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@@daveincognito if you just are doing locks, definitely use the water trough instead of the time skip method for a much faster cycle time. You should be able to run from the trough to the ladder in the 5 seconds that'll get Zoro to lock the front door before he disappears. You also won't need to worry about the man in gray, then, as he won't make it back in time to see you picking the front door lock. Happy farming!

@@daveincognito I have an exploit guide that is basically no risk lockpicking XP farming. If interested, it's the thumbnail with Miller peshek in it(the exploit is next door at the tanner's). Check the pinned comments there for some updates I discovered after video release. Once you're high level, lockpicking is very easy. Make sure you're walking around with 0 noise gear. Low Visibility is less important than 0 noise for thieving since they will investigate trespassing if they hear footsteps. High stealth further reduces your noise and visibility (though it doesn't make those numbers go down). @ level 20 Stealth I can literally jump on a sleeping bandit or guard without waking them up.

Thanks, Bud! I'm glad you enjoyed. I'll for sure be looking for and refining the most efficient methods available for KCD 2 once I get my hands on it. We Henrys will thrive in Kuttenberg. 🍻

@@joelledbetter2926 as a console player, I do best to give aid to my fellow console Henrys. I'm sorry if my tips aren't working for you, however. I know early level lockpicking can be very frustrating.

@@joelledbetter2926 certainly it's very finicky before "lasting lockpicks" perk is unlocked at level 3. I've only ever used console for KCD so I've only ever used controller. I still struggle just using my thumb but the pinch method makes it very manageable for me. You are not alone in your struggles, however. Many a Henry gets frustrated with this mechanic.

I appreciate that! I hope you found it entertaining, at least.

@@Krzysztof-918D 🤣 maybe Godwin came to visit. 🍻

@@adrianreid4926 they patched the game, I believe, where runt doesn't reflect on your kills.

@ hmm I’m yet to complete my merciful playthrough and I only killed runt with a bow headshot, and I see this in my statistics.

@adrianreid4926 interesting. Well, I was using a bludgeon and could have gotten headcracker,I suppose. Either way, you're allowed to kill runt. I didn't intentionally "not kill him" but it's possible I only knocked him out and that could be why. The wiki suggests it "may or may not" reflect on one's stats

@@TrialBySquire good to know! I made it through An Oath is and Oath on my first (!) try by some miracle only to be frustrated by the fact that I have to complete Amourous Adventures before finally beating the game…

@adrianreid4926 I'm not happy about that decision. I get that you can do the dlc "early" but I don't like that they changed the "win conditions" with a dlc addition. Feels not right

@@eligh1st the tanner's property right next door to the Miller (where you wake after the prologue).

Ok thanks ​@@TrialBySquire

@@Zaki00-g7c pardon? This was played and captured on Xbox series x

@@Ausf that's a really fascinating question! I will test it, for sure. I fear it won't matter any more than removing the tack beforehand did but since it's a different tack slot and is adding to instead of emptying a slot, I suppose there's a chance. Definitely worth a try since, theoretically, that would mean a double shoe bonus (the invisible one from olena and the physical one added to the new horse). That opens the door to horse armor double buffs as well so it'd be sweet if it worked out. I'll replace her plain saddle with a noble one as well in hopes that the loss is reduced from that slot.

@@TrialBySquire I'm not sure when the buff is applied from tack, but if it's before you even get the horse, it might be possible to mod their tack, or change the stats of the horse you want. Either way, it's great that you can have any horse you can ride, including horses you didn't have access to, even with Cheat mod. I don't have the game installed to test, but it would be great if you could have Capon's horse, and then you could presumably have a caparison without the mane sticking out. I know there's a mod that removes all manes, but I prefer normal horses to have them.

I just finished a test. For convenience, I just used what I had easy access to. Before reaching Talmberg I equipped olena with noble saddle (4 bags), Calvary bridle, and travel horseshoes. This should have reduced the saddle debuff to only -1 speed and the travel shoes would give a percentage boost to speed (olena was at 38 speed before turning in, up from 30). This produced no change to Jenda after the cutscene. Bummer. Still 35 speed with no tack applied (also no tack transferred to jendas inventory). It was a cool theory and I'm glad you brought it up. This was done on Xbox and I used no mods. I would think on PC there's probably a file somewhere that details olena's tack. In that case, it may be possible to give olena no saddle and military horseshoes (could do bridles and armor but those reduce speed). In that instance, I'd be interested to see if the buff/debuffs are consistent with the new tack or the original.

