Just checked -> This Combat / Fighting Guide is still valid also in v1.9 of Kingdom Come (A Woman's Lot - DLC)! 😎

It annoys me when a group of peasant bandits armed with bludgeons and a common shield are able to perform the master strike technique. Meanwhile, Henry had to actually practice and master this technique with Captain Bernard.

Finally, a combat guide by someone who understands it. Great, great job. Thanks for the tips.

All time, before I watched this vid I used long sword + shield and wonder why I cant into combo, lol.

Oh wow I had NO idea the combo perks highlighted where you should go next. I thought you had to memorize them all lol. That makes things SO much easier. Cheers!

Tip: If you move the red part of the star ( the star showing where you're gonna hit ) to the top and stab right efter, you will stab them in the face. It's very usefull, best used after you win a clinch.

Also: When the distance between you and the opponent becomes too great, he will get out of the combat stance and run towards you. If you initiate a stab attack at the right time, he will run into your blade, a guaranteed hit.

One of the best combat guide, thank you. Nearly all other combat guides do not offer guides how to use the actual fight mechanics. Well done. Many thanks.

When you struggle with 1 bandit and see a guy on youtube fighting with 3 high armed knight without any effort... Great video! Greetings from Hungary :D

This is probably best explanation of combat mechanics in KCD I have seen on KZfaq. Kudos!

Wow! Didn't know about the white arrow thing! Thanks! Also, now that you said it look obvious and easy, but I really didn't consider starting combos after I throw the enemy off balance. I had mostly given up combos as enemies would perfect block or master strike me often. Thanks a lot! Great video, very good quality with clear and organized instructions.

1:31 this explains a lot

A guide that starts being a guide and ends being a guide and no inflated crap in the middle, good job.

picked this game up on steam and was struggling with combat lol. Thanks to this video, i understand way more now, Thanks mate you're a legend!

I remember playing Baptism in Fire and using the False Edge combo against Runt immediately. He was knocked down in less than 5 seconds of combat. I was shocked how realistic it was since Runt had no helmet on. Felt sad that it ended quickly but my Henry was already a BEAST.

Regarding the master strike unlock: you dont need to progress deep into the story. just right after the duell with Hans Capon it is available as soon as you trained all other available trainings with bernard and have your skill in the weapon you want to learn thw master strike at at least 4 or 5. tested it yesterday because i wated to start a new run to celebrate the aniversary.

Few years back I played the hell out of this game, got really good gear, and got very good but fighting after much trial and error. Unfortunately I burnt myself out before I completed the game and now I want to dive back in. I just remember it was a steep learning curve so this helps.

Didn't notice the highlight combo till you mentioned it. Now I need to activate Sharingan to see that spit second combo.

0:02 An axe in Kingdom Come Deliverance? Now, there's something we don't see everyday.

I've waited until the latest update to get back into Kingdom Come. This vid was a good refresher on combat for me. Cheers.

Why, after years of playing this game off and on, am I now finding this tutorial video.... Had no idea the combos flashed. Truly one of the Best Games I've Played.. Top 10

Amazing info and solid information density. Presented in a good German , no nonsense fashion. Dankeschoen!

I had no idea about the flashing white part of the combo string. I gave up really trying to memorize them over time but with this i may be able to slowly make attempts in learning them on the fly and gain the muscle memory. Thank you!

Awesome content dude, also a tip for archery if you go outside rattay at night where bernard teaches you to fight there will be a heard of sheep in the meadow next to the training ring. Go there with the weakest bow/arrow combo you have available. It will take 2 or 3 hits to kill the animals this way which gets you more experience than a powerful bow that kills with a single shot because you get experience for each arrow that hits a live target. You can easily gain 3 or so levels in bow, hunting, agility, strength and vitality by doing this. And can be repeated every time you leave and travel back to the city

Gotta be honest this video was actually kinda helpful even though Ive been playing for 2 years. I never really know how to time the evade, and never knew that pressing block will match the opponents stance, and I never noticed the direction glowing during combos...

Good guide. I cant tell you how many guides I've found that essentially say 'go train more'. This is the kind of info I was looking for

Wonderful guide, I've pretty much mastered the game's combat but I didn't know the things you said about increasing master strike hit chances. Thanks!

This is a pretty good summary, video well done! Combos are harder to learn in hardcore more whithout the UI for reference. This and with a mouse makes it quite difficult.

Way better than all other tutorials that I've seen on the topic! Good job and thanks!

So glad I found you m8 I started my first pay through recently and thanks to you I’m doing way better😁

Awesome well-rounded guide, mate! I'm at the Talmberg siege now but your guide is still helpful. Gotta say if you experience the brutality of Sekiro before KCD then the timed block/master strike can be learned in 30' practice or less.

You got some great combat footage there. Looked pretty fluid tbh. Im about to play kc for the first time and you breaking it down this way actually helps me understand. Thanks man.

You did good with this video, I actually saved it and I think I'm going to study it a few times so I can really get the hang of it

This is one really impressive guide (Y) I was deciding to buy between two portions. aqua vitalis with 50% less damage vs buck blood with 50% more stamina As Stamina somewhat represents armor when being armed I made my choice :D PS: The number of your subs actually surprised me quite a lot...

