Good news is you can absolutely finish that quest without any fighting either with speech (I knew I wanted to avoid fighting as much as possible so I went high speech from the start) or just asking for help. You cannot find the captain if he’s still in the stud farm and he won’t leave until you finish Ginger in a Pickle. So I had the same issues than you with combat, because my henry might learn stuff but I’m still bad at fighting, I don’t have good reflexes and I tend to just freeze. I love old style RPG where your character stats and some RNG determine his abilities and not at all your own ability to time a hit etc, but I wanted to try this game anyway for all aspects outside of combat.

So I’ve read maybe 1/3 of the answers so maybe I’ll repeat something already said but this is a bit too long for me to read everythingįirst I’m not a casual gamer but I hate anything that has to do with hand/eye coordination and reflexes. Still, agree that a difficulty setting never hurts a game those who want it can adjust, those who don’t want it don’t use it. Of course, you can spend hours trying to learn all the combo’s and crap with that barbaric trainer, but to me this was stupid (on pc and the mouse is way to fast to choose the right point in that small wheel during fihgting). At a certain point you will notice it becomes easy to kill others and hard for others to kill you, not based on your skills as player but based on stats in the game. make sure you have good armor and weapons.find some lonely thieves to train your swordfighting on and animals for bow.when possible, buy training from people (so don’t actualy do the fighting).learn how to read straight away and buy all skill books you come across.That guy is not representative for fighting all other people. He beats you up so bad, it takes away your motivation. avoid that Bernard guy outside Rattay.The beginning is extreme hard and takes all the fun out of fighting, but after a while it becomes easy rapitly. The curve for Henry in fighting is exponential. I know what you mean, had the same problem.

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