@@TrialBySquire Thanks for testing. I don't know how to create mods myself, but I have seen mods that alter horse stats, so I definitely think it should be possible to give Olena shoes, or remove the saddle. Either way, very good find that you can get any horse at all that you can ride.

@@officiallynoname7945 We are many; we are one. 🫂

@@TrialBySquire sure you can have fun, I think this method suck though. I lockpicked every chest in Skalitz had level 5 or 6 lockpicking, left Talmberg with a ton of loot, put it into the Inn chest, and in Rattay stole every armor from the Merchant and sold it back to him after a few days. that's way more profitable, while also leveling up lockpicking, can then steal a horse ride to a Stable and buy one or just do the Hunting Quest with Hans to get a free horse anyway.

I have to agree. This is a rather weird way of playing the game. It breaks immersion and negates any sense in playing any further once you are in Rattay. The whole point of the game is to see Henry grow from a piss-poor villager to a wealthy fighter. What's the point if you simply side-step that completely. The whole thing gets boring after 4 quests if you already have everything.

They say the only cure is KCD 2...

The bright side is you get to start playthrough #16!

@@TrialBySquire Indeed!

@@Dominik40301 Right?! It's both funny and annoying, especially when he phases through the horse and you see his head poking through. An abomination, to be sure.

@TrialBySquire i suppose its due to mods since i never got this golden version of Henry

@Dominik40301 I don't run mods. This is the Xbox version

@@barondeadfish5890 Thank you, Baron. It was a long gap in content, for sure, but it should be easier to keep up the cadence going forward. I'm glad you enjoyed, and I'm glad you're back making content as well!

Humorous as always too. "Container" had me dying. But on the note of me being back. I wouldn't be back without your support and that of our fellows.

For real. We got ourselves a fine community.

@@Hadras7094 it's a doozie, and a nice alternative to crushing the souls of the Skalitz residents. I hope you enjoy, Bud! My first PC edit so I'm open to some constructive criticism on the editing, if you have any sage wisdom to impart.

@@helicalgoose Thanks, Bud! It was certainly a process learning the software and there's a lot more to learn but I'm pretty happy with this first step.Definitely better workflow than my last editing machine. I appreciate your encouragement, Sir Goose!

The pigs really are impressive for XP. Sheep are annoying and cows are tanky. Contests are pretty garbage for XP but I find the money per minute on the standard contests to be very respectable (albeit labor intensive). In Ledetchko, the Tailor and Tanner both restock daily. Moving tailor stock to tanner's chest is an easy 7k+ groschen per day for nearly no effort. Contemplative perk on normal mode makes it stupid easy to fund Pribyslavitz rebuild just from doing that. You can add the blacksmiths stuff twice a week @3k each restock as well. Spend a week moving stock and skipping time in Ledetchko for well over 50k payout! Thank you for the kind words, brother. I'm glad my guide was useful even for PC players! Good shout on the meat. I love switching up the ways I make money and this game has many options.

@@tannerelliott1723 lots of growing pains on my end but the computer is performing admirably! The editing software ran smooth throughout the whole edit; very snappy. I have a ton to learn about DaVinci but I felt pretty good about this first release. Thank you for asking! How's your KCD 2 hype going? Taking all the news in or avoiding spoilers?

@ definitely avoiding most videos so I do not catch any spoilers I’m keeping the news to a minimum lol but I’m super excited

@@english_tomato Now if we can just figure out a way to keep her!

@@FarissimoID Oh man, mostly by accident. I notice something weird happen and then I'm down a rabbit hole (hare hole?) for days trying to make it useful for you lot. I'm happy you like the content! This was my first video edited on PC instead of mobile so lots of learning to do. I hope the next one is even more polished. 🙏

He is the greatest Squire of Bohemia

@@marilala2274 and what shall we call you?! The Lady of LaLaLeipa? You've been cranking out the videos lately. 🥳 It's good to have you back with the rest of us Henrys!

@@marilala2274 Hey i know who you are! You made Johanka such an important figure lol

@@TrialBySquire This is already good for first time editing on PC, keep up the good work man!

@@MrSeekerOfPeace We all contain multitudes, but some also contain several sets of cuman armor and a bunch of expired produce... Thanks for the early engagement, Bud; I'm glad you enjoyed. 🍻

​@@TrialBySquireAn easy way to get 3+ good strength is to pick herbs with the leg day perk and Skalitz has plenty of them. Making the fights required for this exploit alot easier.

