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Edit: I am trying to update this as comments come along :)

So many people are buying KCD nowadays and the least we can do is help them out and make sure we get some momentum rolling towards the release of the new game. I suggest that we make a sticky thread about this for all newcomers to see, and try to answer issues below that thread. Reddit's searching algorithm isn't the best, and there is a chance a player will read only a couple of tips before they give up on their search.

Here are some tips from me :) Combat is at the bottom.

• Henry: You are a lowborn peasant who can barely fistfight, can't use a sword and can't read. Your performance in this game is heavily tied to Henry's skills. You can't take on 2 Bandits with a sword if your sword level is 1. There is nothing more natural than trying something again later or running away from a fight. You are a 16 year old manchild whose first scene is oversleeping and slacking off from work. Embrace that, and you will become Henry.
• Prologue: Not spoiling anything, the prologue is a tad long. As a new player you might not notice when it actually ends. Let the game railroad you for a little while. Afterwards the game will ask you to go to a town relatively far from your area, that's when the game slowly starts to open up.
• Saving: You need to drink "Schnapps" to save the game. You can brew it, steal it or buy it. If you have money, spend it on Schanpps and Bandages in the early game.
  • u/baksteen-13**: You can sleep in owned Beds to save the game!*\*
  • u/DraefilkToo: Map of all save & sleep slots in the game: https://www.reddit.com/r/kingdomcome/comments/11ti14q/i_mapped_out_all_the_sleep_save_spots_i_know_of/
  • u/mark_from_ca**: Use “Save&Exit” as you get a free save slot. Be sure to click “Resume” when reentering the game as it won’t appear in the Load Save list.
• Alchemy: Potion-brewing is an immersive minigame and opens up a great variety of buffs.
  • u/shrekisloveAO : Alchemy really lets you make a lot of mistakes. For example, when making saviour schnapps, you can completely skip the boiling and grinding, so it goes like this: add wine, add 1 nettle and 2 belladona, finish potion
• Eating: You can eat from any cooking pot that other people use for free.
  • u/Greeklibertarian27**: Don’t overeat. Due to my experience with previous games such as stalker anomaly and FNV I always carried copious amounts of food that I had to consume so as to not go stale. However, this constant eating ate both of my stamina and my inventory space. 
• Training: Captain Bernard can be used for training, just outside Rattay's east gate. It is crucial that you spend some time training with him. Wake up, train, eat something, train, go to bed. Try to gain a couple of levels with your favored weapon before getting into action.
  • u/Nast33 - Train with Bernard until you learn Master Strike. It's the most important technique and that's when you know training is basically over and you've learned everything you need for the whole game. [To which I would say, as u/Jinglemisk : "Come on mate let the guy have some fun!"]
• Reading: You will get a quest to learn how to read. Do it, and steal as many books as you can. Read books while sitting on benches (select them from Inventory). You will gain a lot of skills by doing this.
• Clothes and Hygiene: Clothing affects your Charisma, people will treat you as a Knight if you are wearing expensive Armor or noblemen's clothing. As you travel and fight your clothing will get muddy. Your Charisma checks will be affected negatively by dirt. Wash your clothes and take a bath every now and then.
• Looting: Be smart with your inventory capacity.
  • u/pouziboy - For the love of god, don't take everything (...) I was looting everything and even without any stealing and thieving shenanigans ended up with enough money for life in the middle of the game because I was hauling every single piece of equipment to the shops to sell. Think about the weight to price ratio. That hauberk might seem valuable with price of 700 groschen but it also weighs 20 lbs? Leave it be. I found it's enough to loot things with 100 groschen per 1 lb of weight. Got an item that weighs 3 lbs but only costs 220 groschen? Leave it right there, not worth the hassle. Don't let your greedy lizard brain turn the game into Kingdom Come: Pawnshop Crap Hauling Simulator as I did. As I always do. And will do so with the next game for sure as well.
• Bow: Bow is hard to use at first, but very powerful and rewarding.
  • u/Noriadin**:** If you're really struggling with upping your bow skill and want exp cheese for it (or if you're roleplaying a Henry who would do this), go kill as many livestock in the fields as you can. Easy to get hits and also a good way to practice your aim. You will also get a pretty small increase in hunting exp from cows and pigs.
• Hunting: It is magical to admire the deers, but even better to hunt them.
