of Sword and Warfare and 1 level of Agility and Strength.

you can take the armor and kill a guard when they call you to the battlements. Stall all the later patrols.

After doing all this I recommend doing sword training from Captain Bernard then going back to Skalitz where there is a compound to the south. That compound has a chest outside with three necklaces valued at 1k each and five really well armed bandits inside.

I usely go with that but for the stealing. If you pick a plant perk it will also build up your strength leg power you build two or three strength.

You don't have to steal the horse in talmberg, there is one that isnt marked as owned that you can use without getting a fine. Also, once you ride off towards skalitz and the cutscene triggers, you can go back to the spot where the cutscene triggered and the horse will still be there for you to use (however its not owned by you so pressing X wont call it). That's an easier way to get a free horse early on without having to pay a fine in talmberg.

That song at the end. That was my wtf moment. Lol that dude was my fav char in the game. Lord capon. Drunk at the bath house.

when i was doing the ginger in a pickle quest. i ran into this dude when i was looking for the bandits that were searching for ginger. we argued because there was a dead deer on the road. i just let em go and when he turned around, i shot em with a villager ash bow i stole from talmberg. he had a bow called the "trial" bow and it did 52 damage i think. and it didnt require any agility or strength

1) Choke out a few random people (don't take keys) 2) Choke out a guard with a halberd take it and drop it somewhere private 3) Choke out Kunesh and take his body somewhere private 4) Spam attack with the halberd on Kunesh's unconscious body (this levels strength, vitality, and agility). 5) Pick every lock in town starting with the easy ones and working your way up (you can get ~9 lockpicking, also levels stealth). 6) You may have to lure people into their houses by trespassing to get them to relock doors if you need a bit of extra lockpicking (stealth towards the houses at the far side of town from your house and people will follow you off their bench and into the house). 7) Take the pick locks better while drunk perk if you want the Very Hard Lock chests in town (not really worth it but you can). 8) Pick herbs at some point for profit. 9) Choke out or assassinate the town for gear (never take the keys if you haven't done lockpicking yet). 10) Kill all the Cumans on your way out (you get healed before the horse riding segment)

Something odd happened to me i left all my stuff in Rovna like the video suggest the sevarel cut sceen leter when i try to pick up everything they are gone... Nothing left to pick up anymore

Why did they make it so difficult to grab items. Like in fallout you just get close enough and you can pick it up easy. In this game you have to be in specific angle to pick items up. Is there a fix for this? Cause stealing is nerve racking when you can't find that sweet spot were the "pick up" option shows.

You can find St. Georges sword VERY early on. Best sword i've found yet

The hold shift to disable lockon, start swinging away from the oponent and then when the blade would hit turn to the target is the best tip for combat, when i tested it it felt like the enemy AI can't handle the tactic and always gets hit, since they are not in defense mode and won't block. The lockon puts the enemy in defense mode where they start blocking. It's almost an exploit and can be abused throughout the game. Especially with high stamina you can just dance around enemies and get the cheap hits in, you can clear whole camps with this.

solid video. just wondering if you ever had any weird glitches, once it glitched when the miller was teaching me to pickpocket and he ran to tell the rattay guards on me, i ended up getting arrested...

Ok even easier guide,.. need one savior schnapps,.. Go back to skalitz fast travel, go up the open path and save outside of the open gate in the city, Bandits and Cuman's starts fighting each other. Hopefully the cumans win or down to only one person left. While they are fighting sneak in and loot the dead bodies,.. Sometimes might need to reload to get an outcome you want, but you pick up high level mostly 1k + gear from even dead bandit and that is that.

Amazing tutorial, good job. Just sub you.

Go to the second floor door at the building where you have to steal some wine for through the first door you see and the chest right in front of you, opposite the door, as long as your able to lock pick very hard chest, in there should be gear worth 10,000 plus Grotchen and 3,000+ grotchen.

You can't ride horse when over encumbered now. But you can drop all loot at Tamlberg inn. Rent room and you can use chest.

You can get the St. George's sword from Hans Capon during his bathhouse quest. You can just steal it and let it sit inside your chest until the stolen tag gets removed. (If you don't want to cheat your way by exploiting that chest with the endgame gear).

The Legend is here

So about the mounted combat- how did you guys get back on your horses after collecting cuman armor, I was too heavy.

6:06 I tried the whole 90 degrees turn away with the Cuman solider, but it kept on failing to work.

How long did that take you? I'm debating if I want to restart and get my dude pimped out or just keep playing