Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Quick tips

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Learn by doing

  Henry improves through use. Walking over-encumbered raises Strength, and sneaking and stealing raise Stealth and Thievery. Spend each perk point as soon as you unlock it, since there are more than 200 perks.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Choose Henry's role

  At the start of Easy Riders you pick a role, which sets Henry's initial stats and how people react to him. One guide suggests Soldier for new players, with Swords as the preferred weapon and Knowledge for an extra Speech point.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Early combat build

  A one-handed sword and shield gives decent damage and good defence early on. Take Train Hard, Fight Easy and Deft Hands early, because low attributes limit your best weapons. Stamina is your key combat resource: when it runs out, your attacks and defence collapse.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Reputation and hygiene perks

  Opportunist reduces reputation loss and Charming Man increases reputation gain. Next To Godliness (Vitality, level 10) restores 10 health after bathing. Clean, well-kept clothing improves persuasion and bartering.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Skills and potions

  Practise alchemy, blacksmithing, dice, thieving and hunting for skill XP, starting with alchemy and blacksmithing. Strong Marigold Decoction is a good early healing potion. Flower Power gives +2 Charisma with 30 or more herbs.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Eat regularly

  When Nourishment drops, Henry's stats fall, so keep eating throughout the game.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Save Mutt and get Houndmaster

  You must fight off a wolf pack to save Mutt. Once he rejoins, you unlock the Houndmaster perk.

• Prologue and opening Trosky

  Blacksmith first, then miller

  You can work both the blacksmith and miller questlines before the wedding, but you enter it with only one. Do Radovan's line first (The Blacksmith's Son, The Hermit, The Jaunt), because it ties to six missable quests and tasks, and you can still do Kreyzl's line afterwards.

Things you can miss

Optional quests, items or choices you can lose access to by progressing past a point. Guides often call these “missables”.

• The Jaunt

  Can be lost after: Prologue and opening Trosky

  Only available on Radovan's route to the Semine wedding, so do the blacksmith line before leaving for the wedding.

• A Sinful Soul

  Can be lost after: Prologue and opening Trosky

  It comes from the Hermit. If you kill him, or don't exhaust all his dialogue options, he won't give you the final wish.

• Demons of Trosky and Gules's tasksComing up

  Can be lost after: Wedding and open Trosky window

  These become unavailable around the start of Necessary Evil. The tasks are Canker, Handsome Charlie, Johnny the Gob and Casper, and Gules disappears if you burn Semine down. Pilgrimage is listed alongside Demons of Trosky, so finish it at the same time.