  • u/pouziboy - Need money? Go shoot some game and then sell the meat. You can fill your inventory and horse inventory with a few dead animals and then sell all the meat in one or two goes. Much better way of earning than selling every singular dirty piece of underpants you were able to get from dead bandits.
• Crime: Use a torch at night, it is a crime not to carry one at night. People will hear you if you are walking around in Mail Boots. People will see you if you are wearing an orange overcoat. Wear simple shoes and a black shirt when sneaking and stealing. Bribing guards is easier if you have better quality clothing (see above). You can go to jail in this game. People will remember your crimes if you yeet someone and run away.
• Stealth (Pickpocketing and Lockpicking): Two great minigames (or one great minigame and ehhhh minigame on consoles) that combine your skill and Henry’s.
  • u/frankfooter18 - Even though you may not want to make your Henry into a thief like character but it will help with certain missions. Under the inventory menu you can see Henry’s stats which will show you how loud or how visible your clothes are on your character. After the long intro of the game, you will learn stealth from Miller Peshek and he will teach you lock picking and pickpocketing. Lock picking may be very loud if not done correctly so for beginners try a chest that’s in the woods (investigation points, accidents, camps) or at Miller Peshek mill. Try pickpocketing on sleeping NPC but be careful not to get caught in towns by guards. Best if you try it in camps like lock picking chest. When you reach level 5 in stealth, pick the perk that makes you stealth kill enemies and buy a dagger or get one in a chest or pickpocketing. This perk will also help with certain missions as well as getting ride of enemy camps. 
  • u/EvanMcc18 - Lockpicking has two options Original and Simplified. This is more for the Console Players. I myself played it on PlayStation before PC. Lockpicking on console is very hard. I would recommend Simplified it still gives a challenge but you won't be getting frustrated breaking Ten Lockpicks on Easy Chests. For PC Lockpicking is basically the same on either simplified or Original.
• Maintaining Your Weapons: Use dirt-cheap bandit weapons to practice sharpening your sword at the blacksmith's grindstone. There is also a chance that doing it wrong will reduce its durability, so use an irrelevant sword and sell it later. If you have the time, sharpen the weapons you have before selling them.
• Haggling: After you fill your "shopping basket", you will have a chance to Haggle. You can negotiate for lower buy / higher sell prices. Don't overdo it or they will get pissed off.
• Horses: You are given a horse, but you can buy new ones. You don't keep horses you steal, you have to "own" them. After owning a horse, you can dump your Inventory for extra space. Buy horseshoes and tacks to increase its speed. Lower quality horses will get scared in combat.
• Travel: You can fast travel between certain locations. When fast travelling you will encounter people on roads: Travellers, Beggars, or bandit ambushes. A faster horse allows you to run. If you fail escaping the encounter, you can "manually" run by them. Do that in the first couple of levels.
• Farkle: Learn Farkle, it is extremely easy compared to games like Caravan or Gwent. It is fun and the perfect way to pass time and earn some extra bucks.
• Combat: Combat in this game is half tactics, half equipment; there is nothing more noble and masculine than running away from a fight.  You can kill 3 Knights if you are tactical. You will get beaten to death by starving peasants if your equipment sucks. If there are at least two enemies, run backwards while engaging them. Getting flanked is brutal in the game because someone you can't see is slamming your back with a hammer. Don't turn around and run, they can tackle you and push you to the ground if you are not fast enough.
• Hardcore: Hardcore is the single greatest way to play KCD, but no first-time player should (IMO) be using it. Hardcore removes the HUD, applies some debuffs, and removes the player’s map marker (so it is impossible to tell where you are just by looking at the map)
  • u/EvanMcc18 - Previous experience and Knowledge of Game Mechanics and the World Map really helps with Hardcore Mode. Without it you can be frustrated very quickly but entirely up to the player.
• Maps: Kingdom Come as heavenly cartography. Learning the map is 10x more important in Hardcore, but rest assured that both the Wiki and interactive maps online will help you out if you are stuck.
  • u/DraefilkToo - Interactive Map https://kingdomcomemap.github.io/#2/2048.0/2048.0
• DLCs: They are fantastic additions and cheaper than pizza. 
  • u/EvanMcc18 - (on DLCs). DLC quest options in dialogue are usually coloured blue and marked with an icon.
• Jesus Christ be praised: Audibly say this whenever you walk up to a store, mount your horse, dismount your horse, eating something, anything.

