Combat system was my favourite part of the game

I love the combat style from last one!

the combat system was great. You had to use faints and combos. It was hard to go on attack but so rewarding.

For me the combat system was great in the original game. You had to learn together with Henry to be good and Henry is a peasant, so its realistic that other people are better. However I agree, that is not for everyone and hope that it will be easier for some lower difficulty setting, so that the game is accessible for more people.

i´m really sorry but the combat in the first game was awesome. the reason a lot of people didnt´t like it is that most people can´t be bothered to actually learn how to fight and forget that henry was just some peasant boy who never in his live swung a sword.

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KCD's combat may be a clunky mess, atleast with keyboard and mouse, but I still vastly prefer it over the plastic feel of skyrim or the like. If they've refined it, I expect to only enjoy it more and I'm stoked it's not being completely revamped. Also, I completely disagree with you that "riposte fishing" is the only viable alternative against endgame knights. I do find it ridiculous that bandits scale in ability and can riposte and flourish like trained elite, but a lot of the time you can overcome situations with spacing, good timing of counters, or just placing your strikes well regardless of if you use the combos or not(though if you don't you're asking to get beat imo) As a backer of the original kickstarter I may be biased here but I don't understand how you can look at a game like KCD and just think you're signing up for bashing skulls more or less. The alchemy is optional, and while some quests involve it you are never forced to engage with it if you so wish. This isn't an action RPG. This is an RPG. It carries a heavy load of alternative activities besides just grinding stats, loot, and killing, and that is a core part of what makes it so good.

The combat system was fantastic in the first game? It was based in real medieval scriptures of technique and it was most definitely skill based. Just defending never ever won me a single fight.

I already like just going for a horse ride and explore things in KCD 1, but this.... oooooooooo.... this is absolutely stunning, and yeah, the npc models, armor, cloths, details, this is really coming to life. And their CryEngine, wow... BRAVO WARHORSE! The sharpness, colour just, everything, this THIS is nothing short of marvelous, I so wish my parents were alive to show them this. Family was from Germany, the crests painted on the buildings, the wattle and daub houses, styles, really pulls you into almost a time travel dream, can just pause and stare at some of these scenes and almost believe is a memory, or even just a wanderer in disguise. Sure a long way from the commodore 64 and vic 20.... and tandy, apple, etc and so on, and from monochrome to 16 color to this....... beggars belief, too bad kids have not seen how far things have come from that single 7.5" or 3.5" floppy swapping with 128k ram.... 8mhz........ no hard drives, maybe tape drive ... amazing. And what a majestic score so far.. I like to listen as I just pause a frame of any scene, and just get lost in all the detail and lighting and atmosphere, wind, That cryEngine has the detail that really lets the rest of the mind just fill in so much extra percieved small detail.......... graphics are fascinating. OK will shut up now and just enjoy for the 5th time again already. ehehe.

The orchestra is so epic

Why would you be sad about the same combat? It made the game so unique. I personally want them to just refine what they had before instead of reinventing the wheel. If they made it easy it would kill my hype

The music...... there ya go, that's all the 'magic' we need to know to capture the heart and soul of this stage. The ever present heartbeat, pulse of living blood of the world enveloping and echoing throughout you. Majesty, sorrow, humility, wonder, joy, .... Dude, God's breath in your ear, painting reality with sound, in the beginning there was the word, the word is a sound with meaningful intent and purpose and love, Even Angels in heaven must sing praise of such magnificence as a mountain cloaked in verdant green majesty. Our sounds, songs, stories, and deeds much like our very own names and ego shaping the form of our person harmonizing with creation giving us just that hint of an understanding of the Divine. Truly a holy aura that accents the force of these notes. The wonder of Their lives, missions, and dreams, even though still dreams themselves forged into virtual vitality. Our most miraculous instrument, our voices, our ear, our soul, a mere whistle to mimic the meadowlark... a connection to God. Good folks, beautiful bards of light and longing, timbre and tone, This one piece of the score, feels like an embrace. And here I was, feeling angry at the state of our world. This is a reminder. We can work miracles. Life itself is nothing short of a miracle, mashed up molecules, perfectly and precisely positioned, and that unknown spark that makes it...... be. But that is what life is.... study, experience laughter, resilience, tall and untangled, some beaten some mangled, and if you live long enough well, things come together in all those buzzing bees beyond and behind the brow. Thank you all, will leave you now. dang.... I have to let them know this ryhming flow, feels fully fledged and flying free, must give to them from the heart of me.

The combat was about as realistic as it gets. You need to keep from getting surrounded and learn the attacks. It's not for people without much of an attention span. You have to get good at it. This is no button masher.

Combat system will be changed in KCD2 i was listening to Czech interview with one of developers and he said this "One of the directions will be removed so at surface it's gonna be simplified and more accessible but you can learn it in-depth which will come with rewards" as with overpowering enemies and being more aggressive it really depends you shouldn't be playing hero specially not against armored knights who are far more skilled then Henry he is peasant after all and when in KCD1 as developer said "You where like good enough to fight in local area maybe you where a champion in some competition in your local village then after moving to Kuttenberg you will be more likely entering on international level of competition."

Quickly becoming my favorite game series. and im a souls enjoyer.

combat style is perfect 😅. That’s odschool realistic RPG. You need learn how to play this magnificent game. 🙂

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I absolutely love KCD, but I have to agree on the Combat (for the most part) The advantage of playing defensive is definitely real, but I still thought it was pretty fun. But fighting many enemies at once was the only part I actually disliked about the game

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Enemy master strikes/ripostes was ridiculous % ruined the whole combat system yeah, essentially you are getting punished randomly and regularly for just attacking which makes you want to just sit defending and wait to master strike yourself. They said they reworked master strikes tho, we'll see.

The combat system in theory is great, in practice it just doesn't quite work fluidly and it ends up being clunky and frustrating against multiple opponents. Not because of a skill issue per se, but a lack of control over your own character. The lock on system hinders you from engaging with multiple opponents and the animations make you get stuck and not able to have any control during them, especially when the camera locks your vision away from your opponents if you do get hit, which results in being stun locked because you can't even see the next attack coming anymore. Even worse with the visor vision but that is actually realistic. But I get so annoyed when people refuse to admit the combat has its flaws and then they call that "realistic" when it's not realistic to have no control over your own body. Unless you're role-playing as a guy with parkinson and convulsions. Don't get me wrong, I like the game a lot but games like mordhau did combat better, especially mordhau. Even though the animations are less realistic, it requires a lot more skill and still has freedom of movement (and more attack directions) which KCD all lacks in comparison, KCD combat is not hard at all when it actually functions like in 1v1s. I can't really take on 2 AI opponents in KCD but I can take on 2 actual players in mordhau because I actually have control over my character movement, I can switch targets with a fluid drag of my mouse instead of having it sticking to the wrong opponent, and I can keep moving while attacking or parrying. That makes combat so much more immersive than being locked to your opponents Sorry for my ramble, I just had to put it out there lol.