Wait until it’s night, make sure you wash or visit the baths beforehand, and decide what you’re going to wear. If you plan to do lots of sneaking, plan your approach. Are there obstacles or bushes you can use to block line of sight? Weather is also a factor: it’s harder for guards to spot Henry on a cloudy or rainy day. Wearing heavy armour will make lots of noise and Henry will become a living alarm bell. If Henry is a dirty boy with unwashed clothes, guards will smell him coming. If it’s a bright day, you’ll be easily seen. Light, noise, smell and what you wear have a big impact. But stealth isn’t the only factor in, erm, stealth. The best target for this are wayfarers, the random NPCs wandering along the roads of the green Bohemian countryside. A quick way to gain experience in the skill is sneaking up behind people and knocking them out (then stealing all their money). You improve the skill by moving in stealth mode near and around enemies. This skill shortens the distance at which enemies can see you and increases how long it takes them to spot you. Obviously, the stealth skill is the most important factor in how good Henry is at skullduggery. To put it bluntly, as long as no-one sees you and you don’t make too much noise, you can do as you please.īut nothing is that simple in KC:D. Once you level up your stealth skill, you can unlock a perk called Stealth Kill: if you’re behind someone and have a dagger equipped, you can kill a target while in stealth mode. While crouched, you can knock people out when you get behind them. Crouch to enter stealth mode, where you move more quietly and are harder to see. Stealth and the other thief-related skills, lockpicking and pickpocketing, will also enable you to get rich quick by stealing loot. Sneaking will allow you to get the drop on one or more foes, or avoid the problem altogether. Player character Henry is super squishy in a fight and facing more than one opponent at a time is basically a ticket to game over, at least during the early game. Sneaking is useful for solving all sorts of problems in KC:D. Here are some handy tips to master stealth in KC:D.

Medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance allows you to become a dashing knight or Robin Hood-esque bowman, but another path to success is becoming the sneakiest rogue in 15th century Bohemia.

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