Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Thread

[cvv]

Are you going to have to start a fresh new game to play Hardcore?

Yes because you have to pick three maluses (two in KCD1).

 

[Jinn]

Goddamnit. Just let me pick them mid-game then.

 

[processdaemon]

Small warning for anyone pursuing the lent achievement, the shoe soup from the siege food quest for Hans counts as meat. It makes sense I guess as it's boiled leather, I just didn't think and it stings a little that I spent all that time punching wolves unconscious for nothing.

 

[Stavrophore]

The more time passes since I dropped my playthrough, the more annoyed I become by how thoroughly they failed at creating a challenging experience. The first game wasn't brutal throughout by any means, but it felt good at least up to the halfway point and a bit beyond. I think KCD2 gave me a somewhat decent amount of difficulty for maybe the first 10 hours. After that I was dropping armored enemies in 3-4 hits without them landing a single blow on me. It really changed something that could have been a contender for GOTY for me into a rather big disappointment. Even more frustrating is that Warhorse will likely never recognize their absolute failure in this regard because the large majority of their players (particularly newcomers) are so moronic and bad at RPGs and videogames in general that they complain that the game is too hard.

What a shame. It's probably going to be a good 6 or so months before a proper rebalance or difficulty mod is released. Such an easily avoidable blunder. Guess we should just always expect bigger RPGs to release in game journalist mode from here on out.

The ease of combat is pretty much the same as in KCD1 where after some levelling of strength you could drop dead most enemies in 1-2 shots with mace, or the stringer sword. There is literally zero improvements to gameplay in KCD2, beside the fact that they restored excluded perk like riposte into the main game now. But the combat and gameplay difficulty and balancing is still dogshit. Its obvious all the focus was on creating cinematics and making kuttenberg/trotsky castle. We are so amazed by game like KCD2 simply because the bar otherwise is very low, and even a decent craftsmanship, nothing that could be considered excelling, is still very much overappreciated and salivated over. The game is decent at what it wanted to be - an medieval esque cinematic open world action game, and the only thing it drops ball from its stated goals is the open world pacing part in the second map. Other than that, all the other promises are fulfilled because it is cinematic game. Anyone who thought about KCD2 as some medieval simulator with a satisfying, novel and challenging gameplay loop will be sorely dissapointed. I was kinda deluded they will improve gameplay somewhat, but nope, they still left boring hunting with hunting spawning spots, instead of wild game roaming around. As i said it earlier, the gameplay wasn't improved at all, some of it was streamlined like combat, but not improved, in also many out of combat aspects.

 

[Brickfrog]

Small warning for anyone pursuing the lent achievement, the shoe soup from the siege food quest for Hans counts as meat. It makes sense I guess as it's boiled leather, I just didn't think and it stings a little that I spent all that time punching wolves unconscious for nothing.

That must be infuriating but also lmfao

 

[Stavrophore]

 

[AwesomeButton]

According to the last twitch stream, we are to see church interiors around Christmas with the "ecclessiastic mystery" DLC or whatever that was called.

Genius model swap.

Inb4 Roguey goes into an indignant tirade about it, thinking it's real.

Are you going to have to start a fresh new game to play Hardcore?

Yes because you have to pick three maluses (two in KCD1).

Maluses seem milder though. The branding one is easy to avoid. I'm almost finished with the game and I haven't been caught a sigle time. Not that there is much reason to do crimes anyway.

 

[cvv]

Maluses seem milder though. The branding one is easy to avoid. I'm almost finished with the game and I haven't been caught a sigle time. Not that there is much reason to do crimes anyway.

In 1 the maluses weren't really too bad either. Some of them are actually good, like slower progression or increased hunger.

It wasn't maluses that made the game harder in 1 but instead no player position on the map, lack of fast travel, slower stamina regen and increased equipment degradation/increased repair costs. Especially the last one kept being obnoxious all the way into the late game coz even small scraps tended to bleed you bone dry on repair costs. Three or four hits and your expensive cuirass is in the red, meaning only a blacksmith can fix it and it's like 2k groschen. IIRC whenever I could see a fight with anything else but full-plated mobs coming I'd always strip naked coz healing wounds is free.

 

[lukaszek]

is there actual list of changes so i dont have to watch stream?

 

[whocares]

Maluses seem milder though. The branding one is easy to avoid. I'm almost finished with the game and I haven't been caught a sigle time. Not that there is much reason to do crimes anyway.

In 1 the maluses weren't really too bad either. Some of them are actually good, like slower progression or increased hunger.

It wasn't maluses that made the game harder in 1 but instead no player position on the map, lack of fast travel, slower stamina regen and increased equipment degradation/increased repair costs. Especially the last one kept being obnoxious all the way into the late game coz even small scraps tended to bleed you bone dry on repair costs. Three or four hits and your expensive cuirass is in the red, meaning only a blacksmith can fix it and it's like 2k groschen. IIRC whenever I could see a fight with anything else but full-plated mobs coming I'd always strip naked coz healing wounds is free.

