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

[Paul_cz]

Dan Vavra is Jewish, I remember reading it somewhere. He comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family.

lmao he is using that as a shield against the moronic "nazi!!11!" allegations he got for once wearing a Burzum T-shirt, in reality it's probably his greatgrandpa being one quarter jewish or some such.

 

[NecroLord]

allegations he got for once wearing a Burzum T-shirt

Oh really?

I can imagine him blasting "This is war. WOW!" while making KCD.

 

[NecroLord]

Is anyone watching that IGN shit? I always give it a peak, carefully coz it's full of spoilers, but save for the "First 43 minutes" video it's all so dry and boring.

I don't think anything else other than that "sneak peek" has been released by Warhorse.
Or has it?

 

[cvv]

Is anyone watching that IGN shit? I always give it a peak, carefully coz it's full of spoilers, but save for the "First 43 minutes" video it's all so dry and boring.

I don't think anything else other than that "sneak peek" has been released by Warhorse.
Or has it?

Bruh, IGN has been reporting on the game for the entire month now, they've released about 6 different videos so far.

 

[Infinitron]

Is anyone watching that IGN shit? I always give it a peak, carefully coz it's full of spoilers, but save for the "First 43 minutes" video it's all so dry and boring.

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https://www.ign.com/articles/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-dont-miss-these-8-little-things-ign-first

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – Don’t Miss These 8 Little Things – IGN First​

Always look on the bright side.​

The open, medieval world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 was built with even greater authenticity in mind than its historically-grounded predecessor was capable of. Whether you played the first one or not, there are plenty of potentially overlooked details you'll want to pay attention to. Sometimes because it might help you succeed on your journey, and other times because it's just a neat touch of realism. As part of this month’s IGN First, we’ll be taking a look at eight little things you won't want to miss in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

1. Find An Old Friend​

Henry, the hero of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance saga, will get the chance to reunite with a number of old friends from the first game if you know where to find them. And one of them is a four-legged companion who's been given a bit of a special buff for the sequel.

Your very first horse, Pebbles, has somehow managed to survive the turmoil of war brewing in Bohemia. And what's more, he's even learned some new tricks. In KCD1, his stats were… less than impressive, given you got him pretty early on. But in KCD2, he has a secret perk that will allow him to grow along with Henry. The more you ride him, the better his stats will get, so you don't have to say goodbye forever in favor of a more impressive steed.

2. Check the Freshness Date​

While in a game like Skyrim you may be able to pack your coat pockets with fresh fruit and set off into the wilderness for days without worry, KCD2 is a bit more unforgiving in how it simulates perishable foods. But it also provides you with historically-accurate ways to solve this problem.

The longer something like bread or a cabbage has been in your inventory, the more it will degrade. And some foods keep longer than others. If you want things to keep longer, well, you're not exactly going to be able to haul an ice chest around on your back. But you can do what people in the actual middle ages did. Facilities are available around many settlements for smoking and drying foods, extending their shelf lives. This process also reduces their weight, so you can carry more food – or make room for an extra dagger.

This even works with the herbs you'll use for alchemy. Freshly-picked herbs will always make the strongest potions, but dried ones keep for a long time and will do in a pinch.

3. Liquid Courage​

Folks in medieval Bohemia loved their drink. After all, we didn't know much about water safety at the time, so alcohol tended to be safer. And there weren't any open-world RPGs around either, so options for entertainment were more limited. In KCD2, booze can be both a blessing and a curse.

"Basically any alcohol will give you some positives when you are only slightly drunk and there's a lot of perks that will even improve this," lead designer Prokop Jirsa explained. "But be very careful because if you overdo this and if you get really drunk, it'll give you a lot of negative stats."

There's also a risk of addiction if you imbibe too often in KCD2, with increasing stages of severity. And, of course, you can drink so much you pass out. In most games, this wouldn't be too much of an issue. But in KCD2, NPCs who don't like you might take that opportunity to steal the clothes right off of your back.

"A situation can happen when you just fall unconscious because you're drunk and when you wake up you see somebody wearing your shoes or your hat," Jirsa said. "So yeah, be careful about it."

4. Do Your Homework​

One of Henry's biggest character moments in the first KCD was learning how to read, which was so rare it was practically a superpower in the Middle Ages. And he can continue his erudite journey in KCD 2. But the Reading skill has been replaced with Scholarship, which is not so much about learning what the letters mean, but what they… well, mean, on a deeper level.

Bohemia is full of books, and collecting them will allow you to level up your Scholarship. There are even specific places that are better for reading due to their chill atmosphere. And gaining ranks in Scholarship will unlock things like new dialogue options and even the ability to gain more experience in other skills. After all, understanding the theory behind something like chopping someone's head off with an axe helps you with the practice.

5. A Likely Story​

And whether you're an academic, a drunk, or both, your roleplaying possibilities will expand to fit your personality.

