First of just want to say, amazing game loving it!
I am currently learning Master Strokes with Captain Bernard with the sword, mace and axe and each time during the mini duel you have with him before he allows you to learn them i kept getting a 200 Groschen fine after striking him for “hurting people”, Weasel got 600 Groschen out of me and now he won’t train me in any of my skills and just dismisses me immediately, I didn’t have any bounty on me or committed any crimes before hand.
Hey, that’s a bug for sure. You should be able to train with him normally, fighting until he decides that you are good enough to learn master strike. Try reloading save before and repeat it. Hopefully it will work this time.
Yes there are bugs in training. The camp near the bath houses too on the archery range.
I paid 4 times the 10 beginners groschens, and won every time. But one civilian did not shoot any arrows and kept staring next to me. Then I moved and got disqualified, so no winning money.
At the moment training with him just isnt possible for me, if I hit him he flags me as assaulting him, I do get to finish the training but afterwards he pulls me up and I got to either pay the 200 groschen or go to jail haha
This is really annoying and expensive when money is scarce at the beginning of the game. I don’t remember this happening when I first started playing and think this bug has actually been introduced in a patch.
Bug still exists, any hope?
I think the best training is when Capt. Bernard gives you a mission to wipe out a certain bandit camp. If you can manage to do this, then be sure to collect the bandit leader’s spurs and take them back to Capt B. At this point you’ll get options in the talk menu to train with practice and real weapons. Pick practice weapons. You’ll get in the ring with wooden swords, shields, axes, maces, or what.
Fight until you’re tired of fighting. Then change weapons and fight some more. Do unarmed fighting. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. It appears that while you are doing practice training your stats - Strength, Agility, Vitality, Sword, Axe, Mace, etc. go up, up, up. And you don’t take much damage so you can keep fighting for a LOOOOONG time. Time doesn’t appear to advance while you are doing the “training” (at least I didn’t notice the lighting changing over an hour or more of this.
If you leave the arena and come back the training with practice/real weapons option will have disapeared. So if you need to quit for a while hit ESC and leave the game sitting in the configuration menu.
You get three (I think) bandit camps to wipe out outside of Ratay. Use them to max effect and you can come out with bulging muscles, incredible vitality, and dancing like a … (you know what I mean).
When those three are done you can do more by cleaning up Cuman camps outside of Talmburg - these are not so easy to clean up though.
If you try “real” weapons, expect to get your head handed to you - unless you are really good. The training officers won’t kill you, but they’ll take you down to within an inch of your life. Be sure you have bandages before starting, you’ll need them. Also be sure you have a Lazurus potion (or three), you’ll need to heal at the training ring. If you leave to get healed, no more training until you clean up the next camp.
And strangely, if you do the camps out of order, turning in the wrong set of spurs won’t get you anywhere with the training officer (which seems rather strange - they’re bloodthirsty for souvenir ears but persnickety about spurs… go figure)
I use Captain Bernard as a punching bag. (hand to hand)
