Armor Effectiveness: Realism vs. Balance

[Dushin]

The vision part is why most medieval helmets have a hinged visor which can even be taken off on bassinet models of this time period. The common foot soldier usually didn’t even bother with visors and such.

Stamina is supposed to play a big role in Kingdom Come, so say you’re fighting three armored knights and all you have is a bow and a quiver of bodkin arrows. Keep putting distance between yourself and your opponents. They cannot keep pace with you and will tire very quickly.At this point you can just take your time and fill them full of arrows at your leisure.

I doubt this would work very well considering most folks who could afford armor also had at least one riding horse. It might work in mountainous terrain like in Wales but you can simply remedy this by not going after the archers and instead burning down their village down below at the bottom of the valley.

[Warrior_Rose]

Hi!

That’s brilliant! Is there a close up of their fingers? There should be a nice few Bone Spurs on his left wrist, and right fingers.

Regards,
Warrior Rose.

[SirWarriant]

I know this is unlikely but a heat stroke mechanic would be cool. When you’re fighting in a battle for several hours moving around sweating and wearing thick padding underneath a tin can you’re going to get hot quickly. I think it was Agincourt were the knights were actually passing out from heatstroke and exhaustion in full plate. And of course exhaustion. I would like to see a mechanic that allows you to exhaust your opponent that would help when you’re fighting someone in full plate.

[Ambaryerno]

As long as they don’t overdo it. I’ve seen some games that SERIOUSLY over-exaggerate exhaustion mechanics.

[Dushin]

I like how many games have you sprint full power for only 10 seconds before tiring, however after a 5 second rest you can sprint again for a full 10 seconds. They should make the sprint last longer and the recovery too.

[SirWarriant]

Well its usually better to over exaggerate exhaustion in mp games. If you made it the exhaustion realistic then fights in games like Chivalry could go on for 30+ minutes. Instead you get tired in about 1-2 minutes of dueling someone. But its the opposite in single player games. I always hate how you can only sprint for about five seconds then you’re exhausted. I hope stamina plays a big factor in KC:D.
On the topic of armor protection i also hope armor will give you a big advantage in KC:D. Like you said pretty much every rpg the only thing plate armor does is make you slow and noisy. One of the things that made me quit Skyrim was the fact that you get damaged through your shield when you blocked.
I also did a play through of dragon age orgins with the best heavy armor in the game (paragons dragon bone armor) And it sucked. I was too damn slow and any fast rouge class just danced in circles around me.