@MrSeekerOfPeace That's fair! Definitely a reliable method that doesn't risk reputation. I, personally, find leg day a lot of work for payoff, overall. It certainly works although I'd rather fight tournament in Rattay. However, if we're talking Skalitz... You can get to level 3 or 4 strength, without numbskull, just from vanyek training. That last part where you do chain strikes- get him loosely in the corner and then spam stab for like 3+minutes (without using any movement inputs). If you can keep the stabbing up it all counts as only 1 chain strike completed. He will eventually time you out but it's a very nice starting bump that won't get you in trouble. After that, I abuse Kunesh...

@@limonbattery I'm glad you found it useful! Stealth is incredibly strong, especially when farmed early game. I'm looking forward to the KCD 2 updates to the mechanics.

@@keksatv2014 I'll double check. I believe I managed to finish the prologue without the loss but I'll run it again. Thanks for letting me know. Did you happen to check your rep right after leaving Skalitz, just before running down to the horse?

@@keksatv2014 I have retested and made it all the way to Rattay with 100 reputation. This method absolutely works but not without perfection in execution. If interested, these are my test methods which did cause me to deviate from the guide somewhat so that I could continuously check my progress: First, I tried the save file from the second "save stun" in the video (the furthest along save I had) and finished taking out the guards. After talking to Theresa, Run! begins and you can see your updated skalitz reputation there. I got a 58... So, I started over at a save just after farming Kunesh for stealth. In fairness, the file I loaded had 15 stealth, not 10, which would make things a little more forgiving (but fine for proof of concept). I then did all the tasks in the story to forge with Father and get Theresa standing there. This way I could save after each kill, talk to Theresa, and check my rep in the next section. I got all but the last takedown with perfect rep first try. The last guy I tried to take when we was at the gate and I ended up with a 97 rep. I reloaded and baited him instead like in the video and that allowed me to keep my 100 rep after Theresa. I then ran to Talmberg- still 100 after arriving. I then finished the prologue and still had 100 rep after waking up at the mill. So it is a working method but there's a chance you lose rep without it being obvious that you were seen, like my last kill with the guard at the far gate. Unfortunately, if you don't do it methodically like I did in the test, you wouldn't know you get a rep decrease until it was too late. Again, thanks for bringing it up. It was worth confirming and I would've unlisted the video had your claim been true, as I don't want to give bad information to the community.

@@TrialBySquire I get -100 rep everytime I do it immediately when "run" quest starts. So perhaps I do something that you do not. Do you kill Mathew, Mathias and Fritz? And Zbishek, Hanz? During the fight I kite johanka away from the fight, return with sword and hit everyone 5x, then johanka starts yelling "What are you doing the catchpole is on it way" and with the aplied bleeding damage they all die within few minutes. So maybe this is the -rep thing?

@keksatv2014 for this guide, the only people I harmed are the guards. Despite them being gone, I'm pretty sure you can still lose reputation with the town by being seen doing bad things. I've never tried to fully kill everyone in town without being seen so I'm unclear if that's even possible but I've taken out a large chunk. I did my absolute best to kill all those in the Talmberg castle unseen but despite my best efforts I lose rep after escaping Talmberg so there might be some targets or scenarios where you take a hit no matter what. With Skalitz, if you're grabbing Johanna seconds after her seeing you then you're still "caught". She knows it's you even with a successful knockout. As far as punching the boys, the other villagers will see that as a crime if they see you, so you'll lose some rep each time there. Making them bleed to death I suspect they'll remember when they respawn in sassau. Now, there is a bandaid to all this but it's tedious for fixing big losses like -100. I referenced that short in the video. When you're "ready to leave" and have Theresa standing ready, save the game and then go through to check your rep. Then, reload to Skalitz and visit the gambler at the dice table (he needs to be alive). Every game you lose to him will restore 1.5 rep points, meaning you'll have to do like 133 loses to repair -100. If you watch that short you'll see the fastest way to do it. You don't have to play through each game, just quit after the scoreboard shows up but it'll still be boring work losing all those times.

@@OrthoThechainedking for sure. And sometimes I think he falls weird and it takes him a long time to start standing. I usually bump into him to move him a bit and that seems to speed it along

@@sweatyvetter that's amazing we got the same case! It's super classy, I love it. It's been awhile; I see you're doing well. I dig the direction you're going in. Cheers! 🍻

@@APARECIDAPENASVERDADES it was an aachen dark brigandine on the charlatan's tunic. Dark Saxon gambeson, black hood, black dyed pauldrons, nobles dark shoes, decorated black hose, leather gloves, padded coif. The 1k value necklace and the special "ring" ring one can get from besmirched.

