KickStarter Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Dan Vavra's medieval chad simulator

[cvv]

The current cinematic lead is Petr Pekař who co-led in late stages and led the team during DLCs. Did you notice any drop or shift in quality and/or style back then?

Hard to compare, DLC cutscenes are much shorter and fewer. All I know is "forging the sword" is one of the best cinematics I've seen in any game. All KCD cutscenes are good but none is as good as the sword one.

 

[Bara]

Not at all related to the game bit I thought its a cool history fact for the devs

 

[Krivol]

I am replaying it after 2 years with all DLCs, and... well I have few mixed feelings. I mean exploration, quests, dialogues etc are still great but... Sassau is shit, hore place full of bugs. Every time I have to do something there it makes me sick. It's not that much to do there anyway, so it is not a big deal but I'm scared if 2nd part will take place in more urban area and will be like big Sassau.

Please! Keep close to forrests and small hamlets!

 

[Smejki]

I am replaying it after 2 years with all DLCs, and... well I have few mixed feelings. I mean exploration, quests, dialogues etc are still great but... Sassau is shit, hore place full of bugs. Every time I have to do something there it makes me sick. It's not that much to do there anyway, so it is not a big deal but I'm scared if 2nd part will take place in more urban area and will be like big Sassau.

Please! Keep close to forrests and small hamlets!

 

[Wunderbar]

KC2 set in Prague confirmed.

 

[Paul_cz]

KC2 set in Prague confirmed.

Or Kuttenberg

 

[Tacgnol]

KCD is becoming like another Deus Ex or Bloodlines for me. Everytime I see the game discussed, I want to reinstall it.

Hopefully we got some news on KCD2 soon.

 

[The Great Deceiver]

Hussites or bust. Want to see those Wagenburgs in action.

 

[cvv]

Hopefully we got some news on KCD2 soon.

Warhorse CEO recently said literally "don't expect any news from us soon". You're welcome.

 

[Fedora Master]

So what exactly are they doing, when not working on KCD2? Hookers and blow?

 

[The_Mask]

To maintain the chad-ness and overall manliness of this thread on page 300, I can think of nothing else better to post than this:

 

[Barbarian]

If the sequel has Henry as protagonist, will it be more of an action game than a free-roaming rpg?

I mean, part of the fun of this game is turning a young peasant into an effective fighter/spy/thief/agent/diplomat or whatever. By the end of the game he is already at it. "Level ups" won't be as meanningful, if at all in a sequel.

 

[agris]

So what exactly are they doing, when not working on KCD2? Hookers and blow?

I think it's a great sign that they aren't talking about their next thing yet. All that does is set expectations far too early in the creative process and inevitably leave everyone invested in the game disappointed in some way or another.

From a business standpoint, Bethesda probably has it down with their "announce game 6 months from release" philosophy, where your marketing dollars have the most impact because the game is new, shiny and about to come out.

For a studio the size of Warhorse, it makes sense. I get why smaller / indie studios do it, but for the d that WH are slinging, let them keep their powder dry until closer to release. The unshed tears of impotent rage in the inevitable megathread are the only thing of value lost.

 

[Jenkem]

1. Roguey:
   " -Sinking ship, all the talented seniors who made KCD great are gone or planning to leave and management fails to replace them. -CEO is not Dan Vavra, the current CEO was put in charge by the pervious private investor and knows absolutely nothing about the gaming industry and game developpement but somehow tells developpers how to do their jobs and is the main reason the company is becoming
2. Roguey:
   more and more corporate for a studio that was indie not so long ago.

I told you KCD 2 will be pozzed

 

[Quillon]

 

[Tacgnol]

If the sequel has Henry as protagonist, will it be more of an action game than a free-roaming rpg?

I mean, part of the fun of this game is turning a young peasant into an effective fighter/spy/thief/agent/diplomat or whatever. By the end of the game he is already at it. "Level ups" won't be as meanningful, if at all in a sequel.

Considering the unholy speed with which Henry becomes a master swordsman in KCD, you could probably quite easily have the cliche plotline of him being badly injured and recovering (again), but this time regaining his strength over a more realistic period (i.e. the zero to hero actually making sense over a few weeks of gametime).

Who knows though. Maybe they'll just give zero explanation and start you off as a scrub again.

 

[cvv]

If the sequel has Henry as protagonist, will it be more of an action game than a free-roaming rpg?

I mean, part of the fun of this game is turning a young peasant into an effective fighter/spy/thief/agent/diplomat or whatever. By the end of the game he is already at it. "Level ups" won't be as meanningful, if at all in a sequel.

Yeah I wondered that too. They'd have to give him amnesia or brain damage or some such, to reset him back to a turnip digger level.

 

[Jenkem]

Deadass i gave you the citation, Roguey is all the citation u need boyo

 

[Roguey]

That's from Glassdoor. In its entirety:

Pros

-Nice office.. located in an horrible area of Prague.

