How To Unlock And Do Stealth Kills In Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

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How To Unlock Stealth Kills

Combat can be a little clunky in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Swinging swords and axes at guards and bandits isn’t always the best way to approach confrontations. If you can stay quiet, a stealth kill or a silent takedown is a much better tactic. Fighting multiple enemies at once puts you at a massive disadvantage.

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However, it’s not as simple as just crouch walking behind an enemy and pressing a button. You have to do a few things in preparation to be able to do stealth kills in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. You also need a specific weapon that allows you to be less obvious with your attacks than with swords.

How To Unlock Stealth Kills

First of all, you need to make sure the Stealth Kill skill is unlocked in the Player menu. In the Stealth section, it’ll likely be the first skill you have unlocked. Without it, Henry won’t be able to kill enemies quietly, no matter what.

Then, you also need to make sure that you have a Dagger. You’ll be given one early on in the story, but if you’ve sold or lost it you’ll be able to get another easily.

If you’re in the early hours of the game, in the Trotsky region, you can head to the camp south west of Troskowitz and a dagger is on a table outside the Herdboy’s hut.

At any other point in the game, you can buy one from a few different vendors. Obviously, Swordsmiths will always stock them, but you’ll also likely find both Blacksmiths and Innkeepers at Taverns selling them.

Thankfully, they’re quite cheap. You can expect to spend just about 20 Groschen on one. You will be able to get them for a lower price if you haggle well and have a good reputation with the merchant.

How To Do A Stealth Kill

Once you have a dagger and the stealth kill skill unlocked, you can silent take out enemies when you need to.

When you’re close behind the enemy you want to stealth kill, you’ll see the L2 button appear in the bottom right of the screen if you’re on PS5 (LT on Xbox and F on PC). Hold that and you’ll initiate a stealth kill.

Just tab the button if you want to knock the enemy out instead of killing them.

You’ll then need to press R2/RT/the right mouse button once you see the blue swords icon appear. This will let you overpower the enemy so that they don’t escape or alert other enemies around them.

Once an enemy is incapacitated. You can either leave them unconscious if they’re just knocked out, make sure they’re dead, or hide their body somewhere. Which you do depends on how likely you are to be caught moving the body and whether your Henry is someone who kills when he doesn’t really need to.