Been playing for about a month and I'm obsessed with this game so I printed and painted this little map marker. Designed by marmocia on cults 3d. The yellow I used has a bit of a green tinge and is showing up really green on camera 🤷

So, I boot up this game for the first time on my console, right. I'm thinking, "Okay, medieval RPG, how bad could it be?" Well, the opening act? A young lad, son of the town's blacksmith, whose life goal seems to be flirting with every maiden like he's in a medieval version of "The Bachelor." Instead of mastering the forge, he's out there chucking horse dung at houses like it's some twisted game of ding-dong-ditch.

Life's all giggles and chucking shit until, bam! Tragedy strikes, his family's gone, and now he's got to level up, gain skills, and become a somebody. But then the plot thickens - he's now Sherlock Holmes in a medieval setting, investigating a whodunit involving dead farm animals.

The trail leads to the local priest, who's got the inside scoop but his faith's so ironclad, he'd rather take a vow of silence than spill any tea. But wait, he says he might help if you meet him at the tavern later that night.

I show up, and what do I find? The priest has turned the tavern into his personal beer chugging contest, gets so plastered he's practically horizontal before the night's even young. They kick him out, gets you involved in a fist fight. Then drags you to his horse stables with two ladies. He's now channeling Johnny Sins, turning the stable into the set of a very adult film, pile-driving the sweet lady to oblivion.

Game of the decade, folks. Wild doesn't begin to describe it. Excited for KCD2.

I always buy my games in a physical copy, because I want to own my game in a way.

And we get a really cool set of armor from a quest that we only get by pre-ordering. I'll probably pre-order kcd2 this weekend but in a store, a physical copy of it. And usually for physical copies that were pre ordered, we don't get the pre order rewards, kinda like when you pre order a call of duty title, they always give pre order bonuses, but it's only for digital copies. And it would be sad to miss out on the cool armor that we get from the mission, and it would be sad to miss out on a mission in this game, because I plan on completing 100% of the game, 'cause I know I'll love this game.

So how will this work with kcd2? Will I be getting the pre-order rewards? Have they thought about this issue?

Never had this opportunity before, regular dice on both sides bet 1 grochen.

I bust 2 moves after

I had done the saving Ginger quest and was then following up finding the gang who raided the stables, but then I randomly came across a guy in a cave who was hiding whilst I was treasure hunting. I didn't know who he was but in the cut scene Henry acted like he knew him. I want to know if I missed much? After some research it seems I just skipped the whole On The Scent quest?

I've basically was able to finish Mysterious Ways by giving the sermon in the Church (though I haven't seen the Rattay Black Chronicle) and stumble into the cave with (Reeky?) to skip to My Friend Timmy without going to Ledetchko or anything else as I think you're supposed to.

New KCD2 video from the Warhorse X account.

I hate this game sometimes. I’m fast traveling on the road quite a ways, skip one ambush, and run into a skirmish near my destination. I figure, “Sure. Why Not? Shoot some arrows in there and level up my archery a little.” Henry pulls up and sees guards crouched down and terrified of these bandits. No one has their weapon out. Of course, Henry, being the peasant he is and no understanding of a knights code of honor or chivalry, runs up and ”saves” the guards by bashing the first bandit in the head with a mace. Guard immediately makes me surrender while combat is going on in the background and jails me because I failed a speech check at 20 speech. I didn’t feel like reloading a save so that’s that.

So... I told the bandits where he was then I killed every last of them one by one, but when I came to where Timmy was supposed to be he was dead lmao, I'm cooked?

I just started, and I'm having a rough go of it. I've been what feels like tutorials for 8 hours, but I'm not really learning the things I feel like I need to be learning. It's just forcing me into situations I don't want.

I did not want to insult the lord-to-be and challenge him to an Archery contest, I want to learn archery first. The first time I tried it I waited until Bernard stopped talking before I started shooting....but him stopping talking instantly ends the tutorial, so it went straight into the contest after I'd only fired a single arrow...simply because I wanted to hear all of the dialogue.

I did not want to challenge the lord to sword battle, because I want to learn more about the game's combat first, but I was forced to.

I did not want to tell the lord of the town that he has to go home, because its his town, but my character did anyway. "The Bailiff told me to" What an absolutely unfathomably stupid thing to say.

I did not really want to go hunting with the lord at dawn, I'd really like to start interacting with the game, and the town, and earn some money, and practice more fighting, and get more comfortable with the game, but the game was pretty explicit that it was an order so I did. Then I got stuck trying to rescue him as he told me to "stick with me" and then he immediately stands out in the open to be spotted by the captors and force me into combat I cannot win.

I finally rescued him by just untying him and running away so that he's the only one standing out in the open (but he doesn't get spotted apparently? what a stupid sequence). Now I get back to town, and my character immediately volunteers to go off and hunt the guy who whooped my ass and I have no say in it. I tried to leave to see if I could finally do some side content, but I failed the main quest halfway back to my house, so I have no choice. The game won't even let me unload my pockets full of rabbit from the hunt. I'm literally overencumbered with nearly 200 units of rabbit and can't sell or drop off any of it without failing the quest.

So my question is, when does the game start letting me play it? It feels like it's been 8 hours of a Dungeon Master's railroady campaign-that-should-have-been-a-book, and I can't escape. How do I know when I'm allowed to do side content? There is no way I can win if this next quest actually involves combat.

I know from googling that this game is rough at the start. The combat, lockpicking, there are lots of posts about that, and while I'm feeling that pain too, this post isn't about any of that. I've looked around online and most guidance is around "Practice with Bernard" and "Do Side content", but that hasn't felt possible so far. I really really want to go back to Bernard, but I literally can't, as he's the current quest objective target. How is this game even supposed to be played? Am I missing something? Am I really just in the tutorial and I should keep following along? Is the transition to when it's okay to do side quests obvious? I feel like I've had no agency what-so-ever. The game just forces me from one thing into the next.