Great guide dude! Helped me a lot

Wow, this video covers everything beautifully, the combat in this game is so fun once you level up a bit

My very first playthrough is on hardcore, and I really feel like a peasant holding a sword for the very first time. On HC there is no HUD at all, so blocking is really hard. I just hide behind a shield and stab like a madman.

I was level 17 when I found out I could learn master strike. Nice guide

Thanks! I was really looking for something like this. Great guide!

That video helped me sooo much! Thank you for this great Tutorial! I am so much better now!

The best combat guide of KC:D in YT. Kudos👏

One of the best guides I’ve ever seen

The bow is OP AF. Just backpedal, soak up the occasional hit with your armor while waiting for an opening in their stance and turn them into a pincushion. 8 arrows or less for any bad guy vs. 20 minutes of dancing around with a sword.

For bows the arrow goes to the end of your wrist and an equal distance up. If you got gloves on you can use the top of the circle wrist, the leather gloves even have a pointy part at the top to easily guide you, and it will be much easier to calculate.

i was commited to using longsword like a proper knight, i only use the other weapons when forced to in tournament.

A very well made video! The way I fight is using heavy armor and a longsword. I rely on master strikes and clinches. If you clinch with a short weapon (any other than a longsword) you have a small chance of your hit to reach your opponent while he's vulnerable, unless you're in a tight corner and he has no room to move back to. I also like you deducted that attack chains are of no use against skilled enemies in late game, because they will block, evade or most likely counter your chain. So apart from the moves I've mentioned I also rely on fenits when my enemy is skilled and will not attack me for a long time to avoid a master strike. In this game I counted myself ready to fight when I won against Bernard with real weapons. My ultimate victory that I'm proud of is in Skalitz, when you return there is a good chance you will catch Cumans fighting super bandits (that's what I call bandits with expensive gear) the Cumans almost immediately die and they shift their attention to you, there's at least 3-4 of them so one wrong move will mean death and I was skilled enough to take down all of them.

Nice guide, thx. I think your English is perfectly understandable.

I bought this game in like 2020/2021. But I ended up having to stop playing because I just couldn't get the hang of the combat. I was absolutely horrible. I got to the part where Henry & Sir Radzic attacked the Cuman camp in the woods & you have to fight Runt. I must have made 200 attempts (No Exaggeration) & I never got him below 75-80% HP. About half of those attempts I didn't even land a single strike. A few days ago, My best friend & I were talking about KCD & I decided to redownload it & give it another try. I am very glad I decided to try again because this time I have actually gotten a grasp & better understanding of the combat mechanics & strategy. I knew the combat was skill based. They emphasized that significantly. But I didn't realize just how skill based it actually is. I didn't know that using block while within close range triggers a clinch. I would hold the block button down instead of just during an incoming attack. So I would clinch alot & I thought it was just the game doing it which made me very fustrated. Besides the clinch, I always knew that it was me & not the game who was at fault. So I didn't have those moments of saying "This game sucks" because I kept dying. Instead I was frustrated at myself for not being able to understand the combat. I almost quit the game before the fight with Runt during the quest where you go hunting with Hans Capon & he is captured by the 2 Cumans. I spent around a week to a week & a half trying to beat that quest. I finally completed it by the grace of good. I pretty much cheesed it. I snuck up as close as I could to the swordsmen & put an arrow in his head, then I tried shooting the archer where I hit him with 1 maybe 2 arrows before turning to my sword to finish him off. But like I said, It was pure luck & not skill. Technically I haven't done 1 playthrough because I was never able to finish the story. But I am on my 2nd "playthrough" & I finally got the combat to click for me. I was even able to get Hans Capon's Bow after a draw in the archery contest & then defeating him in the sword contest.

Had no idea about that combo indicator. Smh Thanks for the tip and very informative video. Good Job

Really informative video! Thanks for working these mechanics up :)

Masterstrike having your sword in one position opposite the start of a combo, usually right or up that way you roll from master strike to combo, then combo clinch hit f to push back with leg back up stab then start the next combo.

this game is very hard for me but the combat is very satisfying when you do succeed. i literally get so excited when i win a fight even if i have a save right before i started the fight

Worth 8 minutes of my life. High praise.

I do like maces, especially with the knockout perk. Super satisfying to get two instant knockouts via headbonk.

And I was wondering why the hell I can't take down the armored soldiers with my Sword. It turned out, that I should be using a Mace.

Even though I find the fighting enjoyable in this game, the mechanics is quite broken: Just run towards your enemy to start “sword-wrestling”, knock him back and get a free stab or slash at your opponent. Directly run up on him again... rinse and repeat! You will win every tournament with ease - no skill or combo required. It gets a bit more tactical with multiple opponents: A lot of moving and repositioning, some well timed blocking in between and finding the right time to get in, but I fought whole camps with over half a dozen enemies using this simple knock-back method - just be faster than your opponent hitting that punch button. PS: Good armoring helps for fighting groups.