You know how there are these insufferable latin-cucks who insist on pluralizing bonuses as boni?

What are the chances in this game they call your collective hardcore maluses as Mali?

 

[Litmanen]

Maluses seem milder though. The branding one is easy to avoid. I'm almost finished with the game and I haven't been caught a sigle time. Not that there is much reason to do crimes anyway.

In 1 the maluses weren't really too bad either. Some of them are actually good, like slower progression or increased hunger.

It wasn't maluses that made the game harder in 1 but instead no player position on the map, lack of fast travel, slower stamina regen and increased equipment degradation/increased repair costs. Especially the last one kept being obnoxious all the way into the late game coz even small scraps tended to bleed you bone dry on repair costs. Three or four hits and your expensive cuirass is in the red, meaning only a blacksmith can fix it and it's like 2k groschen. IIRC whenever I could see a fight with anything else but full-plated mobs coming I'd always strip naked coz healing wounds is free.

You know how there are these insufferable latin-cucks who insist on pluralizing bonuses as boni?

What are the chances in this game they call your collective hardcore maluses as Mali?

You know how there are these insufferable cucks who insist on americanizing boni as bonuses?

 

[Haba]

You know how there are these insufferable cucks who insist on americanizing boni as bonuses?

They are real peni

 

[AwesomeButton]

Maluses seem milder though. The branding one is easy to avoid. I'm almost finished with the game and I haven't been caught a sigle time. Not that there is much reason to do crimes anyway.

In 1 the maluses weren't really too bad either. Some of them are actually good, like slower progression or increased hunger.

It wasn't maluses that made the game harder in 1 but instead no player position on the map, lack of fast travel, slower stamina regen and increased equipment degradation/increased repair costs. Especially the last one kept being obnoxious all the way into the late game coz even small scraps tended to bleed you bone dry on repair costs. Three or four hits and your expensive cuirass is in the red, meaning only a blacksmith can fix it and it's like 2k groschen. IIRC whenever I could see a fight with anything else but full-plated mobs coming I'd always strip naked coz healing wounds is free.

Schnapps potions will have to be brewed as well, which can be an annoying timesink, but losing progress is also annoying.

 

[AwesomeButton]

You know how there are these insufferable cucks who insist on americanizing boni as bonuses

Ius est ars boni et equi.

 

[Groover]

More info on Hardcore perks: https://imgur.com/a/kcd2-hardcore-mode-perks-tXGwZsn

 

[Infinitron]

The first post-launch Kingdom Come: Deliverance II livestream is here! Join PR Manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling and Design Lead Prokop Jirsa as they showcase the upcoming Free DLCs—Barber's Mode and Hardcore Mode. Tune in for a closer look at what's coming next!

 

[Litmanen]

You know how there are these insufferable cucks who insist on americanizing boni as bonuses

Ius est ars boni et equi.

Alea iacta est

 

[Brickfrog]

Musa doesn't need no explanation, you racist fuck.

He's literally Vavra fanfiction character.

I hate when writers put fanfiction in their stories. Why can't they just make everything canon?

 

[cvv]

Schnapps potions will have to be brewed as well, which can be an annoying timesink, but losing progress is also annoying.

Yes but in 2 schnapps is barely a problem. Yesterday I brew 20 of them in 10 minutes. And unlike 1 you can get the "an extra potion" perk very early.

 

[notpl]

You can also just, you know, buy them. I enjoy the alchemy minigame but there's zero reason to make schnapps in particular. What else could you possibly do with money?

 

[cvv]

You can also just, you know, buy them. I enjoy the alchemy minigame but there's zero reason to make schnapps in particular. What else could you possibly do with money?

Yea true. They also said in the stream the economy is gonna be rebalanced but unless they nerf selling bandit armor into the ground or disable it completely you'll always be a billionaire no matter what, you'll just have to kill 30 bandits instead of 20, ballpark.

 

[lukaszek]

What else could you possibly do with money?

trainings are the only money sink

 

[aweigh]

 

[cvv]

What else could you possibly do with money?

trainings are the only money sink

Could be, then again it's not like you need to pay for training. Most skills level up too fast anyway and as for the rest, well it's more fun to go shoot some popinjays than paying to raise your Markmanship.

In fact I can't come up with anything you absolutely HAVE to buy. I mean I bought my high-end armor for about 10k but that's because I couldn't find it out in the wild fast enough and I was impatient. I also bought a couple of armorer kits because there aren't enough of them to scavenge. But you can always sneak in an rob traders relatively easily so that's a moot point too.

I really think you don't need to spend a single groschen in this game. Margaret fucked me and took off with my 10k and I wasn't even mad.

 

[GloomFrost]

Both games are woke aaa trash.