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[kcd] I have been bullied into playing this
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and started last night
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status update: got my shit kicked in, stole my dad's axe from kunesh for kicking my shit in, went to jail, the jail burned down and I died
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game over
goergius
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that's actually not true I did it right the second time. including but not limited to throwing manure at a guy's house. then dad yelled at me while we made a sword
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I also, for what it's worth, successfully stole the axe this time. fuck you kunesh
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I have like an irl beef with kunesh now
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I will say, kunesh aside, I'm really enjoying it so far. it's very My Shit
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hopefully I will get better at fighting
machine harold
fiery jail death club
machine harold
the only way for Henry to get better at things is actual in-game practice, which also makes you better, it's kind of genius as a system
dylan
this is one of those where you have to actually be good at video games, isn’t it 
dylan
i remember starting the first one and also getting my shit extremely kicked in
dylan
it wanted me to understand stats.....
goergius
I actually think kcd is a rare weird outlier where you don't have to be good at games (like it helps but), you just have to be willing to work to get better. Being good at games is going to give you advantage, but you can definitely studiously grind your way to being a killing machine regardless.
goergius
Wild concept tbh. Feels like absolute dogshit for the first 30 hours (positive).
dylan
goergius
: noted! thank you for the perspective, it gives me a flame of hope haha
goergius
I believe in you!!! Go forth and get your ass kicked.
Lana
yeahhh!!!! im glad you're here too
Lana
and yes it's absolutely a work ethic game lol
Lana
slash lateral thinking game
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love that
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back into Bohemia I go
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oh no my parents
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I gotta say there are ways this game looks dated but the mocap is really fucking good
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the learning curve is real but I’m enjoying it
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holy shit let this kid sit down
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Robard is my dad now
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coming on a little strong there steph
machine harold
the mocap and (most of) the voice acting really make up for the awkward mannequin faces
machine harold
Tom McKay is just so good
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I successfully booked it from the castle but only after savescumming myself out of a second jail time
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I can’t live with robard being mad at me
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also I’m sorry to say I’m definitely not above looting my dead neighbors
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boy peshek’s a real piece of work isn’t he
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some extremely good guys in this game
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I didn’t like Radzig but now I love him. and I just met Hans and am already like yeah, that one
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that one’s for me
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I’m so glad I didn’t do any grave robbing or pickpocketing before becoming a squire
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I did however just get fined for standing in front of the castle too long while typing that
goergius
HAHAHA
goergius
Oops
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I just spent like a hundred years looking for the fucking bell to ring and it was on a PILLAR and now I have to close down the tavern and these guys are DICKS
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Hal hasn’t slept since 2am the previous night because the miller kicked him out and he’s been training all day and I feel his pain so profoundly
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the number of times I’ve had to clean myself up today
machine harold
Henry is extremely good at getting dirt all over himself just by walking
machine harold
like he's eating fistfuls of soil as he moseys down the street
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it still says it’s my bed at the mill 
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timidly just like can... can I go to sleep now
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bro whaaaat is your PROBLEM
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I snuck into the inn and slept illicitly
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...ok I think I’ve been trying to sleep in the miller’s bed. whatever
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I unironically love this bad time simulator
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my name is Henry and my life is hard and I have so many feelings
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bedtime now but I was telling tango this yesterday: I compare this experience favorably to Skyrim, which was my first ever solo rpg on any console, and kcd is bringing me back to that feeling of exploration mixed with absolute brainless incompetence
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I have no idea what I’m doing or where to go and everything is multiple layers removed from obvious and it’s so fucking funny and good. I’m so cheerful after every time I play. I don’t know shit, let’s see what happens tomorrow
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oh but of course the distinction here is I’m trying to be a good boy and can’t just be a fuckface garbage cat indefinitely
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pebbles!!!!!!
Lana
Pebbles!!!
