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

[Konjad]

KCD always seemed to be in that weird middle ground between AA and AAA.

so it's AAa

 

[ArchAngel]

KCD always seemed to be in that weird middle ground between AA and AAA.

so it's AAa

We will see that by how much money they are asking for the game. If it is 70$ then it is AAA

 

[Turisas]

We will see that by how much money they are asking for the game. If it is 70$ then it is AAA

It's already available for premature purchase on Steam.

 

[Modron]

It's already available for premature purchase on Steam.

I always enjoy when they put games up for sale before the system requirements.

 

[ArchAngel]

We will see that by how much money they are asking for the game. If it is 70$ then it is AAA

It's already available for premature purchase on Steam.

Hmm and it has old AAA price.. not sure what now :D

 

[Rahdulan]

I guess the gauntlet has been thrown. Now we wait.

 

[NecroLord]

KCD is one of the greatest rpgs yet it has lesser posts than Vielguard. Codexers love Vielguard more than KCD series. It is a shame.

KKKodex runs on hate, not love.

Loving to hate is ones own opinion. But iam interested in KCD and do not give a damn about Veliguard.

So long as they stay true to the original and improve upon it with better combat and other such enhancements, then they got this.
It will be a success, despite the possibility of game journalists and publications going in a meltdown because of its lack of "diversity"...

 

[Stavrophore]

Exactly, they don't need to vastly overdid the game, as the game formula is still not exhausted, like with ubisoft who basically churned same game for the zilionth time. They just need to innovate a little, expand adding few new mechanics, while leaving the rest intact. Give us good story, closure of henry story most importantly and thats all is needed. New setting might come with new franchise, imagine KCD engine but different historical period, maybe not even bohemia. I understand that historical games that are true to the history, are not palatable to modern audiences, so you can't expect american mutts to massively buy into this. Still the upfront costs of engine and mechanics are already paid, now we just need new historical experiences and settings, basically doing Assassins Creed like games but in vavra style with a touch of that true historical experience, instead of a modernized version on how these settings are perceived by modern day lens.

 

[thesecret1]

KCD engine

KCD doesn't have it's own, custom-built engine. It runs on CryEngine.

 

[adddeed]

Yep still looks pretty good too.

 

[Cpt. Dallas]

It's already available for premature purchase on Steam.

I always enjoy when they put games up for sale before the system requirements.

February release gives time to scour ebay for people dumping their old stuff after Christmas. Moving from a Ryzen 5 to 7 and a new GPU is the plan.

 

[Paul_cz]

Yeaaaaah, we would. Not in AAA sector but then, KCD's AAA credentials were always in doubt.

I meant in AAA sphere (or at least KCD2's sphere of games that cost at least 50 million USD to make).

KCD doesn't have it's own, custom-built engine. It runs on CryEngine.

Yeah, but at the same time the engine has been so heavily modified and so much custom stuff had to be written for it, it might as well be. Kinda like "Creation Engine" is not really considered gamebryo anymore eventhough it was developed from it.

 

[Lyric Suite]

It's now the CryMoreEngine.

 

[NecroLord]

Travelling the bohemian countryside was one of KCD's premier qualities.
Perfect atmosphere.

 

[Gerrard]

Nice next-gen graphics you have there, we've "advanced" to the point where you need raytracing just to achieve the same features that deferred shading offered before 2010.

 

[Alienman]

Shadows didn't exist back then.

 

[DKunit]

Nice next-gen graphics you have there, we've "advanced" to the point where you need raytracing just to achieve the same features that deferred shading offered before 2010.

Actually, this is fairly common tactic to save on performance in games. Certain less important light sources, in this case the guard's torch, can only cast a limited amount of dynamic shadows(or in some cases, none at all). Dynamic shadowing is usually very performance-heavy(this was the case in KCD1), so this is the trade-off for better fps.

 

[ferratilis]

Ah yes, shadows. The core pillar of any good RPG.

 

[Elttharion]

Nice next-gen graphics you have there, we've "advanced" to the point where you need raytracing just to achieve the same features that deferred shading offered before 2010.

Its a pic of the switch port

 

[Konjad]

They couldn't implement all the shadows because they were already used in Shadows of Amn and there's a shortage.

 

[DKunit]

They had to cut down on the amount of shadows so they wouldn't steal even more of AC Shadows thunder.

 

[Lord_Potato]

They had to cut the amount of shadows, because 1428: Shadows over Silesia got a brand new DLC (and a big discount).

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1228500/1428_Shadows_over_Silesia/

 

[DKunit]

Tobi is doing another dev livestream on the 19th.
https://x.com/WarhorseStudios/status/1857454317155868900

 

[Lyric Suite]

Hard to complain about something like that when the rest of the game looked so damn good.

Visuals is the one aspect of the original game that was almost a flawless victory on nearly every level. Only the animations could have been better and of course performance was ass in towns but everything else was just perfect. Textures looked great, sharp and clean, lighting was amazing, appropriate use of post-processing effects and of course the best vegetation ever seen in any game ever.

I personally wouldn't care if they didn't even bother changing the visuals at all and focused on improving everything else.

 

[DKunit]

One thing I am a little disappointed about in terms of the visuals in KCD2 is the NPC animations while in conversations. The body animations seem to be entirely recycled from the first game. You play KCD1 for several hundred hours and you can immediately recognize those hand gesture animations.

Luckily the facial animations seem to have been improved(especially on Henry), the voice acting is still really good, and the character models got a major upgrade. So, ultimately, it's a minor gripe.