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[Lucumo]

Mind you, most of us play on HWR difficulty, gradually building up characters through deaths and victories, so starting with a charter with 25 crafting and building ourselves the best armor possible is a common move.

Will do the same. (Actually thought normal progresses character too because I swear it didn't have the red "does not do" like it was for story or hard mode. It did make me wonder but eh, whatever). Finished one branch with the option to marry Alyssa or the random girl they put in there at the end. Since there is no progress to be made, I will probably reload and stay in France to play through it fully before changing to HWR.

If you have decent crafting, then you can make helmets and armors with good stats and low maluses.

The low maluses would certainly help.

 

[notpl]

If you have decent crafting, then you can make helmets and armors with good stats and low maluses. Each piece of armor has coverage and armor value, if coverage is 100% or more, youll have to go through armor, not past it.

As for enemy armor, some axes have chop armor attack, so you can first destroy the shield, then the armor and thus kill the heavily armored enemies. Spears also have attack that has a higher chance of bypassing armor and some maces can injure through armor. There are also trinkets that increase the chance of bypassing armor (fencing dagger - works great with estoc).

Mind you, most of us play on HWR difficulty, gradually building up characters through deaths and victories, so starting with a charter with 25 crafting and building ourselves the best armor possible is a common move.

I've tried an Estoc character and still found enemies that I could not deal any damage to after hundreds of rounds and simply had to quit/let myself be killed.

 

[Lucumo]

So, I went the other route this time. Married Olivia, left the castle to go into the desert and now there is a problem. I captured that one guy and it says the governor (mayor) will do the rest of the work. However, nothing happens, despite having like 70% of the time still left. And venturing alone down South seems to be not the best idea.

/edit: Meh, gave going South a try. One guy turned disobedient, so I had to kill him. The other three were lost along the way too. All of them had survived every battle. So I finished that branch in the end. The 25k florins don't count for the end score which is weird.
So, I married 6/7 girls. Is marrying Anna possible? I had 90/100 when she left her hut and did all her quests. When she shows up later to quarrel with Cecilia, I couldn't even talk to her which seems weird...unless one needs 100/100 and I somehow missed it during a conversation. A possible guess from me would be exposing Cecilia, getting locked up, getting freed, then confronting her which somehow ends up netting me points for Anna.

 

[Lucumo]

However, nothing happens, despite having like 70% of the time still left.

that's the point

Well, yeah. But the mayor should have addressed the subject/my character should have asked about it. But that never happens in any way, at all. It feels buggy/unfinished.

Is marrying Anna possible? I had 90/100 when she left her hut and did all her quests.

you missed a conversation

Extremely sure I did all the conversations that I could. Even the one where she leaves and says that she feels like we will see each other again. Unless it has to do with exposing Olivia, I really shouldn't have missed anything.

 

[Lucumo]

Well, yeah. But the mayor should have addressed the subject/my character should have asked about it. But that never happens in any way, at all. It feels buggy/unfinished.

no, it's immediately obvious you're being strung along to act as the governor's personal janny in Damietta

I know, hence my "well, yeah". But that doesn't excuse the character from not properly asking and the mayor from not properly answering. It should be like: "How is the prisoner exchange looking? Any news so far?" "Unfortunately, we have not received news/delays because of Y etc." But the guy you captured isn't addressed at all beyond the actual event which is just weird.

Extremely sure I did all the conversations that I could. Even the one where she leaves and says that she feels like we will see each other again. Unless it has to do with exposing Olivia, I really shouldn't have missed anything.

you missed a conversation
the leaving conversation is the one that bumps it from 90 to 100

Considering I did said conversation, I guess I will have to load and look exactly at it. Pretty sure I didn't get any points in that though.

/edit: Just checked again and yep, I don't get any points there. So unless you are wrong, then it's maybe like I assumed earlier and you need to expose Olivia or something.
/edit2: Well, exposing Olivia makes you just leave the city even earlier. So...no clue how to get the final points.

 

[Modron]

New DLC expansion announced and coming in two months: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172940/Heads_Will_Roll_Reforged__Threads_of_Destiny

HWR: Reforged — Threads of Destiny. New DLC announcement and release date
The official announcement of the third DLC for Heads Will Roll: Reforged.

Hello guys!

We are happy to finally make an official announcement of Heads Will Roll: Reforged's third DLC — Threads of Destiny. It is scheduled to be released on November 28th and will massively expand the game with four new story branches. As always, the DLC will be accompanied by a major patch that will bring along lots of various additions, reworks and improvements as well as a considerable amount of new content for the base game.

So, what to expect?


1. New story branches
Threads of Destiny will add four new story branches allowing the player to have even more freedom in choosing their own path. Defecting to the French side, joining Grace and Glory on their head-hunting adventures, offering your mercenary services to the lords of Italian city-states or seizing the English crown for yourself and completing the ultimate journey from a peasant to a king — lots of possibilities that were previously only hinted at will now become completely viable options filled to the brim with new adventures, characters and dangerous challenges.

2. Combat system overhaul
The combat system is going to receive a huge overhaul with all character's stats being rebalanced and new various bonuses introduced. The majority of existing weapons will have their movesets expanded with new attacks, many of them scaling from character's stats or through other conditions. At the same time, some other weapons and weapon classes, that were previously too well-rounded, will be tweaked a bit to better reflect their realistic advatages and disadvantages. Together with that, the game's arsenal of weapons, items and trinkets will be seriously expanded by all kinds fresh additions.