-Some nice people.

-Decent salary for Czech Republic, way bellow for the industry standards.

-''Free breakfast'' that closes at 9am.

-Some Christmas you get a bonus, some Christmas you get a t-shirt.

Cons

-Zero benefits

-No one is hired as employee except people who need a VISA, everybody is hired as full time contractors (which is illegal by the way and conveniently not spoken of during interviews until you receive the contract) to offer a better salary they say but in reality it's for them to pay less taxes. Also no help is offered to foreigners to deal with paperwork in czech to do their taxes, social security, etc,..

but then they don't respect the contractor aspect as they ask you to have a 3 month notice period when you resign.

-Discrimination/Racism, some things have been said about non-czech workers by some people in the company if they said what they said in any other games studio they would have been fired on the spot without a warning but here nothing is done about it.

Also management pretends to be concerned about 20% of the company declaring being harassed/discriminated in the yearly survey meanwhile when I gave my resignation letter not a single word was exchanged on why am I leaving,etc.. didn't even have an exit interview.

-Sinking ship, all the talented seniors who made KCD great are gone or planning to leave and management fails to replace them.

-CEO is not Dan Vavra, the current CEO was put in charge by the pervious private investor and knows absolutely nothing about the gaming industry and game developpement but somehow tells developpers how to do their jobs and is the main reason the company is becoming more and more corporate for a studio that was indie not so long ago.

-Company has a policy of not firing anyone which sounds good but it's terrible as nothing is done for the toxic people and conflicts. Company's approach to conflicts is whoever throws a punch first gets fired or whoever quits first.

-It's useless to work very hard, long hours and put a lot of effort in your work, no one will notice or reward you in any way. Management already declared that they won't do anything between the people who do the minimum effort and clockout the minute they have their 8 hours and those who work until 9pm every day.

-Career opportunities are very limited as the lead roles are only for czech speakers as the lead meetings are in czech. Communications is difficult as English is not mandatory to be employed which means sometimes you'll need a translator to collaborate with some departements.

Advice to Management

I believe it's useless to give advice to management there is just too much ego there. There were dozens of meetings between the leads and the management to try to change the company fondamentaly especially after the project was a worldwide success.

Absolutely nothing changed, things are the exact same as back when they were a financially struggling indie in terms of practices. Even after they promised that if the game was a success they would hire everybody as employees which is still not the case. The only thing that changed is that now management are millionaires after THQ bought them and now they don't even care anymore so why should the developpers care ?

 

[agris]

Interesting take, pretty clearly from a non-Czech. Smejki would you like to come disparage your employer in public? Is it true that almost everyone is a contract employee, unless visa sponsorship is needed?

 

[Parsimonious cook]

-No one is hired as employee except people who need a VISA, everybody is hired as full time contractors (which is illegal by the way and conveniently not spoken of during interviews until you receive the contract) to offer a better salary they say but in reality it's for them to pay less taxes. Also no help is offered to foreigners to deal with paperwork in czech to do their taxes, social security, etc,..

So called Švarcsystém, its a common thing among both shitty and even some respectable private sector employers in the country. Personally I would never work for a company that operates in this manner, but than again I am no game developer. On the other hand, since I have a pretty good idea of how the "high skill" foreign workers are usually handled in the Czech Republic I am very surprised that Warhorse doesn’t have some HR people assigned to help their foreign workers in dealing with authorities (alternatively there are even companies that specialise in providing such services externally).

-Discrimination/Racism, some things have been said about non-czech workers by some people in the company if they said what they said in any other games studio they would have been fired on the spot without a warning but here nothing is done about it.

Also management pretends to be concerned about 20% of the company declaring being harassed/discriminated in the yearly survey meanwhile when I gave my resignation letter not a single word was exchanged on why am I leaving,etc.. didn't even have an exit interview

-Career opportunities are very limited as the lead roles are only for czech speakers as the lead meetings are in czech. Communications is difficult as English is not mandatory to be employed which means sometimes you'll need a translator to collaborate with some departements.

Fucking lol, as a Czech patriot I hope this is all true. Foreigners should be shat on and given a taste of their own medicine at every opportunity. I especially love how the faggy snowflake expresses shock that cancel culture is not a thing here.

 

[Alienman]

Eastern European studio number 83 with serious management problems.

What is it with studios now that can't maintain their success?

 

[Jenkem]

eastern european X collapses after a few years

shocking

 

[Paul_cz]

Most of that stuff in that glassdoor sounds great actually, especially not giving a fuck about someone's hurt fee fees

 

[Alienman]

Why even hire westerners if you have that outlook that all westerners deserve such and such? Just don't hire blue-haired Twitter freaks and treat your employees with respect. Seems incredible counter-productive & stupid.