When I fought against runt in the church I couldn’t kill him. I tried 4 times and he always killed me and I hit him like 60 times. I don’t now if it is a bug or is it just that hard because I am playing hardcore mode.
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It’s that hard man. Idk how I beat him first time I actually got to him but I died like 4 times from bleeding out from the archers before that. When I finally made it past them without bleeding I fought Runt for what felt like 10-15 min…kinda in the same boat as you where I just found it unbelievable. Finally I leveled up while fighting him, took Headcracker perk and a short sting of head shots later I won.
I don’t know my exact levels when going into it but I know I spent at least a couple hours doing just 2h sword training with Cpt Bernard before I went a did Baptism
Ok thanks. I just didn’t know because I the first time I fought
him I took like a half an hour.
Yea man, keep at it. If need be back track a little, go train with Cpt Bernard on your preferred style…have you done anything with him yet? Learning Master Strokes, some combos and leveling up strength/agility to increase damage is huge; I highly recommend it
Even almost got schooled by a wayfaring knight last night who I underestimated
Yeah I just fought again and hit him like 200 times and made 60 combos and didn’t kill him. I am not even bad my strength is on 11 and my sword and fight skill are high too. And I’m using the best sword I can handle with my skill level. I don’t know what to do… I’m gonna make a pause because this was so exhausting I’m even sweating. I fought for so long and even his armour was completele destroyed…
Poisoned mace did the trick for me.
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Riprotose and clinch and get him in corner and head craker always head cracker was how I did it
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yea, he blocks or ripostes everything…you gotta do the same and like you said, clinch and head shots/combos coming out of it…now just do that for like 15 minutes lol
don’t forget the stamina. No use in hitting him 200 times if he is at full stamina each time as it will absorb the damage. Keep stabbing him 2-3 times right after a successful combo and his HP should go down once his stamina is depleted. Don’t let him recover his stamina after a successful attack.
Perfect block to we’re he like blocks ur attack and goes to swing which ends ur attack I always had to block that otherwise he will beat the shit outta ya and do a combo
I hit him multiple times not just one hit, like I said I did my 50 combos and everytime after a combo I hit him 2 or 3 more times
Have you practiced with Bernard? Maybe your Henry is doing very little damage? I even find knights and some bandits/cumans that can put up a decent fight in hardcore. You’re probably very close, probably just need to level and get more perks
It worked know I just drank some options and leveled my skill and got him within a minute
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I fought him on hardcore mode at level 8, my strength was around 10-12. It really wasn’t that hard, he got like 5-7 good hits on me, but then I did a master strike against him and got a 4 hit chain on him with a mace, once he starts stumbling I just wail on him, and so the story of Runt comes to an end.
I was using 2h sword, and my stam monitoring isnt the best. I had a long fight with him, I would counter a lot but he would usually gain distance during his recovery and if I closed in he’d wail, forcing me to get hit or block/riposte with a stam drain of my own. I probably made it harder than it needed to be but idk…I did mace and shield in my original run, very powerful set up; especially against armored foes
Yeah, mace used to be really over powered but now it is pretty balanced. I always keep a Short Sword as my main, mace, and axe as my side arms. Obviously I use the mace against heavily armored NPC’s and the axe I use just to switch it up. The axe does slash and blunt damage but i;m not entirely sure how that works.
yea dude, it was fun but way too OP…glad they balanced it out a bit. I do 2h sword this run, used a shield in Pribyslavitz for help with the archers but ultimately a bow was a better choice. So now I go 2h sword, the merchant sword at the moment, and a cuman bow if I need to shoot
plus mace and axe get the short end of the stick when it comes to combos…2h sword has like 6 or so
they really need to fix that and add more combos
Yeah, they do need more combo’s. I like 2 handed but can’t get myself to give up my shield.
I wish it was more fluid, or like easier to defend against multiple targets (I’m sure it is “easier” but I mean realistically easier)
Is there shield bashing/checking? I dont recall but I feel like that was a missed opportunity, and shield kicking for that matter