"There are perks in Drinking skill and in Scholarship that will unlock completely new dialogue options with guards," Jirsa told us. "And you can use these new dialogue options to get away from crime. And they're really funny, especially the one from drinking. Try those. It's really funny, like drunkenly explaining why you didn't kill the chicken is hilarious."

6. Malicious Makeover​

While Henry's abilities and even attire can affect his chance of success in different social situations, like being well-dressed giving you more play with the nobles and being covered in blood letting you scare off bandits easier, these buffs and debuffs don't only apply to you. What an NPC is wearing and how healthy they are affects their social stats in the same way. Do you see where I'm going with this?

If you need to win a charisma challenge against an NPC of high social status, and spiffing up your own wardrobe isn't an option, you can always come at the problem from the other direction and sabotage theirs.

So the night before you can steal their fancy clothes," Jirsa advised. "Or if you want to intimidate them, it might be easier if you poison them a little bit the day before."

7. Dress to Impress​

In the first game, it could be a bit of a pain to optimize your fit for every possible situation. After all, it takes quite a while, even on an inventory screen, to squeeze out of heavy plate armor and into something a bit snazzier or sneakier. But KCD2 has made this a breeze. You'll be able to save three different outfits that you can switch between seamlessly. This lines up perfectly with having one set of nice-looking clothes for navigating social situations, a suit of full armor for intense combat, and some dark-colored clothing that doesn't make much noise when you're moving around for sneaky deeds.

8. When in Doubt, Yell​

This far along on Henry's journey, though, he's not necessarily just dressing for the job he wants rather than the job he has. No, he's a bit more of a force to be reckoned with, and it's possible to flaunt this with certain enemies who really don't have any business crossing swords with him.

KCD2 introduces battle cries and taunts, which can influence an NPC's will to fight. In our Survival Tips list, we mentioned how certain enemies might think better of trying to tangle with you if you kill their commander or a bunch of their friends in very flashy ways. Letting out a fearsome battle cry probably won't do much if you haven't even drawn blood yet. But if things are going your way, it might serve as a signal for the remaining opponents to take stock of the situation and decide if this is really still worth it.

And, of course, there are unlockable perks that will make your bellowing even more terrifying.

There are tons more little things to discover in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 for the sharp-eyed explorers out there, so don't hesitate to take it slow and try out new things. For more, stay tuned all December long as our exclusive IGN First coverage of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 continues.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.ign.com/articles/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-everything-you-need-to-know-ign-first

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 – Everything You Need to Know | IGN First​

Stride with confidence into this sword-slashing RPG sequel.​

We're only weeks away from the February 4 release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and you may still find yourself a bit lost as to what all the fuss is about. All month long, we've been covering different aspects of this medieval action RPG in detail as part of IGN First. But let's not get too ahead of ourselves. This digital treatise is here to cover all the basics, and tell you where you can go next to find out more about any given topic.

What is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2?

To put it as simply as possible, it's a first-person, open-world action RPG based on real medieval history, and the very direct sequel to 2018's Kingdom Come: Deliverance, which I gave an 8/10. You play as Henry, a young villager who lost his home and his parents to the ravages of war. While exploring the open countryside, you'll use stealth, persuasion, and swordplay to overcome your enemies and complete diverse side quests that generally have multiple endings.

The real highlight for me is the combat system, which is based on real European martial arts and looks to evolve and streamline the mechanics of the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It's highly technical and skill-centric, but it doesn't require amazing twitch reflexes. Attacking from one of four cardinal directions, timing parries and counters, and a combo system similar to fighting games that rely on a specific sequence of directional inputs, are at the heart of it.

It may sound intimidating, but KCD2 is making an effort to help new players get up to snuff. You can check out our developer-aided survival tips, or an explanation of how combat has evolved from the first game.

What is the setting of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2?

The year is 1403, right in the middle of what are often called the Late Middle Ages. The venue is central Bohemia, in the vicinity of Prague, and what is today the heart of the modern Czech Republic. It's been about 50 years since the Black Plague – recent enough that there are still people alive who remember it – and 50 years before the fall of Constantinople. Europe, including Bohemia, is watching one age coming to a close and a new one just starting to take shape.

While KCD presents a fictional and dramatized version of history – many of its characters are based on historical ones, but their actions and personalities have been tweaked and embellished – it doesn't contain any outright fantasy elements. No trolls, dragons, or magic – although the people living at the time certainly believed in them. You can do alchemy, which is the one place where this series feels the most like a fantasy RPG. I'm not aware of any herbs or nectars that can make you better at sword fighting. But even these require you to pick real plants and cook them up using period-accurate technology.

To be more specific, KCD2 picks up almost immediately where the first game left off. Which brings us to our next question…

Do I need to play the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance before I play the sequel?

In my opinion, not really. It's kind of a soft reset in terms of your character progression, and it will introduce you to all of its systems as if you've never touched them before. The extended intro sequence even catches you up to speed on the events of the first game, which aren't overly intricate. If you want to see for yourself and decide if you need more context, you can watch our first 43 minutes of gameplay.

