Kingdom Come: Deliverance II - Henry's coming to see us on February 4th

[SlamDunk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...iel_vavra_shows_his_new_pc_and_mentions_kcd2/

Daniel mentions in this Video, that KCD2 supports DLLS and FSR. And he has no problem with having 60fps in 4K on very high settings.

His new PC has nvidia 4080super and AMD 7950x3d CPU.

He also mentions that optimalisations are far from done and it will be better on release.

EDIT: Quick gameplay clip at 50:18: https://www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/1097181328-udalosti/224411000100503/

YouTube mirror:

 

[kangaxx]

I gave up on the first game because I kept getting arrested for no reason (not a meme, actually no reason). Hopefully this doesn't continue in the second game.

Everyone in jail is innocent.

So the game is intended as a feudal injustice/police overreach simulator?

 

[ArchAngel]

I gave up on the first game because I kept getting arrested for no reason (not a meme, actually no reason). Hopefully this doesn't continue in the second game.

Everyone in jail is innocent.

So the game is intended as a feudal injustice/police overreach simulator?

No, just that everyone in jail always says they are innocent.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I gave up on the first game because I kept getting arrested for no reason (not a meme, actually no reason). Hopefully this doesn't continue in the second game.

Perhaps the game was telling you that you should have been treating it as a medieval crime simulator.

Spoiler

Really, though, if you were playing it immediately after release, there were quite a few bugs that have since been fixed, so you really should have given it another chance once a few months had passed.

 

[Beowulf]

That;s what I did.
I gave it a negative review due to the technical state that the game was released in, resulting in numerous bugs, some of which broke the main quest.
But after some time I went back and switched it to positive. Even when it was jank, it was still the best jank I have played in years.
Warhorse managed to not compromise their vision and approach enough to create something new in this day and age.

 

[Modron]

So the game is intended as a feudal injustice/police overreach simulator?

Only got arrested once to see what the system was like and dunno there might have been an achievement involved as well, git gud at stealing and leave the stolen goods in a chest/sell them off.

 

[kangaxx]

Maybe I need to go back and finish it. I enjoyed everything apart from the constant assaults/arrests.

 

[ArchAngel]

So the game is intended as a feudal injustice/police overreach simulator?

Only got arrested once to see what the system was like and dunno there might have been an achievement involved as well, git gud at stealing and leave the stolen goods in a chest/sell them off.

I entered some yard in rattay that was guarded and stayed there too long and guard went agro so I ran away until he gave up. Few days later when I was back in Rattay another guard approaches and tells me he will punish me harshly with a fine. I say OK and it is whole 10 silver lol
Funny system.

 

[kangaxx]

The worst is when you get attacked by the guards in bed for not having a torch lit.

 

[Lyric Suite]

You guys suck i robbed Rattay blind and never managed to make the guards angry. I got searched a few times but of course the guards didn't find shit because i'm not a retard.

 

[ArchAngel]

The worst is when you get attacked by the guards in bed for not having a torch lit.

Haha that is even worse than shit they did to me. I was playing dice and night fell in Rattay and guard came to tell me I need to have a torch and interrupted my game and made me lose the money..

 

[kangaxx]

Just reinstalled it... the first thing to happen on my old save was a quest NPC in Skalitz running away from me because of "my bad behaviour" (??), followed by being surrounded by guards and gang banged. This is immediately upon release from jail as well.

I went out of my way to avoid crime for this exact reason, so I honestly dunno what is going on. Could just be that this save is irretrievably bugged?

 

[ArchAngel]

I might have made a mistake. I had 30k silver and no real way to spend it so I started the town building DLC but I was not expecting that one to cost that much.. also what kind of lord put a bailiff in charge and tells him he needs to pay everything out of his own pocket. Then he says you will get all income from village for 5 years but proclamation in Rattay to bring in new settlers says settlers are exempt from paying taxes for 5 years?! WTF? I am cheated!

 

[Beowulf]

Just reinstalled it... the first thing to happen on my old save was a quest NPC in Skalitz running away from me because of "my bad behaviour" (??), followed by being surrounded by guards and gang banged. This is immediately upon release from jail as well.

I went out of my way to avoid crime for this exact reason, so I honestly dunno what is going on. Could just be that this save is irretrievably bugged?

Yeah, the game state might be borked if you load an older version save, especially if you ditched the game many patches ago.
But loading into some strange situation is the throwback to the release - when I started the monastery quest and loaded some autosave when I was supposed to be in the monastery, the game teleported me to the dice game table and then back to some conversation inside the monastery, but with the dice game UI overlay

Spoiler

 

[Lord_Potato]

You guys suck i robbed Rattay blind and never managed to make the guards angry. I got searched a few times but of course the guards didn't find shit because i'm not a retard.

Spoken like a true crimer

 

[jaekl]

I gave up on the first game because I kept getting arrested for no reason (not a meme, actually no reason). Hopefully this doesn't continue in the second game.

Perhaps the game was telling you that you should have been treating it as a medieval crime simulator.

Spoiler

Really, though, if you were playing it immediately after release, there were quite a few bugs that have since been fixed, so you really should have given it another chance once a few months had passed.

