Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the historic RPG set within the 14th century, will function slightly plenty of brawling with grunting, armoured males, so Warhorse Studios has put collectively an in depth video on how the sport’s fight system works. The studio goes for realism, basing the preventing methods on medieval martial arts, so it appears a bit extra concerned than merely swinging your sword and hoping for the very best — my favoured fight fashion.
There’s rather a lot to soak up through the 5 minute video. Fights are physics-based, which means that if you begin hacking and slashing, your sword will smash up in opposition to your opponents’ weapons and slide alongside armour if you strike it. The sport really detects over 30 goal zones on each character and a number of other layers of armour.
When duking it out in opposition to a heavily-armoured character, you’ll wish to hold your eyes open for weak spots, the place the armour isn’t defending them as a lot, and use your directional assaults to hit these tender areas. If there isn’t an apparent weak spot, you can too simply hold hammering away on the similar space, decreasing the armour’s effectiveness. Of course, your opponent is sure to note that, and so they’ll begin defending that spot — that’s the place feints are available. You can trick an enemy into pondering you’re about to hit their proper facet, for example, earlier than rapidly switching it up and catching them off guard.
On high of that, there are completely different weapons, like spears that let you hold some area between you and your foe, or bows in case you don’t need them to see you coming in any respect. You’ll have a bag of superior methods, too, together with counters, parries, knockbacks and different abilities that ought to hold your enemy on their toes.
The story trailer might need been a bit awkward, however fight appears something however. And whereas it appears fairly elaborate, Warhorse says that it’s objective is to make it as straightforward to choose up as a first-person shooter.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is due out on February 13, 2018.