I certainly wouldn't discourage you from playing the first one, though. I replayed it earlier this year and found that it holds up really well. Some of the technical issues that were present during my original review have even been fixed.

Who are the major characters in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2?

Well, well, well… we happened to put together a whole article about the major characters. But to put it simply: You play as Henry, a young man who has gone from some random nobody to a trusted retainer in the service of Sir Radzig Kobyla. Kobyla and his buddies support King Wenceslaus IV, who has been kidnapped by Wenceslaus' half-brother, the pretender Sigismund. Our pal Sigismund has been riding around the country dealing harshly with anyone he sees as a supporter of Wenceslaus, including burning down Henry's hometown and killing his parents.

Now, Henry is part of the conspiracy to free Wenceslaus and restore him to the throne. At the start of KCD2, he's off on the road with his spoiled, womanizing best "friend," Sir Hans Capon, to try and figure out who else among the nobility is willing to help the cause. The two young men frequently butt heads, since Henry was raised as a commoner and sees Hans as sort of stuck-up man-child, and Hans feels Henry doesn't treat him with the respect a noble deserves.

When is Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 coming out?

February 4, 2024 on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 5. The original also received a Switch port earlier this year, six years after the original release, but we don't know yet whether or not the sequel might eventually be on Switch 2.

What about the PC system requirements?

The Steam page recommends a Core i7-13700K or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32 GB RAM, and a GeForce RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 7800 XT. Thankfully, from what I've played, it's much better optimized than the first game, which I still can't play on max settings to this day even with a rig that meets all of the recommended specs for KCD2.

Can you pet the dog?

Yes! Your trusty Mutt can even help you out in combat.

Anything else I should know?

The devs were nice enough to highlight 8 Little Things Not to Miss in KCD2 for us. If you want to hear my in-depth impressions of the 12+ hours I've played so far, you can check out my hands-on preview. We also got a guided in-game tour of Kuttenburg, the biggest city Warhorse has ever created. It's mostly based on a real city that's still standing, too, and we also got to go walk around it in real life! So take a peek at our comparison of in-game and real-world locations.

I can't prepare you for everything. The forests of 1403 Bohemia are vast and full of surprises. But at least now you have some idea of what you're dealing with. Thanks for riding along with us on our journey through Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 as the final IGN First of 2024!

 

[Larianshill]

Surprised IGN is not putting out hit pieces on it, like the one that has been put out on Wukong. Must be because Vavra swore that KCD2 will be more diverse.

 

[NecroLord]

Surprised IGN is not putting out hit pieces on it, like the one that has been put out on Wukong. Must be because Vavra swore that KCD2 will be more diverse.

Diverse but in a wrong way.
Not "diverse" as in putting subsaharans everywhere in Bohemia, which is what IGN and the SJW crowd want.

 

[Turisas]

Diverse as in foul italians and germans everywhere.

 

[NecroLord]

Diverse as in foul italians and germans everywhere.

I'm calling it now:
Jews, also ottomans, maybe some anglo-saxons.

 

[Cpt. Dallas]

Diverse as in foul italians and germans everywhere.

I'm calling it now:
Jews, also ottomans, maybe some anglo-saxons.

As long as they aren't tagged 'essential'....

 

[cvv]

Surprised IGN is not putting out hit pieces on it

Because this time around Warhorse is a part of a giant megacorp that paid good money to IGN to promote this. That's all there's to it.

 

[NecroLord]

Diverse as in foul italians and germans everywhere.

I'm calling it now:
Jews, also ottomans, maybe some anglo-saxons.

As long as they aren't tagged 'essential'....

"Henry, my friend, my friend, my friend!
Bohemia needs millions of subsaharan africans if it is to survive! It needs r*cemixing!
Why don't you join in my jewish tunnel beneath the synagogue and we can talk more..."

 

[Turrul]

Dan Vavra is Jewish, I remember reading it somewhere. He comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family.

lmao he is using that as a shield against the moronic "nazi!!11!" allegations he got for once wearing a Burzum T-shirt, in reality it's probably his greatgrandpa being one quarter jewish or some such.

Yeah, there's no way he's a lib-left guy. He looks like an average alcoholic uncle from Balkans who rants about crazy ultra-racist conspiracy theories whenever he can, just take a look at him:

Spoiler

 

[cvv]

Dan Vavra is Jewish, I remember reading it somewhere. He comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family.

lmao he is using that as a shield against the moronic "nazi!!11!" allegations he got for once wearing a Burzum T-shirt, in reality it's probably his greatgrandpa being one quarter jewish or some such.

Yeah, there's no way he's a lib-left guy

He's openly conservative (Yuro style) and libtards hate his guts here. There was a time he got his FB account suspended every two months or so because of prog report raids.

He even founded (and is funding out of his own pocket) a free-speech think tank.