I never played the first one but i’m a fan of challenging games. From what i’ve read after getting my ass beaten by single random bandits, the combat is better and more fluid than the first game. Fewer locked in animations is what i gather is the biggest change.
The one thing you really have to get in your brain is do not spam attacks. You will die. Your stamina is like armor in that the lower your stamina the more it hurts to be hit.
Like i said, once it clicks it’s great but boy oh boy was it frustrating to learn.
Hubi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The lock picking is still the exact same system.
teft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The one frustrating system i can’t deal with.
Seriously though, lockpicking irl isn’t as difficult as the game makes it seem even if you were picking modern locks. On medieval locks it should be a joke to pick them yet Henry can’t hold the pick still for half a second so it’s “nope, fuck you gamer”.
Ah well no game is perfect.
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like all of Henry’s skills, he sucks at the start.
You’ve got some faint knowledge that it can be done, but no idea how exactly, and with rudimentary tools to boot.
Just like you IRL, it takes Henry learning how locks fundamentally work, what picking is actually doing inside, then getting better at the feel of it. And just like ORL, Henry gets good at lock picking quite quickly after some practice and some books.
teft@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that argument falls apart when henry just randomly moves the pick even though you didn’t move the controller. That’s the portion that I get pissed off at. Fine that he has shit skills, fine that the game has to make it artificially harder for RP. But don’t make me fail at something just because the game doesn’t want me to complete it yet. Just make it not pickable. When something says “easy” it should be actually easy if you know the patterns or method of doing said thing. Like how combat is easier once you realize you can’t spam swing your sword. There is no such thing for lockpicking. It’s just “fuck you gamer, grind it out like a chump” or break tons of picks trying to get the one fiddly rng location to unlock the lock.
Hubi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It gets substantially easier with every level. I’m almost maxed out and opening even the hardest locks is a piece of cake.