True, you get into so many wacky adventures when you do crimes. Earlier in the week, Hans Capon sent me to put a secret love note in to a peasant woman's personal chest but the father had it heavily guarded by a couple of men at arms. So I crept into the barn and shot one of them in the face, hoping to lure the second one into the barn for a quick throat cut. Broad daylight btw.

Unfortunately, I fucked up the throat cut and ended up having to noisily cave his head in with a Warhammer, after which a parade of about 8 guards came into the barn over the next 20 minutes for an epic battle with me in the corner with my back to the wall.

After the carnage was over, all the guards lay in mangled piles on the barn floor and somehow an alarm had not been raised. Now was my chance. Only one problem, some woman was walking through the yard. Can't let her see into the barn, that would be bad. I run up behind her and cut her throat.

As I'm lifting her corpse onto my shoulder it says QUEST FAILED. Fuck! That was the girl who I was supposed to give the love letter to. Oh well, sorry Hans.

 

[SlamDunk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...w_interview_with_warhorse_few_new_tidbits_of/

• Game is completable now from start to finish.
• Bug squashing is the main part of work now.
• They confirm that you will be able to travel between the two maps as you wish.
• They joke that the third KCD will be 3x times bigger than the first one.
• There will be enough country side around Kutna Hora.
• The most development time was spend on making the world feel alive.
• The certification part for consoles takes several months.
• They mention that they announced KCD2 at the same time when the game was at the verge or already in process of certification. They are very confident of delivering the game this year.
• Part of the deal of Warhorse acquisition by THQ was that they have to make a sequel.
• They talk about localizations and that its early to talk about all of them now. But there will be more than there was at the launch of KCD1. It looks like they will probably be adding new localizations later on after launch.
• Quests will have several ways how to approach them as in KCD1 including simple straightforward ways.
• All mechanics that were highly criticized in KCD1 were greatly improved.
• Saving system will be the same, but auto saving will be much more frequent.
• They say that the freedom of development was absolute. No involvement by THQ.

https://cnn.iprima.cz/jde-dohrat-ale-zitra-to-nemusi-platit-vime-v-jakem-stavu-je-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-436001

 

[Paul_cz]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...w_interview_with_warhorse_few_new_tidbits_of/

Hah. Was watching this at work today. Jumbik (who posted it on reddit) is a colleague xD
And another colleague used to be a teacher, and one of his female students is now a producer at Warhorse. World is tiny.

 

[Gerrard]

So if anything sucks you know it was Vavra's doing and not THQ.

 

[ArchAngel]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...w_interview_with_warhorse_few_new_tidbits_of/

• Game is completable now from start to finish.
• Bug squashing is the main part of work now.
• They confirm that you will be able to travel between the two maps as you wish.
• They joke that the third KCD will be 3x times bigger than the first one.
• There will be enough country side around Kutna Hora.
• The most development time was spend on making the world feel alive.
• The certification part for consoles takes several months.
• They mention that they announced KCD2 at the same time when the game was at the verge or already in process of certification. They are very confident of delivering the game this year.
• Part of the deal of Warhorse acquisition by THQ was that they have to make a sequel.
• They talk about localizations and that its early to talk about all of them now. But there will be more than there was at the launch of KCD1. It looks like they will probably be adding new localizations later on after launch.
• Quests will have several ways how to approach them as in KCD1 including simple straightforward ways.
• All mechanics that were highly criticized in KCD1 were greatly improved.
• Saving system will be the same, but auto saving will be much more frequent.
• They say that the freedom of development was absolute. No involvement by THQ.

https://cnn.iprima.cz/jde-dohrat-ale-zitra-to-nemusi-platit-vime-v-jakem-stavu-je-kingdom-come-deliverance-ii-436001

Ok, sounds like I will be waiting few years for complete version on sale.

 

[SlamDunk]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...iew_with_warhorse_few_new_tidbits_of/l3hlrwr/

One more interesting thing worth mentioning is the statement by the CEO - "KCD2 developement has been fully funded by sales of KCD1". Pretty big imo, no wonder Embracer didn't touch Warhrose studios, despite at least doubling the development team and production costs, they didn't need any investment and ran on their own money.

 

[cvv]

https://old.reddit.com/r/kingdomcom...iew_with_warhorse_few_new_tidbits_of/l3hlrwr/

One more interesting thing worth mentioning is the statement by the CEO - "KCD2 developement has been fully funded by sales of KCD1". Pretty big imo, no wonder Embracer didn't touch Warhrose studios, despite at least doubling the development team and production costs, they didn't need any investment and ran on their own money.

That must mean "funded by sales of KCD1 after the sale of the studio". Which is impressive, considering Embracer bought Warhorse a year after KCD1 launch and the majority of sales are often in the first year. IIRC I saw years ago they made 50 million dorra in the first year.

Btw someone from Warhorse (maybe Viktor?) said recently the KCD2 budget was "much bigger" than the first game (which is estimated to be around 25 million dollars). We're left to guess whether "much bigger" means 50 million or 100 million.

 

[Paul_cz]

From my napkin math (number of employees times average gamedev salary times devtime) KCD2 costs around 50 million USD (dev budget, no idea what they will spend on marketing), compared to first game's 20.

 

[SlamDunk]

https://www.instagram.com/thisistommckay/p/C63LxCxAscq/

 

[The Wall]

Henry is such lad's lad, bro's bro, man's man