@@TrialBySquire Thank you!

😊🤣😊

That's awesome! I'm glad I can help. It made a big difference for me, too.

@@notilt9014 that's strange. They are both alive and not knocked out? You're not getting on the ladder too fast after re sim?

@@TrialBySquire yea they are alive, then i get on the ladder and they disappear, BUT all the chests are still open

@notilt9014 start by leaving the area a decent distance and coming back. I believe I've glitched the farm before when save quitting near them. the chests "should" lock when the trader puts her stock away after laying her inventory out on the table. Zoro is only responsible for locking the door. The lady needs about 5 seconds from coming back to lay her inventory out before you want to banish her again. The stock going away is when the locking should occur To test- bring them back (you can actually just use the wash trough) and watch the lady put her stuff out. Then, go ahead and use the ladder and see if that does it. Another way to exploit traders that "display their stock" is to ride far enough away that they "unload" and then come back. Leaving far enough forces their stock back into their chest, causing the lock. One last way is to kill her. While they're dead, you can stay in the chest room (close the door so Zoro don't see you) and save quit the load back in. With each load in the chests should be locked. Basically, the game is briefly loading her in but since she's dead she immediately is gone but it does lock the chests. I did that in Skalitz for farming locks. There are other ways but it's all about making them put the display stock away to get the chest to lock, and then allowing them to return to work to complete the cycle.

Can't wait! I'm thinking a day one challenge run. Any suggestions?

If it weren't for making videos I'd probably stick with console but it'll be really awesome experiencing this game at 60+ frames 1440p. 🤞I just have so much to learn on "how to PC" but at least I have a couple months to figure it out. I bet you know all the tricks at this point! 🧙‍♂️

Very nice! You getting the new line of GPUs? It's all very exciting. I didn't go crazy on spec but it's looking good for 1440 high settings so I'm happy

I'm very glad you're here!

Thank you! I really do like it. Was just doing wiring but took a dinner break

Kunesh finally did something right getting those planks for me. Only took a few hours of whipping...

Very kind, m'lady, but I am a mere Squire in service of Bohemia! I promise the next video will come sooner and will actually be a guide... 🤞

@@imLeyt0n yep! I have that in the pinned comments as another viewer found that after I released video. My problem was I did all my testing naked (from a fresh game) so it wouldn't let me wash myself, so I never discovered that... Sucks I missed the opportunity to share that method in the video. If you're knocking out Zoro, the time skipping method is still necessary, at least, so I only feel half bad...

@@hakso9457 it takes time to affect global rep. The rep gained is with the individual. Over the following hours they will "gossip" about you and affect how others feel about you. So, if you're doing the Farkle table- do a bunch and then skip 4 hours or so, or go to sleep to the next day. You should see the result after

@TrialBySquire okey thank you🙏

@@disgruntledtaco3640 I absolutely remember talking to you in Helical's stream. I'm super glad it worked out for you! I can't sit idly by while a Henry is in need. 🤜🤛 I've got a few things cooking so I'll just say, if you know how to skip the Run! sequence where you ride to Talmberg whilst bleeding- I recommend you do and save that "cutscene trigger" for later. I found a fun exploit with that you might wish to try out but I gotta finish my current video before I get that one out. Just hop through the silver mint area (where those 6 bandits are) and ride to Talmberg without the whole "bleeding and being chased" mechanic. I know Helical has a video about it and I found a new use for doing so beyond what he details there.

definitely sounds like it’s worth a try, for now all I can offer if that, if u the prison bars icon in talmberg during the beginning sequence, they let u out immediately, im guessing to prevent the game from freezing up progression, I did most of my level farming in talmberg, and had acquired a horrific reputation as a result. Other than everyone saying mean things when I’m nearby or speaking to them(still hurts to hear, can’t lie) the only other issue was the amount of guards spawning in talmberg has my console(ps4) chugging pretty slow

@@disgruntledtaco3640 Talmberg can be a fun little time-locked zone. Helps that the bathhouse is cheaper than schnapps. The guards make for a really decent potion farm and they respawn fairly quickly. A room at the inn to dump all the loot. It's a sweet deal! I like ledetchko for my farming. You can fix villager/citizen reputation using the Farkle table. Ledetchko only has the villager category so once I'm done leveling everything I just have to spend some time losing games and it's like nothing ever happened. It's not the richest town but it's got a lot going for it.