Thank you for this! I learned a lot and will try these things tomorrow. I'm getting frustrated when I'm fighting multiple enemies.

The combo part was so helpful!

Really great video, exactly what I was after; thanks!

Very well put guide, subscribed!

You can stab either the body or head by targeting the head before hitting stab. Lets you basically insta-kill guys with no headgear.

This video is fantastic! Thank you so much! 😊

Great video. gonna get back to it a few times for sure

the game has a built in crosshair for archery in the console commands, it's on the wiki, just putting it out there for people who may not know.

Super helpful and well explained. Thank you 👍

Great tutorial I learned a lot

Put a sticker or something at the reticle when unarmed. Boom now you can see where you are aiming when using a bow

with the addition of the drunkard skills, you can now do archery fairly easy, but you need the skill where being drunk improves accuracy by 25%

"An arrow in the head is usually the dead."

Peasents can using master strike and perferct block, yeah yeah very realistic combat. pff...

I was crap my first attempt on KCD ,but trained/leveled up and the fighting is so good and rewarding , loved my 2nd play through Also ,the bow is your friend

Great guide! You missed two things, though. First, master strikes are performed by matching your guard to the enemy's and performing a perfect block, not by chance on a perfect block. Second, on Consoles, click your right stick to lock/switch targets. Without the little circle around the star, you can easily unlock by accident and get fucked against multiple enemies.

1:31 i finished the game twice while bashing my head against the wall and wondering how to do the master strikes so you should keep in mind you actually need to go to bernard second time to learn master strike, it should be in the training options

I was getting rekt a lot in game... then i mapped the buttons to be similar to Mordau controls. Been owning bandits easy ever since. Didn't know about tapping block to adjust my position to match the enemy though, that will help too ty.

Nicely explained, thanks for the video.

Sehr gutes Video. Werde die Tipps morgen anwenden 👍🏻

he totally summoned that bot, because that's the bot i use to train on. he has some of the best armor, including the italian bascinet, which i'm pretty sure is the best helmet in the game

I like how there is an NVG / GoPro mount on that helmet at 4:02 :V

My little tip: If you come across a bunch of bandits while on road or a bandit's camp....dont dismount your horse to attack them. Instead, stay on your horse and run/gallop a bit far, turnaround, then gallop again to gain speed and slash the enemy. Keep doing this to every enemy. Its much easier this way to kill any number of bandits, than to dismount and let them surround you. But dont stop moving far away, otherwise they will pull you down from your horse.

Like alot of people I was very frustrated with this game until several hours after grinding fighting practice, archery, hunting, lockpicking + associated training. Now its enjoyable to roam around and take on cumans or bandits etc. Still not easy but can be done.

Best fighting potions, and how to cheese enemies to heal in combat.

Here a tip, if you do a UP stab, in this case you look up but not slash, stab, it's gonna stab in the head and it's can't be master strike, only perfect block, so you can just spam it until your enemy die, also work with captan Benard when you gonna learn the master strike, instead of attack him in any direction, you do the UP stab, he will never block and you can easily level up you weapon level, it's don't work with longsword, only with shortswords, axe and maces :)

Very useful tips! Liked and subs!

So this means the flashing on the stance symbol while fighting. I always wondered.

me who can only win by shooting arrows at pointblank range: "so that's how you use a sword...I suck!"

Didnt know about the highlight. Didnt know about having to learn counterstrike from bernard

Awesome video! Your English is accented, but super clear! (you pronounce the word "feint" wrong though)

Thank you! For this video

ty man i could not figure out for the life of me how to master strike

Hello, I am Remember you. While I played the game. If this Game become online. I think you're a Worth it Fighter. We should duel.

Pretty nice guide. I wonder whether you could make a deeper one dedicated to specific combos.. how to execute them best, when is the best timing to initiate them... which position enemy needs to be for you to land a combo etc., subscribed.

thanks for the great video!

3:33 "love is you sexy" in the subtitles, that was a little uncalled for but thanks i guess.

So this was the guide covering EVERYTING I was looking for all this time... One thing I feel like was missed which I've read people talk about, is perfect block/master strike against multiple enemies... I haven't been able to pull this off, whenever I've been surrounded I rarely see more than one enemy (maybe I should increase FOV) and knowing if they're about to strike to get a riposte off seems impossible... But I'm guessing you will do a perfect block if you just click the block keybind when one of the surrounding enemies starts performing his attack? Lastly, there is only master strike, and no way to ripost after a perfect block it sounds like? So pressing the attack key after perfect block isn't any different other than the enemy just got staggered? You still do a regular attack?

This is best guide. Thank you

Perfect video, thank you for the tips

Shoutout to polearms: while you can’t perform master strikes with them, you also can’t perform master strikes against them and they do a loooot of damage. So if you’re low level, having a polearm means you can go toe-to-toe with a high level enemy and win.

Awesome, thanks!

Polearms are amazing on hours back you can take any enemys if you go fast and hit and run And Knight and other perk will make iT even more favorable they need more love 🙌😜

Oh, this sweet accent! The video is great too, btw.