3. New interactions with allies
Members of the player squad will now start to more regularly interact with the player, responding to his behaviour in a positive or negative manner. Hiring honourable knights and crusaders and then commiting unvirtuous actions (or hiring thungs and criminals and then behaving like an upstanding christian) will naturally spark a discontent among your men leading to arguments, desertion or maybe even something worse. On the other hand - performing actions that will resonate with the members of your squad will make them train and fight harder or go out of their way to aid you in unexpected ways. These interactions will also extend to the combat sections with allies now being able to hand you over various items - spare shield or weapon if yours is broken, a couple of extra crossbow bolts if you ran out of ammunition or a specific consumable item if you're in need of one.

4. Improved civic talent system
The overall structure of the civic talent system will remain the same, however it will receive a number of important improvements. The majority of civic talents will be reworked, generally becoming more potent and effective. The upgrade points, on the other hand, will be harder to come by, giving more important to the player's choice of talents.

5. Proving Grounds
The patch accompanying the DLC will also introduce public access to the Proving Grounds - a special game mode that allows the player to create a custom character with a specific set of stats and items and then duel against various enemies.

6. Bugfixes
And lastly, as always, the update will bring a long list of bugfixes for various issues.

These are the key elements of the upcoming update but the whole list of changes and additions is far from over. We are very much looking forward to release and hope that you are too! For more information on all things Heads Will Roll — or to get in touch with us — head over to our Discord.

Stay tuned!
1917 Studios

 

[PsihoKekec]

Completely forgot about those two bounty hunters, I always execute the Satanic Karen after successful defence of the city.

 

[Bibbimbop]

Only game that should have a dozen DLC, imo.

 

[Modron]

Threads of Destiny got pushed back to December 19th.

 

[Luka-boy]

Threads of Destiny released:

DLC RELEASE
POSTED
Thu, December 19
Threads of Destiny DLC is out now! + Patch 2.0

Hello, everyone!

We are very happy to announce that the third DLC for Heads Will Roll: Reforged — Threads of Destiny — is out and is available for purchase with 15% discount!​

The base game - Heads Will Roll: Reforged - is also available for purchase with a 55% discount for a limited time.

About "Threads of Destiny"​

Threads of Destiny massively increases the game's scope with three additional expansions.

The first one of them is the long-awaited French Campaign - an epic adventure of gargantuan proportions that will take the player on a journey across the entire kingdom of France with 5 new chapters of story content. It is by far the largest campaign in the game and it is filled to the brim with new characters to meet, foes to defeat and challenges to overcome.

The second new addition is equally as anticipated as it finally allows the player to properly complete their ultimate journey from a peasant to a king. With the expansion to the English campaign Threads of Destiny enables you to finally shake off the shackles of loyal servitude to King Edward and isntead usurp his throne. Create, protect and manage your own kingdom in order to see it either prosper and thrive - or collapse into obscurity.

The third new campaign will open before the player yet another career door. With Threads of Destiny you will now be able to become a bounty hunter. Join Grace and Glory on their adventures and see if the three of you can build a true camaraderie that will stand any test... Or get blinded by the glitter of gold and end up betraying each other over a lump sum of money.

As always, together with the DLC we are releasing a major patch that will update the game to version 2.0.
That patch will be avilable for free for all the players.

New stuff in Patch 2.0:​

1. NPC models will now be automatically updated if a character's shield is broken.
2. Endurance now provides a possibility of recovering twice as much stamina.
3. Coordination now is responsible for resisting stuns and throwing weapons' accuracy.
4. Agility no longer provides a bonus to hit chance.
5. Every injury a character has amplifies the damage that they receive.
6. Feint's blind debuff accuracy and evasion value is doubled.
7. Added new rare recruitable allies of unique classes that can only be encountered during special events.
8. Player squad members will now occasionally react to player's bahviour and either approve or disapprove of it resulting in various events and interactions.
9. A lot of trinkets have been reworked. Several new ones have been added.
10. New scavenging events have been added.
11. Fixed a bunch of errors in localization.
12. Some of the enemy encounters will result in ambushes with enemies being the first to take their turn and player suffering a stamina debuff (in Prestige mode).
13. Added 12 new weapons and 2 new shields.
14. The majority of civic talents have been reworked. Several new ones have been added - some of them granting access to unique items and interactions.
15. A lot of weapons have been reworked - their stats and movesets have been changed in order to create more various opportunities for damage scaling.
16. Added a couple of new events and interactions into the first half of the game.
17. Completing quests now earns the player experience points that are used to unlock new civic talents. Talent upgrade points are now longer granted automatically at the start of each chapter.
18. Having very high or very low virtue will now sometimes result in the player character automatically picking certain options in dialogues that suit their behavior.
19. Prestige mode will now have economic zones - depending on who you're trading with the prices in shops will be influenced by your reputation or Prestige.
20. Bonus items appearing in shops will now too be dependant on either reputation or Prestige, depending on who you're trading with.
21. Ultra high virtue will now enable the player to receive battle blessings temporarily improving their preformance in battle.
22. Prestige mode now has a bit more time in chapters.

This DLC and patch are the results of incredibly hard work and we very much hope that it will prove to be a nice Christmas present for all of you.
Thanks you very much for playing!

HWR's Discord: https://discord.gg/xndPrtZMeT 1917 Studios

 

[PsihoKekec]

Finally had time to play the through new routes (Centurion's Life fast approaching). Gameplay wise the most noticeable change is that bathhouse now removes half the max fatigue, the second is that high end weapons had the basic attacks removed, only specials remain.

Of the storylines, the one with bounty hunters is a bit underwhelming, the ultra-traitor route in England is interesting and makes you hate Alyssa even more than you did before, for me she is now at Satanic Karen level, with French route being really good.