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screenshots of things I said to tango last night 
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so I don't have to tyepe them again
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tyeepy
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I went and scouted the camp for radzig but kept getting runnoft by guards so I went back and reported and he was like 'how many' and my educated guess is 'idk a lot probably'
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I'm sure the raid will go fine
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"are there archers" "m.. maybe"
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I was also advised to get the DLC so I bought the multipack last night and will acquire Mutt when I play this evening
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I don't care if he howls all the time because I am absolutely turbo dogshit at stealth anyway. and I'm a good boy. Henry has a strong moral c--remembers first screencap
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I have died one thousand times in this raid on the bandit camp
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man I think I gotta savescum this and go back to before the raid
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I can’t kill this guy
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puppy dog acquired
Lana
the bandit camps take awhile, but you'll get there
Lana
oh wait this is baptism of fire, damn cami, you're moving so much faster and/or differently than me
Lana
soon i'm going to have to stop reading this plurk
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No I had to jump back from it
machine harold
that was my brick wall too
machine harold
i was like, oh, ok. it's serious now. time to train, Henry!!
machine harold
you can kind of get by on luck and running away until then
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yeah exactly
Lana
Interesting! I didn't do it that way but I guess that makes sense that you can get away with it for that long
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I’m father Godwin’s 1 fan and I don’t care who knows it
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saying HEY GIIIIRL aloud when I see him with a little quest indicator
Lana
he's pretty great
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Lord Hanush got so mad at me bc I was like I found the heretics! and I told them to go away!! but the vicar chased them so he's gone 
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"what is a heretic really" he's like WHAT THE FUCK HENRY
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"aren't we all just children of god--" NO
machine harold
Godwin somewhere in the bg like ATTABOY
goergius
Being purple in the face with rage+exasperation hanush's default setting
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oh godwin is my best friend he was like hell yeah brother
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we fistbumped as I left for rattay
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you couldn't see it but it happened
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I lost an hour or so of gameplay the other night because I killed someone who was apparently not a Cuman and got turbo arrested. I had done so much too, come on guys
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then I had tos tay in jail for seven days and I missed the execution I was trying to sabotage, and my dog left, and I went 'fuck this' irl and savescummed
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moral of the story is, be sure the guy you're killing is a cuman or a bandit
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my new best friend is Hermann the Executioner. I like that he looks like Steve Zahn and also a little bit our landlord from the Woodinville house
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just a sweet guy whose job is killing people
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I did an amazing job helping him out once I was able to do it
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stray observation, I love that you can see Hans' horse parked around town and go check on him. what're you up to Hansy
Lana
Love the Hermann side quest, weirdest love story
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I wish it were possible to make this game just like 30% easier, or at least to be able to save whenever I want because I'm very bad at it and I don't have the patience or time to spend hours grinding until I personally the player learn to be marginally less bad at stuff
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but everything else about it is so appealing
Lana
it's so satisfying when you become a murder machine though
Lana
Im not sure it would be as fun without the work put in but I may be a sicko (yes)
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yeah I'm a sicko also and I can only play for like two hours at a time lol
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but I sympathize, the learning curve is really steep
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it IS really satisfying when you start getting good though
goergius
Highly rec this saviors schnapps recipe scum to just make a million saves. I THINK, but I may be misremembering, that you can coat food items with it instead of carrying them around. So like if you get the lightest food item you can and mix them, you can basically carry around infinite saves for little inventory space.
From the kingdomcome community on Reddit
goergius
(but also there's save and quit in the main menu which I lazily used to save whenever I wanted all the time. Saving system is absolutely the most annoying part let me turn it off!!!!)
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oh that's great
Lana
also Theresa will give you savior schnapps when you run out but I did not know this tip about food
Lana
me talking to Theresa at every opportunity
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my girl...
machine harold
you can also apply potions to a stack of drinking water (5 max) to basically turn them into a little stack of potions
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iirc someone from reddit said they always spike their garlic as well since it doesn't expire, has -0.5 food value and weighs nothing
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my henry lives off dried meat and other people's stew pots
machine harold
feed him garlic and onions for the true slav experience
machine harold
and cabbage. so much cabbage. they'll smell him coming
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lolol
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they already do because he gets a buff from sleeping on the ground
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I'm saving up to buy the lethean water recipe because I need to undo that. let my boy sleep in a hotel
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oh my god I did it, I got bandit guy
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it only took one million tries